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Assistant Professor Department of Japanese Philosophy, Kyoto University
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East Asian Studies September 30, 2020

Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy

Reading Tanabe Hajime and William Desmond

Takeshi Morisato

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Faith and Reason in Continental and Japanese Philosophy: Reading Tanabe Hajime and William Desmond (Bloomsbury, 2019) by Takeshi Morisato is a book that brings together the work of two significant …
East Asian Studies July 8, 2020

Agents of World Renewal

The Rise of Yonaoshi Gods in Japan

Takashi Miura

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In this interview, we talk to Takashi Miura, assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Arizona, about his book Agents of World Renewal: The Rise of …
East Asian Studies March 30, 2020

Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine

Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan

G. Clinton Godart

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In Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine. Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2017), G. Clinton Godart (Associate Professor at Tohoku University’s Department of Global Japanese …
East Asian Studies January 16, 2020

Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline

Ching-yuen Cheung

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Ching-yuen Cheung's and Wing-keung Lam's edited volume Globalizing Japanese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline (V&R Unipress, 2017) is a collection of essays written by scholars of Japanese philosophy from all …
Literary Studies July 9, 2019

Japanese Poetry and its Publics

From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima

Dean Anthony Brink

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Is classical Japanese poetry something to be enjoyed in private, an object of study for scholars, or an item of public life teeming with hints about how to understand and …
Literary Studies October 26, 2018

Hermeneutics of Evil in the Works of Endō Shūsaku

Between Reading and Writing

Justyna Weronika Kasza

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In literature, evil can appear in a broad spectrum of shapes, images and motifs. For Endō Shūsaku, the problem of evil is central to the reality of human existence, and …
East Asian Studies June 8, 2018

The Turn Against the Modern

The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912)

Ronald P. Loftus

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Taoka Reiun (1870-1912) was a literary critic and thinker who was active from the early 1890s in Meiji period Japan. Not satisfied with the meaning of bunmei kaika (“civilization and …
East Asian Studies May 1, 2018

Rethinking Japanese Studies

Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region

Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto, eds.

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Rethinking Japanese Studies. Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region (Routledge, 2018) is co-edited by Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto. The book tries to look at the discipline of Japanese Studies from …