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About Takeshi Morisato
I am currently serving as the editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, an associate editor of theJournal of East Asian Philosophy (Springer), the general editor of the book series, “Studies in Japanese Philosophy” (Chisokudō Publications) and “Asian Philosophical Texts” (Mimesis International), and the regional editor of the “Bloomsbury Introduction to World Philosophies.” I work on several book projects on a yearly basis and strongly believe that landing on a tenure track job with Japanese philosophy is harder than catching a unicorn.
Takeshi Morisato is philosopher and sometimes academic. He is the editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy. He specializes in Asian and Japanese philosophy but he is also interested in making world philosophies accessible to a wider audience.
NBN Episodes hosted by Takeshi:
February 19, 2024
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki
On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over six…
May 26, 2023
This Overflowing Light
Born in central Tokyo in 1920, Rin Ishigaki was one of the most daring and gifted poets of Japan’s postwar cultural renaissance. She knew Japan before…
May 17, 2023
Life Is Not Useful
Indigenous thinker and leader, Ailton Krenak, exposes the destructive tendencies of our ‘civilization’ in Life is not Useful (Polity, 2023), which is…
March 17, 2023
In Praise of Civility
Through telling stories in this little book, In Praise of Civility (Resource Publications, 2021), James Heisig aims to provoke second thoughts about t…
March 14, 2023
You Must Believe in Spring
You Must Believe in Spring (Hajar Press, 2022) is Mohamed Tonsy's "speculative fiction." It is about the future of Egypt when people's memory of the r…
January 27, 2022
Of Gods and Minds
One of the trailblazers in the field of Japanese philosophy, James W. Heisig, delivered his five lectures in 2019 at Boston College as the Duffy Lectu…
January 17, 2022
Cultivating Femininity
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea c…
November 8, 2021
Water, Wood, and Wild Things
Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town (Viking, 2021) is memoir, ethnography, cookbook, and sketchb…
June 14, 2021
The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami
In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel, or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the e…
February 17, 2021
Foucault's Orient
Foucault lived in Tunisia for two years and travelled to Japan and Iran more than once. Yet throughout his critical scholarship, he insisted that the …
February 5, 2021
The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu
The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentarie…
January 11, 2021
Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro
One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked during…
January 7, 2021
Immigrant Japan
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society…