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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 the Journal 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 comparative and Japanese philosophy but he is also interested in making Japan and philosophy accessible to a wider audience.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Takeshi:

Japanese Studies January 27, 2022

Of Gods and Minds

In Search of a Theological Commons

James Heisig

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
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 Lectures in Global Christianity. These lectures were …
Japanese Studies January 17, 2022

Cultivating Femininity

Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan

Rebecca Corbett

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity: Women and …
Japanese Studies November 8, 2021

Water, Wood, and Wild Things

Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town

Hannah Kirshner

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
Water, Wood, and Wild Things: Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town  (Viking, 2021) is memoir, ethnography, cookbook, and sketchbook rolled into one." This is the Princeton Independence's description of the polyvocal and …
Japanese Studies June 14, 2021

The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

Matthew Carl Strecher

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
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 experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute …
Japanese Studies February 8, 2021

Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki

Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives

Gwyn McClelland

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the community. In Dangerous …
Japanese Studies February 5, 2021

The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu

An Elemental Cinema

Linda C. Ehrlich

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu …
Japanese Studies January 11, 2021

Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro

Histories of the Everyday

Woojeong Joo

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked during a period of immense turbulence for Japan and …
Japanese Studies January 7, 2021

Immigrant Japan

Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society

Gracia Liu-Farrer

Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), millions of immigrants make their …