06.18,2020 Column 2020 How were hot springs managed during the Edo period? The history of the Kamasaki Hot Springs and the Ichijo family Hot springs during the Edo period Classical documents written by samurai, farmers, and merchants can be useful […]
10.23,2020 Column 2020 Studying Japanese History at the University of Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic By way of introduction, I am Mark Chen, a visiting undergraduate student at Center for Northeast Asian Studies […]
10.14,2021 Column 2021 Reading Kuzushiji with Technology Outside of Japan I am Saeko Suzuki, a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Canada. My doctoral project aims to un […]
12.01,2022 Column 2022 How Japanese and Russian written sources complement each other in studying history of Ainu lands? Until the modern era the Ainu people didn’t have any native written forms for their language to record their h […]
01.18,2023 Column 2022 Using mixed-methods to better understand and preserve local cultures The use of case studies as a research design enables for a multi-faceted understanding of complex issues in re […]
02.20,2023 Column 2022 Studying modern Asian intellectual history in a world-historical perspective “Asia” and its problems While often taken for granted, “Asia” is actually a space subject to ceaseless ideolog […]
03.13,2023 Column 2022 Learning Kuzushiji and the Preservation of Historical Materials at Tohoku University My name is Berfu Şengün, and I am a second-year master’s student at Université Paris Cité and a PhD student at […]
