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Natalia Doan, Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press, 2026)

Federica Costantino, "'The First Step towards Racial Equality’: The Kuroda-Araya Engagement and the Dream of a Transnational Non-White Alliance," in Modern Asian Studies (2025)

Dr Alice Baldock contributes an essay for butoh book

'On Transformation' in Emotional Waves: Butoh and Contemporary Dance by Claude Hofer (Kehrer Verlag, 2025)

Meiji Civil War Losers: Transnational Connectivity Arising from Defeat

JF-GJS Fellow Seminar by Joel Littler and Chinami Oka, 5 Febuary 2026.

Dr Natalia Doan discusses “Samurai at the White House” on C-SPAN

Dr Natalia Doan (MSc DPhil Oxf) recently appeared on C-SPAN discussing her research on the transnational influence of samurai, in a lecture entitled “Samurai at the White House: Harriet Lane and the 1860 Japanese Embassy” and given at LancasterHistory in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The C-SPAN recording is accessible at the following link: https://www.c-span.org/program/american-history-tv/samurai-at-the-white-house-1860/669037

Dr Chinami Oka featured in a podcast on the Meiji Restoration

Dr Chinami Oka was featured in the Historical Association's podcast series, speaking about some of the latest work/approaches on the Meiji Ishin.

Pembroke Spotlight: Dr Chinami Oka on 'Rethinking Japan's Past'

Pembroke's Tanaka Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies, Dr Chinami Oka, reflects below on what happens when we re-examine some of modern Japan's most transformative movements with a transnational perspective.

Dr Alice Baldock discusses butoh with Vangeline, Eugenia Vargas and Natalia Cuellar

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet writes "Eurocentrism and Global Intellectual History" for the Centre for Intellectual History Blog

Natalia Doan discusses her research on Japanese television

Dr. Natalia Doan (MSc DPhil Oxf) recently appeared on the Japanese documentary Natalia Doan no Nihon tanbō: Man’en gannen kenbei shisetsu ~ Ibunka ni deau ~, directed by Inoue Haruo.

In this documentary, Dr. Doan discusses her research on the 1860 Japanese Embassy to the United States and her recent publication in Reopening the Opening of Japan: New Approaches to Japan and the Wider World in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century, edited by fellow Oxonians Lewis Bremner, Manimporok Dotulong, and Sho Konishi.

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet delivers 2024 Kellogg Lecture at Amherst College, U.S.A., May 9

Warren Stanislaus presents at 5th CGA & GPS Young Scholars Symposium “Asia and the World”

Manimporok speaks about ‘The Rest, the West, and the Ugly’ at Royal Irish Academy, International Affairs Conference, Dublin, 1 May

Joel Littler gives talk at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 8 February 2024

Joel Littler gives guest lecture at Mahidol University, MUIC titled "What's the Point?" Nihilist Democracy in Late-Meiji Japan

Olga Solovieva and Sho Konishi receive ICAS book prize for their work on Japan's Russia

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet wins the 2023 Ivan Morris Prize for his MSc dissertation

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet exhibits the ‘Endless Book’ at the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

Dr Chinami Oka organises 5th Tanaka Symposium: Reconfiguring the Concept of Religion in Modern Japan

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Alice Baldock

Okinaga Junior Research Fellow

Wadham College, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Lewis Bremner

Lecturer, Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge

Margaret Bryan

DPhil Candidate in History

St Cross College

Xiangming Chen

DPhil Candidate in History of Art, Lincoln College

Shang Cheng

DPhil Candidate in History

Chiara Comastri

JSPS Research Fellow

Keio University

Federica Costantino

DPhil Candidate in History

The Queen's College

Natalia Doan

Assistant Professor

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Zhou Fang

DPhil Candidate in History

Keble College

Eiko Honda

Assistant Professor in Japan Studies

Aarhus University, School of Culture and Society

Tyuki Imamura

DPhil Candidate in Fine Art

St John's College

Pia Jolliffe

Fellow at Blackfriars Hall; Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Kaoruko Kawashima

DPhil Candidate in History

Mansfield College

Sho Konishi

Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies; Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History

Mateja Kovacic

Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Yonsei University, Underwood International College

Joel Littler

JF-GJS Fellow

Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

Manimporok

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society (GPS)

NYU Shanghai

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

DPhil Candidate in History

St. Catherine's College

Arron O'Connor

MPhil Candidate in Japanese Studies 2024–2026

Chinami Oka

Assistant Professor

Nagoya University

Olga Khomenko

British Academy Fellow in Japanese History

Rue O’Reilly

DPhil Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Wolfson College

Alok Ranpise

DPhil Candidate in History

St Antony's College

Yu Sakai

Assistant Professor in Modern East Asian History, University of Cambridge

Eiko Soga

Junior Research Fellow

St Anne's College

Warren A. Stanislaus

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society

NYU Shanghai

Chui Joe Tham

Geiss Hsu Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Ming Studies

University of British Columbia

Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)

Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (Leiden University Press, 2020)

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Recent Publications

Natalia Doan, Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press, 2026)

Federica Costantino, "'The First Step towards Racial Equality’: The Kuroda-Araya Engagement and the Dream of a Transnational Non-White Alliance," in Modern Asian Studies (2025)

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Dr Alice Baldock contributes an essay for butoh book

Meiji Civil War Losers: Transnational Connectivity Arising from Defeat

Dr Natalia Doan discusses “Samurai at the White House” on C-SPAN

Dr Chinami Oka featured in a podcast on the Meiji Restoration

Pembroke Spotlight: Dr Chinami Oka on 'Rethinking Japan's Past'

Dr Alice Baldock discusses butoh with Vangeline, Eugenia Vargas and Natalia Cuellar

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet writes "Eurocentrism and Global Intellectual History" for the Centre for Intellectual History Blog

Natalia Doan discusses her research on Japanese television

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet delivers 2024 Kellogg Lecture at Amherst College, U.S.A., May 9

Warren Stanislaus presents at 5th CGA & GPS Young Scholars Symposium “Asia and the World”

Manimporok speaks about ‘The Rest, the West, and the Ugly’ at Royal Irish Academy, International Affairs Conference, Dublin, 1 May

Joel Littler gives talk at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, 8 February 2024

Joel Littler gives guest lecture at Mahidol University, MUIC titled "What's the Point?" Nihilist Democracy in Late-Meiji Japan

Olga Solovieva and Sho Konishi receive ICAS book prize for their work on Japan's Russia

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet wins the 2023 Ivan Morris Prize for his MSc dissertation

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet exhibits the ‘Endless Book’ at the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

Dr Chinami Oka organises 5th Tanaka Symposium: Reconfiguring the Concept of Religion in Modern Japan

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Tyuki Imamura

Pia Jolliffe

Kaoruko Kawashima

Sho Konishi

Mateja Kovacic

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Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

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Featured Books

Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)

Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (Leiden University Press, 2020)

Japan’s Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm (Cambria Press, 2021)

The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently (Oxford University Press, 2023)

Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Japan and the Wider World (Brill, 2024)

Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945 (University of Hawai'i Press, 2024)

Black Transnationalism and Japan (Leiden University Press, 2024)

Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press, 2026)