Oxford Japanese History Workshop (OJHW)

Rethinking Religion in Meiji Japan (Tanaka Symposium) (Organised by Dr Chinami Oka, June 2023)

Missing Bodies, Missing Voices (Organised by Alice Baldock and Chiara Comastri, March 2023)

Reopening the Opening of Japan (Organised by Dr Manimporok Dotulong and Dr Lewis Bremner, 2018)

Ecologies of Knowledge (Organised by Dr Eiko Honda and Dr Alice Freeman, 2017)

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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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)

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

Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi (eds.) Black Transnationalism and Japan, Leiden University Press (2024)

Joel Littler, "A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–1909," in Modern Asian Studies (2024)

Xiangming Chen, "Curators of China knowledge: Morokoshi meishō zue and Osaka-Kyoto cultural networks in late Tokugawa Japan" in Journal of Art Historiography (2023)

Chui-Joe Tham, 'The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan', in Modern Asian Studies (2023)

Eiko Honda, 'Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–1892' in Modern Asian Studies, 1-30.

Warren Stanislaus, "From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain" in Japan Forum (February, 2022)

Dr Natalia Doan, “African America and Japan” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (March 2022)

Chinami Oka, "Arai Ōsui and the Transnational Reimagination of Civilization in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States", The Historical Journal (April, 2022)

Alice Baldock, "Body (of) Knowledge: Women, the Body, and Dance in Postwar Japan," Journal of Asian Studies (January, 2022)

Manimporok Dotulong, "Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan," Past and Present (January, 2022)

Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm by Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi (Cambria Press, 2021)

Natalia Doan, "Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy," Journal of Social History (Fall, 2021)

Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination by Nadine Willems (Leiden University Press, 2020)

Yu Sakai, "Survive to be critical: The Wartime Graphic as a ‘masquerading’ media in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905," War in History (June, 2020)

Eiko Honda et al., "Undoing the Discipline: History in the Time of Climate Crisis and COVID-19" in Journal for the History of Environment and Society (2020)

Alice Baldock

Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies (October 2023-26)

Wadham College, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Lewis Bremner

Lecturer, Philosophy of Science

University of Cambridge

Margaret Bryan

DPhil Student

St Cross College

Xiangming Chen

DPhil Candidate in History of Art, Lincoln College

Shang Cheng

DPhil Student

Chiara Comastri

DPhil Student

Balliol College

Federica Costantino

DPhil Student

The Queen's College

Natalia Doan

Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies

Wadham College

Alexandria Dugal

DPhil, 2022

Zhou Fang

DPhil Candidate in History

Keble College

Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Contemporary History and Public Policy of Mexico

Faculty of History and the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

Lukas Heller

DPhil Candidate in History

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 Student

Mansfield College

Sho Konishi

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

Mateja Kovacic

Assistant Professor, Department of Interactive Media

Hong Kong Baptist University

Joel Littler

Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

Harvard University

Manimporok

Postdoctoral Fellow

Brown University, Department of East Asian Studies/Cogut Institute for the Humanities

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

DPhil Candidate

Chinami Oka

Tanaka Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies

Pembroke College

Olga Khomenko

British Academy Fellow in Japanese History

Alok Ranpise

DPhil student

St Antony's College

Yu Sakai

Assistant Professor in Modern East Asian History, University of Cambridge

Eiko Soga

DPhil in Fine Art

Warren A. Stanislaus

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow for Global Perspectives on Society

NYU Shanghai

Chui Joe Tham

DPhil Student

Linacre College

Since its inception in 2008, the Oxford Japanese History Workshop (OJHW) has fostered a community of intellectuals whose research touches on a wide range of themes, topics, and timescales in Japanese history. The OJHW has been especially committed to the development of innovative approaches in global and transnational history. With an ever-growing number of doctoral researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and affiliated researchers, the OJHW is a burgeoning centre of expertise that continues to generate new understandings of East Asia and beyond. Its members have produced research that has appeared in journals ranging from Modern Asian Studies and The Journal of Asian Studies to The Historical Journal, Past and Present, and The American Historical Review. The OJHW continues to host international conferences that bring together specialists in Japanese history and many others working across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. Beyond academia, the OJHW is engaged in a range of outreach and service activities. It strives to bridge the gap between the ivory tower and the general public, working with nonprofit organisations, artists, farming communities, and grassroots activists. The work of OJHW members has appeared in sites ranging from local newspapers to major international events such as the Venice Biennale.

Co-conveners 2024-25: Federica Costantino and Maggie Bryan

Convener 2023-24: Joel Littler

Co-conveners 2022-23: Alice Baldock and Chui-Joe Tham

Oxford Japanese History Workshop (OJHW)

Past Events

News and Announcements

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

Publications

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)

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

Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi (eds.) Black Transnationalism and Japan, Leiden University Press (2024)

Joel Littler, "A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–1909," in Modern Asian Studies (2024)

Xiangming Chen, "Curators of China knowledge: Morokoshi meishō zue and Osaka-Kyoto cultural networks in late Tokugawa Japan" in Journal of Art Historiography (2023)

Chui-Joe Tham, 'The transnational historiography of a dynastic transition: Writing the Ming-Qing transition in seventeenth-century China, Korea, and Japan', in Modern Asian Studies (2023)

Eiko Honda, 'Minakata Kumagusu and the emergence of queer nature: Civilization theory, Buddhist science, and microbes, 1887–1892' in Modern Asian Studies, 1-30.

Warren Stanislaus, "From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain" in Japan Forum (February, 2022)

Dr Natalia Doan, “African America and Japan” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (March 2022)

Chinami Oka, "Arai Ōsui and the Transnational Reimagination of Civilization in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States", The Historical Journal (April, 2022)

Alice Baldock, "Body (of) Knowledge: Women, the Body, and Dance in Postwar Japan," Journal of Asian Studies (January, 2022)

Manimporok Dotulong, "Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone: Ecologizing the Nineteenth-Century ‘Opening of Japan," Past and Present (January, 2022)

Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm by Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi (Cambria Press, 2021)

Natalia Doan, "Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy," Journal of Social History (Fall, 2021)

Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination by Nadine Willems (Leiden University Press, 2020)

Yu Sakai, "Survive to be critical: The Wartime Graphic as a ‘masquerading’ media in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905," War in History (June, 2020)

Eiko Honda et al., "Undoing the Discipline: History in the Time of Climate Crisis and COVID-19" in Journal for the History of Environment and Society (2020)

People

Alice Baldock

Lewis Bremner

Margaret Bryan

Xiangming Chen

Shang Cheng

Chiara Comastri

Federica Costantino

Natalia Doan

Alexandria Dugal

Zhou Fang

Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada

Lukas Heller

Eiko Honda

Tyuki Imamura

Pia Jolliffe

Kaoruko Kawashima

Sho Konishi

Mateja Kovacic

Joel Littler

Manimporok

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

Chinami Oka

Olga Khomenko

Alok Ranpise

Yu Sakai

Eiko Soga

Warren A. Stanislaus

Chui Joe Tham

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