Now #reading: 熊本史雄『外務官僚たちの大東亜共栄圏』（新潮社、2025年） #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #diplomacy #Japan #EastAsia #歴史 #歴史学 #外交 #日本 #東アジア

Now #reading: 井上寿一『新書　昭和史：短い戦争と長い平和』（講談社、2025年） #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan #歴史 #歴史学 #昭和史 #日本

Now #reading: 日本歴史学会編『日本歴史』（第933号、2026年） #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan #AcademicJournal #歴史 #歴史学 #日本史 #日本 #学術雑誌

Now #reading: 瀧井一博『ドイツ国家学と明治国制：シュタイン国家学の軌跡』（ミネルヴァ書房、1999年） #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #politicalscience #Japan #Germany #歴史 #歴史学 #政治学 #日本 #ドイツ

Now #reading: 日本史研究会編『日本史研究』（第761号、2026年） #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan #AcademicJournal #歴史 #歴史学 #日本史 #日本 #学術雑誌

Weekend #reading: 佐藤昇編『歴史の見方・考え方：大学で学ぶ「考える歴史」』（山川出版社、2018年） 佐藤昇編『歴史の見方・考え方2：史料から広がる歴史学』（山川出版社、2023年） #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan #歴史 #歴史学 #日本

Now also #reading: 尾原宏之『「反・東大」の思想史』（新潮社、2024年） #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan #university #歴史 #思想史 #歴史学 #日本 #大学

Now #reading: 近江俊秀『「人は右、車は左」往来の日本史』（朝日新聞出版、2024年） #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan #歴史 #歴史学 #交通 #日本

Now #reading: 加藤雅俊『スタートアップとは何か：経済活性化への処方箋』（岩波新書、2024年） #AcademicSky #economics #Japan #経済学 #日本 #スタートアップ

Some well overdue weekend #reading: 溝口常俊編『名古屋発日帰りさんぽ』（風媒社、2022年） #leisure #history #Japan #tourism #愛知県 #名古屋 #中部地方 #東海地方 #おでかけ #観光

Now #reading: 川本重雄『住まいの日本史』（吉川弘文館、2025年） #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan #architecture

Now #reading: 渡辺延志『関東大震災虐殺の謎を解く：なぜ発生し忘却されたのか』（筑摩書房、2025年）🗃️ #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan

私の勤務先の愛知県立大学日本文化学部は日本古代・中世史の専任教員（任期なし）を1名募集しております。採用時期は2027年4月1日です。応募締切は2026年3月27日（金）です。詳しくは以下ご覧ください。 jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor... #AcademicSky

My department at Aichi Prefectural University is offering one tenured position in Japanese ancient and medieval history. Start of employment is April 1st, 2027. Application deadline is Friday, March 27th, 2026. For more details: jrecin.jst.go.jp/seek/SeekJor... #AcademicSky

Now #reading: 塩出浩之『琉球処分：「沖縄問題」の原点』（中公新書、2025年）🗃️ #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan #Okinawa

Now #reading a #biography for a change of pace: 本馬恭子『徳恵姫：李氏朝鮮最後の王女』（葦書房、1998年） 🗃️ #history #skystorians #AcademicSky #Japan #Korea #Tsushima

#Reading for this long weekend in #Japan: David R. Ambaras, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). 湯川勇人『外務省と日本外交の1930年代：東アジア新秩序構想の模索と挫折』（千倉書房、2022年） #history #skystorians #academicsky 🗃️

Now #reading: Paul Kreitman, Japan's Ocean Borderlands: Nature and Sovereignty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). #history #skystorians #Japan 🗃️

Now #reading: 小野圭司『太平洋戦争と銀行：なぜ日本は「無謀な戦争」ができたのか』（講談社現代新書、2025年） #history #skystorians #Japan

Now #reading: 髙杉洋平『帝国陸軍：デモクラシーとの相剋』（中公新書、2025年） #history #skystorians #Japan

My predecessor's predecessor was on Asahi's opinion page today.

拙稿「福岡県三潴郡大木町の町村合併と組合立中学校」（『地方史研究』第438号、2025年、39〜53頁）が刊行されました。学位論文の「幻の章」として始まった原稿が結局こんな形で何とかなってよかったと思います。どうぞご笑覧ください。

明日名古屋歴史科学研究会11例会で報告を行います。会場は名古屋大学とZoomです。お知らせが短いのですが、関心のある方はぜひどうぞ！

We're honored to have @jppinfo.bsky.social featured in the NDL's Current Awareness Portal! We hope many more colleagues based in Japan will sign up for Japan Scholar Search, our project opportunities, and more! 🥰

I'll be visiting this conference next month in Fukuoka. They're celebrating the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Japanese history department at Kyushu University and I'm really looking forward to seeing many old friends and mentors again. #skystorians kyushushigakkai.org/index.html

News article about a public lecture I recently gave: www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1159...

I spent a wonderful weekend at the EAJS Japan Conference in Sendai. It was a pleasure to reconnect with colleagues I had met before and form some new connections.

Greetings from Sendai 👋🏻

Finally out now 🥳🎉 -- and in OA! 🙏 Katja Triplett / Yoshimi Orii / Pia Jolliffe (eds.) (2025): Japan in the Early Modern World: Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations @ doi.org/10.1007/978-... Includes two contributions by yours truly on Jesuit prints from Japan. 1/

Greetings from Kanazawa 👋🏻

I’ve been pleased to find my new book on Russian espionage in Japan in several bookshops in the UK. This is in Foyles in London. “Cracking the Crab: Russian Espionage Against Japan, From Peter the Great to Richard Sorge,” (Hurst 2025).

Some recent activities: - Holding a lecture for interested citizens of Kasugai titled "Meiji Ishin to shichōson gappei" - Attending the 20th anniversary conference of the kingendaishi kenkyūkai

Just got back from Hokkaidō, which inspired me to look up Ainu manuscripts for #ManuscriptMonday. Here's Stepan Krasheninnikov's 1738 "A Glossary: Latine-Ainu-Chukchi-Koryak-Itelmen," an early record of the Ainu language. For more on early manuscripts, see: eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/bitst...

Who else is going to be at #EAJS in #Sendai?

『九州史学』第200号刊行、おめでとうございます！

I just spent an inspiring weekend of conferences.

In Japanese the German word for "bomb" is used to refer to gas bottles, and here is why it's fitting:

Congratulations for the publication to all colleagues involved in this vital work, a comprehensive history of the ministry of internal affairs of Imperial Japan (内務省), and thanks to those who gifted me a copy.

The 4 stages of academic writing illustrated in 1616 with the help of the Evangelists. #skystorians #academicchatter #academicsky

A collaboration between the V&A; Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University; and the Sainsbury Institute has allowed nearly 2000 old Japanese books to be digitized and catalogued. Caroline Gill has been working to translate the Japanese cataloguing info into English. www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-...

同僚から立派な本をいただきました。ありがとうございました。

Please join us March 19th for our next webinar, "Doing Research on Okinawa," featuring Lynette Teruya (University of Hawai'i-Manoa), Hana Omine (Okinawa Prefectural Library), Jacqueline Toma (Okinawa Genealogical Society of HI), and Cameron Vanderscoff (Okinawa Memories Initiative).

Giving a paper on the pre-1968 history of Kyushu University's student movement, at the "Re-examining Japan's Cold War" conference at Ritsumeikan U. in Kyoto.

Today I learned that Aichi Prefecture had a local "great merger" in 1906, that slashed its number of municipalities roughly in half. This flew completely under my radar until now.

My article on Mock Foreigner speech is now available open access at Language and Communication! In it, I build on the mock language framework to explain what's up with the linguistic features used to invoke (white) foreignness in a Japanese media context. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Quick reminder that quite anything can be appropriated by jingoism...

I got myself all modern history (近現代史) related volumes of the "History of Aichi Prefecture" (愛知県史) 😃 #skystorians #academicsky

🚨 Full time permanent lecturer position in Japanese culture and language (literature, film, performing arts, art, visual/material culture) at ULB in Brussels. Deadline: March 1, 2025. Candidate must be able to teach in French within 3 years of hiring. cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...

Tenure-track job postings in History or History-related fields, January 2025 A thread. (I will add more postings over the course of the month) 1/