I am going to talk today about my relationship to Japan and Japanese literature. The talk will have two parts. The first part will deal with some key experiences related to my encounter with Japanese literature….
I would like to say that my time at Tokyo College was by far the most exciting and productive of all the research appointments in my career. My field is premodern Japanese literature and culture, with…
Tokyo College’s postdoctoral fellow Dr. Chunyan Li, and visiting scholar Jenni Schofield, who are both members of the Gender, Sexuality & Identity Group, interviewed two core members from Colorful Heart, Yuta ONAGA and Mikako UMAMORI about…
Cryptocurrencies—Bitcoin being the leading and best-known example—excite strong reactions. Some see them as, at best, inherently worthless, ultimately doomed to be exposed as such; and, at worst (with spectacular collapses, such as that of FTX in…
Author Swetha SOUNDARARAJAN (3rd Year Undergraduate Student, Natural Sciences II, College of Arts and Sciences Senior Division, The University of Tokyo) Students at the University of Tokyo were invited to co-organize the session “Opportunities for nature…
The seasons have turned, and in April, we welcomed the new academic year. This is the fifth spring for Tokyo College. The number of early-career researchers at the College now totals 22, with two associate professors,…
This blog post was created as part of the interdisciplinary zengaku seminar “Who am I? An introduction to identity studies” offered at the University of Tokyo during the 2022-2023 academic year. Author NAKAI Hiromoto 2nd Year…
On the morning of Friday, December 16th, Tokyo College Postdoctoral Fellow Mark Bookman passed away. He was only 31 years old. When I received the news that afternoon, it was so sudden that I could hardly…
At the start of 2023, the European Union will begin introducing the world’s first Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). That sounds very dull and nerdy, and it may not grab many headlines. But if you care…
