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Nonstate Approaches to Modern Japan-France History

This two-day international conference (5–6 Nov. 2026) examines the transnational formations of anti-imperial knowledge between two metropolises in Japan and France from a non-state historical perspective.

The Oxford Japanese History Workshop (OJHW) is a transnational group of postgraduate students, early-career scholars, and senior academics that organises conferences, events, and closed termly workshops, with a particular focus on transnational non-state history. Research presented under its auspices have been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and have developed into edited volumes and monographs.

Recent Publications

Book chapter

Sho Konishi

“Echoes of Translation Practice from Early Modern Medicine: Japanese Anarchist Revivals of the ‘Nature’ Discourse,” in Translation and Anarchism: Resistance, Expansion, and Renewal, ed. Fruela Fernández and Laura Galián (Routledge, 2026).

Anna Schrade

Give Us Our Blue Skies Back: Housewives, Science, and the Struggle for Environmental Justice in Postwar Japan, 1950–1969 (Hawai'i University Press, 2026)

Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet

“Pan-Farmerism in Transwar Rural Japan, 1905–1928.” Global Intellectual History, June 13, 2026, 1–49. (online first)

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Monograph

Natalia Doan

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

All Publications

Visit our publications page to view a list of journal articles, monographs, edited volumes, and book chapters authored by current and former OJHW members.