The Oxford Japanese History Workshop 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.

This international conference, held at the University of Cambridge on 29 June 2026, examines vibrant activities and imaginations that unfolded within and beyond the Hokkaido islands to challenge the prevailing view of them as objects of colonisation and exploitation, recasting them as subjects of history in their own light.

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.