Recent Publications
Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet
“Pan-Farmerism in Transwar Rural Japan, 1905–1928.” Global Intellectual History, June 13, 2026, 1–49. (online first)
Olga V. Solovieva, ed.
Japanese-Russian Transnational Comparison: Literary Circulation and Formation of Knowledge (Routledge, 2026)
Natalia Doan
Civil War Samurai: The 1860 Japanese Embassy and Tateishi Onojirō in Antebellum America (Leiden University Press, 2026)
Mateja Kovacic
“The First Symbiotic Multispecies Robot: Gakutensoku’s Symbiotic Cosmos.” History and Technology 41, no. 2 (2025): 158–86.
Federica Costantino
"'The First Step Towards Racial Equality': The Kuroda-Araya Engagement and the Dream of a Transnational Non-White Alliance." Modern Asian Studies, February 17, 2025, 207-233.
Pia Jolliffe et al., eds.
Japan in the Early Modern: World Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations (J.B. Metzler, 2025)
Ian Rapley
Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945, (University of Hawai'i Press 2024)
Mateja Kovacic
"Hong Kong's Anime: A Cultural History of Anime in Hong Kong's Last Decade." The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies 5 (December 2024): 75-112.
Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi, eds.
Black Transnationalism and Japan (Leiden University Press 2024)
Alexandria Dugal
"Transnational Community Building through Women and Girls: Constructing an Intergenerational Girls' Mission School Network Across Borders in 1920s and 1930s Japan." Journal of Women's History 36, no. 3 (2024): 71-93.
Alice Baldock
"Selling Bodies in the Age of the Flesh: Bodies, Dance, and Postwar Japan." In Histories of Sex Work Around the World, edited by Catherine Phipps. Routledge, 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." Modern Asian Studies 58, no. 2 (2024): 512-35.
Sho Konishi
"Metchnikoff Léon." In Élisée Reclus: les 101 mots, edited by Pauline Couteau, Nicolas Eprendre, Federico Ferretti, and Philippe Pelletier. L'écart absolu. Les presses du réel, 2024.
Lewis Bremner, Manimporok Dotulong, and Sho Konishi, eds.
Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World (Brill, 2023)
Olga Solovieva
The Russian Kurosawa: Transnational Cinema, or the Art of Speaking Differently (Oxford University Press, 2023)
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," Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 3 (2023): 776–807.
Eiko Honda
"Minakata Kumagusu and the Emergence of Queer Nature: Civilization Theory, Buddhist Science, and Microbes, 1887–1892" in Modern Asian Studies 57, no. 4 (2023): 1105–34.
Mateja Kovacic
"Between Animated Cells and Animated Cels: Symbiotic Turn and Animation in Multispecies Life." Science as Culture 33, no. 2 (2023): 174-204.
Chinami Oka
"Arai Ōsui and the Transnational Reimagination of Civilization in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States." The Historical Journal 66, no. 1 (2023): 101-21.
Nadine Willems
"Pre-War Anarchism in Japan." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press, 2023.
Warren Stanislaus
"From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain" in Japan Forum (February, 2022)
Natalia Doan
"African America and Japan." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. Oxford University Press, 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)
Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konishi
Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm (Cambria Press, 2021)
Natalia Doan
"Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy," Journal of Social History (Fall, 2021)
Sho Konishi
"Symbiogenesis." In Structures of Mutual Support. 2021.
Nadine Willems
Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan (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)
Lewis Bremner
"The Magic Lantern as a Lens for Observing the Eye in Tokugawa Japan: Technology, Translation, and the Rangaku Movement." Modern Asian Studies 54, no. 3 (2020): 691-729.
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)
Natalia Doan
"The 1860 Japanese Embassy and The Antebellum African American Press." The Historical Journal 62, no. 4 (2019): 997-1020.
Nadine Willems
"Transnational Anarchism, Japanese Revolutionary Connections, and the Personal Politics of Exile." The Historical Journal 61, no. 3 (2018): 719-41.
Sho Konishi
"Provincialising the State: Symbiotic Nature and Survival Politics in Post-World War Zero Japan." In New Worlds from Below: Informal Life Politics and Grassroots Action in Twenty-First-Century Northeast Asia, edited by Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Eun Jeong Soh. ANU Press, 2017.
Ian Rapley
"A Language for Asia? Transnational Encounters in the Japanese Esperanto Movement, 1906-28." In Transnational Japan as History: Empire, Migration, and Social Movements, edited by Pedro Iacobelli, Danton Leary, and Shinnosuke Takahashi. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Anna Schrade
"Discourses on Democracy and the (Re)Birth of Civil Society, 1945-1952: Mutual Aid and Cooperatist Modernity in Kitakyushu." In Social Commentary on State and Society in Modern Japan, edited by Yoneyuki Sugita. Springer, 2016.
Nadine Willems
“Contesting Imperial Geography: Reading Élisée Reclus in 1930s’ Hokkaido.” In The Practice of Freedom: Anarchism, Geography, and the Spirit of Revolt, edited by Richard J. White, Simon Springer, and Marcelo Lopes de Souza. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd., 2016.
Sho Konishi
"The Science of Symbiosis and Linguistic Democracy in Early Twentieth-Century Japan." Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems 13, no. 2 (2015): 299-317.
Sho Konishi
"The Emergence of an International Humanitarian Organization in Japan: The Tokugawa Origins of the Japanese Red Cross." The American Historical Review 119, no. 4 (2014): 1129-53.
Sho Konishi
Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013)
Sho Konishi
"Ordinary Farmers Living Anarchist Time: Arishima Cooperative Farm in Hokkaido, 1922-1935." Modern Asian Studies 47, no. 6 (2013): 1845-87.
Sho Konishi
"Translingual World Order: Language without Culture in Post-Russo-Japanese War Japan." The Journal of Asian Studies 72, no. 1 (2013): 91-114.
Ian Rapley
"When Global and Local Culture Meet: Esperanto in 1920s Rural Japan." Language Problems and Language Planning 37, no. 2 (2013): 179-96.
Sho Konishi
"The People at Rest: The Anarchist Origins of Ogawa Usen's 'Nihonga.'" World Art 1, no. 2 (2011): 235-56.
Sho Konishi
"The Absence of Portsmouth in an Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Imagination of Peace." In The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies, edited by Steven Ericson and Allen Hockley. Dartmouth College Press and University Press of New England, 2008.
Sho Konishi
"Translation and Conversion Beyond Western Modernity: Tolstoian Religion in Meiji Japan." In Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity, edited by Dennis Washburn and A. Kevin Reinhart. Brill, 2007.
Sho Konishi
"Reopening the 'Opening of Japan': A Russian-Japanese Revolutionary Encounter and the Vision of Anarchist Progress." The American Historical Review 112, no. 1 (2007): 101-30.
These publications are by current and former OJHW members, listed in chronological order.