The research project “Tokyo School” aims at building a new research platform, on which knowledge that has historically evolved around the University of Tokyo is investigated comprehensively and globally. What kind of problematics has it developed, casting what kind of impacts on Japanese society both intellectually and politically? Since its establishment in 1877, The University, significantly contributing globalization of Western knowledge, has been the intellectual hub in Asia, through which the knowledge is disseminated all over the region. By contrast to the Kyoto School that is most famously represented by Nishida Kitaro, the influence of the Tokyo School has permeated every part of Japanese society, which has made critical investigations of the School difficult. However, further globalization has given rise the necessity of sharing modern Japanese academia’s experience internationally, and hence of interrogating the Tokyo School. By mainly focusing on humanity and social sciences, we would like to shed light on the modern Japanese academic experience through the lens of “Tokyo School” as a heuristic concept.

Members

• Principal Investigator:
  NAKAJIMA Takahiro (Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
• Co-investigator (in Japanese alphabetical order):
  OKI Yasushi (Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
  ONOZUKA Tomoji (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo)
  ZHONG Yijiang (Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
  SONODA Shigeto (Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
  BABA Norihisa (Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)
  MATSUKATA Fuyuko (Associate Professor, Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo)