"Western History" in Japan and East Asia: historiographical reconsideration

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24320147
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: KOYAMA Satoshi 京都大学, 文学研究科, 教授 (80215425)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ODANAKA Naoki 東北大学, 大学院経済学研究科, 教授 (70233559) ; SASAKI Hiromitsu 大阪府立大学, 人間社会学部, 准教授 (80222008) ; HASHIMOTO Nobuya 関西学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (30212137) ; HASEGAWA Takahiko 北海道大学, 大学院文学研究科, 教授 (70291226) ; HASEGAWA Mayuho 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 教授 (60192697)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 西洋史学 / 史学史 / 東アジア / グローバル・ヒストリー / トランスナショナル・ヒストリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

More than one hundred years have passed since the “Western history” as a discipline of historical studies had been established in the Japanese academic world. Nobody may deny the contributions by historians of “Western history” to the development of the social sciences and humanities in Japan since the Meiji-period. On the other hand now we are aware of all sorts of problem which are inherent in this discipline. In this research project we tryed to reconsider the development and the present conditions of the "Western history" from perspective of East Asisn modern historiography.
We organized several conferences and symposium in each year, in which we invited historians of "Western history" from South Korea. Part of the results was published on the journal "Shiso" (no. 1091) in 2015. We also started the "Japanese-Korean Forum of "Western History" as a platform of discussion between Japanese and Korean historians studying "Western history".

Free Research Field

西洋史学