TOHOKU UNIVERSITYTHE HASEKURA BULLETIN
Newsletter of the Hasekura League for Japanese Studies

March, 2020 Edition01VOL.

Introducing the Hasekura Bulletin
Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Hasekura

Alongside regular updates concerning the comings andBulletin, the official newsletter of the Hasekura League.

goings of the League, plans for the quarterly newsletter

As the name suggests, this newsletter will serve toinclude profiles of emerging scholars, reviews of recent

provide regular updates and news concerning Hasekura

work by Hasekura affiliates, commentaries on

League events, activities, and publications, but that isdevelopments within Japanese studies andonly the beginning. This is also intended as a forum forinterdisciplinary studies, and other features of interest

Hasekura members, friends, and associates to announce

to League members and associates. We welcome

publications and other news, advertise upcoming

submissions and ideas from interested scholars and lookacademic events, and make calls for papers or

forward to continuing to develop our vibrantconference/panel participants. It is hoped that thecommunity.

Bulletin will offer a stable and regular means ofsupporting and extending the opportunities that theannual international Hasekura symposia have generated
for scholars to share their work and to connect withcollaborators and colleagues. Our community has grownover the course of the last four years and the events held
in Florence, Sendai, Ghent, Venice, and Bologna, andthe Hasekura Bulletin will help strengthen the bonds wehave made and carry them into the future.

A NN OU N C E M E N T S

publications continues to grow, and we hope to see
the book spread far and wide. Thanks once again toall of the contributors.

Work is nearing completion on the fourth volume inPlanning is also beginning for our annual Hasekura

the Hasekura League Intercultural Studies

Symposium to be held at Sapienza University ofpublication series, Furusato: ‘Home’ at the Nexus ofRome in November 2020. More details will be

Politics, History, Art, Society, and Self. The book,coming soon.

which brings together works based on the papers

We are also excited to announce the Hasekurapresented at the November 2018 Hasekura

League’ s first expansion into North America in

Symposium in Venice, will be published by Mimesis

partnership with the University of British Columbia.

International in March 2020. The audience for ourTHE HASEKURA BULLETIN

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UPCOMING EVENTSFebruary 27-28

March 5International Student Workshop - The Past as a Source

International Student Workshop – Theof Imagination and Inspiration: Strategy, Function,

Internationalization of Japanese Studies

and Diversity of Historical Narratives

University of British Columbia, Vancouver –Tohoku University, Sendai – Co-presented by

Co-presented by the University of British Columbia

Université Grenoble-Alpes and Tohoku University

and Tohoku University

MEMBER PUBLICATIONSCALLS FOR COLLABORATIONThis space will be reserved to publicize

This space will be reserved to announce calls for

publications by Hasekura affiliates. Please

papers, proposals for panels, solicitations for

submit any publication news toworkshop/conference/symposia participants,

Hasekura.Bulletin@gmail.com so that we canand other calls for academic collaboration.

help to get the word out.

Please submit event/request details to
Hasekura.Bulletin@gmail.com for inclusion in
our next issue.

Our next edition will feature more news, including details on the November conference and theNEXT ISSUE

Furusato book, and our first forays into original content. We look forward to receiving news
from our readers about publications and academic events and invite any comments orsuggestions that you might have.

ABOUT THE HASEKURA LEAGUEThe Hasekura League was formed in Florence in 2015 withrepresentatives from 15 universities in Europe and Japan.
Centered on a new international and interdisciplinary viewof Japanese Studies, the League has expanded broadly inInternational Graduate Programin Japanese Studies,
Tohoku University.
GPJS Office
Graduate School of Arts and Letters,

the years since, connecting with scholars in a wide variety ofTohoku University

fields from institutions around the world. In 2020,27-1 Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai,

Hasekura will continue its development and launch new

980-8576, Japan

initiatives in North America and Asia.

e-mail: gpjs@grp.tohoku.ac.jp