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Tokyo College Event: “Rethinking the Japanese Past: Revising a Textbook, Revising History”

February 5, 2025

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Type Lecture
Intended for General public / Enrolled students / Applying students / International students / Alumni / Companies / High school students / University students / Academic and Administrative Staff
Date(s) February 27, 2025 15:00 — 16:30
Location Online
Entrance Fee No charge
Registration Method Advance registration required
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ku-yaAINRkSC5Be3ij6TsA#/registration
Registration Period February 4, 2025 — February 27, 2025
Contact tokyo.college.event@tc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Abstract    

The past, it is said, is a foreign country, and historians seek to understand it without imposing present-day values. Yet inevitably, to write history is to engage in a dialogue between the past and the present. In this talk I will introduce my internal dialogue over the 25 years during which I wrote four editions of A Modern History of Japan, and am now considering a fifth edition.

Program    

Speaker
Andrew GORDON (Ushioda Fellow, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)

Commentator
IOKIBE Kaoru (Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo)

Moderator
SHIMAZU Naoko (Professor, Tokyo College, The University of Tokyo)
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