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Sawai Lab
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The lab reads deeply into historical sources to depict the history of politics and diplomacy in Japan and East Asia.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading history deeply to envision the future of politics and diplomacy.
Sawai Lab studies the political and diplomatic history of Japan and the history of international relations in East Asia.
Working in the area where history, political science, and international law overlap, it conducts research closely grounded in historical sources.
The periods covered range from the late early modern era to the present, and the main themes are politics, diplomacy, international relations, and empire and colonies.
The lab has research themes for each of three periods: the late 19th century, the postwar era, and the present.
Key terms
- Historical sources
- Records such as diaries, official documents, and letters from the time that serve as clues to past events
- International law
- The field that studies the rules governing relations between states, covering treaties and the mechanisms of international courts
- Official documents
- Documents created or received by government offices and the government in the course of their work
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The lab specializes in Japanese political and diplomatic history and the history of international relations in East Asia, and conducts research where history, political science, and international law overlap. It sets a theme for each of three periods: the late 19th century, the postwar era, and the present.
*Illustrative imageEast Asia before 'diplomacy'
In Japan from the end of the Edo shogunate to the early Meiji years, foreign relations were expressed not by the word 'gaiko' (diplomacy) but by '(gaikoku) kosai' (intercourse with foreign countries). Using Qing China's 'kosho' (negotiation) and Joseon Korea's 'korin' (neighborly relations) as additional guides, the lab reconstructs the foreign relations of Japan, China, and Korea during the transitional period leading to Western-style 'diplomacy', staying closely tied to historical sources.
*Illustrative imagePostwar diplomacy and the international legal order
The lab studies the relationship between the international legal order and postwar Japanese diplomacy and East Asian international relations. It is also organizing and analyzing primary sources on the history of postwar Japanese political science and historiography, and on the university conflict at Tokyo Institute of Technology from the late 1960s to the early 1970s.
*Illustrative imageEntry restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic
The lab conducts contemporaneous research on the Japanese government's entry restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, using available official documents, interviews, and media articles. Related to this, it also examines how freedom of information and public records management should work.
MembersFaculty
The members of Sawai Lab are faculty, graduate students, and research students.
- Associate ProfessorIsami SawaiPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Boxes of archival documents” Smallison / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- East Asia before 'diplomacy': “Iwakura mission” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Postwar diplomacy and the international legal order: “La haye palais paix jardin face” Velvet / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Entry restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic: “Passport stamps 18-19” Jon Rawlinson / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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