WebinarThursday 25 March 2021
12:00pm – 1:00pm
British and Japanese Charities Historically Compared
This event will start at 12pm GMT
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Fully bookedSince the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, the Japanese people have started to encounter unfamiliar words and deeds such as ‘volunteering’ and ‘charity’ on the TV news and in magazines and newspapers. Before that disaster, the existence of charity in Japan was rarely noticed, although of course that does not mean that there was no indigenous tradition or practice of charity. On the other hand, for a new graduate student who happened to choose modern British history in 1995, it was not long before he realised the ubiquity of charity and philanthropy in modern and contemporary British society. Professor Shusaku Kanazawa discussed the peculiarity of Britain in terms of charity through the lens of some Japanese observers in the 19th and 20th centuries, revealing also the peculiarity of Japan.
Below is a written summary of the seminar:
Written Summary, British and Japanese Charities Historically Compared, PDFA shorter summary of the event can be accessed via the link below, located on the Foundation’s Facebook page:
Short Event SummaryAbout the contributors
Professor Shusaku Kanazawa
Professor Shusaku Kanazawa is Professor of Western History at the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University. His research interests focus on the comparative study of modern British and Japanese charity, maritime history, and Western historiography in general. His publications include Charitī to Igirisu Kindai (Charities in Modern Britain), awarded the Sompo Japan Foundation Prize and the Yujiro Hayashi Prize (by Japan NPO Research Association). He edited Umi no Igirisu Shi (A Companion to British Maritime History) and Ronten Seiyōshigaku (A Companion to Critical Issues of Western History). An article of his in German appears in Religion und Philanthropie in den europäischen Zivilgesellschaften: Entwicklungen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. He has also published an article in the English Historical Review.