Chris Perkins
Research on modern Japanese intellectual and political history: the New Left, state surveillance, postwar conservatism and futurology. This site gathers the tools, archives and working notes that come out of that research.
道具
Tools
Apps and utilities built along the way, free to use.
史料Archives & Databases
Catalogues and indexes of primary sources.
研究Projects
Current research projects.
覚書Notes
Finds, sources and work in progress.
著作Writing
Publications and translations.
Recently added tools
| Title | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Japan Forum, 1989–2026: A Subject Map | An interactive map of 890 research articles in Japan Forum, the journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies, grouped into 31 subjects and traced across four periods. | Oct 2026 |
| Japanese Fascism Network | An interactive map of the people, organisations, events, texts and ideas in eleven secondary works on fascism in Japan, 1880s to 1950s, with the historians who argue over the term shown as a separate layer. | Sep 2026 |
| Miraigaku Network | An interactive map of the people, organisations, events and sources behind Japanese futurology (未来学) in the late 1960s, set beside the Japan-related entries in Jenny Andersson’s The Future of the World. | Sep 2026 |
| The Council for a New Japan, 1958–59 | Interactive figures on the Shin Nippon Kyōgi Kai (新日本協議会): its officer network, and four transwar trajectories that converged on its Third Way doctrine. | Sep 2026 |
| Manchuria, 1900–1949 | An interactive map of who controlled Manchuria, and who ran its railways, from the Russian concessions to the People’s Republic. | Sep 2026 |
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