Report of 4th East Asia Cultural Res Meeting 2011

Report of 4th East Asia Culture Research Meeting of 2011

Date: 27th July 2011

Time: 18:00-20:00

Venue: Hosei University Ichigaya Campus, ’58 Building 2F Research Center for International Japanese Studies Seminar Room

Speaker: Kimihiko Baba (Deputy General Manager, Iwanami Shoten)

Theme: Tracing the Thread of Argument about Alert to Japan in China: Reading Qingyu Mi’s History of Modern Japanese Diplomacy

Chair: Wang Min (Professor, Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies)

<Executive Summary>

4th East Asia Cultural Research Meeting of 2011 was held and speaker was Dr. Kimihiko Baba, Iwanami Shoten. In this report, Dr. Baba reported Qingyu Mi’s History of Modern Japanese Diplomacy and examine the characteristics and the originalities of this book. Then Dr. Baba pointed usefulness and limitation of historical approach like this book.