More than one hundred years have passed since the “Western history” as a discipline of historical studies had been established in the Japanese academic world. Nobody may deny the contributions by historians of “Western history” to the development of the social sciences and humanities in Japan since the Meiji-period. On the other hand now we are aware of all sorts of problem which are inherent in this discipline. In this research project we tryed to reconsider the development and the present conditions of the "Western history" from perspective of East Asisn modern historiography.
We organized several conferences and symposium in each year, in which we invited historians of "Western history" from South Korea. Part of the results was published on the journal "Shiso" (no. 1091) in 2015. We also started the "Japanese-Korean Forum of "Western History" as a platform of discussion between Japanese and Korean historians studying "Western history".
