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… May 2019. His dissertation, “Finding a Place: Rōnin in the Tokugawa Period” explores the fate of rōnin, the so-called … of social status and the governance in the early Tokugawa Japan. During his time at Yale, he worked as Postdoctoral Associate on the CEAS Digital Tokugawa Lab team. Visiting Associate Research Scholar and …

… PhD dissertation, Finding a Place: Rōnin Identity in the Tokugawa Period, explores the disjuncture between discourses on rōnin and their lived experiences during the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868), his work demonstrates that most …

… Momoka Asano … Momoka Asano I was a member of the Digital Tokugawa Lab , where I worked with Professor Fabian Drixler on the Digital Atlas of Tokugawa Japan project. I had recently completed my joint …

… more than 65 governments, on average about one every 13 months. And over the last four years, Spain has had three elections. It’s perhaps … three, taken together, won the same number of seats in last year’s election that PSOE won. Five Star was the biggest …

… free fall, EU and U.S. economies need fiscal stimulus—now Last Thursday, commentators and analysts alike were startled … policy would be deployed at some point in the next nine months to reverse the contraction and would have at least … months of the year. Meanwhile, although the EU estimated last month in its Summer Interim Economic Forecast that the …

… Era After the arrival of the “Black Ships” in 1853/54, the Tokugawa shogunate lifted its longstanding ban on the …

… Era In 1855, after Perry’s and Putyatin’s visits, the Tokugawa shogunate confiscated almost all of Ezochi (Hokkaido …

… & resilience plans, forecasts faster growth in 2021 & 2022 Last July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the … that the Commission must assess the plan within two months and, if it reaches a favorable assessment, submit a … Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain. Last month, the Commission announced it would start raising …

… dropped. And as complacency set in over the summer months—perhaps best exemplified by the huge street party in … hasn’t been as rapid as the acceleration that occurred last March but the steady increase, continuing as it has for … and, in what turned out to be a deadly “super-spreader” event, in June thousands of Czechs gathered in Prague to …

… voters went to the polls for the fourth time in the last four years and, as happened in the elections in December 2015, June 2016, and last April, no party won a majority of the 350 seats in the … to a simple majority. But the negotiations dragged on for months and the parties were ultimately unable to reach an …

… of seven-year budget and €750 billion recovery plan Last July, the heads of state or government of the 27 member … €1.074 trillion MFF approved by the Parliament and Council last year. The €750 billion will be repaid over 30 years … and Resilience Facility and is to be completed within two months of the submission of a plan, includes, among other …