2026.07.14
Events
2nd Lecture of the TIFO Frontier Religious Studies Lecture Series: "The 'World Religious Federation' (1925) and Pan-Asianism in Interwar Sino-Japanese Relations" (on-site & online, 7 August)
Tohoku University's Graduate School of International Cultural Studies (Japanese Religious and Intellectual History Course) is pleased to present the second lecture in "Frontier Religious Studies: A Lecture Series Showcasing Japanese Religious Studies in English," a project supported by the Toshiba International Foundation.
For this session, we are honoured to welcome Dr Bunya Tamaoki from Kyoto Prefectural University. Dr Tamaoki traces how an ideal of religious unity became entangled with Japanese continental ambitions in Manchuria and Mongolia, revealing the porous boundary between transnational spiritual cooperation and Pan-Asianist politics in interwar Sino-Japanese relations.
Date&Time: Friday, August 7, 2026, starting at 4:30 PM
Venue: Lecture Hall, 6F of Multimedia Education and Research Complex (Kawauchi Kita campus of Tohoku University) & Online (MAP)
Capacity: 80 participants (in person), 300 participants (online)
Registration: Please register using the registration form or by scanning the QR code below.
▶ Registration Form:https://forms.gle/KyTv51pnkWBswVox7
▶QR code:
Registration Deadline: Thursday, August 6, 2026
Hosted by Tohoku University's Graduate School of International Cultural Studies; Supported by Toshiba International Foundation.
<Contact>
Ioannis Gaitanidis, Department of Japanese Religion and Intellectual History
gaitanidis[at]tohoku.ac.jp (Please replace “[at]” with “@”.)
For this session, we are honoured to welcome Dr Bunya Tamaoki from Kyoto Prefectural University. Dr Tamaoki traces how an ideal of religious unity became entangled with Japanese continental ambitions in Manchuria and Mongolia, revealing the porous boundary between transnational spiritual cooperation and Pan-Asianist politics in interwar Sino-Japanese relations.
Date&Time: Friday, August 7, 2026, starting at 4:30 PM
Venue: Lecture Hall, 6F of Multimedia Education and Research Complex (Kawauchi Kita campus of Tohoku University) & Online (MAP)
Capacity: 80 participants (in person), 300 participants (online)
Registration: Please register using the registration form or by scanning the QR code below.
▶ Registration Form:https://forms.gle/KyTv51pnkWBswVox7
▶QR code:
Registration Deadline: Thursday, August 6, 2026
Hosted by Tohoku University's Graduate School of International Cultural Studies; Supported by Toshiba International Foundation.
<Contact>
Ioannis Gaitanidis, Department of Japanese Religion and Intellectual History
gaitanidis[at]tohoku.ac.jp (Please replace “[at]” with “@”.)