{"id":3692,"date":"2026-07-21T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/?page_id=3692"},"modified":"2026-10-30T14:24:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T05:24:49","slug":"front-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u30d5\u30ed\u30f3\u30c8\u30da\u30fc\u30b8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"swell-block-fullWide pc-py-60 sp-py-40 has-bg-img -parallax alignfull lazyload\" style=\"color:#fff;background-color:rgba(42, 42, 42, 0.8)\" data-bg=\"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/\u5927\u6771\u4e9c\u4ecf\u6559\u5730\u56f3-scaled.jpg\"><div class=\"swell-block-fullWide__inner l-article\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-section_ttl\">TIFO Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Japanese Religion and Intellectual History received a generous grant from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toshibafoundation.com\/index.html\">Toshiba International Foundation<\/a>&nbsp;to organise a series of lectures by early-career scholars based in Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please check <a href=\"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/tifo\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"471\">this page<\/a> regularly for updates to this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"swell-block-button is-style-btn_normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.tohoku.ac.jp\/modern-japan\/tifo\/\" class=\"swell-block-button__link\"><span>TIFO Project<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"swell-block-fullWide pc-py-60 sp-py-40 alignfull\" style=\"background-color:#f7f7f7\"><div class=\"swell-block-fullWide__inner l-article\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-section_ttl\">\u7814\u7a76\u30fb\u6559\u80b2\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image 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class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn my opinion, the general conception of Japan and its people that has been built in the West until a very short while ago is highly ridiculous.\u201d (Wenceslau de Moraes, 1905)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSamuel Johnson defined a nation as \u2018people distinguished from other people\u2019 (\u2026) His definition is a particularly pleasing one because it exposes the enormous questions concealed inside this self-assertive little word. 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