WELCOM TO TOKYO
Dear historians,
The Committee of History of International Relations will host a conference in Tokyo, Japan in late September 2004. “Rethinking International History from Asian Perspectives” is the theme of the conference. The Tokyo Conference of 1998, the first CHIR conference held in East Asia, focused on political interactions between Asia and Europe in the 20th Century. The Tokyo Conference of 2004 will deal with the Asian aspects of international history. The terminology, “Asia”, was originally referred to as an immense expanse lying east beyond Europe. The organizers of the 2004 conference interpret “Asia” very broadly and consider it as a region spreading from Western Asia to the Asia-Pacific region.
We are hoping to meet so many distinguished scholars from many backgrounds on such an important occasion.