K Shimizu
Biographic Data
| ID | 35442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Shimizu |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Shimizu |
| SIGNATURE | SHIMIZU K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ryukoku University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1159-5436 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ambedkar, the Kyoto School, and Japanese Buddhism: On the possibilities and risks of Buddhism
Eurocentrism and the construction of the ‘self’ in colonialism: The Okinawa–Japan relationality
This paper examines how Japan colonised itself through the colonisation of Okinawa. While postcolonial scholarship has primarily focused on how colonised peoples were dominated and exploited under Eurocentrism, comparatively less attention has been paid to how non-Western colonisers internalised colonial norms within the international order and ontologically constituted themselves as modern subjects. This article seeks to address this gap. By ana…
What if Contingency Is the Norm? A Buddhist Intervention in Doing IR and Practising Global Ethics
There has been a burgeoning interest in the concepts of relationality and temporality within the field of International Relations (IR) in recent years. This shift is driven by the recognition among many mainstream IR scholars that the global landscape has increasingly been characterised by profound uncertainty and unpredictability. A significant amount of recent works focusing upon the IR frameworks emphasise the relationality of actors. This is …
Political healing and Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine: A critical engagement with contemporary international relations
This paper introduces Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine into the contemporary international relations (IR) literature. In this paper, we will elucidate the perception towards subjectivity and relationality based upon the non-binary relationality of Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine, and strive to provide a refreshing understanding of the world. In order to achieve this goal, we start this article by focussing upon the way in which the essentialised subjectivit…
Buddhism, quantum theory and international relations: On the strength of the subject, the discontinuous relationality, and the world of contingency
This article is part of a forum on Karin Fierke’s book Snapshots from Home: Mind, Action and Strategy in an Uncertain World. In it, the importance of viewing international relations from the intersection of Buddhism and quantum theory is discussed. The ontological implication of Buddhism and quantum theory is extremely important in an uncertain world, and when we accept the uncertainty, we gain a new vision of contemporary world affairs. This is …
The Kyoto School and International Relations: Non-Western Attempts for a New World Order
The Kyoto School and International Relations explores the Kyoto School’s challenge to transcend the ‘Western’ domination over the ‘rest’ of the world, and the issues this raises for contemporary ‘non-Western’ and ‘Global IR’ literature. Was the support of Kyoto School thinkers inevitable due to the despotism of military government, thus nothing to do with their philosophy, or a logical extension of their philosophical engagement? The book answers…
Encounter, Transformation of Time and Self-Colonisation
A Non-Western Attempt at Hegemony: Lessons from the Second-Generation Kyoto School for International Pluralism and Its Discontents
In an age of relative Western decline, international relations (IR) scholars and practitioners can learn from Japan's attempt to re-envision world order in an earlier era of relative European decline. In both periods, an apparently pluralistic, relational ontology of IR has been articulated by East Asian thinkers. However, a closer examination of the philosophical underpinnings of these Confucian frames reveals a hierarchical, culturalist reasoni…
Buddhism and the Question of Relationality in International Relations
Relationality seems to have attracted a broader audience in international relations (IR) in the last decade. Unlike other approaches of the relational turn that concentrate more on analyzing or stabilizing the international order, the Buddhist theory of IR is mainly concerned with the political practice of the liberation and healing of people. In this article, I will illustrate how Mahāyāna Buddhist teachings can contribute to IR by using case st…
An East Asian approach to temporality, subjectivity and ethics: Bringing Mahāyāna Buddhist ontological ethics of Nikon into international relations
While the theory of the Chinese School of International Relations (CSIR) has contributed new dimensions to IR such as the concept of relationality into theorisation practice, it also faces the same pitfalls as the schools of thought that precede it: it pays insufficient attention to the relationship between ethics and subjectivity despite its repetitive use of such concepts as ‘morality’ in its articulation of contemporary world affairs and insuf…
Covid-19, Democracies, and (De)Colonialities
Liberal democracies often include rights of participation, guarantees of protection, and policies that privilege model citizens within a bounded territory. Notwithstanding claims of universal equality for “humanity,” they achieve these goals by epistemically elevating certain traits of identity above “others,” sustaining colonial biases that continue to favor whoever is regarded more “human.” The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these fault line…
Differing about Difference: Relational IR from around the World
Difference, a central concern to the study of international relations (IR), has not had its ontological foundations adequately disrupted. This forum explores how existential assumptions rooted in relational logics provide a significantly distinct set of tools that drive us to re-orient how we perceive, interpret, and engage both similarity and difference. Taking their cues from cosmological commitments originating in the Andes, South Asia, East A…
Buddhism, cosmology, and Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere
The Romanticism in non-Western areas characterises contemporary world affairs such as Confucius International Relations, discourse of Harmony, pan-Asianism and pan-Islamism. However, the emergence of Romanticism in the non-Western areas as a counter movement to the Western exclusionism is not new. In Japan, the structural reformation of world political economy appeared in the form of emergence of Romanticism, particularly in the inter-war period.…
Religion and Secularism in Overseas Shinto Shrines: A Case Study on Hilo Daijingū, 1898–1941
The United States and Japan both subscribed to secularism as modern nation-states, but the sphere in which Shinto shrines were legally located-religious or secular-differed between them. This article takes Hilo Daijingū, an overseas Shinto shrine in the periphery of Territorial Hawai'i, as a case study to examine how its Japanese community adapted to differing secularisms. This local shrine was largely conceived of and treated in a manner similar…
International relations from the margins: The Westphalian meta-narratives and counter-narratives in Okinawa–Taiwan relations
This article examines competing narratives over belonging and authority at Japan’s and China’s margins by excavating the discursive practices employed by relevant state and substate actors in framing, contesting and (dis)assembling totalizing claims over Ryukyu/Okinawa and Taiwan since the late nineteenth century. Informed by the critical international relations literature on practices of statecraft and Foucauldian conceptions of power as product…
Reflection, the Public, and the Modern Machine: An Investigation of the Fukushima Disaster in Relation to the Concepts of Truth and Morality
In March 2011, Japan suffered a massive earthquake. The resultant tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor and it was later revealed that the reactor was actually in a state of meltdown. While it is still unclear how many people will be affected, both mentally and physically, by the radio-active fallout, the extent to which our lives are subject to the unimaginable risks of scientific technology has become patently clear. This paper stri…
Materializing the ‘non-Western’: Two stories of Japanese philosophers on culture and politics in the inter-war period
This paper investigates the risk presumably involved in the narratives of non-Western international relations theory (IRT) by focusing on a similar historical case in Japan. It reveals the risk of uncritically accepted geographical division, and particularly focuses on the discourses of the Kyoto School's theory of world history as an example of non-Western narratives in the past, which was to 'overcome' the Western civilization similar to the co…
The Ambivalent Relationship of Japan's Soft Power Diplomacy andPrincess Mononoke: Tosaka Jun's philosophy of culture as moral reflection
Culture is a demanding word, particularly when it is used in the context of the contemporary academic discipline of international relations (IR). It is often employed in order to distinguish one identity from another, allegedly illuminating idiosyncrasies embedded in a particular society or group of people. The essentialized understanding of culture is also detectable in the case of the current debate on the non-Western international relations th…
Syncretism: The politics of Japan's financial reforms
This paper examines how diversely organized capitalist societies evolve by analyzing the transformation of Japan's financial system since the 1990s. The banking, securities and insurance, as well as the postal financial institutions changed significantly, but are hardly converging to Anglo-American or ‘liberal market’ models. We contend that Japan's new financial system is best characterized as syncretic, with new, traditional and hybrid forms of…
Nishida Kitaro and Japan's interwar foreign policy: War involvement and culturalist political discourse
Journal Article Nishida Kitaro and Japan's interwar foreign policy: war involvement and culturalist political discourse Get access Kosuke Shimizu Kosuke Shimizu * Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Ryukoku University,1-5 Yokotani, Seta-Oe Cho, Otsu 520-2194, Japan *Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2011…
Abstracts of the Papers Presented at the 50th Joint Meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon and the Japanese Society of Ethnology
A-03Variation in bite forms of the Jomon people KAIFU, Y. (National Science
Saturation Discrimination in Acquired Colour Vision Deficiencies on the Tritanopic Confusion Line
A Bibliography of Saljuq Studies
Urbanization in Japan (Nihon No Toshi-Ka)
Differing about Difference: Relational IR from around the World
Difference, a central concern to the study of international relations (IR), has not had its ontological foundations adequately disrupted. This forum explores how existential assumptions rooted in relational logics provide a significantly distinct set of tools that drive us to re-orient how we perceive, interpret, and engage both similarity and difference. Taking their cues from cosmological commitments originating in the Andes, South Asia, East A…
International relations from the margins: The Westphalian meta-narratives and counter-narratives in Okinawa–Taiwan relations
This article examines competing narratives over belonging and authority at Japan’s and China’s margins by excavating the discursive practices employed by relevant state and substate actors in framing, contesting and (dis)assembling totalizing claims over Ryukyu/Okinawa and Taiwan since the late nineteenth century. Informed by the critical international relations literature on practices of statecraft and Foucauldian conceptions of power as product…
Materializing the ‘non-Western’: Two stories of Japanese philosophers on culture and politics in the inter-war period
This paper investigates the risk presumably involved in the narratives of non-Western international relations theory (IRT) by focusing on a similar historical case in Japan. It reveals the risk of uncritically accepted geographical division, and particularly focuses on the discourses of the Kyoto School's theory of world history as an example of non-Western narratives in the past, which was to 'overcome' the Western civilization similar to the co…
An East Asian approach to temporality, subjectivity and ethics: Bringing Mahāyāna Buddhist ontological ethics of Nikon into international relations
While the theory of the Chinese School of International Relations (CSIR) has contributed new dimensions to IR such as the concept of relationality into theorisation practice, it also faces the same pitfalls as the schools of thought that precede it: it pays insufficient attention to the relationship between ethics and subjectivity despite its repetitive use of such concepts as ‘morality’ in its articulation of contemporary world affairs and insuf…
Covid-19, Democracies, and (De)Colonialities
Liberal democracies often include rights of participation, guarantees of protection, and policies that privilege model citizens within a bounded territory. Notwithstanding claims of universal equality for “humanity,” they achieve these goals by epistemically elevating certain traits of identity above “others,” sustaining colonial biases that continue to favor whoever is regarded more “human.” The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these fault line…
Political healing and Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine: A critical engagement with contemporary international relations
This paper introduces Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine into the contemporary international relations (IR) literature. In this paper, we will elucidate the perception towards subjectivity and relationality based upon the non-binary relationality of Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine, and strive to provide a refreshing understanding of the world. In order to achieve this goal, we start this article by focussing upon the way in which the essentialised subjectivit…
The Ambivalent Relationship of Japan's Soft Power Diplomacy andPrincess Mononoke: Tosaka Jun's philosophy of culture as moral reflection
Culture is a demanding word, particularly when it is used in the context of the contemporary academic discipline of international relations (IR). It is often employed in order to distinguish one identity from another, allegedly illuminating idiosyncrasies embedded in a particular society or group of people. The essentialized understanding of culture is also detectable in the case of the current debate on the non-Western international relations th…
Syncretism: The politics of Japan's financial reforms
This paper examines how diversely organized capitalist societies evolve by analyzing the transformation of Japan's financial system since the 1990s. The banking, securities and insurance, as well as the postal financial institutions changed significantly, but are hardly converging to Anglo-American or ‘liberal market’ models. We contend that Japan's new financial system is best characterized as syncretic, with new, traditional and hybrid forms of…
A Non-Western Attempt at Hegemony: Lessons from the Second-Generation Kyoto School for International Pluralism and Its Discontents
In an age of relative Western decline, international relations (IR) scholars and practitioners can learn from Japan's attempt to re-envision world order in an earlier era of relative European decline. In both periods, an apparently pluralistic, relational ontology of IR has been articulated by East Asian thinkers. However, a closer examination of the philosophical underpinnings of these Confucian frames reveals a hierarchical, culturalist reasoni…
Nishida Kitaro and Japan's interwar foreign policy: War involvement and culturalist political discourse
Journal Article Nishida Kitaro and Japan's interwar foreign policy: war involvement and culturalist political discourse Get access Kosuke Shimizu Kosuke Shimizu * Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Ryukoku University,1-5 Yokotani, Seta-Oe Cho, Otsu 520-2194, Japan *Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2011…
Urbanization in Japan (Nihon No Toshi-Ka)
A Bibliography of Saljuq Studies
Saturation Discrimination in Acquired Colour Vision Deficiencies on the Tritanopic Confusion Line
Abstracts of the Papers Presented at the 50th Joint Meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon and the Japanese Society of Ethnology
A-03Variation in bite forms of the Jomon people KAIFU, Y. (National Science
Nishida Kitaro and Japan's interwar foreign policy: War involvement and culturalist political discourse
Journal Article Nishida Kitaro and Japan's interwar foreign policy: war involvement and culturalist political discourse Get access Kosuke Shimizu Kosuke Shimizu * Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Ryukoku University,1-5 Yokotani, Seta-Oe Cho, Otsu 520-2194, Japan *Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Volume 11, Issue 1, January 2011…
Syncretism: The politics of Japan's financial reforms
This paper examines how diversely organized capitalist societies evolve by analyzing the transformation of Japan's financial system since the 1990s. The banking, securities and insurance, as well as the postal financial institutions changed significantly, but are hardly converging to Anglo-American or ‘liberal market’ models. We contend that Japan's new financial system is best characterized as syncretic, with new, traditional and hybrid forms of…
Materializing the ‘non-Western’: Two stories of Japanese philosophers on culture and politics in the inter-war period
This paper investigates the risk presumably involved in the narratives of non-Western international relations theory (IRT) by focusing on a similar historical case in Japan. It reveals the risk of uncritically accepted geographical division, and particularly focuses on the discourses of the Kyoto School's theory of world history as an example of non-Western narratives in the past, which was to 'overcome' the Western civilization similar to the co…
The Ambivalent Relationship of Japan's Soft Power Diplomacy andPrincess Mononoke: Tosaka Jun's philosophy of culture as moral reflection
Culture is a demanding word, particularly when it is used in the context of the contemporary academic discipline of international relations (IR). It is often employed in order to distinguish one identity from another, allegedly illuminating idiosyncrasies embedded in a particular society or group of people. The essentialized understanding of culture is also detectable in the case of the current debate on the non-Western international relations th…
Reflection, the Public, and the Modern Machine: An Investigation of the Fukushima Disaster in Relation to the Concepts of Truth and Morality
In March 2011, Japan suffered a massive earthquake. The resultant tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor and it was later revealed that the reactor was actually in a state of meltdown. While it is still unclear how many people will be affected, both mentally and physically, by the radio-active fallout, the extent to which our lives are subject to the unimaginable risks of scientific technology has become patently clear. This paper stri…
Buddhism, cosmology, and Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere
The Romanticism in non-Western areas characterises contemporary world affairs such as Confucius International Relations, discourse of Harmony, pan-Asianism and pan-Islamism. However, the emergence of Romanticism in the non-Western areas as a counter movement to the Western exclusionism is not new. In Japan, the structural reformation of world political economy appeared in the form of emergence of Romanticism, particularly in the inter-war period.…
Religion and Secularism in Overseas Shinto Shrines: A Case Study on Hilo Daijingū, 1898–1941
The United States and Japan both subscribed to secularism as modern nation-states, but the sphere in which Shinto shrines were legally located-religious or secular-differed between them. This article takes Hilo Daijingū, an overseas Shinto shrine in the periphery of Territorial Hawai'i, as a case study to examine how its Japanese community adapted to differing secularisms. This local shrine was largely conceived of and treated in a manner similar…
International relations from the margins: The Westphalian meta-narratives and counter-narratives in Okinawa–Taiwan relations
This article examines competing narratives over belonging and authority at Japan’s and China’s margins by excavating the discursive practices employed by relevant state and substate actors in framing, contesting and (dis)assembling totalizing claims over Ryukyu/Okinawa and Taiwan since the late nineteenth century. Informed by the critical international relations literature on practices of statecraft and Foucauldian conceptions of power as product…
An East Asian approach to temporality, subjectivity and ethics: Bringing Mahāyāna Buddhist ontological ethics of Nikon into international relations
While the theory of the Chinese School of International Relations (CSIR) has contributed new dimensions to IR such as the concept of relationality into theorisation practice, it also faces the same pitfalls as the schools of thought that precede it: it pays insufficient attention to the relationship between ethics and subjectivity despite its repetitive use of such concepts as ‘morality’ in its articulation of contemporary world affairs and insuf…
Covid-19, Democracies, and (De)Colonialities
Liberal democracies often include rights of participation, guarantees of protection, and policies that privilege model citizens within a bounded territory. Notwithstanding claims of universal equality for “humanity,” they achieve these goals by epistemically elevating certain traits of identity above “others,” sustaining colonial biases that continue to favor whoever is regarded more “human.” The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these fault line…
Differing about Difference: Relational IR from around the World
Difference, a central concern to the study of international relations (IR), has not had its ontological foundations adequately disrupted. This forum explores how existential assumptions rooted in relational logics provide a significantly distinct set of tools that drive us to re-orient how we perceive, interpret, and engage both similarity and difference. Taking their cues from cosmological commitments originating in the Andes, South Asia, East A…
Buddhism and the Question of Relationality in International Relations
Relationality seems to have attracted a broader audience in international relations (IR) in the last decade. Unlike other approaches of the relational turn that concentrate more on analyzing or stabilizing the international order, the Buddhist theory of IR is mainly concerned with the political practice of the liberation and healing of people. In this article, I will illustrate how Mahāyāna Buddhist teachings can contribute to IR by using case st…
The Kyoto School and International Relations: Non-Western Attempts for a New World Order
The Kyoto School and International Relations explores the Kyoto School’s challenge to transcend the ‘Western’ domination over the ‘rest’ of the world, and the issues this raises for contemporary ‘non-Western’ and ‘Global IR’ literature. Was the support of Kyoto School thinkers inevitable due to the despotism of military government, thus nothing to do with their philosophy, or a logical extension of their philosophical engagement? The book answers…
Encounter, Transformation of Time and Self-Colonisation
A Non-Western Attempt at Hegemony: Lessons from the Second-Generation Kyoto School for International Pluralism and Its Discontents
In an age of relative Western decline, international relations (IR) scholars and practitioners can learn from Japan's attempt to re-envision world order in an earlier era of relative European decline. In both periods, an apparently pluralistic, relational ontology of IR has been articulated by East Asian thinkers. However, a closer examination of the philosophical underpinnings of these Confucian frames reveals a hierarchical, culturalist reasoni…
Buddhism, quantum theory and international relations: On the strength of the subject, the discontinuous relationality, and the world of contingency
This article is part of a forum on Karin Fierke’s book Snapshots from Home: Mind, Action and Strategy in an Uncertain World. In it, the importance of viewing international relations from the intersection of Buddhism and quantum theory is discussed. The ontological implication of Buddhism and quantum theory is extremely important in an uncertain world, and when we accept the uncertainty, we gain a new vision of contemporary world affairs. This is …
Political healing and Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine: A critical engagement with contemporary international relations
This paper introduces Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine into the contemporary international relations (IR) literature. In this paper, we will elucidate the perception towards subjectivity and relationality based upon the non-binary relationality of Mahāyāna Buddhist medicine, and strive to provide a refreshing understanding of the world. In order to achieve this goal, we start this article by focussing upon the way in which the essentialised subjectivit…
Ambedkar, the Kyoto School, and Japanese Buddhism: On the possibilities and risks of Buddhism
Eurocentrism and the construction of the ‘self’ in colonialism: The Okinawa–Japan relationality
This paper examines how Japan colonised itself through the colonisation of Okinawa. While postcolonial scholarship has primarily focused on how colonised peoples were dominated and exploited under Eurocentrism, comparatively less attention has been paid to how non-Western colonisers internalised colonial norms within the international order and ontologically constituted themselves as modern subjects. This article seeks to address this gap. By ana…
What if Contingency Is the Norm? A Buddhist Intervention in Doing IR and Practising Global Ethics
There has been a burgeoning interest in the concepts of relationality and temporality within the field of International Relations (IR) in recent years. This shift is driven by the recognition among many mainstream IR scholars that the global landscape has increasingly been characterised by profound uncertainty and unpredictability. A significant amount of recent works focusing upon the IR frameworks emphasise the relationality of actors. This is …
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