Koji Yamamoto

Let me share this again. If interested, please drop me a line by the end of February.

Every American needs to watch this:

Thanks for reposting this yesterday!!
Let me share this once again! #historysky #earlymodern

If interested, please drop me a line with your CV and a paragraph on your research plan. I'll be busy during the first half of March, so please reach out to me sooner rather than later.

Report of the 2025 summer retreat: www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/event-r...

Some photos from our away day. bsky.app/profile/did:...

www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/commodi...

www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/symposi...

Some recent events:
www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/symposi...

Each year, our postdocs have been organising a conference at the cross section of their research topic and the lab's priority. You will receive logistic help from the lab and the faculty of economics where I am based. You might also be able to get some internal funding too.

you'll be able to apply for a room in UT international lodges dedicated to international researchers and postgrads. Tom and Christy can tell you more on these.

Finally, as a host, I have to be able to demonstrate a strong synergy between incoming postdocs and the lab I lead. So it'd be great if you have suggestions on this count. Due to weaker Japanese Yen, the salary will look rather small, but it is good enough to cover basic cost of living in Tokyo, and

We have a lively lab culture with a host of activities. You are expected to contribute actively to this communities. Please see our lab website for more:
www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/

If you haven't lived or worked in Japan I'd encourage you to get in touch with them as well as it was their first jobs in Japan.

You'll be able to apply for funds for visiting conferences and archives.

Here you can find some words from our former members.
www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/testimonials/

We are currently hosting two international JSPS postdocs @tomaashby.bsky.social and Chrity Wang yijyewang.wixsite.com/christy

Outline of the scheme can be found here, with a link to the official JSPS guidelines: www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/join-us/

Looking for a postdoc opportunity outside the UK/US? I'm happy to support up to two JSPS postdoc applicants for the coming round for two-year posts starting from Sep./Oct. 2026 onwards at UTokyo. The application to be submitted before the end of March. 1/n

#NACBS at Montreal has been wonderful. I presented here for the first time. Really useful feedback and stimulating panels across the entire program. The presidential address on J.S. Mill's 'family life' was a real treat. Looking forward to coming back to it again.

The title page

The first page of "Of Man" with extensive marginalia

Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)

📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript

We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇

It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️

東京カレッジGHCでのChie Ikeyaさんのブックトーク、とても面白かった。　InterAsian intimacies across race, religion, and colonialism (2024)についてで、本の一部をご本人が読み上げて解説を加えるというスタイルだった。小説などではよくある手法だけれど、研究書の文脈ではとても新鮮に感じた。

An interior view inside the teahouse overlooking a doorway, corridor, and window

A box involving various elements on Japanese food

Yesterday I participated at a workshop in a traditional teahouse in the Edo-era Hama-rikyū gardens with scholars from UTokyo & KyotoU. Brilliant range of talks - from 17thC naval contracting & confessional co-existence to a 20thC asylum in Peking & the 1999 introduction of the pill in Japan.

A photo of Akamon, a historic red gate

A photo of two figures walking through an archway

A very green tree from below

Today was my first day @utokyoofficial.bsky.social as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. I am grateful to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for the nomination & to colleagues at the JSPS & UTokyo for supporting my move to Japan, especially @kyamamoto.bsky.social. I am very excited to begin my new work!

Ruthless - Yale University Press London A revelatory new history of Britain’s industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result o...

The *big thing* I've been finishing is my next book Ruthless, which is coming out in October. It connects the exploitation of land and people across Britain and its empire with scientific and technological innovation to offer a new history of capitalist development.

yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Some news: in 2026 I'll take over as Editor of Renaissance Studies. It's a journal that means a great deal to me and which occupies a uniquely important position in the interdisciplinary study of the early modern world. With our new Associate Editor, Dr Elizabeth Petcu, I can't wait to get started!

The call poster. Follow the link for details.

Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July!
See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social

Thanks Eva! I'm currently working on a few things, including London soap boilers and washerwomen and the constitutional crisis, and also on state-interventions on essential work like cooking, washing, heating and food preservation.

This is really cool:

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

こんにちは！勉強になるとても良い会でしたね！