Ioan Trifu
@ioantrifu.bsky.social
Political scientist & historian, specialised on Japan (INALCO🇫🇷- FAU🇩🇪- TUFS🇯🇵)
Researching the transformation of the nation-state, writing on heritage politics, thinking about too many things…
フランス人の政治学者。専門は日本政治史、比較政治など。
Researching the transformation of the nation-state, writing on heritage politics, thinking about too many things…
フランス人の政治学者。専門は日本政治史、比較政治など。
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everything we see about the 1970s focuses on the flash and glitter of the decade. there isn't much media that centers on the stagflation of the decade and the collapse of the nation's industrial base. (one reason that SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER is still worth watching is it is *about* the latter)
December 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
everything we see about the 1970s focuses on the flash and glitter of the decade. there isn't much media that centers on the stagflation of the decade and the collapse of the nation's industrial base. (one reason that SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER is still worth watching is it is *about* the latter)
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Monuments Decolonized by Susan Slyomovics
Winner of the 2025 Ed Bruner Book Award, sponsored by the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG).
www.sup.org/books/middle...
Winner of the 2025 Ed Bruner Book Award, sponsored by the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG).
www.sup.org/books/middle...
December 19, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Monuments Decolonized by Susan Slyomovics
Winner of the 2025 Ed Bruner Book Award, sponsored by the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG).
www.sup.org/books/middle...
Winner of the 2025 Ed Bruner Book Award, sponsored by the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group (ATIG).
www.sup.org/books/middle...
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I'll be giving a talk at The Japan Society in London next month on “Japan, Britain, and the Globalisation of the Samurai," which will also tie into some of themes of the upcoming British Museum special exhibition.
www.japansociety.org.uk/event?event=...
www.japansociety.org.uk/event?event=...
The Japan Society - Japan, Britain, and the Globalisation of the Samurai - with Oleg Benesch
www.japansociety.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I'll be giving a talk at The Japan Society in London next month on “Japan, Britain, and the Globalisation of the Samurai," which will also tie into some of themes of the upcoming British Museum special exhibition.
www.japansociety.org.uk/event?event=...
www.japansociety.org.uk/event?event=...
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This is the entire thing
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
This is the entire thing
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Law review hall of fame 🏆
An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
December 11, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Law review hall of fame 🏆
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🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset.
🔗 populistree.org
📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics:
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🔗 populistree.org
📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics:
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
🌳 Thrilled to launch The PopulisTree — a new website covering decades of populism in Europe (both national and European elections) using a new taxonomy and dataset.
🔗 populistree.org
📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics:
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🔗 populistree.org
📄 More in my brand new article in European Union Politics:
🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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As cities around the globe scramble to face the unpredictable local impacts of runaway climate change and a growing polycrisis, the question is clear: how do we plan and build resilience?
Here’s my take on the Resilience Project of the world’s biggest city, #Tokyo.
Here’s my take on the Resilience Project of the world’s biggest city, #Tokyo.
Tokyo’s Perpetual Resilience Project: Between Local Knowledges and Universal Modernist Concepts | Climate Change and Risk Mitigation
www.cabidigitallibrary.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
As cities around the globe scramble to face the unpredictable local impacts of runaway climate change and a growing polycrisis, the question is clear: how do we plan and build resilience?
Here’s my take on the Resilience Project of the world’s biggest city, #Tokyo.
Here’s my take on the Resilience Project of the world’s biggest city, #Tokyo.
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L’UFE Japon organise une visioconférence gratuite sur la préparation aux séismes, le mardi 16 décembre à 19h (JST).
Inscription ici ufe-japon.doorkeeper.jp/events/193390
Inscription ici ufe-japon.doorkeeper.jp/events/193390
Visioconférence gratuite Préparation aux séismes à Tokyo par Pierre Sevaistre - UFE JAPON
| Doorkeeper
Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:00 - 20:30 PRÉPARATION AUX SÉISMES À TOKYO
Une approche associative de la préparation
Visioconférence gratuite de Pierre Sevaistre
Le mardi16 décembre 2025 à 19h00 sur ZOOM
Vous vous êtes probablement demandé si votre niveau de préparation pour un séisme était suffisant....
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December 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
L’UFE Japon organise une visioconférence gratuite sur la préparation aux séismes, le mardi 16 décembre à 19h (JST).
Inscription ici ufe-japon.doorkeeper.jp/events/193390
Inscription ici ufe-japon.doorkeeper.jp/events/193390
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Everything looks like betrayal of a storied tradition if you have the memory of a fucking gerbil.
December 1, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Everything looks like betrayal of a storied tradition if you have the memory of a fucking gerbil.
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A diorama of the scorched earth on display at the Nagaoka Air Raid Center, one of many small memorial museums facing closure as survivor memory activists who fought to establish them pass away
December 1, 2025 at 7:03 AM
A diorama of the scorched earth on display at the Nagaoka Air Raid Center, one of many small memorial museums facing closure as survivor memory activists who fought to establish them pass away
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local academic types:
looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.
looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.
November 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
local academic types:
looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.
looking for a Kansai local who can teach Intro to Anthropology spring/fall 2026 term in English here at Ritsumeikan in the College of IR (Kinugasa campus NW Kyoto). flexible on which day of the week. students are very international and eager. enrollment ranges from 20-40.
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"Okinowa"
Some U.S. troops are celebrating Thanksgiving overseas, with military cooks serving up dinner with a "little extra love."
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Okinowa"
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Were former Japanese Prime Ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan security policy amateurs? Conversely, was Abe Shinzō an expert? How and why do reputations for expertise and amateurism emerge and spread? For some answers, see my new article with Björn Jerdén.
doi.org/10.1057/s413...
doi.org/10.1057/s413...
The narrative construction of political competence: challenging the expert/amateur binary in Japan’s foreign and security policy - International Politics
Whether expertise or amateurism is attributed to political leaders can play a pivotal role in their success. This article analyzes the dissemination of such reputations, focusing on the perceived fore...
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Were former Japanese Prime Ministers Yukio Hatoyama and Naoto Kan security policy amateurs? Conversely, was Abe Shinzō an expert? How and why do reputations for expertise and amateurism emerge and spread? For some answers, see my new article with Björn Jerdén.
doi.org/10.1057/s413...
doi.org/10.1057/s413...
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This number has caused confusion, earlier data suggested the foreigners commit crimes less than Japanese. It's precisely because of that earlier number, that Tsutomu Ohtsu of Sanseito posed the police a different question, to get a different answer.
The National Police Agency told a cabinet committee that the crime rate of foreigners in Japan, excluding short term visitors, is 1.72x that of Japanese residents. www.sankei.com/article/2025...
外国人の犯罪率は日本人の1.72倍 警察庁が短期滞在者除いた数字を参院内閣委で答弁
昨年の外国人の犯罪率は日本人の1.72倍だったという数字を、警察庁が20日の参院内閣委員会で明らかにした。観光などの短期滞在者を除いた検挙（摘発）人数を比較し…
www.sankei.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This number has caused confusion, earlier data suggested the foreigners commit crimes less than Japanese. It's precisely because of that earlier number, that Tsutomu Ohtsu of Sanseito posed the police a different question, to get a different answer.
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Ces propos sidérants de Xenia Federova rappellent à quel point l'empire Bolloré est un monde russe. Comme dans les années 30, les médias d'extrême droite n'ont que le mot "nation" à la bouche, mais œuvrent pour les intérêts du pays qui constitue notre principale menace.
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Ces propos sidérants de Xenia Federova rappellent à quel point l'empire Bolloré est un monde russe. Comme dans les années 30, les médias d'extrême droite n'ont que le mot "nation" à la bouche, mais œuvrent pour les intérêts du pays qui constitue notre principale menace.
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Je ne peux remercier tous ceux qui ont honoré Robert Birenbaum. Il aurait été fier mais aurait dit que le héros ce n’était pas lui, mais ses copains de l’Affiche rouge, les #FTPMOI et les résistants qui laissèrent leur vie pour la France. Eux qui n’étaient souvent que des Français de préférence.
November 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Je ne peux remercier tous ceux qui ont honoré Robert Birenbaum. Il aurait été fier mais aurait dit que le héros ce n’était pas lui, mais ses copains de l’Affiche rouge, les #FTPMOI et les résistants qui laissèrent leur vie pour la France. Eux qui n’étaient souvent que des Français de préférence.
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« Ami, entends-tu le vol noir des corbeaux sur nos plaines? »
Merci monsieur, de vous être battu pour notre liberté et d’avoir témoigné jusqu’au bout du danger des idéologies mortifères.
Puissions-nous être à la hauteur du sacrifice de vos compagnes et compagnons d’armes quand il faudra dire non.
Merci monsieur, de vous être battu pour notre liberté et d’avoir témoigné jusqu’au bout du danger des idéologies mortifères.
Puissions-nous être à la hauteur du sacrifice de vos compagnes et compagnons d’armes quand il faudra dire non.
Le résistant Robert Birenbaum, frère d’armes de Missak Manouchian, est mort ; Emmanuel Macron rend hommage à « un exemple pour tous »
Le résistant Robert Birenbaum, frère d’armes de Missak Manouchian, est mort ; Emmanuel Macron rend hommage à « un exemple pour tous »
Robert Birenbaum était issu, comme Missak Manouchian, du groupe des Francs-tireurs et partisans de la main-d’œuvre immigrée (FTP-MOI). Il est mort samedi à l’âge de 99 ans.
www.lemonde.fr
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
« Ami, entends-tu le vol noir des corbeaux sur nos plaines? »
Merci monsieur, de vous être battu pour notre liberté et d’avoir témoigné jusqu’au bout du danger des idéologies mortifères.
Puissions-nous être à la hauteur du sacrifice de vos compagnes et compagnons d’armes quand il faudra dire non.
Merci monsieur, de vous être battu pour notre liberté et d’avoir témoigné jusqu’au bout du danger des idéologies mortifères.
Puissions-nous être à la hauteur du sacrifice de vos compagnes et compagnons d’armes quand il faudra dire non.
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(I'll also add that he was always pretty bad at producing takes on his favorite country, Japan, so from my perspective there's a lot here that's just escaped containment)
November 24, 2025 at 4:08 AM
(I'll also add that he was always pretty bad at producing takes on his favorite country, Japan, so from my perspective there's a lot here that's just escaped containment)
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Some Sunday ready over on the HGN blog! Today’s new post from @xurvermilion.bsky.social explores the potential of videogames as a way of engaging students with historical research, and key skills in critical analysis:
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
Why should students care about historymaking in videogames? | Historical Games Network
We might spend time exploring zora monoliths in Breath of the Wild’s (2017) Hyrule and the tales they speak around kings of old, or snooping through an item’s description (such as a holy great sword, ...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Some Sunday ready over on the HGN blog! Today’s new post from @xurvermilion.bsky.social explores the potential of videogames as a way of engaging students with historical research, and key skills in critical analysis:
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
www.historicalgames.net/students-his...
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Fukushima Legacies
National Advocacy and Mothers Against Radiation
/ Ayaka Löschke
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
National Advocacy and Mothers Against Radiation
/ Ayaka Löschke
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Fukushima Legacies
This Open-Access-book focuses on the legacies of post-Fukushima activism, which are linked to significant changes in Japan’s civil society.
link.springer.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Fukushima Legacies
National Advocacy and Mothers Against Radiation
/ Ayaka Löschke
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
National Advocacy and Mothers Against Radiation
/ Ayaka Löschke
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Like US Army plans officers when they get off the plane in Korea. Reinventing the same defense plans, year after year.
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Like US Army plans officers when they get off the plane in Korea. Reinventing the same defense plans, year after year.
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As Maya Goodfellow shows in "Hostile Environment", this is a recurring theme in the political discourse on immigration. Racism is framed as a regrettable but natural response to a number of migrants arbitrarily deemed to be excessive, rather than a socially constructed and contestible subjectivity.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood made more explicit her argument that when ethnic minorities face racism, "we have no choice but to ask: what is the cause of our division"
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
Her answer is the level of net migration, 2019-23 causes racism. (She on Monday said it was caused by the scale of asylum)
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
As Maya Goodfellow shows in "Hostile Environment", this is a recurring theme in the political discourse on immigration. Racism is framed as a regrettable but natural response to a number of migrants arbitrarily deemed to be excessive, rather than a socially constructed and contestible subjectivity.
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On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵
December 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM
On May 11, 1950, while working on the Rawlins National Bank in Wyoming, a construction crew unearthed a whiskey barrel that contained a human skeleton with its skull cap sawed off & an odd pair of shoes. Dr. Lillian Heath, now in her 80s, was asked if she knew anything about it...🧵