{"id":21555,"date":"2026-04-01T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/?p=21555"},"modified":"2026-03-23T13:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:16:37","slug":"%e7%a7%8b%e5%b1%b1-%e5%be%b9-2-6-2-5-19-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2026\/04\/01\/21555\/","title":{"rendered":"COMASTRI, Chiara"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Name<\/h5>\n<p>COMASTRI, Chiara<\/p>\n<h5>Degree<\/h5>\n<p>Ph.D.<\/p>\n<h5>Status<\/h5>\n<p>Assistant Professor<\/p>\n<h5>Research Topic<\/h5>\n<p>Rethinking local democracy through postwar minikomi and the legacy of Yamashiro Tomoe<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on postwar Japanese intellectual history, I examine cultural practices in rural and regional communities\u2014such as reading circles, small-scale publishing, and storytelling\u2014focusing on women\u2019s experiences and gender relations to explore forms of local democracy that emerged beyond formal political institutions.<\/p>\n<h5>Education and Academic Employment<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-striped table-chronology table-colored-tbhd\" style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; height: 69px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.1004%; height: 23px;\">2018-2025<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 82.8996%; height: 23px;\">DPhil History, Oxford University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.1004%; height: 23px;\">2016-2017<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 82.8996%; height: 23px;\">MSc Modern Japanese Studies, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.1004%; height: 23px;\">2013-2015<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 82.8996%; height: 23px;\">MA Literature and Environment, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 17.1004%;\">2007-2011<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 82.8996%;\">BA Language, culture and society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa, Ca\u2019 Foscari Venice University, Italy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Academic Employment<\/strong><\/p>\n<table class=\"table table-striped table-chronology table-colored-tbhd\" style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; height: 10px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 17.1004%; height: 10px;\">2025-2026<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 82.8996%; height: 10px;\">Keio University, Graduate School of Human Relations, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h5>Fields of Research Interests<\/h5>\n<p>Postwar Japanese intellectual history, Cultural history, Social history, Gender, Grassroots democracy, Local \/ regional studies, Oral history<\/p>\n<h5>Academic Publications<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Comastri Chiara, \u201cYamashiro Tomoe no genten: Fuki no T\u014d wo megutte,\u201d in <em>Taik\u014d Bunkashi: Reisenki Nihon no Hy\u014dgen to Und\u014d<\/em>, edited by Unoda Shoya and Tsuboi Hideto, Osaka: Osaka Daigaku Shuppankai, 2021.<\/li>\n<li>Comastri Chiara, \u201cGenbaku higaisha to n\u014dson josei wo tsunagu \u2018hy\u014dgen\u2019 to \u2018und\u014d\u2019: Yamashiro Tomoe to shukish\u016b \u2018Genbaku ni ikite\u2019 wo megutte,\u201d <em>Genbaku Bungaku Kenky\u016b<\/em>, No. 18, pp. 20\u201330, December 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Comastri Chiara, \u201cYamashiro Tomoe Aru Tomurai ni tsuite: n\u014dson josei no rentai no mondai wo ch\u016bshin ni,\u201d <em>Machikaneyama Rons\u014d<\/em>, No. 49, pp. 35\u201352, December 2015.<\/li>\n<li>Comastri Chiara, \u201cHibaku taiken wo kaku: Yamashiro Tomoe no \u2018Genbaku ni ikite,\u2019 \u2018Kono sekai no katasumi de\u2019 wo ch\u016bshin ni,\u201d <em>Genbaku Bungaku Kenky\u016b<\/em>, No. 13, pp. 196\u2013210, December 2014.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Other Interests<\/h5>\n<p>Yoga, food culture, urban walking, folktales<\/p>\n<h5>Affiliated Academic Organizations<\/h5>\n<p>Japan Society for the Study of Adult and Community Education<br \/>\nAssociation for Japanese Social Literature<br \/>\nAssociation for Asian Studies\uff08AAS\uff09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name COMASTRI, Chiara Degree Ph.D. Status Assistant Professor Research Topic Rethinking local democracy throug [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21883,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21555\/revisions\/21883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}