East Asian Studies
Research Associate in Japanese Studies
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Biography:
Dr Joshua Batts is Research Associate in Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Research interests:
Dr. Batts’ research explores the dynamics between early modern Japanese and world history. His current research project examines Tokugawa Japan’s attempts to establish direct, trans-Pacific trade with Spanish America in the early seventeenth century. Drawing on archives in Europe and Japan, the project uses this little-known case study to reevaluate the nature of diplomacy and the various frictions inhibiting encounter in the early modern world. Dr. Batts is also developing a project on mining and minting in Tokugawa Japan and its connection to contemporary narratives of industrial, national, and global heritage.