News and Events

• 30/1/2025
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.19 was published.
• 25/11/2024
  International Symposium entitled “Modern War Industry & Science：Focusing on the Perpetual War in the Middle East” will be held on Friday 29 November 2024.
• 28/7/2024
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.18 was published.
• 11/6/2023
  The 11th Symposium entitled “The Genocide in Gaza and the Crisis of Liberalism” will be held on Thursday 11 July 2024.
• 21/3/2024
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.17 was published.
• 22/12/2023
  On December 18, 2023, Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer has signed an academic exchange agreement with Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• 27/11/2023
  The 10th Symposium entitled “Divided International Order: Between Military Tension and Peacemaking“ will be held on Wednesday 10 January 2024.
• 25/9/2023
  The 9th Symposium entitled“Japan's Defense Industry and Security Policy: Considerations from the Russo-Ukrainian War ”will be held on Thursday 19 October 2013.
• 29/8/2023
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.16 was published.
• 29/6/2023
  Four researchers from the Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) visited the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer and talked about the future academic exchange between the two institutes.
• 22/6/2023
  The Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfers was approved to continue as a Special Institute for Research Promotion (period: 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2028).
• 31/1/2023
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.15 was published.
• 26/7/2022
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.14 was published.
• 18/4/2022
  We will co-host the 15th Anniversary Symposium of the Arms and Civil Society Research Forum “Militarization and Civil Society” (21 May 2022)
• 23/2/2022
  Online Seminar “Control of Unmanned Weapons in the Arms Trade Treaty” will be held on Wednesday 16 March 2022.
• 25/1/2022
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.13 was published.
• 16/11/2021
  1 December 2021 Online Seminar “BLM and the International Aid Community: Reflection by a Former Aid Worker from Japan”
• 27/7/2021
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.12 was published.
• 18/7/2021
  Friday 23 July 2021 Online Seminar “Race and Gender in Humanitarian Disarmament”
• 2/3/2021
  Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer published the research book no.6 titledIndigenous Armaments Production and International Assistance in Cold War Asia.
• 21/1/2021
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.11 was published.
• 14/1/2021
  Thursday 4 February 2021 Online Symposium “Past, Present and Future of Humanitarian and Development Aid: Rethinking the Aid Sector with Binalakshmi Nepram”
• 27/11/2020
  We supported an Online Symposium “Arms Control and Disarmament in the Post-COVID19 World” on Friday 27 November 2020.
• 25/8/2020
  Online Symposium “Gender, Arms Control and Security” will be held on Wednesday 23 September 2020.
• 11/8/2020
  We launched RIHGAT Research Notes. Its first number analyses China’s accession to the Arms Trade Treaty.
• 27/7/2020
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.10 was published.
• 10/3/2020
  Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer published the research book no.5 titledThe Century of Aviation: Airmindedness, World Wars, and the Cold War.
• 22/2/2020
  Book publication：Tamara Enomoto, The Arms Trade Treaty: The Self, Sovereignty, and Arms Transfer Control
• 21/2/2020
  Book publication：Tamara Enomoto (ed.), Weapon Taboos: Genealogies of Pariah Weapons
• 21/1/2020
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.9 was published.
• 12/11/2019
  International Seminars entitled “Economics of the British World/ Commonwealth” will be held on Tuesday 26 and Thursday 28 November 2019.
• 1/9/2019
  Meeting for a Joint Review of The British World: Dimensions of Imperial Ties, edited by Mahito Takeuchi(Nihon Keizai Hyoron Sha) will be held on Saturday 21 September 2019.
• 22/8/2019
  A joint debriefing session on the CCW-LAWS GGE and the ATT-CSP5 will be held on Thursday 19 September 2019.
• 20/7/2019
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.8 was published.
• 25/5/2019
  An international seminar entitled "Japan’s Awakening: Moving Toward an Autonomous Security Policy" will be held on Friday 5 July 2019.
• 17/5/2019
  Seminar entitled “International networks and aircraft manufacture in late-colonial India: Hindustan Aircraft Limited, 1940-47” will be held on Tuesday 04 June 2019.
• 22/2/2019
  Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer published the research book no.3 titled The British World: Dimensions of Imperial Ties.
• 21/1/2019
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.7 was published.
• 9/1/2019
  Seminar entitled “The Arms Transfer and its Recycling Mechanisms in Contested Regions：the Case of the Balkans and Middle East” will be held on Wednesday 6 February 2019.
• 30/12/2018
  Seminar entitled “Call for Prohibition on Aerial Bombing in the Interwar Period: Genealogy of Pariah Weapons” will be held on Wednesday 30 January 2019.
• 14/12/2018
  Panel session “Ideas to prohibit/regulate conventional weapons: Emergence and change” was held at the Japan Association for International Security Annual Conference 2018.
• 26/11/2018
  Seminar entitled “Qualitative Disarmament in the Interwar Period: Genealogy of Pariah Weapons” will be held on Thursday 20 December 2018.
• 19/11/2018
  The 8th Symposium entitled “ National Security Policy of Tiwan and South Korea in the Cold War Period: Military Assistance and Indigenous Armaments Production” will be held on Tuesday 18 December 2018.
• 31/10/2018
  On Saturday, 24 November 2018 the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer will host a seminar entitled “New Research Trends of Aviation History: Decolonization and Gender relations”.
• 5/10/2018
  A joint debriefing session on the ATT-CSP4 and the CCW-LAWS GGE will be held on Tuesday 30 October 2018.
• 10/9/2018
  Panel Discussion entitled ‘“Air-mindedness”: Focusing on the International Civil Aviation Industry in the Interwar Years’ will be held at 2018 Annual Meeting of Political Economy & Economic History Society.
• 2/9/2018
  Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer organised a side event "Using the ATT to Prevent Diversion" during the 4th Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (20-24 August 2018, Tokyo).
• 29/8/2018
  Article "Japan and the Arms Trade Treaty" was published on the ATT Monitor （Vol. 11, No. 1, p. 4, 20 August 2018）.
• 1/8/2018
  Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer was selected as the Special Institute for Research Promotion.
• 23/7/2018
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.6 was published.
• 17/7/2018
  An international symposium entitled “Symposium Ahead of the Fourth Conference of States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty: Reflecting on the Vision Against Reality of Arms Transfers in the World” will be held on Saturday 18 August 2018.
• 30/6/2018
  A workshop entitled " Citizenship in Motion in the 21st Century: Conversations between Japanese and South African Scholars " will be held on Sunday 8 July 2018.
• 20/6/2018
  An international seminar entitled "Limiting War Technologies in the History of International Law: Genealogy of Pariah Weapons" will be held on Friday 20 July 2018.
• 3/6/2018
  A seminar entitled "In preparation for the fourth conference of states parties to the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT)" will be held on Tuesday 19 June 2018.
• 29/3/2018
  An international seminar entitled "Relationships between Arms Availability and Violence" was held on Wednesday 28 March 2018
• 18/2/2018
  An international seminar entitled "Comparing Arms Transfer Regulations of the Interwar and Post-war Periods" was held on Monday 19 March 2018
• 3/2/2018
  An international seminar entitled "Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy in the Middle East" was held on Wednesday 7 March 2018.
• 23/1/2018
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.5 was published.
• 21/11/2017
  The sixth symposium was hosted by the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer,entitled "A New Perspective on the History of the British World: Political and Economic History of Imperial Ties." in Liberty Tower, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
• 1/8/2017
  The Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer launched an international joint research project: Pariah Weapons.
• 25/7/2017
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.4 was published.
• 15/5/2017
  The fifth symposium was hosted by the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer,entitled "The Military Assistance to South Asia during the Cold War." in Liberty Tower, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
• 13/4/2017
  An international workshop entitled “Broadcasting Britishness during the Second World War: Radio and the British World”, was held at C5 in Global Front Building 17th Floor, Surugadai Campus, Meiji University.
• 11/4/2017
  An international workshop entitled “Elisions and Elusions of Gentlemanly Capitalism”, was held at C5 in Global Front Building 17th Floor, Surugadai Campus, Meiji University.
• 27/3/2017
  An international workshop entitled "Conceptualising Science and Technology in Interwar Disarmament: Convertibility and Militaristic Perversion of Aviation, 1919-1945", was held at Room 309C in Academy Common Building, Surugadai Campus, Meiji University.
• 8/3/2017
  An international workshop entitled “British Tank Production and War Economy,1934-1945”, was held in Global Front, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
• 20/1/2017
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.3 was published.
• 16/1/2017
  The Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer hosted a workshop titled, “Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War: Civil-Military Relations, Threat Perception, and the 1936 Withdrawal from the Washington System”.
• 22/11/2016
  The fourth symposium was hosted by the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, entitled “Research and Education on the Disarmament and Arms Transfer in Overseas Institutes and Universities”, in the Global Hall of the Global Front Building, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
• 2/9/2016
  A co-hosted debriefing meeting was held in Tokyo on the 2nd Conference of States Parties (CSP2) for the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) .
• 21/7/2016
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.2 was published.
• 2/7/2016
  An international workshop entitled “Arms Transfer, Regional Conflicts and Refugee Crisis in the Balkans and Middle East (First Session: Arms Transfer and Regional Conflict, Second Session: Migrant Crisis and the Wars)” was held in Academy Common Bldg., Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
• 31/5/2016
  The third symposium of the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, entitled “Was the Second World War Inevitable? Revisiting the Interwar Disarmament Conferences”, was held in the Global Hall of the Global Front Building, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
• 19/1/2016
  The Journal of Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, no.1 was published.
• 19/1/2016
  The second symposium of the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, entitled “The Military and Civilian Use of Airplanes and Their International Transfer”, was held in the Global Hall of the Global Front Building, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
• 17/11/2015
  The launching symposium of the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, entitled “Arms Control and Military Alliance: Past and Present”, was held in the Global Hall of the Global Front Building, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
• 17/10/2015
  During the academic convention at Fukushima University of the Society for Political Economy and Economic History, members of the Meiji University research institute participated in a panel discussion entitled “Religion, Political Economy and the British World under the British Empire”.
• 30/5/2015
  In the 84th Annual Conference of the Society for Socio-Economic History at Waseda University, members of the Meiji University research institute participated in a panel discussion entitled “Global Revolutions in Airplane Production in the Interwar Period: From the Perspective of the Relations between Munitions and Private Demand”.
• 18/6/2015
  The Meiji University research project entitled “Comprehensive Historical Research on Disarmament, Arms Control, Arms Transfers and Technological Transfers” was selected as the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s 2015 ‘Project for the Support of Private Universities Building the Strategic Research Foundation’. Because of this project, the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer was opened on the ninth floor of the Global Front Building, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
• 3/3/2015
  Our research project was promoted as one of the research clusters of Meiji University.
• 1/4/2014
  Our research project entitled “Historical Studies of Disarmament and Arms Transfer in the Global Perspective” was provided a grant-in-aid for scientific research (A) by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.