Research Faculty

SAKIHAMA Sana

SAKIHAMA Sana

Project Assistant Professor
Office of International Academic Affairs,
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
sakihama[at]
Research theme: Okinawan Modern Intellectual History and Postcolonial Theory

Modern intellectual history of Okinawa and postcolonial theory of peripheries in East Asia

Research Topics

SAKIHAMA Sana is a Project Assistant Professor of East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, Institute for Advanced Asian Studies, The University of Tokyo. She is researching the intellectual history of modern and contemporary Okinawa with an interest in how the dynamics of capitalism has transformed and influenced Okinawan society. She is interested in imperialism/colonialism as a concrete manifestation of capitalism and its cultural effects (here “culture” means an expression of the totality of politics, economy, and society). Her current research aims a theoretical and philosophical exploration of how political “subjects” can be formed.

Research activities

Books
  • SAKIHAMA, Sana. Politics and Philosophy of Ifa Fuyu: 法政大学出版局, 2022.9. (in japanese)
Thesis
  • 崎濱紗奈. “Revisited “Okinawa”: the Range of Arakawa Akira’s “Izoku-ron”.” master’s thesis, 2014.
Articles and Book Chapters
  • 崎濱紗奈, and 翻訳=ソン・ジヨン. “포스트 이하 후유 시대의 ‘주체’의 행방.”The Cold War in Asia and Okinawa 2022.5. (in korean)
  • Sakihama, Sana. “‘Political Philosophy’ of Ifa Fuyū: the Limits of Identity Politics.”Identity and Movements EAA Booklet, no. No. 17 2021.10: 59-73. (in english)
  • Sakihama, Sana. “Orikuchi Shinobu as Discourse: The Problem and Possibility.”Praxis of Coexistence in Cultural Diversity, no. 1 2016: 101-109.
  • Ci-Bin Fong,, and Sana Sakihama. “第三次反安保運動下的沖繩基地問題:從SEALDs談起.”ROUTER: A Journal of Cultural Studies 第二十一期, no. 秋 2015: 280-301. (in chinese)
  • Sakihama, Sana. “Nishida Kirarō and Ifa Fuyū: Respective Ideas of “The Empire of Japan”.”UTCP-Uehiro Booklet 5 2014.6: 131-138.
Conference
  • Sakihama, SANA. “Revisiting ‘Reversion’: the Attempt to envisage constitutions in 1980s Okinawa.” Presented at the International Workshop “Small Nations: Comparative Perspectives from Japan and Quebec,” Université Laval, November 26 2021.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “Ifa Fuyu as a Problem: the Subject of Okinawa.” Presented at the 国際学術大会「『沖縄学』は可能なのか——ポスト伊波普猷時代の挑戦と展望」、慶熙大学, November 2019.
  • Sakihama, Sana. ““Japan- Ryukyu single ancestry theory” as Arche-Politics.” Presented at the Cultural Typhoon 2018 in Ryukoku University, June 2016.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “Political Philosophy of Ifa Fuyu.” Presented at the International Interdisciplinary Conference “The Enlightenment from A Non-Western Perspective,” Sofia University (Sofia, Bulgaria), May 2016.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “An Introduction to the Sunflower Student Movement.” Presented at the Graduate Workshop from “Borders:” Okinawa, Hong-Kong, Taiwan and Jeju, Okinawa University (in Naha), February 2016.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “Revisiting Asianism in the Context of Okinawa.” Presented at the Japan Studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo A Joint Workshop, the University of Chicago, October 2015.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “Modern National Learning and Okinawaology: The Relationship Between Orikuchi Shinobu and Ifa Fuyu.” Presented at the ANU Japanese Studies Graduate Workshop, June 2015.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “Jeju and Okinawa.” Presented at the UTCP-Yonsei University Workshop: “Sharing the Other’s Recollections: Place, Memory and History”, February 2015.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “”Universality” in Orikuchi Shinobu: Shinto as Universal Religion and Emperor.” Presented at the Workshop&Graduate Conference “Universal Values in a post-secular Era- the case of China and Japan,” University of Tokyo at Komaba, September 2014.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “絶望の淵の「希望」と「暴力」―目取真俊『虹の鳥』考.” Presented at the 表象文化論学会第9回大会, July 2014. (in Japanese)
  • Sakihama, Sana. “Ryukyu Independence Movement and East Asia.” Presented at the 東京大学・延世大学合同Graduate Workshop「東アジアにおける多文化共生」、延世大学, March 2014.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “How Can We Construct New Ethics?: Beyond the Past and Future.” Presented at the 2013 Uehiro Philosophy Conference, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, USA), March 2013.
  • Godo, Wakako, and Sana Sakihama. “Philosophy for Everyone.” Presented at the Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education First International Seminar, University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu, USA), March 2013.
  • Sakihama, Sana. “Modernity for Ifa Fuyu: the Concept of “Dai-kokumin”.” Presented at the 復帰40年沖縄国際シンポジウム, March 2012.

Experience

YearEducation
1988.11 Born
2012.2 B.A. in Arts and Sciences (the University of Tokyo)
2014.3 M.A. in Arts and Sciences (the University of Tokyo)
2016.4 JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists(~2018.3)
2019.4 Project Research Fellow of East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, Institute for Advanced Asian Studies, The University of Tokyo(〜2022.3)
2022.3 Dr. in Arts and Sciences (the University of Tokyo)
2022.4 Project Assistant Professor of East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, Institute for Advanced Asian Studies, The University of Tokyo
YearAcademic experience