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Eiji Okawa is a historian with interests in how people organize their society and relate to one another. His fields of research include the religious and political history of medieval and early modern Japan, the social and cultural history of Japanese immigrants in Canada during the first half of the twentieth century, and pilgrimage and sacred sites in Japan and Asia. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow with Landscapes of Injustice, which is a collaborative project that examines the dispossession of Japanese Canadian properties in the 1940s, and University of Victoria’s history department.
Updated March 2017