Nana Someya

Nana Someya is a PhD student in the history of political thought at Keio University, Tokyo. She studies the transnational reception of German political thought in the late nineteenth century, focusing primarily on Johann Caspar Bluntschli’s theory of the state and its reinterpretations across European and East Asian contexts. Her work pays particular attention to the translation and interpretation of Bluntschli’s thought in Meiji-era Japan, situating the process of Japan’s modern state-building within this broader global intellectual context.