Japan Even as a Japanese historian I travel a lot and you may question about that. It is because I can know more if I leave Japan and it is time to write Japanese history in the modern world history. The far I leave Japan, the more I can know. That is an objective Japan and a Japan as part of world. I had considered the things related to Japan when I were in North America and Europe. Under the stimulus of the world gaze of “what is Japan”, we can view Japan from all different angles.