Welcome !

Tokinomichi means in Japanese “the way of time”.

I seek, with my activity as an independent historian, to untangle the complexity of events of the past and to shade a new light on them.

What is making my work at Tokinomichi stand apart?
Mostly, taking a side-step to consider things from a different angle and its attention to how people and events are connected together in a certain way.

My name is William Favre and I have been trained as a historian of Japan and a museologist.
My fields of interest are environmental history, disaster history, global history, history of technology, material studies and provenance research. Every subject that might have a twist fascinates me.

I earned a master’s degree in history and research at the EHESS, Paris (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) and a master’s degree in Museum Studies at the University of Neuchâtel. You may find on my blog an article on the Sanriku Tsunami of 1896, that I studied for my master’s dissertation: See article in my blog >>
and here: See article at Niche-Canada.org >>.

I currently work as an associate researcher at the University of Geneva at the Department of Geography for a research project on the Japanese perception of the SS Cleveland’s cruises and on world tour simulation devices: See Academic Announcement >>.