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 museologist. My fields of interest are environmental history, disaster history, global history, history of technology, material studies and provenance research.
I earned a master’s degree in history and research at the EHESS, Paris (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales). My dissertation investigated the reaction of the Meiji State to the 1896 Sanriku Meiji Tsunami (year 29th of Meiji era). It focused on how the government responded in the case of lesser-known disasters and peripheral catastrophes. It was soon followed by a second master’s degree in Museum Studies at the University of Neuchâtel.