Tokinomichi means, in Japanese, “the way of time”. We are presenting articles, reviews, essays about topics such as Japanese history, Swiss/Western history, comparative history, history of technology and environmental history. If you have any questions or requests, do not hesitate to contact us by the form present on this page.

My name is William Favre and I am a historian of modern Japan. My fields of interest are environmental history, local history, disaster history, global history and history of technology.

I earned a 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.

I currently live in Switzerland and am specializing myself in patrimonial protection and museology. I am currently doing a second master's degree in Museum Studies at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland