概要

Research interests

My research interests center on issues of migration, intellectual and cultural history, and nation and state-building in Japan and Latin America. Recently, I have been particularly interested in the flows of Japanese settlers, crops, and technology in the Brazilian Amazon and the links between Japan’s imperial expansionism, postwar national reconstruction, and Brazil’s policies of development and nation-building during the twentieth century. I have also published papers on the translation and appropriation of ideas of nationalism and state-building in Japan by modern Latin American authors and the involvement of Japanese immigrant elites in Argentina in cultural propaganda during the 1930s. By exploring these topics, I aim to contribute to establishing a field of Global Japanese Studies at the intersection with Latin America.

Background

Born and raised in the Greater Buenos Aires region, Argentina, I was among the numerous teenagers who became interested in Japan through anime and manga. Although I did not realize it then, my first contacts with Japanese culture and language were mediated by the educators, institutions, and cultural practices of the Nikkei community in Buenos Aires. After coming to Japan as an international student, I sought to make sense of these transnational and local connections by exploring how the shared modern histories of Japan and Latin America are bound by ties of migration and settlement, and I received my doctorate from the University of Osaka in 2020. Now, as a lecturer at GJS-ERI, I want to encourage students to critically reconsider the broader connections and reverberations between their topics of interest and contemporary social issues.

Selected publications

ガラシーノ・ファクンド、根川幸男「松宮家所蔵南米移民関係資料（その2）」横浜センター海外移住資料館『研究紀要』第18号、2024年3月、pp. 123–135

根川幸男、ガラシーノ・ファクンド「松宮家所蔵南米移民関係資料（その1）」横浜センター海外移住資料館『研究紀要』第17号、2023年3月、pp. 53–63

Garasino, Facundo, “Immigrant Propaganda: Translating Japanese Imperial Ideology into Argentine Nationalism,” Pedro Iacobelli and Sidney Xu Lu eds., The Japanese Empire and Latin America, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2023, pp. 208–226

Chiappe Ippolito, Matías Ariel and Facundo Garasino “Utopías del estado y la cultura: Japón en el imaginario literario latinoamericano (1868–1968),” Universidad de Costa Rica, Revista Internacional De Estudios Asiáticos 2 (2), July 2023, pp. 1–42

Garasino, Facundo “Naturaleza, paisaje y nación. Textos de viaje al Japón publicados en Argentina (1899–1941),” Pablo Gavirati ed., La Naturaleza del Japonismo. Discursos occidentales sobre tierra, flora y nación: Una lectura desde Argentina, Teseo, 2022, pp. 105–140

Garasino, Facundo, “Japan’s Last Colonial Frontier: Settler Migration, Development, and Expansionism in the Brazilian Amazon,” Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi and Shinnosuke Takahashi eds., Transpacific Visions: Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South, Lexington Books, 2021, pp. 111–136

Garasino, Facundo, “Writing East Asia and Japan from Latin America: Literature, Nationalism and Critique in the Works of Enrique Gómez Carrillo,” New Ideas in East Asian Studies, Special Edition for 2017, pp. 40–47