This issue marks the end of a two-year series on the theme of "The Study of History that Transcends Borders". Stemming from the theme has been a series of special editions on themes such as scholarship, race, and gender. All these themes were presented as a challenge to issues that should be debated on a level that surpasses previous existing academic subjects. In this final issue we feature post-colonialism from an ideological point of view that fundamentally reexamines the existing framework of knowledge. It is for this reason that we wanted to include a synthesis of "The Study of History that Transcends Borders" within the meaning of this topic.
Directly translated into Japanese, post-colonialism would be something like "after colonialism", but this is not a term simply used to indicate a period of time. On the surface, post-colonialism appears to mean that colonization has ended, but the truth is that in reality the systems and ways of thinking of colonialism become deeply ingrained among the people of previously colonized nations. Post-colonialism as a concept has a strong implication of a critical consideration of that situation. From the post-colonial standpoint, it becomes clear that many things that many people considered normal were in fact no more than presumptions that were cleverly devised political plans. The questions posed of post-colonialism span the full range of human knowledge. Of course, there has been much demand for this reexamination from a new perspective in academic studies related to history. Although it may be a small contribution, this feature issue is an attempt by this magazine to address those larger questions