SIMON LEE, CO-FOUNDER &RESEARCHER

Simon Lee is an independent researcher and translator, based in Tokyo. He studied philosophy at University College London and intellectual history at Queen Mary University of London. Most recently, he was invited to give a presentation entitled ‘Tracing Shifts in the Meaning of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Labour on the Island of Sakhalin’ at the Association for Asian Studies’ annual conference in 2022. His current research is on the history of microfinance in imperial and post-imperial Japan.