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). In 2024, I graduated in Museum Studies from the University of Neuchâtel. There, my dissertation centered around Japenese collections conserved in Switzerland.