PhD candidate in Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture at the University of Córdoba, Spain. His research examines the adaptation of seppuku —the samurai’s ritual suicide— by Mishima Yukio and other authors in film and literature during the 1960s, within the context of social and student movements. He currently works as a writer and researcher in Higashiyoshino, a mountain village in Nara Prefecture, where he studies the Tenchūgumi and other defiant samurai groups in relation to Japan’s violent encounter with the West, its civilizational model, and the restorations of the Emperor as a symbol of power in the mid-19th century. In Higashiyoshino, he also documents and researches the social and cultural practices of local farming communities. He is the editor of Tokidoki Hyakusho, a bilingual (Spanish-Japanese) journal of essays and photography that reflects from rural spaces in Mexico and Japan on the society-nature dialectic within peasant worlds and their inhabited territories. He is a member of the Permanent Research Seminar on Mexican-Japanese Art and Culture, sponsored by CENIDIAP, and producer and host of the podcast “Japón es chido”, which offers a counter-narrative approach to Japanese history.