Masahiro Terada is a visiting associate professor of environmental humanities (geo-humanities) and history at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN) in Kyoto, Japan. His research explores the meaning of environment with a focus on the relationship between history, which deals with humanity, and the environment, usually thought to be non-human. From this position, he investigates the concept of the Anthropocene in the East Asian perspective, as well as the problem of “futurography.” His publications include: Geo-Humanities: Becoming of the world, or human being, living being, and thing in the Anthropocene (Kyoto: Airi Shuppan, forthcoming 2020), Catastrophe and Time: History, Narrative, and Energeia of History (Kyoto University Press, 2018), i What You Are Waiting for on the Top of the Volcano, or Towards a New ‘Scienza Nuova’ of Humanity and Nature (Showado, 2015). He is also the series editor of “Narrative of Terra, Terra Narrates,” (Airi Shuppan, 2019) and has also produced visual works including Tama-chan’s Tree Years’ Lunch (DVD, 2018).