François Lachaud
François Lachaud is a professor and the director of studies at the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO) and at the religious science department of the École Critique des Hautes Etudes. He specializes in the religious and cultural history of Japan, as well as in Japanese–European relations. He is the author of numerous works on Japan, including most recently Empires éloignés (2010) and Images et imagination, le boudhisme en Asie (2009).