Abstract: This lecture explores new approaches to the creation of global history, by introducing several attempts to create world/global history studies by Japanese scholars from non-European Asian perspectives. Such studies of world history in Japan started with comparative histories of economic development and modernization in Eurocentric structures and paradigms in the late 1940s. According to the Digital Library (book reviews) of the Research Institute for World History in Tokyo, Japanese scholars have published more than 20 series of books on world history: one in the 1950s, seven in the 1960s, four in the 1970s, four in the 1980s, nine in the 1990s and two in the 2000s. Most of the contents were merely an assemblage of national histories in chronological order from ancient to contemporary times. However, a few series were published on the strong academic initiatives of world historians in intimate collaboration with prominent academic publishers. Recently, through a unique joint research project in the Kansai area (Kyoto/Osaka), world/global history studies in Japan have tended to shift from comparative history to relational history. Japanese efforts to overcome Eurocentric paradigms may provide a good example to locate the study of global history within the context of non-Eurocentric perspectives.