Event Tag Archives: Centre for Japanese Research

“Wartime Japan” as a Divided, Ambivalent Entity: The Eurasian Experience

Historians have called wartime Japan a racist polity and the Asia-Pacific War a “race war” saturated by “race hate.” This talk will challenge the “race war” thesis by arguing that “wartime Japan” was a more ideologically divided polity than is generally recognized, and use the experiences of resident Eurasians to demonstrate a pervasive racial ambivalence among Japanese citizens.

ビジネス成功の秘訣と持続可能な企業

セミナー 日時２０１８年２月８日 午後５時から６時３０分 場所 C.K. Choi room 351 講師 八木俊輔教授（追手門学院大学経営学部） テーマ 「ビジネス成功の秘訣と持続可能な企業」 内外の経営学の最新の知見も踏まえた上で、社会人になってからも役立つような経営戦略、マーケティング等、経営学のエッセンスをカバーしつつ、企業の競争優位構築、ビジネス成功の秘訣を探り、今後の企業経営のあり方、CSR、企業経営の持続可能性などの最新のトピックスもカバーしたいと思います。また、日本での就職活動に不安を持たれている学生さんも多いと聞いていますので、日本の就職状況や就職活動への心構えなどの話も織り込んでいきたいと思います。 参加無料 お話は日本語で行います。

Scales of History: Resonant Vibration between Family History and Global History

About the Speaker: Dr. Yoshimi Shunya is a Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies. He is the author of many books on cultural theory, urban culture, international exposition, media culture, information technology, the emperor system, and Americanization in modern Japan and East Asia. He has been a leading scholar in the field of Media and […]

The Potential for an Indigenous Policy Under the Constitution of Japan

The Japanese government recognized the Ainu people as Indigenous People of Japan in 2008 and is now working on to develop comprehensive Ainu policies. The lecture deals with the possibility of special policy measures for the Indigenous Ainu under the Japanese Constitution which has no articles recognizing the presence of any ethnic minorities nor group […]

Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea

Please join us for the book launch of Colonizing Language by Dr. Christina Yi. In this monograph, Yi investigates how linguistic nationalism and national identity intersect in the formation of modern literary canons through an examination of Japanese-language cultural production by Korean and Japanese writers from the 1930s through the 1950s, analyzing how key texts were produced, […]

Workshop “Gendering War and Peace in Modern Japan”

The 2017-2018 Academic Year sees the 150th anniversary of Japan’s 1868 “Meiji Restoration,” an epochal political revolution that sparked Japan’s remarkable modernization, dramatic cultural transformation, and rapid emergence onto the global stage. One legacy of the Meiji Restoration was Japanese imperialist expansion in East Asia in the late-19th century, breeding a culture of militarism that pervaded Japanese […]

Owning the Ocean: Alaska Fishermen and the Japanese ‘Invasion’ of Bristol Bay, 1937-1938

The entry by Japanese fishing vessels to Bristol Bay, Alaska, in 1937-38—what Alaska salmon fishermen invariably referred to as an “invasion”—not only fed the fishermen’s anxiety over the imperialist ambitions of the Asian nation, but forced them to confront their own ideas of ownership over the salmon and the very ocean itself.

Nation-Work: How Tea Became Japanese with Dr. Kristin Surak

Join us for an evening of learning about the relationship between tea and Japanese culture. Why did an activity as mundane as tea preparation become one of the potent symbols of Japan? Drawing on her award-winning book Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice, Kristin Surak will explore the relationship between culture and nation in tea […]

Narrative, Performance, and “Premodern” Forms: Ishimure Michiko’s Contemporary Noh Play Okinomiya and its Costuming by Shimura Fukumi

Abstract: Ishimure Michiko is often represented as a founder of Japan’s environmental movement, thanks to her efforts to represent those affected by Minamata Disease through grassroots organization, direct action, and literary works. Among Ishimure’s writings are two noh plays: Shiranui, staged in 2002, and Okinomiya, which will be performed in October 2018 featuring costumes naturally […]

Tea and Transformation in Medieval Japanese Folklore: The Legend of Sōtan Inari and the Tsukumogami “Tool Spirits”

Abstract: Professor TOKUDA Kazuo of Gakushūin Women’s College offers a firsthand look at medieval tales and legends of supernatural transformations connected with Japanese tea culture. In one such tale, a fox learns the tea ceremony so well that he is able to disguise himself as Sen Sōtan, the grandson of the great tea master, Sen […]

Kirei Sabi and the World of Enshu Sadō: An Afternoon of Traditional Japanese Tea Culture with Kobori Sojitsu, Grand Master

Abstract: Join us for this rare opportunity to learn about traditional Japanese tea culture in the Enshū tradition with KOBORI Sōjitsu, 13th Grand Master of the Enshū Sadō School. Ever since its founding in the early 17th century by KOBORI Enshū—tea instructor to the Tokugawa shogunate, painter, calligrapher, poet, architect, and garden designer—the Enshū Sadō […]

Japan’s Leadership in the Liberal International Order

Since 2016, Japan has shown remarkable leadership on several dimensions of global and regional economic governance, including trade governance, economic and data governance, regional rules-based order, and environmental governance. This workshop is hosted by the Centre for Japanese Research.

CJR-CSDI event oct 18Can Democratic Elections Survive the Digital Age?

High-level virtual panel on digital disruptions in democratic elections, with experts on Brazil, Kenya, the Philippines, and South Korea. About this event The Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, is organizing a series of panel events on the theme of digital transformations, titled: “Global Conversations […]