April 11, 2023 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speakers: Glenda S. Roberts, Professor, Waseda University;Noriko Fujita, Adjunct Researcher, Waseda Institute for Asia-Pacific Studies; Gracia Liu-Farrer, Professor, Waseda University...Read more about Japan’s Immigration Policy Conundrum: Technical Interns, Specified Skills, and International Students
January 20, 2023 | 5:00 - 6:30PM | The Faculty Club, Seaborg Room, UC Berkeley Campus
Featured Speaker: Toshio Hosokawa, ComposerFeatured Performer: Kyoko Kawamura, Koto PlayerModerator: Ken Ueno, UC Berkeley...Read more about [Berkeley Japan Prize] Composer Toshio Hosokawa ~ Bringing Japanese Sounds and Aesthetics in Classical Music: In conversation with Ken Ueno and a koto performance by Kyoko Kawamura
November 15, 2022 | 5:00-6:30PM | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speakers: Michiyo Yoneno-Reyes, University of Shizuoka; Sachi Takahata, University of Shizuoka
Discussant: Pei-chia Lan, National Taiwan University
...Read more about Who Cares for Japan’s Aging Society? How Are Immigrant Nurses and Care Workers Faring in Japan？
October 19, 2022 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Yu Korekawa, Ph.D., Director, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
...Read more about What does matter?: Beyond the cultural explanation of the immigrant society of Japan
September 30, 2022 | 5-6:30 p.m. | David Brower Center
Featured Speaker: YU Miri
Speaker: ...Read more about YU Miri, Berkeley Japan Prize Recipient: In Conversation with Karen Tei Yamashita - Diasporic Imagination, History, and Writing
September 29, 2022 | ASUC Student Union: Martin Luther King Jr. Building, Stephens Room
Speakers: YU Miri, YANAGI Takeharu
Moderator:...Read more about YU Miri & YANAGI Takeharu: Listening to Voices of Residents in Fukushima
September 12 | 2-4 p.m. | Anthropology and Art Practice building, Rm 221, UC Berkeley
Speaker: Enrico...Read more about The dispersal of rice in prehistoric Japan — tempo, mode, and consequences
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May 10, 2022 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Angelo Ishi, Professor, Musashi University
Discussant: Keiko Yamanaka...Read more about From Global Financial Crisis to Covid-19 Pandemic: Old and New Challenges for Nikkei Brazilians in Japan
April 30 | 2-5 p.m. | Zellerbach Hall, Room 7
A Stage Reading of Nagahara Hideaki's --The Ones Who Leave-- translated by Andrew Way Leong with Q & A moderated by Philip Kan...Read more about "The Ones Who Leave" by Nagahara Hideaki
March 16, 2022 | 5 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Naoko Hashimoto, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
Discussant:...Read more about Explicating the evolution and limits of Japan’s Asylum Policy
February 23, 2022 | 4-4:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Mark Blum, Professor, UC Berkeley
Moderator: ...Read more about Doctrinally True but Historically Untrue?: Deconstructing Mahāyāna in 18th and 19th Century Japan
February 18, 2022 | 5 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Sumie Jones, Professor Emerita, Indiana University, Bloomington
Discussant: Michael Emmerich,...Read more about Uptown and Downtown in Early Modern Japanese Urban Literature: The Making of a Three-Volume Anthology
January 26 | 4 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Hanayo Oya, Journalist/Documentary Filmmaker
Hanayo Oya, a journalist and former visiting scholar at CJS, will...Read more about Investigating the U.S. Military Crimes in Japan
November 9, 2021 | 5-7 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Amy Borovoy, Professor, Princeton University
Discussants:...Read more about The Legacy of Ezra Vogel's Work: 60 Years after "Japan's New Middle Class"
October 28, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Rika Niikura, Visiting Student Researcher, UC Berkeley...Read more about Residential Living in Human Perspective: Case study of the living space in Southern California in the 1920s through a comparison with that in Japan
September 16 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Keiko Yamanaka, Continuing Lecturer, UC Berkeley
Sponsors:...Read more about Nepali Migration to Japan and Korea: Converging Ends, Diverging Paths, and Contrasting Effects
September 7, 2021 | 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Hugh de Ferranti, Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts...Read more about The Audibility of Strangers: Music and Disparate Japanese Communities in Prewar "White Australia"
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May 11, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Gregory Levine, Professor, Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley
This short talk introduces...Read more about Carved Alive: Buddhist Tree-icons (tachikibutsu) in Japan and "Eco Art History"
April 26 | 4-4:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Carl Gellert, Lecturer, Seattle Central College
The research presented in this talk approaches the examination of archaeological remains from an art historical perspective, relying on a...Read more about Harnessing the Afterlife: The Cross-Cultural Iconography and Funerary Significance of the Fujinoki Tomb’s Gilt-Bronze Saddle (6th Century CE)
April 14, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Jihye Kim, Visiting Graduate Student Researcher, Osaka University
In spite of its 400-year history, it has been only a short time since kabuki has come to be considered a traditional...Read more about The Evolution of Kabuki to the Traditional Performing Arts
March 30, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Marjorie Burge, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado Boulder...Read more about Re-imagining the Lost Written Culture of the Ōmi Capital: Insights from Mokkan
February 24, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Andrew Leong, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, UC Berkeley
Generational terms such as “Issei” (first-...Read more about The Spiritual Foundation for Settler Life: Generational Consciousness and Japanese American Literature, 1917-1925
February 17, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar
Speaker: Anna Nielsen, Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology, Anthropology, UC Berkeley
The...Read more about Archaeology and Landscape in Japan's Kofun Period: Examining the Past to Protect the Future
