News

Where the Girls Are: Establishing Japanese Girlhood and Identity in Women's Magazines
Kazue Sakamoto, Associate Professor, Sociology, Ochanomizu University
August 28, 2003
Center for Japanese Studies

The Japanese Constitution in the 21st Century
Taro Nakayama, Chairman, Research Commission on the Constitution, House of Representatives, Japan
September 2, 2003
Center for Japanese Studies

The Institute of East Asian Studies hosted "East Asia at Berkeley," a three-day event showcasing a small cross-section of the intellectual and artistic pursuits integral to the East Asia programs on the Berkeley campus. A wide array of different activities and topics were presented ranging from panels on the region's pre-historic hunter-gatherers and modern financial markets to screenings of Japanese animated films and performances of modern dance from Taiwan.

On September 2, the Center for Japanese Studies hosted Japan's blue-ribbon commission on constitutional reform, which is conducting research into revising the constitution, including considering the possibility of revising Article 9 that states that Japan will not maintain military forces or other war potential. Two articles on this event appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle:

Joan Kask, who has been Assistant Director at IEAS for fifteen years, has been promoted to the position of Assistant Dean at International and Area Studies at the University. The Dean of International and Area Studies oversees IEAS and all other international programs on campus, including all of the Title VI centers, International and Area Studies Teaching Programs, the Berkeley Program for Study Abroad, Services for International Students and Scholars, and International House.

Japan Mapped: Historical Maps For Digital Display and Research
David Rumsey, Founder/Director, Cartography Associates
January 22, 2003
Digital presentation
East Asian Library, Center for Japanese Studies, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, GIS Center

A Blast from The Past: Meiji Sound Recordings of Oral Storytelling
Scott Miller, Professor, Japanese Language and Literature, Brigham Young University
January 30, 2003
Center for Japanese Studies

On March 14 and 15, 2003, the Institute of East Asian Studies hosted an international meeting occurred on our campus that brought together delegates from North Korea and ten other countries. Sponsored by the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asian Pacific [CSCAP], its purpose was to discuss growing nuclear tensions on the Korean peninsula. The meeting included dignitaries from North Korea, including their U.N. ambassador to the United Nations. UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Berdahl interviewed IEAS Director T.J.

A selection from the Japanese Historical Map Collection of the East Asian Library (link is external) has been digitized, and is available online.

On the Literature of Epilogues
Ho-Ung Jung
January 15, 2003
Center for Korean Studies

Fashioning Womanly Confucian Virture: the Virtuous Woman (Yollyo) in Post-war Literary Discourse
Michael Pettid, CKS Postdoctoral Fellow
January 21, 2003
Center for Korean Studies

Japanese Silent Cinema and the Art of the Benshi
Midori Sawato
September 16, 2002
Center for Japanese Studies

Stone Tools and Cognitive Patterns in Japanese Palaeolithic Assemblages
Peter Bleed, Professor, Japanese Palaeolithic Archaeology, University Nebraska-Lincoln
September 23, 2002
Joint Colloquium
Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Anthropology

The Institute of East Asian Studies was pleased to host the Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) during August 8-12, 2002, for a portion of its 54th conference. Former IEAS Director Robert Scalapino is a member of the JASC National Advisory Committee.

Positive Action or Part-time-ization? Japan's Changing Environment for Equal Job Opportunity
Charles Weathers, Economics, Osaka City University
February 7, 2002
Center for Japanese Studies

UC Berkeley has been awarded a $2 million grant from the Freeman Foundation for the promotion of undergraduate education in Asian studies.

How Should a Chinese Woman Look? Revisiting 'the Look' and the De-Westernization of Film Studies
Chris Berry, Associate Professor, Film Studies and Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Berkeley
January 25, 2002
Center for Chinese Studies

Comparative Study of "Institutional Templates" in East Asian Capitalism
Hong Yung Lee, Political Science, U.C. Berkeley
February 1, 2002
Center for Korean Studies

Tempest in a Textbook: the Historical Revisionism and Political Controversy of the Atarashii Rekishi Kyoukasho (New History Textbook)
John Nelson, Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco
September 13, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

Japanese Religions in and beyond Japanese Diaspora
Keynote Speaker: Robert Bellah
September 21, 2001
Center for Japanese Studies

Woman and Nation: The Search for Identity in Oakamoto anoko's Shojoruten (Wheel of Life)
Michiko Suzuki
Friday, January 26, 2001
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Satire Before and After the Meiji Restoration
Bill Burton
January 29, 2001
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Soseki's Taste for the Occult
Daniel O'Neill
February 2, 2001
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Impunity for Emperor Hirohito and its Consequences
Herbert Bix, Professor, Hitotsubashi University
September 13, 2000
Center for Japanese Studies

Frontiers of the East Asian Modern: Authenticity, Sovereignty and Manchukuo
Prasenjit Duara, Professor of History, University of Chicago
September 14, 2000
Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

East Asian Capitalisms
February 18–19, 2000
Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies

Friday, February 18, 2000
9:00 a.m. — Opening remarks
9:30 a.m. — Panel 1: The Transformation of East Asian Capitalisms: Social Science Perspectives (1)

Building a Dunhuang Archive
Sarah E. Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
Friday, February 4, 2000
Center for Chinese Studies

China's 'Japan' Trap: Deflation and Monetary Policy
Liao Kuang-Sheng, Professor, The Graduate Insitute of San Min Chu I, College of Law, National Taiwan University, and Senior Advisor, National Security Council, R.O.C.
February 9, 2000
Center for Chinese Studies