Risk Communication and Post-disaster Tourism Recovery: Evidence from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
Lecture
Date: September 15 | 5-6:30 p.m.
Speaker: Hiroaki Matsuura, Shoin University
Location: Kroeber Hall, Gifford Room, 221
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), UC Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group
A tremendous amount of radioactive products were discharged as a result of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March 2011, which resulted in radioactive contamination of the plant and wide surrounding areas. When describing the geographical distribution of radioactive contamination just after the disaster, the government, media, and other organizations largely used administrative boundaries (prefectures, municipalities etc.) or distance from the radiation source as a reference. I examine how this sometimes misleading information about risks, as opposed to the actual risks of radiation significantly and negatively affected local tourism and its long-term recovery in Fukushima and Kanto area. Although health risk information based on prefecture has an obvious advantage of distilling large and complex risk information into a simple one, the government, media, and other organizations need to recognize and carefully examine the potential of misclassifying non-contaminated areas into contaminated prefectures. Doing so will avoid unintentional consequences to the region's tourism recovery.
Hiroaki Matsuura is currently Provost and Vice President of Shoin University in Japan. He is also Interim Dean of the Faculty of Tourism, Media, and Cultural Studies at Shoin University. Before he moved to Shoin, he served as Departmental Lecturer in the Economy of Japan at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Hiroaki received his B.A. in Economics from Keio University, M.A. in Social Science from the University of Chicago, M.S. in Project Management from Northwestern University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and Sc.D. in Global Health and Population (Economics track) from Harvard University's School of Public Health. He has also served as a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics (UNU-WIDER). He is currently an editorial board member of the Child Abuse Review, Sociological Research Online, and International Journal of Population Studies. His main interests are economics and demography, with a special interest in human rights in population issues.
Koto and Voice
Performance
Performer: Kyoko Kawamura
Date: September 18 | 8-10 p.m.
Location: CNMAT (1750 Arch St.)
Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT)
An evening of traditional and contemporary works for koto and voice performed by Kyoko Kawamura. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Kawamura began studying the koto at the age of 10, inspired by the performance of Kinichi Nakanoshima, a designated living national treasure. She studied Japanese traditional music at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, majoring in koto. A multi-instrumentalist, Kawamura also studied shamisen and Japanese flute. In the last 20 years, Kawamura has also gained recognition as an interpreter of contemporary music and has performed all over the world with performers such as Yo-Yo Ma and the Nieuw Ensemble.
In addition to traditional works, Kawamura will present two contemporary works by Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa and UC Berkeley's Ken Ueno.
We've been here before: ‘America First’ and a Century of Defending Japanese language learning
Colloquium
Speaker: Noriko Asato, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Date: September 21 | 4 p.m.
Location: East Asian Library, Art History Seminar Room
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
Noriko Asato will explore the efforts to control Japanese language schools in California a century ago as part of anti-immigrant nativism. This presentation develops from her book, “Teaching Mikadoism,” which looked at how nativists and Japanese Americans battled over their identity and education in Hawaii and the West Coast. Her presentation briefly explores how Japanese Americans resisted, and eventually won a Supreme Court decision that found such school control legislation unconstitutional. Even though Japanese Americans won in Court, her presentation also demonstrates the danger of an unsubstantiated nativist narrative, which demonized Japanese Americans and helped contribute to the unconstitutional “internment” of 120,000 Nikkei during World War II. This brief history of the Japanese American experience highlights the importance for immigrants and ethnic groups in America to have agency for their own voices. It also warns us to be better news consumers.
Noriko Asato, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Library and Information Science at the University of Hawaii Manoa. Her research areas include Intellectual Freedom, East Asian Librarianship and Asian Informatics.
In the Province of the Gods: Disability, Sexuality, Mortality and Things Japanese: Kenny Fries in conversation with Karen Nakamura
Colloquium
Featured Speaker: Kenny Fries, Author
Moderator: Karen Nakamura, UC Berkeley
Date: October 9 | 4 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
A disabled foreigner in Japan, a society most people think of as hostile to difference, Kenny Fries finds himself on a journey of profound self-discovery. As he visits gardens, experiences Noh and butoh, and meets artists and scholars, he discovers disabled gods, one-eyed samurai, blind chanting priests, and atomic bomb survivors. When he is diagnosed as HIV positive, all his assumptions about Japan, the body, and mortality are shaken, requiring him to find a way to reenter life on new terms.
Marie Mutsuki Mockett, author of Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, says, ““In this subtle page turner, Fries helps reinvent the travel-as-pilgrimage narrative. He neither exoticizes nor shies away from the potential pitfalls of a western mind traveling abroad; instead he demonstrates how, through an all too rare open heart and a true poet’s eye, bridges can be built, and understanding deepened, one sincere action at a time.”
Kenny Fries will read briefly from his new memoir In the Province of the Gods, then have a conversation with Professor Karen Nakamura, as well as a discussion with the audience. Join us to hear two luminaries of disability studies who have never met before talk about disability, sexuality, intersectionality, HIV, mortality, and Japan.
You Can Succeed, Too: Media Theory and Kitsch in Toho's early 1960s popular song films
Colloquium
Speaker: Michael Raine, Western University
Date: October 11 | 4 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
Andrew Barshay has argued that after the ANPO protests in 1960, "the 'postwar' utopianism that had marked Japanese thinking about democracy was definitively transvalued, literally 'translated' from the political to the economic realm." This presentation explores the role of the early 1960s Toho musical comedy in translating utopia for an aspirational "white collar" urban culture in Japan. By the 1960s, cinema was no longer the king of mass entertainment: it was part of a leisure industry dominated by television that also included popular music and live performance consumed in "amusement zones." Yuriko Furuhata has emphasized the live "actuality" of Japanese television as informing the remediating practices of the Japanese New Wave but it was another aspect of televisuality that was most significant to the Toho musical films: the close relation between product placement, advertising, and "media mix" celebrity on the television variety show. The growth of the variety show, and the talent agencies that produced them, only accelerated the tendency toward paratext and intertextuality in the high volume, low budget film production system, characterized by the ubiquity and propinquity of familiar series and stars. Taking the musical comedy You Can Succeed, Too (Kimi mo shusse ga dekiru, 1964) as its main example, this presentation argues that the films featuring televisual celebrity, often dismissed as kitsch, exhibit an ironic "double coding" that interrogates contradictions that it also magically resolves. Toho took the indigeneity (dochaku) turn of the early 1960s in a different direction than the Toei yakuza genre or Imamura's art films. Drawing on concepts such as "vernacular modernism" and "transcultural mimesis," the presentation argues that the ambivalent copying and critique of American things in You Can Succeed, Too was a form of immanent and "irresponsible" media theory that highlighted some of the questions of modern Japanese history that also occupied the Japanese new wave.
Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan
Colloquium
Speaker: Sabine Frühstück, University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: October 18 | 4 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
In Playing War, Sabine Frühstück makes a bold proposition: that for over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike purposes: to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace. She argues that modern conceptions of war insist on and exploit a specific and static notion of the child: that the child, though the embodiment of vulnerability and innocence, nonetheless possesses an inherent will to war, and that this seemingly contradictory creature demonstrates what it means to be human. In examining the intersection of children/childhood with war/military, Frühstück identifies the insidious factors perpetuating this alliance, thus rethinking the very foundations of modern militarism. She interrogates how essentialist notions of both childhood and war have been productively intertwined; how assumptions about childhood and war have converged; and how children and childhood have worked as symbolic constructions and powerful rhetorical tools, particularly in the decades between the nation- and empire-building efforts of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries up to the uneven manifestations of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first.
Sabine Frühstück is Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her publications include Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan and Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory, and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army.
The Future of Fukushima: A New Generation Rises to the Challenge
Colloquium
Date: October 30 | 6-8 p.m.
Location: 2150 Allston Way
Sponsor: Berkeley Lab’s Earth & Environmental Sciences Area
How did high school students – using innovative sensors – promote the recovery from an environmental disaster?
Fukushima Prefecture has achieved a remarkable recovery after the nuclear accident in 2011. Thanks to extensive clean-up, more than 97% of the region is at natural background levels; the area as large as the State of Connecticut. However, negative perception still persists across Japan and the world, causing economic and psychological damages in the region. Rising up to this challenge, a group of local high-school students teamed up with Professor Ryugo Hayano at the University of Tokyo in 2015 to collect their own radiation data using a new portable sensor, called D Shuttle. Their results – featured on Forbes – have shown that the radiation level in Fukushima is not at all higher than other places in the world. These students are pioneering an approach to tackle environmental disasters; new technologies and democratizing data can empower communities and support socioeconomic recovery.
This event features presentations by Professor Ryugo Hayano and three high-school students from Fukushima. They will talk about their motivation and experiences in this project as well as their daily life in Fukushima. This event will also include the talks by two American journalism students who participated in a two-week’s program in 2015 organized by the Dilena Takeyama Center at San Francisco State University and Fukushima University, in which they documented the daily life in Fukushima, including those living at temporary housings. After the talks, some Japanese food and drinks will be served in the gallery. Please enjoy Fukushima’s folk song by Koko Komine and some beautiful photos by Jun Takai with traditional meal.
Agenda
6:00 pm Doors Open
6:30 pm Opening Remarks
Dr. Haruko Wainwright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
6:40 pm The Future of Fukushima: A New Generation Rises to the Challenge
Professor Ryugo Hayano, University of Tokyo
Shunya Okino, Fukushima High School
Honoka Ara, Fukushima High School
Ryo Endo, Futaba Mirai High School
7:30 pm Fukushima: We are Here
Natalie Yemenidijan, San Francisco State University
Guadalupe Gonzalez, San Francisco State University
7:50 pm Environmental Remediation in Fukushima: From Now to the Future
Daisuke Uesako, Ministry of Environment, Japan
8:00 pm Closing Remarks
Dr. Haruko Wainwright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Biographies
Professor Ryugo HAYANO is currently the professor of experimental nuclear physics at the University of Tokyo. He has been the spokesperson of an “antimatter” research team called “ASACUSA”, at CERN’s antiproton decelerator facility, since 1997. In 2008, he received the Nishina Memorial Prize, the most prestigious physics prize in Japan, for his study. He earned his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 1979. Since March 2011, his tweets related to the Fukushima Daiichi accident attracted some 150,000 followers; his activities in Fukushima include systematic measurement of school lunch for radiocaesium, study of internal exposures using whole body counters, development of a whole-body counter for small children (BABYSCAN), and comparison of external radiation doses of high school students living in Fukushima, outside of Fukushima, France, Poland and Belarus.
Shunya OKINO (Fukushima High School) Shunya is a second-year high-school student in Fukushima High School, Fukushima City, Japan. He leads the Earth Science Component of Super Science Club in his school, investigating various aspects of earth and environmental science, including the geological origin of local mountains and radiation measurements in the local community. Currently, he has been studying the issues related to decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants. He played an active role in the Radiation Protection Workshop in Paris in March, 2017, presenting the results from his research on decommissioning.
Honoka ARA (Fukushima High School) Honoka is a second-year high-school student in Fukushima High School, Fukushima City, Japan. In her extra-curriculum activity, she has been investigating food safety issues in the Fukushima prefecture such as the radiation measurements in rice and vegetables grown in the region as well as fish caught in the Pacific. Her mission is to inform people in Japan and around the world about the true situation in the Fukushima prefecture, including the safety of food and environments. She has presented her results in the Radiation Protection Workshop in Paris in March, 2017.
Ryo ENDO (Fukushima High School) Ryo is a second-year high-school student in Futaba Mirai High School, Iwaki City, Japan. He was born and raised in Okuma village which is less than 5 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. He has been evacuated for the past six years. He is determined to contribute to the recovery from this accident and redevelopment of the region. He has been actively engaged to develop courses in elementary and middle schools for exploring the better approaches for the recovery and redevelopment from the next-generation perspective. Recently, he has been studying the decommissioning of a damaged nuclear power plant.
2017 CJS-JSPS International Symposium: Drive for the Nobel Prize
Symposium
Speakers: Yuan T. Lee, Academia Sinica
Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley
Takaaki Kajita, University of Tokyo
Date: October 31 - November 1 | 9:45 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: International House, Chevron Auditorium
Sponsors: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, World Premier International Research Center Initiative, Bay Area Science Festival
Join us for this exciting two-day symposium featuring public talks by Nobel Laureates Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry, 1986), Saul Perlmutter (Physics, 2011), and Takaaki Kajita (Physics, 2015), as well as several exciting panels discussing the Nobel Prize's impact on institutions, journalism, and research. In addition to his talk, we will be honoring Professor Kajita with the 2017-2018 Berkeley Japan Prize.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31
CHEVRON AUDITORIUM
09:45-10:15
OPENING REMARKS
Carol Christ, Chancellor UCB
Mariko KOBAYASHI (JSPS, Director, International Program Department, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
10:15-11:45 | NOBEL LAUREATE YUAN T LEE
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1986
Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John C. Polanyi
Born: 19 November 1936, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"
Field: chemical kinetics, physical chemistry
Prize share: 1/3
WORK
Chemical reactions in which molecules comprised of atoms collide and form new compounds represent one of nature's fundamental processes. At the end of the 1960s Yuan Lee and Dudley Herschbach began developing methods to carefully study the dynamics of chemical reactions. Beams of molecules with fixed amounts of energy were made to cross one another so that chemical reactions arose where the beams intersected. By measuring the movement, mass and energy of the molecules produced, the reactions can be mapped.
Introduced by Hitoshi MURAYAMA, Professor UC Berkeley (Physics) + Kavli Institute, University of Tokyo
13:30-15:00 | NOBEL LAUREATE SAUL PERLMUTTER
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2011
Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt, Adam G. Riess
Born: 1959, Champaign-Urbana, IL, USA
Affiliation at the time of the award: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Prize motivation: "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae"
Field: Cosmology
Prize share: 1/2
WORK
The universe's stars and galaxies are moving away from one another; the universe is expanding. Up until recently, the majority of astrophysicists believed that this expansion would eventually wane, due to the effect of opposing gravitational forces. Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt, and Adam Riess studied exploding stars, called supernovae. Because the light emitted by stars appears weaker from a larger distance and takes on a reddish hue as it moves further from the observer, the researchers were able to determine how the supernovae moved. In 1998 they reached a surprising result: the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate.
Moderated by Yasunori NOMURA, Professor UC Berkeley (Physics) + Director, Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics
15:30-17:00 | NOBEL LAUREATE TAKAAKI KAJITA
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015
Takaaki Kajita, Arthur B. McDonald
Born: 9 March 1959, Higashimatsuyama, Japan
Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan
Prize motivation: "for the discovery of neutrino oscillations, which shows that neutrinos have mass"
Prize share: 1/2
WORK
The Standard Model used by modern physics has three types of a very small and elusive particle called the neutrino. In the Super-Kamiokande detector, an experimental facility in a mine in Japan in 1998, Takaaki Kajita detected neutrinos created in reactions between cosmic rays and the Earth's atmosphere. Measurements showed deviations, which were explained by the neutrinos switching between the different types. This means that they must have mass. The Standard Model, however, is based on neutrinos lacking mass and the model must be revised.
Introduced by Hitoshi MURAYAMA, Professor UC Berkeley (Physics) + Kavli Institute, University of Tokyo
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1
IDA & ROBERT SPROUL ROOM
09:00-10:30
PANEL 1 | JOURNALISM AND THE NOBEL PRIZE
Moderator: Yukari Iwatani Kane, Lecturer UC Berkeley (Journalism)
Ken Chang, New York Times
Dennis Normile, Science
Mariko TAKAHASHI, Asahi Shimbun
10:45-12:30
PANEL 2 | THE NOBEL PRIZE'S IMPACT ON INSTITUTIONS
Moderator: Toru TAMIYA, JSPS
James Bartholomew, emeritus professor, Ohio State University
Ryuma OHORA, Director, Office for Basic Research Programs, Research Promotion Bureau, MEXT
Mats Larsson, Nobel selection committee member
13:45-15:15
PANEL 3 | THE NOBEL AS AN INCENTIVE
Moderator: Hitoshi MURAYAMA, Professor UC Berkeley (Physics) + Kavli Institute, University of Tokyo
Haruki WATANABE, PhD., University of Tokyo Lecturer
Katelin Schutz, PhD candidate, UC Berkeley
Hiromi UNO, Associate Professor, Kyoto University
15:15-15:45
GENERAL DISCUSSION
15:45-16:15
CLOSING REMARKS
Co-sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Endorsed by the Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco.
For more information, please go to our website: https://cjs090.wixsite.com/nobel
Food, Agriculture and Human Impacts on the Environment: Japan, Asia and Beyond
Conference
Date: November 6 | 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Sponsor: Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS), Center for Japanese Studies (CJS), Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Center for Chinese Studies (CCS), Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley Food Institute, Department of Anthropology, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
The goal of this workshop is to link local and regional case studies of food, agriculture, and human-environmental interaction with the broader discussion of global environmental issues and long-term sustainability. Special emphasis is on case studies from Japan, East Asia and the North Pacific Rim. Topics that will be discussed in this workshop include issues on food production, circulation and consumption, changes through time in human environmental interaction in relation to societal and economic developments, and water-food- energy nexus.
This event is organized in collaboration with the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan, with which UC Berkeley has an MOU.
For more information, please go to our website: https://cjs090.wixsite.com/rihnucb
Schedule
Day 1: Monday, November 6, 2017 | 180 Doe Library
9:00-9:10 Opening Remarks
Part I. Food and Agriculture
9:10-9:20 Welcoming Remarks
9:20-9:35 Miguel Altieri | Agroecology: Foundations for new agricultural practice on the earth
Session 1. Urban biocultural food production & Food security
9:35-9:50 Steven McGreevy (RIHN; FEAST Project) | Scaling to holistic local food security: directions in agrifood system sustainability assessment
9:50-10:05 Christoph Rupprecht (RIHN) | Biocultural cityscapes: towards urban landscape stewardship
10:05-10:20 Jennifer Sowerwine (Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UCB) | Mapping Agro-biodiversity Hotspots and Cultural Foods in the Urban Food Desert: Fostering Food Security, Biocultural Diversity, and Health
Session 2. Organic agriculture and scale: Balancing environmental and consumer demands
10:35-10:50 Mai Kobayashi (RIHN) | What we see from Bhutan and its relationship with ‘organic’ agriculture
10:50-11:05 Claire Kremen | What diversification can do for organic production systems
11:05-11:20 Joji Muramoto (UCSC) | Anaerobic Soil Disinfestation; Its agroecological significance in California strawberry production
Session 3. Food policy supporting the future of sustainable agriculture
11:20-11:35 Norie Tamura (RIHN) | Agricultural policy and future directions in Japan: gaps, scales and destinations
11:35-11:50 Julia Van Soelen Kim (North Bay Food Systems Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension) and Jennifer Sowerwine (Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UCB) | Food policy councils as venue for engaging diverse food and agriculture perspectives
11:50-12:05 Nina Ichikawa (BFI, UCB) & Adam Calo (UCB)| The Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program in the US Farm Bill
12:05-12:20 Clara Nicholls | Agroecology and the design of climate change resilient farming systems
12:20-12:40 Discussion for Part I
Part II. Heritage and Human Impacts on the Environment
Session 4. Landscape, Materiality & Traditional Ecological Knowledge (Anthropology Colloquium/290 Series)
2:10-2:25 Junko Habu (Anthro/UCB; Small-Scale Economies Project; RIHN) | Introduction
2:25-2:40 Daniel Niles (RIHN) | Beyond control: agricultural heritage and the Anthropocene
2:40-2:55 Nathan Sayre (Geography, UCB) | Official vs practical ecological knowledge on Southwestern public rangelands
2:55-3:10 Kent Lightfoot (Anthro/ARF, UCB) | Rethinking the Ecological Restoration of Public Lands in Central California: New Perspectives from Ancient Landscape Management Practices
3:10-3:25 ann elise lewallen (UCSB) | Indigenous Ainu and “Environmental Rights” in the Date Thermal Power Plant Struggle
3:25-4:00 Discussion for Part II with Anthropologists
Session 5 Environmental Issues in East Asia
4:15-4:30 You-tien Hsing (Geography/CCS, UCB) | Surviving Conservation: Herders and Farmers in China’s Northwest
4:30-4:45 Daniel O’Neill (EALC/CJS, UCB) | Re-wilding the Nuclear Exclusion Zones
4:45-5:00 Jon Pitt (EALC, UCB) | WOOD JOB! and the Return to Japanese Forestry
5:00-6:00 Comments (Sander van der Leeuw, ASU) /General Discussion
Day 2: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 | 180 Doe Library + Women's Faculty Club Lounge
9:00-9:10 Introduction
Part III: Asian Perspectives on Development and Societal Transition | 180 Doe Library
Session 6. Multiple Paths of Economic Developments in Global Environmental History: Japan and the World
9:10-9:25 Kaoru Sugihara (RIHN, UCB) | Introduction to Program I of RIHN
9:25-9:40 Kayo Murakami (CJS, UCB): Consumer behavior toward organic labels: Implications for sustainable food policy and environmental education
9:40-9:55 Keiko Yamanaka (Ethnic Studies/CJS; UCB) | Nepalese Labor Migration to Japan: Multiple Paths to Household Development in the Globalized Economy
9:55-10:10 Steven Vogel (Poli Scit/UCB) | Japan’s Labor Policy Regime Shift: From Labor Surplus to Labor Shortage
Session 7. Designing Lifeworlds of Sustainability
10:30-10:45 Yoshi Saijo | Future Design
10:45-11:00 ann elise lewallen (UCSB) | A Nuclear Narmada? Adivasi Struggles for Environmental Justice in India
11:00-11:15 Dana Buntrock (Architecture/CJS, UCB) | Goading architects into sustainability. A discussion of two bureaucracies, METI + MLIT
11:15-11:45 Discussion for Part III
Part IV: Water, Food, Ecosystem and Transdisciplinarity | Women's Faculty Club Lounge
1:30-1:40 Welcome Remarks | Mio Katayama Owens (Assistant Dean for International and Executive Programs, College of Natural Resources, UCB)
Session 8. Water-Food-Energy Nexus
1:40-1:55 Makoto Taniguchi (RIHN) | Synergy and Tradeoff of Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Asia-Pacific Region
1:55-2:10 Laura Moreno (Energy & Resources Group, UCB) | An Issue at the Nexus: Reducing and Diverting Wasted Food in Households
2:10-2:25 Ann Thrupp (BFI, UCB) | Using a Transdisciplinary Participatory Approach to Address Food Systems Challenges
2:25-2:40 Junko Habu (Anthro/ARF/BFI, UCB & Small-Scale Economies Project; RIHN): Farmers’ Resilience after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Accident
2:40-3:20 Discussion for Part IV
3:20-3:30 Closing Remarks
Lineage of Japanese Prose Fiction
November 17, 2017
Panel Discussion
Speakers:
Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College
Reiko Abe Auestad University of Oslo
Keith Vincent, Boston University
Alan Tansman, UC Berkeley
A roundtable discussion of the lineage of Japanese prose fiction. Many critics and readers have long agreed that the peaks in this tradition are the writings of Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century and of Natsume Sôseki in the early twentieth century. But these are writings rarely thought of together. Do they allow us to think of a long tradition of Japanese prose fiction? Is the modern writer writing in the lineage of his predecessor?
Please join four scholars who have written and thought about these two authors: Dennis Washburn, translator of The Tale of Genji, Reiko Abe Auestad, author of Rereading Sôseki: Three Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Novels, Keith Vincent, author of Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction, and Alan Tansman, author of The Rise and fall and Rise of Japanese narrative: Murasaki, Sôseki, Nakagami.
Each participant will speak briefly and then open the conversation to the audience.