Center for Japanese Studies

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2013 Events

June 1, 2013
Tessa Machida

What is Otaku?: The Changing Meanings of Otaku in Japan
Colloquium
Speaker: Taishin Ikeda, Visiting Scholar, Center for Japanese Studies; Associate Professor, Konan Women's University
Date: February 1, 2013 | 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Location: IEAS Conference Room — 2223 Fulton, 6th Floor
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies

Now, the term, otaku, is widely known all over the world, but the meanings the term indicates aren't entirely clear....

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2012 Events

June 1, 2012
Tessa Machida

Of Power and Profit: American Seamen in Asian Waters
Photography Exhibit
Dates: October 5, 2011 – January 25, 2012, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, IEAS Publications, Center for Korean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Of Power and Profit: American Seamen in Asian Waters" is an exhibit of prints made from photographs by a nineteenth century American naval officer, Asa Mattice. In...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2010 Events

June 1, 2010
Tessa Machida

Colloquia in the Musicologies
Ian Condry
January 21, 2010
Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Music

"New Directions in Japanese Hip-Hop: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Popular Music in the 21st Century"
Ian Condry, Associate Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization

Recent Changes in Politics: A Yomiuri Special Lecture
Taro Kono, Director-General of the International Bureau,...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2007 Events

December 1, 2007
Tessa Machida

Policeman
Sharon Hayashi, Assistant Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, York University, Toronto
September 16, 2007
Center for Japanese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

Tomu Uchida: Japanese Genre Master
Pacific Film Archive Film Series
September 8-29, 2007

This series of the films of Japanese genre master Tomu Uchida, offers a rare chance to see the work of a director barely known in the West. Born in 1898, Uchida joined a theater troupe in his youth, perfecting a sense of stagecraft and theatrical...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2005 Events

December 1, 2005
Tessa Machida

Evaluating the Japanese Election
T.J. Pempel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Steve Vogel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Ethan Scheiner, Political Science, UC Davis
Robert Madsen, MIT Center for International Studies
Rob Weiner, Cornell University
September 16, 2005
Center for Japanese Studies

Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won an overwhelming victory in Lower House elections September 11. His party and its coalition ally will have a key two-thirds majority in the new parliament. This forum will provide...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2005 Events

June 1, 2005
Tessa Machida

A Stitch in Time: The Sewing Machine and the Modern Transformation of Japan
Andrew Gordon, History, Harvard University
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Center for Japanese Studies

Study of the sewing machine offers insight into the emergence of the consumer as a central figure in society, economy and culture. The larger project explores themes of gender, class, nation and empire. It studies the sewing machine from perspectives of maker and user, as well as the negotiations between the two including the birth of the salesman, home...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2003 Events

December 1, 2003
Tessa Machida

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

Dr. Taro Nakayama, the head of a blue-ribbon commission on constitutional reform and a former foreign...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2003 Events

June 1, 2003
Tessa Machida

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

Beginning with performances by members of the Kawakami Theatre Troupe at the...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2002 Events

December 1, 2002
Tessa Machida

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

Atmospherics
Jun Aoki, Architecture, Aoki & Associates, Tokyo, Japan
October 2, 2002
Joint Colloquium
Center for Japanese...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2002 Events

June 1, 2002
Tessa Machida

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

Japan is noted for the persistence of gender discrimination in workplaces. Nevertheless, rising concern about declining economic competitiveness and the falling birthrate led the government, business, and organized labor to become more serious about promoting equal opportunity in the late 1990s. This presentation examines the course of...