Center for Japanese Studies

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2017 Events

June 1, 2017
Tessa Machida

Happy Americans, Unhappy Japanese: How Software Engineers work; how they feel about it; and how they are rewarded
Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Yoshifumi Nakata, Doshisha University
Date: January 24, 2017 | 4:00–5:30 p.m.
Location: 2521 Channing Way — Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, IRLE Director's Room
Sponsors: Institute of Research on Labor & Employment...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2017 Events

December 1, 2017

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...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2016 Events

December 1, 2016
Tessa Machida

Security Policy and Military Power in Japan
Colloquium
Speaker: Nori Katagiri, Saint Louis University
Date: September 9, 2016 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library

In this presentation, Professor Nori Katagiri will explore the question of what explains the rise and fall of Japan's military power in the post-Cold War era. He shows how technology, logistics, and defense budget sustained a decent military power, but powerful legal...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2018 Events

June 1, 2018
Tessa Machida

Late Medieval Publishing Culture in Japan During the 14th and 16th Centuries
February 1, 2018
Colloquium
Speaker: Sumiyoshi Tomohiko, Keiō University

Books printed in Japanese Zen monasteries during the medieval period are known as Gozan-ban or “Five Mountains” editions. Originally, Gozan-ban were printed for the self-education of Gozan monks who were expected to imitate the latest Chinese scholarship and act out another culture in Japan. At this time, in the 13th to 14th centuries, Chinese Zen masters visited Japan very often,...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2016 Events

June 1, 2016
Tessa Machida

Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra Workshop
Workshop
Date: January 7-8, 2016 | 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m.
Location: Stephens Hall, Townsend Center, Geballe Room

This workshop brings together scholars from Asia, Europe and the U.S. to explore the formation and impact of the Nirvana Sutra in the evolution of Buddhist thought, belief and practice in India, China, Korea, and Japan, the source of the teachings of buddha-nature, vegetarianism, icchantika, and filled with stunning parables and analogies, this meeting will explore both how its...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2015 Events

June 1, 2015
Tessa Machida

From Landscape Theory to Media Theory: Metamorphosis of Cinema and Revolutionary Theory in the Early 70s Japan
Colloquium
Speaker: Go Hirasawa, Meiji Gakuin University/NYU
Date: February 9, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library

Masao Matsuda (critic), Masao Adachi (director) and Takuma Nakahira (photographer) proposed "landscape theory" (Fûkeiron) as film/image and revolutionary theory during the end of 1960s and early...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2015 Events

December 1, 2015
Tessa Machida

The South China Sea, US Pivot, and Regional Security in Northeast Asia
Lecture
Speaker: David Kang, International Relations and Business, Director of USC Korean Studies Institute and Director of USC East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California
Moderator: Laura Nelson, Department of Gender and Women's Studies and Chair, Center for Korean Studies
Date: September 11, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library
Sponsors:...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2014 Events

December 1, 2014
Tessa Machida

Power: Architectural Evidence of Things Unseen
Lecture
Speaker: Dana Buntrock, Architecture, UC Berkeley
Moderator: John Lie, Sociology, UC Berkeley
Date: August 28, 2014 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library

Buildings express influences otherwise unseen. They are, for example, shaped by laws, subsidies or incentives, and forgotten historical events. Professor Dana Buntrock of the Department of Architecture will...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2013 Events

December 1, 2013
Tessa Machida

Why do Marxian Social Sciences Survive in Japan?
Conference/Symposium
Speakers:
• Hiroshi Onishi, Keio University
• Kazuyasu Miyata, Hokkaido University of Education
• Akio Kamitani, Visiting Scholar of CJS, Sapporo Gakuin University
Moderator: Andrew Barshay, UC Berkeley
Date: September 4, 2013 | 4:30 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies

More than 20 years have passed since the collapse of Eastern European socialist systems. It was...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2014 Events

June 1, 2014
Tessa Machida

Film Exhibition Culture in Osaka, 1896–1926: The Cultural Geography of Movie Theaters
Colloquium
Speaker: Keiko Sasagawa, Associate Professor, Kansai University
Date: January 10, 2014 | 3:00 p.m.
Location: East Asian Library, Art History Seminar Room

When and in what ways did film culture take shape in Osaka? In what ways did it change over time? In the Meiji and Taisho Periods, Tokyo prospered as a site of both film...