Center for Japanese Studies

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 2006 Events

December 1, 2006
Tessa Machida

Maruyama Masao and America the Incomprehensible
Yasuhisa Shimizu, CJS Visiting Scholar, History of Japanese Political Thought, Kyushu University
September 18, 2006
Center for Japanese Studies

Maruyama Masao (1914-1996), a distinguished social scientist and historian in postwar Japan, visited the United States four times between 1961 and 1983. America, he confessed after his first stay at Harvard and at Oxford in England, was incomprehensible compared with Europe. This research tries to understand the thought of Maruyama from the...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2007 Events

June 1, 2007
Tessa Machida

The Yomiuri Shimbun, From Marco Polo Bridge to Pearl Harbor: Who Was Responsible?
Takahiko Tennichi, Editorial writer, The Yomiuri Shimbun
January 24, 2007
Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund, Graduate School of Journalism

History is a controversial issue in East Asia today. The Yomiuri Shimbun, the largest daily paper in Japan, with a right of center editorial position, has recently completed a year-long project to clarify Japanese leaders' responsibility for the Pacific War....

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2006 Events

June 1, 2006
Tessa Machida

Confessions of a Diplomatic Interpreter
Cornelius Iida, Simultaneous Interpreter
January 20, 2006
Center for Japanese Studies, East Asian Languages and Cultures

An Analytical Approach to the Moral Economy of the Late Tokugawa Rural Society
Mario Oshima, Economics, Osaka City University
January 27, 2006
Center for Japanese Studies

As is in English social history or Southeast Asian studies, the concept of moral economy is employed also in Japanese late Tokugawa and early Meiji history and has...

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 Fall 2004 Events

December 1, 2004
Tessa Machida

What Happened to Japanese Telecom: Stumbling into the 21st Century
Robert Cole, Professor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, UCB
September 2, 2004
Center for Japanese Studies

Japan was a major player in global telecommunication trade in the 1980s. By 2003, however, METI officials were convening committees to deal with the precipitous decline in the Japanese telecom industry. What happened? Was it simply the overall decline in telecommunications after the 1999 meltdown or were national factors at play? We examine these issues by...

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 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 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 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...