CJS Events

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...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2001 Events

December 1, 2001
Tessa Machida

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

The Japanese Socialists and Anarchists in San Francisco Bay Area
Kaoru Ohara, Law and Political Science, Kokugakuin...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2001 Events

June 1, 2001
Tessa Machida

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

A Play of Gazes: Higuchi Ichiyo's 'Takekurabe' (Child's Play)...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2000 Events

December 1, 2000
Tessa Machida

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


"Perverse Masochism" and Japan's History Curriculum: the "Citizen's Movement" to Correct Textbooks and Shape Cultural Identity in Contemporary Japan...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2000 Events

June 1, 2000
Tessa Machida

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)

Steven Vogel, The Transformation of Japanese Capitalism William Kirby, The Internationalization of Chinese Capitalisms Andrew Barshay, Nullified by Reality? Marxian Analyses of Capitalism in Postwar Japan Wen-hsin Yeh, Refashioning the Past: Post-Mao Urban...