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Results For 2013In Japan, two kinds of the dead have been discussed separately in the past research trends on the commemoration for war dead: the fallen soldiers and the civilian casualties like the atomic bomb dead. In this talk, Professor Akira Nishimura will try to recapitulate such genealogies of the commemorations based on the violent structure of Japanese society and abstract two types of vectors as “pacification and inspiration” which represent the relation of the living and the dead.
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Prof. Miyazaki examines two contrasting market responses to the TEPCO crisis, orchestrated by Tokyo’s financial market professionals, as manifestations of their conscious efforts to re-deploy theories and techniques of finance in a newly found sphere of profound uncertainty.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM "Cats for rent! Are you lonely? Why not rent a cat?"
Thursday, February 07, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Political film directed by Koji Wakamatsu, filmed 1972
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM By Professor Katsuya Hirano, Cornell University
Thursday, February 21, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Consul General Niimi comes to UCLA to give a presentation detailing the results and implications of the recent national poll, which delivered the LDP a supermajority in the lower house, and outline the economic and foreign policies of the new administration.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
4:15 PM - 5:15 AM Please join us for a special screening of the film "Emperor." A panel discussion will follow the screening with Producers Yoko Narahashi and Eugene Nomura, Professor Kal Raustiala, and Professor William Marotti.
Monday, March 04, 2013
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM By Professor Laura Nenzi, University of Tennessee
Thursday, March 07, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Professor Julia Thomas, University of Notre Dame
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Symposium in honor of Prof. Herman Ooms
Saturday, March 16, 2013
9:00 AM - 8:00 PM In 2011, the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies presented an exhibition documenting the lives and stories of those affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. This year marks the second anniversary of this catastrophic disaster and UCLA is proud to host a two-part colloquium presented by Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, chair of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission by the National Diet of Japan, and Professor Hitoshi Abe, Terasaki Center director.
Friday, March 22, 2013
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Friday, March 29, 2013
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles announces its 19th Workshop on East Asian Linguistics (WEAL).
Saturday, March 30, 2013
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Book talk with Christina Laffin is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia and the Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture.
Monday, April 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Presented by Bernhard Scheid, research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializes on the history of Shinto. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Shinto, including: The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion (2006, ed. with Mark Teeuwen), as well as on the history of Japanese studies.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM By Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
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