http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan Facilitate cutting-edge research about Japan at UCLA en-us Political Scientist Takeshi Iida investigates shifts in voter attitudes and participation behind the 2009 election result that brought the Democratic Party of Japan to power for the first time.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=113779Shoji Yamada, professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, takes a closer look at Japan, Zen and the West.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=113334About 700 UC students withdrew from school in 1942 when they and approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were sent to internment camps. UCLA will award honorary degrees this spring.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=112901Daniel Foote, Chair in Sociology of Law at the University of Tokyo, is the sixth scholar to hold this one-year appointment at UCLA.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=112211Mayumi Manabe will teach a course in literature, deliver a lecture for the Terasaki Center's colloquium series, and work on turning her dissertation about working-class women in interwar literature into a book.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=111773Call for Proposals for scholars who wish to use the Gordon W. Prange Collection at UCLAhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=111417Herman Ooms, a professor of premodern Japanese history at UCLA, explains how the Tenmu dynasty manipulated religious symbols to reinforce concepts of supreme authority.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=108756At a May 12 ceremony, the government of Japan recognizes former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer for his contributions to history and Japanese studies in the United States. He is one of 70 non-nationals to receive the Order this year.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=108090Long-time former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer receives the Order of the Rising Sun, one of the Japanese government's most prestigious decorations. The Daily Bruin looks at his legacy at UCLA.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=108247The top representatives from Japan and the Republic of Korea in Southern California visited campus on Monday for a discussion sponsored by the Graduate Student International Affairs Association at UCLA and cosponsored by the Asia Institute and the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=108224