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UCLA Pediatrician's Email from the Disaster Area
Kozue Shimabukuro is a UCLA pediatric critical care doctor who grew up in Japan and returned to her home country to help children after the March 11 disasters. She has been working north of Tokyo, in and around Yamada. This is her latest email to her UCLA colleagues, edited for context.
Posted: 3/30/2011
UC Suspends Travel in Japan, Bruin Experts Lend Assistance
Three UCLA experts with family ties to Japan are among the Bruins who have rushed to aid Japan after that country’s devastating March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis.
Posted: 3/22/2011
Bruins Join Japan Disaster Relief Efforts, Study Abroad Suspended
UCLA professors and campus groups are joining relief efforts, including a pediatrician who is part of a medical team trying to reach the devastated areas, a computer mapping expert who is assembling information to aid U.N. relief workers, and an earthquake engineer who will inspect damaged structures.
Posted: 3/18/2011
How to Help Japan: a Message from the Terasaki Center Director
Professor Hitoshi Abe, who was born and raised in Sendai, and Terasaki Center staff members have prepared a list of organizations that they believe can be most effective in getting aid from overseas to the people most affected by Japan's unprecedented crisis.
Posted: 3/18/2011
Students Raising Funds for Japan Quake Relief
UCLA’s Nikkei Student Union and Japan Student Association are collecting donations to aid victims of Japan’s catastrophic March 11 earthquake and the devastating tsunami that followed.
Posted: 3/14/2011
UCLA Students, Faculty Accounted for in Japan; Terasaki Director Abe Discusses Quake Response
Nine UCLA students studying in the Tokyo area with UC’s Education Abroad Program have been located and are safe, while an estimated 20 graduate students affiliated with the UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies were far from the worst damage.
Posted: 3/14/2011
First Notehelfer Prize Awarded
The Notehelfer Prize seeks to recognize the best unpublished paper written by a UCLA graduate student in the field of Japan studies. Emi Foulk, second year graduate student in the history department, was awarded the first prize.
Posted: 1/26/2011
Graduate Fellowship, Scholars Honor Memory of Hans H. Baerwald
As the Center inaugurates the Hans H. Baerwald Graduate Fellowship in Japanese Studies, a veteran journalist and former UCLA Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan relations delivers a keynote on tensions in the alliance between the countries.
Posted: 11/10/2010
UCLA Officials to Meet with Prospective Students in Tokyo
UCLA undergraduate admissions officers will be in Tokyo on Nov. 4 as part of a student recruitment tour in Asia that also includes stops in Osaka, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore. The session will help explain the UCLA admissions process to prospective students and their parents.
Posted: 10/27/2010
UCLA Officials to Meet with Prospective Students in Osaka, Japan
UCLA undergraduate admissions officers will be in Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 1 and 2 as part of a student recruitment tour in Asia that also includes stops in Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Posted: 10/26/2010
US-Japan Relations Chair Studies Impact of Digital Media
Stefan Tanaka, a professor of history at UC San Diego, joins UCLA this year as the seventh Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations.
Posted: 10/21/2010
Terasaki Postdoc Investigates Breakdown of Democracy
Hiroyuki Yamamoto joins UCLA this academic year as the third Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow.
Posted: 9/24/2010
UCLA, Japanese Firm to Collaborate on Nanotech Imaging Tools
The California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has announced plans to collaborate with Hamamatsu Photonics to apply nanoscience and nanotechnology to projects having global importance in health, medicine, energy and the environment.
Posted: 9/10/2010
Local Efforts Key to Nuclear Disarmament
Commemorating the atomic bombings on Japan in 1945 and joining in the call for a world without nuclear weapons were, on Wednesday in Haines Hall, a local grandmother who survived the Hiroshima attack, a Japanese-born artist, a UCLA anthropologist and, by Internet link, local officials from Hiroshima and Manchester, UK, who lead international anti-nuclear organizations.
Posted: 8/6/2010
UCLA to Participate in Global Symposium on Bombing of Hiroshima
To take place on campus as well as on the Internet, an hourlong event on Wednesday, August 4, will mark the 65th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and connect UCLA with participants in Japan, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom.
Posted: 8/3/2010
Toshie Marra named Librarian of the Year
Toshie Marra, a librarian in the UCLA Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library, has been named the 2010 Librarian of the Year by the Librarians Association of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Posted: 6/15/2010
'Atomic Mom' Filmmaker Reveals Secret Stories of the Bomb
At a symposium on the anti-nuclear weapons movement, director M.T. Silvia screens and discusses a new film about her mother's role at a Nevada testing site and the story of a Hiroshima survivor; and Steve Leeper, chairman of the Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, urges action by nonproliferation treaty signatories on disarmament.
Posted: 5/21/2010
New Voters Swung Japanese Election
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.
Posted: 2/3/2010
Zen and the Beholder
Shoji Yamada, professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, takes a closer look at Japan, Zen and the West.
Posted: 12/16/2009
UC Searches for Interned Japanese-American Students to Receive Honorary Degrees
About 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.
Posted: 11/12/2009
Professor Who Knows Both Legal Systems Takes Up Terasaki Chair in US-Japanese Relations
Daniel Foote, Chair in Sociology of Law at the University of Tokyo, is the sixth scholar to hold this one-year appointment at UCLA.
Posted: 9/28/2009
The Ikema Project: An Attempt to Preserve an Endangered Language of Ryukyu
Shoichi Iwasaki reports on a four-year collaborative project of international Linguistics researchers
Posted: 9/24/2009
UC Irvine Alumna Named Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow
Mayumi 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.
Posted: 8/26/2009
Terasaki Research Travel Grant
Call for Proposals for scholars who wish to use the Gordon W. Prange Collection at UCLA
Posted: 8/14/2009
Center of the Cosmos
Herman Ooms, a professor of premodern Japanese history at UCLA, explains how the Tenmu dynasty manipulated religious symbols to reinforce concepts of supreme authority.
Posted: 6/1/2009
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