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A Spy Called Sorge
Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations Thomas Rimer speaks about the re-telling of the Sorge affair in Japanese film and theater.
Posted: 2/21/2007
Into Modernity
Historians Harry Harootunian, Carol Gluck and Fred Notehelfer offer views on modernity and its development in Japan.
Posted: 2/14/2007
The Dao in Nara Literature
USC's David Bialock speaks about his research on Daoist influences in Japanese literature from the Nara period.
Posted: 12/12/2006
Privatizing the Post Office
Japanese politics expert Patricia Maclachlan identifies the challenges to the future privatization of the Japanese post office.
Posted: 11/30/2006
The Aesthetics of 'Bijin'
USC scholar discusses a Japanese notion of beauty and its artistic representation in Meiji period paintings.
Posted: 11/15/2006
'The Day the Internet Blew Up in My Face'
MIT professor Shigeru Miyagawa got more than he bargained for when he posted an image of Japanese war propaganda on an educational website.
Posted: 10/30/2006
Framing Kitano Takeshi
Aeron Gerow discusses the evolution of nationalism in Kitano Takeshi's Hana-bi.
Posted: 6/27/2006
Pacific Briefing: Steady Growth in Gross Transnational Cool
UCLA project devoted to Tokyo-LA interactions in art, fashion, food holds workshop on 'LA as Offshore Japan.'
Posted: 5/25/2006
Flashpoint in Japanese-Korean Relations
Connecticut College's Alexis Dudden speaks on "Illegal Korea".
Posted: 5/18/2006
Mastering Spirits
Columbia's Michael Como challenges traditional views of legendary 'corruptor' figures in the context of cultic ritual and disease in medieval Japan.
Posted: 4/20/2006
Tainted Legacy
U. of Pittsburgh's Akiko Hashimoto examines the debate surrounding Japan's guilt over World War II.
Posted: 3/16/2006
Senda Koreya: Theater for Change
UCLA's Thomas Rimer examines the life and art of a Japanese actor.
Posted: 3/1/2006
One for all, and all for one: The Japan Center's Graduate Student Symposium
The Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies faces its share of challenges. Not least of all the question of how to do so much in such little time.
Posted: 2/20/2006
Anime's 'Transnational Geekdom'
Mizuko Ito explores anime culture in Japan and its popularity abroad.
Posted: 2/17/2006
Chaos and Hope for Writers of History
Carol Gluck urges historians to seek new directions, quick.
Posted: 2/10/2006
Changing Times for Japanese Sex Workers
In medieval Japan, sexual entertainers and their customers enjoyed great freedoms until a growing orthodoxy stifled their trade, Janet Goodwin tells a UCLA audience.
Posted: 1/13/2006
Making Up for Minamata
Japanese literary scholar Keiko Kanai reviews a half-century of social activism on the issue of compensation for the people of Minamata, Japan, a bayside town poisoned by industrial waste in 1955.
Posted: 12/6/2005
Welcome to the IUC Japan
Sometimes, language instruction at your home institution isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Which is where the IUC comes in...
Posted: 12/1/2005
Unforced Devotions
Ritual-filled lives of 13th-century Japanese nuns at Hokkeji were rich, says USC scholar Lori Meeks.
Posted: 11/18/2005
Japan and the Emancipator
Harvard history professor Daniel Botsman discusses the progress and plight of Japan's Burakumin under Meiji rule.
Posted: 11/9/2005
Koizumi Games the System
Tactics, not issues, were key to the LDP's landslide win in Japan, argues UCLA Professor Emeritus Hans Baerwald.
Posted: 10/21/2005
Sorgenfrei's Last Stand
UCLA professor Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei speaks out on the sometimes frightful, but mostly delightful, process behind her landmark book, Unspeakable Acts: The Avant-Garde Theatre of Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan.
Posted: 10/19/2005
Dual Citizenship: The Two Sides of Thomas Rimer
Recently appointed Terasaki Chair Thomas Rimer discusses U.S.-Japan relations, cultural diversity, and integration.
Posted: 10/5/2005
Japan's Economy Steamrolls Back
In an excerpt from a longer Chicago Tribute opinion piece, UCLA professor Sanford M. Jacoby argues that Japan's economy is back on track.
Posted: 7/1/2005
Godzilla and Postwar Japan
William M. Tsutsui (Univ. of Kansas) explores the role of the Godzilla film series in popular culture
Posted: 5/26/2005
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