Lori Meeks, Associate Professor in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California will present a lecture titled “Making Sense of the Blood Bowl Sutra: Early-Modern Commentaries on Women’s Salvation in Japanese Buddhism”. … Read more

September 28, 2011 “Local Schools Launch Japanese Studies Center” In today’s edition of the Morning Call blog, the Triangle Business Journal announces the launch of the Triangle Center for Japanese Studies and provides a brief overview of TCJS”s purpose and … Read more

(Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004, 114 min, Japan, in Japanese with English subtitles, Color, DVD) Introduced by Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Women’s Studies at Duke Four abandoned chidren try their best to survive in their own little world, devising … Read more

The Triangle East Asia Colloquium (TEAC) will be held Saturday, April 30, in Withers 331 on the NC State campus. This year’s theme is “Recent Trends in the Study of Science and Technology in East Asia”. Please RSVP to jonathan_ocko@ncsu.edu … Read more

Tomiko Yoda is the Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. She received her Ph.D. in Japanese from Stanford in 1996. Professor Yoda’s research focuses on modern and pre-modern Japanese literature, literary history, … Read more

(Akira Kurosawa, 1952, 143 min, Japan, Japanese w/ English Subtitles, Black & White, DVD)   In Akira Kurosawa’s critically acclaimed drama, Kanji Watanabe is a longtime bureaucrat in a city office who, along with the rest of the office, spends his … Read more

Kären Wigen, Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University will visit the Triangle on March 18th, 2011, at the invitation of Duke’s Asian/Pacific Studies Institute. At noon on March 18th, Kären will participate … Read more

Artist Yuriko Doi will speak, conduct a workshop and give a demonstration on “Kyōgen,” or classical Japanese comic theater, Feb. 21 and 22 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The free public events will be in the … Read more

This year’s annual Southeastern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) will be held at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this weekend, January 14-16, 2011. Detailed conference information can be found on the SEC/AAS website, including the program of events. … Read more

This year’s annual Southeastern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) will be held at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill this weekend, January 14-16, 2011. Detailed conference information can be found on the SEC/AAS website, including the program of events. … Read more