All are invited to a reception this Saturday, December 10, from 4 to 6 pm at the NC Japan Center to see a combined show of pottery by Takuro and Hitomi Shibata, and shibori by Susan Fennell.  The reception and … Read more

All are invited to a reception this Saturday, December 10, from 4 to 6 pm at the NC Japan Center to see a combined show of pottery by Takuro and Hitomi Shibata, and shibori by Susan Fennell.  The reception and … Read more

Please join us for a lecture by Tanaka Yuji, Curator at the Edo-Tokyo Museum, who is working on an exhibition on the painter Kawamura Kiyoo (1852-1934) to be held in Japan in 2012. Kiyoo was born into a samurai bannerman … Read more

Please join us for a lecture by Tanaka Yuji, Curator at the Edo-Tokyo Museum, who is working on an exhibition on the painter Kawamura Kiyoo (1852-1934) to be held in Japan in 2012. Kiyoo was born into a samurai bannerman … Read more

PART ONE, 3:30-4:30: New Scholarship on Communities and Resource Commons in Japan Tomohiko Ohno (Economics, Hannan University) “Rises and Falls in Watershed Governance in Japan: changes in river policy and community reactions” Hitoshi Kominami (Rural Studies, Kyoto University) “A Community-based … Read more

This paper scrutinizes the growing trends and tendencies toward nonstandard employment in Japan to understand the making of new risk profiles. Since the first signs of new risk profiles emerged prior to the bursting of the economic bubble, an analysis … Read more

This paper scrutinizes the growing trends and tendencies toward nonstandard employment in Japan to understand the making of new risk profiles. Since the first signs of new risk profiles emerged prior to the bursting of the economic bubble, an analysis … Read more

Agenda: General Remarks – Narita Ryuichi, Japan’ Women’s University “Emerging Differences in the Wake of “3.11″: Uneasiness Turns into Anger” – Shin Ji-Young, Tsuda Women’s College “From the Postwar Debate on Subjectivity to Discourses on the 1950s: Implications and Premises” … Read more

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

(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