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Japanese Studies
East Asian Studies
February 26, 2021
The Sea and the Sacred in Japan
Aspects of Maritime Religion
Fabio Rambelli
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
In The Sea and the Sacred in Japan: Aspects of Maritime Religion (Bloomsbury 2018), Fabio Rambelli invites various fifteen scholars of Japanese religions to reflect on a well taken-for-granted fact: although the sea …
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East Asian Studies
February 24, 2021
A Roundtable on the History of the Japanese Student Movement
A Discussion with Naoko Koda and Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Naoko Koda and Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Chelsea Szendi Schieder’s Co-Ed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left and Naoko Koda’s The United States and the Japanese Student Movement, 1948-1973: Managing a Free World provide new …
Japanese Studies
February 24, 2021
African Samurai
The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
Geoffrey Girard and Thomas Lockley
Hosted by Jingyi Li
The remarkable life of history's first foreign-born samurai and his astonishing journey from Northern Africa to the heights of Japanese society. When Yasuke arrived in Japan in the late 1500s …
Chinese Studies
February 19, 2021
Forgotten Ally
China's World War II, 1937–1945
Rana Mitter
Hosted by Keith Krueger
If we wish to understand the role of China in today’s global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic struggle which that country waged in …
East Asian Studies
February 17, 2021
Comfort Women Activism
Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State
Eika Tai
Hosted by Nathan Hopson
Eika Tai’s Comfort Women Activism: Critical Voices from the Perpetrator State (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) tackles the complex histories of Japanese “military sexual violence” and the activism by women …
Japanese Studies
February 12, 2021
Embracing 'Asia' in China and Japan
Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933
Torsten Weber
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
Embracing ‘Asia’ in China and Japan: Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) by Torsten Weber examines how Asianism became a key concept in mainstream political discourse between China …
Law
February 8, 2021
Asia's New Geopolitics
Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific
Michael R. Auslin
Hosted by Jane Richards
Is the Indo-Pacific already the most dominant in terms of global power, politics, and wealth? In his newest book, Michael R. Auslin considers the key issues facing the Indo-Pacific which have ramifications …
Japanese Studies
February 8, 2021
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki
Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives
Gwyn McClelland
Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
On 9th August 1945, the US dropped the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Of the dead, approximately 8500 were Catholic Christians, representing over sixty percent of the community. In Dangerous …
Japanese Studies
February 5, 2021
The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu
An Elemental Cinema
Linda C. Ehrlich
Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) draws readers into the first 13 feature films and 5 of the documentaries of award-winning Japanese film director Kore-eda Hirokazu …
Japanese Studies
January 29, 2021
Seeking Sakyamuni
South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism
Richard M. Jaffe
Hosted by Samee Siddiqui
Though fascinated with the land of their tradition’s birth, virtually no Japanese Buddhists visited the Indian subcontinent before the nineteenth century. In the richly illustrated Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the …
Japanese Studies
January 29, 2021
Scripting Japan
Orthography, Variation, and the Creation of Meaning in Written Japanese
Wesley C. Robertson
Hosted by Jingyi Li
Imagine this book was written in Comic Sans. Would this choice impact your image of me as an author, despite causing no literal change to the content within? Generally, discussions …
East Asian Studies
January 25, 2021
Constructing Empire
The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45
Bill Sewell
Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
What happens to everyday-life in a city when it becomes subsumed into an empire? Who becomes responsible for the everyday building and management of the new imperial enclave? How do …
Japanese Studies
January 14, 2021
Creativity in Tokyo
Revitalizing a Mature City
Matjaz Ursic and Heide Imai
Hosted by Jingyi Li
In Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City (Palgrave, 2020), Heide Imai and Matjaz Ursic focues on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in …
Japanese Studies
January 11, 2021
Cinema of Ozu Yasujiro
Histories of the Everyday
Woojeong Joo
Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
One of the most well regarded of non-Western film directors, responsible for acknowledged classics like Tokyo Story (1953), Ozu Yasujiro worked during a period of immense turbulence for Japan and …
Science, Technology, and Society
January 8, 2021
An Anthropology of the Machine
Tokyo's Commuter Train Network
Michael Fisch
Hosted by John Traphagan
With its infamously packed cars and disciplined commuters, Tokyo’s commuter train network is one of the most complex technical infrastructures on Earth. In An Anthropology of the Machine: Tokyo's Commuter …
Japanese Studies
January 7, 2021
The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction
The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon
William C. Hedberg
Hosted by Jingyi Li
The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into …
Japanese Studies
January 7, 2021
Immigrant Japan
Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society
Gracia Liu-Farrer
Hosted by Takeshi Morisato
Immigrant Japan? Sounds like a contradiction, but as Gracia Liu-Farrer shows in Immigrant Japan Mobility and Belonging in an Ethno-nationalist Society (Cornell University Press, 2020), millions of immigrants make their …
Anthropology
January 5, 2021
The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers
Professional Baseball in Modern Japan
William W. Kelly
Hosted by John Traphagan
Baseball has been Japan's most popular sport for over a century. In The Sportsworld of the Hanshin Tigers: Professional Baseball in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2018), anthropologist William …
East Asian Studies
December 30, 2020
China's Muslims and Japan's Empire
Centering Islam in World War II
Kelly A. Hammond
Hosted by Ed Pulford
The 1930s-40s expansion of the Japanese empire was marked by significant interest among Japan-based scholars and policy-makers in China’s Muslim population and how best to write them into a new …
East Asian Studies
December 22, 2020
Seeds of Control
Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea
David Fedman
Hosted by Nathan Hopson
David Fedman's Seeds of Control: Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (University of Washington Press, 2020) is hard to categorize. In a good way. Put simply, it is …
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