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Globalization has been a trend in manufacturing industry. Necessary functions of manufacturing industry such as research and development, product development, and commercial production are in many cases located in different countries which hold diversified cultures.Ethnic or national culture is reflected on management style as well as on features of technology. To be successful in global operation, mutual trust among host government, management staff and employees serves as a key.Each country holds expertise of different nature. The US is featured with systemic technology. Japanese technology...
Political ideology in ancient Japan was not limited to divine imperial ancestry as spelled out in the Kojiki and Nihon shoki. Mytho-history constituted only one phase or layer of multiple ways of symbolizing Yamato’s new ruling authority; and vertical sacralization was only half of its message. Posthumous names for rulers also reveal alternate, patterned ways in which individual reigns were conceived and represented. Daoist symbols were used; some rulers presented themselves as servants of the Buddha. Finally, the new palace-cities of Fujiwara-kyō and Heijō-kyō were designed to give spatial...
In 1876 the Japanese government installed an Army Medical Inspector General as the central authority for the physical examination of conscripts, all twenty-year-old men. This move by the Japanese state and, by extension, the imperial armed forces established the notion that membership in the body politic hinged upon true manhood, which then manifested itself only in men who could and were willing to fight.Today’s military is no longer tied in with the body politic in the manner of the imperialist state. Members of the Japanese Self-Defense Forces labor in the name of a state that is...
Early Summer (麦秋 Bakushū)(1951, 112 minutes)A Straightforward Boy (Tokkan kozo)(1929, 14-minute short, silent)Make Way for TomorrowDirected by Leo McCarey (1937, 91 minutes)Ozu Yasujiro RetrospectiveUniversally considered to be one of the great masters of Japanese (or any) cinema, Ozu Yasujiro had a remarkable career that crossed five decades. This weekly retrospective, co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Cinema at the Whitney, will provide a rare opportunity to see films from all periods of Ozu’s career, drawing attention to his playful humor as well as his formal...
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Late Autumn (Akibiyori) (1960, 125 minutes)Ozu Yasujiro RetrospectiveUniversally considered to be one of the great masters of Japanese (or any) cinema, Ozu Yasujiro had a remarkable career that crossed five decades. This weekly retrospective, co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Cinema at the Whitney, will provide a rare opportunity to see films from all periods of Ozu’s career, drawing attention to his playful humor as well as his formal genius and profound understanding of shifting family relations. All films will be screened in new 35mm prints. For More Information...
The Lady and the Beard (Shukujo to hige) (1931, 76 minutes, silent)I Flunked, But… (Rakudai wa shita keredo) (1930, 64 minutes, silent)I Graduated, But… (Daigaku wa deta keredo) (1930, 11 minute fragment, silent)Ozu Yasujiro RetrospectiveUniversally considered to be one of the great masters of Japanese (or any) cinema, Ozu Yasujiro had a remarkable career that crossed five decades. This weekly retrospective, co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Cinema at the Whitney, will provide a rare opportunity to see films from all periods of Ozu’s career, drawing attention to his...
The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics have brought East Asia to the center stage of the global Olympic movement, in celebration and in controversy. However, East Asia’s involvement in the Olympics is century-old, and the Olympic Games, Summer and Winter, have been held in Japan, South Korea, and China a total of five times in recent decades. This international symposium brings together scholars from three continents to consider the historical contributions of East Asian nations to the Olympics and the impact of the Olympics on these East Asian societies. All members of Yale University and the...
The Graduate School’s highest honor, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal is presented to its most outstanding alumni in recognition of distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration and public service–all areas in which the legendary Dean Cross excelled.On October 7, 2008, Yoriko Kawaguchi is to be one of five distinguished Graduate School alumni to receive the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal. Ms. Kawaguchi holds a B.A. in international relations from the University of Tokyo and a master’s in economics from Yale University. She served as Japan’s minister of the environment...
Walk Cheerfully (Hogaraka ni ayume) (1930, 90 minutes silent)The Only Son (Hitori musuko) (1936, 87 minutes)Ozu Yasujiro RetrospectiveUniversally considered to be one of the great masters of Japanese (or any) cinema, Ozu Yasujiro had a remarkable career that crossed five decades. This weekly retrospective, co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Cinema at the Whitney, will provide a rare opportunity to see films from all periods of Ozu’s career, drawing attention to his playful humor as well as his formal genius and profound understanding of shifting family relations. All...
Feminist International Relations scholars have been claiming that both theories and the actual practice of international relations reflect gender. More specifically, these scholars claim that the underlying assumption that the international world consists of rational actors seeking to maximize power (and foreign policies based on this assumption) reflects male experiences and masculine ideals. In my lecture, I will reflect on this view by examining gender, masculinity in particular, in Japan and its foreign policy.
Poetry played an important role in Japan’s missions to the Tang court from the seventh to ninth centuries. Whether composed by the envoys themselves, mothers seeing off their sons, previous envoys dedicating poems to an incumbent ambassador in Japan, or by Chinese officials and friends celebrating their Japanese guests at farewell banquets in China, poetry—both vernacular and Sino-Japanese— accompanied the perilous route of the Japanese Tang envoys from their embarkment at Naniwa Port to the Tang capital Chang’an and back.How do the Tang embassies appear through the mirror of poetry? How did...
The Council is pleased to present the Tenth Annual John W. Hall Lecture on Japanese Studies. The subtext of the lecture is how an understanding of the institutional history of medieval Japan helps to explain the primacy of private law and civil adjudication in the Western (now Global) Legal Tradition.
Educational reform has always been a significant social issue in Japan as Japanese feel that a substantial part of their rapid economic development can be attributed to education. As Japan enters a new stage of development where the past pattern of development starts losing its effectiveness, educational reform has again assumed a critical importance. The education system contributed to economic growth in the past in the context of a unique structure of economy and society. That contribution, however, has begun to lose relevance as Japan succeeds in obtaining high standards of living....
This presentation will address the understudied Great Korea Exposition, a major cultural spectacle aimed at commemorating the history of the Japanese Empire and promoting the struggles of the Asia-Pacific War (1937-45). Held in the fall of 1940, this celebration coincided with the thirtieth anniversary of Japan’s rule over colonial Korea and the 2,600th anniversary of the mythical foundations of the Japanese Imperial nation. As I will suggest, the convergence of past, present, and future on a completely new exposition site (and one closely linked to other sacralized sites throughout the...
There Was a Father (Chichi ariki) (1942, 92 minutes)Hen in the Wind (Kaze no naka no mendori) (1948, 85 minutes) Ozu Yasujiro RetrospectiveUniversally considered to be one of the great masters of Japanese (or any) cinema, Ozu Yasujiro had a remarkable career that crossed five decades. This weekly retrospective, co-sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies and the Cinema at the Whitney, will provide a rare opportunity to see films from all periods of Ozu’s career, drawing attention to his playful humor as well as his formal genius and profound understanding of shifting family relations...
Komosô´, “Grassmat Monks,” wandered the roads and market towns of fifteenth century Japan, eking a living from begging and playing the shakuhachi, an end-blown bamboo flute. Within about a century and a half, their name was changed to Komusô, “Emptiness Monks,” capitalizing on the Buddhist associations of sûnyatâ, or “emptiness.” The revision may reflect actual social change for these mendicants, including recognition by the Tokugawa shogunate and official ties to important Zen institutions, but it also certainly reflects a spectrum of beliefs regarding the shakuhachi and its relation to...
In this paper, we study the structural change occurred in Japan’s post World War II rapid economic growth era. We use a two-sector neoclassical growth model with government policies to analyze the evolution of the Japanese economy in the postwar period, and to assess the role of such policies. Our model is able to replicate the behavior in the data of the main macroeconomic variables for the postwar Japanese economy. Three findings emerge when we use our framework to analyze government policy interventions. First, price and investment subsidies to the agricultural sector and industrial policy...
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