Japan
Professor Ogawa is renowned for his studies in medieval Chinese Painting, particularly the intriguing relation of time and space in landscape painting. His publications deal with important Song masters, such as Guo Xi, Li Tang and Mi Youren. He is also interested in the cultural interactions between China and Japan, discussing the cross-cultural significance of Muxi’s (Mokkei) and Sesshu’s works. His talk will introduce the collaborative project he is currently conducting in the United States. It is a continuation of the compilation of the Composite Catalogues of Chinese Paintings (Chugoku...
Street of Violence (Boryoku no machi)Directed byYamamoto Satsuo, 1950 (35mm, English subtitles)The Urban Jungle: The Modern City in Japanese FilmLong favored by an urban audience, the Japanese cinema has continued to explore the city as part of a larger question of what constitutes Japanese modernity. These three films, rarely screened outside Japan, share narratives of urban streets filled with jazz and violence, love and hope, frustration and protest, but offer varied stances and programs for dealing with both the city and perhaps its artistic correlate, the cinema. All Screenings have...
Come back to New Haven and re-connect with alumni and affiliates of the international and area studies councils and degree programs, Yale’s internationalist faculty, current MA students, and each other.Program Highlights:• The MacMillan Center’s International Fair• Keynote Address by Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History• Sessions Moderated by Former Directors:William Foltz, H. J. Heinz Professor Emeritus of African Studies and Political ScienceGaddis Smith, Larned Professor of History EmeritusGustav Ranis, Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics•...
A Storming Drummer (Arashi o yobu otoko)Directed byInoue Umetsugu, 1957 (35mm, English subtitles)The Urban Jungle: The Modern City in Japanese FilmLong favored by an urban audience, the Japanese cinema has continued to explore the city as part of a larger question of what constitutes Japanese modernity. These three films, rarely screened outside Japan, share narratives of urban streets filled with jazz and violence, love and hope, frustration and protest, but offer varied stances and programs for dealing with both the city and perhaps its artistic correlate, the cinema. All Screenings have...
Japan has a constitution guaranteeing a civilized standard of living to all and was once admired for combining high economic growth with equitable distribution of wealth. Nowadays, however, fubyōdōka (widening inequality) and wākingu pua (working poor) are media buzzwords, and poverty issues are being treated with new urgency. Homeless people are the most dramatic and noticeable symptom of poverty and inequality. From the late 1990s, blue tents and shacks in parks and on riverbanks, and cardboard boxes around stations and public buildings, have become an inescapable feature of city life. More...
We who write, read and study modern Japanese literature take for granted the existence of modern Japanese literature. We also take for granted that it should exist in the present form, written in the Japanese language, with kanji mixed into kanamoji. It is true that, soon after Japan came into contact with the West, the western-style novels began to flourish in the Japanese language as if it were the most natural course of events. Yet, when we examine the past, we see that specific historical conditions were necessary for the modern Japanese literature as we know it to emerge and to thrive....
The Council is pleased to present the Ninth Annual John W. Hall Lecture on Japanese Studies. In spite of ever-expanding financial markets and ever-advancing communication networks, there still remains a wide difference in corporate structures and corporate governance among advanced capitalistic economies, especially between America and Japan. American corporations tend to view the returns to shareholders as their sole objective, while Japanese corporations place more emphasis on the survival and growth of their organization as a going concern. The first purpose of this talk is to show how...
In cooperation with York University and Anthology Film Archives, the Council on East Asian Studies and the Film Studies Program will present a portion of the “Cinema/Movement” film series focusing on the vibrant and controversial interactions between political action and experimental filmmaking in the 1960s and 1970s in Japan. This series of rare films, many of which are hard to see in Japan, let alone North America, was organized by Sharon Hayashi at York University and curated by Hirasawa Go of Meiji Gakuin University. Hirasawa will be in attendance at the Yale screenings and discuss the...
Through this important gathering of international specialists at Yale University in November 2007, we hope to synthesize and understand one of the most influential traditions of religious thought and practice in the world. The conference will investigate the images which served for ceremonies of an esoteric character, in conjunction with a study of manuals and scriptures and ritual procedures, in order to examine and discover how common or different religious practices were established and seek to determine why diverse courses were pursued at different periods in China, Korea and Japan. We...
Mitsuru Claire Chino serves as corporate counsel for one of Japan’s leading trading companies. She has also made a mark through the corporate diversity programs she introduced within Itochu and her advocacy for women in the workforce throughout Japan.
The stone garden at the Zen temple Ryôanji is not only one of the most famous gardens in the world, it is an emblem of Japanese culture. However, in inverse ration to the garden’s renown, its history—including patronage, designer, original design, and date—is obscure. Although the garden is often said to stand for timeless purity and simplicity as well as for “nothingness” and “emptiness,” the countless interpretations and visual iterations suggest that it is largely a construct of our own age. This talk does not add to this impressive hermeneutic enterprise but rather it first sketches the...
In 1815, Shikitei Sanba wrote manuscript prefaces for two privately produced books: a scrapbook in which he had collected ephemera and broadsheets related to the history of Edo’s raconteurs and a much more ambitious compilation, a sixteen volume collection of playbills that traced the history of the city’s licensed kabuki theaters, the earliest examples dating back a century to the 1720s. As physical objects, both books are deeply suggestive: each is a manuscript comprised entirely of printed matter, a unique object fashioned from the mass produced. These collections are constituted of...
The land and people in the Cuu Long River Delta (South Vietnam) served as an idea area for the maritime trade networks during the first millennium A.D. Being developed as outcome of these activities, the Oc Eo culture is considered as a part of the material remains of the ancient Funan Empire, which was the first organized nation of Southeast Asia in the early Christian era. Southern Vietnam thus became an important link between the East and the West. Along with maritime trade, Buddhism and Hinduism, two great religions that originated from India, have made great contributions to the cultures...
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This presentation explores the last stage of life in Japan, a society characterized by both the practice of high tech medicine and the locating of selfhood in social context. Common to other postindustrial societies, contemporary Japan offers and expects people to make choices to define who they are as individuals, including choices about how to die. But “dying one’s own way” in Japan does not always incorporate the sort of autonomous decision making that defines dying well in American and western European bioethics.
Sansho the Bailiff (Sanshō Dayū) Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi (1954, 35mm, 120 minutes) Mizoguchi’s adaptation of Mori Ogai’s novella depicts the exile of a compassionate governor in medieval Japan and the extended quest of his wife and children, who are separated while trying to join him. Japanese Film Masters: Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio NaruseThis series offers a rare opportunity to explore the work of three of the undisputed masters of Japanese cinema – Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio Naruse. All three directors got their start in the silent-era and worked...
The Council is pleased to present the 47th Annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture. Benjamin Elman is Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University, with East Asian Studies as his primary department. His teaching and research fields include Chinese intellectual and cultural history, 1000-1900; the history of science in China, 1600-1930; the history of education in late imperial China; and Sino-Japanese cultural history, 1600-1850. He received his Ph.D. in Oriental Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (1980) and came to Princeton in 2002 from the University of...
Ugetsu (Ugetsu monogatari)Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953 (35mm, 97 min) Japanese Film Masters: Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio NaruseThis series offers a rare opportunity to explore the work of three of the undisputed masters of Japanese cinema – Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio Naruse. All three directors got their start in the silent-era and worked prolifically throughout Japanese cinema’s two strongest periods: the 1930s and the 1950s. The cornerstone of the series is a program of six films by Kenji Mizoguchi which traces the stylistic, formal, and thematic development...
Life Of Oharu (Saikaku Ichidai Onna) Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi(1952, 35mm, 144 minutes) Based on Saikaku Ihara’s novel, The Life of Oharu charts the tragic demise of Oharu, an attendant at the imperial court in 17th-century Japan. Japanese Film Masters: Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio NaruseThis series offers a rare opportunity to explore the work of three of the undisputed masters of Japanese cinema – Kenji Mizoguchi, Yasujiro Ozu, and Mikio Naruse. All three directors got their start in the silent-era and worked prolifically throughout Japanese cinema’s two strongest periods:...
Professor Aoki will present an interesting result of empirical research on recent changes in the linkage of corporate governance and organizational architecture in Japan and show the emergence of a new-pattern: linkage of semi-market oriented governance with quasi-traditional employment system as a core, with increasing mobility of labor in periphery. He will discuss whether this is a transitory phenomenon to the American type model or represents a new type of corporate governance institution adapted to new economic environments.
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