Japan
Japan has experienced a prolonged period of slow growth, deflation, and other economic ills since the early 1990s. Economists agree on the basics of what has happened, but substantial disputes continue over the fundamental causes. Are Japan’s troubles just a series of macroeconomic policy blunders, or have structural problems in the economy played a role?Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Edward Lincoln will explore these and other topics concerning Japan’s economic performance.
The Council is pleased to present the Seventh Annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies. The Japanese religious world stands to be directly affected by revisions proposed for the constitution of Japan that are now being pursued by the Liberal Democratic Party. Long-standing formulations of the separation of religion from state are to be changed, and imperial ritual will acquire a public character. At the same time, some religious organizations have become directly involved as actors in the process, sometimes seeking to restrain the LDP, sometimes supporting its policies. Constitutional...
Short presentations by visiting scholars on recent research in history, literature, and political economy in Japan, including issues or decolonization, gender, and globalization, followed by a discussion. Please note this lecture will be conducted in Japanese.
Please note this lecture will be conducted in Japanese.
Typhoon Club (Taifu kurabu) Directed by Somai Shinji, 1985 (114 min, 16mm, English Subtitles) Somai Shinji’s masterful evocation of the stormy emotions of adolescence.Cinematic Strangers: Marginal Figures In Japanese Film A woman gambler, an atomic terrorist, disillusioned youth, a Korean resident of Japan all people marginal to Japanese society featured in a series of celebrated films rarely shown outside Japan. For More Information 20050929falljapanfilm_cinematicstrangers.pdf
The Council on East Asian Studies, Yale-China Association, Richard U. Light Fellowship Program Conversations and student presentations on 2005 summer travel, study, internships, and research in Greater China, Japan, and Korea.
Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977), noted social critic and China scholar of postwar Japan, set forth a notion of thought in his writings that was based on an opening onto alterity. Professor Calichman’ s presentation will focus on these passages so as to lay the ground for a critique of subjective interiority.
Edo supported one of the most robust publishing industries in the early modern world, and among the most popular genres of woodblock printed materials was the map. In this talk, Karen Wigen will display and discuss printed maps from the Beans collection in Vancouver, asking what they can tell us about how early modern Japanese viewed their mountainous landscape.
The opening passage of The Love suicides at Sonezaki (1703), Chikamatsu first “contemporary-life play” for the puppet theater, describes the heroine, Ohatsu, making a pilgrimage to 33 temples of Kannon in Osaka. In this lecture, Prof. Brownstein discusses the pilgrimage itself, how the passage from the play was originally performed, and its importance for understanding the play as a whole.
Abbot Ogawa Eiji was born in 1952 in Niigata Prefecture, studied sociology at Rissho University, and participated in a field survey of temples in areas of decreasing population. He is a prominent figure in innovative thinking about funerals and cemeteries. Please note this lecture will be conducted in Japanese
All Under the Moon (Tsuki wa dotchi ni dete iru)Directed by Sai Yoichi, 1993 (100 min, 35mm, English Subtitles)A resident Korean director humorously takes on Japanese discrimination and its object. Cinematic Strangers: Marginal Figures In Japanese Film A woman gambler, an atomic terrorist, disillusioned youth, a Korean resident of Japan all people marginal to Japanese society featured in a series of celebrated films rarely shown outside Japan. For More Information ...
The East Asian economy is rapidly developing. This is the main area where outsourcing from developed countries is directed. On the other hand, international relations among China, South Korea, and Japan are in delicate, if not vulnerable, balance, even though we do not mention the role of North Korea. This academic year we fortunately have three different courses on the economy of China, Korea and Japan. The following roundtable discussion will present the current situations of the economies of China, South Korea and Japan and dialogues about the political economic interactions among East...
Using the graphic writing of Izumi Kyoka as a starting point, Professor Bialock’s lecture will explore some of the connections between music, ritual, and geomorphic space in medieval Japan. If Heike can be viewed on one level as historical narrative, its musico-ritual basis may also disclose proto-ecological concerns that were tied to the real and perceived effects of human and natural calamities in a time of protracted war.
Christopher Gerteis will explore how women members of the Japan Railway Workers’ Union, Kokurô, recorded in poetry and prose their experiences of the highly politicized union activism characteristic of public sector workplaces during the 1950s. Scholarship to date argues that there were significant continuities with the prewar period in the way many postwar social institutions re-constituted gender roles for men and women. Indeed,the labor movement is particularly well known for having reasserted normative social roles that made women’s status secondary to that of men.However, Dr. Gerteis...
Thirty Years of Sisterhood: Women in the 1970s Women’s Liberation Movement in Japan Directed by Yamagami Chieko, Seyama Noriko (2004, Documentary, 57 min.) Special Film Screening and Panel DiscussionParticipants include: Yamagami Chieko - Film Director Seyama Noriko - Film Director Akiyama Yoko - Professor of Chinese Studies, Surugadai University Miki Soko - Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Kyoto Seika University Karen Nakamura - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Christopher Gerteis - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University Chaired...
Special Japanese Film ScreeningThe Living Koheiji (Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji) Directed by Nakagawa Nobuo (1982, 16mm, 78 min.) The last, eerie ghost movie from Japan’s master of the classic horror film. (English Subtitles) Prints Courtesy of the Japan Foundation
Consul General Yoichi Suzuki previously served in the Japanese Embassies in Paris and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in the Political Section. He has also served as Deputy Permanent Representative of Japan to the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. He has long experience dealing with trade negotiations and has served as chairman of various international trade bodies. For More Information http://www.boston.us.emb-japan.go.jp/index.html
Kôans (kongan) are often described as nonsensical or paradoxical questions, posed by Chan/Zen masters to their students, that are designed to confound the discursive intellect and trigger an awakening to an ineffable state beyond the reach of all dualistic thinking. Most Kôans, however, do not take the form of questions. They are, rather, ostensiblyverbatim records of dialogues between ancient Chan patriarchs and their disciples, which came to be held up as customary topics of discussion in the contexts of public debate in a lecture hall and individual consultation in an abbot’s private...
This workshop invites a small group of junior and senior Japan scholars to consider how gender identities have been conflated with/perceived through work in modern Japanese society. Participants have been asked to develop essays that examine, in broad context, how gender ideologies, kinship patterns, class relations, cultural forms, political movements, and global economic transformations shaped the meaning of work and gender for different groups of men and women in twentieth century Japan. By examining topics such as the impact of normative gender mores upon the status of wage-earning women...
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