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2019
February
27/02/19
- Japan's Long Stagnation, Deflation, and Abenomics - Mechanisms and Lessons
Prof Kenji Aramaki (Tokyo Woman's Christian University & University of Tokyo)
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Launch of Kenji Aramaki's new book on Japan's Long Stagnation, Deflation, and Abenomics - Mechanisms and Lessons.
27/02/19
- Robots vs immigrants? Reconfiguring the future of Japanese institutional eldercare
Dr James Wright (EHESS)
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An examination of the future of institutional eldercare in Japan.
March
01/03/19
- Japan Forum 'History of Disability' Workshop
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The workshop will be an intensive discussion of pre-circulated manuscripts that includes roundtable discussions of general difficulties in translation as well as disciplinary distinctions in approaching the study of disability in modern Japan.
04/03/19
- Concert: 400 years of Japanese music: the koto and its friends
Toshiko Yonekawa (koto 13-string zither)
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Performance of the koto 13-string zither, shamisen 3-string lute, shakuhachi bamboo flute and viola.
06/03/19
- Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
Prof David Ambaras (North Carolina State University)
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In this lecture, David Ambaras reveals how the movement of migrants, smugglers, pirates, and trafficked people between China and Japan -- and their sensationalization in the popular press -- created surprising cross-currents in the politics of Sino-Japanese relations during the years of Japanese imperial expansion.
06/03/19
- Workshop: 400 years of Japanese music: the koto and its friends
Toshiko Yonekawa
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A workshop introducing the koto with a chance for a brief hands-on experience.
13/03/19
- On the trail of Shiba Ryotaro and Jane Austen: Novels, Heritage, and Contents Tourism in Japan and the UK
Prof Philip Seaton (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
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This talk explores how the “narrative worlds” created by novelists Shiba Ryotaro and Jane Austen have triggered “contents tourism” at heritage sites in Japan and the UK.
20/03/19
- Radical Writing for Radical Times: Mishima Yukio's Inochi Urimasu (Life for Sale) as a Critique of Post-War Japanese Culture
Prof Stephen Dodd (SOAS)
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Mishima Popular Literature as a powerful critique of post-war Japanese culture.
April
10/04/19
- ‘Creative Collaboration’: Kyoto-Osaka Pictorial Arts and Salon Culture, 1750-1900
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This workshop is to launch a new project, find more about the summary and project aims
24/04/19
- Visualizing the Fetus in Pre-modern and Modern Japan: Reading Illustrated Manuals, Magazines and Guidebooks for Pregnant Women
Prof Manami Yasui (Nichibunken)
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An exploration into the transition of the image of the fetus from pre-modern Japan and modern Japan, based on various illustrations like ukiyo e, manuals for pregnancy and childbirth.