CJS Noon Lecture Series | Why Place Matters: The “Publicness” of the Lost Landscape
Saburo Horikawa, Professor of Urban & Environmental Sociology, Hosei University
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (ドロステのはてで僕ら)
Directed by Junta Yamaguchi, 2020, 1h 10m
Our film series kicks off with a chaotic one-take film in which a cafe owner discovers that the television in his cafe suddenly shows images...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Three Questions for Japan in Michigan: Where, Who, and What? An Analysis of Japan’s Presence and Contributions to Michigan by the New Consul General of Japan in Detroit
Hajime “Jimmy” Kishimori, Consul General of Japan in Detroit
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Distant Listening: Conceptions of Sound and Language in Japanese Sinitic Poetry
Matthew Fraleigh, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan; Associate Professor, East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis University
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | Tampopo (タンポポ)
Directed by Juzo Itami, 1985, 1h 54m
In this film by acclaimed director Juzo Itami, truck drivers stop at a small family-run noodle shop and decide to help its fledgling...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Remembering the University of Michigan’s Wartime Japanese American Workers
Brad Hammond, Van Hunnick History Department Doctoral Student, University of Southern California
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | Linda Linda Linda (リンダ リンダ リンダ)
Directed by Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005, 1h 54m
Only three days before their high school festival, guitarist Kei, drummer Kyoko, and bassist Nozomi are forced to recruit a new lead...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (星くず兄弟の伝説)
Directed by Makoto Tezuka, 1985, 1 hr 40m
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transgressive Navigation: Tanegashima, Kyoto, and the Wokou in Sixteenth-Century Maritime East Asia
Peter Shapinsky, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Springfield
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 555, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | James Marshall Plumer’s Collecting Journey in War-torn Japan: Mingei Pottery, Folk Deities, and Ainu Art
Natsu Oyobe, Curator of Asian Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | Good Morning (お早よう)
Directed by Yasujirō Ozu, 1959, 1h 34m
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Powering Empire: Hydroelectricity and Highland Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule
John Kanbayashi, Assistant Professor of History & Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall. It will not be livestreamed or recorded....
CJS Noon Lecture Series | A Queer Girl in Modern Japan: Yoshiya Nobuko
Sarah Frederick, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Boston University
Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010, Weiser Hall, and virtually on Zoom. The webinar is free and open to the...
CJS Winter 2026 Film Series | School in the Crosshairs (ねらわれた学園)
Directed by Taku Mayumura, 1981, 1h 30m
Obayashi’s first groundbreaking idol picture is a dazzling mix of special effects and blue-screen artifice—a stylistic flair perfected...
