CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Spirited Away
2001 | Fantasy/Mystery/Anime | 135 min | PG
In this animated feature by noted Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon a seemingly abandoned...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Poetry, Class, and Politics: Making Haiku into “Literature” in Meiji Japan
Robert Tuck, Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Culture, Arizona State University
Known for its emphasis on nature and the seasons, as well as its accessibility and broad appeal, haiku is now one of Japan’s best-known...
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Your Name
106 min. | Drama/Fantasy | PG | 2016
From Director Makoto Shinkai comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls. A teenage boy...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Radical Adaptation: Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era
Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy, Policy Management, Keio University, Japan
Seemingly, Japan has adapted to Trumpian foreign policy like no other. Whereas many “western democracies” have maintained a distance to...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world,...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world,...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Response to the ‘US-China Cold War
Masashi Nishihara, President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo, Japan
A strong and wealthy America meets Japan’s security as well as economic interests. In this sense Tokyo prefers Trump’s type of...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Abenomics: Escape from the Lost Two Decades of Japan
Takatoshi Ito, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB, Columbia Business School
The lecture describes and analyze (i) why the Japan suffered from two decades of stagnation and fifteen years of deflation; (ii) how...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Consequences of Short-Time Work Schemes: Evidence from Japan
Naomi Kodama, Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University
Short-time work (STW) schemes, publicly subsidized work time reductions, are designed to incentivize firms to use worksharing and avoid...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Toward the Denuclearized Future: Ruses of Safety Myth and Citizen’s Activisms since the Fukushima Disasters
Katsuya Hirano , Associate Professor of History, UCLA
Since the 3.11 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Japanese government and the nuclear energy industries have been attempting to promote a new...
