Happening @ Michigan

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reeking of Mud: Japanese Counter-Culture in the 1960s and '70s

Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights, Democracy and Journalism, Bard College, NY

The 1960s and '70s were a time of rebellion and counterculture in Japan, as was true in the US. I will highlight some of the...

The Past, Present, and Future of Social Science Data Preservation and Dissemination in Japan

Yukio Maeda, Professor of Political Science at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and the Institute of Social Science at the...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Prime Minister and Public Opinion in Japan

Yukio Maeda Professor, Inter-faculty Initiative in Information Studies / Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

Approval ratings in public opinion polls are the most important power resource for prime ministers in contemporary Japanese politics....

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Put to the Test: HIV/AIDS, Japan and Sexual Citizenship

John Whittier Treat, Emeritus Professor, Department of East Asia Languages and Literatures, Yale University

Beginning with the recounting of his personal experience of undergoing an involuntary HIV test in Japan in 2016, Treat explores recent work...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | History of Furigana

Shinji Konno, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Seisen University, Tokyo

Furigana has its origins in Chinese documents and started to be used in Japan around the 10th century. Furigana was used to indicate the...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan

Michael Strausz, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Asian Studies, Texas Christian University

Why has Japan’s immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international political...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | On Listening: Murakami Haruki and the Prejudices of Global Literature

Michael Emmerich, Professor of Japanese Literature, UCLA

Murakami Haruki is exceptional in many ways, among them the extent of the popularity his works have achieved in translations around the...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Futurity and the Transhuman in Millennial Japan: The Case of Picturebooks

Heather Blair, Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

This talk looks to an unexpected avant-garde—picturebooks—for visions of possibility in millennial Japan. In particular it explores how...