CJS Lecture Series | The Link Between Marriage and Fertility and Changing Pathways to First Marriage in Japan
Jim Raymo, Professor of Sociology and the Henry Wendt III ’55 Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
The low prevalence of cohabiting unions and non-marital childbearing in Japan is inconsistent with the expectations of prominent theories of...
CJS Lecture Series | Difficult Subjects: Religion and Public Schools in Contemporary Japan
Jolyon Thomas, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
As part of a new national policy of “making persons” (hitozukuri) who could support Japan’s rapid economic growth, in the mid-1960s...
CJS Lecture Series | Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community
Richard J. Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Based upon his latest book, Professor Samuels will explore the history of the Japanese intelligence community from the late 19th to the...
CJS Lecture Series | Empowering Women Through Radio: Evidence from Occupied Japan
Yoko Okuyama, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Uppsala University
2021 marks the 75th year since Japanese women participated in the national election. In that election, women won 8.4 percent of the seats -...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Gender and Voting Preferences in Japan, Britain, and the United States
Gill Steel, Professor of Political Science, Institute for the Liberal Arts, Doshisha University, Japan
Please note that the time of this lecture is 7:00 pm Ann Arbor time, 8:00 am in Tokyo (10/15/2021)....
CJS Lecture Series | Administrative Litigation Reform in Japan
Rieko Kage, Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo, Japan
Please take note of the 7pm (Ann Arbor time) starting time....
CJS Lecture Series | Judging Inequality: Japan in Comparative Perspective
Yeonju Lee, Assistant Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan
Please note the 7pm (in Ann Arbor) start time for this lecture....
CJS Lecture Series | Japanese Contemporary Literature: Perspectives and Aporia in the Global 21st Century
Cécile Sakai, Professor, Paris University, France
Please note that the start time here is 12:00 pm Ann Arbor time and 6:00 pm, Paris, France....
CJS Lecture Series | The Massacre and the Conspiracy: Locating the Japanese diaspora in Seventeenth Century Southeast Asia
Adam Clulow, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
In 1621, Japanese soldiers participated in a massive Dutch East India Company invasion of the Banda islands in Southeast Asia. Pressed into...
CJS Lecture Series | Creation of and Participation in Networks: Visiting the Japan Biographical Database
Bettina Gramlich-Oka, Professor of Japanese History, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Japan
Please take note of the 7pm (Ann Arbor time) starting time....
