Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Response to the ‘US-China Cold War (February 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59102 59102-14677982@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit.

A strong and wealthy America meets Japan’s security as well as economic interests. In this sense Tokyo prefers Trump’s type of leadership to Obama’s. However, as the U.S.-China relations become confrontational, Japan has to make sure that they will not spill over to itself. Trade war between Washington and Beijing will affect Japanese trade and eventually its economy. Military tensions in the South China Sea may prevent Japan’s vital trading route from safe use. China is conducting “smile diplomacy” for Japan and is trying to drive a wedge between Japan and the United States. Japan should sustain the strong alliance with the United States in this triangular relationship.

President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, which he assumed in 2006. A graduate of Kyoto University (BA) and a holder of an MA and PhD in political science from the University of Michigan. He was Professor of International Relations at the National Defense Academy in 1977-2000 and served as President of the Academy in 2000-2006.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Feb 2019 12:32:44 -0500 2019-02-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Masashi Nishihara, President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo, Japan
Language Fair (February 22, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60997 60997-15000025@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 10:30am
Location: Shapiro Library
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Are you interested in learning more about the Asian languages taught at the University of Michigan? The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures invites you to the Asian Languages Fair, featuring guests from the Chinese Language Program, Japanese Language Program, Korean Language Program, South Asian Language Program, and Southeast Asian Language Program.

You are invited to come learn about opportunities at UM to study the following languages: Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese. There will also be opportunities to win raffle prizes.

The Asian Languages Fair will be held in the Shapiro Lobby from 10:30am-1:30pm on Friday, February 22. We hope to see you there!

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Fair / Festival Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:30:24 -0500 2019-02-22T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T13:30:00-05:00 Shapiro Library Asian Languages and Cultures Fair / Festival red and brown tower
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (February 27, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60330 60330-14864272@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Cocky Spike Spiegel and the crew of his spaceship, Bebop, an intrepid band of bounty hunters, land on Mars in the year 2071 chasing an enormous cash reward. The four-person team, also including looming cyborg Jet Black, fearless Faye Valentine and tech expert Edward, are in search of ex-military officer Vincent. The former hero has become a biological terrorist with an arsenal of devastating nano-bots that he’ll let loose on Alba City on the night before Halloween if his demands aren’t met.

More film details here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275277/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Film Screening Mon, 25 Feb 2019 09:09:26 -0500 2019-02-27T19:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Medieval Lunch. Environmental Matters in the Medieval World (March 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59661 59661-14777895@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

Ladkau: "A House Aflame: Displacement, Hunger, and Relief during the Kansho Famine"
Patterson: " Making Weather: Meteorological Agency in the Early Middle Ages"

The Medieval Lunch Series is an informal program for sharing works-in-progress and fostering community among medievalists at the University of Michigan. Faculty and graduate students from across disciplines participate, sharing their research and discussing ongoing projects.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Jan 2019 10:09:26 -0500 2019-03-13T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T13:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Wind agent
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Ghost in the Shell (March 13, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61849 61849-15221597@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

It is the year 2029. Technology has advanced so far that cyborgs are commonplace. In addition, human brains can connect to the internet directly. Major Motoko Kasunagi is an officer in Section 9, an elite, secretive police division that deals with special operations, including counter terrorism and cyber crime. She is currently on the trail of the Puppet Master, a cyber criminal who hacks into the brains of cyborgs in order to obtain information and to commit other crimes. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

More information here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219827/

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:44:29 -0500 2019-03-13T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Ghost in the Shell
CJS US–Japan Automotive Conference 2.0 (March 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61072 61072-15027205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Please find full conference details here: https://ii.umich.edu/cjs/news-events/events/conferences-and-symposia/us-japan-auto-conference-2-0---friday--march-15--2019.html

A revival of the US-Japan Automotive Conference held annually between 1981 and 1989, USJAC 2.0 will gather industry leaders, policymakers, and scholars from both sides of the Pacific to discuss the past, present, and future of the US and Japanese auto industries, paying particular attention to the issues of trade, management, and technological change. Keynote speaker and panelist announcements forthcoming.

The conference is free and open to the public. Please register your attendance via our EventBrite page: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/us-japan-automotive-conference-20-tickets-55346759648

Questions? Feel free to contact Brad Hammond at bradlyh@umich.edu.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 13 Mar 2019 16:31:33 -0400 2019-03-15T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-15T16:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium CJS US–Japan Automotive Conference 2.0
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Kiki's Delivery Service (March 20, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61852 61852-15221598@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. In this anime feature, 13-year-old Kiki moves to a seaside town with her talking cat, Jiji, to spend a year alone, in accordance with her village's tradition for witches in training. After learning to control her broomstick, Kiki sets up a flying courier service and soon becomes a fixture in the community. But when the insecure young witch begins questioning herself and loses her magic abilities, she must overcome her self-doubt to get her powers back. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

More about the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097814/

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:55:54 -0500 2019-03-20T19:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Kiki's Delivery Service
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Abenomics: Escape from the Lost Two Decades of Japan (March 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58690 58690-14544794@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The lecture describes and analyze (i) why the Japan suffered from two decades of stagnation and fifteen years of deflation; (ii) how economic policy packages, commonly known as Abenomics, introduced by Prime Minister Abe at the end of 2012 to early 2013 has lifted the economy out of stagnation and deflation in 6 years; and (iii) remaining challenges in Japan, including the failure to achieve 2% inflation target and lack of productivity increases that make possible higher real wage increases.

Takatoshi Ito, Professor, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University (since 2015) and Senior Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (since 2016), has taught extensively both in the United States and Japan since finishing his PhD in economics at Harvard University in 1979. He taught at the University of Minnesota (1979-1988), Hitotsubashi University (1988-2002), and the University of Tokyo (2004-2014). He held visiting professor positions at Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia Business School, and University of Malaya.

He has distinguished academic and research appointments such as President of the Japanese Economic Association in 2004; Fellow of the Econometric Society, since 1992; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1985. He was awarded by the Government of Japan the National Medal with Purple Ribbon in June 2011 for his excellent academic achievement.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:09:16 -0500 2019-03-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-28T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Takatoshi Ito
Why Asian Studies? (March 29, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61924 61924-15239148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2019 12:30pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and language programs. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor and ask questions specific to them.

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) is a center for the exploration of the humanities of Asia, where students are invited to cross the boundaries of nations and of disciplines in order to develop two vital qualities: a deep knowledge and a broad global perspective.

The department offers instruction in the cultures of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, and in many of the languages of Asia (including Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, and Vietnamese).

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/undergraduates/informationsessions.html

We hope to see you there!

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Other Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:23:15 -0500 2019-03-29T12:30:00-04:00 2019-03-29T13:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other ALC info session poster
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Tokyo Godfathers (April 3, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61854 61854-15221599@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Directed by Satoshi Kon. Middle-aged alcoholic Gin, teenage runaway Miyuki (Candice Moore) and former drag queen Hana are a trio of homeless people surviving as a makeshift family on the streets of Tokyo. While rummaging in the trash for food on Christmas Eve, they stumble upon an abandoned newborn baby in a trash bin. With only a handful of clues to the baby's identity, the three misfits search the streets of Tokyo for help in returning the baby to its parents. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

More about the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388473/

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Film Screening Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:55:14 -0500 2019-04-03T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-03T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Tokyo Godfathers
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Consequences of Short-Time Work Schemes: Evidence from Japan (April 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58152 58152-14433286@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Short-time work (STW) schemes, publicly subsidized work time reductions, are designed to incentivize firms to use worksharing and avoid layoffs in a recession. Japan is known for the extensive use of STW, and we assemble unique data on STW for over 3, 000 Japanese firms. Firms that used STW during a recession following the financial meltdown of 2008 are found to have slower employment growth in subsequent years. Such firms are, however, found to have similar growth of productivity and profitability in subsequent years. Japanese STW helps reduce employment volatility over the business cycle without harming firm performance.

Naomi Kodama is a Professor in the College of Economics at Nihon University in Japan. Her research interests focus on firm dynamics, labor market institutions, and policy evaluation. She has published in British Journal of Industrial Relations, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and World Economy as well as a chapter in Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy. She holds a PhD in Economics from Kyoto University and a BS in Geophysics from University of Tokyo.

This lecture is based upon co-authored paper: "The Consequences of Short-Time Work Schemes: Evidence from Japan," Takao Kato and Naomi Kodama.

Kato is W.S. Schupf Professor of Economics and Far Eastern Studies, Colgate University; Research Fellow, IZA-Bonn; Faculty Fellow and Mentor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University; Research Fellow, TCER-Tokyo; Research Associate, CJEB (Columbia Business School) and CCP (Copenhagen Business School and Aarhus University); and Senior Fellow, ETLA (Helsinki). email: tkato@colgate.edu. Naomi Kodama is Professor of College of Economics, Nihon University and Research Associate of RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry). email: kodama.naomi@nihon-u.ac.jp.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2019 09:27:30 -0500 2019-04-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Naomi Kodama
SHODO - Japanese Calligraphy (April 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58947 58947-14617755@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

In this class, students will experience and practice the art of Japanese calligraphy with a brush and black ink, learning both Kana and Kanji characters. The drawing process itself encourages a calming of the mind and peacefulness, similar to a form of meditation. Konomi Corbin, your instructor, taught the first calligraphy class offered at the University of Michigan some years ago.
She has taught Japanese language at both the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University. This Study Group is for those 50 and over and will meet April 8th from 10:00 a.m. to noon.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 26 Dec 2018 10:27:11 -0500 2019-04-08T10:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction Study Group
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Summer Wars (Sama Wozu) (April 10, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62774 62774-15460210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Kenji is a teenage math prodigy recruited by his secret crush Natsuki for the ultimate summer job - passing himself off as Natsuki's boyfriend for four days during her grandmother's 90th birthday celebration. But when Kenji solves a 2,056 digit math riddle sent to his cell phone, he unwittingly breaches the security barricade protecting Oz, a globe-spanning virtual world where millions of people and governments interact through their avatars, handling everything from online shopping and traffic control to national defense and nuclear launch codes. Now a malicious AI program called the Love Machine is hijacking Oz accounts, growing exponentially more powerful and sowing chaos and destruction in its wake.

More about the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1474276/

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Film Screening Mon, 01 Apr 2019 15:21:27 -0400 2019-04-10T19:00:00-04:00 2019-04-10T21:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Summer Wars
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Toward the Denuclearized Future: Ruses of Safety Myth and Citizen’s Activisms since the Fukushima Disasters (April 11, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58689 58689-14544792@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Since the 3.11 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Japanese government and the nuclear energy industries have been attempting to promote a new safety myth by downplaying the harmful effects of radioactive exposure on the human body and the environment. How have citizens’ activism responded to the ruses of the safety myth? The talk will introduce various sites and forms of anti-nuclear activism that ordinary citizens have organized to defend their basic rights to health, safety, and dignity.

Katsuya Hirano teaches history at UCLA. He is the author of "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan." He has published numerous articles and book chapters on cultural and intellectual history of Japan, Fukushima nuclear disaster, settler colonialism, and critical theory. His Fukushima interview series is available in the "Asian-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus."

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:37:58 -0400 2019-04-11T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Weiser Hall
Winter 2020 Walk-in Advising! (April 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63011 63011-15534811@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Don’t wait until the September 15th deadline, join CGIS & Newnan Advising Center for a walk-in advising event to discuss Winter 2020 CGIS applications.

Before you leave for the summer, come and find out how studying abroad can fit into your degree plan, learn about scholarships and financial aid, and more!

Popcorn & punch will be provided!

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Meeting Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:21:24 -0400 2019-04-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-04-17T16:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Global and Intercultural Study Meeting PHOTO
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Radical Adaptation: Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era (April 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58148 58148-14433279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This event was originally on our calendar in January but had to be rescheduled because of inclement weather. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope you will join us on April 18!

Seemingly, Japan has adapted to Trumpian foreign policy like no other. Whereas many “western democracies” have maintained a distance to the Trump administration, Japan has not, and embraced it fully. How and why has this been done? Are the Japanese public behind? The lecture will focus on Japan’s choice in the Trump era.

Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy at Keio University. Japan Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in DC until August 2019. Currently working on the long term effect of Trumpian foreign policy on American international commitment and its image around the world.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:57:27 -0400 2019-04-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-18T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Toshihiro Nakayama,Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy,Policy Management,Keio University, Japan
Fonotune: An Electric Fairytale (May 14, 2019 9:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63470 63470-15716752@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 9:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In another time and place, where people barely communicate and an impending apocalypse is in the air, lone drifter Mono makes an odyssey to experience mysterious rock star Blitz’s final cosmic performance out in the Big White Nothing, a desert surrounding the city. Here, people escape from reality, and each other, through music. A constant companion in their headphones is Radio, nihilistic DJ of radio station FONOTUNE, playing his own joyous soundtrack to destruction! On his journey, Mono shares fleeting connections with a gang of strangers: Teen-hooker Stereo, lo-fi cowboy Analog, and the sassy Bubblegum. Their paths finally collide in an audiovisual showdown with the mythical musician many thought dead or long-gone.

More details about the film on the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2570500/

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Film Screening Thu, 02 May 2019 11:20:30 -0400 2019-05-14T21:15:00-04:00 2019-05-14T22:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Fonotune: An Electric Fairytale
Michigan in Tokyo 2019 | Financial Governance in the Reiwa Era: A Conversation with Eisuke Sakakibara, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University and former Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs, & Michael S. Barr, Dean, Ford School of Public Policy (May 15, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63277 63277-15609926@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

(英語の後に日本語有り)

(Registration is required. For the English-language registration site, go to: https://bit.ly/2UmnDCZ)

● Map to event venue: https://goo.gl/maps/tG3hD94fgBp
● Language: English and Japanese (simultaneous interpretation)

As the Reiwa Era begins, new opportunities and challenges abound in the global economy. The Heisei Era opened at the height of Japan's bubble economy and the US-Japan trade war, followed by the IT bubble in the US and the lost decades in Japan, and then the global financial crisis and Abenomics. What awaits the Japanese, US, and global economies in the Reiwa Era? What types of financial governance mechanisms are needed to foster economic stability and growth? In this Michigan in Tokyo event, two leading experts on financial governance, Dr. Eisuke Sakakibara - a UM alum and former Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs, also known as "Mr. Yen" - and Dean Michael S. Barr - Dean of the UM Ford School and a prime architect of the Dodd-Frank Act in the Obama administration - will discuss current trends and prospects in US-Japan economic relations and world financial markets. Moderated by Mr. Akinori Horii - a former Assistant Governor of the Bank of Japan -, they will review areas of promise and vulnerability and discuss policy paths forward in Tokyo, Washington, and elsewhere.

6:30pm
Doors Open

7pm
Welcome & Introduction
Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Director, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

Financial Governance in the Reiwa Era
Michael Barr, Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Eisuke Sakakibara, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University and former Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs
Moderator: Akinari Horii, Special Advisor and Member of the Board, Canon Institute for Global Studies

8pm
Reception

● Registration:
General $35
University of Michigan Alumni & Friends $15
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● 日英同時通訳付

令和元年となる本年、国際経済は新たな挑戦と可能性に向き合うことになる。平成元年は日本のバブル経済の頂点であり、日米貿易摩擦のピークでもあった。平成の経済はその後、アメリカでのITバブルと日本での失われた20年、さらにリーマンショックとアベノミクスを経験する。令和の時代の日本、アメリカ、そして国際経済はどのように展開するのであろうか。新時代に経済的安定と成長を担保するためには、どのようなファイナンシャル・ガバナンスの仕組みが必要なのか。今年のMichigan in Tokyo シンポジウムでは、ミシガン大学卒業生で大蔵省財務官を務め、「ミスター円」と呼ばれた榊原英資教授と、ミシガン大学フォード公共政策大学院長で、オバマ政権内でドッド・フランク法の起草者でもあったマイケル・S・バー教授、という日米を代表する二人のファイナンシャル・ガバナンスの専門家に、日米の経済関係及び国際経済の最新のトレンドと将来の予測についてお話しいただきます。日本銀行理事を務められた堀井昭成氏をモデレーターにお迎えし、成長の期待される分野及び注意が必要な問題について、また東京、ワシントン、及びその他の世界の金融拠点で、どのような政策展開が必要になってくるかについてじっくり語り合っていただきます。

6:30pm
開場

7pm
開会の挨拶
筒井清輝 (ミシガン大学日本研究センター所長)

特別対談:令和時代のファイナンシャル・ガバナンス
マイケル・S・バー(ミシガン大学フォード公共政策大学院長)
榊原英資(青山学院大学特別招聘教授、元財務官)
モデレーター:堀井昭成 (キャノングローバル戦略研究所理事・特別顧問)

8pm
レセプション(食事・ドリンク付き)

● 参加費
一般:$35
ミシガン大学卒業生・関係者: $15

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 19 Apr 2019 09:29:03 -0400 2019-05-15T19:00:00-04:00 2019-05-15T21:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Conference / Symposium Michigan in Tokyo 2019
Complicity (Kazenokiwa Kotono Youni) (May 15, 2019 8:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63466 63466-15716663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 15, 2019 8:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the Cinetopia Film Festival.

Chen Liang, a young Chinese man is an illegal immigrant in Japan. One day he receives a call about a job offer meant for someone else. In his desperation, he pretends to be the intended recipient in order to get the job, which turns out to be work at a traditional Japanese soba restaurant. He starts his new life living and working with the elderly soba master with the fear that his identity could be exposed at any moment.

More details at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7239688/

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Film Screening Thu, 02 May 2019 09:56:35 -0400 2019-05-15T20:45:00-04:00 2019-05-15T22:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Complicity (Kazenokiwa Kotono Youni)
Mr. Jimmy (May 16, 2019 3:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63467 63467-15716665@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 16, 2019 3:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the Cinetopia Film Festival

In snowbound Tokamachi, Japan, teenaged Akio Sakurai took refuge in his room, escaping to another world with a pair of headphones and a pile of Led Zeppelin records. Moving to Tokyo, Akio worked as a kimono salesman by day, but by night became "Mr. Jimmy," adopting the guitar chops and persona of Jimmy Page. For 35 years, Akio recreated vintage Zeppelin concerts note-for-note in small Tokyo clubs, until the “real” Jimmy Page stopped by one night, and Akio’s life changed forever. Inspired by Mr. Page’s ovation, Akio quits his “salary man” job, leaving behind his family to move to Los Angeles and join “Led Zepagain.” Soon cultures clash, and Akio’s idyllic vision of America meets with reality.

With special guest appearance by director Peter Dowd at both screenings.

More details about the film can be found on the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9617752/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Film Screening Thu, 02 May 2019 10:28:51 -0400 2019-05-16T15:45:00-04:00 2019-05-16T17:45:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Mr. Jimmy
Complicity (Kazenokiwa Kotono Youni) (May 16, 2019 4:15pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63466 63466-15716664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 16, 2019 4:15pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the Cinetopia Film Festival.

Chen Liang, a young Chinese man is an illegal immigrant in Japan. One day he receives a call about a job offer meant for someone else. In his desperation, he pretends to be the intended recipient in order to get the job, which turns out to be work at a traditional Japanese soba restaurant. He starts his new life living and working with the elderly soba master with the fear that his identity could be exposed at any moment.

More details at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7239688/

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Film Screening Thu, 02 May 2019 09:56:35 -0400 2019-05-16T16:15:00-04:00 2019-05-16T18:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Complicity (Kazenokiwa Kotono Youni)
Mr. Jimmy (May 17, 2019 9:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63467 63467-15716666@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 17, 2019 9:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Part of the Cinetopia Film Festival

In snowbound Tokamachi, Japan, teenaged Akio Sakurai took refuge in his room, escaping to another world with a pair of headphones and a pile of Led Zeppelin records. Moving to Tokyo, Akio worked as a kimono salesman by day, but by night became "Mr. Jimmy," adopting the guitar chops and persona of Jimmy Page. For 35 years, Akio recreated vintage Zeppelin concerts note-for-note in small Tokyo clubs, until the “real” Jimmy Page stopped by one night, and Akio’s life changed forever. Inspired by Mr. Page’s ovation, Akio quits his “salary man” job, leaving behind his family to move to Los Angeles and join “Led Zepagain.” Soon cultures clash, and Akio’s idyllic vision of America meets with reality.

With special guest appearance by director Peter Dowd at both screenings.

More details about the film can be found on the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9617752/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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Film Screening Thu, 02 May 2019 10:28:51 -0400 2019-05-17T21:00:00-04:00 2019-05-17T23:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Mr. Jimmy
Fonotune: An Electric Fairytale (May 17, 2019 9:45pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63470 63470-15716753@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 17, 2019 9:45pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In another time and place, where people barely communicate and an impending apocalypse is in the air, lone drifter Mono makes an odyssey to experience mysterious rock star Blitz’s final cosmic performance out in the Big White Nothing, a desert surrounding the city. Here, people escape from reality, and each other, through music. A constant companion in their headphones is Radio, nihilistic DJ of radio station FONOTUNE, playing his own joyous soundtrack to destruction! On his journey, Mono shares fleeting connections with a gang of strangers: Teen-hooker Stereo, lo-fi cowboy Analog, and the sassy Bubblegum. Their paths finally collide in an audiovisual showdown with the mythical musician many thought dead or long-gone.

More details about the film on the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2570500/

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Film Screening Thu, 02 May 2019 11:20:30 -0400 2019-05-17T21:45:00-04:00 2019-05-17T23:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Fonotune: An Electric Fairytale
CJS Noon Lecture Series | An Exploration of Japanese Game Audio (September 12, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66264 66264-16725775@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Quite possibly the primary means that most Americans have encountered Japanese culture, if not by food, is through video game music. Japanese composed themes and game audio techniques from the 70s and 80s are still used in modern games and even played in concert halls. This music has become one of Japan’s most notable exports to the world. In this presentation, Dr. Thompson will lead a journey through some of the most famous and influential video game music that he enjoyed during his childhood in the early days of game audio, and then turn to more recent topics, including recent research on the influence of video game music on piano study in Japan.

Matthew Thompson, DMA — collaborative piano, is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance. As a pianist, Thompson has performed with operatic celebrities like Thomas Hampson, Golden Mask winner Vince Yi, and musical theatre gurus like Tony Award winner, Gavin Creel. Equally comfortable collaborating with instrumentalists, Thompson’s most recent recording project, Japonica, is comprised of Japanese composed oboe/piano duos with recent U-M alumnus, Dr. Alex Hayashi. Thompson’s research interests in game audio pedagogy have garnered international attention; he presents regularly nationally and serves on the advisory board for GameSoundCon and a committee member for the North American Conference on Video Game Music.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 04 Sep 2019 08:38:31 -0400 2019-09-12T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Matthew Thompson, Assistant Professor of Music, University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance
CWPS Performance Talks | Tom Lee (September 12, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64831 64831-16458981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for World Performance Studies

Center for World Performance Studies visiting puppet artist Tom Lee will present a special workshop exploring Japanese traditional puppetry techniques that have had an enormous influence on world puppetry performance. Following a short talk on bunraku-style puppetry, participants will have a hands-on opportunity to handle traditional Japanese puppets and draw back the curtain on how these beautiful puppets are brought to life through skillful puppetry technique. Tom Lee has appeared as a puppeteer in War Horse at Lincoln Center Theatre and Madama Butterfly at the Metropolitan Opera, in addition to extensive work in Japan with his mentor, Koryu Nishikawa V.

Presented in partnership with CMAP Detroit and the Ann Arbor District Library. Co-sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 14:31:44 -0400 2019-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Center for World Performance Studies Workshop / Seminar Tom Lee Workshop
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Ann Arbor and Hikone: 50 years of Sister-City Relationship (September 19, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66943 66943-16787732@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Mayor Taylor and guests will discuss the history and importance of the Ann Arbor - Hikone Sister-City relationship, the AAPS-Hikone exchange program, and the August 2019 Goodwill Mission to Shiga and Hikone.

The guests include Hikone's beloved, popular mascot Hikonyan!

Mayor Taylor was elected in November 2014, after three terms representing the Third Ward on Ann Arbor City Council.

Professionally, Mayor Taylor is a corporate/commercial and estate planning attorney. He is a partner in the Ann Arbor law firm of Hooper Hathaway, where his practice focuses on the representation of local and regional businesses, individuals, and non-profits.

Mayor Taylor has earned four degrees from the University of Michigan. During his years at the University of Michigan, Mayor Taylor served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Law Review and as president of the Inter-Cooperative Council, a 550-member housing cooperative.

Active in the community prior to holding elected office, Mayor Taylor has served on the Board of Directors of non-profits including 826michigan and FestiFools, and has performed with numerous local choirs and community theaters.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:36:46 -0400 2019-09-19T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Christopher Taylor, Mayor, City of Ann Arbor
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (September 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64754 64754-16442918@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own Ikebana arrangement with help from certified instructor. Email 2 weeks prior for e-invite. a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Attendance limited to 25.

Presented by Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Jul 2019 11:52:58 -0400 2019-09-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-19T14:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Working on a High Energy Experiment in Japan (September 26, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65578 65578-16619774@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

During the last twelve years I have been working on a High Energy Experiment (HEP) in Tokai, Japan. In this lecture I will summarize the significant accomplishments Japanese physicists have made in this field. I will describe the current HEP program in Japan, and then talk about the experiment I have been working on.

I was a graduate student at Yale University and worked on an experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory. I was a postdoc at the University of Chicago before moving to Michigan in 1989. I have worked on experiments at Fermilab near Chicago, CERN in Switzerland, and JPARC in Japan. I was Chair of the Physics Department and Associate Dean for the Natural Sciences.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:29:41 -0400 2019-09-26T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Myron Campbell, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Is Japanese Trade Policy Finally Proactive? Japan’s Multilateral Leadership in TPP (October 3, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65008 65008-16501310@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Since the 1980s, Japan’s foreign policy, including its trade policy, has been known to be “reactive.” Subsequent studies have modified this rather monotonic characterization, but to date, no one has found that Japan is willing and able to take a strong leadership role in a multilateral setting. By historical standards, however, Japan’s leadership in concluding TPP-11 negotiations was rather remarkable. Is Japan finally proactive? It will be demonstrated that Japan found itself in an unusual set of circumstances in TPP-11 and that one cannot generalize from this episode that Japan is now a proactive international player.

Keisuke Iida is a Professor in the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. His recent publications include Japan’s Security and Economic Dependence on China and the United States. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and formerly taught at Princeton University and Aoyama Gakuin University.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:33:24 -0400 2019-10-03T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-03T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Is Japanese Trade Policy Finally Proactive? Japan’s Multilateral Leadership in TPP
CGIS Study Abroad Fair (October 10, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64876 64876-16483057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Michigan League
Organized By: Center for Global and Intercultural Study

Learn about 140 programs in over 50 countries, ask about U-M faculty-led programs, and figure out which program can help satisfy your major/minor requirements. CGIS has programs ranging from 3 weeks to an academic year! Meet with CGIS advisors, staff from the Office of Financial Aid and the LSA Scholarship Office, CGIS
Alumni, and other on-campus offices who can help you select a program that works best for you.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:41:18 -0400 2019-10-10T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Michigan League Center for Global and Intercultural Study Fair / Festival PHOTO
Crisis in the Alliance? Tension in the Japan-South Korea Relationship and Implications for US Foreign Policy (October 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67810 67810-16952006@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Panelists: Celeste Arrington (George Washington University)
Gi-Wook Shin (Stanford University)
Yuki Tatsumi (Stimson Center)
Dan Slater (University of Michigan)

Sponsor: Korea Foundation

Cosponsors: UM Center for Japanese Studies, UM International Institute, UM Nam Center for Korean Studies

Abstract:
The relationship between Japan and South Korea has often been fraught with tensions reflecting their complicated history going back centuries. In the modern era, Japan’s colonization of Korea and its legacy have marred the bilateral relationship despite their shared values as the two most advanced democracies in the region and their status as the most important allies of the U.S. in East Asia. In the last couple of years, the tension has reached a boiling point as the two countries began to discard various agreements in trade, security, and other areas. Meanwhile, the US government sat on the sidelines for the most part, seeming to play a less proactive role than in the past. In the context of trade conflict with China, nuclear developments in North Korea, and growing assertiveness of Russia in the region, further deterioration of Japan-South Korea relations would be detrimental not only to the two countries but also to the U.S. and other players in the Asia-Pacific region. In this panel discussion, experts of the region will offer their views on the current tensions in the region and their implications for the regional politics and U.S. foreign policy.

Mission of the Korea Foundation:
Since its inception in 1991, The Korea Foundation aims to connect people to people and serve as a bridge between Korea and the global community through a diverse array of academic and cultural programs and activities.
As a lead public diplomacy institution of Korea, the Korea Foundation has over the past two decades tried to explore timely avenues to reach out general public by organizing insightful lectures and intellectual events on regional as well as global issues that are the focus of public attention.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 08:40:47 -0400 2019-10-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-11T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Crisis in the Alliance? Tension in the Japan-South Korea Relationship and Implications for US Foreign Policy
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reeking of Mud: Japanese Counter-Culture in the 1960s and '70s (October 17, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65158 65158-16541461@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

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 specifically Japanese aspects: the underground dance and theater, the student politics, the protests against the Vietnam War, the radical cinema. In many ways, the counterculture was a rediscovery of Japanese traditions. After a century of Westernization and a rather fossilized high classical culture, artists were going back to the erotic and often dark roots of pre-modern popular culture, hence the title: Reeking of Mud.

Ian Buruma studied Chinese at Leyden University, and cinema at Nihon University College of Arts, in Tokyo. He lived in Japan from 1974 to 1980. He worked in Tokyo as a photographer, filmmaker, and journalist. He has worked as a writer and editor in Hong Kong, London and New York, and contributed to many papers and magazines, including the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the New Yorker. His latest book is a memoir, entitled "A Tokyo Romance".

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This event is cosponsored by the Institute for the Humanities.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 15:54:45 -0400 2019-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights, Democracy and Journalism, Bard College, NY.
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (October 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64772 64772-16444929@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own Ikebana arrangement with help from certified instructor. Email 2 weeks prior for e-invite: a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Attendance limited to 25.

Presented by Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:26:32 -0400 2019-10-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T14:30:00-04:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
The Past, Present, and Future of Social Science Data Preservation and Dissemination in Japan (October 23, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68129 68129-17011969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 10:00am
Location: Hatcher Graduate Library
Organized By: University Library

Yukio Maeda, Professor of Political Science at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo, will outline past practices and the present situation in social science data preservation and dissemination in Japan. He will explain the new initiative by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), “Constructing Data Infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences.”

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 13:58:14 -0400 2019-10-23T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T11:30:00-04:00 Hatcher Graduate Library University Library Lecture / Discussion Hatcher Graduate Library
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Prime Minister and Public Opinion in Japan (October 24, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66265 66265-16725776@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Approval ratings in public opinion polls are the most important power resource for prime ministers in contemporary Japanese politics. However, this is a relatively new political phenomenon. In this lecture, I provide a brief overview of the changes in the role of prime ministers and the power of public opinion over the past fifty years. I also show how changes in methodology and more frequent polls further accelerated prime ministers’ dependence on their approval ratings. Finally, using available survey data, I demonstrate how much the impact of prime ministerial approval on individual voting behavior has increased over time.

Professor Maeda earned his PhD in political science from the University of Michigan in 2001. His research interests include (1) public opinion, (2) methodologies in survey research, and (3) data sharing in the social sciences. He has worked for the Japanese committees for many international surveys, including the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, and World Value Survey.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 12:05:07 -0400 2019-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-24T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Yukio Maeda Professor, Inter-faculty Initiative in Information Studies / Institute of Social Science University of Tokyo
A/PIA Studies Fall Social (October 24, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67845 67845-16960477@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Join us for dinner, mingle with friends and faculty, and learn about the A/PIA Studies program!

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Reception / Open House Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:09:37 -0400 2019-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Reception / Open House Flyer
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Put to the Test: HIV/AIDS, Japan and Sexual Citizenship (October 31, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64524 64524-16386875@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Beginning with the recounting of his personal experience of undergoing an involuntary HIV test in Japan in 2016, Treat explores recent work on abjection by LGBT scholars and its intersection with recent critiques of the concept of sexual, or "intimate," citizenship and social activism based on it. Literary works to be discussed include HIV+ poet Hasegawa Takeshi’s Confessions of Bearine de Pink (2005) and Japan’s first cell phone novel, Yoshi Yū's Ayu no monogatari (2002).

John Whittier Treat is Emeritus Professor in the Department of East Asia Languages and Literatures at Yale University. He is the author of Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb; Great Mirrors Shattered: Orientalism, Japan and Homosexuality; and The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature.

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Image credit: Masami Teraoka, Geisha and Fox (1988)

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:19:40 -0400 2019-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T13:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Masami Teraoka, Geisha and Fox (1988)
Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity (October 31, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68925 68925-17197030@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Department of History

We are excited to invite you to the Global Theories of Critique's second event of the academic year, with our theme for this year being "On the Failed and Marginal," focusing on the excluded and undermined from and in Euro-American histories. Challenging these histories or going against and beyond them demands an interrogation of the space from which we think, write, and act: the university and its various arms. Following this thinking, our second event will be a workshop on "Rethinking the University: On Discipline, Excellence, and Solidarity" with Professor Reginald Jackson, to be held on Thursday, Oct. 31st, 4-6 pm, room 1014 Tisch Hall, dinner included.

Professor Jackson is an Associate Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature at U of M's department of Asian Languages and Cultures, and has been long committed to thinking and practicing knowledge production in relation to solidarity with the marginalized and forgotten, within both the university's own space and its many outsides. As such, ahead of this event, we recommend reading Professor Jackson's recently published article, titled "Solidarity's Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy," along with two theoretical pieces he is in engaging with. All readings are available here, and we recommend reading them in this order:

Readings, “The Idea of Excellence”
Jackson, “Solidarity’s Indiscipline: Regarding Miyoshi's Pedagogical Legacy”
Moten and Harney, “The University and the Undercommons” (optional)

Additionally, if you plan on attending this event, please RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9zWJXZZnlGwM1-MIwVj7GNA5DZ_vnK-KvGxWzV26Is898Vw/viewform. We would also very much appreciate circulating this invite with any student, department or anyone else who might be interested in this event.

This event and the Global Theories of Critique project are part of a partnership between the University of Michigan and the American University in Cairo (AUC) focusing on Public Humanities in the Global South supported by a Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to AUC. Please get in touch with Hakem Al-Rustom (hakemaa@umich.edu) or Raya Naamneh (rnaamneh@umich.edu) with any questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:08:10 -0400 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-31T18:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Department of History Workshop / Seminar Professor Reginald Jackson
CJS Noon Lecture Series | History of Furigana (November 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64206 64206-16212194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

See also: November 9th, Sat. 13:30 - 15:00, Asia Library Seminar Room, Hatcher Graduate Library, 4th floor, "Conversation with Professor Konno" (in Japanese language) Open to the public.

Furigana has its origins in Chinese documents and started to be used in Japan around the 10th century. Furigana was used to indicate the pronunciations of various Kanji (Chinese characters).

When Japanese people began to use Kanji to express both Chinese and Japanese characters, they began to adopt Kanji even when they express Japanese words.

Although Furigana, as phonetic characters, could express Japanese words, Chinese characters continued to be used because a significant amount of Chinese words had already become enrooted within the Japanese lexicon. Both Chinese characters, which are ideographic characters, and Furigana, which are phonetic characters, were used in the Japanese language. This lecture covers the development and the influence of Furigana as “linguistic phenomenon" in Japanese literary history.

Professor Konno’s specialty covers the history of the Japanese language from the 7th century to medieval to early modern period (Muromachi to Meiji period). His methodology is to find the common practice within the Japanese language during different periods of history and the language usage in art and everyday culture. His lecture is planning to focus on the development of KANA and the usage of FURIGANA and its influence on the literary expression found in various publications and art. His lecture should be of interest for both academic and layman audiences who are interested in Japanese Studies. His lecturer at Michigan should be informative for community members interested in Japanese culture.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:08:45 -0400 2019-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Shinji Konno, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Seisen University, Tokyo
Access Internships in Asia & Europe! (November 14, 2019 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67001 67001-16794261@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 14, 2019 6:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Interested in interning in Asia or Europe next summer? Join the International Institute to learn about our Internship Initiatives, funding opportunities, and how to apply. Meet past interns to hear stories of their experiences abroad & get advice on living and working abroad!

RSVP here: http://myumi.ch/pdGoe
Light refreshments will be provided.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to jcnnifer@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Meeting Thu, 07 Nov 2019 10:57:11 -0500 2019-11-14T18:00:00-05:00 2019-11-14T19:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Meeting Access International Internships
Why Asian Studies? (November 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67445 67445-16855677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, November 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Asian Languages and Cultures

Current undergraduate students are invited to an information session on the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures major, minors, and language programs. Students will have the opportunity to speak with an advisor and ask questions specific to them. Representatives from Newnan Advising and CGIS will also be present!

The Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) is a center for the exploration of the humanities of Asia, where students are invited to cross the boundaries of nations and of disciplines in order to develop two vital qualities: a deep knowledge and a broad global perspective.

The department offers instruction in the cultures of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, and in many of the languages of Asia (including Bengali, Chinese, Filipino, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Thai, Tamil, Urdu, and Vietnamese).

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at https://lsa.umich.edu/asian/undergraduates/informationsessions.html

We hope to see you there!

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Other Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:21:03 -0400 2019-11-15T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-15T13:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Asian Languages and Cultures Other Info Session Flyer
CJS Special Presentation | Invitation to Kabuki: Lecture and Performance by Actor Kyozo Nakamura (November 19, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69417 69417-17318582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Kabuki, a 400-year old Japanese form of theater, is known for its fantastically colorful stage, dramatic stories, and utterly beautiful men and women played by an all male cast. Still popular in modern day Japan, kabuki performers are specially trained from a young age to faithfully copy their predecessors’ forms and styles until they have the skills to develop their own styles. Join us for a dynamic lecture and demonstration with veteran onnagata (actor specializing in female roles), Kyozo ​Nakamura. Mr. Nakamura​ will introduce the basics of male and female acting in kabuki and talk about his own path to become an accomplished actor. The audience will also begin their kabuki performance training, copying Nakamura's movements in an interactive call and response.

This program is presented in conjunction with "Copies and Invention in East Asia," an exhibition which highlights the creative possibilities of copying as an artistic practice (co-sponsored by CJS). Following the performance, the gallery will be open to enjoy.

This program is co-presented by the Center for Japanese Studies and the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

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Presentation Wed, 13 Nov 2019 15:36:12 -0500 2019-11-19T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T20:30:00-05:00 Museum of Art Center for Japanese Studies Presentation Kyozo Nakamura, Kabuki Actor
CJS Noon Lecture Series | On Listening: Murakami Haruki and the Prejudices of Global Literature (November 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65013 65013-16501312@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Murakami Haruki is exceptional in many ways, among them the extent of the popularity his works have achieved in translations around the world, and the persistence with which critics have framed this very popularity as an index of his failure to be “Japanese” enough. This talk will use Murakami as a case study to propose a shift in the way we understand the structure of literature as a global phenomenon and the position of writers in it, and to try and bridge the gap that has emerged between the values implicit in discussions of literature as a global phenomenon and those that often govern the teaching of literature in American contexts.

Michael Emmerich is Professor of Japanese literature at UCLA and Director of the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. His books include The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature; Tentekomai: bungaku wa hi kurete michi tōshi; Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers; and New Penguin Parallel Texts: Short Stories in Japanese.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:21:14 -0400 2019-11-21T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion On Listening: Murakami Haruki and the Prejudices of Global Literature
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (November 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64788 64788-16444946@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own Ikebana arrangement with help from certified instructor. Email 2 weeks prior for e-invite: a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Attendance limited to 25.

Presented by Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:31:09 -0400 2019-11-21T13:00:00-05:00 2019-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Futurity and the Transhuman in Millennial Japan: The Case of Picturebooks (December 5, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67284 67284-16831258@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

This talk looks to an unexpected avant-garde—picturebooks—for visions of possibility in millennial Japan. In particular it explores how two illustrator-auteurs, Miroco Machiko (b. 1981) and Arai Ryōji (b. 1956), de-center the human to picture forth a fecund, transhuman multiverse. Both artists operate within a strong postwar tradition of picturebook art, which derives a sense of freedom from its association with youth and play. Here style, far from being merely decorative, shapes our worlds and the possibilities we see in them.

Heather Blair is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. Her research focuses on lay religiosity and questions of how visual culture and religion intersect in Japan. Her publications include Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan (2015) and articles in venues such as Monumenta Nipponica, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, and Japanese Journal of Religious Studies. She is currently working on a monograph with the provisional title The Gods Make You Giggle: Finding Religion in Japanese Picturebooks.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:09:20 -0400 2019-12-05T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Heather Blair, Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
Engaging Images: Art History and Anthropology in Conversation (December 6, 2019 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66190 66190-16719579@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 6, 2019 3:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: History of Art

A symposium in honor of Jennifer Robertson and Celeste Brusati.

SPEAKERS:

Art and/as "Historical Ethnography"
Julie Hochstrasser - University of Iowa

In which an art historian reflects upon the role of anthropology in her scholarship on the seventeenth-century Dutch across the course of her career, pausing to dwell upon several case studies in greater depth. Explores the notion of "historical ethnography" in several respects: examples of early modern artists as proto-ethnographers, and on the other hand, the art historian herself as ethnographer, tackling subjects doubly distanced, both culturally and temporally.

"Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan's Past"
Laura Miller - University of Missouri, St. Louis

Who was considered to be a beautiful man or a gorgeous woman in Japan’s ancient period? What did an attractive Edo samurai or courtesan look like? When contemporary popular culture producers set out to create manga, anime, film and TV series set in historical eras, they often find that the beauty standards of long ago are quite different from contemporary reader and viewer standards. Rather than try to represent historically accurate appearance, artists and writers meld some aspects of historic fashion with recent ideals for body and facial types. This presentation will feature several reimagined historical figures who are represented by actors, cosplayers, or drawn characters who reflect today’s beauty ideology rather than those of the periods they are portraying. Although some efforts are made to depict the costumes and hairstyles of the period, the desire to cater to current beauty norms dominates these productions.

"Lodging/Dwelling/Painting in Elizabethan England"
Elizabeth Alice Honig - University of Maryland, College Park

From the Old Testament to Heidegger and beyond, the concept of “dwelling” has been freighted with significance. It has meant belonging and being chosen, shared community and special entitlement, a state of mind as well as one of physical habitation, the possession of selfhood and of a perspective on the world. This paper explores “dwelling” in Renaissance England, particularly considering those who lack that privilege. It takes as its foci first, a set of Elizabethan wall paintings at Pittleworth Manor that depicts the story of rich Dives and the roaming beggar Lazarus; and second, the prison run by Pittleworth’s recusant owner, which became a kind of dwelling-place for imprisoned Catholics.

"Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan"
Gennifer Weisenfeld - Duke University

An army of schoolgirls march through Tokyo, their faces an anonymous procession of gas masks. Photographer Horino Masao’s Gas Mask Parade, Tokyo from 1936 is one of the most iconic images of the anxious modernism of 1930s Japan. It reveals the vivid yet prosaic inculcation of fear in Japanese daily life through the increasingly pervasive visual culture of civil defense. Japan’s invasion of Manchuria in late 1931—the beginning of its Fifteen-Year War—marks the onset of a period of intense social mobilization and militarization on the home front as the war zone expanded on the continent and throughout the Pacific. Surveillance, secrecy, darkness, defensive barriers, physical security, and prophylaxis all became standard visual tropes of national preparedness and communal anxiety. Still, amidst this anxiety, a culture of pleasure and wonder persisted, a culture in which tasty Morinaga-brand caramels were sold to children with paper gas masks as promotional giveaways, and popular magazines featured everything from attractive models in the latest civil defense fashions to marvelous futuristic wartime weapons. The visual and material culture of civil air defense or bōkū titillated the senses, even evoking the erotic through the monstrously enticing gas mask figures marching through the streets.

Prevailing scholarship portrays the war years in Japan as a landscape of privation where consumer and popular culture—and creativity in general—were suppressed under the massive censorship of the war machine. Without denying the horrors of total war, this understanding of the cultural climate needs revision. Pleasure, desire, wonder, creativity, and humor were all still abundantly present. Humanity persisted in its complexity. Therefore, by grasping the full nature of wartime’s all-encompassing sensory and compensatory enticements, the dangers of its mix of sacrifice and gratification are unmasked

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 25 Nov 2019 14:57:23 -0500 2019-12-06T15:00:00-05:00 2019-12-06T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) History of Art Conference / Symposium poster
Ikebana: Japanese Flower Arranging (December 12, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64791 64791-16444949@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 12, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Organized By: Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum

Create your own Ikebana arrangement with help from certified instructor. Email 2 weeks prior for e-invite: a2ikebana@gmail.com.
Attendance limited to 25.

Presented by Ann Arbor Ikebana Intl. Chapter.

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Class / Instruction Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:38:12 -0400 2019-12-12T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-12T14:30:00-05:00 Matthaei Botanical Gardens Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum Class / Instruction
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Religion and Politics in Japan: Mapping a Shifting Terrain (January 9, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69650 69650-17376502@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

In Japan today, a wide range of religious actors are now shaping educational curricula, social policies, and defense postures promoted by Prime Minister Abe Shinzō and his governing coalition. So profound is religious influence on the coalition that one cannot understand Japanese politics without understanding its religious dimensions. In this talk, McLaughlin will draw on his ongoing ethnographic research on Shinto-, Buddhism- and Christian- aligned participants within Nippon Kaigi (Japan Conference), as well as his work within the Buddhist lay organization Soka Gakkai and its affiliated party Komeito, to bring to life religion-inspired people who compete to guide Japanese policymaking.

Levi McLaughlin is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University. He is co-author of Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan (IEAS Berkeley, 2014) and author of Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan (University of Hawai`i Press, 2019). Currently, he is the 2019-2020 Toyota Visiting Professor in the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:01:53 -0500 2020-01-09T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-09T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Levi McLaughlin, 2019-2020 Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan and North Carolina State University
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Rashômon (January 9, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70763 70763-17642235@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 9, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Akira Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:23:23 -0500 2020-01-09T19:30:00-05:00 2020-01-09T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Rashômon
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Hired to be Overheard: Resonances of Chindon-ya in Contemporary Japan (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69568 69568-17366248@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a business by parading through neighborhood streets in Japan. Against the background of long-term economic downturn, growing social precarity, and nuclear anxiety, Abe’s recently published book investigates how this seemingly outdated means of advertisement has recently gained traction as an aesthetic, economic, and political practice after decades of inactivity. Drawing on the book, this presentation will address the central analytic hibiki (resonance), which highlights the processes in which chindon-ya’s sound is designed to elicit an affective response from a listener who simply “overhears” chindon-ya in public spaces.

Marié Abe is Associate Professor of Music in the Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology at Boston University. Broadly speaking, her scholarship explores the intersection of sound, space, and sociality, bridging sound studies and cultural human geography. Her recent projects examine the politics of sound in social movements, in the contexts of anti-US military movements in Okinawa and post-3.11 Japan, as well as the musical and historical affinity between Japan and Ethiopia in the 20th century.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Nov 2019 09:42:21 -0500 2020-01-16T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Marié Abe, Associate Professor of Music, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Boston University
Mary Kamidoi: My journey from Stockton, through the WWII Rohwer Internment Camp, to Michigan (January 22, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/69832 69832-17433860@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 10:00am
Location: Haven Hall
Organized By: Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Mary Kamidoi recalls her childhood in Stockton, California, her memories of internment camp life in the Rohwer (Arkansas) internment camp, and enduring anti-Japanese and anti-Asian discrimination upon her arrival in Michigan.

Mary Kamidoi serves as Treasurer of Japanese American Citizens League-Detroit Chapter, as Treasurer of American Citizens for Justice, and is the trustee for the Japanese American Citizens League-Detroit Chapter's scholarship program.

This event is free and open to the public and organized in association with AMCULT 301-001: "A/PIA in the Civil Rights Movement"

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:45:24 -0500 2020-01-22T10:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T11:20:00-05:00 Haven Hall Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Lecture / Discussion Poster
CJS Noon Lecture Series | China-Japan-US Trilateral Relationship on East Asia Order: History and Prospects (January 23, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69572 69572-17366251@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The trilateral relationship among China, Japan and the United States has generally been stable, and it explained the regional order in East Asia since the 1970s. Now, however, the fundamental conditions of the trilateral relationship are changing because of a shift in the balance of power, a loss of confidence on American diplomacy, US-China competition and the overwhelming importance of the Chinese economy. How will a change in the relationship between Japan, the United States and China affect the order of Asia? What does improving Japan-China relations mean? Is the Japan-U.S. relationship still strong?

Ryo Sahashi is an Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo. Dr. Sahashi specializes on international politics in East Asia. He serves as Research Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange, and has been Visiting Associate Professor, Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center, Stanford University. He received his BA from International Christian University and his PhD from the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He also studied at the Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:09:40 -0500 2020-01-23T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Ugetsu (January 23, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70764 70764-17642236@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

During 16th century civil wars, village potter Masayuki Mori (Rashomon, The Bad Sleep Well, Floating Clouds) decides to follow the money and leave wife Kinuyo Tanaka behind to sell his wares in town, there to be seduced by ghost princess Machiko Kyō. But when the spell is finally broken, he returns to a devastated village. Adapted from Akinari Ueda’s 1776 collection of tales of the supernatural — and a de Maupassant story. This film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi was a Venice Silver Lion winner and for many years a regular on Ten-Best-of-All-Time lists.

Cinematographer: Kazuo Miyagawa

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046478/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:39:06 -0500 2020-01-23T19:30:00-05:00 2020-01-23T22:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Ugetsu
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea (January 30, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71590 71590-17842696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The Seto Inland Sea region was the center for much of Japan’s late medieval (14th – 16th c) period’s commercial activity, yet few documents detailing the organization of those trade networks remain – if indeed they were ever written. Using geospatial analysis (GIS) of evidence from written and archaeological records, it becomes possible to trace the flow of goods and people within the Inland Sea region. The environment and geography are central players in this story, affecting the trade routes, networks, and even shipping practices that develop during the late medieval period.

Michelle Damian is an Assistant Professor of History at Monmouth College, IL (USA). She has published chapters in several edited volumes and articles in Japan Forum and Education About Asia. She is also on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Museum of Underwater Archaeology (http://www.themua.org).

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 11:46:42 -0500 2020-01-30T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
Continuing Korematsu: Our Fight in the Trump Era (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72117 72117-17939981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association

January 30th is the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, one of the most blatant forms of racial profiling in US history, which led to the forced removal and incarceration of over 120,000 American citizens and residents on the basis of being ethnically Japanese. Fred T. Korematsu was one of many who refused to be incarcerated, and was arrested. A national civil rights hero, Fred Korematsu appealed his case to the Supreme Court. Although the Supreme Court ruled against him in 1944, in 1983 his conviction was overturned in a coram nobis proceeding where Fred Korematsu addressed the court, saying, “I would like to see the government admit they were wrong, and do something about it so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.”

In 2014 and again in 2019, the US government attempted to reopen the Fort Sill camp to incarcerate migrant children from Latin America; Fort Sill was previously used as a concentration camp where Native Americans and Japanese Americans were detained. In June 2017, ICE agents raided and arrested Iraqi families in the Detroit area, leading to the ACLU’s lawsuit, Hamama v. Adducci. Raids on Iraqi families have continued into 2019.

On January 30th, APALSA's Political Action Committee, in partnership with the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission and Stop Repeating History would like to invite you to attend a screening of the documentary Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 by Jon Osaki, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A led by University of Michigan Law student Kevin Luong.

This event features incredible guest speakers: Dr. Karen Korematsu, Don Tamaki, Aamina Ahmed, Mary Kamidoi, and Michael Steinberg. Free and open to the public. Food from Curry On will be provided with RSVP: bit.ly/2tfDsnu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:49:48 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Asian Pacific American Law Students Association Lecture / Discussion Korematsu Day Poster
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji) (January 30, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70765 70765-17642237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignified resignation to life’s shifting currents and society’s modernization. Though the widower Shuhei (frequent Ozu leading man Chishu Ryu) has been living comfortably for years with his grown daughter, a series of events leads him to accept and encourage her marriage and departure from their home. As elegantly composed and achingly tender as any of the Japanese master’s films, An Autumn Afternoon is one of cinema’s fondest farewells.

Cinematographer: Yûharu Atsuta

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056444/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:38:42 -0500 2020-01-30T19:30:00-05:00 2020-01-30T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Sanma no aji
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics (February 6, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70096 70096-17530444@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Over the last hundred years, the idiom of the tea bowl (chawan) has become increasingly significant for makers, collectors, historians, and the general public in Japan. Tea bowls function as important modern signifiers of tea ceremony praxis, national aesthetics, and a perceived shared affinity for ceramics. This lecture will trace the rise of the tea bowl in Japan from the 1920s onward, considering its status in terms of core aspects of modern Japanese ceramics—materiality, tactility, revivalism, rebellion, and global presence. Within the vast field of modern Japanese ceramics, the tea bowl provides a means to index key production and reception values.

Meghen Jones is Division Head /Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies at Alfred University. She recently co-edited with Louise Cort Ceramics and Modernity in Japan and is currently curating for the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum an exhibition titled Path of the Tea Bowl.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 09 Dec 2019 09:36:28 -0500 2020-02-06T12:00:00-05:00 2020-02-06T13:30:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Japanese Studies Lecture / Discussion The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Harakiri (February 6, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70766 70766-17642238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 6, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Center for Japanese Studies

Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to commit ritual suicide on the property. Iyi’s clansmen, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for a new position, try to force his hand and get him to eviscerate himself—but they have underestimated his beliefs and his personal brand of honor. Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Special Jury Prize, Harakiri, directed by Masaki Kobayashi is a fierce evocation of individual agency in the face of a corrupt and hypocritical system.

Cinematographer: Yoshio Miyajima

Read more about the film, including ratings, at the IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056058/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Full series details and film trailers here: https://www.michtheater.org/cinematography/

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Film Screening Mon, 13 Jan 2020 14:40:48 -0500 2020-02-06T19:30:00-05:00 2020-02-06T21:30:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Center for Japanese Studies Film Screening Harakiri
Nam Center film presentation | Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue (February 17, 2020 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72725 72725-18068360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 17, 2020 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Nam Center for Korean Studies

Director Miki Dezaki will lead a Q & A after the film!

Shusenjo is one of the most controversial films in the last decade, inspiring both lawsuits and bomb scares and death threats. It delves deep into the most contentious debates and uncovers the hidden intentions of the supporters and detractors of comfort women. Most importantly it finds answers to some of the biggest questions for Japanese and Koreans: Were comfort women prostitutes or sex slaves? Were they coercively recruited? And, does Japan have a legal responsibility to apologize to the former comfort women?

The “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical evidence, the validity of oral testimony, the number of victims, the meaning of sexual slavery, and the definition of coercive recruitment. Credibility, legitimacy and influence serve as the rallying cry for all those involved in the battle. In addition, this largely domestic battleground has been shifted to the international arena, commanding the participation of various state and non-state actors and institutions from all over the world.

About the Director: Miki Dezaki is a Japanese-American director and graduate of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University in Tokyo. He worked for the Japan Exchange Teaching Program for five years in Yamanashi and Okinawa before becoming a Buddhist monk in Thailand for one year. He is also known as “Medamasensei” on Youtube, where he has made comedy videos and videos on social issues in Japan. His most notable video is “Racism in Japan,” which led to numerous online attacks by Japanese neo-nationalists who attempted to deny the existence of racism and discrimination against Zainichi Koreans (Koreans with permanent residency in Japan) and Burakumin (historical outcasts still discriminated today). Shusenjo is his directorial debut.

Presented in Japanese, Korean and English with English subtitles.

Join us for a post-film discussion with the film’s director, Miki Dezaki.

“A Filmmaker Explored Japan’s Wartime Enslavement of Women. Now He’s Being Sued.” – The New York Times

“Documentary juxtaposes both sides of contentious debate on ‘comfort women’” – The Japan Times

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Film Screening Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:08:30 -0500 2020-02-17T19:30:00-05:00 2020-02-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Nam Center for Korean Studies Film Screening Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue