Historians Harry Harootunian, Carol Gluck and Fred Notehelfer offer views on modernity and its development in Japan.
Posted: 2/14/2007
USC's David Bialock speaks about his research on Daoist influences in Japanese literature from the Nara period.
Posted: 12/12/2006
Japanese politics expert Patricia Maclachlan identifies the challenges to the future privatization of the Japanese post office.
Posted: 11/30/2006
USC scholar discusses a Japanese notion of beauty and its artistic representation in Meiji period paintings.
Posted: 11/15/2006
Aeron Gerow discusses the evolution of nationalism in Kitano Takeshi's Hana-bi.
Posted: 6/27/2006
UCLA project devoted to Tokyo-LA interactions in art, fashion, food holds workshop on 'LA as Offshore Japan.'
Posted: 5/25/2006
Connecticut College's Alexis Dudden speaks on "Illegal Korea".
Posted: 5/18/2006
Columbia's Michael Como challenges traditional views of legendary 'corruptor' figures in the context of cultic ritual and disease in medieval Japan.
Posted: 4/20/2006
More than 60 years after he left the camp behind, this emeritus UCLA professor, surgeon and researcher and his wife, Hisako, have donated $5 million to promote better understanding between Japan and America.
Posted: 3/24/2006
U. of Pittsburgh's Akiko Hashimoto examines the debate surrounding Japan's guilt over World War II.
Posted: 3/16/2006
UCLA's Thomas Rimer examines the life and art of a Japanese actor.
Posted: 3/1/2006
The Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies faces its share of challenges. Not least of all the question of how to do so much in such little time.
Posted: 2/20/2006
Mizuko Ito explores anime culture in Japan and its popularity abroad.
Posted: 2/17/2006
Carol Gluck urges historians to seek new directions, quick.
Posted: 2/10/2006
In medieval Japan, sexual entertainers and their customers enjoyed great freedoms until a growing orthodoxy stifled their trade, Janet Goodwin tells a UCLA audience.
Posted: 1/13/2006
