http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan Facilitate cutting-edge research about Japan at UCLA en-us About 700 UC students withdrew from school in 1942 when they and approximately 120,000 Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were sent to internment camps. UCLA will award honorary degrees this spring.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=112901Mayumi Manabe will teach a course in literature, deliver a lecture for the Terasaki Center's colloquium series, and work on turning her dissertation about working-class women in interwar literature into a book.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=111773Call for Proposals for scholars who wish to use the Gordon W. Prange Collection at UCLAhttp://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=111417Herman Ooms, a professor of premodern Japanese history at UCLA, explains how the Tenmu dynasty manipulated religious symbols to reinforce concepts of supreme authority.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=108756At a May 12 ceremony, the government of Japan recognizes former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer for his contributions to history and Japanese studies in the United States. He is one of 70 non-nationals to receive the Order this year.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=108090Long-time former UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Director Fred Notehelfer receives the Order of the Rising Sun, one of the Japanese government's most prestigious decorations. The Daily Bruin looks at his legacy at UCLA.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=108247The top representatives from Japan and the Republic of Korea in Southern California visited campus on Monday for a discussion sponsored by the Graduate Student International Affairs Association at UCLA and cosponsored by the Asia Institute and the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=108224Aaron Moore, a Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow at UCLA and faculty member at Arizona State University, explains the vision of a modern empire behind Japanese engineering projects during the Sino-Japanese War. http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=106059Cody Poulton of the University of Victoria traces the rise and fall of drama as a literary genre in early 20th-century Japan. http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=105259Cheryl Crowley of Emory University uncovers the messages hidden in Yosa Buson's comedic haiku paintings. http://www.international.ucla.edu/japan/news/article.asp?parentid=104316