22 February 2007
Within the space of a year, both the UK and Japan will have seen new prime ministers coming to power – and this has focused attention on their roles and influence in both countries.
7 February 2007
In the post-war period Japan has experienced radical social and economic transformations, asserting itself as the world’s second largest economy by 1968. Housing and construction have been at the heart of this revitalization, a key socio-economic policy, and a stabilizing factor during rapid modernization. ‘Housing and Social Transition’ in Japan explores the nature of the Japanese housing system, focusing on how it has been embedded in wider structures of social and economic change.
25 January 2007
The names of Kaempfer and Siebold are well known, but Thunberg and Titsingh have been largely forgotten. Yet Thunberg and Tisingh also visited Edo-period Japan and left fascinating accounts of their times there.
18 January 2007
As the opening event in a year-long series, this seminar will set the scene and define the structures and systems of government in the UK and Japan.
5 December 2006
Since the bursting of the ‘Bubble Economy’, and the decade and a half of stagnation which followed, work and employment in Japan have been said on many occasions to have undergone some profound changes. This has been matched with a renewed interest among scholars in the structures, processes and cultures of work in Japan.
16 November 2006
In recent years, controversies over the content of Japanese history textbooks and visits to Yasukuni Shrine by Prime Minister Koizumi and other senior government officials have placed the international spotlight on the ways that Japanese people remember World War II. The lecture, based on Dr Seaton’s 2005 article in Japan Forum, will provide a critique
9 November 2006
This was a chance to meet photographer Robert Whitaker, the only person allowed to take photographs of the Beatles on their flights and in their hotel room during their 3 intense days performing in Tokyo. His photographs provided a unique record of their three intense days on tour in Tokyo (June 1966).
7 November 2006
Kawanabe Kyōsai (1831–89) was a highly individualistic painter of the late Edo and early Meiji eras in Japan, his career spanning from the end of the feudal system to the beginnings of rapid modernisation. His first name meant ‘crazy studio’ and in the 1860s he developed a new genre of ‘crazy pictures’ (kyōga).
2 November 2006
Offering a Japanese perspective for the first time, the book tracks the role of the Japanese navy as a silent partner and active participant in the war at sea against Britain and her allies prior to Japan’s entry into the Second World War at Pearl Harbor.
18 October 2006
This seminar provided a rare opportunity to parallel and to explore different cultural approaches to the subject of death. The specific areas of expertise of our speakers and chairperson contributed complementary perspectives on this important theme.
26 September 2006
In May 2001, under the aegis of the British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS), a special collaborative research programme was initiated to enhance intellectual exchanges, fill gaps in the existing literature, and develop new academic networks between scholars in the United Kingdom and Japan. Professor Glenn Hook, Professor Mark Williams, and Dr Naoko Shimazu, took
20 September 2006
This seminar will look to the Baby Boomer generations in the UK and Japan and their changing expectations of the future as they approach retirement and old age.
