18 May 2010
Five decades after the adoption of the revised US-Japan Security Treaty, and two decades after the end of the Cold War, the Cold War alliance and Cold War assumptions still underpin the relationship between the world’s Number One and Number Two economic powers and therefore the institutional frame of East Asia as a whole.
15 February 2011
This lecture investigated the relationship between marriage and childbearing in contemporary Japan. Family studies in the industrialised world in the post-war period have come to see the dissociation of marriage and childbearing as a virtually unavoidable consequence of industrialisation, modernisation and the concurrent change in social mores. Yet there is one industrialised country where almost
14 April 2011
Is there something more to the West’s fascination with Japanese anime and manga? How are anime films and manga comics cultural channeling zones, opened by the horrors of war and disaster and animated by the desire to assemble a world of new looks, feelings and identities?
30 March 2011
“Stone keeps huge memories inside, since the planet came into existence. I feel that stone is the most romantic and intellectual object on the earth.” – Atsuo Okamoto, 2011
14 March 2011
Tadasu Takamine, Artist, in discussion with Jonathan Watkins, Director of Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery and John Fulljames, Artistic Director of The Opera Group.
10 March 2011
Tom Jacobson and Kaori Hashimoto discussed with Tate Modern’s Simon Baker their collection of classic Japanese photographs.
