Sexual Harassment and Japanese Law in International Context
By Masako Kamiya (Gakushin University, Japan)
November 5th, Tuesday
12:30-2PM
Allard Hall, Room 114
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The first sexual harassment case in Japan was decided in 1992. There are some very important development since then. Yet the Japanese Government is still hesitant to ratify ILO Convention No. 190. Why is it so reluctant? Because it goes against the grain of society? Because women still does not have sufficient power within society? When many non-Japanese are joining its labor force, is it possible to stay as it is?
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Spotlight on Japanese Canadian communities
Sunday Nov 10th, 2019,
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
312 Main, Vancouver
(entrance on East Cordova)
The first of a series
film screening and discussions organized by the Intragroup Dynamics and Social Exclusion Project at SFU, in partnership with the 16th Annual Downtown EastSide Heart of the City Festival and the David See-Chai Lam Center at SFU.
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The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature
By Dr. Massimiliano Tomasi
Nov 14, 2019
5- 7p.m.
Asian Centre 604
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The spread of Protestant Christianity in late nineteenth-century Japan generated excitement among intellectuals, and a considerable number of writers converted during their youth. Virtually all of these writers, however, eventually relinquished their faith, casting doubt on the possible impact that such religious experience had on the development of their narrative. Drawing from his recent book
The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature: Metaphors of Christianity
(New York and London: Routledge, 2018), Dr. Tomasi explores the reasons for these authors' ultimate rejection of Christianity, examining the process of their conversion and unveiling the significant influence that this had on their self-construction and their literary production. He will also introduce his current work on the interface between the Meiji and TaishÅ Christian experience and the intriguing developments that followed -most notably the prominence of Catholicism among the writers of the postwar period.
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The "History Wars" and the "Comfort Woman" Issue:
Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary Japan, U.S., and Canada"
Dr. Tomomi Yamaguchi and Satoko Oka Norimatsu
Nov 21, 2019
7-9pm
C.K Choi 120
Based on Dr. Yamaguchi's anthropological fieldwork on the Japanese right-wing activities in the U.S. and Japan, as well as the experiences of people involved in the making of the "comfort women" memorials in the U.S., Dr. Yamaguchi will demonstrate how this issue functions as an important rallying point to tie together disparate right-wing forces in and outside Japan.
Dr. Yamaguchi will also highlight how the acts of remembering and commemorating the survivors' experiences of wartime violence against women become such a contentious, political issue that mobilize the Japanese right-wing so intensively and emotionally both in Japan and the United States.
Following Dr. Yamaguchi's talk, Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Yamaguchi's fellow Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
editor and a Vancouver-based author, will introduce "history wars" in Canada, in 2015 over the plan to build a "comfort women" statue in Burnaby, and in 2018 over the movement to establish a Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Day in Canada.
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