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CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
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Centre for Japanese Research:
Walk in Canada, Talk on Japan:
Foreign Policy, Economy, Culture, and International Relations.
Monday, October 28
3:00-4:30pm (doors open at 2:30pm)
C.K. Choi building, room 120
Light refreshments will be served, please RSVP below.
Speakers: Ambassador Kenjiro Monji, Keita Kakehashi, iho Kurosaki, Jonathan Berkshire Miller, and Saki Matsunaka
Join us for a rare opportunity to engage with emerging young leaders from Japan led by Ambassador Kenjiro Monji. This public lecture and Q&A will cover a wide variety of topics focusing on Japan's foreign policy, economic policy, culture, and more. Each member of the delegation will give a short presentation on their field of specialty with a Q&A portion to conclude.
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here
to find out more and RSVP!
*There was an error in the previous newsletter regarding this event's description.
Sexual Harassment and Japanese Law in International Context
By Masako Kamiya (Gakushin University, Japan)
November 5th, Tuesday
12:30-2PM
Allard Hall, Room 114
*RSVP by emailing cals@allard.ubc.ca
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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here to find out more.
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.
Please click on the link or scan the QR codes on the poster to register, or click
here or to find out more about Heart of the City Festival, click
here.
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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Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program
*Canadians and PR only
Deadline: November 27, 2019
Mitacs is now accepting applications for the
Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program, which supports researchers in Canada to undertake 10-week research projects in Japan in Summer 2020. O
ffered in partnership with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) provides opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Canada to pursue collaborative research in Japan, allowing them to advance their own research while promoting scientific progress in both Japan and Canada. The program is open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in all disciplines at Canadian academic institutions. The deadline to apply for the Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program is
November 27, 2019.
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here for more information about application
That's all for now
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