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CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
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Centre for Japanese Research:
CJR Lunchtime Lecture Series
Remembering the Dreams, Forgetting the War: How the Republication of Shōjo no Tomo Reconstructed Japanese Girls' Culture
March 5, 2019, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Asian Centre, 604
Shōjo
no Tomo, one of the leading prewar girls' magazines in Japan, was republished in 2009. Magazines including girls' magazines were the important media for propaganda during WWII. At the same time, however, girls' magazines enabled girl readers to have a site to express themselves. Therefore, some readers attach themselves in it and establish their own girls' culture. Such a passion led the republication of
Shōjo
no Tomo. This talk will explore what is included, excluded, and marginalized in the process of the republication. Through this case study, I also aim to show how prewar girls' culture is reconstructed outside of wartime contexts.
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Walk in Canada, Talk on Japan: New Voices from Japan
March 5 2019, 5-6:20pm
Franklin Lew Forum
Allard School of Law, UBC
Join us for a rare and exciting opportunity to hear a panel of emerging leaders from Japan led by the Deputy Cabinet Secretary Tomoaki Ishigaki. The panel of specialists who work in diverse fields will discuss various topics, including Japanese sense of humor and beauty through Kyogen, Japanese businesses, astronomy and Japan, and Japanese food education.
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CJR Lunchtime Lecture series
Smiling Fathers, Smiling Families: The Promotion of Hybrid Masculinities by Japanese Nonprofit Organizations Focused on Parenting
Presenter: Evan Koike
March 12, 12:30-1:30
Asian Studies, 604
Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this talk will analyze how NPOs in the Greater Tokyo area teach Japanese fathers to blur the boundaries between family-focused and hegemonic masculinities and to adopt hybrid masculinities. Faced with the conflicting demands of work and home, many members of the "child-raising generation" of Japanese fathersare seeking more holistic lifestyles by championing work-life balance.The NPOs host workshops and presentations about how Japanese men can become parents who participate in their children's lives and who contribute to the emotional well-being of their families. However, any decoupling of masculinities from the workplace is fraught with complications, and men often encounter challenges when translating the NPOs' theories into their own daily practices.
Work superiors, coworkers, and neighbors of men who are involved fathers often do not understand or accept the fathers' parenting and work choices, forcing the latter to make difficult choices about their priorities.
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Hokkaido 150
14 March, 5:30 pm-
15 March 2019 5:30 pm
Coming off the sesquicentennial of the Meiji Restoration in 2018, the 2018-2019 Academic Year marks another significant 150th anniversary in Japanese history: that of the settler colonization of the northern island of Hokkaidō, or Ainu Moshir as it was known to the Indigenous Ainu peoples. In the spirit of continuing the national moments of commemoration that occasioned Canada 150 and Meiji at 150, the Centre for Japanese Research proudly presents "Hokkaidō 150: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Modern Japan and Beyond." This event will mark the 150th anniversary of the 1869 incorporation of the island of Ainu Moshir, by gathering academics, artists, musicians, and community members from Japan, Canada, and the United States to revisit shared histories of settler colonialism. We invite members of the UBC and larger Vancouver community to reflect on the history of settler colonialism and its impacts on Indigenous peoples, while celebrating the local culture, art, and music of BC and Hokkaidō as we renew our mutual commitment to international cooperation and Truth and Reconciliation.
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