CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
Upcoming Events
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Join the UBC Centre for Japanese Research in a webinar, “Japan’s Response to COVID-19 from a Political and Historical Perspective” on June 1!
An In-Depth Analysis on Japan's Handling of the Pandemic

As the threat of COVID-19 continues globally, Japan – the country with many densely populated cities and a large elderly population – gathers the world’s attention. While its initial death numbers were relatively low, the country continuously faces challenges with the serge of case numbers and slow vaccination rollout, while still planning to hold the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer. Join our webinar with expert analyst Professor Nakano Koichi (Sophia University, Tokyo), in conversation with UBC’s Professor Yves Tiberghien and Ph.D. candidate Yingqiu Kuang, for an in-depth analysis on how Japan has responded to COVID-19 from a political and historical perspective!

Featuring
Nakano Koichi – Sophia University / 上智大学 (Speaker)
Yves Tiberghien – University of British Columbia (Moderator)
Yingqiu Kuang – University of British Columbia (Graduate Discussant)

Date & Time
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 | 6:00 – 7:30pm (PDT)
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 | 9:00 – 10:30 pm (EDT)
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | 10:00 – 11:30 am (JST)
 
Registration
The event will be held via Zoom. Please register in advance to receive the access link – https://japans_response_to_covid_19.eventbrite.ca
 
For more information, please visit the CJR Website.
Event Recordings
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Co-sponsored with the Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Description
A virtual conversation with Masao Okabe and Chihiro Minato—featured artists in A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake, facilitated by exhibition curator Fuyubi Nakamura.

The conversation (pre-recorded in Japanese, with English subtitles) is followed by a live Q+A session with Chihiro Minato (in English).

『記憶のための未来』の出展作家、岡部昌生氏と港千尋氏による対談です。展覧会担当キュレーターの中村冬日が進行役をつとめました。
 
対談は事前に録画されたもので、日本語で行います（英語字幕付き）。対談後には、港千尋氏がライブで英語による質疑応答を行いました。

Featuring 

For more information on the exhibition and other related event recordings, please visit the MOA website.
Online Book Talk with the Former Editor in Chief of The Economist

Description
A webinar with Bill Emmott, the former Editor in Chief of The Economist magazine (1993-2006) and the author of Japan’s Far More Female Future: Increasing Gender Equality and Reducing Workplace Insecurity Will Make Japan Stronger. We discussed gender (in)equality in Japan and its impacts on the Japanese socio-economic state.

Featuring 
  • Bill Emmott - Author of Japan's Far More Female Future & Former Editor in Chief of The Economist
  • Joseph Caron - Former Canadian Ambassador to China and Japan & Honorary Professor at the UBC Institute of Asian Research (Introductory Remarks)
  • Yves Tiberghien - UBC Political Science & CJR Co-Director (Moderator)
  • Sun Park - Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science & Liu Scholar (Graduate Discussant)

For more information on the speakers and the featured book, please visit the CJR Website.
Presented by the Museum of Anthropology

Description
As part of the "Responsive Dialogues: Racism in Canada" series hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Sherri Kajiwara, director and curator of the Nikkei National Museum and MOA Curator of Asia, Fuyubi Nakamura consider anti-Asian racism in the context of historical injustice done to the Japanese Canadian communities in relation to the Broken Promises exhibition at the Nikkei National Museum. Watch the dialogue on the MOA Youtube Channel.

For more information about the Responsive Dialogue series, visit the MOA Website.
Announcements
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Recipient of 2021-22 Public Humanities Faculty Fellowship

CJR is excited to share the short J-Horror Video series created by the 2021-2022 Public Humanities Faculty Fellow, Dr. Colleen Laird. In these Open Education Resource videos, she interviews scholars of Japanese horror on their work and key films.

Find more videos and Dr. Laid's other research publications here.