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SUMMARY:Workshop on Political Change and Policy Change in Japan
DESCRIPTION:Please join for a lecture with: \nSatoshi Machidori\, Professor of Law\, Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law \nHarukata Takenaka\, Professor of political science\, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\, Department of Political Science\, Columbia University \nJapanese politics is known for its stability. But in the past twenty years\, there has been dramatic transformation both in the policy-making process and policy itself. What is the driving force of these changes? How has policies changed (or not changed) due to the changes in the policy making process? And most importantly\, would these changes enable Japan to deal with the demographic and geopolitical challenges it faces in the years ahead? This workshop will provide an opportunity to hear from Professors Satoshi Machidori and Harukata Takenaka are the two leading experts of Japanese politics in Japan. Brief presentations by both scholars will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Takako Hikotani\, then a Q&A session with the audience. \nAbout the Speaker: \nSatoshi Machidori is Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law. Earned his PhD in political science after doing graduate work at Kyoto University and taught at schools including Osaka University before arriving at his present post. Specializes in comparative political studies and American politics. His works include Seitō sisutemu to seitō soshiki(Party Systems and Party Organizations) and Daigisei minshushugi: “Min’i” to “seijika” o toinaosu (Representative Democracy: A Reconsideration of the Public Will and Politicians). \nHarukata Takenaka is professor of political science at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. He specializes in comparative politics and international political economy\, with a particular focus on Japanese political economy. His research interests include democracy in Japan\, and Japan’s political and economic stagnation since the 1990s. He is currently working on aborted democratization in prewar Japan\, the politics of Japan’s financial crisis since the 1990s and the role of the Japanese Senate (House of Councilors) in postwar Japanese politics. \nHe received a B.A. from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He is the author of Senze Nihon ni okeru Minshuka no Zasetsu [Aborted Democratization in Prewar Japan]\, (Bokutakusha\, 2002)\, and the co-editor of Akusesu Kokusai Seijikeizai [Access to International Political Economy]\,(Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha\, 2003). \n\nNo registration required. \nThis event is organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/workshop-on-political-change-and-policy-change-in-japan/
LOCATION:918 International Affairs Building
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SUMMARY:The Emotional Topography of the Zainichi Memoryscape: Korean Ghettos in Postwar Japan Revisited
DESCRIPTION:\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nSayaka Chatani\, Assistant Professor of History\, National University of Singapore \nModerated by: Kim Brandt\, Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \nEvent Description: A Korean ghetto existed in every large Japanese city in the early postwar period\, and up to the late 1960s. These ghettos provoke the same images and associations in Japanese people’s memory: isolated\, dirty\, impoverished\, and dangerous. To many scholars the existence of ghettos confirms the transwar continuity of Japanese oppression of underclass ethnic minorities. But zainichi Koreans who grew up in ghettos\, or tongne\, often offer a number of spectacular heroic stories about living there. This presentation switches the focus from Japanese society to Koreans themselves\, and discusses the important sociopolitical functions of the tongne\, along with its continuing symbolic meanings. By viewing tongne as a post-liberation place of origin for zainichi\, and by paying attention to the reproduction of its meanings\, we can gain a better understanding of the uneven terrain of power relationships within zainichi society. In particular\, examination of Korean ghettos in Japan helps to explain why the (pro-North Korean) Chongryun organization exercised great cultural power at least until the 1970s and still defines the emotional topography of the zainichi memoryscape.\nNo registration required. \nThis event is organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. \n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/the-emotional-topography-of-the-zainichi-memoryscape-korean-ghettos-in-postwar-japan-revisited/
LOCATION:918 International Affairs Building
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SUMMARY:Modern Japan Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Welcome to the Spring 2020 Modern Japan Seminar. We invite you to join us for an exciting lineup of talks. \n\n2/11  “Inventing the Kamikaze in Late-War Japan\,” Nick Kapur\, Rutgers University-Camden \n\nDiscussant: Ran Zwigenberg\, Penn State University \n3/9  “Radioactive Olympics\,” Alexis Dudden\, University of Connecticut and Andy Marks\, Columbia University \n\nDiscussant: Emlyn Hughes\, Columbia University \n4/14  “‘Hope Lights our Way:’ The Olympic Games and Japan’s Environment\, 1940-2020\,” Robin Kietlinski\, LaGuardia Community College of the City University of New York \n\nAll meetings are in IAB 918 at 6:30. As usual\, we will have dinner together following the presentation and discussion. If you will be able to join us\, please RSVP to Mairead Hynes at m.hynes@columbia.edu.\n\nWe look forward to seeing you.\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/modern-japan-seminar/2020-02-11/
LOCATION:918 International Affairs Building
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