Past Events

March 31 12:30-1:30 @ Fasken Martineau Classroom (Allard School of Law, UBC) Yoshiyuki Tamura (Hokkaido University)  Recently in Japan several amendments have been adopted by the legislature to strengthen the position of copyright owners who demand stronger protection in the digitized, Internet era. The “copy” right, however, has been transformed from the regulation of competition to the […]

May 3 3:00-4:30 @ UBC Chan Telus Studio Theatre Free Student Tickets HERE (Registration closes April 15) Renowned actor Sayuri Yoshinaga and composer / pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto present a reading and musical performance of poems by survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This unique event, taking place on May 3rd at 3:00 […]

April 7 4:00-5:30 @ UBC Institute of Asian Research Room 120  Richard Smethurst (University of Pittsburgh) Why did Japan undertake a war from 1937 to 1945 that it had no chance of winning? Moreover, why did it undertake the war when prominent political leaders and journalists, most notably seven time finance minister Takahashi Korekiyo and […]

2016 April 8 4:00-5:30 @ UBC Asian Centre Room 604 Mae Smethurst (University of Pittsburgh) Miyagi Satoshi has directed several productions of Euripides’ tragedy “Medea”, using a number of conventions found in traditional Japanese theatre, in particular the use of a narrator speaking for a moving actor. Miyagi thinks that Meiji period Japan in which […]

The following report was produced by Department of Asian Studies graduate student Cyrus Huiyong Qiu, who met with actress Sayuri Yoshinaga (featured in 119 movies and winner of four Japanese Academy Awards) and composer Ryūichi Sakamoto (Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA winner and current nominee for The Revenant) on May 4, 2016. Ms. Yoshinaga and […]

Place: Room 351, C.K. Choi Building, 1855 West Mall By: Atsushi Yamakoshi, Executive Director of Keidanren USA Dates: Friday, May 30, 2016 Time: 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. About the Event Facing two decades of deflation and a declining and aging population, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has implemented “Abenomics”, comprised of three arrows: aggressive monetary policy, expansionary fiscal policy […]

Home Globalizing Japan October 13-16, 2016 Recent scholarship has considered Japan from a global perspective across time. These efforts range from defining Japan within “global medievalisms” to considering the reverberations of new forms of media across cultural contexts. From early contributions to literary culture and the production of the world’s first novel, through to current […]

Kanagawa University – UBC Joint Symposium: “Non-written Materials for New Possibilities of Japanese/ Asian studies” July 23rd, 9:15 – 17:00 @ UBC Institute of Asian Research Room 120 The event is open to the public and free to attend. Registration is required by July 15th by email to ihatov.song@gmail.com, Minoru Takano. Check the Program Schedule Please note: the Symposium is […]

Date: Tuesday, July 26, 2016 Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre 6688 Southoaks Cresent Burnaby   UBC Botanical Garden, the Nitobe Memorial Garden and the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre are pleased to host a presentation by Dr. Tsunenori Nitobe from the Nitobe Shrine and Museum in Towada-shi. Dr. […]

Place: Allard Hall Room 122 By: Professor Ichiro Araki Dates: September 23rd, Friday Time: 12:30 – 1:30pm About the Event The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, to which both Canada and Japan are signatories, was supposed to be a new-generation trade agreement to break the deadlock of the multilateral trade negotiations in Geneva. However, with the […]