Gathering of JSPS Japanese Fellows
WHEN: July 28th (Friday), 2006 5:00pm – 7:30pm
LOCATION: Hotel Durant, University Room
2600 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, California
On 28 July, the JSPS San Francisco Office held a “Gathering of JSPS Japanese Fellows” in Berkeley, California. Its purpose was to promote trans-disciplinary exchange among Japanese researchers working in the US and to deepen a sense of colleagueship while facilitating network building among them. San Francisco Office had this kind of gathering in 2004 for the first time. This, the fifth such gathering organized by the Office, brought together 27 Japanese researchers. Some were fellows under JSPS’s “Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad” and “Research Fellowships for Young Scientists” programs and others were invited Japanese scientists doing research in the US.
The meeting began with remarks by San Francisco Office director Dr. Seishi Takeda. After a toast, time was given to allow the participants to engage in free conversation. The casual atmosphere made it easy for them to relax and get to know each other. The participants were then asked to introduce themselves and their research work. This added impetus to the conversation among them on such subjects as where and what they had researched and their experiences of living in the US and other countries. Following this time slot, talks were given by Prof. Katsumori Matsushima, The University of Tokyo, and Prof. Toshihiko Nishimura, Deputy Director, Tohoku University’s US Office, on the significance of doing research overseas and the importance of networking with Japanese colleagues. The young Japanese researchers were both motivated and encouraged by these messages based on the professors’ wealth of personal experience.
After Dr. Takeda closed the gathering with remarks, the participants continued lively talking, meeting the expectation of developing networks and contacts between the future researchers.
SLAC
日時： 2006年6月22日（木）10:00～19:00
訪問先： スタンフォード大学
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) 訪問
- Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)の招待で津田塾大学飯野正子学長の講演を傍聴
Georgetown University and the 11th “Science in Japan” Forum
１．期間： 平成１８年６月１５日（木）～６月１８日（日）
２．訪問先： 11th “Science in Japan” Forum at Omni Shoreham Hotel, Georgetown University
A Live Lecture to Osaka University Students in Japan
The director of the San Francisco Office, Dr. Seishi Takeda, will give a live lecture
(via TV Conference System) to Osaka University Students in Japan from Osaka University, San Francisco Office.
THEME:
Big Science and Global Cooperation
WHEN:
June 8th (Thursday), 2006 5:00pm – 6:30pm (PST)
= June 9th (Friday), 2006 9:00am -10:30am (JST)
June 15th (Thursday), 2006 5:00pm – 6:30pm (PST)
= June 16th (Friday), 2006 9:00am -10:30am (JST)
For more information on this event, please contact the JSPS San Francisco Office.
2006 APRU/AEARU Research Symposium
Earthquake Hazards around the Pacific Rim
Global Watch and Environmental Impact
The Westin St. Francis, Union Square, San Francisco, CA
April 21 (Friday) – 22 (Saturday), 2006
This symposium is APRU/AEARU’s 2nd Research Symposium hosted by Osaka University and UC Berkeley, and JSPS will support it. This is also linked to the 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference Commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. All the participants are required to be registered. For registration, or if you are interested in details, please see this site. http://www.osaka-u-sf.org/news3info.shtml
For Your Information
The program of the symposium
APRU Association of Pacific Rim Universities
AEARU Association of East Asia Research Universities
100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference Commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
JSPS represents at the 39th Annual Cherry Blossom Festival of Northern California
Date: April 15th . 16th (Saturday . Sunday) JSPS represented with Japan Pavilion
Exhibit, both days
April 22nd . 23rd (Saturday . Sunday)
Time: 11 A.M. . 5 P.M. daily
Place: Imperial Ballroom B . Radisson Miyako Hotel
San Francisco Japantown
JSPS/The University of Texas at Austin Joint Conference
“Interrogating Japan’s Soft Power”
Saturday, February 25, 2006
8:30am-5:30pm
The University of Texas at Austin
Dean’s Conference Room, GEB 3.312
Organized by:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, San Francisco Office
The University of Texas at Austin, Center for East Asian Studies
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the historical and contemporary avenues of Japan’s soft power. Departing from a narrow conception of soft power that focuses on popular culture, leading scholars of Japan and the US from a variety of disciplines have been invited to also explore the roles of aesthetics, narrative, religion, science and national branding in generating soft power for Japan. We will question the relationships among concepts like soft power, globalization and regionalism and will explore the mechanisms and agents of a variety of forms of Japanese soft power. There are four sessions and each session is composed of two panelists. Fifty minutes are allotted for each person, including a brief summary of the main ideas in the paper (10-15 minutes), comments on the paper by the “partner” in that session (5 – 10 minutes) and Q&A (remaining 25-35 minutes).
Program
| Saturday, February 25, 2006 | |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Coffee & Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00 – 8:45 | Welcoming Remarks by JSPS & UT |
| 8:45 – 10:25 | Session: Japan’s Aesthetic Influence Susan Napier, The University of Texas at Austin Differing Destinations: Orientalism, Soft Power and Cultural Identification in Anime Fandom Christine Guth, Stanford University The Woodblock Print as Cultural Impression |
| 10:25 – 10:40 | Coffee Break |
| 10:40 – 12:20 | Session: Religion and Soft Power Yamada Shoji, International Research Center for Japanese Studies Zen: An Imagined Soft Power William LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania Pulling Bioethics in a More Balanced Direction: International Attention to Japanese Concerns about Informed Consent |
| 12:20 – 1:50 | Lunch Break Boxed lunches served in conference room for Panelists Optional Tour of UT tower |
| 1:50 – 3:30 | Session: The Soft Power of Narrative William Tsutsui, University of Kansas The Prehistory of Soft Power: Godzilla, Cheese, and the American Consumption of Japan Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University Cyberpunk Japan, Avant-Pop America |
| 3:30 – 3:45 | Coffee Break |
| 3:45 – 5:25 | Session: Contemporary National Branding Anne Allison, Duke University J Cool in the Global Imagination Iwabuchi Koichi, Waseda University Uses of Media Culture: Beyond Brand Nationalism into Cultural Citizenship |
| 5:25 | Closing Remarks |
| 6:30 – 9:00 | Dinner for Panelists |
Columbia University / Princeton University
１．出張期間： 平成１８年１月２４日（水）～２７日（土）
２．目的：
- フェローシッププログラム等本会各種事業等紹介
- シンポジウム共同開催打診（日本研究）
- 国際交流分野を中心とする大学調査
３．訪問大学：
- コロンビア大学
- プリンストン大学
- ニューヨーク大学
Nanoscience and Quantum Physics University of California at Berkeley and Tokyo Institute of Technology Interdepartmental Symposium
Nanoscience and Quantum Physics
University of California at Berkeley and Tokyo Institute of Technology
Interdepartmental Symposium
JSPS supported the event – View the ABSTRACT
Boston University; Tufts University, Harvard University; MIT
１．期間 平成１７年１２月４日（日）～１０日（土）
２．目的
- 国際交流分野を中心とする大学調査
- フェローシッププログラム等本会各種事業紹介
- シンポジウム共同開催打診（日本研究）
３．訪問大学
- Boston University
- Tufts University
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
UCSB
１．出張期間： 平成１７年１１月２７日（日）～平成１７年１１月２９日（火）（３日間）
２．目的：カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校訪問調査
３．訪問先： カリフォルニア大学サンタバーバラ校
Visiting UCLA
１．期間 平成１７年１０月３０日（日）～１１月１日（火）
２．目的：カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校調査
３．訪問先 University of California, Los Angeles
（カリフォルニア大学ロサンゼルス校）
Interview at UC Davis
１．日時： 平成１７年１０月２１日（金）
２．目的：カリフォルニア大学デイビス校における組織戦略等に係るインタビュー調査
３．訪問先： カリフォルニア大学デイビス校
JSPS/University of British Columbia Joint Symposium
Experiences With and Within: Christians in Japan from the 16th Century to the Present Day
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Friday, September 23, 2005
9:00 am – 6:00 pm Asian Centre Auditorium University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
Saturday, September 24, 2005
9:30 am – 11:30 am Asian Centre Auditorium University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
Organized by:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, San Francisco Office
UBC, Institute for Asian Research’s Program in Religion and Public Policy
UBC, Asian Studies with support from President’s Advisory Committee on Lectures and the Faculty of Arts
The basic theme of this event is based on how the world has looked through individual Christian eyes, and how Christians have looked to non-Christians in Japan from the sixteenth century through the present day. Participants have been asked to prepare papers, which will be distributed in advance within the symposium. We expect to have a bound photocopy of the symposium papers available for purchase on September 23. Fifty minutes are assigned to each paper’s introduction by its author and subsequent discussion.
Program
| Friday, September 23 | |
| 8:15 am | Registration and complimentary refreshments |
| 9:00 am | Welcoming remarks |
| 9:15 am | First Panel: The Experiences of Japan’s Earliest Christians Presiding-Prof. Don Baker, Asian Studies, UBC The Confrarias and Lay Support for the Early Christian Church in Japan |
| 10:05 am | The Act of Apostasy Jurgis Elisonas, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University |
| 10:55 am | The Experiences of Individual Christians during Christianity’s Underground Years Peter Nosco, University of British Columbia |
| Midday | Exhibit of John Howes’ new book on Uchimura Kanzô, Asian Centre lobby, with refreshments |
| Lunch | Self-provided |
| 2:00 pm | Second Panel: 20th-Century Christians and the Japanese State Presiding-Prof. Julian Dierkes, Institute for Asian Research, UBC |
| 2:05 pm | Nitobe Inazo and the Sapporo Band: Reflections on the Dawning of Protestant Christianity in Meiji Japan George M. Oshiro, Obirin University |
| 2:55 pm | From the ‘Spirit of independence’ to National Theology: Rendering Protestant Thought at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Yosuke Nirei, Indiana University, South Bend |
| 3:45 pm | Kagawa Toyohiko: His Place in 20th-Century Japanese Society and Culture Mark Mullins, Sophia University |
| 4:45 pm | Reception, CK Choi Building, hosted by the Centre for Japanese Research |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner, Asian Centre Auditorium, ticket required |
| 7:30 pm | Uchimura Kanzô Keynote Address by John Howes, Emeritus, UBC |
| Saturday, September 24 | |
| 8:15 am | Complimentary refreshments, Asian Centre Auditorium |
| 9:30 am | Third Panel: Experiences With and Within Presiding-Prof. Peter Nosco, Asian Studies, UBC |
| 9:40 am | Japanese Immigrants and their Christian Communities in North America Ryo Yoshida, Doshisha University |
| 10:45 am | Roundtable discussion of the issues (all panelists), with audience questions and comments |
Please note: The events that begin Friday September 23rd and extend through noon of the 24th are free and open to the public, with the exception of the dinner and keynote address on the 23rd. Tickets for both the dinner and keynote address are available but only through advance purchase, and may be obtained by contacting the Department’s Administrator Maija Scott at maija@interchange.ubc.ca or 604 822-9266.
JSPS/CJS Joint Colloquium
The ‘Globalization’ of Japanese Studies: Southeast Asian Perspectives
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Colloquium: Friday, March 18, 2005
9:00 am – 6:00 pm Toll Room, Alumni House University of California at Berkeley |
Workshop: Saturday, March 19, 2005
9:00 am – 12:00 pm Seaborg Room, Faculty Club University of California at Berkeley (Invited participants only) |
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Organized by:
The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, San Francisco office Center for Japanese Studies, UCB |
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Japan’s relationship with the Asian continent has long been a subject of historical analysis, journalistic reportage, and impassioned political debate. In recent decades, Japan’s successful industrial development has brought increasing Japanese investment in East and Southeast Asia. Along with that investment has come a growing prominence of “Japanese Studies” as an intellectual resource for Asian societies hoping to use Japan as a model for their own industrial development. The success of several of these societies in achieving industrial growth has bolstered Japan’s relevance as a guide to “modernization,” yet also poses crucial questions for both Japan and its Asian neighbors as they negotiate the terms of their current relationship and interpret the events of their common past. The increasing influence of China in Asian affairs has also raised speculations–in Japan and elsewhere–of a diminishing role for Japan in Asia as its relative economic importance declines.
This conference seeks to examine “Japanese Studies” in its current global context, focusing in particular on Southeast Asia. Coming from a region still intensely concerned with matters of economic development, one situated between and affected by the competing ambitions of Japan and China, Southeast Asian views of and research on Japan are of increasing intellectual and political significance, and offer compelling perspectives on the themes that may come to define “Japanese Studies” in the coming decades. We anticipate that the symposium will go beyond an emphasis on Japan’s economic role and importance to address the complex relationship between Japan’s “hard” and “soft” power within the Southeast Asian region; namely, Japanese governmental and private efforts to promote the field of Japanese Studies in Southeast Asia, as well as the growing interest among Southeast Asian youth in Japanese “pop culture.” Our hope is to invite speakers from Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, the Philippines and the United States to reflect on the significance of an Asia-centered Japanese studies, and the alternatives it may offer to views of Japan that dominate contemporary Western scholarship.
Program
| 8:30 am | Complimentary Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Opening Remarks Isao Kiso, Executive Director, Japan Society for Promotion of Science Andrew Barshay, Chair, Center for Japanese Studies |
| 9:10 am | Session 1: The Political, Economic, and Diplomatic Context Introductory Remarks by T.J. Pempel, Director, Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley |
| 9:20 am | After the Capitalist Developmental State: What Can Be Gained by Casting a New Light on the Japanese Political Economy Nobuhiro Hiwatari, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo |
| 10:00 am | Japan-Southeast Asia Governmental Linkages and Diplomatic Relations Takashi Terada, Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore |
| 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:50 am | Japanese Contribution in Supporting China’s Reforms: A Study Based on ODA Loans Naohiro Kitano, Department of Economics, Kyoto University |
| 11:30 am | Indonesian Responses to Japanese Foreign Aid and Investment Annette Clear, Politics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 12:10 pm | Questions from the audience and discussion |
| 12:40 pm | Buffet Lunch |
| 1:30 pm | Session 2: Intellectual and Cultural Dimensions Introductory Remarks by Andrew Barshay, Chair, Center for Japanese Studies |
| 1:40 pm | Japan-Thai Trade and Cultural Relations Kitti Prasirtsuk, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Bangkok |
| 2:20 pm | The Future of Japanese Studies in the Philippines Lydia N. Yu Jose, Director, Japanese Studies Program, Ateneo de Manila University |
| 3:00 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:20 pm | The Institutional and Cultural Context of Japanese Studies in Singapore Simon Avenell, Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore |
| 4:00 pm | The Influence of Japanese Popular Culture in Southeast Asia Akio Igarashi, Department of Law, Rikkyo University |
| 4:40 pm | Questions from the audience, wrap-up discussion |
| 5:30 pm | Reception |
| March 19 9:00 am – 12:00 pm |
Follow-up Workshop |