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Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

2014-2016 Biennial Report

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University promotes research on Japan and brings together Harvard faculty, students, leading scholars from other institutions, and visitors to create one of the world’s leading communities for the study of Japan.

Our Goals • Cooperate with the Asia Center and other related programs at Harvard to increase the public’s understanding of Japan and Asia in the United States and abroad • Expand and enrich research and teaching on Japan throughout the University • Strengthen the ties between Harvard University and Japan

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies, South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Phone 617.495.3220 Fax 617.496.8083 Email rijs@fas.harvard.edu Website http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/

Contents About the Institute

Ties to the Community

Edwin O. Reischauer....................................................2 Home in CGIS.................................................................3 Director............................................................................4 Full Committee of the Institute...............................5 Faculty News..................................................................6 Executive Directorship...............................................7 Website............................................................................7

Building Networks on Campus............................. 52 Fostering Networks in the Community............. 53 Maintaining Ties Abroad........................................ 54 Associates in Research............................................. 56

Advancing Research in Japanese Studies Support for Faculty Research...................................8 Visiting Scholars......................................................... 10 Postdoctoral Fellows................................................ 11 Graduate Student Associates-in-Residence.... 11 Japan Forum............................................................... 12 Other Seminars.......................................................... 16 Japan Disasters Digital Archive............................ 17 Sanriku Project........................................................... 17 Constitutional Revision........................................... 19 Collaborative Study Projects................................. 21 Workshops, Conferences, Events & Symposia.... 23 Publications................................................................. 29 Program on U.S.-Japan Relations........................ 29 Harvardâ€™s Libraries.................................................... 30

Supporting Harvardâ€™s Educational Mission Programs for Harvard Undergraduates............. 32 Enrichment at Harvard............................................ 35 Undergraduate Japan Experience 2012-14..... 38 Support for Graduate Student Training............ 40 Graduate Research and Training 2012-14........ 42 Curriculum and Teaching....................................... 44 Courses on Japan at Harvard 2012-14............... 48

Administration

Abbreviation Key AC CGIS Davis DRCLAS EALC EAS Fairbank FAS GSAS GSD GSE HAA HBS HEAL HKS HSPH HYI HYL KI RI RSEA SAI USJRP VES WCFIA

Asia Center Center for Government and International Studies Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies East Asian Languages and Civilizations East Asian Studies (Undergraduate Concentration) Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Faculty of Arts and Sciences Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Graduate School of Design Graduate School of Education History of Art and Architecture Department Harvard Business School History and East Asian Languages (Ph.D. Concentration) Harvard Kennedy School Harvard School of Public Health Harvard-Yenching Institute Harvard-Yenching Library Korea Institute Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Regional Studies-East Asia (M.A. Program) South Asia Institute Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Visual and Environmental Studies Department Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

About the Institute The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, established in 1973 as the Japan Institute and renamed in 1985 to commemorate the retirement of Edwin O. Reischauer, is one of Harvard’s international and regional centers, all of which have a university-wide mandate. Administratively, the Institute reports to the FAS Dean. Since 1997, it has been part of Harvard’s Asia Center (AC), and coordinates closely with it and with other units associated with the AC. Members of the RI Executive Committee serve on the Executive Committee of the Asia Center and on its Steering Committee.

Edwin O. Reischauer October 1910-September 1990 Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was born and raised in Tokyo, the son of Presbyterian educational missionaries. At sixteen, he left Japan for Oberlin College, later taking up graduate work at Harvard where he studied East Asian history, including a five-year world study tour to Paris, Tokyo, Kyoto, and Beijing. He returned to Harvard in 1938 with his wife, Adrienne, received his Ph.D. in 1939, and taught in the Department of Far Eastern Languages until 1941, when the State Department and the Army recruited him to serve variously as a research analyst, organizer of Japanese language programs for the military, and translator of intercepted military intelligence. Returning to Harvard in 1946, Reischauer guided the development of a new curriculum in East Asian studies and began his career as a prolific writer. An article Reischauer wrote in 1960 analyzing current tensions between the U.S. and Japan caught the attention of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who appointed Reischauer as ambassador to Japan (1961-1966). Key to Reischauer’s ambassadorial outlook was the notion of “equal partnership” between Japan and America. He and his second wife, Haru Matsukata, whom he had married after Adrienne’s death in 1955, gave priority to their ties with ordinary Japanese citizens and were enthusiastically received. Returning to Harvard, from 1966 until his retirement in 1981 Reischauer continued to teach, write, and initiate myriad projects to enhance the U.S.-Japan relationship, including the establishment of the Japan Institute, later renamed in his honor. Edwin O. Reischauer, pictured here with his wife, Haru.

PHOTO BY ANDY RYAN

Home in CGIS Since 2005, the Reischauer Institute has been housed in the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), a complex designed to promote the crossing of boundaries and the forming of connections. RI shares the second floor of the CGIS South Building with the Korea Institute (KI) and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS). The Asia Center and many other Asia-related programs are nearby. Faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and staff greatly benefit from being a part of the dynamic international studies community at Harvard. The spaces in CGIS South provided to graduate student associates (GSAs), postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars promote interdisciplinary and cross-border interaction. Each floor of the four-story building has space with carrels assigned to graduate students affiliated with a regional studies institute and/or department. GSAs from different centers are mixed together, allowing for exciting intellectual exchange. RI postdoctoral fellows also share office space with â€œpostdocsâ€? from other centers who have similar disciplinary and substantive interests. The postdocs enjoy a broader intellectual environment, and those who study more than one Asian country benefit greatly from the proximity to other Asian studies programs. Occupying a shared space, RI visiting scholars also have the opportunity to exchange ideas on their various research topics, from comparative law to Edo-period painting, sports administration to religion.

Director Theodore C. Bestor, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies, currently serves as RI Director. A specialist on contemporary Japanese society and culture, his research concerns urban culture and history, markets and economic organization including supply chains, food culture, the fishing industry and the global environment, and popular culture. His current research focuses on Japanese food culture and, in particular, on the globalization of Japanese cuisine and its intense popularity throughout the world. This includes UNESCO’s recognition of Japan’s traditional cuisine (washoku) as an item of Global Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2013. Joining the Harvard faculty in 2001, Prof. Bestor chaired the Department of Anthropology from 2007-12 and served as the President of the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) in 2012-13. He was also the founding President of the Society for East Asian Anthropology. Before arriving at Harvard, he taught at Cornell University in the Department of Anthropology and Asian Studies from 1993-2001 and at Columbia University from 1986-93. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in Anthropology in 1983 and served as staff director for Japanese and Korean Studies at the Social Science Research Council immediately after receiving his degree. In June 2013, Prof. Bestor received the Commissioner’s Award for the Promotion of Japanese Culture from the Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Japanese government.

Committees of the Institute The Full Committee (FC) carries out RI’s core mission. The forty-nine member FC is composed of tenured professors, junior faculty, and emeritus faculty from across the University whose research and teaching relate to Japan, as well as the Japanese language faculty and librarians for the Japanese collections. The committee meets at least once annually and its members participate actively in RI activities and subcommittees. From the FC, sixteen tenured faculty compose the Executive Committee (EC)—the governing body of the Institute appointed by the FAS Dean. Membership recommendations for this committee are submitted annually to the Dean for approval. The EC meets four to six times a year to consider new initiatives, approve the annual budget, make formal and informal appointments, award fellowships and grants, and establish Institute policies and procedures.

The RI Full Committee 2014-16 Their names appear throughout this report. An (*) indicates members of the Executive Committee. During this time, RI has extended the Full Committee to include Theodore Gilman, Kuniko McVey, and David Odo. Ryūichi Abé, EALC* Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions

Ichiro Kawachi, HMS / HSPH Professor of Social Epidemiology

Theodore C. Bestor, Anthropology* Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies

Susumu Kuno, Linguistics Professor of Linguistics Emeritus

David R. Odo, Harvard Art Museum Director, Student Programs Research Curator of University Collections Initiatives Susan J. Pharr, Government* Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics

Mary C. Brinton, Sociology* Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology

Shigehisa Kuriyama, EALC* Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History Harvard College Professor

J. Mark Ramseyer, HLS* Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies

Albert M. Craig, EALC Harvard-Yenching Professor of History Emeritus

Yukio Lippit, HAA* Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Michael R. Reich, HSPH Taro Takemi Professor of International Health Policy

Edwin A. Cranston, EALC* Professor of Japanese Literature

Wakana Maekawa, EALC Drill Instructor in Japanese (2014-15) Preceptor in Japanese (2015-16)

James Robson, EALC Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

John M. Doyle, Physics Professor of Physics Theodore J. Gilman, WCFIA Executive Director of WCFIA Andrew D. Gordon, History* Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History Helen Hardacre, EALC* Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society Takao K. Hensch, Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Professor of Neurology, Children’s Hospital Howard S. Hibbett, EALC Victor S. Thomas Professor of Japanese Literature Emeritus David L. Howell, EALC* Professor of Japanese History Akira Iriye, History Charles Warren Professor of American History Emeritus Wesley M. Jacobsen, EALC* Professor of the Practice of the Japanese Language Director of the Japanese Language Program

Yumi Masui, EALC Drill Instructor in Japanese (2014-16) Yasuko Matsumoto, EALC Preceptor in Japanese Melissa McCormick, EALC* Professor of Japanese Art and Culture Harvard College Professor

Henry Rosovsky, Economics Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus Jay Rubin, EALC Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities Emeritus Ikue Shingu, EALC Preceptor in Japanese

Kuniko McVey, HYL Librarian for the Japanese Collection

Daniel M. Smith, Government Assistant Professor of Government

Ian J. Miller, History* Associate Professor of History

Hirotaka Takeuchi, HBS Professor of Management Practice

Masaru Mito, EALC Drill Instructor in Japanese (2015-16)

Karen L. Thornber, Comparative Literature* Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Takuma Miura, EALC Drill Instructor in Japanese (2014-16) Miki Miyagawa, EALC Drill Instructor in Japanese (2015-16) Toshiko Mori, GSD Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture Yuta Mori, EALC Drill Instructor in Japanese (2014-16)

Geoffrey G. Jones, HBS Isidor Straus Professor of Business History

Mark Mulligan, GSD Associate Professor in the Practice of Architecture

Yuko Kageyama-Hunt, EALC Senior Preceptor in Japanese

Haruka Nishimura, EALC Drill Instructor in Japanese (2015-16)

Ezra F. Vogel, Sociology Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus Miki Yagi, EALC Preceptor in Japanese (2014-16) Tomiko Yoda, EALC* Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities Michael Y. Yoshino, HBS Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration Emeritus Alexander Zahlten, EALC Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Faculty News Theodore C. Bestor on Washoku and Tsukiji During his sabbatical in 2014-15, Theodore Bestor conducted research on the globalization of Japanese food (washoku) and UNESCO’s recognition of washoku as an item of Global Intangible Cultural Heritage. Affiliated at the Nissan Institute at Oxford and in Japan on a Fulbright Senior Fellowship, he spoke at a number of conferences in the UK, France, and Japan. An expert on the Tsukiji market, with the prospect of the market’s relocation, Prof. Bestor was interviewed by many media in the U.S. and Japan and featured in a documentary, “Tsukiji Wonderland,” directed by Naotaro Endo. (See, for example, http://www. japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/07/23/films/new-documentary-tsukiji-fish-market-captures-essence-nationslively-kitchen/#.V-E4d4Wpm8U.) The film premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival and will be screened at Harvard in the fall of 2016. Mary C. Brinton featured in “Press Play with Madeleine Brand” Mary Brinton was interviewed for “Press Play with Madeleine Brand,” speaking on women in the workforce and recent statistical studies shown in Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In survey. More information at: http://www. kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/women-in-the-workplace-russell-brand-docand-bukowskis-house Andrew Gordon and Michael Reich awarded Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon On 5 November 2014 at the Imperial Palace in Japan, Emperor Akihito presented Andrew Gordon with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, given in recognition of his contribution to Japanese studies and promotion of mutual understanding between Japan and the U.S. On 29 April 2015, Michael Reich received the same honor from the Consul General of Japan in Boston for his outstanding contributions to public health and global public health policy in Japan. Melissa McCormick and Shigehisa Kuriyama named Harvard College Professors Dean Michael D. Smith of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences named Melissa McCormick (in June 2015) and Shigehisa Kuriyama (in May 2016) as Harvard College Professors. The professorship recognizes them for exceptional teaching at Harvard. Ian Miller chosen for New Directions Fellowship from Mellon Foundation In May 2016, Ian Miller received the Mellon New Directions Fellowship for his work on energy history. The fellowship is awarded to scholars whose research is interdisciplinary in nature and helps to facilitate work in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. Prof. Miller plans to use the three-year grant for research on: “Carbon and its Discontents: Japan in the Age of Global Energy.” Toshiko Mori featured in Wall Street Journal and inducted into American Academy of Arts and Sciences Toshiko Mori’s project, “Threads,” commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, established a community gathering space, performance center, and artists’ residency for a rural village in Senegal. The center was featured in the Wall Street Journal in March 2015. More about the project at: http://www. archdaily.com/608096/new-artist-residency-in-senegal-toshiko-mori. In a ceremony in October 2016, Prof. Mori was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies. Additionally in 2016, Prof. Mori served as the speaker for Class Day at the GSD.

Karen Thornber Recipient of Harvard Global Institute Grant and appointed Director of Harvard Asia Center Karen Thornber received funding from President Drew Faust and the Provost’s Office to lead the inaugural project of the newly established Harvard Global Institute. The funding will support development of a proposal for a five-year collaborative global project on environmental humanities and China with a focus on environmental health and climate change. Prof. Thornber was also appointed the new Victor and William Fung Director of the Asia Center, a position that includes serving as chair of Harvard’s Council on Asian Studies, beginning in July 2016. While she is on sabbatical leave during the 2016-17 academic year, Andrew Gordon will serve as director in her stead. Tomiko Yoda Recipient of Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award Tomiko Yoda was one of six recipients of the 2015 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, conferred by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Council. The award honors faculty who excel in providing support and guidance to graduate students in their research, education, and personal and professional development.

RI Executive Directorship Effective 1 July 2015, Theodore Gilman, RI’s Executive Director from 2005-2015, became Executive Director of Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. Dr. Gilman’s tenure at RI saw marked increases in the visibility and range of the activities of the Institute, not only within Harvard but also internationally. He played a critical role in coordinating Harvard’s response to the triple disasters of March 11, 2011, working with the student group Harvard for Japan and leading the effort with faculty and networks in Japan towards the creation of the Japan Disasters Digital Archive and the Sanriku Project. Gavin H. Whitelaw, Senior Associate Professor in Anthropology and Japan Studies at International Christian University in Tokyo, became RI’s new Executive Director, effective 1 July 2016. Prof. Whitelaw is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research interests focus on contemporary Japan, globalization, commerce, food ways, and material culture. During 2015-16, Assistant Director Stacie Matsumoto served as Interim Executive Director.

RI Website Established in 2005, the RI website provides an overview of the Institute’s faculty, scholars, and students; events and activities; grants and fellowships; and publications. Visit the website at: http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu.

Advancing Research Advancing in Japanese Research Studies Since its founding in 1973, the Reischauer Institute has sought to promote and support research on Japan in all fields and disciplines across the University. The Institute creates professorships to bring faculty to Harvard in fields that are new or not well represented and supports research of Harvard faculty. The research community it builds at Harvard includes not only faculty and students, but also leading visiting scholars, outstanding postdoctoral fellows who are selected in an international competition each spring, and, since 2005, graduate student associates-in-residence. RI organizes and/or sponsors collaborative projects, seminars, conferences, colloquia, and other research activities that contribute to the exchange of ideas. It maintains a dynamic publications program that has produced a number of prize-winning books, and supports the WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, which fosters social science research that bears on Japan’s role in the world and as an advanced industrial society. Finally, RI provides major support for the Japanese language collection in Harvard libraries and maintains the Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan.

Support for Faculty Research Professorships Over the past two decades, RI has played a leading role in building Harvard’s intellectual infrastructure for the study of Japan through creating professorships in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). No Japanese studies program in the world has done more to create or support new faculty positions. The positions are intended to be incremental, and are normally funded through the Institute’s endowment. Thus, the Institute has a great debt to its many friends in Japan who provided the Institute’s original endowment funding for the purpose of building Japanese studies at Harvard. Professorships funded by RI, and the faculty members currently appointed to each chair, are as follows:

›› Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics: Susan J. Pharr ›› Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History: Shigehisa Kuriyama ›› Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions: Ryūichi Abé ›› Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society: Helen Hardacre ›› Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Japanese Studies: Theodore C. Bestor ›› Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology: Mary C. Brinton ›› Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations: Alexander Zahlten ›› Assistant Professor of Government: Daniel M. Smith

Edwin O. Reischauer Professorship in Japanese Studies The terms of the Instituteâ€™s endowment provide for a professorship, named for Edwin O. Reischauer following his retirement in 1980, which is intended to contribute directly to faculty research and to the research and educational mission of the University. The professorship allows FAS senior faculty in Japanese studies to devote up to an academic year to full-time research at some point during their time at Harvard, and, normally in alternating years, supports the appointment of a leading scholar in Japanese studies as a visiting professor. Visiting professors divide their time between research and teaching; over a year they offer two courses, at least one a lecture course at the undergraduate level. In 2014-16, the following scholars served as the EOR Professors:

2014-15

William Johnston, Professor of History, East Asian Studies and Science in Society (Wesleyan University) Christine Yano, Professor of Anthropology (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

2015-16

Samuel Morse, Howard M. and Martha P. Mitchell Professor of Art and Art History (Amherst College) Brett Walker, Regents Professor of History (Montana State University)

Other Support for Faculty Research Like many other international and regional centers at Harvard, RI makes small grants available to junior and senior faculty to support their research. These small grants have contributed to a number of Harvard faculty membersâ€™ publications and courses. In addition, the Institute provides junior faculty in Japanese studies with support for one semesterâ€™s paid leave for research.

Visiting Scholars Visiting scholars are a vital part of the Japanese studies research community at Harvard. They collaborate with faculty or contribute directly to ongoing RI research endeavors; advise students and provide contacts for Harvard undergraduate and graduate students preparing to conduct research abroad; give lectures and/or speak in classes; and participate in seminars and other research activities. Their periods of stay vary widely from a few months to two years, with most staying for one academic year. The Institute provides a shared office for the use of these visitors. In 2014-15, the visiting scholars along with their universities and research topics were: Naofumi Fujimura, Kobe University Hideaki Hirata, Hosei University Motoi Katsumata, Meisei University Ting Jiang Li, Chuo University Jun Otahara, Doshisha University Yuichiro Shimizu, Keio University Yutaka Tanigawa, Kyoto University Yoshiko Uzawa, Keio University Gavin Whitelaw, International Christian University Masato Yamauchi, Hiroshima University of Economics Shingo Yano, Aoyama Gakuin University

Legislation and Electoral Policy in Japan Economic Impact of Japan’s 2011 Disasters Culture of Filial Piety and Western Perceptions Japanese Advisories in China, 1882-1945 History of the Japanese Motorcycle Industry Politicians and Bureaucrats in East Asia as Reformers Transnational History of Religion and Education: Meiji Japan, East Asia, and the West When East Met West: Japanese Cosmopolities’ Engagement with Japonism and Transnational Visions, 1880-1920 Seeds of Exchange: The Global Social Lives of Soybeans and Ginkgo Business History of Multinationals in Japan Cross-cultural Examination of Attitudes Toward Nature in Japan

In 2015-16, the visiting scholars along with their universities and research topics were: Wataru Kaminishi, Kokugakuin University Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto University Colin Smith, University of Hong Kong Shusuke Takahara, Kyoto Sangyo University Yasuko Takezawa, Kyoto University Yukihiro Tsukuda, Kwansei Gakuin University

Modern Thought History of Shinto from the Early Modern Period Japanese Religious Rituals from the Viewpoint of Shinto History Rethinking Japan’s Lost Decades and Lost Generation Japan’s Perception of Wilsonianism in a Global Perspective Global Study of Representations of Race Sexuality and Transculturation in Postwar Japanese Films

Student Host Program for Visiting Scholars The Institute seeks to integrate RI visiting scholars fully into the research community at Harvard and ensure that Harvard students who share their research interests have an opportunity to benefit from their stay. The Institute’s Student Host Program pairs students and visiting scholars based on these common interests. For 2014-16, the student hosts for visiting scholars were as follows: Naofumi Fujimura Hideaki Hirata Wataru Kaminishi Motoi Katsumata Takafumi Kurosawa Ting Jiang Li Jun Otahara Yuichiro Shimizu Shusuke Takahara Yutaka Tanigawa Yukihiro Tsukuda Yoshiko Uzawa Masato Yamauchi Shingo Yano

Chika Ogawa, Ph.D. candidate, Government Taro Tsuda, Ph.D. candidate, EALC/HEAL Dana Mirsalis, Ph.D. candidate, EALC Peter Bernard, Ph.D. candidate, EALC Jonas Rüegg, M.A. candidate, RSEA Taro Tsuda, Ph.D. candidate, EALC/HEAL Hirokazu Yoshie, Ph.D. candidate, EALC/HEAL Amin Ghadimi, Ph.D. candidate, EALC/HEAL Amin Ghadimi, Ph.D. candidate, EALC/HEAL Eric Swanson, Ph.D. candidate, EALC Joelle Tapas, Ph.D. candidate, EALC Shane Campayne, Harvard College ‘18, EAS/CS Subodhana Wijeyeratne, Ph.D. candidate, History Max Harrison, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology

Postdoctoral Fellows The RI Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which provides funding to 4-5 awardees in Japanese studies each year, is one of the oldest and most prestigious programs of its kind in the U.S. Former RI postdocs occupy leading positions in Japanese studies in universities around the world. Each year, a large pool of junior scholars in all fields and disciplines competes for awards. Applicants must be within five years of the doctorate to be considered, and most devote their year at Harvard to producing publishable work from their dissertations. The fellows participate fully in the Japanese studies research community at Harvard, are a resource for Harvard’s faculty and students, and at some point during their stay present their research in the Japan Forum series. RI also provides support to each postdoc to create an author’s conference for a day of discussion about his or her manuscript-in-progress, or other workshop, and for academic travel. In 2014-16, the RI postdoctoral fellows, along with their Ph.D. institution, year, field, and research topic, were: 2014-15

2015-16

Joshua Frydman Yale University, Pre-Modern Japanese Literature, 2014 Uta Mokkan: A History of Early Japanese Poetry Through Inscription

Ethan Bushelle Harvard University, Japanese Religion and Philosophy, 2015 The Joyous Dharma: Buddhist Ritual and Poetics in Medieval Japan

Noemi Godefroy INALCO, Pre-Modern Japanese History, 2013 Controlling Ezo-Power Struggles, Foreign Relations and Scholars’ Debates around the Japanese North from Heian to the Turn of the 19th Century

Michelle Damian USC, Pre-Modern Japanese History, 2015 Ships, Salt, and Sailors: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Medieval Japanese Seto Inland Sea

Andrew Levidis Kyoto University, Modern Japanese History, 2013 War Asianism and National Renovation: Kishi Nobusuke and the Politics of Conservatism, 1918-1944

Tristan Grunow University of Oregon, Modern Japanese History, 2014 Empire by Design: Railway, Architecture, and Urban Planning in Tokyo, Taipei, and Seoul

Joanna Sturiano Stanford University, Modern Japanese Literature, 2014 Community and Creativity in the “Revival of Writing by Women” in Modern Japan: Mapping an Early Shōwa Literary Network

Gabriele Koch University of Michigan, Anthropology, 2014 The Libidinal Economy of the Japanese Sex Industry: Sexual Politics and Female Labor

Graduate Student Associates-in-Residence The Institute provides carrels or other space to a small number of Harvard doctoral students completing their dissertations. These students are designated as graduate student associates (GSAs) of the Institute. In 2014-16, the following 11 Japanese studies students were designated as graduate student associates-in-residence. 2014-15

2015-16

Andrew Campana, EALC Shea Ingram, EALC Takum Kamada, Sociology Esra-Gokce Sahin, Anthropology Eric Swanson, EALC

Peter Bernard, EALC Amin Ghadimi, EALC/HEAL Ryan Glasnovich, EALC/HEAL Hansun Hsiung, EALC/HEAL Esra-Gokce Sahin, Anthropology Eric Swanson, EALC

Japan Forum The research community in Japanese studies assembles each Friday afternoon during term time for the Japan Forum, a series of research presentations by scholars in a variety of fields and disciplines. Each presentation has a Harvard faculty host and is followed by a reception at which faculty, students, and others have an opportunity to interact with the speaker and each other. A dinner for the speaker with a smaller number of interested Harvard faculty, students, and other guests follows. In addition, during 2010-12 the Institute began to host informal lunch gatherings with graduate students, depending on the speaker’s availability. Since 1974 the Institute has sponsored more than 730 Japan Forum talks. Listed in chronological order, the following are the 2014-16 presenters, along with their affiliations and topics:

2014-15 William Johnston, Harvard (EOR Visiting Professor ‘14-15); Wesleyan Cholera and the Shaping of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Japan Faculty host: David Howell Joshua Frydman, RI Postdoctoral Fellow Lost Palaces and Legendary Emperors: Ancient Osaka in the Early Japanese Imagination Faculty host: Edwin Cranston Reginald Jackson, Chicago Homosocial Intimacy and the Queer Texture of Mourning in the Tale of Genji Scrolls Faculty host: Karen Thornber Torquil Duthie, UCLA Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan Faculty host: Edwin Cranston

Patricia Boling, Purdue Work-Family Policies in Japan: Varied Responses to Low Fertility Faculty host: Mary Brinton Noemi Godefroy, RI Postdoctoral Fellow The Count Who Cried “Wolf!”: Benyowsky’s Warning and the Japanese Discovery of Russia Faculty host: David Howell Richard Samuels, MIT Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations Keigo Komamura, Keio Strategic Dilemmas: Constitutional Revision and Japanese Politics Faculty host: Helen Hardacre Edith Sarra, Indiana Architects of Wishful Thinking: Genji, His Women, and the Poetics of Heian Polygyny Faculty host: Melissa McCormick

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Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

Andrew Levidis, RI Postdoctoral Fellow The Conservatism of Japanese Radicals: Kishi Nobusuke, Kanokogi Kazunobu, and the Prewar Right Wing Faculty host: Daniel Smith Morgan Pitelka, UNC Chapel Hill Hunting for Power: Falconry and the Sixteenth-Century Unification of Japan Faculty host: David Howell Lee Pennington, U.S. Naval Academy Realigning Hirohito’s Broken Limbs: Wounded Servicemen and Wartime Japanese Society Faculty host: Ian Miller Joanna Sturiano, RI Postdoctoral Fellow How to be a “Perfect Left-Wing Lady”: Hirabayashi Taiko and Miyamoto Yuriko on Literature, Politics, and Gender in Postwar Japan Faculty host: Tomiko Yoda

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Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | Harvard University

R E I S C H A U E R I N S T I T U T E A N D W E A T H E R H E A D C E N T E R P R O G R A M O N U . S .- J A P A N R E L A T I O N S S P E C I A L S E R I E S O N P O S T- D I S A S T E R J A P A N

EDWIN O. REISCHAUER INSTITUTE of Japanese Studies Harvard University

FILM SCREENING

IN CONVERSATION WITH FILM DIRECTOR REGGE LIFE

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25 6:00 - 8:00 PM TSAI AUDITORIUM S010, JAPAN FRIENDS OF HARVARD CONCOURSE, CGIS SOUTH BLDG., 1730 CAMBRIDGE ST. This remarkable documentary offers a glimpse into the life of Taylor Anderson (JET Program, Miyagi prefecture, 2008-11), a young American woman who dedicated herself to teaching Japanese children, through in-depth personal accounts from her loved ones. Laced with emotional recollections, moving photographs and home movies which are as many bits of the wonderful puzzle that was her incredible existence, the film walks the viewer through Taylor’s 24 years on earth and untimely end caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011. In light of the tragedy, the film sends a message of hope for all to follow their hearts. [90 minutes. USA, 2012. BD.] About the Director: Regge Life has been making groundbreaking films for over two decades including the acclaimed Doubles: Japan and America’s Intercultural Children, and most recently Reason to Hope, which chronicles the events surrounding the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Photo: Tsunami sea wall in Onappe, Miyako city, July 2015 Photo courtesy of Koko Howell

USING THE JAPAN DISASTERS DIGITAL ARCHIVE IN THE CLASSROOM: OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION WITH TOHOKU UNIVERSITY Moderators: ANDREW GORDON, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University | AKIHIRO SHIBAYAMA, Associate Professor, IRIDeS and Director, Michinoku Shinrokuden Disaster

Archive, Tohoku University | SÉBASTIEN PENMELLEN BORET, Assistant Professor, IRIDes, Tohoku University

SEPTEMBER 25 (FRIDAY), 4:00-5:30 P.M.

Kang Room S050, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St. Harvard University Sponsored by the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) at Tohoku University and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University

N AT U R A L U N N AT U R A L D I SA S T E R S : AND

3/11, ASBESTOS, AND THE UNMAKING OF JAPAN’S MODERN WORLD BRET T L. WALKER

EDWIN O. REISCHAUER VISITING PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY & REGENTS PROFESSOR AND MICHAEL P. MALONE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY, BOZEMAN

JANUARY 29 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M. KANG ROOM S050, JAPAN FRIENDS OF HARVARD CONCOURSE CGIS SOUTH BLDG., 1730 CAMBRIDGE ST., HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio Transnational Black Humor: Somewhere between 9.11 and 3.11 Faculty host: Tomiko Yoda

William Hedberg, Arizona State Embracing the Marginal: Translation, National Identity, and Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Heian Japan Faculty host: Karen Thornber

Michelle Damian, RI Postdoctoral Fellow Geospatial Analysis of Maritime Trade in Medieval Japan Faculty host: David Howell

Ellis Krauss, UC San Diego The Abenigma: The Mysteries of Japan’s Foreign Policies under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Faculty host: Daniel Smith (co-sponsored by USJRP)

Ethan Bushelle, RI Postdoctoral Fellow The Afterlife of the Female Author: Genji Offerings and the Canonization of Murasaki Shikibu in Late Heian Japan Faculty host: Ryūichi Abé

Barbara Ambros, UNC Chapel Hill Rite of Their Own: Japanese Buddhist Nuns and the Anan Kōshiki Faculty host: Helen Hardacre (co-sponsored by Harvard Buddhist Studies)

Adrian Favell, Sciences Po The 1990s Tokyo Art Scene: From Simulationism to Social Art Faculty host: Yukio Lippit

Gabriele Koch, RI Postdoctoral Fellow Producing Iyashi: Healing and Labor in Tokyo’s Sex Industry Faculty host: Theodore Bestor

Michele Mason, Univ. of Maryland Novel Ways of Rewriting Colonial Hokkaido: Ikezawa Natsuki’s A Quiet Land Faculty host: Karen Thornber

Simon Partner, Duke Small Town, Big Dreams: Yokohama Merchants in the 1860s Faculty host: Ian Miller Thomas Pellard, National Center for Scientific Research in France The Ryukyuan Languages: A Window on the History of the Japanese Archipelago Faculty host: Wesley Jacobsen

2015-16 Helen Hardacre, Harvard Current Debate on Constitutional Revision in Japan Faculty host: Theodore Bestor (co-sponsored by USJRP) David Desser, Univ. of Illinois Superstar Misora Hibari: Gender Impersonation, Stardom, and Postwar Japanese Culture Faculty host: Alexander Zahlten

R E I S C H A U E R I N S T I T U T E O F J A PA N E S E S T U D I E S W E AT H E R H E A D C E N T E R P R O G R A M O N U . S . - J A PA N R E L AT I O N S H A RVA R D U N I V E R S I T Y

SPECIAL SERIES ON POST-DISASTER JAPAN

William Fleming, Yale Japanese Students Abroad and the Dawn of Japanese Studies in the United States Faculty host: Edwin Cranston Tristan Grunow, RI Postdoctoral Fellow “Cultured Streets” and “Civilized Cities”: Japanese Colonial Expansion and Urban Development in Tokyo, Taipei, and Seoul Faculty host: Andrew Gordon (co-sponsored by USJRP and KI) Josepha Hankins, UC San Diego Of Sympathy and Solidarity: Japanese Buraku, South Asian Dalit, and Grassroots Politics across National Boundaries Faculty host: Mary Brinton (co-sponsored by USJRP and SAI) Jay Rubin, Harvard Book Talk: Cats, Vanishing Women, and the Sun Gods Faculty host: Edwin Cranston

Robert Hellyer, Wake Forest Tea and Meiji Japan: A Transpacific History Faculty host: Shigehisa Kuriyama David Slater, Sophia Crucifixions Revisited: The Legacy of Hideyoshi’s Tableau Mourant Faculty host: Tomiko Yoda Peter Kornicki, Cambridge Leeches, Prohibited Foods, and Suspicious Deaths: Vernacular Knowledge in Pre-modern Japan Faculty host: David Howell Masayoshi Shibatani, Rice (Numeral) Classifiers and Nominalization in Japanese and World Languages Faculty host: Wesley Jacobsen Joshua Fogel, York Friendship in a Time of War: Lu Xun and Uchiyama Kanzō Faculty host: David Howell

J A PA N F O R U M

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | JAPAN FORUM Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations Harvard University

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | Harvard University

R E I S C H A U E R I N S T I T U T E A N D W E A T H E R H E A D C E N T E R P R O G R A M O N U . S .- J A P A N R E L A T I O N S S P E C I A L S E R I E S O N P O S T- D I S A S T E R J A P A N

Special Series on JapaN's 2011 Disasters

3.11

DISASTERS FIVE YEARS LATER

E A R T H Q U A K E | T S U N A M I | N U C L E A R M E LT D O W N I N J A PA N

Nuclear Ghosts: Contamination and Containment in Post-3/11 Coastal Fukushima

R E S E A R C H B O R N E F R O M T H E M A R C H 2 0 1 1 D I S A S T E R S I N J A PA N COASTAL FISHERIES AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN FUKUSHIMA SATSUKI TAKAHASHI Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Michigan and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, George Mason University

NETWORK CRISIS ARCHIVING: FROM FIRST RESPONSE TO REMEMBRANCE KYLE PARRY

RReischauer Y OInstitute M Postdoctoral O R I MFellowO T O (Ph.D. Anthropology, Brandeis University, 2016)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Visual and Cultural Studies and Digital Humanities Center University of Rochester

COMMUNITY RECONSTRUCTION AND RESILIENCE IN THE TOHOKU REGION ANDREW LITTLEJOHN PhD candidate in Social Anthropology, Harvard University

Moderator: T H E O D O R E C . B E S T O R , Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Director, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University

JONATHAN ABEL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENTS OF ASIAN STUDIES AND C O M PA R AT I V E L I T E R AT U R E, P E N N S Y LVA N I A S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y

MARCH 11, 2016 (FRIDAY) 4:00 – 5:30 PM

BELFER CASE STUDY ROOM S020 | JAPAN FRIENDS OF HARVARD CONCOURSE CGIS SOUTH BLDG., | 1730 CAMBRIDGE ST. | HARVARD UNIVERSITY Image: “Miracle” pine tree. This 250-year pine tree - now restored as a monument - was the only tree among 70,000 left standing in the coastline of the town of Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, following the 2011 disasters. The tree initially survived the disasters but was removed in 2012 after its roots died from exposure to salt water.

CRITICAL DIGITAL HUMANISM AND JAPANESE TWITTERATURE AFTER 3/11

April 22 (Friday) 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Porté Room S250, Second Level CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St. Harvard University

FEBRUARY 12 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M. KA N G RO O M S050, J A PA N F R I E N D S O F H A RVA R D CO N CO U R S E C G I S S O U T H B L D G ., 1730 C A M B R I D G E S T., H A R V A R D U N I V E R S I T Y

For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

J A PA N F O R U M

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

J A PA N F O R U M

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

HUNTING F O R P OW ER :

FALCONRY AND THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY UNIFICATION OF JAPAN

Man’yōshū

and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan

MORGAN PITELKA

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ASIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations

Harvard University

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs

F E B R UA RY 2 0 , 2 0 1 5 ( F R I DAY ) 4 : 0 0 - 5 : 3 0 P. M .

PORTÉ ROOM (S250), SECOND LEVEL

JAPAN FORUM

J A PA N F O R U M

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

CGIS SOUTH BUILDING, 1730 CAMBRIDGE ST., HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Torquil Duthie

Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures UCLA

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies H A R VA R D U N I V E R S I T Y

SMALL TOWN, BIG DREAMS:

YOKOHAMA MERCHANTS IN THE 1860S

S I M O N PA RT N E R

STRATEGIC DILEMMAS:

P R O F E S S O R O F H I S T O RY, D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y

Constitutional Revision and Japanese Politics

A P R I L 1 7 , 2 0 1 5 ( F R I D AY ) 4 : 0 0 - 5 : 3 0 P. M .

OCTOBER 17, 2014 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M.

K A N G RO O M ( S 0 5 0 ) , JA PA N F R I E N D S O F H A RVA R D C O N C O U R S E C G I S S O U T H BU I L D I N G, 1 7 3 0 C A M B R I D G E S T R E E T

Kang Room (S050), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University

H A RVA R D U N I V E R S I T Y

Image: Yokohama kaigan Nakadōri shōkan han ei no zu by Kuniteru II (1830-1874) Source: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution | Digital access: MIT Visualizing Cultures

The Japan Forum is sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

THE JAPAN FORUM IS SPONSORED BY THE EDWIN O. REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

FOR LIST OF HARVARD JAPAN EVENTS VIEW, HTTP://RIJS.FAS.HARVARD.EDU/PROGRAMS/CALENDAR.PHP OR CONTACT RIJS@FAS.HARVARD.EDU OR 617.495.3220.

TRANSNATIONAL BLACK HUMOR: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN

For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

9.11 AND 3.11 TAKAYUKI TATSUMI

PANELISTS

RICHARD J. SAMUELS

Ford International Professor of Political Science & Director, Center for International Studies, MIT

KEIGO KOMAMURA Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University

SHEILA A. SMITH

Senior Fellow for Japan Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

PROFESSOR, FACULTY OF LETTERS, KEIO UNIVERSITY

November 14, 2014 (Friday) 4:00-6:00 p.m. Belfer Case Study Room (S020), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Harvard University

MODERATOR

JAPAN FORUM

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

MARCH 31, 2015 (TUESDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M.

For more information contact the Reischauer Institute at rijs@fas.harvard.edu or (617) 495-3220. For more information on the Constitutional Revision in Japan Research Project, view: http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/crrp

HELEN HARDACRE

Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society and Director, Constitutional Revision in Japan Research Project, Harvard University

Image: Emperor Hirohito promulgates the new constitution of Japan in the Chamber of Peers at the Diet Building in Tokyo, 1946. Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru (on the lower dais) turns to face the emperor who proclaims the sovereignty of the people and the renunciation of armed forces.

PORTÉ ROOM (S250), SECOND LEVEL, CGIS SOUTH BUILDING, 1730 CAMBRIDGE STREET, HARVARD UNIVERSITY JAPAN FORUM

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

J A PA N F O R U M

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies H A R VA R D U N I V E R S I T Y

THE RYUKYUAN LANGUAGES: A W I N D O W O N T H E H I S T O RY O F T H E J A PA N E S E A R C H I P E LA G O

THOMAS PELLARD F R E N C H N AT I O N A L C E N T R E F O R SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

WORK-FAMILY POLICIES IN JAPAN:

VARIED RESPONSES TO LOW FERTILITY PATRICIA A. BOLING ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCE PURDUE UNIVERSITY

FRIDAY OCTOBER 24, 2014 4:00 - 5:30PM

PORTÉ ROOM (S250), SECOND LEVEL CGIS SOUTH BUILDING 1730 CAMBRIDGE STREET

J A PA N F O R U M

ARCHITECTS OF WISHFUL THINKING:

GENJI, HIS WOMEN, AND THE POETICS OF HEIAN POLYGYNY EDITH SARRA

Co-Sponsored by the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES INDIANA UNIVERSITY

J A PA N F O R U M

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

REALIGNING HIROHITO’S BROKEN LIMBS:

A P R I L 24, 2015 ( F R I D AY ) 4:00-5:30 P.M. Kang Room (S050), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building,

Wounded Servicemen and Wartime Japanese Society

1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University

Professor of History United States Naval Academy LEE PENNINGTON Associate

FEBRUARY 27, 2015 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M. KANG ROOM (S050) NOVEMBER 21, 2014 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M. Kang Room (S050), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Harvard University

JAPAN FRIENDS OF HARVARD CONCOURSE, CGIS SOUTH BUILDING, 1730 CAMBRIDGE STREET, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220. Image credit: Catherine Lane via iStockphoto

THE ABENIGMA:

The Mysteries of Japan’s Foreign Policies under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

ELLIS S. KRAUSS

Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

APRIL 3, 2015 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M.

Kang Room (S050), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Harvard University

The Japan Forum is sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

CO-SPONSORED BY THE WEATHERHEAD CENTER PROGRAM ON U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS

For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact

JAPAN FORUM

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

JAPAN FORUM

rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

HOW TO BE A

THE COUNT WHO CRIED ‘WOLF!’:

‘Perfect Left-Wing Lady’:

BENYOWSKY’S WARNING AND THE JAPANESE DISCOVERY OF RUSSIA

HIRABAYASHI TAIKO & MIYAMOTO YURIKO ON LITERATURE, POLITICS, AND GENDER IN PREWAR JAPAN

NOÉMIE GODEFROY

JOANNA STURIANO

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW (Ph.D. Japanese Language and History, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) 2013)

Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Japanese Literature, Stanford University, 2014)

November 7, 2014 (Friday) 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Kang Room (S050), Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., Harvard University

JAPAN FORUM

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

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THE CONSERVATISM OF JAPANESE RADICALS:

KISHI NOBUSUKE, KANOKOGI KAZUNOBU, AND THE PREWAR RIGHT WING

ANDREW LEVIDIS The Japan Forum is sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Japanese History, Kyoto University, 2013)

For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

OCTOBER 10-11, 2014 Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University Kang Room S050, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street

MARCH 6, 2015 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M.

Sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science「日本学術振興会科学研究費基盤研究A」 and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University

PORTE ROOM (S250), SECOND LEVEL, CGIS SOUTH BUILDING 1730 CAMBRIDGE STREET, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

IMAGE: Illustrated History of the Yûzû-nembutsu Sect (Yûzû-nembutsu engi), Vol. II. Artist: Monk Musashi Hogen. Date: Muromachi period. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Hofer Collection of the Printed and Graphic Arts of Asia in honor of Mathias Komor, 1973.68.2. PHOTO: Courtesy of Handa Kyuseido Co., Ltd.

THE JAPAN FORUM IS SPONSORED BY THE EDWIN O. REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

FEBRUARY 6, 2015 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M.

FOR LIST OF HARVARD JAPAN EVENTS VIEW, HTTP://RIJS.FAS.HARVARD.EDU/PROGRAMS/CALENDAR.PHP OR CONTACT RIJS@FAS.HARVARD.EDU OR 617.495.3220.

KANG ROOM (S050), JAPAN FRIENDS OF HARVARD CONCOURSE CGIS SOUTH BUILDING, 1730 CAMBRIDGE ST.

SCENE: OKYO AtRoTSocial Art T s 0 9 9 1 THE lationism From Simu

LL ADRIAN FAVE

Professor

CULTURAL HERITAGE IN RELIGION: ITS MEANING AND PRESERVATION 「人類の思想的営みとしての宗教遺産の形成に関する総合的研究 ― 宗教遺産学の構築に向けて― 」の研究成果報告シンポジウム

of Sociology,

Sciences Po

15 (Friday) April 10, 20 rse . ard Concou nds of Harv , Harvard University 4:00-5:30(S05p.m 0), Japan Frie Street Kang Room ing, 1730 Cambridge Build CGIS South Makoto Aida Azemichi by :

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http://rijs.fas.h events view, Harvard Japan or 617.495.3220. For list of rd.edu s@fas.harva contact rij

IMAGE CREDIT

WORKSHOP & EXHIBITION PREVIEW: teamLab @ Radcliffe: What a Loving and Beautiful World

JA PA N FO RU M Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | Harvard University

International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | JAPAN FORUM Harvard University

G E O S PAT I A L A NA LYS I S O F MARITIME TRADE I N M E D I E VA L JA PA N M I C H E L L E DA M I A N

Photograph from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

October 14 (Wednesday) 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Byerly Hall, 8 Garden St. (in Radcliffe Yard) Meet the artists and engineers of teamLab, a collaborative, interdisciplinary group of “ultra-technologists” widely recognized as one of Japan’s most versatile and experimental artistic groups. They work with light and video projections, air movement, floating forms, abstract but culturally resonant images and texts to achieve a balance between art, science, technology and creativity. View: http://www.team-lab.net/all.

From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs An exhibition of photographs in conjunction with the publication of:

The workshop will feature presentations by Yukio Lippit (Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts, Radcliffe Institute & Prof. of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard) and teamLab led by Toshiyuki Inoko (founder), Takashi Kudo (manager), and Ikkan Sanada (artistic director) followed by a viewing of the interactive gallery exhibition and a reception.

THE 22ND NICHIBUNKEN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

THE LOST TWO DECADES AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF JAPANESE SOCIETY

失われた20年と日本社会の変容 NOVEMBER 13, 2015 9:00 am – 5:30 pm PRESENTERS:

THEODORE C. BESTOR Harvard University

SHIGEMI INAGA Nichibunken

From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs

ANDREW GORDON Harvard University

EMIKO OCHIAI Kyoto University

MARY C. BRINTON Harvard University

DAVID LEHENY Princeton University

David Odo, author and curator

SHOICHI INOUE Nichibunken

TORU SHINODA Waseda University

MARGARITA ESTÉVEZ-ABE Syracuse University

HIROMU NAGAHARA MIT

TAKEHIKO KARIYA University of Oxford

KAZUHIRO TAKII Nichibunken

ANDREW GORDON Harvard University

SUSAN J. PHARR Harvard University

HIROYUKI KITAURA Nichibunken

SHIGEKI UNO The University of Tokyo

AYAKO KUSUNOKI Nichibunken

SHOJI YAMADA Nichibunken

CGIS South Building, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, Har vard University, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA Reception and book signing, Thursday, September 10, 2015, 4:15 p.m. Sponsored by the Peabody Museum of Archaeolog y & Ethnolog y at Har vard University, t h e H a r v a r d U n i ve r s i t y A s i a C e n t e r, a n d t h e R e i s c h a u e r I n s t i t u t e o f J a p a n e s e S t u d i e s

J A PA N F O R U M

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University

CURRENT DEBATE ON CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION IN JAPAN HELEN HARDACRE Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University

J A PA N F O R U M

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | Harvard University

NANYAN GUO Nichibunken

MASAYOSHI SHIBATANI DEEDEE MCMURTRY PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES AND PROFESSOR OF LINGUISTICS, RICE UNIVERSITY

APRIL 8 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M. Porté Room S250, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Bldg. 1730 Cambridge St., Harvard University

J A PA N F O R U M Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | Harvard University

For more information please contact the Reischauer Institute at 617.495.3220 or rijs@fas.harvard.edu

P R O D U C I N G

Iyashi:

MODERATORS & COMMENTATORS: SATOSHI MACHIDORI Kyoto University

June 22 - September 27, 2015

FEBRUARY 19 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M. Po r t é Ro o m S 2 5 0 , S e c o n d L e ve l , C G I S S o u t h B l d g . , 17 3 0 C a m b r i d g e S t . , H a r v a rd Un i ve r s i t y

Belfer Case Study Room S020, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University

IAN CONDRY MIT

The Journey of “A Good Type”

Reischauer Institute Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. History, University of Southern California, 2015)

J A PA N F O R U M

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | Harvard University

HEALING AND LABOR IN TOKYO’S SEX INDUSTRY

Rite of Their Own:

J A PA N E S E B U D D H I S T N U N S A N D THE ANAN KŌSHIKI BARBARA AMBROS

P ro f e s s o r o f E a s t A s i a n R e l i g i o n s , U n i v e r s i t y o f N o r t h C a ro l i n a , C h a p e l H i l l

F E B R U A RY 2 6 ( F R I D AY ) 4 : 0 0 - 5 : 3 0 P. M .

! it y n a ah hu m

Porte Room S250, Second Level, CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St. Harvard University

GABRIELE KOCH Re i s ch a u e r I n s t i t u t e Po s t d o c t o r a l Fe l l ow ( P h . D. A n t h r o p o l o g y, U n ive r s i t y o f M i ch i g a n , 2 0 1 4 )

September 11, 2015 (Friday) 4:00-5:30 p.m. Kang Room (S050) | Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Building | 1730 Cambridge Street | Harvard University

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

OCTOBER 23 (FRIDAY) 4 : 0 0 - 5 : 3 0 P. M . K A N G R O O M S 0 5 0 , J A PA N F R I E N D S O F H A R VA R D C O N C O U R S E C G I S S O U T H B L D G. , 1 7 3 0 C A M B R I D G E S T. , H A R VA R D U N I V E R S I T Y C O - S P O N S O R E D B Y T H E W E A T H E R H E A D C E N T E R P R O G R A M O N U. S . - J A PA N R E L A T I O N S

APRIL 13 (WEDNESDAY) 6:00 – 7:30 P.M.

“ C U LT U R E D S T R E E T S ”

BELFER CASE STUDY ROOM (S020) | JAPAN FRIENDS OF HARVARD CONCOURSE CGIS SOUTH BUILDING | 1730 CAMBRIDGE ST. | HARVARD UNIVERSITY

and

“CIVILIZED CITIES”:

“Ah humanity!” is a large-scale audio-video installation on view from

J A PA N E S E C O L O N I A L E X PA N S I O N a n d

April 10 (Sunday) – April 16 (Saturday) from 8:0010:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Harvard University

U R B A N D E V E L O P M E N T i n T O K Y O , TA I P E I ,

Committee on the Arts the installation will feature a single channel of video projected onto

and SEOUL

the façade of the Harvard Science Center and four channels of sound projected into the Plaza.

T R I S TA N G R U N O W

T h e J a p a n F o r u m i s s p o n s o r e d b y t h e E d w i n O. R e i s c h a u e r I n s t i t u t e o f J a p a n e s e S t u d i e s a t H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y. F o r l i s t o f H a r v a r d J a p a n e v e n t s v i e w, h t t p : / / r i j s . f a s . h a r v a r d . e d u / p r o g r a m s / c a l e n d a r . p h p o r c o n t a c t r i j s @ f a s. h a r va r d . e d u o r 6 1 7 . 4 9 5 . 3 2 2 0 .

Taking the 3/11/11 disaster of Fukushima as

R E I S C H A U E R I N S T I T U T E P O S T D O C T O R A L F E L L O W, ( P H . D . H I S T O R Y, U N I V E R S I T Y O F O R E G O N 2 0 1 4 )

its point of departure, “Ah humanity!” evokes an apocalyptic vision of modernity, and our predilection for historical amnesia and futuristic flights of fancy. The images were shot on a

N O V E M B E R 2 0 ( F R I D AY ) 4 : 0 0 - 5 : 3 0 p . m .

telephone through a handheld telescope, at once close to and far from its subject, while the

K A N G R O O M S 0 5 0 , J A PA N F R I E N D S O F H A R VA R D C O N C O U R S E

audio composition combines empty excerpts from

C G I S S O U T H B L D G . , 1 7 3 0 C A M B R I D G E S T. , H A R VA R D U N I V E R S I T Y

J A PA N F O R U M Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

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Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and the Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations The Japan Forum is sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

JAPANESE STUDENTS ABROAD and the DAWN OF JAPANESE STUDIES in the UNITED STATES

Japanese genbaku (atomic bomb) and related film

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ROUNDTABLE PANELISTS: YUKIO LIPPIT, Professor of History of Art and Architecture & Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University KAREN L. THORNBER, Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University REIKO YAMADA, Composer and Sound Artist & Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University

COMMENTARY BY ARTISTS: ERNST KAREL, Lecturer on Anthropology, Manager of the Sensory Ethnography Lab, and Assistant Director, Film Study Center at Harvard VÉRÉNA PARAVEL, Anthropologist and Filmmaker, Sensory Ethnography Lab LUCIEN CASTAING-TAYLOR, Professor of Visual Arts and Anthropology, Harvard

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Moderated by: THEODORE C. BESTOR, Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

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and location sound. “Ah humanity!” reflects on the fragility and folly of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene.

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The Roundtable Discussion will be followed by a reception after which guests are invited to experience the installation on the Science Center Plaza. Sponsored by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Harvard University Committee on the Arts with the support of Digital Arts and Humanities (DARTH) at Harvard, and the Harvard University Asia Center. More information please contact rijs@fas.harvard. edu or (617) 495-3220

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WILLIAM FLEMING

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TEA AND MEIJI JAPAN:

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A Transpacific History

GENDER IMPERSONATION, STARDOM, AND POSTWAR JAPANESE CULTURE

ROBERT HELLYER

OF S YMPATHY AND SOLIDARIT Y

DAVID DESSER

EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CINEMA STUDIES AND COMPARATIVE AND WORLD LITERATURES, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015 (FRIDAY) 4:00-5:30 P.M. KANG ROOM (S050), JAPAN FRIENDS OF HARVARD CONCOURSE

J A PA N E S E B U R A K U , S O U T H A S I A N D A L I T, AND GRASSROOTS POLITICS ACROSS N AT I O N A L B O U N D A R I E S

Associate Professor of History, Wake Forest University

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JOSEPH HANKINS

Image: Tea Plantation in Ashikubo, Japan, ca. 1907 Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-69409

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

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DECEMBER 4 (FRIDAY) | 4:15 TO 5:45 P.M.

FOR LIST OF HARVARD JAPAN EVENTS VIEW, HTTP://RIJS.FAS.HARVARD.EDU/PROGRAMS/CALENDAR.PHP OR CONTACT RIJS@FAS.HARVARD.EDU OR 617.495.3220.

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North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources

WORKSHOP Advancing Digital Scholarship in Japanese Studies: Innovations and Challenges

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H A RVA R D U N I V E R S I T Y Co-sponsored by the South Asia Institute and Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations The Japan Forum is sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

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SPECIAL SERIES ON JAPAN’S 2011 DISASTERS

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Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies | Harvard University

NOVEMBER 6 - 7, 2015 Belfer Case Study Room S020 Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Building 1730 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Harvard University

PANELS: The Digital Landscape: Geographic Information Systems for Humanists

BECOMING POLITICAL:

Innovations and Research in the Social Sciences How to Build a Digital Image Collection: Examples from the East Asia Image Collection at Lafayette College and Manchuguo Collection in the Harvard-Yenching Library

The Afterlife of the Female Author: G E N J I O F F E R I N G S A N D T H E C A N O N I Z AT I O N O F M U R A S A K I S H I K I B U I N L AT E H E I A N J A PA N

Ethan Bushelle

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YOUTH ACTIVISM IN POST-3/11 JAPAN

Creating and Sustaining Image Collections & Databases Over Time The Infrastructural Underpinnings of Digital Scholarship

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Digital Archiving in Real Time Transnational Issues in Intellectual Property and Digital Resources Digital Arts & Humanities at Harvard Workshop registration: vbestor@nccjapan.net The Advancing Digital Scholarship in Japanese Studies: Innovations and Challenges Workshop is organized by NCC with the assistance of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. NCC gratefully acknowledges support from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, the Toshiba International Foundation, and the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in sustaining its programs.

CATS,VANISHING WOMEN, AND THE SUN GODS JAY RUBIN

Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities Emeritus, Harvard University

Images: Manchuguo Collection in the Harvard-Yenching Library

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Kang Room S050, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse CGIS South Bldg., 1730 Cambridge St., Harvard University For list of Harvard Japan events view, http://rijs.fas.harvard.edu/programs/calendar.php or contact rijs@fas.harvard.edu or 617.495.3220.

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Other Seminars Each year the Institute organizes and/or sponsors a variety of seminars and lectures on topics related to Japan. A number of these events are co-sponsored with other departments and centers, as indicated below.

2014-15 Alexis Dudden, Univ. of Connecticut Japan's Trouble with Islands: Law, Territory, and History Faculty host: Susan Pharr (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by KI & RI) Nicolas Sternsdorff Cisterna, USJRP Postdoctoral Fellow Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan Faculty host: Susan Pharr (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by Dept. of Anthropology and RI) Christine Yano, Harvard (EOR Visiting Professor â€˜14-15); Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty's Trek across the Pacific Faculty host: Susan Pharr (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by RI)

Dennis Lee, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard The Significance of "Korean" Keyhole-shaped Tombs in the Study of Early "Korean-Japanese" Relations Faculty host: Mark Byington (KI Korea Colloquium co-sponsored by Dept. of Anthropology/East Asian Archaeology Seminar Series and RI) Hyon-sob Kim, HYI Visiting Scholar, Korea Univ. Nurturing the Unconscious/Naturalizing the Uncanny: Terunobu Fujimori Architecture and Post-Apocalyptic Symbolism Faculty host: Melissa McCormick (HYI lunch talk co-sponsored by RI) Atsushi Seike, President, Keio Japan's Aging Society and the Role of Higher Education Faculty host: J. Mark Ramseyer (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by RI)

Hideaki Hirata, RI Visiting Scholar, Hosei Economic Regulation and Globalization in Emerging Asia: Why Do Business Cycles and Stock Prices Synchronize Across Countries? (AC Modern Asia Seminar Series co-sponsored by RI) Joshua Pilzer, Toronto Sounding Korea's Hiroshima: Song and Verbal Art among Korean Radiation Sufferers Faculty host: Nicholas Harkness (KI Korea Colloquium co-sponsored by RI) Albert Park, Claremont McKenna Decentering the Urban: Reclaiming Rural Space for Modern Living in Colonial Korea and After Faculty host: Paul Chang (KI Korea Colloquium co-sponsored by RI) Anna Lora-Wainwright, Oxford E-Waste Regimes in China and Japan: "Scalvagers" and Environmental Justice (AC Modern Asia Seminar Series co-sponsored by RI)

2015-16 David Odo, Harvard Art Museums The Journey of "A Good Type": From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs (Peabody Museum gallery talk and book signing co-sponsored by AC and RI) David Odo, Harvard Art Museums Souvenir, Art, or Anthropology? (Peabody Museum lecture and book signing co-sponsored by AC and RI) Theodore Bestor, Harvard Washoku on the World Stage: UNESCO and the Promotion of Japanese Cuisine Faculty Host: Susan Pharr (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by RI) Chikao Tanabe, AC Senior Fellow, Kyoto Gakuen Tenjin Worship and the Origins of Japanese Emphasis on Education Faculty host: Mark Byington (AC presentation co-sponsored by RI)

Danny Orbach, USJRP Postdoctoral Fellow "The Taiwan Expedition of 1874 and the Roots of Japanese Military Disobedience" Andrew Levidis, USJRP Postdoctoral Fellow "Japanese Conservatism from the China War to the Great East Asia War (1937-41)" Rethinking Militarism and Conservatism in 20th-Century Japan Faculty Host: Andrew Gordon (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by Dept. of History and RI) Alexander Zahlten, Harvard Pulverizing Soft Power: New Media and the Problem with Promoting "Japanese Culture" Faculty host: Susan Pharr (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by EALC & RI)

Emer O'Dwyer, Oberlin Now It Can Be Told: Telling the Truth about the War, 1946-1954 Faculty Host: Andrew Gordon (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by RI) Nancy Lin, KI Postdoctoral Fellow "Oriental" Femininity: Defining Beauty in the Colonial Context of Japanese and Korean Art (1910-45) Faculty host: Sun Joo Kim (KI Korea Colloquium co-sponsored by RI) The Honorable Masako Mori, Member, House of Coucillors; former Minister of State for Gender Equality; and former Minister of State for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety Womenomics and Economic Reconstruction: A View from Fukushima Faculty host: Susan Pharr (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by HKS Japan Caucus, Japan Society of Boston, & RI)

Japan Disasters Digital Archive Launched in July of 2012, the Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA; http://jdarchive.org) is an advanced search engine for materials from around the globe, building digital repositories about the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. With the support of metaLAB and the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard, the project seeks to collect, preserve, and make broadly accessible many forms of first-hand information and primary documentation of the events of 11 March 2011 and their aftermath. Through the archive, the project aims to provide a public space of information exchange, establish innovative means of organization, access, and integration of materials, and to contribute to teaching, research, and policy analysis both near term and in the future. But most of all, JDA hopes that the archive will serve as a site of shared memories and reflection for those most affected by these events and concerned about their consequences. JDA actively encourages user submissions of resources such as websites, videos, and photographs, and user testimonials about personal experiences of the disasters and their aftermath. Its innovative map feature visualizes all materials that are tagged with geographic information in real time. And with the nature of sharing and exchanging of collections and presentations, JDA fosters new connections, both between items and among users. This network of users is everexpanding, from a major organization that submits thousands of location- and direction-tagged photographs to fellow citizens who submit their family’s testimonial to historians who seek to understand the interaction of public and private actors in the relief effort. Thus, the archive is an interactive space that promotes and, indeed, thrives on user participation. Its video introduction can be found here: http://www.jdarchive.org/en/howtouse/#video In spring of 2016, the project teamed with ADK Group – a Boston local website and app developer company – to renew its platform to meet rapidly growing media needs. JDA hopes to soft launch its new platform locally in Fall 2016, in preparation to announce a hard launch in January 2017 in Sendai. During 2014-16, the team and activities were headed by: ›› Andrew Gordon, Project Director ›› Ryo Morimoto, Project Manager & RI Digital Humanities and Social Science Fellow Representing JDA, Prof. Gordon and Dr. Morimoto, along with RI Executive Director Theodore Gilman, attended the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction from 14-18 March 2015, in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. This conference focused on reviwing the implementation of Hyogo Framework for Action as well as adopting a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction. For a complete list of team members, please visit the JDA website.

Sanriku Project The Sanriku Project is a multi-disciplinary team of Harvard-affiliated researchers, designers, and medical professionals whose mission is to help facilitate the recovery and rebuilding process along the Sanriku coast through empowering local residents and building community resilience (http://sanrikuproject.org). The project has received support from the Japan Disaster Relief Fund Boston, The Harvard Commemorative Cherry Tree Planting Initiative, and RI. Participant groups have included Harvard for Japan, Boston Japan Medical Relief Initiative (BJMRI), GSD to Minami Sanriku, and the Urban Risk Lab at MIT. Individual participants bring expertise from many fields: anthropology, local governance, business, design, technology, mental health, community support systems, health policy, health economics, trade policy, and disaster prevention. As a collaborative project with various Japanese universities, the project has prioritized development in dialogue with local communities. Cooperating with the local residents of Minamisanriku-chō, the project has identified a number of areas where its collective resources can contribute to recovery through an incremental approach that stresses short-term solutions and visible signs of progress that will improve community morale and increase faith in the recovery effort.

Special Presentations on the 3.11 Disasters and Post-Disaster Japan, 2014-16 Every academic year, RI supports activities related to the March 11 events, disaster relief programs, and the JDA, for the purpose of promoting discussion of disaster relief and prevention and connecting with scholars globally to increase awareness of the ongoing relevance of these issues. The following events were held in 2014-16, including special commemoration in spring 2016 of the fifth anniversary of the disaster. Seminar 9 SEPTEMBER 2014 Gregory Jaczko, Former Chairman, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (2009-12) Kenji Tateiwa, Tokyo Electric Power Company Herman Leonard, HKS and HBS Inside Japan's Nuclear Meltdown Faculty Host: Susan Pharr (Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan sponsored by USJRP and RI) Panel 10 MARCH 2015 Daniel Aldrich, Purdue Chiaki Moriguchi, Hitotsubashi Survival and Recovery from the Tohoku Disaster Faculty Host: Susan Pharr (Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan sponsored by USJRP and RI) Special Japan Forum/JDA Project Presentation 25 SEPTEMBER 2015 Using the Japan Disasters Digital Archive in the Classroom: Opporunities for Collaboration with Tohoku University Moderators: Andrew Gordon, Harvard; Akihiro Shibayama, IRIDeS, Tohoku; Sébastian Boret, IRIDeS, Tohoku Featuring presentations of graduate students from Tohoku University: Yuya Matsuoka, "Tsunami Memorial Monuments and Traditions Reconsidered after the East-Japan Earthquake" Gong Shun, "The Significance and Challenges of Preserving Disaster Remains" Hikari Yokoyama, Tomohito Aoki, "Distribution of Information at Public Facilities during Natural Disasters" (in Japanese) Anna Shinka, Yoshihiko Saito, Takayuki Kitamura, "An Evacuation Protocol for Minimizing Damage in a Disaster-Struck Zone" Seminar 29 JANUARY 2016 Brett Walker, Harvard (EOR Visiting Prof. '15-16); Montana State Univ. Natural and Unnatural Disasters: 3/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of Japan's Modern World Faculty Host: Ian Miller (Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan sponsored by USJRP and RI)

Seminar 9 FEBRUARY 2016 Hirotaka Takeuchi, HBS New Entrepreneurship in the Post-3.11 Tohoku Region Faculty Host: Susan Pharr (Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan sponsored by USJRP and RI) Special Japan Forum Presentation 12 FEBRUARY 2016 Jonathan Abel, Pennsylvania State Critical Digital Humanism and Japanese Twitterature after 3/11 Moderator: Tomiko Yoda (Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan sponsored by USJRP and RI) Special Panel 11 MARCH 2016 Five Years Later: Research and Fieldwork Born from the March 2011 Disasters in Japan Moderator: Theodore Bestor Satsuki Takahashi, George Mason, “Coastal Fisheries and Industrial Development in Fukushima” Kyle Parry, Rochester, “Network Crisis Archiving: From First Response to Remembrance” Andrew Littlejohn, Harvard, “Community Reconstruction and Resilience in the Tohoku Region” Seminar 25 MARCH 2016 David Salter, Sophia Becoming Political: Youth Activism in Post-3/11 Japan Faculty host: Tomiko Yoda (Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan sponsored by USJRP and RI) Seminar 5 APRIL 2016 Ken Buesseler, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Fukushima Five Years Later: A View from the Ocean Faculty host: Susan Pharr (Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan sponsored by USJRP and RI) Special Japan Forum Presentation 22 APRIL 2016 Ryo Morimoto, RI Postdoctoral Fellow Nuclear Ghosts: Contamination and Containment in Post-3/11 Coastal Fukushima Faculty host: Andrew Gordon (Special Series on Post-Disaster Japan sponsored by USJRP and RI)

Constitutional Revision in Japan Research Project Launched by Helen Hardacre in 2005, the Constitutional Revision Research Project focuses on the debate currently under way over whether to revise Japan’s 1947 constitution. Discussions center on the role civil society plays within this controversial debate. Related topics include: Japan’s defense and security; imperial succession; rights and duties of citizens; the status of women; and the relationship between religion and state. The project looks at the role and perspectives of the political parties, the media, political, labor, and business associations, women’s groups, religious groups, and many civil society groups in the constitutional revision debate. Research on constitutional revision builds links from RI to other branches of Asian and international studies. Faculty, diplomats, researchers, and students from Japan, as well as a number of universities in New England and students from a number of social science and humanities departments are actively engaged in the project along with those at Harvard. A central aim of the project is to collect and preserve the debate in its original form. With assistance from the Library Digital Initiative (LDI) of the Harvard College Library in early 2006, the project began monthly “web-harvesting,” archiving material from a target set of 77 related Japanese websites. In 2006-07 the project launched its website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/crrp/. The website provides links to the most relevant websites in Japan where current debate about constitutional revision is to be found. In addition, a bibliography provides researchers with over 1,000 references to academic research and political analysis of the Meiji Constitution, the postwar constitution, and ongoing discussion of constitutional revision. It provides a chronology of events in the constitutional revision debate. Leadership of the project was formalized through the creation of an Advisory Board, which included Hiroyuki Akita (Nikkei Newspapers), Alexis Dudden (History, University of Connecticut), Timothy George (History, University of Rhode Island), Helen Hardacre (EALC, Harvard), Keigo Komamura (Law, Keio University), Suzanne O’Brien (History, Independent Scholar), Richard Samuels (Political Science, MIT), and Franziska Seraphim (History, Boston College). This group convenes to set directions for the project and to plan future activities. In May of 2015, the project initiated a collaborative, three-year research project with the Faculty of Law at Keio University. This project, The “Constitution” of Postwar Japan, adopts the double meaning in English of the word constitution, as a nation’s basic code of law on the one hand, and on the other, following the Oxford English Dictionary, “The way in which anything is constituted or made up; the arrangement or combination of its parts or elements, as determining its nature and character.” The intention of the project is to use debate surrounding Japan’s basic law code as a springboard for broader investigations of the issues shaping contemporary Japan. Over these three years, workshops will be held at Keio in the first and second years, culminating in a conference at Harvard in the third year. Depending on the outcome, joint research may be continued for a further two years. Research results will be published in both Japanese and English. Keigo Komamura (Keio) and Helen Hardacre (Harvard) are the project’s co-directors.

The first workshop, titled “History, Historians, and Public Issues,” was held at Keio on 16-17 December 2015. Day 1

Day 2

Welcome addresses: Atsushi Seike, President, Keio Juro Iwatani, Dean, Keio Project Introduction: Keigo Komamura, Keio Helen Hardacre, Harvard

Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan

Session 1 ‘The People with Whom Resides Sovereign Power’: Environment, Citizen Activism, and Popular Sovereignty in Postwar Japan Timothy George, Univ. of Rhode Island Saburo Horikawa, Hosei Session 2 Establishment of Constitutionalism in Postwar Japan: Regaining National Sovereignty, ‘Incomplete Fascism,’ and Democracy Franziska Seraphim, Boston College Tokujin Matsudaira, Kanagawa Session 3 Being Active: Guarantees and Limits on Realizing Japan’s Constitution Alexis Dudden, Univ. of Connecticut Mina Watanabe, Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (WAM)

Opening Remarks: Helen Hardacre, Harvard Session 1 The Origins of the Open Letter Alexis Dudden, Univ. of Connecticut Session 2 Relevant Contacts between U.S. and Japanese Historians Timothy George, Univ. of Rhode Island Franziska Seraphim, Boston College Session 3 Japanese Commentary on the Open Letter Mari Miura, Sophia Yoshihida Soeya, Keio Students’ Perspectives & Open Discussion Closing Remarks: Keigo Komamura, Keio

Students’ Perspectives & Open Discussion Closing Remarks: Helen Hardacre, Harvard

In addition to the collaborative workshop, RI held the following seminars as part of project activities during 2014-16. 14 NOVEMBER 2014 Richard Samuels, MIT Keigo Komamura, Keio Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations Strategic Dilemmas: Constitutional Revision and Japanese Politics Moderator: Helen Hardacre (Special Japan Forum presentation co-sponsored by USJRP) 23 SEPTEMBER 2015 Naoyuki Agawa, Keio Revising the Article 9? The Constitution and History in Prime Minister Abe’s Security Strategy Moderator: Susan J. Pharr (USJRP presentation co-sponsored by the Constitutional Revision Research Project)

Collaborative Study Projects RI sponsors ongoing study groups to support the research of Harvard faculty and graduate students. These study groups explore specific research themes that relate in some way to Japan, bringing together members of the Harvard scholarly community â€“ faculty, graduate students, RI postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars â€“ and, in many cases, leading scholars from area institutions. The program is open to a variety of formats and objectives. Many groups feature seminar series in which the participants share their research findings, in some cases leading to published work. Others hold planning meetings aimed at developing major research projects, for which the organizers eventually seek external support. Alternately, the group may undertake collaborative research to create a new data source, as in the case of the Constitutional Revision Project. In 2014-16, RI sponsored four study groups, as follows.

Contemporary Japanese Politics Established in 1999, the Contemporary Japanese Politics Study Group promotes discussion of the works in progress among political scientists at Harvard and the greater New England area. With a mailing list of over 50 individuals, the study group brings together faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars from Harvard and beyond. It normally meets three to four times a semester and occasionally serves as a setting for practice job talks. The group provides a much-needed forum for graduate students to discuss the latest research on Japanese politics, political economy, and foreign policy. In 2014-16, the group was sponsored by Susan J. Pharr and included the following activities: 17 OCTOBER 2014 Adam Liff, Indiana Status Avoidance in International Politics

3 APRIL 2015 Ellis Krauss, UC San Diego Studying Japanese Politics: Reflections

31 OCTOBER 2014 Daniel Koss, Harvard Where the Party Rules: Party-Based Authoritarianism and the Reach of the Chinese State

15 MAY 2015 Yusaku Horiuchi, Dartmouth Identifying Multidimensional Policy Preferences in Representative Democracies: A Conjoint Field Experiment in Japan

12 DECEMBER 2014 Amy Catalinac, Harvard Candidate Positioning under Majoritarian and Proportional Electoral Systems

2 OCTOBER 2015 Konrad Kalicki, USJRP Postdoctoral Fellow Security Fears and Bureaucratic Rivalry: The Politics of Foreign Labor Admission in Japan and Taiwan

27 FEBRUARY 2015 J. Mark Ramseyer, HLS Nuclear Power and the Mob: Extortion, Construction, and Social Capital in Japan

11 DECEMBER 2015 Reo Matsuzaki, Trinity State-building through Administrative Brokerage: A Comparative Analysis of Taiwan and the Philippines under Colonial Rule

27 MARCH 2015 Naofumi Fujimura, RI Visiting Scholar, Kobe Hiroki Kubo, Rice Policy Positioning and Legislative Behavior: District-level Ideological Convergence and Motivation for National Policy in Japan

12 FEBRUARY 2016 Daniel Aldrich, Northeastern It's Whom You Know: Factors Driving Recovery from Japan's 11 March 2011 Disaster 8 APRIL 2016 Jennifer Lind, Dartmouth Is Japanese Nationalism on the Rise?

MIT/Harvard Cool Japan Program This collaborative research project was launched in spring 2006, sponsored by Theodore C. Bestor, Helen Hardacre, and Wesley Jacobsen and organized by RI Associate in Research Ian Condry, an anthropologist at MIT. The project convenes an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students in the Boston area, providing a forum for seminars and cultural events surrounding the scholarly analysis of Japanese popular culture. In particular, it focuses on understanding the cultural connections, dangerous distortions, and critical potential of popular culture in a global perspective. The program has been sponsored by the MIT Japan Program, Foreign Languages and Literatures at MIT, MIT Comparative Media Studies, and RI. During 2014-16, the project held three events. On 22 September 2014, Japanese punk band Shoken Knife presented a panel discussion on being a punk band in Japan, their success in the U.S., and their experiences performing (co-sponsored by MIT Global Studies and Languages). An open seminar entitled “The Ideal Idol: Making Music with Hatsune” was held on 8 April 2015, focusing on the growing trend in popular music to feature a synthesized software known as vocaloid. Jennifer Matsue, Associate Professor of Music, Asian Studies and Anthropology at Union College and RI Associate in Research, presented at the seminar. On 14 April 2015, Christine Yano, RI Visiting Scholar and Professor of Anthropology at University of Hawaii at Manoa, presented “Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific,” discussing her book by the same title published in 2013.

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature and Culture Organized by Tomiko Yoda, this study group brings together scholars and students interested in humanistic approaches to studying modern and contemporary Japanese culture, with a primary focus on literature, but also on visual and sonic media. The purpose of the project is to strengthen the network among the Japanese literature and cultural studies communities on different campuses and, in particular, to serve as a forum for graduate students to meet with scholars at institutions other than their own. Peter Bernard, EALC, was the graduate student assistant.

cinEncounters Established in 2012, cinEncounters seeks to create a forum for critical engagement with lesser-known masterpieces of Japanese cinema from the 1960s, 1970s, and beyond. From the Japanese “New Wave” to pink films, from anime to documentary, monthly film screenings emphasize a collective encounter with the unexpected, the uncharted, and the unusual in Japanese film. In addition to group discussion of films, filmmaking techniques, and the stories and histories behind them, whenever possible the study group invites noted critics, filmmakers, and scholars with expertise on specific films to join the discussion, either in person or via Skype. All films are shown with English subtitles and no prior knowledge of Japanese is required. In 2014-16, Alexander Zahlten headed the study group, along with RI postdoctoral fellow Tristan Grunow in 2014-15. Among the films screened during 2014-16 were: Throw Away Your Books (Shuji Terayama); Human Bullet (Kihachi Okamoto); Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Kazuo Hara); The Man Who Stole the Sun (Kazuhiko Hasegawa); A Man Vanishes (Shohei Imamura); and Sayonara Jupiter (Koji Hashimoto).

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Workshops, Conferences, Events, & Symposia 2014-15 Lecture 2 OCTOBER 2014 John Rosenfield Memorial Lecture In honor of John Rosenfield, the late Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of East Asian Art and long-time member of the RI Full Committee, the Department of History of Art and Architecture held a memorial lecture commemorating his life and work. (Department of History of Art and Architecture presentation) Symposium & Workshop 10-11 & 12 OCTOBER 2014 Cultural Heritage in Religion: Its Meaning and Preservation and Chigo Ima Workshop The international symposium focused on Japanese culture, its preservation, religious significance, and implications. Day 1 Welcome Remarks: Helen Hardacre, Harvard Susumu Uejima, Kyoto Panel 1: The Modern Issues of Cultural Heritage Preservation and Science of Cultural Heritage Hiroshi Takagi, Kyoto Kazuhiro Uesugi, Kyoto Prefectural Univ. Tsuneto Yamagishi, Kyoto Respondents: Trent Maxey, Amherst David Howell, Harvard Ryūichi Abé, Harvard

Panel 4: Constructing the Study of Religious Heritage Space Takaya Kawase, Kyoto Prefectural Univ. Susumu Uejima, Kyoto Takuji Abe, Kyoto Prefectural Univ. Respondents: Brian Ruppert, Univ. of IL, Urbana-Champaign Thomas Conlan, Princeton Helen Hardacre, Harvard Roundtable Discussion (RI presentation co-sponsored by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Center for Government and International Studies at Harvard) The workshop, held for interested graduate students on the day following the symposium, focused on Chigo Ima Mairi emaki and other medieval emaki (art scrolls). It provided an opportunity for students from Nagoya University to discuss medieval art works and their Buddhist significance. (Hosted by RI and led by Ryūichi Abé and Melissa McCormick) Symposium 24-25 FEBRUARY 2015 Historic Preservation in Japan and Boston Day 1 Welcome Remarks and Introductions: Peter Grilli, Japan Society of Boston (JSB) Presentation 1: Ann Beha, Ann Beha Architects Presentation 2: Yoshihiro Takishita, Association for the Preservation of Traditional Japanese Farmhouses Day 2

Panel 2: East Asian Formality and Thought on the Science of Cultural Heritage Jin Makabe, Hokkaido Sumio Naka, Kyoto Prefectural Univ. Takashi Okamoto, Kyoto Prefectural Univ. Respondents: Ryūichi Abé, Harvard James Robson, Harvard

Session 1: Jorge Otero-Pailos, Columbia Fusae Kojima, Kyo-Machiya Revitalization Assoc.

Day 2

(Organized by JSB and co-sponsored with Boston Children's Museum, Toshiba International Foundation, and RI)

Welcome Remarks: Helen Hardacre, Harvard Susumu Uejima, Kyoto

Tour of Kyoto House at Boston Children's Museum Session 2: Yukio Lippit, Harvard Akemi Chayama, Boston Children's Museum Panel Discussion

Panel 3: Religious Space and the Science of Cultural Heritage Tetsuo Hishida, Kyoto Prefectural Univ. Yasuro Abe, Nagoya Mika Abe, Showa Women's Univ. Satomi Yamamoto, Kyoritsu Women's Univ. Respondents: Samuel Morse, Amherst Melissa McCormick, Harvard

Film Screening & Artist Conversation 25 FEBRUARY 2015 Live Your Dream: The Taylor Anderson Story This documentary illustrated the life of Taylor Anderson, a young American woman who dedicated herself to teaching Japanese children through the JET program (Miyagi prefecture, 2008-2011), until her untimely death during the Great East Japan Earthquake. Preceding the screening, film director Regge Life discussed his work and the powerful narrative that is the genre of documentary film. (Co-sponsored by Loeb Library Materials Collection, JapanGSD, and RI) Lecture-Demonstration 6 APRIL 2015 Ikebana, a Lecture-Demonstration by Hiroki Ohara The head of the Ohara School of Ikebana, Hiroki Ohara demonstrated ikebana techniques to the Harvard community. The lecture consisted of a live demonstration as well as discussion on Japanese aestheticism, tradition, and conserving such artistic forms in the contemporary world. (Harvard GSD event co-sponsored by Loeb Library Materials Collection, JapanGSD, and RI) Lecture 7-9 APRIL 2015 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures In honor of Edwin O. Reischauer, the lecture series aims to foster greater understanding of the countries of East Asia and their relations with each other and with Western societies. This year, the series focused on the emergence of Asia on the world map, looking at the representation of oceans, the cartography of continents, and the mapping of the map. Where in the World? Mapmaking at the Asia-Pacific Margin, 1600-1900 Kären Wigen, Stanford Lecture 1: Entering Asia Discussant: Karen L. Thornber, Harvard Lecture 2: Picturing the Pacific Respondents: Surekha Davies, Western Connecticut Univ. Lecture 3: Orienting the Past Respondents: Robert Goree, Wellesley (Fairbank Center presentation co-sponsored by KI and RI)

Conference 1 MAY 2015 Examining Lessons from Japan’s Lost Decades: Economics, Security and Society Focusing on the dimensions of economics, security and history issues, and education and employment, the conference sought to examine the policy decisions taken during the 1990s recession. Discussion centered on how countries can deal with common challenges, such as fiscal deficit, international security, and growing social inequality. Keynote Speeches: Yoichi Funabashi, Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation Andrew Gordon, Harvard Session 1: Economics: Abenomics Kazuhiko Toyama, Industrial Growth Platform, Inc. Tokuo Iwaisako, Hitotsubashi Discussant: Dale Jorgenson, Harvard Moderator: Richard Cooper, Harvard Session 2: Security and History Issues: The Future of U.S.-Japan-China Relations Yoichi Funabashi, Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation Kazuhiko Togo, Kyoto Sangyo Discussant: Ezra Vogel, Harvard Moderator: Barak Kushner, Cambridge Session 3: Society: Issues of Employment and Education for Women and Youth Andrew Gordon, Harvard Takehiko Kariya, Oxford Discussant: Mary C. Brinton, Harvard Moderator: Hiraku Shimoda, Waseda (USJRP presentation sponsored by Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, and cosponsored by HKS Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, JSB, and RI) Symposium 7 MAY 2015 Advancing the Status of Women in a Globalizing Japan: A 70-Year Retrospective The symposium focused on “Womenomics,” or the equalization of gender roles in the work force, in particular on how women’s economic, social, and political status has advanced in postwar Japan, and what obstacles remain. Opening Remarks: Mariko Bando, Showa Women’s Univ. Keynote Speech: Seiko Noda, House of Representatives, Japan

Panel 1: 70 Years of Change in Women’s Roles Mariko Bando, Showa Women’s Univ. Sumiko Iwao, Keio Margarita Estéves-Abe, Syracuse Moderator: Susan J. Pharr, Harvard Panel 2: Recent Strategies to Increase Participation in Decision-Making and Management Kathy Matsui, Goldman Sachs Naohiro Yashiro, Showa Women’s Univ. Glen Fukushima, Center for American Progress Moderator: Mary C. Brinton, Harvard Closing Remarks: Tsutomu Himeno, Consul General of Japan, Boston, 2014-16

Panel 2: Copyright, Copyleft: Theoretical Issues in Access, Ownership, and Appropriation Keisuke Kitano, Ritsumeikan Ian Condry, MIT Ken Uesaki, Keio Moderator: Alexander Zahlten, Harvard Panel 3: Possible Futures for Copyright, Production, and Access Junko Ueno, The Association of Japanese Animation Kensaku Fukui, Lawyer, Nihon Soichiro Kozuka, Gakushuin Moderator: Theodore C. Bestor, Harvard (NCC presentation co-sponsored by RI)

(Presentation sponsored by Showa Women’s University, Showa Boston Institute for Language and Culture, USJRP, and RI) Art Exhibition 22 JUNE – 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs The exhibition was curated by David Odo, Director of Student Programs and Research Curator of University Collection Initiatives at the Harvard Art Museums. It was held in conjunction with the publication of his book, “A Good Type”: From Artistry to Ethnography in Early Japanese Photographs. (Sponsored by Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard University, AC, and RI) Workshop 13 JUNE 2015 Redefining Access: Issues of Access, Archives, and Copyright in Japan Held at Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo and organized by Alexander Zahlten, Harvard, and Roland Domenig, Meiji Gakuin, with the support of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC), this workshop brought together researchers, librarians, legal experts, and industry representatives to discuss problems and issues concerning archiving and access of materials in Japan. Panel 1: Access Denied? Experiences with Access, Archives, and Copyright Culture in Japan Kaichiro Morikawa, Meiji Yoshio Yanagi, formerly of the National Diet Library Toshiyasu Oba, National Diet Library Kuniko Yamada-McVey, HYL Moderator: Andrew Gordon, Harvard

2015-16 Talk 7 JULY 2015 Reischauer Scholars Program Experience Raymond Hunt, Reischauer Scholars Program Fellow The Reischauer Scholars Program (RSP) is an online course for high school students sponsored by the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) at Stanford. The RSP annually selects 25–30 exceptional high school students from throughout the United States to engage in an intensive study of Japan. The course runs from February to June. Mr. Hunt, then a rising senior at Belmont Hill School, completed the program in the spring of 2015 and visited RI to give a brief talk about his experience. Workshop 5 SEPTEMBER 2015 Redefining Access: Archival Practice and Japanese Materials in the New Media Ecology The workshop introduced current issues in the collection, preservation, and archiving of Japanese materials. It addressed concrete and practical issues that curators and archivists encounter in their work, especially their experiences working in the framework established by the current institutional, legal, and technological environment in Japan. On the Sogetsu Art Center Archive – Issues in Archiving Film and Media Related Materials Sen Uesaki, Keio Univ. Art Center

The goal of the workshop was to present innovative uses of digital scholarship in Japanese studies, to share experience among those who have created successful digital projects, and to recommend ways that the NCC can create online resources that articulate best practices for scholars and students in developing new digital projects for teaching and research. Welcoming Remarks and Workshop Overview: Kuniko McVey, NCC & HYL Theodore C. Bestor, Harvard Session 1: The Digital Landscape: Geographical Information Systems for Humanists Merrick Lex Berman, Harvard Cheryl Crowley, Emory Brian Croxall, Brown Session 2: Innovations and Research in the Social Sciences Yusaku Horiuchi, Dartmouth Christopher Erdmann, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Library Session 3: Creating and Sustaining Image Collections/ Databases Over Time Paul Barclay, Lafayette College Eric Luhrs, Lafayette College Library

New Directions in Research on Japanese Film: Examples from the Practices of Excavation, Restoration, Archiving, and Screening Go Hirasawa, Meiji Gakuin

Session 4: The Infrastructure Underpinnings of Digital Scholarship Donald Sturgeon, Fairbank Center Fellow ’15-16 Ryo Morimoto, Harvard Kurt Knoerl, Museum of Underwater Archeology Michelle Damian, RI Postdoctoral Fellow

Structural Problems in Archiving Experimental Work: Institutional, Technological, and Ethical Issues Ann Adeachi, Collaborative Cataloging Japan Project

Session 5: Food for Thought Alexander Zahlten, Harvard Christopher Morse, Harvard

Moderator: Alexander Zahlten, Harvard

Open Discussion Closing Remarks and Wrap Up: Kuniko McVey, Setsuko Noguchi, Victoria Lyon Bestor (NCC)

(RI presentation co-sponsored by NCC) Workshop 5 NOVEMBER 2015 Industries and Global Competition: Business Beyond Borders in Historical Perspective Speakers: Julia Yongue, Hosei; Takafumi Kurosawa, Kyoto; Tomoko Hashino, Kobe; Teresa da Silva Lopes, York; Rolv Petter Amdam, BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo; Rika Fujioka, Kansai; Takashi Hirao, Tokyo Univ. of Sci., SUWA; Yuki Nakajima, Nanzan; Shigehiro Nishimura, Kansai (Organized by Takafumi Kurosawa, RI Visiting Scholar, Kyoto)

Workshop 6-7 NOVEMBER 2015 Advancing Digital Scholarship in Japanese Studies: Innovations and Challenges

(NCC presentation co-sponsored by RI)

Symposium 13 NOVEMBER 2015 The Lost Two Decades and the Transformation of Japanese Society Opening Remarks: Shoichi Inoue, Nichibunken Session 1 Chair: Nanyan Guo, Nichibunken Speakers: Kazuhiro Takii, RI Visiting Scholar, Nichibunken Andrew Gordon, Harvard Emiko Ochiai, Kyoto Takehiko Kariya, Oxford Commentators: Theodore C. Bestor, Harvard Mary C. Brinton, Harvard Session 2 Chair: Susan J. Pharr, Harvard Speakers: Ayako Kusunoki, Nichibunken Toru Shinoda, Waseda Satoshi Machidori, Kyoto Shigeki Uno, Tokyo Commentators: David Leheny, Princeton Margarita Estévez-Abe, Syracuse Session 3 Chair: Andrew Gordon, Harvard Speakers: Shoichi Inoue, Nichibunken Shoji Yamada, Nichibunken Hiroyuki Kitaura, Nichibunken Ian Condry, MIT Commentators: Shigemi Inaga, Nichibunken Hiromu Nagahara, MIT (RI presentation co-organized by Nichibunken) Film Series 15 NOVEMBER 2015 Almost Like a Horror Film: The Cinema of Nobuhiko Obayashi with Director Nobuhiko Obayashi in person A legend in Japan, cult filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi (b. 1938) launched his career in cinema with a series of avant-garde, small-gauge films whose visual style and free structure later informed his feature films. A friend and contemporary of filmmaker Shuji Terayama, Obayashi shared his fellow radical’s distrust of the dominant culture, which he consciously subverted in his films. The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) hosted Obayashi in person in a rare U.S. visit. The screening included: Complexe (14 min), followed by Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (Noyukiyamayukiumibeyuki) (135 min). (HFA event with support from Japan Foundation New York and RI)

Film Screening 3 DECEMBER 2015 Containment Containment, a documentary film on nuclear waste, premiered at the HFA. Directed by Robb Moss, Harvard College Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, and Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor of the History of Science and Physics, the film explores the scientific, moral, and philosophical issues surrounding nuclear waste and features the 3.11 Fukushima nuclear disaster. RI supported the filming of the project and its premier. Symposium 15 JANUARY 2016 Building the Global University: A U.S.-Japan Symposium on Internationalization and Diversity Held at the International House of Japan in Tokyo and organized by RI, the symposium addressed a range of issues pertaining to the internationalization of higher education. Topics included globalization and internationalization, faculty development and diversity, technology and pedagogy, and the role of the liberal arts in university education. Among the panelists were representatives from Harvard – Mark Elliot, Judith Singer, and Xiao-Li Meng, and Susan J. Pharr. The programs were supported by the Office of the Provost at Harvard University, International House of Japan, the U.S. Embassy in Japan, and RI, with a reception following at the Ambassador’s Residence, where Ambassador Caroline Kennedy welcomed invited guests. Welcome Remarks: Yasushi Akashi, International House of Japan Introduction: Judith Singer, Harvard Mark Elliot, Harvard Panel 1: What is the “Global University”? Mark Elliot, Harvard Etsuko Katsu, Meiji Norimasa Morita, Waseda Panel 2: Why Does Diversity Matter? Judith Singer, Harvard Yujin Yaguchi, Tokyo Mariko Bando, Showa Women’s Univ. Panel 3: MOOCs and the Future of Higher Education Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard Shunya Yoshimi, Tokyo Jiro Kokuryo, Keio Panel 4: What is a Liberal Arts Education Good For? Susan J. Pharr, Harvard Robert Campbell, Univ. of Tokyo Miki Sugimura, Sophia Concluding Discussion and Reception

Audio-Video Installation / Roundtable Discussion 10-16 APRIL / 13 APRIL 2016 Ah humanity!

Symposium 29 April 2016 East Asia: Where Are Things Headed?

“Ah humanity!” was a large-scale audio-video installation on view from 10-16 April. Sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts, the installation featured a single channel of video projected onto the façade of the Harvard Science Center and four channels of sound projected into the Plaza.

Presenters: Akio Takahara, Univ. of Tokyo Victor Cha, Georgetown Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations Zheng Wang, Seton Hall Moderator: Susan J. Pharr

Taking the 3/11/11 disaster of Fukushima as its point of departure, “Ah humanity!” evoked an apocalyptic vision of modernity and our predilection for historical amnesia and futuristic flights of fancy. The images were shot on a telephone through a handheld telescope, at once close to and far from its subject, while the audio composition combined empty excerpts from Japanese genbaku (atomic bomb) and related film soundtracks, recordings from seismic laboratories, and location sound. “Ah humanity!” reflected on the fragility and folly of humanity in the age of the Anthropocene. The installation was accompanied by a roundtable discussion in the middle of its viewing period, as follows: Panelists: Yukio Lippit, Harvard Karen L. Thornber, Harvard Reiko Yamada, Composer; Sound Artist Fellow at Harvard Commentary by Artists: Ernst Karel, Sensory Ethnography Lab Véréna Paravel, Sensory Ethnography Lab Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Film Study Center at Harvard Moderator: Theodore C. Bestor, Harvard University Workshop 16 April 2016 Teaching Videogames Led by Helen Hardacre and Alexander Zahlten, the workshop explored the issues involved in teaching videogames as part of a university syllabus. Discussions centered on pedagogical frameworks and how to incorporate videogames into syllabi through targeted readings, gaming experiences, and other forms of learning. The workshop featured a practicum in Japanese Video Game Archive and demonstration, using the collection at HYL. Presenters included: Rachael Hutchinson, University of Delaware, Mickael Jakobsson, MIT Game Lab, Franz Prichard, Princeton, Marlon Kuzmick, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard, and Jennifer deWinter, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. (Sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Education, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and RI)

(USJRP presentation co-sponsored by AC, FC, KI, HKS Japan Caucus, Japan Society of Boston, and RI; supported by Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership) Workshop 19 May 2016 Harvard-Yenching Library New Holdings in Manchukuo History: Needs and Opportunities The workshop introduced the newly acquired Manchukuo Collection. Consisting of over 2,000 items, including books and ephemera such as diaries, music scores, photo albums, propaganda posters, board games, scrapbooks, magazines, and tourism brochures, the Manchukuo Collection enhances HYL’s existing collection in Chinese and Japanese materials from the 20th century, providing a strong foundation to the growing field of Manchurian studies. Introduction: Kuniko McVey, HYL Session 1: The Yenching Library Manchurian Materials in Global Perspective Toshihiko Kishi, Kyoto Session 2: Manchukuo Postcards and Digital Collaboration: Needs and Opportunities Paul Barclay, Lafayette College Akihiro Kameda, Kyoto Closing Discussion (HYL presentation co-sponsored by AC, FC, KI, and RI)

Publications The Harvard East Asian Monograph Series and Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series RI, along with other Asia centers, plays an active role in publishing outstanding research in the prestigious Harvard East Asian Monograph series (HEAM). Books on Japan sponsored and funded by RI are produced through the Publications Office of the Asia Center. The series plays a vital role in making the research of scholars available to a broader audience, and many leading academics in Japanese studies today, including numerous Harvard Ph.D. recipients, began their academic careers with books that appeared in the series. Of the approximately 410 books that have been issued to date, more than 132 deal with Japan. The works concern all aspects of Japan with particular emphases on Japan’s history, culture and society, and literature. Other works, particularly in the humanities, are published in the Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series (HYIMS), which is funded by the Harvard-Yenching Institute; some 100 titles have been issued in this series to date, 10 of them on Japan. Works in both series are selected by the Publications Committee, comprised of Harvard faculty members, on the basis of peer reviews. In 2014-16, the following seven books on Japan were published in the HEAM Series.

2014-15

Blair, Heather Bondy, Christopher O’Dwyer, Emer Phipps, Catherine L

2015-16

Jacobowitz, Seth Nakamura, Miri Wilson, Noell

Real and Imagined: The Peak of Gold in Heian Japan Voice, Silence, and Self: Negotiations of Buraku Identity in Contemporary Japan Significant Soil: Settler Colonialism and Japan’s Urban Empire in Manchuria Empires on the Waterfront: Japan’s Ports and Power, 1858-1899

Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture Monstrous Bodies: The Rise of the Uncanny in Modern Japan Defensive Positions: The Politics of Maritime Security in Tokugawa Japan

Program on U.S.-Japan Relations A program administered by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA), the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations (USJRP) strives to foster research on U.S.-Japan relations, Japan’s relations with the rest of the world, and domestic issues and problems in Japan that bear on the country’s international roles and the evolving regional context of which Japan is a part. The program began in 1980, and its many activities compare Japan’s experience with those of other nations. Along with WCFIA, RI provides support to the program and its activities. In 2014-16, Susan J. Pharr served as Director of the program, overseen by a Harvard Faculty Advisory Committee. Among its seminars are special series on the common problems of the advanced industrial nations and on the international relations of East Asia. The program’s seminar series and other research-related activities reach a wide audience of faculty and students in the social sciences and Harvard’s professional schools. A recent study showed that the seminar series of USJRP and RI have surprisingly little overlap in audience: two-thirds of attendees join one, but not the other. Thus, partnering creates new synergies and connections.

Each year, USJRP, with support from RI, selects and brings to Harvard 2-3 advanced research fellows whose work bears on the program’s themes. The program also hosts 12-15 academics, public officials, journalists, and leaders in finance and other fields. They conduct research while in residence and speak in classes, take part in Japanese language tables in Harvard’s undergraduate houses, and serve as resources for faculty and students, both graduate and undergraduate. Housed at 61 Kirkland Street, USJRP coordinates closely with RI to increase summer internships for Harvard College students. The program also has a well-organized and active alumni group in Tokyo. Please view the program's vimeo channel for further introduction: http://vimeo.com/ channels/usjapan. USJRP staff for 2014-16 was as follows: Shinju Fujihira, Executive Director William Nehring, Program Coordinator

Jiyoun Kim (2014-15), Staff Assistant Wei-Hsuan Jenni Ting (2015-16), Staff Assistant Lauren Inch, Research Assistant

Harvard’s Libraries Harvard has one of the world’s leading research collections on Japan, and the Institute plays a major role in providing the support necessary to maintain and develop it. In addition, in the late 1980s, RI established and continues to support the Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan, which includes both English and Japanese language materials and databases, to aid research in the social sciences.

Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan (DCJ) The Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan (DCJ), now a part of the Fung Library, offers important resources on contemporary Japan that complement the Japan-related holdings of other libraries on campus. The DCJ provides user-oriented services, including orientation for Japanese and non-Japanese speakers and one-on-one instruction in the library’s databases. In 2014-16 the DCJ staff included librarian and director Kazuko Sakaguchi and assistant librarian Atsuko Yamashita. As part of Harvard University’s efforts to consolidate library collections and services, DCJ’s monograph series was transferred to Harvard-Yenching Library, effective July 2013. DCJ is now focused more on its journal collection, which is particularly strong in newly published titles on popular culture. This focus includes enhancing access to rapidly expanding digital resources and materials. As the home library of RI’s web archiving projects on Constitutional Revision in Japan and Japan’s 2011 Disasters Digital Archive Project, the DCJ also collects ephemera publications on these subjects as well. In addition, DCJ has extensive newspaper clipping files, which cover over 130 categories relating to contemporary Japan as well as the general AsiaPacific context from the mid-1980s through the early 2000s. Kazuko Sakaguchi Retires On 30 June 2016, the DCJ’s director Kazuko Sakaguchi retired after sixteen years of dedicated service. As DCJ Librarian and Director, her efforts in expanding its distinctive collection of postwar materials, weighted heavily toward the social sciences with an emphasis on politics and diplomacy, economics and labor, and social-cultural studies, were instrumental. During her tenure, the library collected a wide array of journals, scholarly papers, and non-trade publications and reports issued by government institutions, privatesector think tanks, and university-affiliated research and policy institutes, and developed electronic access to information sources on contemporary Japanese studies, some of which are not accessible elsewhere on campus. RI extends its gratitude and deep appreciation for Ms. Sakaguchi’s contribution and dedication.

Harvard-Yenching Library In 1978-79, RI established a special fund to support Japanese language acquisitions by the Harvard Yenching Library (HYL). Since then, yearly income from the fund is contributed to HYL and is used to acquire Japanese-language books and materials incremental to Harvard’s library budgetary allotments. Kuniko Yamada McVey serves as Librarian for the Japanese Collection. As of 30 June 2015, the Japanese collection ranked third in the nation in number of volumes, after the Library of Congress and UC Berkeley, signifying the richness of resources on campus and the tireless efforts of librarians who expanded the collection. The HYL Japan collection was comprised of 354,466 volumes as of 30 June 2015 and 360,462 volumes as of 30 June 2016. A rising portion of the annual Japanese book budget goes for the acquisition of Japanese electronic and digital resources. In 2015, HYL acquired 2,000 items that deal with Manchukuo, a puppet regime in Northeast China and Inner Mongolia under the reign of Imperial Japan from 1932-1945. This Manchukuo Collection consists primarily of books, but also includes music scores, photo albums, movie posters, and even board games. The acquisition was made possible by the efforts of Kuniko McVey with support from Harvard faculty, Asia Center, Fairbank Center, Korea Institute, and RI. The acquisition was featured in the Harvard Gazette: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2015/09/ testament-to-manchukuo-2/ In March 2015, Keio University President Atsushi Seike gave as a gift to RI and the HYL a six-volume edition of “An Outline of a Theory of Civilization,” by Yukichi Fukuzawa, Keio’s founder. The volumes were printed in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the establishment of Keio’s first three departments, carried out in consultation with then-President of Harvard, Charles William Eliot. For more details on the visit of the Keio delegation to Harvard, see Ties to the Community. RI supports other HYL initiatives, as well. It provides annual support for the Toshiyuki Aoki Book Fund for Japanese Studies. From 2006-2009, RI provided funding for a three-year Visiting Japanese Librarian Program initiated by HYL. Under the program, a librarian from Japan was invited annually to Harvard to work for several projects that reflected his or her interests and the library’s needs.

Library Travel Grants The Institute, through a program of Library Travel Grants, enables scholars from other institutions in the U.S. and Canada to come to Harvard to consult the Japanese collections at the DCJ and HYL.

Supporting Harvardâ€™s Educational Mission No goal of the Reischauer Institute is more important than advancing the educational mission of the University. The Institute pursues this task in a number of ways: providing opportunities for undergraduates to study, conduct research, and hold internships abroad; funding dissertation completion grants and other travel/study grants to support the research and training of graduate students; and enriching the Harvard curriculum by promoting the development of courses on Japan.

Programs for Harvard Undergraduates International Experience Harvard is engaged in a concerted effort to give every undergraduate a significant international experience (SIE) during his or her time in the College. Over the past decade, the Reischauer Institute, long a leader in this area, has increased its offerings to allow more undergraduates to study, conduct research, hold internships, or pursue other related activities in Japan. From Fall 2014 through Summer 2016, RI funded or facilitated 132 such opportunities for Harvard College students. It also provided support for a wide range of Japan-related student activities. In cooperation with other Harvard international and regional centers, such as the Office of Career Services (OCS), the Office of International Education (OIE), and Harvard Summer School (HSS), RI offers events for undergraduate students designed to inform them of grants, internships, and study abroad programs. These include the OCS Freshman Open House, OIE Open House, Study Abroad Programs & Perspectives Student Panel, International Education Week/ Photo Contest, the HSS Study Abroad Fair, and the OCS Summer Funding & Programs Fair.

In addition, RI organizes two instructive meetings for students to enhance the SIE of all interested participants. In November, the Institute conducts its own information sessions for those who wish to participate in RIâ€™s Internship Program, HSS Kyoto Program, HSS RIKEN Programs, Summer Language Programs, and/or Individual Travel/Research in Japan. In May, RI holds a pre-departure meeting required for all summer and fall travelers. These programs are made available to students through various funding sources at the University.

Academic Year Study in Japan A number of well-established programs in Japan accept applications from Harvard students. All of them offer Japanese language instruction and courses in English. They include, in Tokyo: the University of Tokyo, Keio University, Waseda University, Sophia University, and International Christian University (ICU); and in the Kansai Region: Kyoto University, Kobe University, and Nanzan University. In addition, some American colleges and universities run year-abroad programs in Japan that admit students from other institutions. RI and the Japanese Language Program (JLP) at Harvard assist students in identifying programs suitable to their interests and language preparation.

Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies

Undergraduate Summer Grants

Harvard College students with two years of language study may spend an academic year or semester at the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (KCJS). KCJS, formerly the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies, offers courses in the Japanese language, humanities, and social sciences. Initially based at Kyoto University from its inception in September 1989, the program moved to its current home at Doshisha University in fall 2009.

RI was among the first of Harvardâ€™s international and regional centers to offer summer travel grants for undergraduate research abroad, beginning in 1980. In addition to travel grants for senior thesis research, RI now awards grants in support of summer Japanese language study and summer internships and provides supplementary funding for Harvard College students in the Harvard Summer School program in Kyoto. Further, RI provides funding for interested students to participate in the JapanAmerica Student Conference (JASC).

The Consortium is currently headquartered at Columbia University and is sponsored by the following universities: BU, Brown, Chicago, Columbia/Barnard, Cornell, Emory, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, Washington University in St. Louis, and Yale, and in association with Virginia and Michigan. RI contributed start-up funds and, along with other sponsoring institutions, has made annual financial contributions to the Consortium since it began. The Harvard faculty KCJS representatives were Mary C. Brinton in 2014-15 and Tomiko Yoda in 2015-16.

The Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama The IUC is administered by Stanford University and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is sponsored by a consortium of now sixteen universities (previously fourteen), including Harvard. RI contributes annually toward its support, and in Fall 2010, RIâ€™s Executive Committee approved IUCâ€™s request for an extra subvention of $20,000, spread over four years, to build support before launching a major fund drive in response to the loss of much of its Japan Foundation funding.

Henry Rosovsky Undergraduate Summer Research Travel Grant Since 1980, RI has awarded the Henry Rosovsky Undergraduate Summer Research Travel Grant to students in the humanities or social sciences for research and/ or fieldwork in Japan relating directly to a senior honors thesis in an area of Japanese studies. This prestigious award is made with funds from an endowment established by an anonymous donor to commemorate the retirement of Henry Rosovsky, a distinguished economic historian of Japan, from the post of Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Funds from this endowment are divided between the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and RI. In 2013, RI expanded the range of support covered by this grant to include supplementary funding for students attending Harvard Summer School in Japan.

Harvard Summer Language Grant In 2007, in response to increased student interest in learning the Japanese language, RI created a grant for summer-time language study. The grant, initially available for students with two years of Japanese or equivalent and subsequently available for those with one year of study at Harvard, is intended to provide students with the opportunity to study the language in its home country and to explore Japanese culture. In addition to KCJS and IUC, mentioned above, students receive funding to study at accredited programs such as the Princeton in Ishikawa (PII) and Hokkaido International Foundation (HIF).

Harvard Japan Summer Internship Program For more than twenty-five years, Japanese studies at Harvard has provided opportunities for undergraduates to hold internships in Japan. Harvard College students are eligible to apply for summer placement in an organization in Japan to gain first-hand experience of the country’s culture, society, and business. Tazuko Monane, then director of the Japanese Language Program (JLP), began the program in 1988. Under the guidance Wesley Jacobsen, program director since 1993, the JLP continued its vital role in placing students in various internships. Initially, the program was open only to students with two years of Japanese. In 2005, RI began a major initiative to extend summer internship opportunities in Japan to a broader circle of students. As part of this effort, additional internships were established for students with little or no Japanese language; each year, such opportunities for students continue to expand with RI’s growing ties and network. The purpose is to advance Harvard’s goal of giving every College student an international experience by: • increasing the total number of internship opportunities in Japan and the funding necessary to support them; • extending opportunities to a broader circle of Harvard undergraduates, including those in the sciences, those with little or no prior training in the Japanese language, and those enterprising students who find internships in Japan on their own; • playing a key role in monitoring and coordinating the

numerous College-wide efforts that each year give students research, study, and internship opportunities in Japan; • offering all Harvard undergraduates going to Japan the preparation necessary for deriving maximum benefit from a stay there through a new orientation program; • providing an Internship Coordinator in Tokyo to serve as a resource over the summer. In cooperation with the JLP, USJRP, Harvard Club of Japan, HBS Tokyo office, Rotary Club of Okayama, OCS, several Harvard science departments, and other programs on campus, the Institute has significantly increased the number of internships. Since its inception, Harvard has sent more than 400 undergraduates to intern at companies and organizations in various locations such as Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima, Okayama, Tsukuba, Hokkaido, and Okinawa. Coordinating closely with the USJRP to maintain relationships with existing host organizations and to identify new hosts, the Institute sent 32 students on internships in summer 2015 and 23 in summer 2016. These included students whom RI placed in internships directly and those who self-arranged internships through different channels, including, but not limited to, alumni networks and faculty/departments. Working along with Harvard’s student service and resources offices, RI also supports students by providing them in some cases with small supplementary grants to enable them to deepen their cultural exposure while in Japan and by including them in orientation activities. (For names, see list.) Included in the above numbers are students whom RI supported as interns/volunteers with organizations in Japan for disaster relief in Tokyo and Tohoku areas in the aftermath of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011. In summer 2015, 5 students volunteered at the Ishinomaki Christian Center.

Harvard Summer School in Japan In summer 2007, under RI leadership, the Harvard Summer School initiated a credit-based, 8-week summer program in Japan. Initially on the campus of Waseda University, the program moved to Doshisha University in summer 2010. Students take two courses, and enrollment is open to Doshisha students as well.

In 2015 and 2016, courses included, “Japan—Tradition and Transformation,” taught by Mikael Adolphson (University of Cambridge); “Inequality and Society in Contemporary Japan,” taught by Mary C. Brinton (Harvard); and “Introduction to the Study of East Asian Religions,” taught by James Robson (Harvard). Noncredit Japanese language instruction with the Doshisha University staff is also provided for students who have no previous training in Japanese language.

RIKEN Programs and Other Opportunities for Science Students The ranks of undergraduates headed to Japan for study, internships, and travel are filled with students from a variety of academic concentrations. Students in the field of science, who in past years had fewer opportunities to go abroad than their classmates in the humanities and social sciences, now constitute over one third of the Harvard College students traveling to Japan with RI support. This trend has been facilitated through the RIKEN programs, established through the efforts of Takao Hensch of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Initiated in 2006 as an internship opportunity, the program at RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI) became a forcredit offering of HSS in summer 2008. Building on this foundation, Professor Hensch founded a similar internship program at RIKEN’s Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI) campus in Yokohama in summer 2008, which became an official HSS course in summer 2009 (for a list of courses, see Course Textbox at the end of this chapter). As of April 2013, RCAI has since become the Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS). Other programs include the Japan-U.S. Undergraduate Research Exchange Program (JUREP), founded and directed by John Doyle of the Physics Department, which sends students to physics labs at Japanese universities with funding from the RI internship program. RI provides a Summer Student Programs Coordinator in Japan for internship and summer school students. In summers 2015 and 2016, Hirokazu Yoshie served as the Coordinator.

Enrichment at Harvard Noma-Reischauer Undergraduate Essay Prize Each year RI conducts a competition to award the NomaReischauer Essay Prize of $1,000 to the best Harvard College student essay on a Japan-related topic. The Prize was established and supported from 1996 through 2010 by Kodansha Publishers in honor of Sawako Noma, President of Kodansha, and Professor Edwin O. Reischauer. Since fall 2011, the prize has been supported by RI and awarded in conjunction with the Tazuko Monane Prize for Language Study, given by Harvard’s Japanese Language Program. In 2014, the Prize winner was Midori Takasaki ’14, EAS, for “Just Because You Say It, Doesn’t Make it True: Revealing the Illogic Behind Arguments for Article 9 Revision.” In 2015, the Prize winner was Moeko Fujii ’15, History and Literature, for “Orienting Virginia Woolf: Japonisme in To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.”

Japan Prize, International Education Week Photo Contest In fall 2006, RI collaborated with OIE to inaugurate sponsorship of a Japan category within OIE’s annual Student International Photo Contest. For 2014-15, Qianyun Shi ’15, Visual and Environmental Studies (VES), received the prize for “Conveyor Belt Sushi,” taken in Tokyo. For 2015-16, Seniha Ipecki ’18, Neurobiology, was awarded the prize for “Mystic Love,” taken in Arashiyama, Kyoto.

Japanese Language Table Since fall 2008, RI has hosted a monthly Japanese language table at CGIS. Now co-hosted with USJRP, the language table provides a space for an enthusiastic group of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and USJRP research associates to converse in Japanese and to discuss a wide range of topics over lunch and beverages.

Support for Undergraduate Activities Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) Since 1979, the Institute has provided funds to enable Harvard undergraduates to participate in the annual JapanAmerica Student Conference (JASC). Founded in 1934, JASC is a student-run, non-profit educational and cultural exchange program. The program offers a month-long summer opportunity for students, half from the U.S. and half from Japan, to exchange views. Since 2008, it has been facilitated by the International Student Conferences, Inc. (iscdc.org). Previously, the JASC Executive Committee selected two Harvard delegates from among RI-nominated students. In recent years, students who wish to participate have taken the initiative to apply for the conference. RI has provided funding for their participation in cases where the support was crucial for their attendance. Sites for the conference, conducted in English, alternate between Japan and the U.S. In summer 2015, JASC hosted its 67th conference in four Japanese cities— Kyoto, Hiroshima, Shimane, and Tokyo (National Olympic Memorial Youth Center)—focusing on the theme, “Coming Together to Confront Our Past, Present and Future.” In summer 2016, JASC hosted its 68th conference in four cities in the U.S.—Boston, Washington, D.C., Missoula, and San Francisco—on the theme, “Addressing Our Changing Future: From Self and Community to the World.”

Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, founded in 1991 by Harvard undergraduates, strives to promote discourse on critical economic, political, and social issues surrounding the Asia Pacific region. Each year, HPAIR holds an academic conference in one of Asia’s leading cities. The conference now includes graduate students and has become the largest student-organized annual academic conference in Asia. Student delegates from around the world participate. The conference allows student delegates to interact with distinguished academics, prominent business leaders, diplomats, journalists, political figures, and celebrated artists.

The four-day program opens with an address, often made by a head of state, followed by concurrent workshops and forums. The schedule provides time for the delegates to tour the city and for graduate students to present research papers. RI, along with other Asia-related centers at Harvard, typically provides conference funding; in addition, it covers the travel expenses of Japanese studies faculty who participate. It also supports preparatory workshops at Harvard. During 2014-16, four HPAIR conferences were held: Harvard Conference 13-16 February 2015 Asia’s Blueprint for Growth: Building an Inclusive Future Asia Conference, Manila, Philippines 20-24 August 2015 Confronting Asia’s Development Challenges through Innovation Harvard Conference 12-15 February 2016 Transcending Borders: Global Cooperation on Emerging Challenges in Asia Asia Conference, Hong Kong 19-23 August 2016 Empower

Harvard College in Asia Program (HCAP) HCAP was founded in Fall 2003 by a group of undergraduate students eager to foster greater understanding between American and Asian youth primarily through exchange conferences with the top universities in Asia. Since 2007, the program has included The University of Tokyo on its roster. The conferences combine academic, cultural, and social activities. Students from both universities gather on the Harvard campus in February. The Japan portion of the exchange takes place in March during Harvard’s spring break. HCAP sponsors have included the Fairbank Center, Korea Institute, South Asia Institute, Harvard Undergraduate Council, Harvard College Women’s Center, Harvard Institute of Politics, Harvard International Relations Council, Harvard Global Health Institute, and RI.

2015 theme: Technology and our Generation: From the Individual to the World Harvard Conference, 18-25 January University of Tokyo Conference, 14-22 March 2016 theme: Equality, Tolerance and Freedom: the Effect of Culture and Policy in a Globalized World Harvard Conference, 16-24 January University of Tokyo Conference, 12-20 March

Harvard College Japan Initiative (HCJI) The Harvard College Japan Initiative was founded in 2008 to foster greater interaction and understanding between students from the United States and Japan. Its mission is to encourage Japanese students to rethink the Japanese educational system, exploring ways to improve it and to tackle the under-representation of Japanese students in universities outside of Japan, especially at Harvard. The group aims to inform Japanese high school and college students of opportunities to study in the U.S. and to guide interested students through the admissions and financial aid processes. Further, HCJI promotes the exchange of ideas and perspectives between Harvard students and Japanese students through discussions about political and social issues surrounding U.S.-Japan relations.

Harvard-Radcliffe Kendo Club Founded in 1990 by four undergraduates, the HarvardRadcliffe Kendo Club is one of the oldest collegiate kendo clubs in North America. Open to both undergraduate and graduate student members, the club maintains close ties with the Keio University Kendo Club, whose leader, Fumio Ueda, 7th dan kyoshi, is also the head coach of the Harvard team. Former RI Visiting Scholar Junji Himeno, 7th dan, was the coach of the team during his time at Harvard, and in 1997 former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, a leading kendo player, practiced with the club on a visit. The Institute provides partial support for the club’s annual tournament. Wesley Jacobsen serves as Harvard faculty advisor.

Harvard’s oldest martial arts club, the group holds practices, classes, and seminars at the Malkin Athletic Center and the Quadrangle Recreation and Athletic Center. In fall of 2015, the Aikikai held a memorial seminar for Sioux Hall (6th dan and sensei). The event was held at New England Aikikai and led by Harvard Aikikai’s Dolita Cathcart.

Harvard Anime Society The Harvard Anime Society (HAS) hosts showings, discussions, and events in a casual atmosphere to promote learning about Japanese culture. Activities are free and open to the public. In 2014-15, RI supported club members’ participation in Anime Boston, an annual convention that aims to celebrate and promote Japanese animation, comics, and popular culture through panels, presentation, and live performances of guest artists from Japan.

Harvard-Radcliffe Chado Society A student group dedicated to learning chanoyu (“Japanese tea ceremony”), the organization strives to learn the traditional ways to prepare, serve, and drink tea. The group is officially an undergraduate organization, but it also welcomes graduate students, non-student Harvard affiliates, and non-Harvard students. Participants learn tea in the tradition of the Urasenke School, and the instructors are all members of Urasenke Boston, the local affiliate of the Kyoto-based Urasenke organization. The head of the international organization is Sen Soshitsu XVI, a direct descendant of one of the first Japanese tea masters, Sen no Rikyu. RI supports club events, including weekly meetings and occasional tea ceremonies.

Harvard Aikido Club RI provides support to the Harvard Aikido Club (Aikikai), which brings together Harvard students to practice aikido and to study the principles and techniques behind the sport.

Undergraduate Japan Experience 2014-2015 Study Abroad in Japan Maura McGrath ’16 Folklore and Mythology, Waseda University

Michael Bambrick ’18 Undeclared, Keio University Dept. of Biosciences and Informatics (Tokyo)

Kathy Tran ’16 Linguistics, Keio University (Spring 2015)

Deriam Chirinos ’17 Economics, Volunteer at Ishinomaki Christian Center (Tohoku area)

Henry Rosovsky Summer Research Travel Grant

Allejah Franco ’16 History and Literature, NEXT Law Firm (Tokyo)

Cansu Colakoglu ’16 Social Studies, Legal Approaches to the Gender Inequality in the Japanese Labor Markets

Miles Graham ’16 EAS, U.S. Consulate (Nagoya)

Harriet Kariuki ’16 Government, China vs. Japan: The Soft Power Quest in Kenya

Javier Gutierrez ’16 Neurobiology, Tokyo Gas (Tokyo) Sumire Hirotsuru ’16 Music, teamLab (Tokyo)

Maura McGrath ’16 Folklore and Mythology, Modern Representations of Kevin Huang ’18 Undeclared, Active Learning (Tokyo) Japanese Folklore in the Yuru-Kyara Phenomenon Alex Kirby ’17 Brooke Nowakowski ’16 EAS, Education Doubled: An Ethnography of Alternative Human Evolutionary Biology, Active Learning (Tokyo) School Communities in Okinawa-ken, Japan Luka Kordic ’17 Mathematics, Volunteer at Ishinomaki Kathy Tran ’16 Christian Center (Tohoku area) Linguistics, Life Outside the Club: Linguistic Ethnography on the Experience of Hostesses in Japan Masahiro Kusunoki ’17 Government, Monex (Tokyo)

Summer Language Grants and Support

Jenny Lai ’17

HIF = Hokkaido International Foundation, Hakodate IUC = Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama KCJS = Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies, Kyoto PII = Princeton in Ishikawa, Kanazawa

Allura Landsberg ’18 Undeclared, RIKEN Brain Science Institute (Tokyo)

Ashley Asencios ’17, EAS, PII Shane Campayne ’18, Undeclared, PII Alkmini Chalofti ’18, Undeclared, PII Rachel Gosselin ’18, Undeclared, HIF Christopher Jury ’17, EAS, IUC Shenghan Lu ’17, Psychology, KCJS Hannah McCormack ’18, Undeclared, PII Max Mondelli ’18, Undeclared, KCJS Kayi Okine ’17, Chem. and Phys. Biol. (CPB), PII William Sack ’17, EAS, PII Patrick Sanguineti ’17, Classics, PII Ashwin Skelly ’17, Chemistry, PII Jiacheng Zhao ’18, Undeclared, KCJS

Harvard College Japan Summer Internship Program Olayinka Akintujoye ’16 Government, Inter Media Japan (Tokyo) Nadia Ali ’17 Economics, Active Learning (Tokyo) Saad Amer ’16 Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB), Photography with Asami Kiyokawa (Tokyo) Guan Chen ’17 OEB, Institution for a Global Society (Tokyo)

Human Developmental & Regenerative Biology (HDRB), RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (Kobe)

Tyler Levine ’18 Undeclared, ISA, Inc. (various locations in Japan) Christie Lin ’17 Economics, P&E Directions (Tokyo) Salash Nabaala ’18 Undeclared, Volunteer at Ishinomaki Christian Center (Tohoku area) Showly Nicholson ’16 EAS, Takenaka Carpentry Tools Museum (Kobe) Job Nyaosi ’17 Economics, Volunteer at Ishinomaki Christian Center (Tohoku area) Eugene O’Friel ’17 Physics, Kyoto University, Quantum Optics Group (Kyoto) Kojin Oshiba ’18 Undeclared, East Ventures and Ryu-Fellow (Tokyo) Evelyn Ramirez ’17 Government, Showa Women’s University (Tokyo) Ketsia Saint-Armand ’15 Social Studies, Volunteer at Ishinomaki Christian Center (Tohoku area) David Song ’16 Social Studies, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting (Tokyo)

Kathy Tran ’16 Linguistics, Showa Women’s University (Tokyo) Mirza Uddin ’18 Undeclared, J-Seed Ventures, Inc. (Tokyo) Alvin Wei ’18 Undeclared, Institution for a Global Society (Tokyo) Brian Wei ’18 Undeclared, Active Learning (Tokyo) Amy Zeng ’16 Applied Mathematics, Office of Representative Taro Kono (Tokyo) Larry Zhang ’18 Undeclared, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (Yokohama)

Harvard Summer School in Japan at Doshisha University, Kyoto Kieran Austin ’18, Undeclared Tallulah Axinn ’18, Undeclared Michael Dybala ’17, Statistics Nicole Flett ’18, Undeclared Qiuqiu Gao ’17, Applied Mathematics Jacob Gollub ’17, Statistics Kaiyue Lu ’18, Undeclared Timothy Makalinao ’18, Undeclared Kelwen Peng ’17, Computer Science (CS) Anthony Volk ’18, Undeclared Peter Youn ’18, Undeclared

Harvard Summer School at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo Frances Ding ’17, HDRB

Harvard Summer School at RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama Samuel Murphy ’17, CPB Thuy Nam ’17, Molecular & Cellular Biology (MCB)

Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) Stéphane Fouché ’15, EAS

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) 10-Day Workshop 2015 Ernest Afflu ’16, OEB Ryan Boyland ’17, Neurobiology William Cho ’18, Undeclared Enchi Chang ’17, Neurobiology Nicholas Lee ’15, OEB Jamasb Sayadi ’17, HDRB Anthony Thai ’17, Neurobiology Christine Zhang ’18, Undeclared Noemi Urquiza ’17, Neurobiology

Undergraduate Japan Experience 2015-2016 Henry Rosovsky Summer Research Travel Grant Ash Asencios ’17 EAS, New Love in Modern Japan: An Ethnography of International Couples in Tokyo William Sack ’17 EAS / History, Soy in the Making of Japanese Manchuria Patrick Sanguineti ’17 Classics, Religion and Rulership in Augustan Rome and Meiji Japan

Summer Language Grants and Support Shane Campayne ’18, EAS, IUC Patric Cao ’18, MCB, KCJS Peace Madubuonwu ’19, Undeclared, PII Anthony Volk ’18, Government, PII Amanda Yang ’19, Undeclared, PII Xiaoyue Zhang ’19, Undeclared, HIF

Melissa McIntosh ’17 Astrophysics / Engineering Sciences, University of Tokyo, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Tokyo) Max Mondelli ’18 Government, Jenerate Partners, Inc. (Tokyo) Maxon Moulton ’18 VES, teamLab (Tokyo)

Matthias Pergams ’19 Undeclared, Active Learning (Tokyo) Rena Simkowitz ’19 Undeclared, Wall Street Journal (Tokyo) Hunter Simmons ’17 CS, Internet Business Japan (Tokyo) Ibrahim Syed ’19 Undeclared, Venture Republic, Inc. (Tokyo) Haruka Uchida ’18 Economics, Harvard Business School Japan Research Center (Tokyo)

Kieran Austin ’18 EAS, ISA, Inc. (various locations in Japan)

Xiaoyu Wang ’19 Undeclared, Active Learning (Tokyo)

Michael Bambrick ’18 Neurobiology, Keio University Laboratory for Rehabilitation Neuroscience (Yokohama)

Harvard Summer School in Japan at Doshisha University, Kyoto

Olivia Campbell ’17 EAS, Showa Women’s University and teamLab (Tokyo) Connor Cook ’17 HAA, Schemata Architects (Tokyo) Javier Gutierrez ’16 Neurobiology, Institution for a Global Society x Z-kai (Tokyo) Tuong Huynh ’18 Engineering Sciences, Active Learning (Tokyo) Michaela Kane ’18 Statistics, Hokkaido Japanese Language School (Sapporo) and Come on Out (Tokyo) Priyanka Kumar ’18 HDRB, Brain Science Institute (Tokyo) Anthony Kuno-Lewis ’19 Undeclared, Hotel Sekifu (Fuefuki) Eunice Lee ’17 History and Science, University of Tokyo Policy Alternatives Research Institute (Tokyo) Cassandra Lowell ’17 Engineering Sciences, Hiroshima University (Hiroshima) Gavin McDowell ’18 CS, HDE, Inc. and Internet Business Japan (Tokyo)

Steven Ban ’18, CPB Tuong Huynh ’18, Engineering Sciences Melody Tong ’18, Neurobiology Chloe Warinner ’16, Neurobiology

Courtney Okwara ’18 Chemistry, Showa Women’s University (Tokyo)

Harvard College Japan Summer Internship Program

Benjamin Betik ’17 Economics, Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (Tokyo)

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) 10-Day Workshop 2016

(All participating students from Harvard were “Undeclared” majors.)

Michelle Borbon ’19 Louiza Bovaeva ’19 Radhika Goyal ’19 Maciej Holubiec ’19 Christopher Hopson ’19 Liam Kerr ’19 Yilun Li ’19 Nicholas Santiago ’19 Hehe Shen ’19 Antonio Soriano ’19 Lora Stoyanova ’19 Elizabeth Sun ’19 Amy Zhao ’19

Harvard Summer School at RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Tokyo Omar Sorour ’18, Neurobiology Wynne Stagnaro ’18, Neurobiology Mien Wang ’18, CS and Mathematics Jessica Yamada ’18, MCB

Harvard Summer School at RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama Andrew Chang ’18, HDRB Bovey Rao ’19, Undeclared Christopher Tse ’17, Neurobiology

Support for Graduate Student Training Research and Training Support RI supports GSAS and the future development of Japanese studies by providing a range of fellowships and grants to Harvard graduate students.

Dissertation Completion/ Supplementary Dissertation Research Grants The Institute awards Dissertation Completion Grants to support advanced graduate students in the full-time write up of their dissertations. The Supplementary Dissertation Research Grants provide graduate students whose fieldwork was initially supported through external funding sources (such as Fulbright and the Japan Foundation) with the opportunity to extend their time in Japan to complete their research or to conduct research in other parts of the world. And, in the case of doctoral students who are not U.S. citizens and thus are ineligible for many of the major fellowships that support fieldwork in Japan, these grants provide the core funding for their fieldwork. For 2014-16, RI awarded Dissertation Completion or Supplementary Dissertation Research Grants to 17 doctoral students, 6 in 2014-15 and 11 in 2015-16, representing a cross-section of academic departments: Anthropology, Comparative Literature, EALC, EALC/HEAL, History, History of Art and Architecture, and Religion.

Summer Research Travel Grants for Graduate Students The Institute’s summer research travel and language grants allow graduate students to deepen their knowledge of Japan, maintain and improve their Japanese language skills, and develop ideas, investigate sources, and build contacts in Japan for future dissertation research. In the case of comparative projects that include Japan, graduate students also may apply for funding to conduct research in another country. RI annually awards Graduate Summer Research Travel Grants for these diverse purposes. In 2014-16, RI gave 34 Summer Research Travel Grants to Japanese studies graduate students in the humanities and social sciences, 19 for Summer 2015 and 15 for Summer 2016.

Summer Language Study Grants for Graduate Students RI provides grants to graduate students (both Ph.D. and M.A.) to support summer language study in programs in Japan and elsewhere. Especially in the social sciences, some students develop their interest in Japan only after entering graduate school and need summer study to build their Japanese language skills to research-level competence. Normally the language is Japanese, although students whose research would be furthered by another language or who are engaged in comparative research that involves Japan may apply for support to study other languages. In 2014-16, RI gave 23 Summer Language Study Grants to graduate students, 11 for Summer 2015 and 12 for Summer 2016.

Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Graduate students with two years of Japanese language training who want to devote an academic year to full-time advanced Japanese language study may apply to the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies Program (IUC), located in Yokohama. On behalf of Harvard, RI supports IUC by providing a yearly fee that covers, among other expenses, tuition remission of $5,000 for each Harvard student attending IUC.

Noma-Reischauer Graduate Student Essay Prize Each year, RI conducts a competition to award the NomaReischauer Essay Prize of $1,500 for the best Harvard graduate student essay on a Japan-related topic. The Prize was established and supported from 1996 through 2010 by Kodansha Publishers in honor of Sawako Noma, President of Kodansha, and Professor Edwin O. Reischauer. Since Fall 2011, the prize has been supported by RI and awarded in conjunction with the Tazuko Monane Prize for Language Study, given by Harvard’s Japanese Language Program. The 2014 winner was Dana Mirsalis ’14, RSEA, for her essay, “Modernizing Ōmoto: Legitimacy, Authority, and Gender in Ōmoto’s Chinkon Kishin Boom (1916-1921).” The prize winner for 2015 was Stephanie Hsuan-Chia Chen ’15, RSEA, for her essay, “Marriage, Employment, and Fertility in Japan: The Effectiveness of Pronatalist Policies under a Gendered Social Reality.”

Professional and Write-up Support Professional Development The Institute seeks to contribute to the professional development of graduate students in a variety of ways. Beginning in 200506, RI made space available for doctoral students engaged in dissertation write-up (see Advancing Research). The Institute provides funds for graduate students to meet to discuss their research in progress. Students also have the opportunity to interact with RI visiting scholars, informally or through the Student Host Program (see Advancing Research). In addition, RI provides small grants to graduate students to allow them to present papers at conferences or professional meetings, for the purpose of disseminating their dissertation or other research as well as to promote their professional development. For those fields in which job interviews are held at professional meetings, students may apply to RI for small grants to cover their travel costs. RI awarded 27 professional development grants in 2014-16.

Support for Dissertation Writers Groups RI recognizes that writing a dissertation can be a lonely pursuit and that many students benefit from support and comments from their peers. The Institute makes funding available to groups of graduate students in Japanese studies who wish to meet on a regular basis to discuss their dissertations.

Support for Graduate Student Groups

Harvard East Asia Society The Harvard East Asia Society is organized by students in the RSEA (Master’s degree) program and is open to all those with an interest in East Asian cultures, history, and society. Students organize individual talks and an annual spring conference designed to provide an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students from the U.S. and elsewhere to exchange ideas and discuss current research on East Asia with peers, professors, and professionals. In 2015 and 2016, the conference was cosponsored by the Graduate School Council (2015) and WCFIA, along with the Asia-related Centers including the Asia Center, Fairbank Center (2016), Korea Institute (2016), and RI. The 18th annual HEAS graduate student conference was held 20-22 February 2015 on the theme, “Asia in Transformation.” Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, and former Ambassador the late Stephen Bosworth gave the keynote addresses. The 19th annual conference was held 20-21 February 2016 on the theme, “[Re]imagining Asia.” Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, and Karen Thornber, Professor of Comparative Literature and EALC, gave the keynote addresses.

Harvard Asia Quarterly The Harvard Asia Quarterly was established in 1997 by students in GSAS and other Harvard graduate schools as an interdisciplinary journal of current affairs in Asia. It is affiliated with the Harvard Asia Center. Funding is provided by the Asia Center, Fairbank Center, South Asia Initiative, KI, and RI.

Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum Buddhist studies is a highly interdisciplinary and crossregional field, and RI joins with other programs at Harvard in supporting research activities in this area of research. In 2014-16, RI contributed support to the following lectures: 3 November 2014 Mark Rowe, McMaster University From Bikers to Bodhisattvas: Female Priests in Contemporary Japan 21 September 2015 Heather Blair, Indiana University Hell is Hilarious! Buddhist Hell and Secularity in Post-War Japanese Picture Books 21 March 2016 Shea Ingram, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University Social Networking in the East Asian Buddhist World in the Late 12th Century

Graduate Research and Training 2014-15 Academic Year Dissertation Completion Grants Hansun Hsiung, EALC Republic of Letters, Empire of Textbooks; Japan in the Birth of Global Distance Learning, 1790-1895 Shi Lin Loh, EALC/HEAL Rentogen and Instrumental Modernity: Japan’s Irradiated Past, 1896-1950s Yurika Wakamatsu, EALC Painting in Between: Gender and Modernity in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)

Academic Year Supplementary Dissertation Research Grants Julia Alekseyeva, Comparative Literature

Kino-Eye, Kino-Bayonet: Vertov’s Legacy in the French and Japanese New Wave

Katherine Brooks, HAA Printed Things: Medium, Texture, and Poetry in Japanese Surimono Michael Thornton, History Sapporo: Building City, State and Empire, 1800-1886

Summer Research Travel Grants for Graduate Students Peter Bernard, EALC Into the Darkness of the Past: Gothic Temporalities in Japanese Literature Mycah Brazelton-Braxton, EALC “Towards a New Conscience of the Era”: The Political Motivations of Japanese Surrealism Zoe Eddy, Anthropology The Earth Sings for Itself: Environmental Degradation and Colonialization in Hokkaido, Japan Sijia Gao, RSEA Redefining Spaces: Theatre Reform Movements and the Modernization of Noh in Post-Meiji Era Amin Ghadimi, EALC/HEAL The Global Meiji Restoration: Rescuing 1868 from the Nation Ryan Glasnovich, EALC/HEAL Walking the Beat from Edo to Tokyo: The Nineteenth Century Transformation of the Japanese Police Fabienne Helfenberger, HAA Preliminary Dissertation Research on Kaiho Yūshō (1533-1615) and His Paintings of Zen Patriarchs Rui Hua, EALC/HEAL Japanese Colonialism and the Unmaking of the Manchurian Borderland: Collaborationist Utopias, Colonial Domination and the Making of Manchukuo, 1900-1945 Yusung Kim, EALC Techno-Fantasy in Japan and South Korea during the Cold War: The Imagination of Techno-Oriented Futures through Visual and Textual Representations

Gregory Logan, Architecture, GSD Four Thick Dimensions: Time, Atmosphere, and Narrative during the Japanese Rainy Season Huijin Mai, EALC Censored Chinese Poetry and Its Canonization in Medieval Japan Gozan Literary Culture Dana Mirsalis, EALC Research and Training at Kawahara Shrine in Nagoya, Japan Jihoon Song, Urban Planning, GSD Open Space Planning in Tokyo: Appraisal from Diversity and Accessibility Perspectives Eric Swanson, EALC The Subjugation of Original Hindrance in Esoteric Buddhist Ritual: Myoo and the Function of Subjugation in the Writings of Godaiin Annen Maria Joelle Tapas, EALC Re-Imagining Empire in Japanese Occupation Films and Literatures Taro Tsuda, EALC/HEAL Party Politics in the Era of High-Speed Economic Growth Floris van Swet, EALC/HEAL Rōnin in Japan and Beyond Nissanka Wijeyeratne, History Red Sun Rising: Big Science, Big Government, and the Japanese Space Program, 1924-2003 Qiong Miya Xie, Comparative Literature The Literary Territorialization of Manchuria: Spatial Imagination and Modern East Asian Literature

Joel Wing-Lun, EALC/HEAL PII, Kanazawa Sora Yang, RSEA IUC, Yokohama

Conference Attendance Grants for Graduate Students Peter Bernard, EALC Association of Japanese Literary Studies Annual Conference, Bellingham, WA Ethan Bushelle, EALC

Association for Asian Studies Conference (AAS), Chicago

Yuting Dong, EALC/HEAL Asian Studies Conference, Tokyo Yuting Dong, EALC/HEAL Modern Japan History Workshop at UPenn Amin Ghadimi, EALC/HEAL PreModern and Early Japan Workshop at Yale Ryan Glasnovich, EALC/HEAL PreModern and Early Japan Workshop at Yale Hansun Hsiung, EALC/HEAL AAS, Chicago Rui Hua, EALC/HEAL AAS, Chicago Shi Lin Loh, EALC/HEAL History of Science Conference, Chicago Kathleen Lynch, Education Policy, GSE Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

Summer Language Study Grants for Graduate Students

Danny Orbach, History Modern Japan History Workshop at UPenn

Keung Yoon Becky Bae, EALC HIF, Hakodate, Hokkaido

Sean O'Reilly, EALC/Heal Univ. of Pittsburgh Film Studies Graduate Student Organization “Special Affects” Conference, Pittsburgh, PA

Julia Cross, EALC International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Sean O'Reilly, EALC/Heal UCLA Japan Studies Graduate Conference

Daniel Joseph, RSEA IUC, Yokohama

Jonas Ruegg, RSEA PreModern and Early Japan Workshop at Yale

Anna Jungeun Lee, EALC/HEAL PII, Kanazawa

Rachel Saunders, EALC Shotoku Taishi Workshop, Cambridge, MA and Washington DC

Yi Louis Lu, History IUC, Yokohama Graeme Reynolds, EALC/HEAL IUC, Yokohama Jonas Ruegg, RSEA International Chinese Language Program at National Taiwan University, Taiwan Dylan Suher, EALC KCJS, Kyoto Li Wen Tan, EALC KCJS, Kyoto

Hannah Shepherd, History PreModern and Early Japan Workshop at Yale Floris van Swet, EALC/HEAL PreModern and Early Japan Workshop at Yale Yurika Wakamatsu, EALC Reconstructing the Concept of Art in Japan Workshop at Univ. of Chicago Qiong Miya Xie, Comparative Literature AAS, Chicago

Graduate Research and Training 2015-16 Academic Year Dissertation Completion Grants Julia Alekseyeva, Comparative Literature Kino-Eye, Kino-Bayonet: The Legacy of Dziga Vertov in the French and Japanese Political Avant-Garde Katherine Brooks, HAA Something Rubbed: Medium, Texture, and Poetry in Japanese Surimono Andrew Littlejohn, Anthropology After the Flood – The Politics of Reconstrcution in Post-3.11 Tohoku Adam Lyons, Religion Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan Xiaolu Ma, Comparative Literature The Vital Link: Japan as an Intermediary in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Transcultural Relationships Chiaki Nishijima, Anthropology Tokyo Jukujo: Sexual Commerce in a Precarious Age

Fabienne Helfenberger, HAA Nikko and Beyond – A Study of Tokugawa Mausolea Architecture Rui Hua, EALC/HEAL The Defiant Manchukuo: Sino-Russo-Japanese Collaboration and the Making of the Japanese Empire on the Frontiers, 1900-1945 Andrew Littlejohn, Anthropology After the Flood – The Politics of Reconstrcution in Post-3.11 Tohoku Dana Mirsalis, EALC Interviews with Female Priests and Fieldwork at Kawahara Shrine Jonas Ruegg, RSEA Archival Work at the National Archives of Japan Eric Swanson, EALC Esoteric Buddhism Discourse and the Rhetoric of Ritual Subjugation in Pre-modern Japan Maria Joelle Tapas, EALC Children's Country: Youth, Media, and Citizenship in Japan's Pacific War

Hirokazu Yoshie, EALC/HEAL Framing Power and Authority: The Emperor's Portrait Michael Thornton, History Building Sapporo: City and State in the Global in Education and Schools in Japan, 1890-1945 Nineteenth Century

Academic Year Supplementary Dissertation Research Grants

Steffani Bennett, HAA The China Years – Sessū Tōyō and Fifteenth-Century Ming Painting Peter Durayappah-Harrison, Anthropology

Remaking Rural Japan: Responses to the TransPacific Partnership and the Neoliberalism of Japanese Agriculture

Hannah Shepherd, History Cities into Empire: Fukuoka, Pusan, and Japan's Imperial Urbanization, 1900-1953 Taro Tsuda, EALC/HEAL Sato Eisaku and the Establishment of Single-Party Rule in Postwar Japan

Summer Research Travel Grants for Graduate Students Xu Gabby Chen, RSEA Locating Tradition in the Japanese Sartorial Representation– An Ethnographic Case Study on Contemporary Fashion in Japan Julia Cross, EALC The Sacred Corpses and Relics of Premodern Japanese Art and Doctrine Yuting Dong, EALC/HEAL Imperial Encounters and the Transformation of Contact Zones Zoe Eddy, Anthropology Continued Archaeology and Indigenous Outreach Programming in Hokkaido, Japan

Kimberlee Sanders, EALC IUC, Yokohama Catherine Tsai, EALC/HEAL KCJS, Kyoto Yung-chang Tung, EALC KCJS, Kyoto Lillian Wies, RSEA IUC, Yokohama Sungik Yang, RSEA IUC, Yokohama

Conference Attendance Grants for Graduate Students Julia Alekseyeva, Comparative Literature Coming to Terms with Film Philosophy Conference, Toronto Manuel Azuaje-Alamo, Comparative Literature American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Cambridge, MA Sijia Gao, RSEA Association of Japanese Literary Studies Annual Conference at Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Nathan Vedal, EALC Archival Research on Tokugawa Period Texts at the University of Tsukuba Library

Daniel Joseph, RSEA Association of Japanese Literary Studies Annual Conference at Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Rebecca Voelcker, Film and Visual Studies Filming the Everyday: Poetics of Observation in Japanese Artist, Experimental and Ethnographic Cinema, 1960-2016

Jesse Lefebvre, EALC International Institute for Asian Studies Conference, Singapore

Qiong Miya Xie. Comparative Literature The Literary Territorialization of Manchuria: Spatial Imagination and Modern Identities in East Asia

Summer Language Study Grants for Graduate Students Daniel Borengasser, EALC IUC, Yokohama

Eunsil Oh, Sociology Association for Asian Studies in Asia Conference, Kyoto Jonas Ruegg, RSEA German Language Conference on Japanese Studies, Munich Michael Thornton, History UK Urban History Group's Annual Conference, Cambridge, England

Elizabeth Denny, EALC IUC, Yokohama Juhee Kang, RSEA KCJS, Kyoto Sara Klingenstein, Religion KCJS, Kyoto Bradford (Reed) Knappe, History IUC, Yokohama Anna Jungeun Lee, EALC/HEAL IUC, Yokohama Anne-Sophie Pratte, IAAS IUC, Yokohama

Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum Enrichment Grants In the educational experience of Harvard College students, General Education (Gen Ed) courses, formerly Core courses, play a crucial and central role. As such, the Institute mounted a major initiative to increase the number of these courses dealing with Japan. The Institute also supported non-Japan specialists to add material on Japan to Harvard College courses they already offered or were developing. Cumulatively these courses have played an important role in bringing Japan more fully into the undergraduate educational experience. Harvard College Core/Gen Ed Courses Developed under the Curriculum Enrichment Grant Program

Other Harvard College Courses Augmented with New Material on Japan

Ryūichi Abé, EALC Core: Foreign Cultures: Buddhism and Japanese Culture Gen Ed: Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding: Buddhism and Japanese Culture

Sven Beckert, History Nineteenth-Century Capitalism: Great Britain, the United States, Germany, and Japan

Mikael Adolphson, EALC, and Andrew Gordon, History Core: Historical Study: Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization: Japan

Barry Burden, Government Electoral Politics in America and Japan

Theodore C. Bestor, Anthropology Core: Foreign Cultures: Tokyo Gen Ed: Societies of the World: Tokyo Theodore C. Bestor, Anthropology Core: Social Analysis: Food and Culture Harold Bolitho, EALC Core: Historical Study: Constructing the Samurai Daniel Botsman, History Core: Historical Study: Japan’s Modern Revolution Mary C. Brinton, Sociology Gen Ed: Societies of the World: Inequality and Society in 21st-Century East Asia Andrew Gordon, History Core: Historical Study: Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization: Japan Gen Ed: Societies of the World: Japan in Asia and the World Adam Kern, EALC Core: Literature and Arts: Japan Pop! From Bashō to Banana Shigehisa Kuriyama, EALC Gen Ed: Culture and Belief: Medicine and the Body in East Asia and Europe Yukio Lippit, HAA Core: Literature and Arts: The Japanese Woodblock Print Ian J. Miller, History Core: Historical Study: Japan’s Modern Revolution Gen Ed: Societies of the World: Japan’s Modern Revolution (2010-11) / Japan's Samurai Revolution (2011-12 and beyond) Jay Rubin, EALC Core: Literature and Arts: Five Japanese Portraits

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Nahomi Ichino, Government Political Institutions in Democracies and Non-Democracies José Antonio Mazzotti, Romance Languages and Literatures Chronicles of the New World José Antonio Mazzotti, Romance Languages and Literatures Latin American Cultures Jens Meierhenrich, Social Studies Crimes Against Humanity Kimberly Theidon, Anthropology Memory Politics: Truth, Justice, Redress Kay Warren, Anthropology Ethnography of Latin America: Views from The Pacific Rim

Support for Departmental Teaching RI encourages faculty and departments to invite outstanding scholars or others with a specialized knowledge of Japan to Harvard in order to enhance the educational experience in their particular field. The Institute provides funding to support the costs. Typically, visitors appear in classes and meet with students and faculty. The Institute also offers support to Harvard faculty who seek to travel to Japan for purposes that will contribute in some way to the educational experience of students. During 2014-16, departmental teaching was supported in the following ways: Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Since 2009-10, the Institute has funded a preceptorship in the Japanese Language Program. On 12 October 2014, RI supported a workshop on Chigoima art scrolls, led by Ryūichi Abé and Melissa McCormick as part of their respective EAS concentration courses, “Major Religious Texts of East Asia,” and “Medieval Japanese Picture Scrolls.” The workshop discussed medieval art works and their Buddhist and religious significance. Graduate School of Design In spring 2015, RI supported the visit of Toru Mitani as master teacher in the course, “Teaching Creativity: Landscape Architecture, Originality, and Autobiography.” On 6 April 2015, the head of the Ohara School of Ikebana, Mr. Hiroki Ohara, demonstrated ikebana techniques to the Harvard community. RI supported the lecture, organized by the GSD, which consisted of live demonstration as well as discussion on Japanese aestheticism, tradition, and conserving such artistic forms in the contemporary world.

Introducing Study/Travel Component into Harvard College Courses To enhance the educational experience of Harvard’s students, RI on an experimental basis has provided funding that has made it possible, on several occasions, for a faculty member to take an entire classroom of students on a study trip to Japan for up to ten days as part of a course, typically during Harvard’s Spring Break.

Supporting the Curriculum Outside the Classroom The interest in Japan is broad among Harvard faculty and students and among the general public, and extends to numerous art forms associated with Japanese popular culture, including film, kabuki, Noh drama, the martial arts, tea ceremony, ikebana, and many others. The Institute plays an active role in sponsoring activities in which these cultural forms are linked to the educational mission of the University. Videogame Workshop With support from the Office of Undergraduate Education, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and RI, Helen Hardacre and Alexander Zahlten led a workshop on “Teaching Videogames” on 16 April 2016. The workshop explored the issues involving teaching videogames as part of a university syllabus (see Advancing Research). Harvard Film Archive The Reischauer Institute has sponsored film series at Harvard since 1974 and has collaborated with the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) since 1994, with the Institute supporting tickets for students, gatherings, speakers, and, on occasion, purchases of iconic films to enhance the curriculum.

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HFA 2015-16

Academic Exchange Agreements

HFA and RI presented the series, “Almost like a Horror Film—the Cinema of Nobuhiko Obayashi,” on 15-16 November 2015. The twoday series was organized with support from The Japan Foundation and in collaboration with Aaron Gerow at Yale and Alexander Zahlten.

RI has established a number of academic exchange agreements with universities in Japan. The initial agreement was with Kokugakuin University, beginning in July 2000 and renewed every five years. RI has hosted a number of Visiting Scholars from Kokugakuin, and Harvard Japan studies graduate students have received accommodations and extensive assistance in their research at Kokugakuin.

See http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2015sepnov/ obayashi.html From 13 May-2 June 2016, HFA in conjunction with RI presented the film series, “Time and Place are Nonsense! The Cinema According to Seijun Suzuki.” The series followed the life and career of this actor, filmmaker, and screenwriter, known for pushing the boundaries of Japanese films, society, and traditions. The series was organized with support from The Japan Foundation and the Freer and Sackler Galleries at the Smithsonian Institute, with a generous offer to showcase the events at the Brattle Theatre. See http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2016marmay/ suzuki.html Other Film Screenings On 25 February 2015, GSD presented a film screening of and discussion on, “Live Your Dream: the Taylor Anderson Story,” a film by Regge Life. Co-sponsored by the Loeb Library Materials Collection, JapanGSD, and RI, the event focused on a young American woman’s dedication to teaching Japanese children. On 3 December 2015, “Containment,” a documentary film on nuclear waste, premiered at Harvard. RI supported the filming of the project and its premier.

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In Fall 2011, RI concluded an exchange arrangement with Taishō University for the purpose of promoting academic research. The agreement includes exchange of faculty members, advanced graduate students, and other items of mutual benefit, to be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Also in Fall 2011, RI concluded an agreement with Rissho University for the promotion of mutual exchange among faculty, researchers and doctoral students.

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Courses on Japan at Harvard 2014-16 Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Graduate Seminars in General Education

General Education (Gen Ed)

Animated Spirituality: Japanese Religion in Anime, Manga, and Film Helen Hardacre

Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding: Buddhism and Japanese Culture Ryūichi Abé Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding: East Asian Cinema Jie Li Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding: Literature and Medicine Karen Thornber Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding: Anime as Global Culture (Cross-listed with East Asian Film and Media Studies) Tomiko Yoda

Freshman Seminars Oceans and Culture Theodore C. Bestor The Pleasure of Japanese Poetry: Reading, Writing, and Translation Edwin A. Cranston Money and Other Virtual Realities Shigehisa Kuriyama The Atomic Bomb in History and Culture Everett I. Mendelsohn

Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding: Global Japanese Cinema (Cross-listed with East Asian Film and Media Studies) Alexander Zahlten

Anthropology

Culture and Belief: Studying Buddhism, Across Place and Time Janet Gyatso

Ethnographic of Food Theodore C. Bestor

Culture and Belief: Animated Spirituality: Japanese Religion in Anime, Manga, and Film Helen Hardacre Culture and Belief: Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe Shigehisa Kuriyama Culture and Belief: Introduction to the Study of East Asian Religions James Robson Culture and Belief: East Asian Religions: Traditions and Transformations James Robson Societies of the World: Tokyo Theodore C. Bestor Societies of the World: Japan in Asia and the World Andrew Gordon and David Howell Societies of the World: Japan’s Samurai Revolution Ian J. Miller and David Howell United States in the World: Forced to be Free: Americans as Occupiers and Nation-Builders Andrew Gordon and Erez Manela

Anthropology of Urbanism: Japan in Comparative Perspective Theodore C. Bestor

Tasting Food: Politics, Science and the Senses Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna Being Asian American: Representations and Realities Christine Yano Anthropology of Consumer Cultures Christine Yano Comparative Literature Literature, Diaspora, and Global Trauma Karen Thornber East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) East Asian Studies Major Religious Texts of East Asia Ryūichi Abé Global Cities in East Asia Nara Dillon Approaches to the Comparative History of Medicine and the Body Shigehisa Kuriyama

Writing Asian Poetry David McCann

Courses on Japan at Harvard 2014-16 Medieval Japanese Picture Scrolls Melissa McCormick

Kambun Sachiko Kawai

East Asian Language Tutorials James Robson

Later Classical Japanese Edwin A. Cranston

Introduction to the Study of East Asia: Issues and Methods James Robson The Study of East Asian Religions James Robson Japan and the World Susan J. Pharr East Asian Buddhist Studies Japanese Buddhist Doctrine and Monastic Culture Ryūichi Abé Ritual and Text in Japanese Buddhist Literature Ryūichi Abé Major Issues in the Study of Japanese Religions Helen Hardacre East Asian Film and Media Studies Media Mix: Representations and Meaning Between Media in Japan Alexander Zahlten East Asian Media Studies Alexander Zahlten Japanese Language Elementary Japanese (2 courses each year) Yuko Kageyama-Hunt 2014-15 / Ikue Shingu 2015-16 Intermediate Japanese I (2 courses each year) Ikue Shingu 2014-15 / Miki Yagi 2015-16 Intermediate Japanese II (2 courses each year) Miki Yagi 2014-15 / Wakana Maekawa 2015-16 Advanced Modern Japanese (2 courses each year) Yasuko Matsumoto 2014-15 / Yuko Kageyama-Hunt 2015-16 Readings and Discussion in Japanese Social Sciences (2 courses each year) Yasuko Matsumoto 2014-15 / Yuko Kageyama-Hunt 2015-16 Reading Scholarly Japanese for Students of Chinese and Korean (2 courses each year) Wesley M. Jacobsen

Japanese History Discourses of Ainu Identity Noemi Godefroy Shinto Helen Hardacre Religion and Society in Edo and Meiji Japan Helen Hardacre Major Issues in the Study of Japanese Religions Helen Hardacre Early Modern Japanese History David Howell Research in Early Modern Japanese History David Howell Comparative History of Women and Gender in East Asia up to WWII Sachiko Kawai Japanese Literature Nara and Heian Court Literature Edwin A. Cranston Heike Monogatari, Japan’s Great Medieval War Tale Edwin A. Cranston Word and Object in Premodern Japan Joshua Frydman The Literature of Protest in Modern Japan Joanna Sturiano Girl Culture, Media, and Japan Tomiko Yoda Topics in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Fiction Tomiko Yoda Topics in Gender and Culture in Japan Tomiko Yoda Economics The History of Economic Growth Melissa Dell

Classical Japanese Edwin A. Cranston

Courses on Japan at Harvard 2014-16 Government

History of Science

Civil Society, West and East Susan J. Pharr

Science, Technology, and Society in Modern East Asia Dong-Won Kim

Global and Civil Society Susan J. Pharr

Linguistics

Government and Politics of Modern Japan Daniel M. Smith Comparative Electoral Systems Daniel M. Smith History Pacific Crossroads: Histories of Asian America Genevieve Clutario Japanese History Andrew Gordon Historiography of Modern Japan Andrew Gordon Japan and the Atomic Bomb in Historical Perspective William Johnston Disease and Public Health in Modern East Asian History William Johnston Modern Japan at War Andrew Levidis Gender and Sexuality: Comparative Historical Studies of Islamic Middle East, North Africa, South and East Asia Afsaneh Najmabadi Telling Lives in Asia Hue-Tam Tai Science, Medicine & Environment in Japan Brett Walker

Linguistic Issues in Japanese Wesley M. Jacobsen Tense and Aspect in Japanese Wesley M. Jacobsen Religion Introduction to Buddhism M. David Eckel Social Studies Global East Asia Nicole D. Newendorp Sociology Men, Women, and Work Mary C. Brinton Democracy and Social Movements in East Asia Paul Y. Chang Historical Sociology: Cultural and Institutional Perspectives Orlando Patterson

Harvard Graduate School of Design Making Omishima the Best Island to Live on in Japan Toyo Ito

History of Art and Architecture

Redesigning the Actor Network in Rural Areas around Japan Momoyo Kaijima

Between Europe and Asia: Colonial Latin America and the Art of Fusion Thomas Cummins

Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar on Structure and Material in Japan Mits Kanada

Introduction to Japanese Architecture Yukio Lippit

Innovative Construction in Japan Mark Mulligan

Introduction to Japanese Art Melissa M. McCormick

Tokyo Study Abroad Seminar: The Japan Syndrome Kayoko Ota

Sacred Places and Sacred Objects: The Art of Japanese Religion Samuel Morse

Urbanization in the East Asian Region Peter Rowe

Japanese Religious Art of the Medieval Period Samuel Morse

Courses on Japan at Harvard 2014-16 Harvard Law School Introduction to Japanese Law J. Mark Ramseyer Advanced Seminar in Japanese Law J. Mark Ramseyer Advanced Readings in Japanese Business Law J. Mark Ramseyer

Study Abroad in Yokohama (RIKEN Center for Allergy and Immunology): Fundamental Immunology Takao Hensch Study Abroad in Yokohama (RIKEN Center for Allergy and Immunology): Reading and Research in Immunology Takao Hensch

Harvard Summer School 2016

The Law and Practice of Japanese Business J. Mark Ramseyer and Koichi Kusano

Elementary Japanese I Ikue Shingu

The Law and Finance of the Japanese Firm J. Mark Ramseyer

Elementary Japanese II Ikue Shingu

Corporations J. Mark Ramseyer

Basic Japanese Takuma Miura and Haruka Nishimura

International Finance Hal Scott

Intermediate Japanese Miki Yagi

Harvard Extension School

Inequality and Society in Contemporary Japan Mary C. Brinton

Elementary Japanese I Yasuko Masumoto (2014-15)/Wakana Maekawa (2013-14)

Study Abroad in Kyoto: Tradition and Transformation Mikael Adolphson

Elementary Japanese II Miki Yagi

Study Abroad in Kyoto: Introduction to the Study of East Asian Religions James Robson

Japan in Asia and the World Andrew Gordon and David Howell

Harvard Summer School 2015 Elementary Japanese I Yasuko Matsumoto Japan in Asia and the World Andrew Gordon and David Howell Buddhism and Japanese Artistic Traditions RyĹŤichi AbĂŠ Study Abroad in Kyoto: Tradition and Transformation Mikael Adolphson Study Abroad in Kyoto: Inequality and Society in Contemporary Japan Mary C. Brinton

Study Abroad in Tokyo (RIKEN): Laboratory Research in Neurobiology Takao Hensch Study Abroad in Tokyo (RIKEN): Sculpting Neural Circuits and Behavior Takao Hensch Study Abroad in Yokohama (RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences): Reading and Research in Integrative Medicine Takao Hensch Study Abroad in Yokohama (RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences): State of the Art in Immunology Takao Hensch

Study Abroad in Tokyo (RIKEN): Sculpting Neural Circuits and Behavior Takao Hensch Study Abroad in Tokyo (RIKEN): Mechanisms of Critical Period Brain Development Takao Hensch

Ties to the Community Building Social and Intellectual Networks on Campus Like all of Harvard’s regional and international centers, RI has a university-wide mandate – to build ties with the broader Harvard community through collaboration with other Harvard centers and departments to sponsor programs and activities relating to Japan. RI serves as a clearinghouse for Japan-related endeavors; collaborates in the planning and organization of events and/or research programs; funds the Japan component of activities organized by other units or other cost-sharing; and advertises events and/or suggests participants. Such collaborations create and sustain social and intellectual networks across the University among people whose interests intersect.

RI/USJRP Annual Fall Reception To create contexts within which people can meet and compare interests, the Institute holds a series of annual activities. Joint with the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, it hosts a Fall Reception to introduce new faculty and affiliates, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, staff, and members of the wider community who have a research interest in Japan. On 15 September 2014, approximately 180 guests filled the Harvard Friends of Japan Concourse in CGIS South to welcome the new academic year. On 23 September 2015, over 200 people enjoyed the first event to mark the start of the fall semester.

Annual New Year’s Gathering The early days of the New Year are a time of major celebration in Japan. In keeping with its cultural tradition, RI holds an annual shinnenkai for Harvard faculty, students, affiliates, staff, and their family and guests, including those affiliated with the other Asian centers. The party features Japanese food, including the traditional pounded rice balls (mochi) and garnishes prepared by RI visiting scholars and their spouses. The Institute’s electric mochi-making machine featured during this event is, on occasion, called into service by Japanese language instructors seeking to give Harvard students a unique cultural and culinary experience.

Fostering Networks in the Boston-Cambridge Community and Beyond One of the greatest resources to Harvard’s faculty and students is the sheer concentration of knowledge and human resources relating to Japan in the greater Boston-Cambridge area. Because RI has long included area institutions’ scholars in its research activities, the networks linking Harvard faculty and students to scholars at nearby institutions are exceptionally vast. Harvard graduate students seek out faculty at local institutions for advice on their work and benefit from these scholars’ inclusion in RI activities. These networks lead to new ideas, academic jobs for Harvard graduate students, new faculty for Harvard, advice for Harvard College thesis writers, and access to data or archival resources elsewhere.

Associates in Research Because of the mutual benefits for the research community at Harvard and the local Japanese studies world, RI offers informal Associate-in-Research status to scholars and experts in various disciplines and fields relating to Japan. These scholars are based at MIT, Tufts, BU, the MFA, and many other institutions, mainly in the Northeast region. Informal appointees receive library privileges and may attend Institute activities. These informal appointments are approved by the Executive Director after submission of a written application and curriculum vitae. Further, the appointments must be renewed annually. For a complete list of RI Associates in Research in 2014-16, see below. The annual event for the Associates in Research is a dinner that allows them to meet each other along with Harvard faculty, RI visiting scholars, postdocs, and staff. Each dinner features a presentation by a noted scholar. On 14 November 2014, RI hosted a panel on “Strategic Dilemmas: Constitutional Revision and Japanese Politics.” The event featured talks by Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT, Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow for Japanese Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Keigo Komamura, Professor of Law at Keio University. On 16 October 2015, Andrew Gordon, Harvard University, spoke on “A Society Where Women Shine: Japan’s Impossible Dream?” There were 228 Associates in Research during 2014-16. They are indicated at the end of this section, along with their affiliations and research topics.

Japan Society of Boston RI maintains close relations with the Japan Society of Boston (JSB), the oldest Japan Society in America. JSB events are often of interest to Harvard faculty and graduate students, and in some cases contribute directly to their research. The JSB holds an annual dinner in which RI participates. The 2015 Annual Dinner was held 26 May. The keynote speaker was The Honorable Caroline Kennedy, Ambassador of the United States to Japan. She also received the JSB’s Distinguished Leadership Award. RI Associate in Research Kiyoko Morita of Tufts University received the 23rd annual John E. Thayer Award. The 2016 Annual Dinner was to be held in fall 2016.

Maintaining Ties with Organizations Abroad RI maintains an extensive network of relationships with organizations in Japan and elsewhere abroad. The RI director and staff regularly meet with representatives of these organizations and, where appropriate, arrange sessions for interested Harvard faculty and students to meet the visitors. In 2014-16 there were numerous special events honoring the relationship between Harvard and Japan and between the United States and Japan.

Keio President Atsushi Seike Visit The year 2015 marked the 125th anniversary of the founding of the first three departments of Keio University, established in 1890 by Yukichi Fukuzawa in consultation with then-President of Harvard, Charles William Eliot. In honor of the 125th anniversary, a delegation headed by President Atsushi Seike visited Harvard on 5-6 March 2015. The visit included a meeting with President Drew Faust, a visit to the Harvard University Archives, a student information session, and a lecture by President Seike entitled, “Japan’s Aging Society and the Role of Higher Education.” President Seike presented RI with a generous gift of a six-volume work by Professor Fukuzawa, “An Outline of a Theory of Civilization,” printed in honor of the 125th anniversary. During the visit, a Memorandum of Understanding on Academic Linkage and Collaboration between RI and Keio University was signed, for the purpose of developing joint research activities, participation in seminars and conferences organized by the respective institutions, collaboration in education, sharing scientific information, visits of faculty, and exchange of graduate and undergraduate students.

Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta On Sunday, 3 April 2016, at 8:00 p.m., the Fukushima Youth Sinfonietta made its American debut at Symphony Hall in a special performance commemorating the fifth anniversary of the environmental disasters that devastated northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011. Created at the initiative of students from a number of Fukushima middle schools and high schools in the aftermath of the disasters, the Sinfonietta came to Boston following sold-out performances at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall and Tokyo Opera City.

The program, conducted by the world-renowned Fukushima native Tetsuji Honna, included an Overture by Glinka, Adagio for Strings by Barber, Flute Concerto in D major (K314) by Mozart, and Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor (Op. 18) by Rachmaninoff. Featured was pianist Panos Karan and flute virtuoso Zach Tarpagos, two professional musicians from Greece whom the students asked to help them form the orchestra and who have returned more than twenty times to coach them. The concert was sponsored by the Japan Society of Boston (JSB), with the cooperation of the Consulate General of Japan in Boston, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Keys of Change, and the U.S.-Japan “Tomodachi Initiative” of the U.S.-Japan Council and the American Embassy in Tokyo. In honor of this very special event, the Reischauer Institute offered discounted tickets.

Yoshimasa Hayashi Visit On Friday, 29 April 2016, The Honorable Yoshimasa Hayashi – member of the House of Councillors, former Minister of Defense, and former Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries – visited Harvard for a special presentation titled, “Economic Growth and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the 21st Century,” moderated by Susan J. Pharr. This event was co-sponsored by the Harvard Asia Center, Weatherhead Center Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Japan Society of Boston, Harvard Kennedy School Japan Caucus, and RI.

Showa Women’s University of Japan Every year, RI receives a visit of delegations, faculty, and/or students from Showa Women’s University. This annual visit signifies the strong ties and friendship between the institutions, as well as the shared goal of advancing U.S.-Japan relations.

Harvard Summer Programs Harvard College students have been hosted as summer interns by businesses and organizations in Japan since 1988 through the Japanese Language Program with RI support. One of the most continuous hosts has been the Rotary Club of Okayama-South. RI’s Internship Initiative, launched in summer 2006, has established additional affiliations with numerous organizations, including Shinsei Bank, Hakuhodo, Inc., Yamaha Music Corp., RIETI, JETRO, and Showa Women’s University, among others (see “Undergraduate Japan Experience 2014-16” in Supporting Harvard’s Educational Mission). Beginning in summer 2006, RI has supported Harvard College students in a new Harvard Summer School program, initially hosted at Waseda University. In summer 2010, the program moved to Doshisha University, home of the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (KCJS), of which Harvard is an institutional member (see Supporting Harvard’s Educational Mission).

University Agreements RI has been affiliated with Waseda University through a number of programs, including the Harvard Summer School/Japan program from 2006-2009 and RI’s summer internship program. Ties with Waseda were strengthened with the inauguration of Waseda’s “125th Anniversary Commemorative Junior Visiting Researcher from Harvard University,” for which RI nominated advanced graduate students Shi Lin Loh, EALC/HEAL, in 2014-15 and Adam Lyons, Religion, in 2015-16. (Previous awardees included Fumitaka Wakamatsu, Anthropology, 2007-08; Craig Colbeck, History, 2009-10; Yongwook Ryu, Government, 201011; Nozomi Naoi, History of Art and Architecture, 2011-12; Nicolas Sternsdorf-Cisterna, Anthropology, 2012-13; and Ethan Bushelle, EALC, 2013-14). In July 2000, RI concluded an agreement with Kokugakuin University for exchange of scholars. Since then, professors from Kokugakuin have joined RI as visiting scholars, and Harvard graduate students have received guidance and accommodations at Kokugakuin.

In fall 2011, RI concluded an exchange arrangement with Taishō University for the purpose of promoting academic research. The agreement includes exchange of faculty members, advanced graduate students, and other items of mutual benefit, to be negotiated on a case-by-case basis. Also in fall 2011, RI concluded an agreement with Rissho University for the promotion of mutual exchange of faculty, researchers, and doctoral students. In spring 2015, RI concluded an agreement with Keio University for the purpose of developing joint research activities, participation in seminars and conferences organized by the respective institutions, collaboration in education, sharing scientific information, visits of faculty, and exchange of graduate and undergraduate students.

Kodansha International, Ltd. The Institute also has close ties with Kodansha Publishers, Ltd. Kodansha purchased the home of Edwin O. Reischauer in Belmont after his death in 1991, conserving important Reischauer memorabilia and making the residence available each year from 1992 to 2011 to an RI visiting scholar. From 1995-2010 Kodansha sponsored the annual October Reischauer/ Kodansha Symposium at the house and funded the Noma-Reischauer Essay Prizes. In 2011 Kodansha relinquished ownership of the house. The Institute is deeply grateful to Kodansha for the nineteen years in which it supported these activities.

International House of Japan Finally, among many relationships that could be mentioned, RI has ties with International House of Japan (IHJ), where Harvard faculty often stay and sometimes hold meetings and conferences when they are in Tokyo. Like many other Japanese studies programs around the world, RI is a corporate member of IHJ. On 15 January 2016, the Office of the Provost at Harvard University, in conjunction with the U.S. Embassy in Japan, IHJ, and RI, held a conference titled, “Building the Global University: A U.S.-Japan Symposium on Internationalization and Diversity.” For details, see page 27.

Associates in Research 2014-2016 Marié Abe BU, Asst. Prof. of Music Intersection of sound, public space and social difference in contemporary Japanese urban life through ethnographic analysis of chindon-ya Barbara Ambros UNC Chapel Hill, Prof. of East Asian Religions Religions in Japan—the environment, gender, ethnicity, pilgrimage, and sacred space Galen D. Amstutz Independent Scholar How to “reinvent” Pure Land Buddhism to communicate with a larger American audience Marnie Anderson Smith, Assoc. Prof. of History Gender and political culture of the Meiji Period Anna Andreeva Heidelberg Univ., Karl Jaspers Centre, Asst. Prof. in Japanese History Japanese religious and cultural history during the medieval and early modern periods Linda I. Angst Independent Scholar War memory and experience in Okinawa, esp. linked to changing U.S. military presence; anthropology of violence and conflict resolution; oral histories of Japanese Americans’ wartime experiences in Oregon Yuko Aoyama Clark, Prof. and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow of Geography Social innovation and social enterprises, governance, public-private partnership Galit Aviman Ben Gurion Univ. and Hebrew Univ., Lecturer Images of women in the artwork of Hakuin Ekaku (1685-1768)

Rosemarie Bernard Waseda, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology and Japanese Studies Shinto rituals; Islam in Asia

Ikuko K. Burns Mass.-Hokkaido Association, VP; Japan Society of Boston, Board Member U.S.-Japan cultural exchange

Joanne R. Bernardi Rochester, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese and Film and Media Studies On-going, digital humanities project,“ReEnvisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture”; a comprehensive study of the Toho Godzilla film series, “Twentieth Century Monster”

Patrick Caddeau Princeton, Dean, Forbes College; Lecturer, East Asian Languages and Literature Ecocriticism; Edo and early modern Japanese literature; Genji reception

Victoria Lyon Bestor North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources, Executive Director Library resources, especially on-line resource development Phyllis Birnbaum Independent Scholar / Writer Japanese women of occupied Manchuria Herbert P. Bix SUNY Binghamton, Prof. of History and Sociology Wars and economic crises in Japan and the U.S. in the twentieth and early 21st century with focus on the tension between imperialism, capitalism, and procedural democracy Thomas Blackwood Tokyo International Univ., Prof. of Sociology Japanese extracurricular club activities Verena K. Blechinger-Talcott Free Univ. of Berlin, Prof. of Japanese Politics and Political Economy; Director, Graduate School of East Asian Studies Patterns of modernity in East Asia; collaborative projects on the emergence of global governance due to epidemics

Bruce Baird UMass Amherst, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese History of Butō

Mark L. Blum UC Berkeley, Prof. of Buddhist Studies Suicide and medieval Jodoshinshu; reconsidering the transmission of Buddhism to Japan in the Asuka period

Jeffrey Bayliss Trinity, Assoc. Prof. of History; Director of Asian Studies Oral history project on life in the evacuation centers during the months following the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

Robert Borgen UC Davis, Emeritus Prof. of East Asian Languages and Culture and History Jōjin’s Diary, the record of a Japanese monk’s pilgrimage to China in 1072-73

Thomas Berger BU, Prof. of International Relations The impact of maritime disputes on the U.S.Japan alliance; comparison of the evolution of the U.S. alliances in Europe and East Asia

Daniel Botsman Yale, Prof. of History Emancipation in 19th-c. Japan; history of women in Japan; translations of recent work on Tokugawa social history

Gavin Campbell Doshisha, Prof. of American Studies MS: “American Samurai: the Transpacific Life of Niijima Jo (1843-1890)” Jamyung Choi Holy Cross, Visiting Asst. Prof. of East Asian History “Cultivating Class: Tokyo Imperial University and the Rise of Japan’s Meritocracy” Haeng-ja S. Chung Okayama, Assoc. Prof. of Educational Initiative Analyzing the phenomena of “sex work without sex” and “citizens without citizenships” by applying philosophical notions of hyper-reality drawn from theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Albert Borgmann, Daniel Boorstin, and Umberto Eco Kimi Coaldrake Adelaide, Assoc. Prof. and Head, Programs in Music Methodologies for the study of timbre and sound culture in Japanese musical instruments (koto) Gina Cogan Independent Scholar Nineteenth-century Buddhist nuns Ellen P. Conant Independent Scholar Book MS concerning Joseph Lindon Smith’s visits to Japan in 1901 and 1910 Ian Condry MIT, Prof. of Global Studies and Languages Book project: “Anime Revolution: The Making of Japan’s Media Success Story” Thomas Conlan Princeton, Prof. of East Asian Studies and History Religion and politics in fifteenth- and sixteenthcentury Japan Theodore F. Cook, Jr. William Patterson, Prof. of History; Director, Asian Studies Program “War, Culture, and Memory in Japanese History”

Associates in Research 2014-2016 Teruko Craig Tufts, Senior Lecturer Emerita in Japanese Translating essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi

John W. Dower MIT, Ford International Prof. of History Emeritus Visual history of Asia in the modern world

Michael P. Cronin William and Mary, Asst. Prof. of Japanese The city as an alternative space to nation: Osaka in literature and film of the transwar period, 1930s-1950s

Fabian Drixler Yale, Assoc. Prof. of History Demographic history and the history of mentalities, esp. with regard to social change in the 17th century, infanticide, and the famines of the Tokugawa period

Jennifer Cullen Independent Scholar Representations of virginity in modern Japanese literature, 1900-1930s Michael A. Cusumano MIT Sloan, Sloan Management Review Distinguished Prof. of Management Problems and solutions in the Japanese economy; business models Brett de Bary Cornell, Prof. of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature Morisaki Kazue, Tawada Yuko; translation theory Wiebke Denecke BU, Assoc. Prof. of Chinese, Japanese, and Comparative Literature The role of Sino-Japanese literature/kanshibun in early Japanese literary culture; early Japanese literature in its East Asian context; early East Asian diplomacy Frederick R. Dickinson UPenn, Prof. of History Global history of modern Japan Rachel DiNitto Univ. of Oregon, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Literature Literature written after the 2011 disaster in Japan Eric G. Dinmore Hampden-Sydney, Assoc. Prof. of History Monograph on resource anxieties in 20thcentury Japan; legacies of the Co-Prosperity Sphere in Japan’s aid to Indonesia’s oil industry; book-length study on the Kurobe Dam Sharon H. Domier UMass Amherst, East Asian Studies Librarian Compilation of materials to support Japanese language learners in academic libraries James Dorsey Dartmouth, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Literature Political folk song movement in 1960s Japan; culture in wartime Japan; representations of Pearl Harbor; immediate postwar literary criticism and the issue of “complicity” among writers

Matthew Fraleigh Brandeis, Assoc. Prof. of East Asian Literature and Culture Sinitic Poetry and Prose (kanshibun) in Japan’s early modern and modern period Ronald Frank Pace, Assoc. Prof. of History Sengoku Law Project

Edward R. Drott Sophia, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Religions The connections between religion, medicine, and the body, particularly with regard to aging in medieval Japan

Sarah A. Frederick BU, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Literature Study of Yoshiya Nobuko (1896-1973); kimono in print culture; women writers and cultural figures outside Japan who contributed to the pamphlet "Kagayaku"

Alexis Dudden UConn, Prof. of History Japan’s place in the world through the lens of its territorial disputes with neighboring countries

Nicole Freiner Bryant, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science The role of democratic state institutions for citizen participation and democratization writ large

Steven J. Ericson Dartmouth, Assoc. Prof. of History Zaibatsu dissolution during the U.S. occupation of Japan

Naomi Fukumori Ohio State, Assoc. Prof. of East Asian Languages and Literature Literary renderings of rituals and ceremonies in mid-Heian period texts

Erik Esselstrom Vermont, Assoc. Prof. of History; Director, Asian Studies Program Popular Japanese perceptions of postwar China in the 1950s-70s Margarita Estévez-Abe Syracuse, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science “The Rise and the Fall of the Housewife”; how married women work in Japan, Europe, and the U.S. William R. Farrell U.S. Naval War College, Adj. Prof. Examining Japanese governmental decisionmaking under the Abe Administration regarding defense and security policy Tanya Ferretto Harvard Extension Sch., Inst. of Japanese Art History Working on book MS on Kamisaka Sekka (modern Rinpa artist, 1866-1942) William Fleming Yale, Asst. Prof. of East Asian Languages and Literature Popular literature, theater, and cultural history of early modern Japan Lawrence A. Fouraker St. John Fisher, Assoc. Prof. of History Textbook on East Asian military history with emphasis on China, Japan, and Korea from ancient times to WWII

Taiji Furusawa Hitotsubashi, Prof. of Economics International trade and capital movement under financial imperfection David George Bates, Senior Lecturer in Spanish and European Studies Cultural exchange and translation of Spanish/ Japanese, particularly in travel writing; racial imitation in Spanish musical theatre Timothy S. George URI, Prof. and Chair of History The history and use of Toroku arsenic poisoning in Japan William L. Givens The Japan Fund, Former Chairman U.S.- Japan trade competition Carol Gluck Columbia, George Sansom Prof. of History Modern Japan and the work of history Janet E. Goff Independent Scholar The art of transformation in traditional Japanese theater (noh, kyōgen, jōruri, and kabuki) using fox characters as an example

Associates in Research 2014-2016 Yoshie Gordon Boston Higashi School, Director of Development and Corporate Relations Cross-cultural study of children with autism between Japan and America Robert D. Goree Wellesley, Asst. Prof. of Japanese History of illustrated gazetteers in early modern Japan Peter Grilli Japan Society of Boston, Senior Advisor; Chairman, Global Culture Center of the JSB Intercultural exchange William W. Grimes BU, Prof. of International Relations and Political Science; Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Political economy of Japan, East Asian financial regionalism, and currency politics

Walter Hatch Colby, Assoc. Prof. of Government; Director, Oak Inst. for the Study of International Human Rights Why Japan has been unsuccessful, compared to Germany, in achieving reconciliation with neighbors it invaded, occupied, or brutalized in the past Tom Havens Northeastern, Prof. of History History of the Japanese botanical sciences and the diffusion of East Asian plants species globally Kenji Hayao BC, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science Japanese Prime Ministership Robert I. Hellyer Wake Forest, Assoc. Prof. of History Japan’s export of green tea to the United States, 1870-1940

Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis BU, Prof. Emerita for Japanese Art History; Harvard Liaison, The Silk Road Project Silk Road studies, particularly the global circulation of blue and white ceramics

Mariko Itoh Henstock BU, Senior Lecturer; Director of Outreach and Co-Curricular Activities Assessing the bi-directional benefits of language exchanges and other collaborations

Mary Alice Haddad Wesleyan, Assoc. Prof. of Government Environmental politics in East Asia

Money L. Hickman Independent scholar Research on the priest-painter Meiyo Kokan (1653-1717) and Takada Keiho (1674-1755)

Kenneth Haig Bard, Asst. Prof. of Political Studies Explaining variation in policy responses to demographic changes (aging populations, low birthrates) in Japan and East Asia William Hammell Independent Scholar Scholarly publishing in Japan; history of Japanese studies; voiceover narration; and international school culture Jeffrey Hanes Univ. of Oregon, Assoc. Prof. of History; Director, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Production and consumption of modern space in Osaka; Industrial design in postwar Japan Sayumi Harb Connecticut, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Studies Word and Image in 19th and 20th century Japanese literature and poetics; Otagaki Rengetsu; women’s writing

Junji Himeno Japan Quality Assurance Organization, Director, Promotion Center Corporate activity to create brands as seen from adoption of ISO-ST; Japan's Big Boom in QMS & EMS, status quo and future prospect Hosea Hirata Tufts, Prof. of Japanese Literature A study of Kobayashi Hideo and his study of various Western writers, artists, and musicians, including Dostoevsky, Cézanne, and Mozart

Yusaku Horiuchi Dartmouth, Assoc. Prof. of Government; Mitsui Chair in the Study of Japan Japanese election systems and politics Christopher Hughes Warwick, Prof. of Japanese Studies and International Politics Japan’s international relations, esp. security and defense policy; U.S.-Japan, Japan-North Korea, and Japan-China relations; Japan’s regional policy in East Asia Takaharu Ichimura Harvard Medical School, Instructor of Medicine, BWH Renal Division Study of the Japanese biologist Kumagusu Minakata’s work and his role in modern Japanese science and culture Kimberly Icreverzi BU, Lecturer in Japanese Literature Reproductive labor in postwar Japanese cinema Eiko Ikegami New School, Prof. of Sociology and History Book projects: “Kyoto: A Thousand Years of Celebrations”; “Alternative Routes to State and Society Transformation: Japan, China, and Ottoman Turkey"; “Trust and Uncertainty: Styles of Japanese Capitalism” Charles Shirō Inouye Tufts, Prof. of Japanese Completing book on the development of modern consciousness; gothic studies; the end of the world, Plan B; translation work Rei Okamoto Inouye Northeastern, Assoc. Academic Specialist of Japanese Manga and manga eiga in the 1930s and 1940s Yoshiyuki Isoda Independent Scholar Japanese migrants to Asian countries before WWII

Allen F. Hockley Dartmouth, Assoc. Prof. of Art History Visualizing history in Meiji, Japan

James P. Ito-Adler Independent Scholar Adoption in Japan and England; Japanese diaspora in Brazil

Todd J. M. Holden Independent Scholar Representations of identity in Japanese advertising

Christopher Ives Stonehill, Prof. of Religious Studies Zen, nature, and environmental ethics

Saburo Horikawa Hosei, Prof. of Sociology Book MS: “Place, Preservation, and Politics: A U.S.-Japan Comparative Study on Historic Preservation Movements”

D. Colin Jaundrill Providence, Asst. Prof. of East Asian History The transformation of military service in the transition from the Tokugawa to Meiji periods, especially the wider social and cultural consequences

Associates in Research 2014-2016 Mark A. Jones Central Connecticut State, Assoc. Prof. of History History of childhood and the middle class in modern Japan

Thomas Keirstead Toronto, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese History Cultural history of monsters and the monstrous in medieval Japan

Jason Josephson Williams, Assoc. Prof. and Chair of Religion “Religion, Science, and Philosophy in Japan (1600-1912)”; Buddhism; Shinto; theory of religion

Masato Kimura Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation, Director, Research Dept. Business leaders’ exchange between the United States, China, and Japan in the early 20th century

Naoki Kamimura Nanzan, Prof. of American Studies and International Relations Comparative analysis of nuclear disarmament and alliance policies of Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, esp. each country’s civil society responses to official policy toward the U.S. regarding these issues Ikumi Kaminishi Tufts, Assoc. Prof. of Asian Art History Visual culture of medicine merchants from Toyama; art and politics surrounding Emperor Goshirakawa Miki Kaneda BU, Lecturer in Music Transnational flows of experimental music, graphic scores, art and the everyday, and media exologies in postwar Japan Nikhil Kapur Rutgers-Camden, Asst. Prof. of History Modern Japanese history and U.S.-Japan relations Taizo Kato Waseda, Prof. Emeritus of Psychology The economic relationship of income and its effect on physical/mental health in both developed and developing countries Sari Kawana UMass Boston, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese History of publishing in Japan; genre fiction, particularly detective fiction and science fiction Terry Kawashima UMass Boston, Assoc. Prof. of Modern Languages and Asian Studies; Director, Asian Studies Defining “capital” and “non-capital” spaces through Heian/Medieval poetry and prose from Yanato monogatari to Heiko monogatari Adam Kern Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture Transcultural comics/manga; early modern and modern Japanese literature, pop culture, and visual culture

Takako Kishima Waseda, Assoc. Prof. of Political Science Joshiryoku (“girl power” or power femininity) in the neoliberal and post-feminist Asian societies; gender history and international law T. James Kodera Wellesley, Prof. of Religion MS: Nagasaki as the “City of Prayer”: Takashi Paul Nagai, radiologist and pacifist Takeshi Kokubo UMass Boston, Lecturer Emeritus on Japanese Book projects on Maedaki Hiroichiro: a biography of his life in the U.S.; and English translation, with notes, of his major stories Keigo Komamura Keio, Prof. of Law; Vice President Theory and history of Constitutionalism in post-war Japan; current debate on Constitutional revision in Japan; and freedom of speech Yukinori Komine Fitchburg State, Visiting Asst. Prof. of Political Science Book MS: “Japan Confidential: Negotiating the U.S.-Japan Alliance, 1961-1978” Kimberly Kono Smith, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Writing by Japanese women in colonial Manchuria Colleen Laird Bates, Visiting Asst. Prof. of Japanese Studies Japanese female film directors Thomas LaMarre McGill, James McGill Prof. of East Asian Studies and Art History and Communication Studies Distribution of animation with emphasis on the historical transformations in television networks (broadcast, cable, satellite, and digital terrestrial) and screen technologies and apparatuses in relation to animation Jeffrey M. Lepon Law Office of Jeffrey M. Lepon, PPLC, Attorney U.S.-Japan commercial transactions

Gary P. Leupp Tufts, Prof. of History Book MS on the history of Western awareness of Buddhism and the transmission of Buddhist memes to the west of Afghanistan in the pre-modern period; socio-economic history of the Nishijin district of Kyoto during the Tokugawa period Diane Wei Lewis Washington Univ. in St. Louis, Asst. Prof. of Film and Media Studies The Great Kantō Earthquake and 1920s Japanese media culture; Murayama Tomoyoshi’s film works and criticism; theories of performance, media and sexuality Adam Liff Indiana, Asst. Prof. of East Asian Languages and Cultures Security policy reforms under Prime Minister Abe; U.S.-Japan alliance; national identity Mark Lincicome Holy Cross, Assoc. Prof. of History The career study of Nakano Akira; English translation of a chapter on a monograph of Japanese politics by Akio Igarashi; book project comparing Japanese and Australian perceptions of themselves as nations on the periphery of Asia between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries Jennifer Lind Dartmouth, Asst. Prof. of Government International security in East Asia and U.S. foreign policy toward the region Edward Mack Univ. of Washington, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Japanese-language literary activities in Brazil prior to WWII Terry MacDougall Stanford Bing Overseas Studies Program, Director Emeritus Immigration, ethnicity, and citizenship in contemporary Japan Tamaki Maeda Independent Scholar Sino-Japanese artistic exchanges in the early 20th century Ayu Majima Meiji, Senior Asst. Prof. of Global Japanese Studies Family, gender, and mindsets in the socio-cultural history of modern Japan

Associates in Research 2014-2016 Aleksandra Majstorac-Kobiljski French CNRS; Postdoctoral Researcher Coal technologies in Japan; coking technology in Japan and Japanese-controlled mines in China Federico Marcon Princeton, Asst. Prof. of East Asian Studies and History The introduction of Western philosophy in nineteenth-century Japan Andrew Maske Univ. of Kentucky, Assoc. Prof. of Asian Art History Comparative research on the roles of creative art ceramics in the contemporary cultures of Japan, Korea, and China Thomas Mason ALLEX Foundation, Executive Director Japanese language pedagogy, study abroad, and international education Jennifer Milioto Matsue Union, Assoc. Prof. of Music, Asian Studies, and Anthropology Intersection of religion and popular music in Japan; cross-cultural comparison of dance and religion in Bali and Japan Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka Wellesley, Prof. of History Book MS: “Imperialism and the Nationalist Opposition in Late Meiji Japan: A Study of the Seikyōsha, 1888-1918” Reo Matsuzaki Trinity, Asst. Prof. of Political Science State-building in Taiwan under Japanese rule and the Philippines under U.S. rule Trent E. Maxey Amherst, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese History The political and intellectual construction of religion in Meiji Japan

Richard H. Minear UMass Amherst, Prof. of History Wartime writings of Nambara Shigeru Tosh Minohara Kobe, Prof. of International and Diplomatic History Prewar U.S.-Japan relations, particularly from the vantage point of the immigration issue, trade, and diplomacy Shigeru Miyagawa MIT, Prof. of Linguistics and Kochi-Manjiro Prof. of Japanese Language and Culture Linguistics; OpenCourseWare; “Visualizing Culture”; “Star Festival” (multimedia program) Kuniko Miyanaga ICU, Research Fellow, Institute of Asian Cultural Studies Ritual and Iconic Action—language in the body; Learning English as a second language for the Japanese Jiro Mizuno Ritsumeikan, Visiting Prof. of International Relations Japan’s role and policy with the UN; Japan’s modern transformation to be a global player Robert Morehouse Independent Scholar; The December Institute, Chairman The Tokyo War Crimes Trials (IMTFE); the Manila trials of Generals Tomoyuki Yamashita and Masahara Homma; the wartime and postwar activities of Masanobu Tsuji Kiyoko Morita Tufts, Lecturer in Japanese College-level Japanese language teaching methodologies for students with special needs Carolyn A. Morley Wellesley, Prof. of Japanese Literature and Theatre Translation of Hika by Setouchi Jakucho

James McLendon Independent Scholar The role of MOF in Japan’s political economy

James W. Morley Columbia, Ruggles Prof. of Political Science Emeritus Current affairs and U.S. policy

Sean Harland McPherson Bridgewater State, Asst. Prof. of Art History Popular material and visual culture of Japanese festivity, landscapes of Buddhist worships, and the role of architecture of education in modernist architectural discourse in Japan

Anne Nishimura Morse Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, William and Helen Pounds Senior Curator of Japanese Art Contemporary Japanese photography and the response to 3.11; Meiji era art and Tokyo school of Fine Arts; Mikkyo art and rituals

Samuel C. Morse Amherst, Howard M. and Martha P. Mitchell Prof. of Art and History of Art Religious culture in Japan, particularly during the Heian period; art related to chanoyu; representations of modern cities Eunmi Mun Amherst, Asst. Prof. of Sociology The mechanisms of gender inequality in workplaces, changes of labor market institutions, and relationship between law and organizations Andrea Murray Center for Marine Resources Studies, Resident Lecturer in Environmental Policy and Socioeconomic Values Book MS: “Footprints in Paradise” – ethnographic comparisons of local experiences in sustainable tourism development, place-making, and environmental change in Okinawa, Japan, with other rural communities on tourismdependent Pacific Islands Robert A. Myers Columbia Business School, Adj. Prof. Analysis of the reasons for the success of Korean high tech companies since the 1990s and the parallel decline of their Japanese competitors Hiromu Nagahara MIT, Assoc. Prof. of History History of media, popular culture, and art in modern Japan Miri Nakamura Wesleyan, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Book MS on the female domestic labor in modern Japan, including colonial Korea Susan Napier Tufts, Prof. of Japanese Studies Book MS: “Lost in Transition: Train Men, Dolls, and the Electric City in 21st-Century Japan” Suzanne O'Brien Independent Scholar Masculinity and consumer culture in early postwar Japan; reinvention of masculinity and its image through advertising and consumption in the wake of defeat and occupation Emer O’Dwyer Oberlin, Assoc. Prof. of History and East Asian Studies MS: “Searching for Truth in Occupied Japan: 1945-52”

Associates in Research 2014-2016 John C. Perry Tufts, Fletcher School, Henry W. Denison Prof. of Japanese Diplomacy; Director, Maritime Studies Prg. An imperial history of the China Seas Samuel Perry Brown, Assoc. Prof. of East Asian Studies Japanese culture and the Korean War; “The Melancholia of Queer Korea” Lizbeth Halliday Piel Manchester, Research Assoc. in Japanese History Project on “Remembering and Recording Childhood, Education and Youth in Imperial Japan, 1925–1945” Joan R. Piggott USC, Gordon L. Macdonald Chair of History; Prof. of East Asian Languages and Cultures Preparing MS, “Fujiwara no Akihira’s Monkey Music and its World”; Ōbe no shō, a Medieval Estate and its World,” translated and annotated documents; Fujiwara Munetada’s Chūyūki, selections and research Judith Preston UMass Boston, Researcher in Applied Linguistics Research in Japanese language and culture pedagogy, second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and native speaker attitudes toward non-native speech; educational tourism Tamae K. Prindle Colby, Oak Prof. of East Asian Languages and Literature Introduction and translation of various versions of a small episode in The Tale of the Heike Steve Rabson Brown, Prof. Emeritus of East Asian Studies; Adj. Prof. of Japanese Literature Modern Japanese literature from Okinawa Ronald Richardson BU, Assoc. Prof. of History; Director, African American Studies Program Study of Japanese and American concepts of the self with particular emphasis on dramatic arts and fiction Atsuko Sakaki Toronto, Prof. of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature Photographic books as sites of translation; rhetoric of photography in modern Japanese narratives; translation of Horie Toshiyuki's works

Richard J. Samuels MIT, Ford International Prof. of Political Science; Director, Center for International Studies Research for a book MS, “The Rhetoric of Crisis: Japan’s Choices after 3.11,” examining the policy impact of the March 2011 catastrophe on Japanese security policy, energy policy, and local governance Ernesto F. Sanz UMass Lowell, Prof. Emeritus of Economics Development and change of Japanese trade policies in Europe Minae Savas Bridgewater State, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Studies Rethinking the foundation of scholarship on Japanese traditional performing arts: new approaches to advancing global research on Noh theater Janine T. A. Sawada Brown, Prof. of History of Japanese Religions Studying texts and images generated by banned religious groups in the Tokugawa period, especially Fujikō Ellen Schattschneider Brandeis, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology WWII memory and memorialization processes; shamanic traditions; psychoanalytic theory, especially object relations theory Frank J. Schwartz Showa Boston, President The internationalization of higher education in Japan Amanda C. Seaman UMass Amherst, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Language and Literature Book MS on representations of pregnancy and childbirth in modern Japanese women’s literature; postwar representations of war in children’s literature; loneliness in 1970s and ’80s women’s literature Ethan Segal Michigan State, Assoc. Prof. of History Women and gender in medieval Japan; economic history; demons and the foreign “Other” Vyjayanthi R. Selinger Bowdoin, Assoc. Prof. and Director of Asian Studies Buddhism and family in the medieval world, especially Japan

Franziska Seraphim BC, Assoc. Prof. of History Examining the socio-spatial dimensions of the Allied war crimes program after WWII in Asia and Europe through its network for prisons from 1945-1958 James Mark Shields Bucknell, Assoc. Prof. of Comparative Humanities and Asian Thought Comparative study of Buddhist ethics, specifically progressive and radical thought Yumiko Shimabukuro Columbia, Researcher and Lecturer on International and Public Affairs Book MS: “Building an Inegalitarian Welfare State, examining the co-evolution of democratic, capitalist, and social welfare institutions in advanced industrialized countries” Hiraku Shimoda Waseda, Assoc. Prof. of Law Historical remembrance of Japan’s postwar history Toru Shinoda Waseda, Prof. of Social Sciences Comparative trans-Pacific historical study of the labor movement in Osaka and Chicago during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Eiko Maruko Siniawer Williams, Prof. of History Conceptions of waste in modern Japan Kerry Smith Brown, Assoc. Prof. of History and East Asian Studies Continuing work on the social and cultural histories of the Great Kantō Earthquake John P. Solt Independent Scholar Selected poems of Kenneth Rexroth in Japanese; exhibition, “Montri Umavijani” Amanda Mayer Stinchecum Independent scholar Cultural history of Yaeyama Islands seen through changes in a cotton sash; history and present circumstances of five private ethnological museums in Yaeyama Sarah M. Strong Bates, Prof. Emerita of Japanese Ainu oral traditions with particular focus on the notebooks of Chiri Yueki (1903-1922)

Associates in Research 2014-2016 Shizuko Suenaga Seattle, Coordinator and Senior Lecturer of Japanese Book MS: “Japanese War Brides and their Children" Noriko Sugimori Kalamazoo, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Language Language ideologies, sociolinguistics, oral history, and digital humanities Ronald Suleski Suffolk, Prof. of History; Director, Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies Memories of Japanese colonists in Manchuria Rebecca M. Suter Sydney, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies Representations of Italy and Australia in the Japanese collective imagination Paul Swanson Nanzan, Permanent Fellow Annotated translation and study of the Mo-ho chih-kuan, an important sixth-century Chinese Buddhist text Wako Tawa Amherst, Prof. of Asian Languages and Civilizations Synonyms in Japanese R. Kenji Tierney SUNY New Paltz, Visiting Asst. Prof. of Anthropology Examining the idea of tradition with relationship to food and body, and sports in Japan Maria Toyoda Suffolk, Prof. of Government; Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Infrastructure and finances Alice Y. Tseng BU, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Art and Architecture Urban and architectural development in modern Kyoto Yolanda Alfaro Tsuda Kobe, Prof. of Global Studies Post-disaster management, conservation and preservation of water-damaged historical and government documents in the supertyphoon afflicted areas in the province of Leyte, Philippines Mary Evelyn Tucker Yale, Senior Lecturer and Senior Scholar in Forestry and Environmental Studies Confucianism, world religions, and ecology

Timothy J. Van Compernolle Amherst, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Book MS: “Struggling Upward: Worldly Success and the Japanese Novel: the role played by modern discourses on social mobility in the formation of the spatial imagination of the modern Japanese novel during the Meiji era” Elena Varshavskaya Rhode Island School of Design, Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Visual Culture Collaboration of ukiyo-e artists Hiroshige and Kunisada in the design of prints devoted to the Tokaido Road Alexander M. Vesey Meiji Gakuin, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Religion and Comparative Cultural Studies Cultural and social history of early modern Japanese Buddhism, especially Kyoto’s cultural history and visual representations of that city James Keith Vincent BU, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese and Comparative Literature Natsume Sōseki and shaseibun, translation, and cognitive literary studies Louise E. Virgin Independent Scholar, Curator of Japanese Art Shijo surimono; haiku poet biographies and networks Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano Carleton (Ottawa), Prof. of Film Studies Post-occupation cinema; Nakai Masakazu; “Japan” in the cultural discourses after 3.11 Garrett Washington UMass Amherst, Asst. Prof. of History Protestant church space and social history of Imperial Japan; Christianity and women’s history in modern Japan Mariko Namba Walter Independent Scholar Working on multi-author publications, “The Silk Road: Interwoven History,” 3 vols. Kay B. Warren Brown, Tillinghast Prof. of International Studies and Prof. of Anthropology Co-editing “Inescapable Solutions: Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development”; writing “Human Trafficking and Transnationalism: Global Solutions, Local Realities”

Takeshi Watanabe Connecticut, Asst. Prof. of Japanese Sixteenth-century Shuhanron scroll, twelfthcentury illustrated scrolls associated with GoShirakawa, and Heian culinary practices Neil L. Waters Middlebury, Prof. of History A history of Japan’s Young Men’s Associations from the Edo Period to the Pacific War Robert Weiner Naval Postgraduate School, Lecturer in National Security Affairs Japanese domestic politics, including their effects on Japanese foreign and security policy Cherie Wendelken Independent Scholar History of Japanese architecture Melissa L. Wender Independent Scholar Imperialism and war in post-war fiction of Japanese women Victoria Weston UMass Boston, Assoc. Prof. of Art Introductory textbook for the history of East Asian art; transmission of garden design ideas between Japan and the American Northeast; namban-e in connection with an exhibition for Boston College Merry White BU, Prof. of Sociology and Anthropology Preparing a volume on food history for Oxford University Press; ethnographic research on “work” in Japan in food, from domestic to artisanal to industrial work Ellen B. Widmer Wellesley, Mayling Soong Prof. of Chinese Studies Transmission and interpretation of Western images, particularly of women, in China and Japan in the 1900s Kristin Williams Independent Scholar Edo-period Japanese literature, book studies, children’s literature Leslie I. Winston Independent Scholar MS: “The Trope of the Hermaphrodite in Modern Japan”

Associates in Research 2014-2016 Michael A. Witt INSEAD, Affiliate Prof. of Asian Business and Comparative Management Institutional change in different varieties of capitalism, especially the role of beliefs held by business leaders in shaping these processes

Emi Yamanaka BU, Lecturer in Japanese Language Japanese language pedagogy, interlanguage pragmatics, second language acquisition

David Wittner Utica, Prof. of Asian History Meiji Era industrial technologies and industrial modernization, choice of technique, specifically in the iron and silk reeling industries; material and visual culture and their relationship to nationalism/cultural pride

Nobuko Yamasaki Independent Scholar Makino Tomitaro (1862-1957): botany from the aristocratic dilettantes’ natural history to the citizens’ science

Aida Yuen Wong Brandeis, Assoc. Prof. of Asian Art China-Japan relations and transnationalism; Nakamura Fusetsu and his circle of Japanese calligraphers who popularized Metal-and-Stone Aesthetic in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Laura E. Wong UNESCO, Scientific Advisor; Research Assoc., Heidelberg Center for American Studies Writing about intergovernmental organizations’ place in transnational history, focusing on UNESCO; Japan-Germany-U.S. protest movements in the 1960s; the Cold War and textbook revision Genzo Yamamoto Wheaton (IL), Asst. Prof. of History Locating pre-WWII Japanese criticisms of Enlightenment thought in the broader contexts of global discontent with Europe Tadashi Yamamoto Independent Scholar Japanese organizations, Japanese urban culture, Japanese future policies, philosophy of Japanese arts and crafts (Japanese ceramics), mathematical modeling of social information systems

Kikuko Yamashita Brown, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese Language and Linguistics Language changes observed in contemporary Japan Christine Yano Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Prof. of Anthropology Ukulele in Japan; English standard schools in Hawaii Midori Yoshii Albion, Assoc. Prof. of International Studies U.S. Northeast Asian policy during the Nixon/Ford-era Anna M. Zielinska-Elliott BU, Lecturer in Japanese Finishing translation of Murakami Haruki’s After Dark into into Polish Eve Zimmerman Wellesley, Assoc. Prof. of Japanese The role of the girl in modern Japanese literary texts and manga; MS: “Ethnographic Architectural Photography: Futagawa Yukio and Nihon no Minka”

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Administration Responsibility for administering the Institute on a day-to-day basis was assumed during 2014-16 by the individuals listed below. The Reischauer Institute extends its gratitude and deep appreciation to Theodore J. Gilman and Kazuko Sakaguchi for their long-time contributions and dedication. Dr. Gilman became the Executive Director of WCFIA in June 2015 after a decade of service to the Institute. Ms. Sakaguchi retired in June 2016 after sixteen years of dedicated service.

Reischauer Institute Staff ›› Theodore C. Bestor, Director ›› Theodore J. Gilman, Executive Director, 2014-15 ›› Stacie Matsumoto, Assistant Director; Interim Executive Director, 2015-16 ›› Maya Holden, Project Coordinator ›› Hilary Johnson, Program Coordinator, 2014-15 ›› Jiyoun Kim, Program Coordinator, 2015-16 ›› Fun Lau, Financial Assistant ›› Kazuko Sakaguchi, Librarian for the DCJ ›› Yukari Swanson, Assistant to Director / Event Coordinator

Summer Student Programs, Japan ›› Hirokazu Yoshie Summer Student Programs Coordinator ›› Mikael Adolphson Harvard Summer School/Japan Director

Student Assistants ›› Kimberlee Sanders, RSEA ‘15 ›› Maarika Rickansrud, RSEA ‘16