Past Lectures and Research Meetings

Public Lectures

	Speaker and Topics	Moderator	Date
1	"Biddhist and Shinto Deities of Kyoto" UMEHARA Takeshi, Director-General, IRCJS	HAGA Toru, Prof., IRCJS	Jan. 21, 1995
2	"Pervading Themes in Japanese Thought" ITO Shuntaro, Prof., IRCJS "Present-day Civilization and Antiquity" NAKANISHI Susumu, Prof., IRCJS	HAGA Toru, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 2, 1995
3	"Japanese Regality" MURAI Yasuhiko, Prof., IRCJS "Looking at Kinsei-era Japan through Changes in Population" HAYAMI Akira, Prof., IRCJS	YAMAORI Tetsuo, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 9, 1995
4	"'Tsukuru koto' and 'Tsukurareta mono': Two Patterns of Technological Changes in the Meiji Restoration and the Yang Wu Movement" YAMADA Keiji, Prof., IRCJS "Dreams in Japanese Medieval Stories: 'Hamamatsu Chunagon' and 'Sarashina Nikki'" KAWAI Hayao, Director-General, IRCJS	KIMURA Hiroshi, Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 8, 1995
5	"Reservations about Post-war Families" OCHIAI Emiko, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "What is 'Japaneseness'? -Innovation of the Paradigm of Japanese Studies" HAMAGUCHI Eshun, Prof., IRCJS	SONODA Hidehiro, Prof., IRCJS	Dec. 13, 1995
6	"A Look at Indian Art" Tsuji Nobuo, Prof., IRCJS "The Tale of Heike" SUGIMOTO Hidetaro, Prof., IRCJS	HAGA Toru, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 22, 1996
7	"From Heart to Heart: Japanese Love Poetry" Tatyana L. SOKOLOVA-Delyusina, Translator/ Visiting Research Fellow, IRCJS "History and Novel: Sanguozhi and Sanguozhiyanyi" INAMI Ritsuko, Prof., IRCJS	MITSUTA Kazunobu, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 16, 1996
8	- - - -	IIDA Tsuneo, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 14, 1997
9	- - - -	OMOTO Keiichi, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 22, 1997
10	"Tokugawa Ieyasu and Kyoto" KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS "Law and Culture in Let What Belongs to Caesar be Caesar's" ISHII Shiro, Prof., IRCJS	OCHIAI Emiko, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 3, 1997
11	"Ghosts and Japanese Culture -Searching for Their Meaning and Alteration" KOMATSU Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS "Origin -Contemporary Man and the Japanese" AKAZAWA Takeru, Prof., IRCJS	KURIYAMA Shigehisa, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Dec. 4, 1997
12	"The World of Beauty in the Works of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro: Pilgrim Abroad in the West and His Return to Japan" TSURUTA Kin'ya, Prof., Univ. of British Columbia, Canada/ Visiting Prof., IRCJS "The End of Economics" IIDA Tsuneo, Prof., IRCJS	MITSUTA Kazunobu, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 10, 1998
13	"The bi of the Hidden Gardens" SHIRAHATA Yozaburo, Prof., IRCJS "Another Reading of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro" SUZUKI Sadami, Prof., IRCJS	KIMURA Hiroshi, Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 9, 1998
14	"Japanese 'Garden Islands'" KAWAKATSU Heita, Prof., IRCJS "Another Interpretation of Mandalla" YORITOMI Motohiro, Prof., IRCJS	YAMADA Shoji, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Nov. 26, 1998
15	"The Image of the Heroines in Classical Chinese Literature" INAMI Ritsuko, Prof., IRCJS "Nature, People, Culture" OMOTO Keiichi, Prof., IRCJS	KOMATSU Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 23, 1999
16	"Buson and Harunobu" HAYAKAWA Monta, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "Continuity and Discontinuity of Japanese Politics: 1990s" MURAMATSU Michio, Prof., IRCJS	MATSUDA Toshihiko, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 6, 1999
17	"Japanese Culture and Christianity" INOUE Shoichi, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "Japan and Russia: Why Are They Distant Neighbors?" KIMURA Hiroshi, Prof., IRCJS	WATANABE Masako, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Sep. 6, 1999
18	"Arts of the Invisible Love" MITSUTA Kazunobu, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "American Images of Japanese Corporations, Past and Present" James C. BAXTER, Prof., IRCJS	AKAZAWA Takeru, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 8, 2000
19	"Illusion of Each Other: Vincent van Gogh and Modern East Asia" INAGA Shigemi, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "The History of Japanese Marine Transportation and the Eurasian Continent" UNO Takao, Prof., IRCJS	LIU Jianhui, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 14, 2000
20	"Japonisme in a Digital Society" YAMADA Shoji, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "Where the Information Society is Going" AIBA Atsushi, Prof., IRCJS	YASUDA Yoshinori, Prof., IRCJS	Dec. 11, 2000
21	"Time is Money: A Puzzle in Cultural History" KURIYAMA Shigehisa, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "Tradition in Japanese Historiography: The Background of the Taiheiki" ISHII Shiro, Emeritus Prof., IRCJS	WATANABE Masako, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 7, 2001
22	Farewell Lecture of Professor KAWAI Hayao "Evil as the Promoter of Plots" KAWAI Hayao, Previous Director-General, IRCJS	KOMATSU Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 28, 2001
23	"Styles of Reasoning in Japan and the United States" WATANABE Masako, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "Tales of the Land: Seeing, Reading, and Painting 'Scenes of Famous Places'" SHIRAHATA Yozaburo, Prof., IRCJS	Timothy D. KERN, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 12, 2001
24	Farewell Lecture by YORITOMI Motohiro and KIMURA Hiroshi "Some Cultural Characteristics as seen in the Mandalas" YORITOMI Motohiro, Prof., IRCJS "Putin's Policy toward Japan" KIMURA Hiroshi, Prof., IRCJS	AIBA Atsushi, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 5, 2002
25	"Looking back on My Study of Korean Minorities' School in Postwar Japan" MATSUDA Toshihiko, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "Human Resource Development of University Graduates in Japan: A Comparison with U.S.A. and Germany" INOKI Takenori, Prof., IRCJS	Patricia J. FISTER, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 10, 2002
26	"Celestrial and Terrestrial" MORI Hirohisa, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "When the Earth became Round: the Genesis of Globalization" SONODA Hidehiro, Prof., IRCJS	UNO Takao, Prof., IRCJS	Jan. 16, 2003
27	"From the 'Heathen' to the 'Japanese': Shifts in Missionary Perspectives" Timothy D. KERN, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "The Trickster in Chinese Narratives" INAMI Ritsuko, Prof., IRCJS	SUZUKI Sadami, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 7, 2003
28	"'I am afraid!' (=I comply with your instruction!), 'Dreadfully!' (=I am so grateful!): Historical Examination of 'Ritual Manners' and 'Fear' in the Japanese Rhetoric Tradition" Markus RUETTERMANN, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "The '400 years' of the Tokugawa Shogunate" KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS	MITSUTA Kazunobu, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Apr. 25, 2003
29	"An Inquiry into the Origins of Postwar Popular Sentiments: The Emperor's Surrender Speech Broadcast and Seasonal Radio Programming Produced for Obon" SATO Takumi, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "What We Talk About When We Talk About Modern Japan: History-Writing in Books Recently Published in the United States" James C. BAXTER, Prof., IRCJS	SENDA Minoru, Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 24, 2003
30	"The Religious and Artistic Pursuits of Edo Period Princess Nuns" Patricia J. Fister, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "My Encounters with Syria over Thirty Years: Reflections on the Storms in the Middle East" AKAZAWA Takeru, Prof., IRCJS	LIU Jianhui, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Dec. 15, 2003
31	"The Role of Japan in the Formation of Modern Chinese Culture" LIU Jianhui, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "Minegadô and Minegajô: On a Hokke Sect Mountain Temple Site" IMATANI Akira, Prof., IRCJS	Frederik CRYNS, Research Associate, IRCJS	Jul. 9, 2004
32	"Political Thought of Jihad: Is a Clash of Civilizations Inevitable?" IKEUCHI Satoshi, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "On Mizuki Shigeru's Paintings of Monsters and Apparitions" KOMATSU Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS	INOKI Takenori, Prof., IRCJS	Oct. 22, 2004
33	"A Cultural History of 'Kouta Eiga' ('Song Films') in the 1920s: Popular Songs and Movies at the End of the Silent Film Era" HOSOKAWA Shuhei, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "The Puzzle of Katakori: the Spiritual History of a Physical Complaint" KURIYAMA Shigehisa, Prof., IRCJS	James C. BAXTER, Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 24, 2005
34	Farewell Lecture of Professor YAMAORI Tetsuo "The Meaning of the 'Great Renunciation': Siddhartha's Abandonment of His Son" YAMAORI Tetsuo, Previous Director-General, IRCJS	SONODA Hidehiro, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 17, 2005
35	"How Rock Gardens Came to Be Seen as Beautiful" YAMADA Shoji, Assoc. Pro., IRCJS "Okakura Tenshin's Encounter with India" INAGA Shigemi, Prof., IRCJS	HOSOKAWA Shuhei, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Sep. 28, 2005
36	“Japan's Entry into the Olympics in the Context of Civilization: A Reading of Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki” USHIMURA Kei, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS “ The Eastern and Western Crossroads of the Silk Road: Xian and Samarkand” UNO Takao, Prof., IRCJS	MATSUDA Toshihiko, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Feb. 22, 2006
37	“From the Hilltop of Fourvière: The School Culture of Lyon and Styles of Reasoning in France.” WATANABE Masako, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS “ Making the Occasion: "Shimadai" Ornaments and Japanese Culture” SHIRAHATA Yozaburo, Prof., IRCJS	KAWAKATSU Heita Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 10, 2006
38	“Colonial Koreans Who Voted: Prewar Korean Residents in Japan and the Right to Vote” MATSUDA Toshihiko, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS “ Bonenkai: Only in Japan?” SONODA Hidehiro, Prof., IRCJS	YASUDA Yoshinori, Prof., IRCJS	Sep. 26, 2006
39	“‘Modern Christianity' and its Reception in Japan” Timothy D. KERN, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS “ The Kyoto of 400 Years Ago, as Depicted in the Funaki-bon ‘Rakuchû rakugai-zu’: The Painter's Gaze and the Scenes He Selected” HAYAKAWA Monta, Prof., IRCJS	USHIMURA Kei Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Feb.20, 2007
40	“Ideals of Self-Sacrifice, Ahimsa (Non-Violence) and Vegetarianism in Miyazawa Kenji's Works: An Indian Point of View” Pullattu Abraham GEORGE, Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS/ Assoc. Prof., Jawaharlal Nehru Univ. “ In Quest of a View of Life for the Twenty-first Century: Searching Amidst Manifold Crises” SUZUKI Sadami, Prof., IRCJS	Patricia FISTER Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 13, 2007
41	“Science under Scrutiny: Probing for the Structure of the Formation of Modern Science in Japan from the Viewpoint of Terminology” ARAI Nahoko, Associate Professor, IRCJS “Japanese Mythology and the Yangtze River Civilization” YASUDA Yoshinori, Professor, IRCJS	Frederic CRYNS Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Nov. 16, 2007
42	Lectures Commemorating the Retirement of Professor SENDA Minoru and Professor IMATANI Akira “Why Has the Imperial Family Continued to Exist? Reflections from Forty Years of Research on Medieval Japanese History” IMATANI Akira, Prof., IRCJS “Images of Japan in Premodern Maps of the World” SENDA Minoru, Prof., IRCJS	KOMATSU Kazuhiko Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 13, 2008
43	“A Story about ‘Literary Property’” YAMADA Shoji, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS “‘Public’ and ‘Private’ in the Ethics of Fukuzawa Yukichi” INOKI Takenori, Director-General, IRCJS	KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS	Sep. 18, 2008
44	"Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) and Udono Yonoko (1729–88). Aesthetics of Letter-Writing in the Thought of Early-Modern Female Authors" Markus RÜTTERMAN, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS "Inside Japan’s Imperial Buddhist Convents: The Spiritual Pursuits of Four Princess-Nuns of the Edo Period" Patricia FISTER, Prof., IRCJS	UNO Takao Prof., IRCJS	Nov. 27, 2008
45	Lectures Commemorating the Retirement of Professor INAMI Ritsuko and Professor AIBA Atsushi “Heidegger and McLuhan on Media and Technology” AIBA Atsushi, Prof., IRCJS “The Five Great Chinese Novels” INAMI Ritsuko, Prof., IRCJS	SUZUKI Sadami Prof., IRCJS	Mar. 11, 2009
46	“Constitutional Politics and Party Politics: The Legacy of Ito Hirobumi” TAKII Kazuhiro, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS “ Tanka and Waka by Japanese Immigrant Poets in Brazil” HOSOKAWA Shuhei, Prof., IRCJS	YAMADA Shoji Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Sep. 30, 2009
47	Lectures Commemorating the Retirement of Professor James C. BAXTER “How was the Japanese Ceramic Appreciated in the West? : Changing Taste in the Second Half of the 19th Century and the Birth of the Fin-de-siècle Decorative Art” INAGA Shigemi, Prof., IRCJS “Compensation and Social Values: A Historical Comparison of Baseball Salaries, Executive Pay, and University Faculty Salaries in Japan and the United States” James C. BAXTER, Former Prof., IRCJS	Patricia FISTER, Prof., IRCJS	March 16, 2010
48	“Kyoto1011: The Last Days of Emperor Ichijo” KURAMOTO Kazuhiro, Prof. , IRCJS “Was the Political Situation in Europe "Complicated and Mysterious" ? : Japan and the Conclusion of the Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact” TOBE Ryoichi, Prof. , IRCJS	INAGA Shigemi, Prof., IRCJS	March 10, 2011
49	“Nature and Culture in the Ogasawara Islands: From World Heritage to Global Future” Nanyan GUO, Assoc. Prof. , IRCJS “The Ming- Ch'ing Transition in the Context of East Asia” ITO Takayuki, Prof. , IRCJS	SUZUKI Sadami, Prof., IRCJS	September 29, 2011
50	Lectures Commemorating the Retirement of Professor YASUDA Yoshinori “On Ise in Meiji: A Sacred Capital for the Modern State” John BREEN, Prof. , IRCJS “The Way to Establish the Environmental Archaeology” YASUDA Yoshinori, Prof. , IRCJS	INOUE Shoichi, Prof., IRCJS	March 23, 2012