Past Lectures and Research Meetings

Tokyo Public Lectures

	Main Topic	Topics and Speakers	Moderator	Date
1	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Forest Culture and Japan" UMEHARA Takeshi, Director-General, IRCJS "Japanese Economics and Culture" IIDA Tsuneo, Prof., IRCJS "The Tale of Genji in Literature of the World" Edward SEIDENSTICKER, Prof. Emeritus, Columbia Univ.	NAKANISHI Susumu, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 27, 1991
2	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Men and Women in Japanese Stories" KAWAI Hayao, Prof., IRCJS "The Enchantment of a Myth: Tanizaki's Fictional West" Adriana BOSCARO, Prof., The Univ. of Venice "The Origin of Japanese People" HANIHARA Kazuro, Prof., IRCJS	NAKANISHI Susumu, Prof., IRCJS	May 28, 1992
3	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"On Eternity" NAKANISHI Susumu, Prof., IRCJS "Seishibosatsu in Horyujikondo and the Religions in Early Kamakura Era"Bernard FRANK, Prof., College de France "Shinran and Dogen" YAMAORI Tetsuo, Prof., IRCJS	KUNO Akira, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 5, 1993
4	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"The Population of a Culture: the World of Historical Demography" HAYAMI Akira, Prof., IRCJS "Forty-five Years I Spent Living in Kyoto" Otis CARY, Prof. Emeritus, Doshisha Univ. "Honen" UMEHARA Takeshi, Director-General, IRCJS	SUGIMOTO Hidetaro, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 4, 1994
5	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Capital and Miyako" SONODA Hidehiro, Prof., IRCJS "The Characteristics of Play and Japanese Culture" Sepp LINHART, Prof., Univ. of Vienna/ Visitting Prof., IRCJS "Women in the Taisho and Showa Eras" HAGA Toru, Prof., IRCJS	SUGIMOTO Hidetaro, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 9, 1995
6	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Murakami Haruki and Mugen-no" Jay RUBIN, Prof., Harvard Univ./ Visiting Prof., IRCJS "A Revival of Communism? The Presidential Election and the Future of Russia" KIMURA Hiroshi, Prof., IRCJS	IIDA Tsuneo, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 13, 1996
7	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Writers in Shanghai and Japan" CHEN Sheng-bao, Prof., Shanghai International Univ./ Visiting Prof., IRCJS "Searching for the Origin of the Japanese" OMOTO Keiichi, Prof., IRCJS	SENDA Minoru, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 7, 1997
8	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Meiji Japan: A Cultural Crossroads for Asia and the West" VINH Sinh, Prof., Univ. of Alberta/ Visiting Prof., IRCJS "Where was Yamatai, the Realm of Queen Himiko" SENDA Minoru, Prof., IRCJS	SONODA Hidehiro, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 13, 1998
9	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Poetry and the Panther: Fomulations of a Strange Excuse as the English Title" Edwin A. CRANSTON, Prof., Harvard Univ./ Visiting Prof., IRCJS "Judgments of Gods, Judgments of Men: The Interface of Ordeal and Torture" ISHII Shiro, Prof., IRCJS	INAMI Ritsuko, Prof., IRCJS	May 29, 1999
10	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals and Japanese" AKAZAWA Takeru, Prof., IRCJS "Contrasts between Japanese and Russian Cultures: A Personal View" Alexandre N. MESHCHERYAKOV, Prof., Russian Academy of Sciences/ Visiting Assoc., Prof., IRCJS	KOMATSU Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 3, 2000
11	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"What are the Buddhist Precepts?" Paul GRONER, Prof., Univ. of Verginia/ Visiting Prof., IRCJS "A Lemon Grenade Exploded Slowly; On the Centennial of KAJII Motojiro's Birth" SUZUKI Sadami, Prof., IRCJS	YORITOMI Motohiro, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 2, 2001
12	Frontiers of Japanese Civilization	"Religion and Japanese Civilization" YAMAORI Tetsuo, Director-General, IRCJS "Forests and Japanese Civilization" YASUDA Yoshinori, Prof., IRCJS "Oceans and Japanese Civilization" KAWAKATSU Heita, Prof., IRCJS	SHIRAHATA Yozaburo, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 1, 2002
13	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"'Bud Guys' and the Meiji Restoration" David HOWELL, Assoc. Prof., Princeton Univ./ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS "Japan and Its Dolls" INOUE Shoichi, Prof., IRCJS	INAGA Shigemi, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 7, 2003
14	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Digital Media and Culture" AIBA Atsushi, Prof., IRCJS "Japanese On, Korean Han: Contrasting Sources of Sentiment in Chûshingura and " LEE O-young, Prof. Emeritus, Ewha Women's Univ./ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	Markus RUETTERMANN, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 5, 2004
15	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"The Worship of Confucius in Tokugawa Japan" Ian James MCMULLEN, Tutorial Fellow in Japanese, Pembroke College, Oxford Univ./ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS "'Japan' as a Multi-Cultural Society: Toward an Era of Cultural Mobility" KATAKURA Motoko, Director-General, IRCJS	IMATANI Akira, Prof., IRCJS	Jul. 2, 2005
16	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Reconsidering Japanese Culture "Did Proto-Japanese Speak Tupi? Japanese-Brazilian Identity and a Fantastical Linguistic Theory " HOSOKAWA Shuhei, Professor, IRCJS "Representing the ‘Female’ Body in Kabuki Art" Andrew GERSTLE, Professor, SOAS, University of London / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	IKEUCHI Satoshi, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 3, 2006
17	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"The Jazz Café Culture of Japan: An Anti-Nostalgic Perspective" Michael S. MOLASKY, Prof. of Japanese Literature, Univ. of Minnesota / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS "Bushido and Japan Today" KASAYA Kazuhiko, Prof., IRCJS	HOSOKAWA Shuhei, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 7, 2008
18	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Survival Logic in the New Century: Globalization and Nationalism" CHO Chung Nam, Prof., Korea University / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS "Rethinking Japanese Buddhism" SUEKI Fumihiko, Prof., IRCJS	UNO Takao, Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 6, 2009
19	Reconsidering Japanese Culture	"Chiang Kai-shek: Between Friend and Foe" HUANG Tzu-chin,Research Fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS "Ishihara Kanji in the Context of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial"USHIMURA Kei, Prof., IRCJS	LIU Jianhui, Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	Jun. 5, 2009