The 241st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Imaginary Athens in Berlin, Tokyo and Seoul:
Memory and Architecture from a Transmodern Viewpoint

The 240th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Expanding the Notion of ‘Civilization and Enlightenment': the Role of Popular Literature and Art in the Early Meiji Period

The 239th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Art Brut at the Fringe of Comics

The 238th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Hearing Butoh: Sonic Analyses of a Growing Japanese Performance Art

The 237th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
War, Tourism, and Modern Japan

The 236th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Otherworldly Women "Yamauba", Mountain Witches: On Duality of "Yamauba"

The 235th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Combat Curses and Samurai Spells in the "Kōwakamai" Warrior Fiction of Late Medieval Japan

The 234th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Legacies of Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan ― State Shintō, New Religions, and Buddhist War Responsibility

The 233rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Kites of Shirone - How to Make a Small City Known Worldwide

The 232nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Folk Performing Arts as Intangible Heritage

The 231st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
A. K. Coomaraswamy and Japan: A Link between Colonial India and Annexed Korea

The 230th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Buddhist Expertise on Embryology, Childbirth, and Women's Health in Medieval Japan

The 229th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Illustrating Aesop: The Tales of Isopo Scrolls and Transformation of the Mediterranean World into the Chinese Visual Field

The 228th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Scenario Culture: Rethinking Authors and Audiences of Postwar Japanese Cinema

The 227th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Interrelation of Academic and Artistic Approaches to the Reconstruction of Japanese Court Music: From Historiographies to Historiophonies

The 226th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Enlightenment of Scientific Knowledge in Early Meiji : Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901)

The 225th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Postwar Japanese War Films - The Continuing Competition for Japan's Collective War Memory

The 224th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Constructing Chinese Citizens: Textbooks and the Nation, with a Note on Japanese Influences (1902-1937)

The 223rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Making of Patriotism in Early Meiji Japan

The 222nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Betsugyō 別業, Bessō 別荘 and Sansō 山荘 in Medieval and Premodern Kyoto －From an Architectural Point of View

The 221st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Meiji Period Kuchi-e（口絵）in The National Library of Australia Collection

The 220th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Green Tea as an American Beverage, 1860 to 1940

The 219th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Interwar Japanese Buddhism and Racial Prejudice

The 218th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Ontology and Icon Formation of the Tea Bowl

The 217th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
TSUCHI: Japanese Earth and Soil in Pottery, Photography, and Installation Art, 1960-2000

The 216th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Orthodox Chanting: A Brief History and Present-day Conditions

The 215th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Consume or Perish!: Making of Consumer Society in Interwar Japan

The 214th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Family Memories in Place, Time, and Motion: The Kōfukuji Nan'endō and Its Buddhist Icons

The 213th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Nature as Master?
Exploring Affect, Environment, and Shinto-Buddhist Traditions in the Craft of Japanese Bamboo Basket Making

The 212th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Rise and Fall of Kinoshita Keisuke’s Films: Critical Perspectives

The 211th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Poetry of Takarabe Toriko: Elegies of Children, Women and War

The 210th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Looking for ‘Correct’ Knowledge in Early Edo Japan: Baba Nobutake’s Critic and Defense of Various Theories (Shosetsu bendan 諸説辨断, 1715) and Its Context

The 209th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Reconsidering Mircea Eliade: Politics of Religious Studies and the Morphology of Religion

The 208th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Celebrity Creativity: Picturing Women Film Directors through Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Themes

The 207th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Relational Self: Nature and Sociality in the Philosophy of Watsuji Tetsurō

The 206th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Enjoying Haiku as It Is: A Vietnamese View

The 205th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Tanoshikatta ne? Learning to be Happy in Japanese Preschools

The 204th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Shichifukujin : Seven Gods of Good Luck and Humor in Japanese Religious Painting

The 203rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Flying Octopus Story:Japanese Traditional Kite Culture and Its People

The 202nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Tsuda Sokichi's View of Cultural Development:Japanese Literary History Rewritten in the Postwar Period

The 201st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Local Community:Structures,Characteristics,and Resources

The 200th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Reading Tanaka Kotaro,Re-thinking Japanese Studies:Rhoughts on Universalism and Particularism

The 199th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Toward the Reexamination of Universality:Indian Inspiration for Hori Shitoku and Fellow Meiji Buddhist Clerics Opposed to Marriage

The 198th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
"Female"Presence on the Stage of the ALL-Male Traditional Japanese Theatre

The 197th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Early Izumo,from the Upper Paleolithic to the Kofun Period

The 196th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Proselytizing in the "Western Paradise":Pan-Asianism to Pacifism in Nipponzan Myohoji

The 195th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Music as Representation:Thoughts and Remarks on Japanese Fluxus

The 194th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Circuits of Production,Distribution,and Consumption as a Possible Narrative within Japanese Art History:Some Preliminary Considerations

The 193rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Rethinking the Concept of New Religions in Japan:the Case of Agonshu

The 192nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Tree Blossoms and Rock Gardens:On the Duakity of the Japanese Sense of Beauty

The 191st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Yashiro's Details and the Problem of Place

The 190th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
SuperNATURAL Japan:Digging Out the Embedded Cultural Realities in Japanese Fairy Tales

The 189th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Transcultural Encounters: German Beer and Meiji Japan

The 188th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Mori Arinori's Journey to St. Petersburg in 1866: Images of Western Backwardness and Threatening Modernization

The 187th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Reflections on “Japanese” Culture in Transnational Communication as Seen through Representations of “Kawaii”

The 186th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Religion and Community in Kyoto: The Gion Matsuri and Chōnaikai

The 185th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Forgotten Treasures of Meiji Japan: The Nuremberg 1885 Exhibition Revisited

The 184th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Spring and Asura: Buddhist Progressivism in the Taishō Era

The 183rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Animism for Modernity: Lessons from Minamata for the Post-Fukushima World

The 182nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Narrative Agency in 13th-14th Century Chan Figure Painting: a Study of Hagiography-Iconography Text-Image Relationships

The 181st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Transgressive Readers and Writers: On the Japanese-Language Literature of Brazil

The 180th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Birth of Mutual Recognition: European and Japanese Visual Images of Each Other during the Edo Period and the Quest for Generalization

The 179th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Hara Setsuko's Screen Career: The Intersection between Eternal Virgin and Eternal Madonna

The 178th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Childbirth and Women's Health in Heian and Kamakura Japan

The 177th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Uncanny Realism: Mimesis and Metamorphosis in Japanese Theatre and Beyond

The 176th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
UNESCO Comes to Kagoshima: Ritual, Depopulation, and the Problem of Intangible Cultural Heritage

The 175th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Inspiration and the Languages of Contemporary Music

The 174th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Kyoto's Old Cherries are More Beautiful than the New: How and Why?

The 173rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Common Points between the Classical Martial Art of Japan and the European Art of Fighting

The 172nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Aloha Buddha and Bounty Zen: Global, Transnational, and Ethnic Buddhism in a Hawaiian Diaspora Context

The 171st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Noh Drama as a Vehicle for Spreading Shintoism and Buddhism in Medieval Japan

The 170th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Shinto and Shamanism: The Indigenous Religions of Japan and Mongolia

The 169th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Archetypes in Japanese Films: The Wanderer Archetype from Myth to Street

The 168th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Taisho as Interwar: Reflections on Japan in the History of the Modern World

The 167th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Tukioka Kogyo and the Popularization of Noh in Modern Japan

The 166th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
An Other Other? The Qur’ān, Islam, and Religious Identity in Modern Japan

The 165th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Masterworks of Ukiyo-e in an Australian Collection

The 164th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Women through the Prism of Proverbs

The 163rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Chain and the City: Conceptualizing Public Space in Japan

The 162nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Resistance and Despair: A Speculation on “Pro-Japanese” Discourse in Korea

The 161st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Chinese Portable Movies

The 160th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Desire and the Civilization: A Political-Economy Inquiry into the Japanese Mind

The 159th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
To Capture Their Favor: Gift-giving by the Dutch East India Company

The 158th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Studying Translations-Then and Now

The 157th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Self and Society in Ethics of Emptiness: As Seen in a Preliminary Examination of Hisamatsu Shin'ichi and Watsuji Tetsuro

The 156th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
When Did the Japanese Start Writing Books on Japan in English? The Strengths and Weaknesses of the First Generation of Native Japan Interpreters

The 155th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Writing in Between Language and Culture: Some Cases in Contemporary Japanese Literature

The 154th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Chinese and Japanese Ghost Drama: A Comparative Study with Special Reference to Japanese Noh Plays and Chinese Zaju (Variety Plays)

The 153rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Studies in Bulgaria: The 20th Anniversary of the “Japanese Studies” Major at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

The 152nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Modern Japanese Literature and Russian Poet-immigrants: A Case of Eastern Diaspora

The 151st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Buddhist Chaplaincy during the Russo-Japanese War

The 150th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Rethinking Shonen’ai: Uses of History in Edogawa Ranpo’s Writing about the Love of Boys

The 149th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Function of Place Names in Early Waka: Some Comparisons with English, Welsh and Anglo-Welsh Poetry

The 148th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Voices from Nara at the Chinese Court: Poetry and Diplomacy in Eighth-century East Asia

The 147th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Hideyoshi’s Invasion of Korea and the Diplomacy of Survival 1596-98

The 146th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The “Eyes” of the Police and a Historiographic Problem: The 1925 TaipeiPolice Exhibition

The 145th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Ideals of Feminine Beauty: Portrayal in Ukiyo-e and Indian Miniature Painting

The 144th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Kume Kunitake and Kume Keiichiro: Father and Son, Advocators of Western Science and Art

The 143rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Architecture & Photography : Longing for the Past and Reconstructing the Future

The 142nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Monsters and Micronesia Japanese Conceptualizations of the South Seas as a Supernatural Space

The 141st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Multiproxy Evidence of Tropical Holocene Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Interference from a Lake Record in Bali

The 140th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Soldiers and Society in Japan: Exploring the Issues

The 139th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Sakabe Megumi, A Scenic Philosophy

The 138th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
What is Japanese Performing Arts? The Process of Constructing an Image

The 137th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Cramming the Canon: Contemporary Gakushū Manga and the Possibilities of Edutainment

The 136th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Past and Present: Stone Bead Making in India

The 135th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Shamanism in Context: Itako (Northern Japan) and Mikishi (Democratic Republic of Congo)

The 134th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Theatre of Species: Race and Animals in Wartime Animation

The 133rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Adaptation of Western Genres in Japanese Popular Music: Evolution of Musical Style and Text Setting in Children's Songs and Hip-Hop

The 132nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Heart's Home Town: Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan

The 131st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Method of Tsugaru Shamans in Osabe Hideo's Literature: Towards a New Relation between Japan and Asia

The 130th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Bad Boy of the Gods: Readings from a Translation-in-Progress of Aratama, Ishikawa Jun's Novel of 1964

The 129th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Ticklish Triangle: Reflections on Nationalisms in Japan, China and Taiwan since the 1990s

The 128th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Rereading Those Lines: Rethinking Japanese Buddhism through Examining Bunin (Appointments Works)

The 127th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
An Arctic Passage to the Far East: The Visit of the Swedish Vega Expedition to Japan in 1879

The 126th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Archives of Western Social Scientists in Japanese Collections, with Special Reference to the Kansai Area

The 125th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Visualizing an Ancient Land Near, Yet Far: Imperialist Nostalgia and the Production of Tourist Images in Colonial Korea 

The 124th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Music on the Periphery of Modern Life: Traces of Music-making among the Okinawan and Korean Communities of Interwar Osaka

The 123rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Science of Karma: The Congruence of Buddhism and 19th Century Evolutionary Thought in the Writings of Lafcadio Hearn

The 122nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
石干見 (Ishihimi) - Studies on the Relics of Maritime Civilizations in the Visayas, Piscadores, and the Ryukyus

The 121st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Hinduism and Shintoism: A Comparative Study

The 120th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Shells in Prehistoric Societies from West to East: A PreliminaryApproach

The 119th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
On geidan: an anthropological approach

The 118th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Celebrating Work in Pictures: A New Subject for Edo Society

The 117th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Art of the Bluff Among Japanese Migrants: Popular LiteraryModernism in the 1920s

The 116th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Shin Buddhism and Economic Growth in Premodern Japanese History:Can the Relationship be 'Religiously' Interpreted ?

The 115th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Last Samurai: The Mythical Suicide of Saigo Takamori

The 114th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Eloquent Bones: On Maruyama Ôkyo’s ‘SkeletonSitting in Mediation over the Sea’

The 113th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Arts and Crafts in Modern Kyoto: Facing the West

The 112th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
What Language Do You Expect from the Stage in Japan? Kinoshita Junji's Shigosen no matsuri -- Requiem on the GreatMeridian (with video clips)

The 111th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Recent Trends in Scholarship on Japan in the United Statesof America

The 110th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Women in the History of Chanoyu

The 109th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Figurality and the Development of Modern Consciousness

The 108th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Representing the ‘Female’ Body in Kabuki

The 107th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Down and Out in Negishi: Secular Reclusion as Civil Societyin Edo

The 106th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
A Latin American View of Japanese Performing Arts: towardsa Web-Encyclopedia of Japanese Performing Arts in Spanish

The 105th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Remarks on the Concept of Epistolary Etiquette(shosatsurei)in Premodern Japan

The 104th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Diffusion of the High Modern State: From Manchunkuo toSouth Korea

The 103rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Temples, Timber and Truculencein Early Modern Japan

The 102nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Production Processes and Materials in the Textile Culturesof Japan and the Philippines

The 101st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Care of the Elderly in Japan: Lives of Residents in KotobukiHome

The 100th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Buddhist Affects in Contemporary Music

The 99th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Environmental Archaeology in Southern Scandinavia: InterdisciplinaryResearch during the 20th Century

The 98th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Worship of Confucius in Tokugawa Japan

The 97th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Strindberg & Akutagawa - Suitable Cases for Treatment?

The 96th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Nishida Kitaro and Zen

The 95th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
A Good Rate of Exchange: International Influences on theIconography of the Yen

The 94th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Lafcadio Hearn as Japanese Nationalist

The 93rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Use of Legendary Material in Medieval Noh Hidensho

The 92nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Nervous System as Apprehended by Japanese Scholars ofWestern Medicine in the Edo Period

The 91st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Hand-sewn Buddhist Robes in Contemporary Japan and the Rhetoricof Authenticity

The 90th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japan and the Nobel Science Prizes: The First Half-Century,1901-1949

The 89th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Early Cultural Contacts between Japan and Australia

The 88th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Rethinking Edo Culture: Alternate Attendance and TokugawaJapan

The 87th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Changing Notion of Community and Participatory UrbanDevelopment in Japan

The 86th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Then China, Now Japan: Reading ’Women's Medicineë of Ishinpô inDifferent Contexts

The 85th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Reinterpreting Japan: The Search for a New Cultural Identity

The 84th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Core Problem of Bioethics: Why both Hans Jonas and JapaneseViews Deserve International Attention

The 83rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Globalization of Information: Its Impact on Japanese Studies

The 82nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Way of Walking in Meditation: The Creation of an AncientTradition of Sôtô Zen

The 81st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Engimono: Luck, Agency, and the Interdependence of Peopleand Things in Japan

The 80th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Search for F.J. Norman: Western Kendo Pioneer

The 79th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Ex-posing the Mimetic Phallacy: Yi Yang-Ji's ¿Yu Heeî

The 78th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Bureaucratic Evolution, Paperwork, and Record-keeping underGaiatsu, 1808-1858

The 77th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Chasing Bad Guys in Late Tokugawa Japan

The 76th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Changing Culture of Teaching in Japan

The 75th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Modernity at Work: Making Theory Concrete in Colonial Manchuria

The 74th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Illness as Identity: 'Leprosy Literature' and the HygienicNation

The 73rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Compromise and Eclecticism: Modern Illusions in Meiji TokyoArchitecture

The 72nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The 'I' and the'Thou': Comparing Mikhail Bakhtin and NishidaKitaro

The 71st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Silk Weavers of Nishijin: Family and Work in a ChangingTraditional Industry

The 70th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Rakuchu rakugai zu: The State of Research and Recent Discoveries

The 69th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Is the Kibi Pond Site Kudara Odera? Problems in the RoyalPatronage of Buddhism in Seventh-Century Japan

The 68th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Academic Debate, Political Activism, and Student Oratory:Three Aspects of Public Speaking in Meiji and Taisho Japan

The 67th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Art by Nuns at Imperial Buddhist Convents in Japan

The 66th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Zen and Clinical Psychology: The Buddhist Roots of Sandplay(Hakoniwa) Therapy

The 65th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Recurring Problem of the 47th Ronin: a New Look at theAko Incident and Its Historiography

The 64th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Toward a New Understanding of Haiku in the West

The 63rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Terrorism in the Art and Lives of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo

The 62nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Do Birds Sit on Torii?

The 61st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Role of Institutions in the Making of Economic Society:Lessons from Early Modern Japan

The 60th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Exploring the Kanshi Tanzaku :The Chinese Poetry Tradition and Japanese Life in 19th CenturyKyoto

The 59th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Collecting Japan's Treasures and Monuments- Colonialism,Nationalism and the History of Cultural Properties Managementin the Korean Peninsula (1911-1943)

The 58th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Autobiography in the Edo-Period - Forms and Functions

The 57th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Reflections on the Role of Buddhist Precepts in MedievalJapan

The 56th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
When and How North-Eastern Asia Was Populated by Modern Humans?

The 55th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Understanding Human Behavior Using Evolutionary Theory

The 54th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Heian Buddhism with Indian Perspective

The 53rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Invisible and Insane: Literal Translation from the Japanese

The 52nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Who can't read and write? Illiteracy in Meiji Japan

The 51st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Medieval Guilds and New Religious Movement: A Comparisonbetween Europe and Japan

The 50th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Prospects for the Japan American Security Alliance in the21st Century

The 49th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Studies in Australia, Canada, and Egypt

The 48th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Studies in Finland, Bulgaria, and Belgium

The 47th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Studies in Ireland

The 46th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Changing Chinese Attitudes toward the Study of Japan: A HistoricalPerspective

The 45th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Etat present des etudes japonaises en France

The 44th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Studies in Current Russia:Inheritance and Inheritors

The 43rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
From Japanology to Japanese Studies and Beyond: Trends inGerman Scholarship

The 42nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Recent and Current Studies of Japan in the United States:Reflections of a Rip Van Winkle

The 41st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese Management as Seen from Britain

The 40th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Early Monsoon Trade in the Indian Ocean : A Review ofArchaeological Evidence, 3000B.C.-A.D.300

The 39th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Indus Civilisation: its Global Legacy

The 38th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Can Social Theory Account for the Risks of World Society?

The 37th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Two Japanese Psychotherapies and an American Offspring

The 36th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Translation Cultures in Modern China and Japan: A ComparativeUnderstanding

The 35th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Virginia Woolf and Kamiya Miyeko: Narrative, Illusion, andIdentity

The 34th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
A Comparison of Three World Views: Natural Science, HusserlianPhenomenology and Tibetan Dzog Chen

The 33rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Japanese from Jomon too? Meiji Times: Biological Relationshipsand Oriigins Based on Multivariate Studies of Skulls

The 32nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
To Be or Not to Be: the Samurai Tradition in Korea and Japan

The 31st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Nervousness and the Assimilation of Nerves into Japaneseand Chinese Medicine

The 30th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Tokugawa Japan and Early-Modern England : Reflection on Population,Economy and Society

The 29th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Three Beginnings and Poetics of Decreation: Random Reflectionson Asian Aesthetics

The 28th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Powerful Concubines and Authoritative Virgins: Women in EdoCulture

The 27th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Osaka and Tokyo

The 26th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Hero's Journey in Shiga Naoya's A DarkNight's Passing and Murakami Haruki's TheHard- Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

The 25th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
V.S.Naipaul and His Writings

The 24th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Life as Chaos-Akutagawa Ryuunosuke and His Three Mothers

The 23rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Sartre, Beauvior and the Japanese Intellectual Field

The 22nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Huang Zunxian (1848-1905) and his Association with MeijiEra Bunjin -Centering on "This Culture of Ours"-

The 21st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Miyazawa Kenji : Rebel With a Cause

The 20th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Mukoyoshi: Adoption and Marriageamong Peasants in Pre-industrial Japan

The 19th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Notion of market in Tokugawa intellecutual milieu

The 18th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Reading and Translating Genji monogatari

The 17th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Conceiving Reality in Pure Land Buddhist Thought

The 16th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Reading Romance in Heian Period Literary Prose

The 15th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Kyoto, Dae-Dae (対侍)Cultural Grammar and Buddhist Anthropology

The 14th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Looking at the Japanese Labour Market from a ScandinavianPoint of View

The 13th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Field of Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Few HermeneuticalStrategies

The 12th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Fear of Evil Spirits in Literature and the Arts

The 11th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Year of the Two Helens:1995 and Debate over "Fictionarity" inAustralian Writing

The 10th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Health Care Policy in the UK and Japan:Comparative Studies

The 9th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Interpriting the Japanese Complaint of Katakori('Stiff Shoulders')

The 8th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The World's First Truly Superficial Study of No

The 7th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Ruth Benedict's Research on Enemy Japan

The 6th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
The Internet, NTT Reform, and the Network Era

The 5th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
High School Graduates' Transition to Work in the Age of "Hollosingout": A Comparative Study

The 4th Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Sushi and Samosas: Japan's Relations with India

The 3rd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Psychological Dimensions of Japanese Negotiating Behavior

The 2nd Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Expanding the Canon: The Life and Works of Koami Nagashige 高阿弥長重 (1599-1651)

The 1st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Comprehensive Urban Development and Community Participation-Prioritiesand Needs(Experience of Japan for Asian Cities)