■Conferences/Symposiums  Lectures

2019

2019-6-27
The 158th Lectures
Revisiting the Chinese World Order: Soft Power or the Imperialism of Nation-states

2018

2017

2017-8-4
The 153rd Lectures
“Civilization” and “Religion” in the 19th Century of Japan
2017-7-5
The 152nd Lectures
Transformations in American Universities: Academic Principles, Teaching Climate, and Japanese Studies
2017-4-27
The 151st Lectures
Time Consciousness in the Medieval Period: The Perspective of Symbolic Forms
2017-3-21
The 150th Lectures
The History of Academic knowledge in Colonial Korea – General Approach including Archeology, Natural Anthropology and History

2016

2016-12-21
The 148th Lectures
Japan's Perennial New Man: The Liberal and Fascist Incarnations of Rōyama Masamichi
2016-12-12
The 149th Lectures
About the "History of Our Working Places": a Historical Retrospection
2016-3-18
The 147th Lectures
Global Mission: Catholic Imperial and Spiritual Networks in India and beyond (16th-18th c.)

2015

2015-3-20
The 145th Lectures
「女性お笑い芸人」という存在 ―男性中心のお笑いの世界で女性は人を笑わせることができるか―

2014

2014-8-21
The 144th Lectures
試練多き道を歩んで:セルビアにおける日本学の過去と今

2013

2013-12-11
The 142nd Lectures
Rethinking the Body and Eroticism in Classical and Medieval Japanese narratives
2013-11-28
The 141st Lectures
伊勢神宮遷宮―古代制度のおもかげを見る―
2013-8-8
The 140th Lectures
The Iconology of 14th-16th Century Japanese Ink Painting with Focus on Sesshu's Landscape Scroll of the Four Seasons (in English)

2012

2012-12-3
The 136th Lectures
Japanese Tourism to Korea Circa 1940: The Tension between Assimilation and Tourism Promotion Policies
2012-9-28
The 135th Lectures
The Field of ‘Between’ as a Topos of Inter-Action and Intra-Relation toward the Comparative Philosophy in the Actual World of Globalization
2012-7-18
The 134th Lectures
Roses and Cherry Blossoms: The Current State of Japanese Studies and Its Future Tasks

2011

2011-10-7
The 132nd Lectures
Colonization in Japanese Empire: Korean Peninsula and Ryukyu
2011-7-27
The 131st Lectures
Anglo-Japanese Relations and the Challenge of Pan-Asianism, 1895—1956
2011-6-25
The 130th Lectures
Debating, Yasumaru Yoshio et.al., ed., The Possibilities of Intellectuals in Postwar Japan
2011-5-20
The 128th Lectures
Chan/Zen Buddhism and the Dissolution of Western Metaphysics

2010

2010-11-19
The 127th Lectures
Zen and Terrorism: Focusing on the Ketsumei-dan Incident in 1930s Japan

2009

2009-11-20
The 123rd Lectures
Beardsley, the Chinese Decadents and Commodity Culture in Shanghai during the 1920—30s

2005

2004

2004-9-15
The 118th Lectures
A Survey of 300 years of History of Japanese Learning in St. Petersburg (Russia)
2004-7-15
The 117th Lectures
Exhibiting Meiji Modernity: Japanese Art at the Columbian Exposition, Chicago1893

2003

2003-3-31
The 115th Lectures
Anthropology for the Sense of Taste: Japanese Culture in Sweetness and Saltiness
2003-2-5
The 113th Lectures
Religion and Modernity: Looking at Buddhist Reform Movement in Meiji Japan

2002

2002-3-26
The 112th Lectures
Non-linear and Floating Viewpoint: The Flow of Time in Noh-Play
2002-3-22
The 111th Lectures
The Philosophy of Lester R. Brown and the Worldwatch Institute
2002-1-11
The 108th Lectures
When did Japonic Language Enter the Ryukyus? : A Critical Comparison of Language, Archaeology and History

2001

2001-3-23
The 104th Lectures
Analyses of the Wanli-Period Yellow Book (huang ce) in Huizhou

2000

2000-9-28
The 102nd Lectures
Eyeing the State: Embodied Visions in the Early Modern Noh Theater
2000-8-3
The 101st Lectures
Household Registers and Other Historical Sources for Chinese and Korean Family History
2000-2-7
The 98th Lectures
YOSANO Akiko's Midaregami and Tekkan's Murasaki in the Context of Japanese Modernism

1999

1999-11-4
The 97th Lectures
Libraries for Japanese Studies in North America-Short History, People, Major Collections, and Current Trends
1999-3-11
The 94th Lectures
Theme: Managing the Technical Aspects of Providing Japanese Information by Computer, etc.

1998

1998-11-30
The 93rd Lectures
Movement of Sinologist in Kyoto in the Seventeenth Century
1998-9-9
The 91st Lectures
Impact of Change in Social Occupation and Labor Structure upon Living Standard Stratification in the Red River Delta and Comparison with Japan's Case

1997

1997-12-8
The 86th Lectures
Kurosawa Akira's Crisis: The Shooting of TORA-TORA-TORA !
1997-11-26
The 85th Lectures
The Savage Wars of Peace; England, Japan and Malthusian Trap
1997-3-26
The 84th Lectures
Toshiya Competition and Local Culture during Edo Period: An Example of Sendai Clan

1996

1996-10-14
The 79th Lectures
Comparative Bioethics in Asia: Are Japan, Israel, and India the Ends of Asia?
1996-1-19
The 72nd Lectures
What is the Demographic Transition: An Alternative View

1995

1995-5-15
The 70th Lectures
Earthquake and Visual Images - Report of a Photographic Survey of the Kobe Earthquake
1995-2-15
The 69th Lectures
The Tale of Genji Album in the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts in the Context of Genji-e

1994

1994-12-21
The 68th Lectures
Universality of Constraint-based Phrase Structure Grammars, etc.
1994-9-5
The 67th Lectures
Restoration to the Historical View of Vegetation: Method of Study Based on Pictu res
1994-2-10
The 63rd Lectures
A Comparative Study of East Asian Literary Histories , etc.

1993

1993-11-2
The 58th Lectures
On the Materials Relating to Japan Owned by Russia: Part I, etc.
1993-9-9
The 54th Lectures
The Mistranslations of Japanese Concepts: In the Cases of European Languages
1993-6-7
The 51st Lectures
Circumstances around Photographies in the Late Tokugawa Period in Japan

1992

1992-11-30
The 41st Lectures
Cultural Intercourse in Ancient Times between Korea and Japan
1992-11-19
The 38th Lectures
The Present Stage of the Inventory of Japanese Classical Books in China
1992-6-11
The 34th Lectures
On Japanese Studies in China as seen by a Chinese Political Scientist, etc.
1992-6-2
The 32nd Lectures
Cultural Exchange between China and Japan: From a New Viewpoint
1992-5-16
The 31st Lectures
War and Peace, Reconsidered from Tolstoy's References to Laozu, etc.
1992-5-8
The 29th Lectures
Family System and Labor Market Gift Exchange in Prewar Japan

1991

1991-12-24
The 25th Lectures
Japanese Art Collection of the National Museum in Cracow
1991-10-16
The 21st Lectures
Foreign Rare Books on Japan in the Nichibunken Library
1991-1-31
The 18th Lectures
The Nether World and Foreign Land in Ancient Japanese Mythology

1990

1990-8-10
The 10th Lectures
Genetic Engineering: a Challenge or a Catalyst for Bioethics?

1989

1989-6-2
The 5th Lectures
The Other Side in Japanese Modern Literature: The Case of lzumi Kyoka
1989-1-19
The 2nd Lectures
A Japanese Poet and the Pacific War: Kusano Shinpei's Poetry on Mt. Fuji

1988