Prof Barak Kushner and Dr Kuan-Jen Chen managed an international workshop with Dr Chang Chihyun (Shanghai Jiaotong University) in Shanghai from 30 July to 1 August. The workshop was based on Prof Kushner’s Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation project: Charting the Geography of Power: Visualizing the Shifting Landscape from Imperial to Postwar East Asia through War Crimes Trials. […]
To download the full report please go to the Chatham House website here: https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/uk-and-japan-forging-global-and-proactive-partnership As Japan and the United Kingdom face serious challenges at home and in their respective regions, a new report from Chatham House makes the case that a stronger relationship could advance each country’s national interests as well as wider global concerns. […]
In November 2017 we had the privilege of hosting a rakugo performance (traditional Japanese comedic storytelling) by one of Japan’s leading performers, Master Yanagiya Kyōtaro 柳家喬太郎. During his visit Japanese Studies students and staff had the opportunity to interact directly with Master Kyōtaro. In exclusive extracts from his new book we read about how the Japanese […]
Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge is delighted to announce the official signing of two new graduate scholarship agreements. Keidanren Chair of Japanese Studies, Professor Mickey Adolphson, met with Wano Tsutomu of Quick co. and Nakagawa Hiroyuki of NGA in Osaka and Tokyo respectively, in the last week of March to officially sign the […]
Professor Kushner recently delivered two talks at National Chengchi University in Taiwan: 1. “Imperial Legacies: History as a weapon of memory in Postwar East,” March 26, 20192.「 台灣的歷史萬花筒 」(The Kaleidoscope of Taiwanese History), which examined the interaction of post-imperial and modern Taiwanese history, March 28, 2019 (in Chinese).
