Monday 9 October, 5 – 7pm Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Rooms 8/9 Free to attend and open to all  

UL Japan Librarian Emeritus Mr Noboru Koyama has published a new book on the Japan collections at Cambridge and how this library developed out of the UK’s special early relationship with Japan. ケンブリッジ大学図書館と近代日本研究：国学から日本学へ (Modern Japanese Studies and Cambridge University Library: from Kokugaku to Japanology) In the history of Japanese studies, scholars of the English School, such … More Modern Japanese Studies and Cambridge University Library: from Kokugaku to Japanology

“The shifting landscape from imperial to postwar East Asia: War Crimes, Trials, and the Geography of Power” 21 September – 25 September 2017 at the University of Cambridge Funded by a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant, Dr. Barak Kushner (University of Cambridge) hosted Dr. Chang Chihyun (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Professor Kishi Toshihiko (Kyoto University) and GIS … More The shifting landscape from imperial to postwar East Asia: War Crimes, Trials, and the Geography of Power

戦後革命の実相 The Reality of Postwar Revolution: A View of the Tokyo Preventive Center and Asian Marxism   20 September 2017 How did the leadership of the Japanese Communist Party, which had been ruthlessly oppressed since the late-1920s, emerge suddenly after defeat in 1945 to become one of the most organized and powerful political groups in … More Guest seminar from Professor Suzuki Norio ‘The Reality of Postwar Revolution: A View of the Tokyo Preventive Center and Asian Marxism’

Dr John Nilsson-Wright, Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese Studies has recently published a new paper entitled: Creative Minilateralism in a Changing Asia: Opportunities for Security Convergence and Cooperation between Australia, India and Japan. Published by Chatham House the paper can be found here: https://www.chathamhouse.org/publication/creative-minilateralism-changing-asia-opportunities-security-convergence-and-cooperation

Earlier this month Dr Barak Kushner, Reader in Japanese History (Associate Professor) gave opening remarks and delivered a presentation at the “International Symposium on China’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.” The event was held in Chinese in Beijing from 8-9 July, 2017, and saw 120 scholars gather from Japan, Taiwan, Russia, China and several from Europe. Please … More International Symposium on China’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression

Our own Dr. Mikael Adolphson, Keidanren Professor and Chair of Japanese Studies, will be lecturing for a second year on the Archaeological Institute of America’s Japan by Sea: Land of the Rising Sun tour. Click here to view the tour brochure for further information