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New York Times

By Sunil Amrith. Amrith is the chair of the South Asian Studies Council and recently named director of the the Whitney and Betty
MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies at Yale.

A graphic depicting a barrel of a gun as a smoke stack with a red background Illustration by Sam Whitney/The New York Times
MacMillan Center

Wilson Oliveira da Silva Filho is the Fulbright Distinguished Award recipient in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Yale University this year. In this interview, he describes his path to Yale and discusses his research.

Wilson Oliveira
MacMillan Center
Yale Alumni Magazine

Every summer, ten middle school students from Nihonmatsu, Japan, file into New Haven’s Grove Street Cemetery with their chaperones and a dignitary or two from their town—sometimes the mayor. They find the grave marker they’re looking for, lay flowers in front of it, and observe a reverent moment of silence. This ritual has been going on since 1991, except for an interruption during the COVID-19 pandemic. The students, chosen for the trip by a competitive process, are there to pay tribute to Kan-ichi Asakawa 1902PhD (1873–1948), a native of Nihonmatsu who spent his last 42 years in New Haven.

Asakawa