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… is one of the critically most celebrated filmmakers in Japan in the last 30 years, with many of his films making … rises up to the challenge again. Print courtesy of The Japan Foundation. About Director Sakamoto Born in Osaka in …

… “rules of the game” that underpin the “literary system” of medieval Slavic literature. Read more Harvey Goldblatt 2006 … …

… first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It … with the rise of industrial capitalism and mass culture in Japan, the book challenges the conventional wisdom that …

… between Poverty, Social Status and Disease in Modern Japan’s Regional Communities”   Timon Screech Visiting … identity. Teaching: Discourse of Civilization in Meiji Japan (Spring 2015)   Seunghan Paek Post-Doctoral Associate …

… the rebirth of Nikkei trading companies between the US and Japan, and their broad-based movement to donate money, food, and clothing to war-ravaged Japan from 1946 to 1952 through the aid program called … the history of economic and cultural connections between Japan and Louisiana. In particular it addressed how New …

… to prevent the rise, contain the influence, and resist the power of political illiberalism in democracies. Our focus … where illiberal governments have started to entrench their power, the contributions to this conference cover situations in which illiberals are both in power and in opposition. The success of figures such as …

… to prevent the rise, contain the influence, and resist the power of political illiberalism in democracies. Our focus … where illiberal governments have started to entrench their power, the contributions to this conference cover situations in which illiberals are both in power and in opposition. The success of figures such as …

… regionalism and sub-state nationalism in northeastern Japan, where he lived for eight years. He is currently … Thought: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Culturalism in Japan’s Northeast . He taught “Japanese Nationalism in Global … Israel and Europe and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in Japan. His thesis is further expanded upon in his recently …

… Perry’s: to push the frontiers of global imperialism in Japan, a country then closed to Westerners for two centuries, … trade. Indeed, the two expeditions overlapped while in Japan. The journey took the Russians to Japan by way of the Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Singapore, and …

… research interests in the relationships between political power, religion, and the production of sacred architecture. … Spiritual Kings: The Architecture of Asceticism in Early Medieval India, which examines the connections between the … type, the regionalization and localization of royal power, and the institutionalization of new forms of ritual …