In Japan, Osamu Tezuka is known as the “manga no kami-sama,” or the “God of Manga.” In a heavily illustrated talk, Frederik L. Schodt will focus on Tezuka’s Tetsuwan Atomu (known as “Astro Boy” in the United States…
The Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania presents a free screening of "5 Centimeters Per Second" as part of the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival.
As more people move across borders in pursuit of a “Good Life,” Asia is becoming increasingly diverse or multicultural. I argue that political elites in non-socialist Northeast Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia refer…
In this paper, I investigate the re-popularization of material culture and music from the Cultural Revolution in contemporary China. Specifically, I explore how my interlocutors from the Hunan province celebrated the…
Penn Forum on Japan Third Thursday “Japanese Police Reform, 1952-54” Histoshi KOMIYA, Associate Professor, College of Literature, Aoyama Gakuin University Lunch will be…
What drives differences across countries in levels of civic engagement? Both the United States and Japan have been described as having high levels of civic engagement, but a variety of measures show that the type of…
This presentation describes an in-progress digital atlas of the Yellow River, a project in Chinese and environmental history at the scale of the entire Holocene era. The spatial and historical data that I am…
