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| Miki Dezaki
Rainey Auditorium- Penn Museum
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The “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort…
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| Ryota Murai, Komazawa University
Cohen 402
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Postwar Japan has been associated with the no war clause of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution, promoted by Japanese signatory to the San Francisco Peace Treaty and US-Japan Security Treaty, Prime Minister…
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| Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Columbia University
Annenberg 110
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This talk explores the notion that Vietnam lies at the crossroads between East and Southeast Asia. Tracing the modern history of Vietnam to its current position in Asia, I argue that Vietnam's ambiguous position in…
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| Xiaoling Shu, UC Davis
Online via Zoom
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It has been argued that development transforms people’s perceptions of meanings and choices of life and launches a shift away from prioritizing family interests over individual happiness and fulfillment.…
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| Futoshi Shibayama, Kwansei University
Cohen 402
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On the process of Imperial Japan’s surrender, we have Professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa’s famous book, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan (2006), and the famous debate between…
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| Thomas Borchert, Professor, The University of Vermont
Cohen 402
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Thomas Borchert is a Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont. He has conducted research on Buddhism and politics, monasticism, discipline and Buddhist education in China, Thailand and Singapore. He is the…
