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NEWS
Celebration of a New Center ...click here for more!
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The opening ceremony and reception for the Center for Okinawan Studies (COS) took place on July 1 at the Center for Korean Studies. Distinguished guests such as Governor Linda Lingle; Senator Jill Tokuda; Representative Marcus Oshiro; Vice-President Hajime Oshiro, Vice-President Hiroshi Kakazu and Dr. Katsunori Yamazato from the University of the Ryukyus; and UH Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw celebrated the launch of the new center together with approximately 100 guests in attendance. Along with the ceremony that began with a traditional Okinawan dance performance and the reception that featured classic Okinawan dishes, the attendees also enjoyed the guided tour of Hamilton Library's exhibits on Okinawan performing arts in Hawaii.
The center is the first of its kind in the nation with a specific focus on Okinawa-related issues and research interests. The center became a reality thanks to the help of countless individuals and will be sustained by the support of the local community.
CJS is looking forward to the future success of COS! (posted on 7/2/08)
Ehime Interns Arrive in Japan
Mr. Shaun Kindred and Mr. Kevin Duffy, UHM interns for the Ehime Prefectural International Center (EPIC) Internship Program, have arrived in Japan safely. They have already begun their work despite the jet lag! Good luck to the both of them!
EPIC offers two internships for twelve weeks over the summer of 2008. The internships are coordinated through CJS and the Japan-American Society of Hawai'i. (posted on 5/28/08)
Three-Year Grant for the New Center for Okinawan Studies
The University of Hawai‘i at Manoa has been awarded a three-year grant by the Japan Foundation for the new Center for Okinawan Studies, which will initiate its programs within the School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) on July 1, 2008. The grant is part of the Japan Foundation’s Institutional Project Support Program, which promotes “innovative projects in the field of Japanese studies” in the United States. (posted on 5/16/08)
For more details, please see our newsletter, J Current.
Dr. Serafim Appointed the Founding Director of COS
Dr. Leon Serafim (Associate Professor of Japanese, EALL, and a CJS faculty member) will be the founding Director of the Center for Okinawan Studies. His term of office will run from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. (posted on 5/16/08)
For more details, please see our newsletter, J Current.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
A COLLAGE IN MEMORY OF DR. EDWARD SEIDENSTICKER
CJS is happy to announce the completion of a collage honoring the works of Dr. Edward Seidensticker, a prominent translator of Japanese literature. He translated for important authors such as Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Tanizaki Junichiro and others. CJS is grateful to Andy Curry and Janice Omura (EALL Dept.) for creating this fitting tribute to Dr. Seidensticker.
The collage can be found on the wall in the hallway leading to CJS. Drop by and enjoy! (posted on 5/28/08)
SPRING ISSUE OF J CURRENT (CJS NEWSLETTER) AVAILABLE
Feature Story: Three-Year Grant for the New Center for Okinawan Studies
Graduate Student Seminars
Students & Alumni News
From the Tea Center
Faculty News
From the Library
Recent Events
CJS Seminars
Please click here to download this issue in PDF. Visit the newsletter section to download previous issues of J Current. (posted on 5/15/08)
CJS SEMINAR--POLITICAL TIES OF VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
On Thursday, April 24, 2008, Dr. Patricia Steinhoff (Professor in Sociology) will discuss Japan's two different trends of social movements by leftists and conservatives. This seminar will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 4/9/08)
CJS SEMINAR--KITTY SUBVERSION: TURNING CUTE ON ITS HEAD
On Friday, April 18, 2008, Dr. Christine Yano (Professor in Anthropology) will discuss some of the subversive uses to which that Japanese icon, Hello Kitty, has been put in its global consumption. This seminar will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 3/27/08)
CJS SEMINAR--ILLUSTRATED CLASSICAL TEXTS FOR WOMEN IN THE EDO PERIOD
On Thursday, April 17, 2008, Dr. Joshua Mostow (Professor, University of British Columbia) will discuss how the courtly texts such as The Tale of Genji and The Tales of Ise were “packaged” for female consumers of the early modern period, and what such packaging can tell us about both the reception of such “classical” texts and the construction of femininity in the Tokugawa era. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 3/19/08)
CJS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR--MATERIALIZING DREAMS: TECHNOLOGY, HUMANITY, AND THE POST-MODERN TENSION IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ROBOTICS
On Thursday, April 10, 2008, Mr. Hirofumi Katsuno (PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UHM) will discuss how the humanoid robotics becomes a recuperative site of humanity, reshaping social relations, cultural myths, and individual practices in contemporary Japan. This seminar will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 3/19/08)
CJS SEMINAR--BASHOFU, JAPAN’S MINGEI MOVEMENT, AND THE CREATION OF A NEW OKINAWA DURING THE OCCUPATION YEARS
On Monday, March 31, 2008, Dr. Amanda Mayer Stinchecum will talk about Okinawan cloth, bashofu, and Yanagi Soetsu, who promoted bashofu as a symbol of Okinawan culture. This seminar will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 3:00 to 4:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 3/14/08)
RYUDAI PROFESSORS REPORT ON TAIKAI SURVEY RESEARCH
On Saturday, March 8, Dr. Hiroyuki Kinjo (Hispanic Studies), Dr. Naomi Noiri (Sociology), and Dr. Kentaro Kuwatsuka (Geography and Anthropology) from the University of the Ryukyus will be presenting the results of their survey at the Worldwide Uchinanchu Taikai in October of 2006. This event will be held in East-West Center’s Burns Hall 3015 from 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 3/5/08)
CJS SEMINAR--INSIGHTS ON THE ACADEMIC JOB SEARCH
On Thursday, March 20, Dr. Kyle Ikeda, a recent PhD in Japanese (literature) from UHM, and, Dr. Wayne Farris, Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Chair of Traditional Japanese Culture and History, will provide helpful information on the academic job search. This seminar will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 2/29/08)
ARTHUR LYNN ANDREWS' CHAIR LECTURE
On Monday, March 17, 2008, Arthur Lynn Andrews’ Chair, Professor Shinsho Miyara (University of the Ryukyus) will give a lecture titled “Okinawan Language Revitalization.” This lecture is presented by the Center for Japanese Studies and co-sponsored by the School of Pacific & Asian Studies. It will be held in the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 2/25/08)
EHIME PREFECTURAL INTERNATIONAL CENTER INTERNSHIP
Ehime Prefectural International Center (EPIC) offers two internships for approximately twelve weeks over the summer of 2008. The internships are coordinated through CJS and the Japan-American Society of Hawai'i. The application deadline is Monday, March 10, 2008. The due date has been extended to Tuesday, March 18. For more information, please download and review the flyer. (posted on 2/20/08)
RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIP SPONSORED BY MONBU KAGAKUSHO
The orientation meeting for the research scholarship to study in Japan sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology is scheduled to be held at the Center for Korean Studies Conference Room from10 AM on Tuesday, March 18, 2008 (the venue has been changed; we will meet in the Center for Korean Studies Auditorium). For more information, please download and review the flyer and application form. (posted on 2/20/08)
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND CJS JOINT COLLOQUIUM
On Tuesday, February 26, 2008, a panel presentation titled "Comparative Study of Work, Family and Personality in the U.S. and Japan From the 1970s to the Present" will be held in Saunders Hall 242 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Professor Toru Kikawa and two PhD candidates from Osaka University will discuss their works.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 2/15/08)
JAPANESE CULTURE AND LANGUAGE FLOOR AT FREAR HALL
As residents on the Japanese culture and language floor at Fear Hall, students will practice in their living environment what they are learning in their classes—Japanese language, culture and society. Students who are selected to live on the floor must have at least one year of Japanese and a sincere commitment to studying Japanese culture and language in their living environment. For more informatoin, please see the application form (MS Word). Applicants are expected to submit this form to CJS by May 1, 2008. [They must also submit the regular Student Housing Application directly to UH Student Housing] (posted on 2/14/08)
CJS SEMINAR--JAPANESE TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN COSMIC HARMONY: INFLUENCE OF CHINESE MEDICINE AND ITS INDIVIDUALITY
On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, Dr. Masami Tateno (Nihon University, Japan) will talk about the Japanese traditional medicine (Nihon Kanpo Igaku). This seminar will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 2/13/08)
CJS SEMINAR--THE LAST 10 YEARS IN HIROSHIMA: AN OBSERVATION OF CHANGE
On Thursday, March 6, 2008, Professor Joy Jarman-Walsh (Yasuda Women’s University, Hiroshima) will talk about business and urban planning, the role of women, and Hiroshima’s role as a focal point for peace and how foreigners in Hiroshima are participating in this endeavor. This seminar will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 1/31/08)
CJS GRADUATE STUDENT SEMINAR--AMOROUS WATERMARKS: MODES OF ENTICEMENT IN BOTH FORBIDDEN ADN OFFICIALLY ENDORSED KUMIODORI PLAYS
On Thursday, February 14, 2008, Ms. Frances Marguerite Mammana (PhD Candidate in Japanese Theatre) will talk about a court dance drama form in Ryukyu in the 18th century, Kumiodori. This seminar will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 1/25/08)
CJS SEMINAR--THE PROBLEM OF LOUDSPEAKERS IN JAPAN
On Thursday, February 7, 2008, Dr. Daniel Dolan (Professor of Business Communication at Tohoku Univeristy) will talk about unwanted noice in public and a tension between free speech rights and the right to personal privacy in Japan. This seminar is co-sponsored by the William S. Richardson School of Law and the Department of Speech and will be held in Tokioka Room (Moore 319) from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.
For more information, please click here. (posted on 1/24/08)
GENDER PROBLEMS WITH SOME FOCUS ON JAPANESE
The Society for Gender Studies in Japanese, a Japan-based group of scholars and media people, will hold its annual symposium at UHM this year. Paper presentations, a panel and an open discussion session will cover such topics as Gender and Forms of Address, Gender and Pidgin, and, more broadly, gender issues in Japanese society. Presenters will be from Japan and the UH and local community.
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2008
Time: 12:30PM to 4:30PM
Place: Tokioka Room (Moore 319)
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please see the flyer in PDF and the program. (posted on 1/8/08)
JAPANESE STUDIES SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS APPLICATION FORM
The Fellowships and Scholarships for Japanese Studies 2008-09 form is available. Please click here to download the form in MS Word. The deadline is Februay 15, 2008. (posted on 1/7/08)
Chanoyu (Japanese Tea Ceremony) Demonstrations at your school or at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
The Dr. Soshitsu Sen International Way of Tea Center, established in 2001 within the Center for Japanese Studies at UHM, educates students and helps to perpetuate tea culture while fostering a deeper awareness of Japanese culture and international understanding. In fulfilling its mission, the Tea Center, in cooperation with Mr. Yoshibumi Ogawa, Senior Tea Master of the Hawaii branch of Urasenke, is offering to give tea ceremony demonstrations at local schools or to host schools at the UHM campus.
For more information, please call Dr. Robert Huey or Dr. Gay Satsuma at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai'i at 956-2665 or e-mail wayoftea@hawaii.edu.
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