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•Following in Father's Footsteps? Social Mobility in Japan, Hiroshi Ishida (Prof. of Sociology, University of Tokyo)
•Doctors Within Borders: Profession, Ethnicity, and Modernity in Colonial Taiwan, Ming-Cheng Lo (Asst. Professor of Sociology, University of California at San Diego)
•Family, Gender, and Intergenerational Support in Japan, Sawako Shirahase (Senior Researcher, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan)
•The Chujohime Legend and Womenıs Salvation, Hank Glassman (Asst. Professor, Institute of Buddhist Sudies)
•The Future Prospects of Japan's Economy, Makoto Ito (Consulate General of Japan in Detroit)
•Ainu: an Anthropological Mystery Tour, William Fitzhugh (Director, Arctic Studies Center; Curator, Dept. of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution)
•The Gendered Bonds of Nation and Empire: Late Colonial Japanese Discourses on Korean Soldiers, Wives, Mothers, and Orphans, Takashi Fujitani (Associate Professor of Modern Japanese History, University of California at San Diego)
•Five Stories of Muroji Pagoda, Sherry Fowler (Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Kansas)
Prof. Fowler considered some of the architectural discoveries that were made while the 9th-century pagoda at the Buddhist temple of Muroji in Nara was being restored.