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FALL 2004 Schedule

September 16
Ethan Scheiner, "Democracy without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party Dominant State," Dept. of Political Science, University of California, Davis


September 23
Akio Naito, "Japan, Inc. at Its Turning Point - Strategy Beyond Technology," Managing Director, Seiko Australia Pty. Ltd.
Co-sponsored by the Center for International Business Education at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business


September 30

Mutsuko Endo-Hudson, "What We Do and Don't Say in Japanese," (formerly called, "Recent Changes in the Japanese Language"), Dept. of Linguistics & Languages, Michigan State University


October 7
Alan Tansman, "On Teaching Responses to Atrocity: Hiroshima and the Holocaust," Dept. of East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Berkeley

October 14
Kathryn Ibata-Arens, "The Kyoto Model of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Comparative Lessons?," Dept. of Political Science, DePaul University


October 28

Brian Platt, "Rescuing the Past from History: Commemorative Movements in Late Tokugawa Japan," Dept. of History & Art History, George Mason University


November 4

Ulrich Straus, "Japanese POWs of World War Two," Former Consul General on Okinawa, Director of Philippine Affairs, and Professor at the National War College


November 11

Kazue Muta, "Sexual Harassment in Japanese Culture," Fall 2004 Toyota Visiting Professor, U-M; Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Osaka University


November 18
Koichi Hasegawa
, "Environmental Sociology in Japan: The Turning Point for the Second Stage," Dept. of Sociology, Tohoku University


December 2

Margarita Estévez-Abe, "Three Logics of Welfare Politics in Japan," Dept. of Government, Harvard University

 

 

 
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