CJR Events
Sept 27
16h, Asian Centre Auditorium
Katsuyuki Yakushiji
Senior Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun
"Japanese Politics and Economy: What Course Should Japan Take?"
Sept 30 - Oct 3
Annual Meeting, Japan Studies Association of Canada
Program (PDF)
Oct 1
19:30 - 22h, Room 120, CK Choi Bldg for the Institute of Asian Research
Film Screening
"Campaign" by Kazuhiro SODA
The director will be present and available for a discussion following the screening.
Open to the public, suggested donation of $5.
Oct 4 -5
A Canada-Japan-Korea Social Policy Research Collaboration Workshop
"Constructing Successful Societies: Social Changes and Policy Innovations in Canada, Japan, and South Korea"
CJR Lecture Series Spring 2010
January 15, 5-6:30pm
David Edgington, Geography, UBC
"In Between the Global and the Local: Japanese Electronics Firms, Southeast Asia, and Glocalization"
January 28, 11:30a-1p, AnSo 134
(co-hosted with the Department of Anthropology)
Millie Creighton, Anthropology, UBC
"Japan and the Special Olympics and Obama §: Re-Circulating Minorities, Margins, and Mainstages in Modern Japan"
Feb 5, 5-6:30p, Choi 120
Masao Nakamura, Institute of Asian Research and Sauder School of Business, UBC
"Japanese Corporate Governance Reform, Globalization and Selective Adaptation"
Feb 11, 11:30a-1p, AnSo 134
(co-hosted with the Department of Anthropology)
Hiroshi Aoyagi, Kokushikan University
"Some Thoughts on the Impact of Cool Japan in Southeast Asia"
Recent Conference
"Japanese and Canadian Research into Immigration and Foreign Workers"
(supported by the Japan Foundation)
November 18-21, 2009
Organized by: David Edgington, Geography, UBC
Presenters will include: Atsuko Abe, Oberlin College; Yasushi Iguchi, Kwansei Gakuin University; Atsushi Kondo, Meijo University; Stephen Nagy, Waseda University; Gerry Pratt, UBC; Glenda Roberts, Waseda University; Leonie Sandercock, UBC; Yuko Shibata, UBC; Apichai Shipper, USC; Baldwin Wong, City of Vancouver; Miu Chung Yan, UBC; Henry Yu, UBC.
Keynote Address, Nov 19, 9-10a:
Glenda Roberts, Waseda University: "Fewer Japanese, More Immigrants? Demographic Decline and Migration Policy in Contemporary Japan"
Conference Poster: PDF