Young people in Japan are considerably underrepresented in the country’s political institutions, leaving decision-making mostly in the hands of older politicians. This age bias in politics may have profound consequences for the structuring of welfare policies in Japan, which faces a declining birth rate and rapidly aging population. In this talk, Dr. McClean will explore

Join us for the 2024 Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture Thursday, April 25 5:30 – 7:00 PM Kane Hall 225 Walker-Ames Room Reception to follow What was the moment of death supposed to look like for people living in premodern Japan? While most people surely envisioned seeing the Buddha and his retinue descend at this

‘More Untold Stories: Women Printmakers in Post-war Japan’ MAR 9, 2024 10 AM – 11:30 AM SEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM EMMA BAILLARGEON STIMSON AUDITORIUM Jeannie Kenmotsu, Ph.D., is the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art at the Portland Art Museum. She is a specialist in the art of early modern Japan, with a

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2024 3:30 – 5:00 PM TEAL Reading Room, GOWEN HALL Open House / Grand Re-opening Celebration: The library completed the reading room renovation late last year, and it was the first ever renovation since the library moved to Gowen Hall in 1976. To celebrate this milestone, and to introduce the library to those

Students with any Japanese background (including no Japanese language background at all), are welcome at this workshop on manga language. Japanese manga are well known for their expressive illustrations, but less apparent to language learners is how the Japanese language contributes to the vividness of character development via yakuwariko ‘role language’ (Kinsui 2003) and hatsuwa

Join us Monday, February 12 for the second in our series this year about Diversity and Inclusion in Japanese Society. “Whole” (2019, 44 min) is a short drama created by writer Usman Kawazoe and director Bilal Kawazoe depicting Haruki, a biracial student who decides to quit college and travel to Japan and Makoto, a construction worker

Join us for a special book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China. Wenkai He (Ph.D., MIT, 2007), is associate professor of Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST, he was An Wang postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at

Join us for this special book talk with UW Japan Studies Program affiliate faculty Walter Hatch as he takes us through ‘Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan is Haunted by its Past and Germany is Not’. Germany, which brutalized its neighbors in Europe for centuries, has mostly escaped the ghosts of the past, while Japan

Panel Title Date | Time Room Location Japan Faculty   A038 – The Place of “Language” in Japan Studies/Research   Thursday, March 14 7:00 – 8:30 PM Jefferson A 4th Floor – Union St. Seattle Grand Sheraton Davinder Bhowmik, AL&L   A037 – Discourses of Youth in Imperial Japan: Rethinking Complex Realities of Race, Class,