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,

Professor Ted Mack of the department of Asian Languages and Literature has been awarded the first Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies by the Modern Language Association in recognition of his monograph Acquired Alterity:  Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism (University of California Press, 2022).  This is the first book-length study in English

Juan Felipe Arroyave (MA/PhD Japanese) spent the summer in Japan with support from the Kasai-Buerge Scholarship. “Thanks to this award, I was able to spend two weeks in Japan as a Seminar Leader for the last edition of Komatsu Summer School (KSS),” reports Arroyave. “This bilingual summer camp, held in a rural area of Ishikawa Prefecture,

Special workshop for educators and UW students. In this interactive, reflective and practical workshop, William Matsuzaki with lead participants in posing various strategies to foster more welcoming, respectful, and safe learning environment/classrooms. Each person’s journey within diversity, equity, inclusion and access (DEIA) work is different, and it is important to honor each person’s place and

Ken Tadashi Oshima, UW professor of architecture, has long been a keen observer and researcher of the work of architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright. ‘Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture that Connects the World’ an exhibit curated by Oshima, is the first full-scale retrospective of Wright’s work in Japan in 26 years and shows the breadth

See article by Saadia Pekkanen titled, “Repositioning the U.S.-Japan Alliance for Space” for the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS). This commentary is part of the Exploring New Horizons: Japan’s Defense Priorities project, a CSIS Japan Chair initiative featuring analysis by leading Japanese and American scholars examining the implications of Japan’s new national security

Interview with Professor Marie Anchordoguy: Can Japan return as a global innovation leader? In 2022, the Kishida administration announced its New Form of Capitalism concept, aimed at increasing stability within the Japanese economy and undoing some of the excessive effects of “shareholder capitalism,” while also nurturing the tech industries needed for Japan to once again

The May issue of The Hague Journal of Diplomacy Volume 18 (2023): Issue 2-3 (May 2023) has been devoted completely to the special topic of space diplomacy “The Final Frontier of Theory and Practice”, Mai’a K. Davis Cross and Saadia M. Pekkanen editors. In addition to the introduction by co-editors, S. Pekkanen has also written one

On April 19, Washin Kai presents a lecture by Professor Ken Tadashi Oshima of University of Washington’s Department of Architecture, with participation by Professor Paul Atkins, Department of Asian Languages and Literature, and Washin Kai member and architect, Hiroshi Matsubara. Sponsored by the Department of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Washington and Washin Kai,

Jackson School Professor Robert Pekkanen, an expert on Japan and electoral systems, has co-edited a new book, Japan Decides 2021: The Japanese General Election.  The essays in this volume analyze the October 31, 2021, national parliamentary election in Japan. Individual chapters focus on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the postponed Tokyo Olympics, monetary policy,