Keijiro Suga (b. 1958) is a poet and critic based in Tokyo. Formerly the president of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Japan, his work covers ethnopoetics, ecocriticism, contemporary world literature, and translation theory. He was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 2011 for his travel essays Transversal Journeys. With nine collections

WATCH RECORDING HERE Join us for a special event featuring international policy specialist Dr. Narushige Michishita, executive vice president of the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, as he discusses the current multi-faceted security policy of Japan. With the introduction of three security policy documents in December 2022, Japan committed to strive to maintain peace

The UW Japan Studies Program is Proud to Sponsor Spaces of Creative Resistance 2021, a research initiative by UW Faculty Andrea Gevurtz Arai (JSIS & UW Japan Studies Program) and Jeff Hou (Dept. of Landscape Architecture & UW Taiwan Studies Program). The three day workshop, called “Public Spaces, Creative Action, Democratic Practices in East Asia,”

Congratulations to Don Hellmann on the selection of his dissertation for republication in the Voices Revived series from the University of California Press.  Japanese Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics: The Peace Agreement with the Soviet Union is now available in on-demand paperback. “UC Press Voices Revived commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and

What impact is the Trump administration having on Japan’s role in the world? How is Japan shaping international relations economically and politically as a result? Join us for a talk by Takako Hikotani of Columbia University at the Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture on April 19, 2018 at 7 PM. Hikotani’s recent article “Trump’s Gift