Brown Bag Lecture "The Nuclear Disaster, Tsunami, and Manga: The Representation of Recent Disasters in Japanese Popular Culture" Yukari Fujimoto, Professor of Japanese Studies, Meiji University; Visiting Scholar, Columbia University Moderated by Hikari Hori, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM International … [Read more...]
Study of the WEAI author Celeste Arrington Publishes Op-Ed on Comfort Women in the Washington Post
Celeste Arrington, author of the forthcoming Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea (Cornell University Press, 2016), wrote an op-ed in the January 13, 2016 Washington Post about the agreement between Japan and South Korea surrounding redress over the "comfort women" issue. … [Read more...]
Accidental Activists : Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Celeste L. Arrington (Cornell University Press, 2016) For information from the publisher, please click here. Government wrongdoing or negligence harms people worldwide, but not all victims are equally effective at obtaining redress. In Accidental Activists, Celeste L. Arrington examines the interactive dynamics of the politics of … [Read more...]
