Photographs and audio are now available from the December 16, 2015 event “The Many Worlds of Yamaguchi Yoshiko.” The event was a multidisciplinary mini-workshop exploring the life of Yamaguchi Yoshiko (1920–2014), a Japanese actress, singer, and politician whose remarkably resilient career spanned multiple culture industries, ethnic identifications, and strategic … [Read more...]
Columbia’s Gregory Pflugfelder on Godzilla’s Global History
Advertisements for the new "Godzilla" are ubiquitous this summer. Weatherhead East Asian Institute faculty member Gregory Pflugfelder is well acquainted with such images. Pflugfelder, a professor of Japanese history at Columbia University, has collected around five thousand posters and promotional materials for Godzilla films and other Japanese monster flicks. His archive of … [Read more...]
