Tryan Grillo, who is joining the Weatherhead East Asian Institute as the 2017-2018 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in East Asia and the Americas, will be reading from his new translation of Yoshiki Tanaka's science-fiction novel Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Volume 4: Stratagem at the Kinokuniya Bookstore in New York City at 3:00 PM on Saturday, September 9, 2017. Please … [Read more...]
Bloomberg News Reports on Takatoshi Ito’s Career and the Possibility He Could be Considered to Lead the Bank of Japan
Takatoshi Ito, Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and Associate Director of Research, Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia Business School, was the subject of a July 26, 2017 Bloomberg article that discussed his distinguished career as an economist and the possibility he could be considered for the job of Governor of the Bank of … [Read more...]
Gerald L. Curtis is Interviewed by Munhwa Ilbo about East Asian Diplomacy and Security
Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University and a renowned expert on Japanese politics, was interviewed by South Korea's Munhwa Ilbo about numerous diplomatic and security issues related to East Asia. Professor Curtis had been in Seoul in June 2017 to give a talk at the Institute for Global Economics. On June 23, 2017, Munhwa … [Read more...]
Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Laura Hein (Bloomsbury Press/SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. In late 1945 local Japanese turned their energies toward creating new behaviors and institutions that would give young people better skills to combat repression at home and coercion abroad. They … [Read more...]
Gerald L. Curtis talks to Reuters, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal about the LDP’s Loss in the Tokyo Metropolitan Election
Gerald L. Curtis, the Burgess Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Columbia University and a renowned expert on Japanese politics, was quoted in a July 4, 2017 Reuters article titled "Japan's Abe Vulnerable After Party's Dismal Poll Showing," a July 6, 2017 article in The Economist titled "An Electoral Defeat puts Japan’s Prime Minister on the Back Foot," and a July 10, … [Read more...]
