1 June 2011
This lecture, part of a UK lecture tour organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, looked to the future in assessing the impact and importance of the implicit rivalry between these two major powers with longstanding historical and cultural ties.
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Born in Tokyo in 1923, Seijun Suzuki has had a long and productive career (including over 40 films), and has inspired countless filmmakers across the globe such as Quentin Tarantino (who paid tribute to Suzuki’s’s film Tokyo Drifter in his 2003 film Kill Bill Vol. 1). Jim Jarmusch also paid homage to Suzuki in his 1999 film, Ghost Dog, which employs elements from Suzuki’s Branded to Kill. John Woo has named Suzuki one of the top 10 filmmakers in the world.
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This lecture explored how ‘salarymen’ in large Japanese corporations have changed over the last decade. It questioned whether the image of a conformist workaholic and loyal company man is still valid or whether he has become more individualistic and corporately mobile.
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The names of Kaempfer and Siebold are well known, but Thunberg and Titsingh have been largely forgotten. Yet Thunberg and Tisingh also visited Edo-period Japan and left fascinating accounts of their times there.
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On 18 November at Chatham House, Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, gave a lecture entitled ‘Central banks and the public: the importance of communication’.
The lecture was in memory of Lord Roll of Ipsden, KCMG CB (1907-2005).
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Five decades after the adoption of the revised US-Japan Security Treaty, and two decades after the end of the Cold War, the Cold War alliance and Cold War assumptions still underpin the relationship between the world’s Number One and Number Two economic powers and therefore the institutional frame of East Asia as a whole.
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This lecture investigated the relationship between marriage and childbearing in contemporary Japan. Family studies in the industrialised world in the post-war period have come to see the dissociation of marriage and childbearing as a virtually unavoidable consequence of industrialisation, modernisation and the concurrent change in social mores. Yet there is one industrialised country where almost
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Is there something more to the West’s fascination with Japanese anime and manga? How are anime films and manga comics cultural channeling zones, opened by the horrors of war and disaster and animated by the desire to assemble a world of new looks, feelings and identities?
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“Stone keeps huge memories inside, since the planet came into existence. I feel that stone is the most romantic and intellectual object on the earth.” – Atsuo Okamoto, 2011
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Tadasu Takamine, Artist, in discussion with Jonathan Watkins, Director of Birmingham’s Ikon Gallery and John Fulljames, Artistic Director of The Opera Group.
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