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7 May 2008

Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy

The fourth edition of ‘Governing Japan’ is much revised and expanded to take into account developments in the new millennium. It argues against the view that Japanese politics is guided by consensus, revealing instead fundamental differences of opinion over many issues of substance.

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13 March 2008

Saving and Spending: Banking Crises and Consumer Confidence

‘Saving and Spending: Banking Crises and Consumer Confidence’, the third in this year’s seminar series, ‘Economic Futures: Wealth and Well-Being in the UK and Japan’, could not have been more timely, coming in the wake of the nationalisation of Northern Rock and on the eve of the announcement that the American bank, Bear Stearns, had received emergency funding, raising fears that one of Wall Street’s biggest names was on the brink of collapse.

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4 March 2008

Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan: sources, sentiment and society

Japan’s traditional folk songs (min’yō) have strong links with local identity and particular places. The growth of domestic tourism actually strengthened this trend: even the professionally-composed ‘new min’yō’ of the 1930s, commissioned by railway companies and the like, usually included local place names in their titles.

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7 February 2008

Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty

One of the most influential artists working in the genre of ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) in late-eighteenth-century Japan, Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?–1806) was widely appreciated for his prints of beautiful women.

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22 January 2008

The Straw Sandal

The book launch of Santō Kyōden’s famous early nineteenth-century novel ‘The Straw Sandal, or The Scroll of the Hundred Crabs’ was a celebration of Carmen Blacker’s career as scholar and writer.

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