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    The Spirit of Tea and Peacefulness
    ( 2024-02-14)
    This is a flyer for a Center for Japanese Studies seminar: The Spirit of Tea and Peacefulness February 2024.
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    Aichi University Mini-Symposium 2024 - Women's Issues in Japan Today
    ( 2024-03-07)
    This is a flyer for a special symposium.
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    Center for Japanese Studies Bento Box May 2024
    ( 2024-05-20)
    The Bento Box series, started in Spring 2022 by CJS Director Mark Levin, provides a venue for graduate students to present their Japan-related research in an informal setting in front of their friends and other graduate students enjoying bentos and the presentations. Additionally, presenters can receive feedback on their presentations from guests in attendance.
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    The oink in Okinawa: Rooting through changes in Okinawa's heirloom pigs and cuisine
    ( 2024-04-22) Schrager, Benjamin ; Sakuma, Sayaka
    A rich culture of rearing and eating pigs emerged during the independent Ryukyu Kingdom. As Japan colonized Ryukyu and renamed it Okinawa Prefecture, pigs persisted as a resilient and distinct characteristic of Okinawan society. This presentation develops the idea of a companion breed to explore the unique relationship between Okinawans and their heirloom pigs. Here, we explore how this special partnership enabled unique socio-ecological formations to emerge and evolve. Historically called “island pigs” (shima buta) and today widely called “Agu,” Okinawa’s oldest heirloom pig breed is a small black pot-bellied pig that likely first arrived in the latter part of the 14th century but only thrived after the introduction of sweet potatoes in the early 17th century. This presentation focuses on local responses to three changes in sovereign administration. The first change is the interwar effort by the Japanese government to introduce Western bacon-type breeds like the Berkshire to replace island pigs. The second change is the postwar effort by the US government to disseminate Western pig breeds and industrialize pig husbandry. The third change is the post-reversion effort of Japanese industries to market value-added “Agu” pork as heirloom pig from Okinawa. These changes elicited a range of responses in Okinawa as relations to heirloom pigs and cuisine have continued to evolve.
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    Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan
    ( 2016-04-16) McMorran, Chris
    Kurokawa Onsen is a rare bright spot in Japan ’ s countryside. Its two dozen traditional inns (ryokan) annually host hundreds of thousands of guests who admire its landscape, experience its hospitality, and soak in its hot springs. As a result, these ryokan have enticed village youth to return home to take over successful family businesses and revive the community. What does it take to produce this family business and one of Japan ’ s most relaxing spaces, and who does the day-to-day labor of hospitality? In this talk, I share findings from a year spent welcoming guests, carrying luggage, scrubbing baths, cleaning rooms, washing dishes, and talking with co-workers and owners about their jobs, relationships, concerns, and aspirations. I share how Kurokawa ’ s ryokan mobilize hospitality to create a rural escape, emphasizing the gendered work or hospitality, as well as the generational work of ryokan owners vs. the daily embodied work of their employees.
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    Center for Japanese Studies Bento Box March 2024
    ( 2024-03-08) Barnes, Richard ; Parker, J.D.
    The Bento Box series, started in Spring 2022 by CJS Director Mark Levin, provides a venue for graduate students to present their Japan-related research in an informal setting in front of their friends and other graduate students enjoying bentos and the presentations. Additionally, presenters can receive feedback on their presentations from guests in attendance.
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    Reflections on Japan's Same-Sex Marriage Cases (2021-2023): The Fight to Enshrine the Right to Sexual Autonomy
    ( 2024-01-30) Higa, Brandon Marc
    Mr. Higa will be presenting (in English) research findings from his recent publication in the Asian- Pacific Law and Policy Journal focusing on Japan ' s same-sex marriage cases from 2021 through 2023, and will share reflections on how an American audience might react to the cases based on differences between Japanese and U.S. marriage laws.
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    I learned Japanese in a classroom
    ( 2023-11-06) Yoshimi, Dina ; Kirimitsu, Walter ; Dyer, Stephen ; Vasconcellos, Kati
    This is a flyer for a Center for Japanese Studies seminar: I learned Japanese in a classroom.
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    Center for Japanese Studies Bento Box October 2023
    ( 2022-10-12) Higa, Brandon Marc ; Ii, Tokikake
    The Bento Box series, started in Spring 2022 by CJS Director Mark Levin, provides a venue for graduate students to present their Japan-related research in an informal setting in front of their friends and other graduate students enjoying bentos and the presentations. Additionally, presenters can receive feedback on their presentations from guests in attendance.
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    Political Conflict And Angry Consumers: Evaluating The Regional Impacts Of A Consumer Boycott On Travel Services Trade
    ( 2023-09-27) Greaney, Theresa
    Political conflict between nations sometimes leads to consumer boycotts. We examine the regional impacts of bilateral boycott activity by investigating the 2019 Korean consumer boycott of travel to Japan. Employing triple- and double- differences designs, we find that the impact of the boycott is large and regionally heterogeneous. Japanese prefectures with high (i.e., 75th percentile) pre-boycott dependency on visitors from Korea suffer bilateral export losses of 56.9 to 60.9 percent and aggregate export losses of 10.5 to 13.3 percent. Prefectures with low (i.e., 25th percentile) Korea dependency experienced bilateral losses of 47.8 to 49.7 percent and aggregate losses of 3.3 to 4.2 percent.