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Item type: Item , Book Launch Roundtable (4/15/26)(2026-04-15)Item type: Item , "Reading" Japanese Video Games(2026-04-08)Item type: Item , Spring 2026 CJS Bento Box Event 2(2026-03-12)Item type: Item , Spring 2026 Bento Box Event 1(2026-03-05)Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Masculinity and Mediality in 18th Century Edo(2026-01-29)Thomas Gaubatz is an interdisciplinary scholar of early modern Japanese literature, woodblock print culture, and urban history. His research explores the nature of the early modern city as a social and media space, representations of the city in literature, Tokugawa popular fiction as a form of urban culture, and the roles played by woodblock print culture in giving shape to new ideas of community and identity. His first book, The Textual Townsman: Writing Urban Identity in Early Modern Japan (Columbia University Press, 2025), is a study of the formation of a merchant class, and a literature of urban identity, between the late 17th. and early 18th century. He received his PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University in 2016.Item type: Item , Item type: Item , JSPS Fellowships Virtual Info Session(2025-11-18)Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Making an Ethnic Boundary between Ryukyu Cuisine and Washoku: A Case Study of UNESCO Intangible Cultural List(2024-11-19)Critical geographical research has been instrumental in illuminating how peace and violence are place-specific. The geographical perspective raises the question of peace in island and oceanic contexts, such as the Pacific, where the critical examination of peace has been limited. Drawing insights from critical geopolitics and island geographies, this presentation examines peace and security treaties along with islanders' experiences in the Western Pacific during the first half of the twentieth century, when a notion of collective peace took prominence. I argue that the logic of geopolitical containment constituted the discourse of collective peace. The discourse conceived negative peace (i.e., absence of direct armed conflicts) through othering and spatial control as a means of imagining peace in the Pacific, informing the arms control and collective deterrence. In doing so, the entanglement of peace and geopolitics (re)produced conditions where lives on the islands and their agency were rendered secondary to the interests of metropolitan states while foreclosing different ways of thinking about peace. Particularly, I focus on the case of Okinawa and Pacific Islands in the Western Pacific as a window to explore a different imagining of the Pacific. It sheds light on the need to problematize the entangled relations of peace and geopolitics and consider the possibility of critical engagement with peace that attends to islands and marginalized perspectives. Overall, this study seeks to deepen the understanding of peace and geopolitics by illustrating how peace is a critical reflective practice that carries a range of everyday and state level implications.Item type: Item , Item type: Item , Item type: Item , UHM CJS Faculty Presenting at AAS Conference 2024(2024-03-14)UHM CJS Faculty Presenting at AAS Conference 2024.Item type: Item , Associate Director Gay Satsuma 28 Years of Service(2023-12-07)On December 7, 2024, friends and colleagues of Center for Japanese Studies Associate Director Gay Satsuma gathered to celebrate her 28 years of service to the center.Item type: Item , Recognition of 50 years of Jaku’an Tea House on the UH Mānoa campus(2024-02-15)This is a flyer promoting a 2/15/2024 event recognizing 50 years of Jaku’an Tea House on the UH Mānoa campus.