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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 Item UHM CJS Faculty Presenting at AAS Conference 2024(2024-03-14)UHM CJS Faculty Presenting at AAS Conference 2024.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 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.Item Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Mixer Spring 2024(2024-01-30)This is a flyer for a Center for Japanese Studies event: Graduate Student Mixer Spring 2024.Item Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Mixer Fall 2023(2023-09-13)This is a flyer for a Center for Japanese Studies event: Graduate Student Mixer Fall 2023.Item Japanese Business Etiquette - What to do (and what not to do), by Dr. Emi Murayama, Japanese language instructor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, UH Mānoa(2021-03-25)In this workshop for current UHM undergraduate students, participants will be exposed to basic-level business etiquette - the verbal and non-verbal behavior expected in Japanese business environment. The instructor will touch upon some important concepts and provide a crash-course in what to do (and what not to do) when meeting with Japanese people for business purposes. The participants must have at least one-year of Japanese language background. They must also agree to keep their zoom video on during the workshop. The workshop is limited to 15 participants.