Indo-Pacific Security Round Table 1 Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific Vision: Balancing accommodation and security An increasing number of countries are releasing Indo-Pacific visions in an attempt to develop a strategic vision for the region. Japan’s Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision (FOIP) is no exception. This panel will discuss the different dimensions of Japan’s FOIP…
Gender (1) M. Crawford: This paper examines the record of “Womenomics” in the light of the COVID recession (or “shecession”) of 2020 and the subsequent resignation of Shinzo Abe and reconsiders the policy and its prospects moving forward in the post-Abe era. Is a more radical and transformational approach to gender equality is necessary in…
The Changing Footprint of Canada-Japan Trade and Commerce – Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan (CCCJ) The CPTPP is an example of that changing relationship with Canada and Japan joining 9 other countries to sign a free trade deal that focuses on intellectual property rights, high environmental and labor standards, and limits for the role of SoEs…
Japan and Philosophy J. Goulding: Japanese Phenomenology: East and West Much appears concerning influence of Japanese thought on the work of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). Less is written on Heidegger’s impact on Japanese philosophy. (1) Heidegger initiates a philosophical lexicon between East and West with his invention of hermeneutic and existential phenomenology. (2) Heidegger’s students utilize…
Geography and Tourism D. Edgington: Ten Years After the Great Japan Earthquake: Spatial Patterns of Recovery in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima Prefectures 2021 marks the 10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear power plant accident. How has the reconstruction of the stricken region of Pacific Tohoku progressed? Are there clear spatial patterns to…
Japanese Language Education and History N. Ota: Narrative-based advanced and post-advanced Japanese language courses Since the advent of IT, language programs have gone through various changes; now due to the pandemic, languages are taught online using videoconferencing. Online teaching and learning is expected to be the new normal, even after the pandemic subsides. Besides technological…
Dr. Christian Tagsold, Institute for Modern Japanese Studies, University of Düsseldorf, Germany Akiralympics – Re-examining Tokyo 1940, 1964, and 2020/21 The opening ceremony of the 2020/21 Olympics showcased traditional Japanese cultural assets but also many instances of “Cool Japan.” I will follow up on the latter but offer a different interpretation of aligning culture and sports…
