ICAS: [Book Talk] How the Japanese Restaurants Spread Around the World and Created a Global Japanese Cuisine (Hybrid)
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 - 18:30 to 20:00
With more than 170,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. This talk summarizes the research process and principal results of The Global Japanese Restaurant: Mobilities, Imaginaries, and Politics (University of Hawaii Press, 2023).
ICAS: Modern Warfare: The Evolution of International Humanitarian Law and Mass Atrocity Investigations from Yugoslavia to Myanmar (Hybrid)
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
Despite the significant time gap between the Yugoslav Wars and the ongoing crisis in Myanmar, striking parallels and contrasts exist in the nature of the conflicts and the international responses to them. This lecture will delve into these aspects, focusing on the application and challenges of international criminal and humanitarian law across both cases.
ICAS: Stories of Indian Migrants in Japan: Adapting, Facing Challenges, and Finding Success (Hybrid)
Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
This talk will look into the contemporary migration trends of Indians to Japan, focusing on the factors influencing their migration and settlement patterns.
ICAS: ICAS: Next Agenda for Japan’s Economic Security After the 2024 Elections (In-person)
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
The result of the general election in Japan in late October and the presidential election in the U.S. in early November could have profound implications on various aspects of the Japan-U.S. relationship.
ICAS: How Russia and China Collaborate in the Information Space (In-person)
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
Russia’s war in Ukraine has alerted the world to the effectiveness of hybrid war, particularly that in the cyber domain. Russian information operations (and the Ukrainian response to them) are an invaluable case study offering lessons applicable to every part of the world, but to Asian allies in particular as China increasingly turns toward new avenues for coercion.
ICAS: Unveiling the Essence of Noh: Voice, Philosophy, and Buddhism (Hybrid)
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
This lecture invites you to explore the profound world of Noh, one of Japan’s most ancient and revered performing arts, where the boundaries between performance, philosophy, and spirituality dissolve. You'll get to know Zeami, the legendary playwright whose ideas about performance still resonate after 600 years. We will explore the role of the body and voice through the play, ‘Sumida River’.
ICAS: Efficient strategies to work in an international workplace (Hybrid)
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
This conference will explore how to wisely choose an employer, highlight what makes your profile stand out, and develop the mindsets and attitudes needed to be recognized as a true global professional.
ICAS: China-Japan-South Korea relations in an era of China-US rivalry (In-person)
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
After a five-year hiatus, China, Japan, and South Korea held the 9th Trilateral Summit in May 2024. While the meeting yielded few concrete outcomes, the resumption of trilateral diplomacy signaled a desire to reinforce cooperation among the three countries...
ICAS: Japan’s Diaspora Diplomacy: how Japan has engaged with "Nikkeijin" and how this has shaped ideas of "Nihonjin" (Hybrid)
Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
Ever since the late 19th century, the Japanese state has engaged with its emigrants and their descendants, known today as Nikkeijin, who reside mainly in the Americas and now Japan. Recently, the government rekindled its interest in strengthening ties with them, especially in South America. In this talk, Ayumi Takenaka aims to address why, and how this has played a role in shaping ideas of Nihonjin (Japanese) by presenting a historical trajectory of Japan’s state-diaspora relationship (1868-present).
ICAS: All is Full of AI/爱. You Just Ain't Receiving: Whiteness, Race, Robots, and AI (Hybrid)
Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
Generative AI and robots do not so much project our future as reflect our past and the vice-like grip that past holds on our present. They replicate and embody toxic racial and gender biases and stereotypes that reinforce, rather than challenge, discriminatory patterns of human social behavior...
ICAS Book Talk: Resilience and Autonomy in Prewar and Wartime Japan: The Internal Governance of Industries (1925-1945) (In-person)
Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
Hiromi Murakami's book looks into the processes by which industrial manufacturing organizations in Japan conducted collective action, and how and under what conditions industries interacted with each other and responded to government interference.
ICAS Book Talk: Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan (Hybrid)
Friday, June 14, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
In this rare insider's book at Japan through the eyes of foreigners, critically acclaimed author and longtime Tokyo resident, Robert Whiting, turns his attention to the fascinating stories of the 'outsiders' who made waves and achieved notoriety in post-World War II Japan.
ICAS Book Talk: Japan and the Growth-Equity-Small Government Impossible Triangle (In-person)
Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 18:30
Jun Saito will discuss his book Japan and the Growth-Equity-Small Government Impossible Triangle (Routledge, 2024). This volume examines and analyzes the current situation of, and the future prospects for, the Japanese economy, particularly in the context of inequality.
ICAS: Reflections on Womenomics 25 Years On: A conversation with Kathy Matsui on 'where we are & what steps remain' (Online)
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00
25 years have passed since Kathy Matsui coined the term 'Womenomics' in which she argues that - as important as increasing immigration and the birthrate are - a more immediate and effective solution to Japan's economic stagnation is to increase the participation of women in the workforce, with greater equity and managerial responsibility.
ICAS: Emerging Technologies: Implications and Prospects of their Proliferation for Japan and Asia (In-person)
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 19:15 to 20:45
Join us on 14 March for a discussion with Julie George, who will present her book project, Emerging Technologies: Implications and Prospects of their Proliferation.
ICAS: Do sanctions work? The case of Russia (In-person)
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 18:30
Economic sanctions are not a new policy tool. However, they are definitely a new regulatory priority, especially as the world is becoming increasingly bipolar and the U.S. is heading into an election year...
ICAS: Towards a Society Where You Can Say "Help" - Sexual Violence and Gender Inequality (Hybrid)
Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:30
There have been 2 laws passed in 2023 on rape and DV that mark significant change in how the state is handling these significant problems in Japan.
ICAS: The Geoeconomics of Japan-Southeast Asia Relations (In-person)
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
For many decades, Japanese governments and businesses have taken a keen interest in Southeast Asia, first as a market and then as a location for Japanese manufacturers. Recently, there has been a growing focus on the security aspect of the Japan-Southeast Asia relationship.
ICAS: The Contest for Japan's Economic Future (In-person)
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 18:30
Just as a wave of entrepreneurship created Japan’s postwar “economic miracle,” so it will take a new generation of entrepreneurs to revive its stagnant economy. In today’s Japan, assorted political and economic obstacles impede such newcomers...
ICAS: The Quad: Past, present, and future (Online)
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 14:00
The Quad, the informal grouping consisting of Australia, India, Japan and the US, is not a formal alliance. It has, however, developed as one of the important forums in global geopolitics. To help us better understand the relevance of the Quad, Jada Fraser and Eerishika Pankaj will lead a discussion to be followed by Q&A with the audience.