Tag: Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

  • Nation & World

    How deadly lessons from Fukushima changed Japan and the world

    Journalist, crisis expert at HKS event say it shifted nation’s attitude toward military, global sense of need to prepare for unexpected disasters.

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    Martin Fackler and Arn Howitt.
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    ‘The Paintings of Yoshiaki Shimizu’

    At the Center for Government and International Studies, a small exhibit captures the life and work of an artist influenced by Harvard, by a range of cultural forces, and by the postwar art movements swirling in Europe and New York City in the 1950s and ’60s.

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    "Irresolution: The Paintings of Yoshiaki Shimizu,” an intimate exhibit at the CGIS is marked by a large banner showing the artist at 24 years old.
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    Emperor Akihito of Japan honors Joseph Nye with award

    Emperor Akihito of Japan presented Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor Joseph S. Nye with the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star. Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies faculty Professor Andrew Gordon was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.

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    Japan cultural agency honors Bestor

    Theodore C. Bestor, the Reischauer Institute Professor of Social Anthropology and director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, has received the Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Award for the Promotion of Japanese Culture from the Agency for Cultural Affairs in Japan.

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  • Nation & World

    ‘Gangnam Style’ by the Yard

    The singer Psy spoke at Memorial Church about his life, his time in the United States, and the runaway success of “Gangnam Style.”

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    Reischauer Institute funds student research, travel in Japan

    Founded in 1973, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies promotes research on Japan and brings together Harvard faculty, students, leading scholars from other institutions, and visitors to create one of the world’s leading communities for the study of Japan.

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  • Nation & World

    The record of Japanese disaster

    Harvard experts were among the lead organizers of a major effort to construct a multimedia archive of last year’s devastating earthquake and aftermath in Japan. The site goes live this week.

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    Harold Bolitho

    Harold Bolitho first taught at Harvard as the Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor in 1983-1984, joining Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1985. He taught a variety of courses on Japanese history, including one on the Samurai that enrolled as many as 500 students. He chaired the department from 1988 to 1989…

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    Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies supports student research and travel in Japan

    Founded in 1973, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RI) promotes research on Japan and brings together Harvard faculty, students, leading scholars from other institutions, and visitors to create one of the world’s leading communities for the study of Japan.

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    ‘Crisis in Japan: The Way Forward’

    The disaster created when an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis struck Japan may be entering a new stage as the effects start to ripple through the country’s economy, politics, and society, according to a panel of Harvard analysts and Japanese officials.

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    Reischauer Institute funds Japanese research, travel

    For the 2009-10 academic school year and summer of 2010, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies has funded or facilitated the travel to Japan of 112 Harvard students, undergraduate and graduate, and has funded others for language study and research related to Japan, but conducted in other locations, from Cambridge to Moscow.

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    Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies seeks papers for 2010

    The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies seeks submissions for its 2010 Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies, given to the undergraduate and graduate students with the best essays on Japan-related topics.

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    Reischauer’s grant, internship recipients

    The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies has announced its support of 73 undergraduate travel grants/internships and 51 graduate student grants for travel or dissertation research/completion.

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