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Tag: Japanese Studies
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Nation & World
First lesson in Japanese boatbuilding: Don’t speak.
Students make 22-foot skiff in “silent” workshop that puts emphasis on observation — and a good hammering rhythm.
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Nation & World
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
Suzanne Vogel, researcher of Japanese culture, 81
Suzanne Hall Vogel, a psychotherapist at Harvard University Health Services for 27 years, died on June 19.
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Nation & World
Students awarded for Japanese studies
Four Harvard students were awarded prizes in Japanese studies by Tazuko Ajiro Monane Memorial Fund and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
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Nation & World
Noma-Reischauer Prizes awarded in Japanese studies
The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Kodansha Ltd. Publishers hosted the 16th annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Ltd. Commemorative Symposium and the 15th annual awarding of the Noma-Reischauer Prizes in Japanese Studies on Oct. 15.
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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
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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Nation & World
Reischauer Institute awards Japanese studies prizes
The Reischauer Institute names Audrey Ji-eun Kim ’09 and Kathryn Handlir, A.M. ’09, winners of its annual award for outstanding essays on Japan-related topics.
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Nation & World
Pharr receives esteemed Japanese imperial decoration at ceremony
The government of Japan conferred on Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, the decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon,…