About the Speaker: Dr. Yoshimi Shunya is a Professor of Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Media Studies. He is the author of many books on cultural theory, urban culture, international exposition, media culture, information technology, the emperor system, and Americanization in modern Japan and East Asia. He has been a leading scholar in the field of Media […]
Building damaged during Vancouver Riot of 1907, 130 Powell St. Image courtesy UBC Rare Books and Special Collections Japanese Canadian Research Collection, item JCPC_ 36_017. Japanese immigration to Canada is officially recorded as beginning in 1877. The 65 years since then and the forced expulsion of anyone of Japanese ancestry from the westcoast of British […]
By around 1700, most families in Japan were formed through stem succession: a single male heir inherited virtually all resources while his siblings departed the household. The practice cut across social station and calling, making it exceptional in the early modern world, and arose in combination with equally arresting patterns of familial conduct: the routine adoption of heirs, […]
Mrs. Ume Niwatsukino with children Hisako, Hiroshi and Shigeru in Steveston, 1926. Courtesy of the University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections, Japanese Canadian Research Collection, JCPC_25_084. Gendering War and Peace in Modern Japan Friday, March 9, 2018 IK Barber Learning Centre, Lillooet Room 1:00-5:00 PM The 2017-2018 Academic Year sees […]
“Illumination and its Discontents: Electricity Theft and the Political Economy of Japanese Energy” Thursday, March 29, 2018 Reception: 5:00-6:30 PM Lecture: 6:30 PM Robert H. Lee Alumni Centre About the Lecture: How did the world’s third-largest economy, Japan, become addicted to fossil fuels? The first non-Western nation to industrialize—a process driven by calories […]
Coming off the sesquicentennial of the Meiji Restoration in 2018, the 2018-2019 Academic Year marks another significant 150th anniversary in Japanese history: that of the settler colonization of the northern island of Hokkaidō, or Ainu Moshir as it was known to the Indigenous Ainu peoples. In the spirit of continuing the national moments of commemoration […]
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