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ICAS Event: The return of Sakoku: How Japan is shutting itself from the world ?

Date: Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010
Time: 7:00p.m. (Talk will start at 7:30p.m.)
Venue: Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall
206/207
2-8-12, Minami azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo (access:
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Speaker: Robert Dujarric and Ayumi Takenaka
Admission: Free (Open to general public)
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Outline

For over 200 years until western imperialism forced the country to change course, Japan severely restricted intercourse with the outside world, a policy known as
"sakoku" (closed country).

In recent decades, the rest Asia and the world, has witnessed an explosive growth in internationalization through foreign study, immigration, globalized universities and corporations. But Japan is severely lagging behind, in some cases even undergoing "reverse
globalization." Young Japanese are increasingly
reluctant to venture abroad to study, universities remain insular, immigration levels are low, and corporate management remains almost exclusively Japanese.

The speakers will survey the facts and their implications for Japanese society and economic performance and seek to offer a few explanations.
Speakers

Robert Dujarric is Director, Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University Japan Campus. He is a former Council Foreign Relations (Hitachi) International Affairs Fellow in Japan.
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/icas/staff.html.

Ayumi Takenaka is Associate Professor of sociology at Bryn Mawr. Her research focuses on immigration and is currently working on immigrants' social mobility in Japan and the movements of the highly skilled around the globe.
http://www.brynmawr.edu/sociology/Takenaka.html]
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Robert Dujarric
Director
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Associate Director
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Coordinator

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