Dear Colleagues,

UC San Diego has organized a weekly "Japan Zoominar", every Tuesday at 4:30-5:30pm PDT. The Zoominars are open to the public and cover a wide range of issues, from business and politics to culture and religion. These Zoominars are recorded, and a library of 20 past events can be viewed from our website. Please feel free to use clips from it for teaching.


Upcoming, next week, Tuesday, 9/15, we will have John Whittier Treat give an update on Japanese literature today. Register here: https://bit.ly/31zT6Zu for "Japanese Literature After Murakami, In the Midst of COVID-19, and Before What's Coming Next"


Here is the lineup of future topics and speakers (to register, go here: https://jfit.ucsd.edu/zoominar/index.html)


9/22: How Japanese Companies Compete Globally, with David "Chet" Chetwynd

9/29: Japan's Business Reforms after Abenomics, with Kazuhiko Toyama

10/6: Japan, China, Korea - Shifting Strategic Relations in Turbulent Times, with Andrew Yeo

10/13: Reluctant Warriors: The Role of Japan and Germany in the International Military Order, with Ellis Krauss

10/27: Shinzo Abe - The Iconoclast, with Tobias Harris

11/10: JFIT Roundtable: U.S.-Japan Relations after the Election, with Megumi Naoi, Ellis Krauss, Adm Robert Thomas

11/17: Japanese Movies: Japonisme and the Birth of Cinema, with Daisuke Miyao

11/24: Japan-China Business Relations: A Look into the Future, with Hiroki Takeuchi


To sign up for weekly announcements, go here: https://ucsd.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=3edaa07c15443edd95e1e4412&id=d551f0b181

If you'd like to be invited in speak in our Zoominar series - perhaps you have a new book out or a topic you'd like to showcase - feel free to contact me.


With best regards,
Ulrike Schaede
www.thejapanologist.com