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April 27, 2021
[SSJ: 11421] New Book Announcement
From: Richard M. Chalfen <richard.chalfen@temple.edu>
Date: 2021/04/24
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[SSJ: 11420] SSJJ special issue on Japan's energy transition
From: Meredith Shaw <mshaw@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2021/04/22
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[SSJ: 11419] GJS Seminar "The Peril and Promise of Education: Japanese Settlers' Schooling in Davao, the American Philippines" (June 1)
From: UCHIDA Chikara <uchidachikara@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/04/22
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[SSJ: 11418] [Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego] Apr 28 8:30 AM JST (Apr 27 4:30 PM PDT) Hello Kitty: Japanese Cuteness at Home and Abroad, with Christine R. Yano
From: Amanda Lee-low <aleelow@ucsd.edu>
Date: 2021/04/22
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[SSJ: 11417] Battle Over Climate Change in Tokyo
From: Richard Katz <rbkatz@ix.netcom.com>
Date: 2021/04/22
There's a big policy battle going on in Tokyo over whether to do what needs to be done in order to fulfill Suga's promise of net zero by 2050. What Suga announces, or fails to announce, at the virtual climate summit of 40 countries beginning Thursday will be the next signal in this fight. For example, Suga pledged to end sales of gasoline vehicles by 2035 and METI in its "Green Growth" agenda issued in December redefined electric cars to include hybrids. The Environment Ministry wants Japan to up its planned cut in carbon emissions from the current 26% reduction from 2013--a reduction widely criticize--to 45%, while METI wants just 35% and the White House is pushing for 50%. Suga has pledged a fundamental reversal of policy on coal (with no details) but METI wants to keep coal at 26% of Japan's electricity in 2030 when it issues the new Strategic Energy Plan in June; that's no change from the target set in 2018. There are similar splits in the business world. 200 leading companies in the Japan Climate Initiative called on Tokyo to pledge an emissions reduction of 45-50%, while Keidanren is pushing to retain coal.
I believe Suga is for real on this issue, based on talking to contacts. How much power he has to get his way vis-à-vis METI , Keidanren. and others is in question, given his polling numbers. But the news here is not the resistance to taking aggressive action. The news is the growth within the corporate world of those who favor of taking strong action. Plus, the election of Biden is having its impact, bolstering those in Japan who already wanted stronger action.
I've written a piece for the /Foreign Affairs/ website on the state of play and how we'd measure a real commitment. Here is the no-paywall URL. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/redeem/rdp-a4Eil74 <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/redeem/rdp-a4Eil74>
Richard Katz
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April 21, 2021
[SSJ: 11416] Quad-Plus: Form to Function? - 12 May Webinar
From: John Bradford <john.bradford@ycaps.org>
Date: 2021/04/20
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[SSJ: 11415] Getting to Know Japan - An intro-level webinar series
From: John Bradford <johnfbradford@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/04/20
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[SSJ: 11414] 14 articles and author interviews on "Vulnerable Populations in Japan under Covid"
From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/04/19
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[SSJ: 11413] Comprehensive booklet of the Lecture Series: Vulnerable Populations Under COVID-19 in Japan
From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2021/04/16
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[SSJ: 11412] Grant Opportunity: JUSFC-NEH Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan (April 28 Deadline)
From: Silver, Mark <msilver@neh.gov>
Date: 2021/04/16
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[SSJ: 11411] Spring issue of DIJ Newsletter
From: Torsten Weber <weber@dijtokyo.org>
Date: 2021/04/15
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April 13, 2021
[SSJ: 11410] [Request to share] Collaborative interdisciplinary course design: a case study from Tokyo College
From: . SARAFF MARCOS EMMA B <emma@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2021/04/13
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[SSJ: 11409] Online Conference "Climate Change, Energy, and Sustainability in the Pacific Region" (April 19-22)
From: Sonja Ganseforth <ganseforth@dijtokyo.org>
Date: 2021/04/12
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[SSJ: 11408] [Virtual Seminar] US-Japan-Taiwan Relations in 2021
From: Russell Hsiao <lchsiao@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/04/11
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[SSJ: 11407] Reminder: GJS Lecture Series "Japanese Studies in Asia" (1) (April 16)
From: UCHIDA Chikara <uchidachikara@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/04/11
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[SSJ: 11406] GJS Seminar "Does Japanese Society Remember Chinese Returnees?" (May 25)
From: UCHIDA Chikara <uchidachikara@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/04/08
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[SSJ: 11405] GJS Lecture Series "Japanese Studies in Asia" (2) (May 11)
From: UCHIDA Chikara <uchidachikara@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/04/08
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[SSJ: 11404] [Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego] Apr 14 8:30 AM JST (Apr 13 4:30 PM PDT) Japan's Policies for the Common People, with Patricia Maclachlan
From: Amanda Lee-low <aleelow@ucsd.edu>
Date: 2021/04/08
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[SSJ: 11403] IAM-IRiS NODE Talk: "Surviving COVID-19: Vulnerable migrants in Japan and the UK"
From: Institute of Asian Migrations Waseda <waseda-iam@outlook.com>
Date: 2021/04/07
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[SSJ: 11402] TIU Global Dialogue #8: D Biden and Asia - What's the Game Plan?
From: Tom Blackwood <tsblackwood@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/04/06
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[SSJ: 11401] Call For Applications: 2022 FFJ Fellowships - Deadline Extended Until 30 April 2021
From: ffj@ehess.fr <ffj@ehess.fr>
Date: 2021/04/06
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April 6, 2021
[SSJ: 11400] Reminder: FCCJ Book Break April 14. 17:30. Iain Maloney, author of "The Only Gaijin in the Village: A Year Living in Rural Japan"
From: FCCJ Library <library@fccj.or.jp>
Date: 2021/04/06
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[SSJ: 11399] FCCJ Book Break May 12. 17:30. Robert Whiting, author of "Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball"
From: FCCJ Library <library@fccj.or.jp>
Date: 2021/04/06
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[SSJ: 11398] Request to share (UTokyo Workshop): Critical Thinking in Political Theory
From: . SARAFF MARCOS EMMA B <emma@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2021/04/05
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[SSJ: 11397] YCAPS Webinar -- Good Morning Books: For Families and Inspired By Service in the Western Pacific
From: John Bradford <johnfbradford@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/04/03
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[SSJ: 11396] Conference CFP Distribution to SSJ-Forum Members
From: Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki <tkach@japan.email.ne.jp>
Date: 2021/04/02
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[SSJ: 11395] [Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego] Apr 7 8:30 AM JST (Apr 6 4:30 PM PDT) Japan's Power and Influence in the Newly Emerging World Order with Robert Madsen
From: Amanda Lee-low <aleelow@ucsd.edu>
Date: 2021/04/02
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[SSJ: 11394] Online paper collection "Globalization, Food and Social Identities in the Asia Pacific Region" reissued and available now
From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2021/04/01
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April 1, 2021
[SSJ: 11393] [Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego] Apr 7 8:30 AM JST (Apr 6 4:30 PM PDT) Japan's Power and Influence in the Newly Emerging World Order with Robert Madsen
From: Amanda Lee-low <aleelow@ucsd.edu>
Date: 2021/04/01
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[SSJ: 11392] New Issue of Contemporary Japan 33(1) Available Online (apologies for cross-posting)
From: Isaac Gagne <me@contemporary-japan.org>
Date: 2021/03/31
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[SSJ: 11391] JPOSS: April 15 (Th), Michael Sharpe (York College/CUNY), "A New Norm of Paid Voluntary Return or Remigration? The Netherlands and Japan"
From: Duncan, Emma Sachi <eduncan@wcfia.harvard.edu>
Date: 2021/03/31
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[SSJ: 11390] GJS Lecture Series "Japanese Studies in Asia" (1) (April 16)
From: UCHIDA Chikara <uchidachikara@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/03/29
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[SSJ: 11389] Call for papers - Children and youths' migration in a global landscape
From: Derrace McCallum <dermcc@hotmail.com>
Date: 2021/03/29
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[SSJ: 11388] New Book: Japan's Evolving Security Policy: Militarisation within a Pacifist Tradition
From: Kyoko Hatakeyama <kyokohatakeyama.kh@gmail.com>
Date: 2021/03/26
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