Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "The 1960 Anpo Protests and the Origins of Contemporary Japan" with Nick Kapur Wednesday, October 6, 2021, 8:30am-9:30am JST / Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 4:30pm-5:30pm Pacific | Register:https://bit.ly/3EiL6gI <https://bit.ly/3EiL6gI>

In 1960, Japan was rocked by the largest popular protests in its history, as citizens from across the political spectrum took to the streets to oppose the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty (known as "Anpo" in Japanese). Ultimately, the protests failed to stop the treaty, and U.S. military bases remained on Japanese soil. But they did force the resignation of conservative prime minister Kishi Nobusuke and the cancellation of a planned visit by U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower. As Nick Kapur explains in this conversation, they also helped facilitate a variety of transformations in Japanese politics, society and culture that endure to this day.

Nick Kapur is a historian of Japan, and currently Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University - Camden teaching broadly on Japanese and East Asian history after having received his Ph.D. in Japanese history from Harvard University. His research interests focus on modern Japanese political, cultural, and social history, with an emphasis on transnational and comparative perspectives.

Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at GPS, UC San Diego, and the Director of JFIT. Her 2020 book "The Business Reinvention of Japan" analyzes how Japanese companies are responding to the rise of China and the changing global competition, and recently won two prestigious awards: the 2020 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and a silver medal in the Axiom Business Book Awards 2021, "Economics" category.

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