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Program | Spies, Prisoners, and Farmers: The Origins of Japanese Studies at Michigan

Rackham Building East Conference Room

10:30am - 5:30pm

Welcome Remarks | 10:30 - 10:40am

Panel 1 | U-M's Army Intensive Japanese Language School | 10:40 – 11:50am

Yoshiyuki Asahi
Associate Professor, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Tomokazu Takada
Associate Professor, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Moderator: Erin Brightwell
Assistant Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature, University of Michigan

Lunch (Registration Required) | Noon – 1:20pm

Panel 2 | Japanese-Americans and the Origins of Japanese Studies at Michigan | 1:30 – 2:40pm

Katsumi Nakao
Professor, J.F. Oberlin University Tokyo

Kosuke Harayama
Associate Professor, National Museum of Japanese History

Moderator: Leslie Pincus
Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan

Panel 3 | The CJS Okayama Field Station | 2:50 – 4:00pm

Hitomi Tonomura
Professor, University of Michigan

Yoko Taniguchi
Lecturer, Senshu University

Moderator: Christopher Hill
Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, University of Michigan

Panel 4 | Reflecting on the Origins of Japanese Studies at Michigan | 4:10 – 5:20pm

Ezra Vogel
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University  

John Campbell
Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

Moderator: Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan