Monday June 6
9:00-9:50 – Japanese Language
Hideko Yamaga and Kentaro Ide
10:00-12:00 – Japanese Modernities: Imperialism, Democracy, and Hot Jazz
Professor Jonathan Lipman
12:00-1:15 – Lunch
1:15-2:15 – Calligraphy
Kumiko Hashiguchi
2:30-4:45 – The Pacific War and Its Aftermath, 1931-1953
Professor Jonathan Lipman

Tuesday June 7
9:00-9:50 – Japanese Language
Hideko Yamaga and Kentaro Ide
10:00-12:00 – War and Image Making: Two Films on the Pacific War (Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight” and Richard Fleischer and Fukasaku Kinji’s “Tora Tora Tora”)
Professor Jonathan Lipman
12:00-1:15 – Lunch
1:30-3:30 – Japan and World History: Trade, Modernity, and Nationalism
Professor Jonathan Lipman
3:45-4:45 – Special Guest Lecture
The Honorable Yoshio Nomoto, Consul General of Japan, Los Angeles

Wednesday June 8

9:00-9:50 – Japanese Language
Hideko Yamaga and Kentaro Ide
10:00-12:00 – Japanese Classical Music Performance
Alex Khalil (University of California, San Diego)

12:00-1:15 – Lunch
1:30-3:30 – Tea Ceremony
Sôsen Kaneko Bishop
(Founder and President Senshinkai, Omote Senke School of Tea)

3:45-4:45 – Calligraphy
Kumiko Hashiguchi

Thursday June 9

9:00-9:50 – Japanese Language
Hideko Yamaga and Kentaro Ide
10:00-12:00 – Japan Invents a New Form of Capitalism and then loses it.
Professor Chalmers Johnson (Japan Policy Research Institute)

12:00-1:15 – Lunch
1:30-2:30 – Calligraphy
Kumiko Hashiguchi
2:45-4:45 – Film (Tampopo) and discussion

Friday June 10

9:00-9:50 – Japanese Language
Hideko Yamaga and Kentaro Ide
10:00-12:00 – Okinawa: An American Military Colony
Professor Chalmers Johnson
12:00-1:15 – Lunch
1:30-3:30 – Identifying and Exploiting Japan-related Sources
Julie Su (Asian Studies Librarian, San Diego State University)
and
Sanae Isozumi (Japan Studies Librarian, UCSD)  [SDSU Main Library Instruction Room]

6:00 – Mid-Institute Banquet, Harney Sushi Restaurant, Old town

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