A conversation with Robert Cole, Mike Flynn, and John Campbell on the CJS-led U.S.-Japan Automotive Study and the 1981-1989 U.S.-Japan Auto Conferences.

https://umich.box.com/shared/static/9i0up1ft7wjg1ma7jpcvre50bgbtkr1b.mp3 When Bonnie Dixon joined Atsumi & Sakai in 2005, she became the first non-Japanese attorney to make partner at a Japanese law firm since the Occupation. Ms. Dixon holds both a B.A. in Japanese and Political Science and a law degree from the University of Michigan. She has now worked in Tokyo for over

To download, right click here and select “Save target as.” In 1981, the U-M Center for Japanese Studies launched the U.S.-Japan Automotive Conference (USJAC). Held annually until 1989, the USJAC facilitated reasoned dialogue between U.S. and Japanese business, political, and labor leaders against a backdrop of increasingly heated competition between the two countries’ auto industries. In

To download, right click here and select “Save target as.” Continuing our commemoration of CJS’s 70th anniversary, we’re sharing a special minisode about Japanese Studies at Michigan before the founding of CJS in 1947. This lecture was delivered at CJS’s 50th anniversary symposium in 1997 by Gary Saxonhouse, a Professor of Economics at U-M. To learn more about

To download, right click here and select “Save target as.” 2017 marks the 70th anniversary of the U-M Center for Japanese Studies. Throughout the year, the Japanese Studies Radio Hour will share special recordings from the CJS archives, starting with this special address by Beate Sirota Gordon, given on the occasion of CJS’s 50th anniversary

https://umich.box.com/shared/static/53c2nrvwi4npwa2y2wfyydwm7t83hhrz.mp3 To download, right click the link below and click ‘Save target as:’ Sustaining and Diversifying Japanese Studies A discussion at the 2016 Association for Asian Studies conference with Prof. Dyron Dabney (Albion College), Prof. Patricia Maclachlan (University of Texas, Austin), and Prof. Leonard Schoppa (University of Virginia) about the challenges and opportunities that lie

https://umich.box.com/shared/static/s0ago2rmx6fmjnjjvxz8g3zg2rzwjcq7.m4a To download, right click the link below and click ‘Save target as:’ Yamakiya Taiko Fukushima’s Yamakiya Taiko Ensemble is one of Japan’s leading taiko performance groups, having played such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The leaders of Yamakiya Taiko (Genki Endo and Keisuke Suzuki) sat down with

https://umich.box.com/shared/static/b97ntwwcacmaelrldgftb0sn118q9vjz.m4a To download, right click the link below and click ‘Save target as:’ Reflecting on the 3/11 Disasters   Mieko Yoshihama Professor of Social Work School of Social Work Satsuki Takahashi Toyota Visiting Professor Assistant Professor of Anthropology George Mason University This episode features a discussion with Prof. Mieko Yoshihama (University of Michigan School of