Past Events CategoryPast Conferences and WorkshopsPast Departmental SeminarsRecent Conferences and WorkshopsRecent Departmental SeminarsVisible 12Sep2024Making Anime: Between Art & Cinema SymposiumLASALLE College of the Arts 1 McNally Street Singapore 18794004Sep2024'Ma'/間: Explained, Experienced, ExpressedNational University of Singapore AS8-04-0426Feb2024FASS GSRC | Research Workshop on Gender, Youth and Media in Asia9:30 AM - 5:00 PM (SGT)Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences National University of Singapore 26Sep2023Movie Screening & Director's Talk - Queer Japan11:00AM to 1:15PMOnline Via Zoom15Sep2023Formation of Kyudo as a Budo: Inventing Traditional Culture in Modern Japan14:00AS8-05-5008Sep2023Drawing Inspiration: Southeast Asian Women Artists and Japanese Manga10:00 - 16:00NUS, Block AS8 #05-50 (10:00am-11:30am) NUS, Block AS7 #01-17 (2:00pm-4:00pm)10Apr2023HSA1000: Asian Interconnections Poster SymposiumCentral Library 4th Floor10Feb2023“Go Away”: The Complicated History of Manga in Thailand, from Mixed Receptions to Selective Adopt...14:00AS8-04-0410Feb2023NUS Career Fest 2023: Seed Your Future Now10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (SGT)University Sports Centre Indoor Sports Hall, MPSH 1, 2, 5 and 631Jan2023The Kizuna of Singapore-Japan Relations14:00LT51, Stephen Riady Centre, UTown13Jan2023A Colored Other and a White Self: Boys' Magazines in the Showa Period14:00AS8-05-5022Sep2022Japanese and East Asian Development in the Long 19th Century: A Critical ReappraisalShaw Foundation Building AS7-01-16/17/1802Sep2022Experience Design for Citizen Science in Japan: Designing engagement opportunities between local ...14:00AS8-06-4602Dec2021Designing Modern Japan – Visualising the Modern Experience in Japan and Asia9:00AM - 2:15PMOnline31Jul2021NUS Admissions and Faculties Sharing 20219:30 am - 4:40 pmOnline (Zoom in Multiple Sessions)26Nov2020Singapore Research Nexus Virtual Three Panel Session: Humanities and Social Science Research in S...10:00 AM to 4:50 PMZoom Webinar: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IlxCcG5eR4CbHbMkDST7fw13Mar2020Japan-Ming Relationship and Noh Plays14:00-15:30AS8-05-5011Mar2020The Emotional Topography of Zainichi Memoryscape: Korean Ghettos in Postwar Japan Revisited10.15AM - 11.30AMAS7-01-16/17/1815Jan2020Japan as Terrain for American Self-Reflection in the Late 20th Century (Co-organised with Asia Re...3PM - 4.30 PMSeminar Rm 04-04 AS8, Level 429Nov2019Workshop: Understanding Social Groups of the Margins and Modernity9.30 AM – 4.30 PM AS8-06-4625Oct2019The Horizon of Democracy: Fukushima and Okinawa as Method2 PM - 3.30 PMAS8-05-5004Oct2019Emporium of Luxury, Empire of Cool: Neo-Victorian Manga and the 'Cool Japan' Project2 PM - 3.30 PMAS8-05-5026Aug2019Workshop on Japanese Language and Interaction - “Filler”-like Objects in Japanese InteractionAS8-05-50, Meeting Room05Apr2019Learning to Navigate the World: Imperial Japanese Naval Officer Training in 1910s and 1920s2.30 PM - 4 PMAS8-05-50 08Mar2019Stigma and the Moral Economy of Tokyo's Sex Industry2 PM - 4.30 PMAS8-07-6015Oct2018Cross-Border Matchmaking between Japanese Men and Chinese Women: The View from Japan3 PM - 4.30 PMAS8-06-4612Oct2018Rationalizing Eating Habits: The Rise of Nutrition Science as Social Engineering in 1920s Japan2 PM - 3 PMAS8/05-5004Oct2018Post-work Intimacy: Negotiating Gender among Japanese Retired Couples in Malaysia3 PM - 4.30 PMAS8-06-4629Sep2018Asia Past and Present: Graduate and Early Career Researcher Conference26Sep2018Meiji Conference: Revisiting Japan’s Restoration Interregional, Interdisciplinary, and Alternativ...14Sep2018Lamp Oil and the Transformation of Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century Japan2 PM - 4 PMAS8/05-5007Sep2018The Game of Love between Men and Women: Elderly Romance at Japanese Karaoke Kissas2 PMAS8/05-5031Aug2018Just One of those Guys - Negotiating Everyday Trans Masculinity in the Japanese Mini-Komi Magazin...3.30 PMAS8/05-49, WBS Research Centre for Chinese Studies26Aug2018Workshop on Japanese Language and Interaction: Particles and Interjection in Interaction23Mar2018Ghosts of the Emperior Past and Ainu Future: Traditional Ainu Performances of Revival, Survival a...2 PM - 3.30 PMAS8-06-4616Mar2018Improvement or Invention?: Japan's Population Surveys in the 19th Century2 PM - 4 PMAS8/06-46, Conference Room05Mar20185-7-5 in Singapore: Haiku and Lyrics before the End of WWII2 PM - 3.30 PMAS8/06-4621Feb2018Japan and Indo-Pacific Strategy: How can Singapore and ASEAN be fit in?4 PM- 5.30 PMThe Ngee Ann Gongsi Auditorium, Level 2, Education Resource Centre, UTown02Feb2018Japan as a Competing Commercial Empire: Japanese Green Tea & the US Market, 1860 to 19402 PM - 4 PMAS8-06-4620Oct2017Symposium on Traditional Performance: Perspectives from Japan and Southeast AsiaARI Seminar Room (AS8-04-04)02Oct2017AS8 Inaugural Conference - Asia: The Region and the World22Sep2017Large-scale Petitionary Protests (Kokuso) and the Bakuhan System2 PM - 4 PMAS8-06-4621Aug2017Gendered Mobilities and Transnational Care: The Case of Japanese Retirees in Southeast Asia2 PM - 4 PMAS8-06-4617Aug2017Workshop on Japanese Language and Interaction: Intersubjectivity and Empathy in InteractionAS8-05-5027Mar2017Kawaii Diplomacy: Hello Kitty and the Politics of Sale2 PM - 3.15 PMAS8-06-46 24Mar2017Diversity and Inclusion in the Japanese Company as seen through the Recruitment of Foreign Fresh ...2 PM - 4 PMAS8-06-4617Mar2017Where Japanese/Asian/Western Selves Meet: English-speaking Asia and Self-searching Migrants from ...2 PM - 3.30 PMAS8-06-4603Mar2017Robots & Men: The Ambiguous Border of Life in Japanese Manga2 PM - 4 PMAS8-06-4617Feb2017Zainichi Koreans: History and Present9 AM - 11 AMAS7-01-0203Feb2017Understanding Karaoke Classrooms and Kissas as Everyday Ageing Practice in Urban Japan2 PM - 4 PMAS8-05-5002Feb2017Kyōiku-ijū (Education Migration): Affluent Japanese Families’ Transnational Education Strategies ...10.30 AM - 12 PMAS8-06-4617Nov2016Between Exigencies and Trauma: The Evolution of Japanese Immigration Policy2 PM - 4 PMAS8-05-5014Nov2016Reexamining the Curious Convergence between Shinzo Abe and Norihiro Kato over the Reconstitution ...2 PM - 4 PMAS8-05-5011Nov2016Globalization, the State, and Foreign Labor Policy in Japan and Taiwan2 PM - 4 PMAS8-05-50 25Oct2016The Concept of "Hedging" Revisited: Case of Japan's Foreign Policy Strategy in East Asia's Power ...2 PM - 4 PMAS8-05-5013Oct2016Contemporary Tradition - Japanese Performance Genre TodayAS8-04-04 & AS8-06-46 (NUS) and The Arts House at Old Parliament Lane05Oct2016Japan and Geo-Economic Regionalism in Asia: The Rise of TPP and AIIB10 AM - 11.30 AMAS5-02-05 09Sep2016Women's Empowerment and Changes in Japanese-Style Management2 PM - 3.30 PMAS8-06-4620Aug2016The Quest for Horzontality3 PM - 4 PMBlue Room01Apr2016"Tada no nomikai desu"…ka? Negotiations of transgender belonging in contemporary Japan2 PM - 4 PMAS4/03-28, JS Meeting Room29Mar2016The Financialization of the Gift?: Japan's Debt as an Anthropological Problem10.30 AM - 12 PMAS7 Seminar Room B (01-17) 15Feb2016Issues and Policies on Health and Welfare Services for the Elderly in Japan12 PM - 1.30 PMVentus, Evans room, vt-02-01C 12Feb2016Victory through Good Governance: Home Ministry Bureaucrats in Wartime Singapore2 PM - 5.30 PMJS Meeting Room (AS4-03-28)12Jan2016Japanese Community Engagement Workshop: The Otagaisama (Reciprocal) Community Tool3 PM - 6 PMSeminar Room 1, College of Alice & Peter Tan, University Town, NUS 8 College Ave East, Singapore 13861523Sep2015Fear of Solitary Death and its Impact Factors in Japan's Aging Society2.30 PM - 4.00 PMAS7 06-4222Sep2015Public Lecture Series by Distinguished Guest Speakers from Japan: Sino-Japanese Relations: The Pa...2 PM - 3.30 PMNUSS Guild House Cluny and Dalvey Room 9 Kent Ridge Drive Singapore 11924122Sep2015International Workshop: Global HR and the Japanese Company08Sep2015Public Lecture Series by Distinguished Guest Speakers from Japan: Mechanism and Histories of 'His...2 PM - 3.30 PMNUSS Guild House, Left Chamber 9 Kent Ridge Drive Singapore 11924105Aug2015Public Symposium on 70 Years On: How to Manage Changing Power Relations in Asia?6 PM - 7.30 PMAuditorium, Shaw Foundation Alumni House, National University of Singapore (11 Kent Ridge Drive)02Jun2015Rethinking Resistance: Takeuchi Yoshimi's Lu Xun and the Conundrums of Asian Modernity23Mar2015In Search of Lost Worlds: Meiji and Taishō Period Elites Remember their Childhood Reading2.30 PM - 4 PMAS4/03-2823Feb2015Japanese Game Seminar and Workshop with Pros10 AM - 11.30 AM , 1 PM - 2.30 PM, 3 PM - 4.30 PM09Jan2015Public Forum on Regional Architecture and Frameworks for Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific6 PM - 7.30 PMAuditorium, Shaw Foundation Alumni House08Jan2015International Workshop on Regional Architecture and Frameworks for Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific19Nov2014Public Symposium on Competition and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific: Recognising Challenges, Seiz...1 PM - 5 PMThe Gallery, Grand Hyatt Hotel30Oct2014Public Lecture Series by Distinguished Guest Speakers from Japan: Japanese Foreign Policy Under Abe6.15 PM - 7.45 PMNgee Ann Kongsi Auditorium Education Resource Centre, Level 2 University Town, National University of Singapore 8 College Avenue West, Singapore 13860805Sep2014Seminar Talk: The State of Asian Democracies2 PM - 4 PMJS Meeting Room (AS4/03-28) 03Sep2014Public Lecture Series by Distinguished Guest Speakers from Japan: Japan's Foreign Policy: From Yo...2 PM - 3.30 PMNUSS Guild House Cluny and Delvey Room 9 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 11924121Jul2014Development and Utilization of Japanese Performing Arts Metadata24Feb2014Japanese Anime and Video Game Workshop with Pros07Nov2013Drawing Manga “Japanese Style”12 PM - 3 PMJS Meeting Room, AS4-03-2807Nov2013Manga Festival in Singapore 20134.30 PM - 8 PMNational University of Singapore Block AS5, Lecture Theatre 8 (Arts and Social Sciences)06Sep2013Workshop on Japanese Language and InteractionJS Meeting Room, AS4-03-2814Aug2013HAFU - The Film. Screening and Panel Discussion13Aug2013Transnational Adaptations of Japanese Noh: Three Case Studies3.30 PM - 5.30 PMJS Meeting Room (AS4-03-28)16Apr2013After the Tsunami: Post-Disaster Community Recovery in an Ageing and Shrinking Region4 PM - 5.30 PMAS4/03-28 19Mar2013What's Left for the Right? Right-wing Activism in Japan and Politics of Futility4 PM - 5.50 PMAS4/03-2812Mar2013Bad Water: The Political Ecology of Snow Brand Dairy4 PM - 5.50 PMAS4/03-28 05Mar2013Japan's New Deal for Asia, 1943-19454 PM - 5.50 PMAS4/03-2810Jan2013Japanese History Research and Educational Training in Theory and Practice11Nov2012Teaching Japanese Popular Culture Conference29Oct2012From Muromachi Nô to Mizoguchi Film: Permutations of the Sanshô Dayû Legend2 PM - 4 PMAS4/03-2824Aug2012Digital Revolution in the Study of Japanese Art and Culture2 PM - 4 PMJS Meeting Room (AS4-03-28)13Mar2012Japanese Cities in Chinese Perspective: Towards A Contextual, Regional Approach to Comparative Ur...07Mar2012Family Care for the Elderly in a Changing Japan (Joint seminar with ARI and FASS Health Research ...05Mar2012At Your Konbini: Small Stores, Large Chains, and Livelihood in Contemporary Japan4 PM - 5.30 PMAuditorium (AS7-01-02), Shaw Foundation Building 27Feb2012Old-Age Policy and Long Term Care in Japan: Structures and Cases (Joint seminar with FASS Health ...22Nov2011Japan's Shrinking Regions in the 21st Century: Contemporary Responses to Depopulation and Socioec...10Nov2011Fascination of Japanese Anime and Cartoon Felt Through Creativity; The Feature and Possibility of...12 PM - 1.35 PMLT1028Oct2011Japanese Studies 30th Anniversary Symposium: "Sketching Japan: Diversity, Dynamics and Dilemmas"13Oct2011Workshop on Japanese Culture in Southeast Asia03May2011The Silver Market Phenomenon in Japan - Implications of Demographic Change on Business and Market...27Apr2011Moving with "No Place to Go": Gendered Job (Im)Mobility in Japan25Apr2011The Rose of Versailles and the History of Shōjo Manga (Girls' Comics) in Japan04Mar2011Japan's Immigrant Integration Policy in the Age of Globalization(Joint seminar with FASS Migratio...3 - 4.30 PMSeminar Room Auditorium, AS7/01-02, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences02Mar2011Murakami Inc.: A Bourdieusian Inquiry into the Transnational Fiction of Murakami Haruki21Feb2011Women's Manga Beyong Japan: Contemporary Comics as Cultural Crossroads in Asia27Jan2011Postwar Japan and “Asia” in Popular Culture08Oct2010Perceptions of Otaku in the Global Marketplace (Joint Seminar with Minor in Cultural Studies)27Sep2010Disability in Japan30Aug2010Outdoing Cool Japan: Culture and Administration in the Age of Brand Nationalism (Joint Seminar wi...13Aug2010ベトナム史料における象の位相と享保十三年渡来象について (Images of Elephants in Vietnamese Histori...12Feb2010Rebuilding Shuri Castle: Japanese Colonialism and Cultural Heritage Preservation13Jan2010The Singaporean Characteristics of a Japanese Community in Global-City State (Joint seminar with ...07Jan2010Noh Lecture & Demonstration25Sep2009Death and Dying in Early Modern Japan Workshop14Sep2009New Stage of Migration in Japan: Globization of Care Work07Aug2009Constructing Inequality Among Peers3 PM - 4 PMBLK ADMIN #07-06 (The University Scholars Program 7th Floor Conference Room)07Aug2009Calibrating Bodies and Cognition through Interactive Practice in a Meaningful Environment2 PM - 3 PMBLK ADMIN #07-06 (The University Scholars Program 7th Floor Conference Room)16Jan2009Work, Money and Drinking: The Friendship Networks of Women Managers in Contemporary Japan31Oct2008Sexual Harassment Comes of Age? Studies on Working Women and College Students in Japan25Sep2008Noh Lecture & Demonstration12Sep2008Sukaaretto-sama, arigatoogozeemasu-da: The Linguistic Inferiorization of Black Slaves and Poor Wh...22Aug2008Traces of the Gods: Writing and Hirata Atsutane's Imagining of the “Illustrious Imperial Land”15Aug2008Some Aspects of Sartre's Reception among Post-war Japanese Intellectuals18Apr2008Ownership Strategies for Japanese Manufacturing Companies in China28Mar2008Japanese National Identity in the Imperial Period (Joint seminar with Dept of Geography)18Feb2008Walking to Liberty in Osaka : State, Community, and Burakumin in Contemporary Japan15Feb2008Explaining Japanese Policy Responses to the U.S. War on Terrorism: Realism, Neoliberalism and Con...01Feb2008The Politics of Non-Recognition: Fissures, Frictions, and Ainu Indigeneity in Contemporary Japan25Jan2008Institutionalizing Imaged Toyama: Selling Traditional Images of Toyama Medicine through Science18Jan2008Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Tokyo and Los Angeles27Nov2007Home Alone: The Individualization of Young, Urban Japanese Singles (Joint seminar with Global Cit...22Nov2007Japanese Technological Culture (Joint seminar with Science, Technology & Society Cluster, FASS)16Nov2007The Aging Okama Body in Isshin Inudo's Maison de Himiko15Nov2007Workshop on Spaces of Neo-Liberalism in the Asian Developmental States (jointly organized with Gl...02Nov2007Women and Tourism in Japan26Oct2007The Impact of Prior Entries on the Foreign Investment Decision of Japanese Multinational Electron...19Oct2007The Ambiguous Position of Nikkei Brazilian Workers in Japan12Oct2007Singapore's Collective Memories of the Second World War: A Comparison with Japan05Oct2007Rethinking ‘Dôka' (Assimilation) in the Japanese Colonial Empire: On Experiences of Okinawan Migr...21Sep2007Salarymen Masculinity: The Continuity of and Change in the Hegemonic Masculinity in Japan across ...14Sep2007He? She? It? Shingo-mama and Drag Performances07Sep2007How the Modern Subject Dances into Sight: Mori Ôgai's Maihime31Aug2007Outcastes and Medical Practices in Tokugawa Japan17Aug2007Reputation and Reassurance in International Politics: The Case of Japan in East Asia07Aug2007From Ginza to Shanghai: The Modern Girl in East Asia26Jul2007Japan's Maritime Security Strategy14May2007Unauthorized Romances: Internet Yaoi Fan Fiction12Oct2006Japanese Studies 25th Anniversary International Symposium & The Inaugural Conference of the J...04Oct2006Japanese Dialect Contact and Change in Hawai'i: The Case of Tôhoku Dialect22Sep2006Examining the Japanese Particle Ne: A Study of its Use in Conversational Interaction31Mar2006Promoting Learner Autonomy in Language Classrooms (Joint seminar with Centre for Language Studies)2 PM - 4 PMAS4-06-0420Mar2006"Romantic Virus": 'Auntie Fans' of South Korean Actors in Japan29Nov2005Project Management Practices in Japan: An Analysis of Project Managers' Characteristics and Perce...20Oct2005Alternate Generations in the Family: The Asian Perspective31Aug2005Working with Hegemonic Masculinity: Work, Marriage, Fatherhood and the “Salaryman” in Japan26Aug2005Conference on Natural Disaster in Asian History, Culture and Memory (jointly organized with Asia ...22Aug2005Japan's Role in Sustainable Development in the Philippines: Rhetoric and Realities of Japanese Ec...24Jun2005Workshop on Developing an On-Line Japanese Performing Arts Resource Center15Apr2005Nissan: Translating Language, Transforming Culture08Apr2005Fantastic Elements in the Process of Healing: A Study of Yoshimoto Banana's Writings06Apr2005Contemporary Funeral Industry in Japan and Family Changes28Oct2004Globalization, Localization, and Japanese Studies in the Asian-Pacific Region01Oct2004Political Opportunity and the Enactment of Japan's 'New' Privacy Law20Aug2004An Exploratory Study of Computer-Mediated Social Support Among Single Mothers in Japan24Feb2004Gender and Sexuality on Television Dramas: Japan and Brazil20Feb2004A Study on the Error of Additional /No/ by Singaporean Secondary School Students13Feb2004Memory, Mirrors and Missing Women: Metafictive Narrative Strategies and the Doppelganger Motif in...08Jan2004International Conference on Creating an East Asian Community: Prospects and Challenges for Fresh ...06Aug2003The Portrayal of Islam and Muslims in Japanese News: A Content Analysis of Asahi Shimbun's Covera...17Apr2003Centers of Excellence: The Localization of Sogo Shosha in China11Apr2003Comic Art During the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines16Jan2003Symposium on Japan Politics and Society13Nov2002Globalisation, International Labour Migration in Contemporary Japan, and the Language Barrier: Th...11Nov2002Reframing Japanese Citizens' Movements: From Accusation to Proposal06Nov2002Tokyo in Global Economy: Economic Restructuring, Urban Policy, and Strategic Planning01Nov2002Everyone's Festival? Democratization and Control in Kyoto's Gion Matsuri23Sep2002A Tentative Study on Restructuring of Everyday Social Orders: Japan, Vietnam and Singapore08Jul2002International Conference on Monuments and Memory-Making in Japan11Mar2002A Middle Class without an Upper Class in Japan05Oct2001International Conference for the 20th Anniversary of the Department01Oct1999Sixth Conference on Japanese Studies05Dec1997Fifth Conference on Japanese Studies01Dec1994Fourth Conference on Japanese Studies24Oct1993Third Conference on Japanese Studies29Apr1991Second Conference on Japanese Studies06Nov1989First Conference on Japanese Studies
