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SUMMARY:Country Roads - Rural Tourism in Canada and Japan
DESCRIPTION:Organized by: The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\nSupported by: Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson University \nPlease note that due to copyright considerations\, photography and recording are not permitted at this event. Your cooperation is appreciated. \nSpring not springing fast enough? Visions of cherry blossoms dancing through your head rather than before your eyes? Don’t despair. The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is offering an exciting substitute to airplane or even armchair travel: a Travel Lecture Series. In each installment\, a pair of speakers will address a particular travel-related issue from both a Canadian and a Japanese perspective. \nFor the third and final installment of our Travel Lecture Series\, The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is pleased to present a pair of lectures about the potential and pitfalls of rural Tourism for challenged communities in Canada and Japan. Come and learn how Japan and Canada are maximizing tourism development to respond to the shared problem of rural depopulation and economic decline. How are both countries coping\, and what threats does this strategy pose? \nRural Tourism in Canada – Prof. Christopher Fullerton\nRural communities across Canada face a variety of economic challenges that threaten their very existence. As traditional industries such as fishing\, forestry or mining decline\, communities are looking for ways to revitalize their local economies\, and remain viable places to live\, work and play. Many have turned to tourism as a possible solution. The types of rural tourism development being pursued across Canada vary\, but most involve harnessing place-based assets that had previously served other uses\, or that have otherwise been ignored as resources for tourism development. Although the potential benefits are numerous\, rural communities must also be aware of the environmental\, economic and social consequences that can come with improper tourism management. \n  \n“Green Tourism” in Rural Japan – Prof. Atsuko Hashimoto\nThe revitalisation of depopulating and ageing rural communities is one of the challenges facing modern societies. Japan has been employing tourism as a tool to rejuvenate rural communities since 1992. Known as Green Tourism\, this innovative type of rural or agri-tourism development is supported by various levels of government. Benefits include economic rejuvenation\, the enhanced empowerment of women\, increased networking in host communities\, the building of bridges between rural and urban areas\, and\, in some successful cases\, the return of younger generations to rural communities. However\, as Professor Hashimoto explains\, not all Green Tourism projects are without challenges. \n  \n\nAbout the speakers: \nChristopher Fullerton is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Department of Geography at Brock University. He is also a member of Brock’s Environmental Sustainability Research Centre.  He received a Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning from Queen’s University\, and his Doctorate in Geography from the University of Saskatchewan. His research centres on topics such as rural and urban land use planning\, public transit planning and policy\, and rural community economic development. \nAtsuko Hashimoto is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism Management at Brock University. She received a Master’s degree in Tourism Planning and Development\, and a PhD in Tourism Management from the University of Surrey. Her research interests are the socio-cultural aspects of tourism development and use of tourism for the rejuvenation of rural communities in Japan. She is currently involved in a long-term study on Green Tourism in Japanese farming communities. She has published extensively on issues in Tourism Management related to Canada and Japan. \nImage: Rice Terrace of Eriyama ©Saga Prefecture/©JNTO
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LOCATION:Ted Rogers School of Management\, Ryerson University\, Room TRS 1-147\, 55 Dundas St. W.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5G 2C3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Journey is My Home - Early Travel Writing in Canada & Japan
DESCRIPTION:Not able to escape Toronto’s cold and slush this season? Don’t despair. The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is offering an exciting substitute to airplane or even armchair travel: a Travel Lecture Series. In each installment\, a pair of speakers will address a particular travel-related issue from both a Canadian and a Japanese perspective. Coming up in March are talks about Special Interest Tourism and Travel Writing. We hope to see you there. \nFor the second installment of our Travel Lecture series\, The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is pleased to present a pair of lectures about early travel writing in Japan and Canada. Although separated by great distance and in some cases great periods of time\, ‘writing’ their landscapes\, both to claim the land and to present it to others\, was a preoccupation for authors in both cultures. \nWanderers in a Distant Country: Re-imagining Canadian Spaces in Catharine Parr Traill & Susanna Moodie – Prof. S. Bailey \nSusanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush (1852) and Catharine Parr Traill’s The Backwoods of Canada (1836) are considered foundational works in Canadian literary history\, representing an early narrative tradition grounded in accounts of pioneer life and exploration. Both sisters published in mainstream literary periodicals in Britain prior to immigrating\, and both wrote extensively for British and American markets while living in Canada. Moodie and Traill thus play a significant role in interpreting Canada for an international readership\, in addition to documenting their own progress in making a foreign space ‘home.’ Professor Bailey will trace the means by which Moodie and Traill ‘write’ the Canadian landscape both to attract transnational readers and to bind themselves to their new Canadian home: Traill\, through the language of scientific observation and natural history\, and Moodie\, through sentimental Romantic traditions. \nUnder Trees and Over Rocks: Travel Writing in Early Japan – Prof. K. Strand \nTravel was all the rage in early modern\, or Edo (1600-1868)\, Japan.  Its importance as a part of life is indicated by a range of works by major figures of medieval and early modern travel writing\, from the poetry of itinerant priest Saigyô (1118-1190) to the famous travel diary of Matsuo Bashô (1643-1693)\, Narrow Road to the Deep North (1693). But how did this interest arise? Professor Strand will explore the many different ways in which people of medieval and early modern Japan engaged in a culture of travel\, from writing diaries about official travel and pilgrimages to major sacred centres\, to consuming poetry and images of famous sites and locations throughout Japan. While traveling to compose poetry about famous places seems a benign endeavor\, a culture of travel writing developed as an act of inscribing new maps on the landscape\, and constructing a specific historical ideology. \n\nAbout the speakers: \nKendra Strand is a visiting professor of Japanese at St. Olaf College\, where she teaches Japanese language\, literature\, and culture. She received her PhD in Japanese Literature from the University of Michigan. In her dissertation\, she translates four travel diaries by political elites in the fourteenth century\, and examines how landscape and travel are used in the diaries to address issues of social and political authority. Her research focuses on pre-modern Japanese travel writing\, poetry\, and visual culture. She is also interested in representations of Japanese history in contemporary literature and popular culture. \n  \n  \n  \nSuzanne Bailey is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at Trent University. She is also a member of Trent’s Public Texts (English) MA program\, and at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. She teaches a range of courses\, from Victorian literature and culture to contemporary travel writing and women’s writing. Her research centres on how we come to know what we know\, and how we can learn to see and understand the value of other stories and perspectives. \n  \n  \n  \n\nRelated events: \nPeterborough\nUnder Trees and Over Rocks: Travel Writing in Early Japan – A lecture by Professor Kendra Strand\nTuesday\, March 22   3:00-4:00 pm\nThe Pit\, Lady Eaton College\n1600 West Bank Drive\, Peterborough ON K9L 1Z6\nAdmission: Free \n  \nOrganized by:\nThe Japan Foundation\, Toronto\nWith support from:\nUniversity of Toronto Libraries\nTrent University: Department of English Literature\, Department of History\, Public Texts (English) MA Program\, Lady Eaton College\, Trent International Program \n \n  \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Blackburn Room\, 4th Floor\, Robarts Library\, 130 St. George St.\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 1A5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Give the Pilgrims What They Want - The Emergence of Special Interest Tourism in Canada & Japan
DESCRIPTION:Organized by: The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\nSupported by: Ted Rogers School of Management & Ryerson University; Renison University College\, University of Waterloo; Centre for Japanese Research\, University of British Columbia \nNot able to escape Toronto’s cold and slush this season? Don’t despair. The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is offering an exciting substitute to airplane or even armchair travel: a Travel Lecture Series. In each installment\, a pair of speakers will address a particular travel-related issue from both a Canadian and a Japanese perspective. Coming up in March are talks about Special Interest Tourism and Travel Writing. We hope to see you there. \nFor the first installment of our Travel Lecture series\, The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is pleased to present an evening of talks about the emergence of special interest tourism in Canada and Japan. Whether at the whim of private enterprise or at the behest of a national government\, theme-based tourism as a means to attract certain individuals to a particular place is a winning strategy in many countries. \nPop Culture\, History and “Contents Tourism” in Japan – Prof. Philip Seaton \nSince 2005\, the Japanese government has actively encouraged local authorities to develop tourism related to works of popular culture such as manga\, anime and computer games as a way of enhancing their local identity and brand\, a phenomenon known in Japanese as “Contents Tourism.” This lecture presents examples of booms in pop culture-inspired tourism to heritage sites historically linked to the Sengoku\, Meiji and Showa periods\, which indicate the power of popular culture\, not only to inspire tourism\, but also to generate new perspectives on Japan’s past. \nThe Evolution of Culinary Tourism in Niagara: A Product to Rebuild the Japanese Market? – Prof. David J. Telfer \nThe Niagara Region is rebranding itself beyond Niagara Falls into a wine and culinary destination. Regional food and wine based on a growing number of wineries\, restaurants\, icewine festivals\, farmer’s markets\, micro-breweries\, celebrity chefs\, and cooking schools are all contributing to tourism diversification. This lecture will examine the evolution of Niagara Culinary Tourism and present recent initiatives by the Canadian Tourism Commission to rebuild the Japanese market including its focus on food\, a product in which Niagara is becoming a national leader. \n\nAbout the speakers: \nOriginally from the UK\, Philip Seaton has lived in Japan for close to 20 years. He is a Professor at the Office of International Affairs/International Student Center at Hokkaido University in Japan\, where he is convener of the Modern Japanese Studies Program. He holds a degree in History from Cambridge University\, as well as a Master’s Degree in International Relations and a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Sussex. His research interests include history and memory\, local history and society in Hokkaido\, and contents tourism. \nDavid Telfer is an Associate Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Tourism Management at Brock University and a member of the Brock Environmental Sustainability Research Centre. He has researched and published extensively on issues related to tourism in both Canada and Japan. \n\nRelated lectures:  \nWaterloo\nPop Culture\, History and “Contents Tourism” in Japan – A lecture by Prof. Philip Seaton\, Hokkaido University\nThursday March 10\,  6:30 – 8 pm\nRoom REN 2106\, Renison University College\, University of Waterloo\nDETAILS\nRSVP:      EAS@uwaterloo.ca              519-884-4400 x28645 \n  \nVancouver\nPop Culture\, History and “Contents Tourism” in Japan – A lecture by Prof. Philip Seaton\, Hokkaido University\nMonday\, March 14\,  3:00 – 5:00 pm\nRoom 604\, Asian Centre\, Centre for Japanese Research\, University of British Columbia\nLink: http://www.iar.ubc.ca/Centres/cjr/EventsandSeminars.aspx
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SUMMARY:Japanese Movie Screening in Hamilton: The Vancouver Asahi
DESCRIPTION:presented The Japan Foundation in cooperation with the Hamilton Public Library \nThis drama by award-winning director Yuya Ishii (The Great Passage) is based on the true story of the Vancouver Asahi\, a Japanese-Canadian baseball team that was established in 1914 and rose to prominence in 1920s and 1930s. Playing a strategic game\, dubbed “brain ball\,” they used their unique strengths to defeat their larger and stronger European-Canadian opponents. Despite  success and popularity\, the Asahi faced discrimination and\, during WWII\, internment due to their Japanese heritage. The Vancouver Asahi won the People’s Choice Award at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival\, and screened at the 2015 Toronto Japanese Film Festival. \nDirected by Yuya Ishii\n2014\, 132 minutes \n 
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LOCATION:Hamilton Central Public Library\, 55 York Boulevard\, Hamilton Room\, Hamilton\, Ontario\, L8N 4E4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Japanese Movies at Innis Town Hall: The Vancouver Asahi
DESCRIPTION:click here for info about the screening in Hamilton on March 6!\nThis drama by award-winning director Yuya Ishii (The Great Passage) is based on the true story of the Vancouver Asahi\, a Japanese-Canadian baseball team that was established in 1914 and rose to prominence in 1920s and 1930s. Playing a strategic game\, dubbed “brain ball\,” they used their unique strengths to defeat their larger and stronger European-Canadian opponents. Despite  success and popularity\, the Asahi faced discrimination and\, during WWII\, internment due to their Japanese heritage. The Vancouver Asahi won the People’s Choice Award at the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival\, and screened twice at the 2015 Toronto Japanese Film Festival. \nDirected by Yuya Ishii\n 2014\, 132 minutes \nPlease note that food and drink (except for water bottles) are strictly prohibited in the Innis Town Hall Theatre. Thank you for your cooperation. \nRegister here:\n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
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LOCATION:Innis Town Hall\, 2 Sussex Ave.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1J5
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151215T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151215T210000
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SUMMARY:December Films at Innis Town Hall: Ikiru
DESCRIPTION:Ikiru • いきる\nDirected by Akira Kurosawa/B&W /1952/143 min/blu-ray\nKanji Watanabe (Takashi Shimura)\, a devoted single father\, has mindlessly rubber-stamped documents at city hall for 30 years to support his son.  When he receives a diagnosis of terminal stomach cancer\, he throws himself into a seemingly lost cause- turning a vacant lot into a playground for a neighbourhood mothers’ group\, a project that has repeatedly been pushed aside by the city bureaucracy. Considered by many to be Kurosawa’s greatest film\, Ikiru is an inventively structured\, brilliantly performed\, relentless examination of what it means to truly be alive. \n\nBest Picture\, Kinema Jumpo\nBest Film\, Best Screen Play\, Best Sound Recording\, Mainichi Film Concours\nSpecial Prize of the Senate\, Berlin International Film Festival\n\n\nRegistration\nTo register\, please select the number of tickets and click the “register” button. Please print your ticket or show it to us on your smartphone or other device. Doors will open 30 minutes before the event. Most events at The Japan Foundation\, Toronto are free\, so it is our policy to overbook to ensure capacity. We will begin releasing unclaimed seats to the rush line 10 minutes before the start of the event. In case of a full house\, your ticket reservation may not guarantee admission. \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/ikiru/
LOCATION:Innis Town Hall\, 2 Sussex Ave.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1J5
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SUMMARY:Welcome Back to the Library!
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, December 12\, the JFT Library will be hosting a special welcome event from 11 AM until 4PM\, open to all visitors.\n\nLibrary materials will be available for checkout all day\nHot chocolate and snacks will be provided\n11:30-12:15/1:00-1:45 Tea ceremony demonstrations\n2:00-2:30 Kokyu instrumental music played by Lorne Shapiro\n2:45-3:45 Nengajou New Year’s Card making\n\nWe’re looking forward to seeing you there! For any questions or comments\, please contact the library at library@jftor.org or call 416-966-2935. \n*Please note that tea ceremony participation will be first-come\, first-served. A sign-up sheet will be available at the event.
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LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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SUMMARY:December Films at Innis Town Hall: Casting Blossoms to the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Kono sora no hana: Nagaoka hanabi monogatari •この空の花：長岡花火物語\nDirected by Nobuhiko Obayashi/2012 /160 min/blu-ray/colour \nOut of the blue\, newspaper reporter Reiko gets a letter from her ex-boyfriend Kenichi\, inviting her to see the famous Nagaoka fireworks festival and a performance of a play written by one of his students. With newspaper coverage in mind as well\, Reiko decides to visit Nagaoka. \nThe Nagaoka Fireworks Festival was launched in 1947 as a memorial to war victims and a symbol of peace. Filmed in the wake of the Tohoku Earthquake of 2011\, Casting Blossoms also memorializes the victims of this natural disaster. \nDirector’s Message: \nThe ‘Nagaoka Fireworks’ is this metaphor….\n‘If the entire world’s bombs were shot to the sky as fireworks\, war would disappear’ are the words spoken by painter Yamashita Kiyoshi that reinvigorated the life of an elderly pyrotechnician. Behind the scenes\, there were people who had persistently requested to launch fireworks as a Japan-U.S. integrated memorial at Pearl Harbor. The film depicts as drama the form of those very Nagaoka City citizens’ hopes. It is a type of semi-documentary which could be called “essay cinema.” \nTwo years ago\, the “The Nagaoka Film” project was launched\, and upon completion of the script\, the earthquake of March 11th occurred. Then\, in a lodge at the foot of the Yamakoshi hills in Nagaoka\, where the scars of the Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake still linger\, the shooting script was completed. I believe that film is journalism if the ink it is written with is a person’s heart. Let us suffer\, worry\, believe in hope\, and deeply think along with film. That is what is said to be film’s power and beauty. \n-Nobuhiko Obayashi \n\nRegistration\nTo register\, please select the number of tickets and click the “register” button. Please print your ticket or show it to us on your smartphone or other device. Doors will open 30 minutes before the event. Most events at The Japan Foundation\, Toronto are free\, so it is our policy to overbook to ensure capacity. We will begin releasing unclaimed seats to the rush line 10 minutes before the start of the event. In case of a full house\, your ticket reservation may not guarantee admission. \n\n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
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LOCATION:Innis Town Hall\, 2 Sussex Ave.\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 1J5
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151128T143000
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SUMMARY:"Marugoto" Workshop for Japanese Language Teachers
DESCRIPTION:ジャパン ファウンデーション トロントでは、トロント近郊の日本語の先生方が日本語の教え方について学び合うことのできる場の提供を目指し、2015年度、全3回の日本語教師研修を実施いたします。第2回目は下記の通り『まるごと　日本のことばと文化』の開発者である来嶋洋美氏を講師に迎え、研修会を実施します。 \nなお、今回は研修終了後に懇親会を予定しております。ぜひ多くの方にご参加いただければ幸いです。 \n申込締め切り：2015年11月22日（日）（軽食手配の都合により、締め切り厳守でお願いいたします。） \nテーマ：著者による！『まるごと　日本のことばと文化』をまるごと！\n『まるごと　日本のことばと文化』は、だれでも日本語と日本の文化を気軽に楽しく学び、日本語でコミュニケーションできるようになることを目指したＪＦ日本語教育スタンダード準拠コースブックです。 \n『まるごと』が重視していることは、例えば、Can-do記述文で表す課題遂行、トピックと場面による学習の文脈化、異文化理解学習、協働学習、学習者の自律性、言語習得のプロセス、などたくさんあります。これらはすべて「相互理解のための日本語」という『まるごと』の開発理念につながるものです。 \nこの研修では、このようなことを織り交ぜながら『まるごと』の理念、特徴、使い方についてわかりやすく解説します。文型中心の教科書とはちがう日本語教育の世界を発見していただけることと思います。皆さんからのご質問やご意見も楽しみにしています。 \n研修会：午後2:30 ~ 午後5:50 \n懇親会：午後 6:00 ~ 午後8:00（軽食をご用意しております。） \n講師：来嶋洋美（国際交流基金日本語国際センター専任講師） \n講師紹介：国際交流基金日本語国際センター専任講師。日本国内外での日本語教育経験の他、イギリスでは国際交流基金ロンドン（日本語センター）でチーフアドバイザーとして日本語教育支援業務、及び中等教育向け日本語リソース「力-CHIKARA-」を開発。帰国後2010年よりJF日本語教育スタンダード準拠コースブック『まるごと　日本のことばと文化』（入門～初中級）の開発チームリーダーとして企画・設計・制作に携わる。 \n本研修に関するお問い合わせ先：齋藤典子      nsaito@jftor.org  416‐966‐1600 ext. 224 \n  \nThe Japan Foundation\, Toronto will hold three workshops this year which aim to provide a place for teachers to learn together about teaching the Japanese language. As detailed below\, the second workshop in this series will be a session hosted by Hiromi Kijima\, the chief developer of the textbook Marugoto: Japanese Language and Culture. \nAfter the workshop\, there will be a mixer that we hope many people will be able to attend. \nRegistration Deadline: Sunday November 22\, 2015. (Please understand catering cannot be guaranteed for applications received after this deadline) \nTheme: By the author! The whole of Marugoto: Japanese Language and Culture!\nMarugoto: Japanese Language and Culture\, a textbook based on the JF Standard for Japanese Language Education\, is a fun resource for anyone wanting to learn about the Japanese language and culture and striving to become able to communicate in Japanese. Marugoto places importance on students accomplishing tasks given with “Can-do” statements\, contextualized learning through topics and situations\, intercultural understanding\, collaborative learning\, learner autonomy\, and the language acquisition process\, among others. These are all connected to the concept of “Japanese for mutual understanding” which was key to the development of the book. \nWeaving in the above concepts\, in this workshop\, the foundations\, characteristics\, and use of Marugoto will be explained. We believe that you will discover a different world of Japanese language education from that of textbooks that centre on sentence patterns. We look forward to everyone’s questions and opinions. \nWorkshop: 2:30pm – 5:50pm \nMixer: 6:00pm – 8:00pm (A light meal will be served) \nInstructor: Hiromi Kijima (The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute\, Urawa) \nInstructor’s Introduction: Ms. Kijima is a full-time lecturer at the Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute\, Urawa. Beyond Japan\, she has also supported Japanese language education as the Chief Advisor at the Japan Foundation London’s Japanese Language Centre\, and developed “CHIKARA” – a Japanese language resource for secondary education. She returned to Japan\, and since 2010 has been working as the team leader in the development of the starter to pre-intermediate JF Standard based textbooks\, Marugoto: Japanese Language and Culture. \nFor inquiries about this workshop: Noriko Saito  nsaito@jftor.org or 416-966-1600 ext. 224
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/workshop2015_marugoto/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Teachers’ Workshops
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SUMMARY:Handcrafted Form: Tradition and Techniques
DESCRIPTION:People in Japan are surrounded by utilitarian craft objects that have been brought into being and nurtured within their daily lives. By making the most of the raw materials of each craft—ceramics\, textiles\, metal work\, lacquerware\, wood and bamboo work\, paper\, etc.—and contriving to use the techniques appropriate to each\, goods have been created that combine ease of use with beauty. \nFollowing the industrial revolution in the West\, Japan also saw the modernization of production during the Meiji era (1868-1912). Through the introduction of machines\, most of the craft objects that until then had been made by hand were replaced by mass-produced\, industrially manufactured goods. Alongside the mechanized production that occurred from the beginning of the Meiji era\, however\, production of hand-made craft objects continued on a smaller scale in independent\, regional workshops throughout Japan. While this workshop system fostered superior artisans\, among those workshop artisans it also gave rise to individualistic\, idiosyncratic craft artists. \nTraditional material and techniques\, rooted in the climate and landscape of every region of Japan\, produced both utilitarian craft objects made by the seasoned skills of artists and art works richly imbued with the creativity of craft artists. Artisans and artists have influenced each other. This mutual influence has contributed to the depth and high quality of Japanese craft as a whole. \nThis exhibition introduces hand crafted objects made from traditional materials with traditional techniques from all over Japan. Representative objects designated as “Traditional Craft Objects” under the Japanese government’s Traditional Manufactured Goods Law form the core of the exhibition\, supplemented by works of craft artists. \nKazuko Todate\nChief Curator\nIbaraki Ceramic Art Museum \nHandcrafted Form Exhibition Hours\n\n\n\n\n	Monday11:30 am - 6:30 pm EXTENDED HOURS\n\n\n	Tuesday11:30 am - 4:30 pm\n\n\n	Wednesday11:30 am - 4:30 pm\n\n\n	Thursday11:30 am - 6:30 pm EXTENDED HOURS\n\n\n	Friday11:30 am - 4:30 pm\n\n\n	Select Saturdays11:00 am - 4:00 pmOctober 17\, 31 November 14\, 28 December 12 January 9\n\n\n	CLOSEDOther Saturdays\, Sundays;\nNovember 11 (Remembrance Day);\nClosed for Christmas and New Year: From December 19\, 2015 to January 3\, 2016
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/handcrafted-form/2015-10-19/
LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:The Logic and Context of Conformity: Japan’s Entry into International Society
DESCRIPTION:A lecture by Prof. Tomoko Okagaki\, Dokkyo University\nPresented by The Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs\, University of Toronto; Japan Studies Association of Canada; Japan Futures Initiative\, The Japan Foundation  \nplease note new venue: Jackman Humanities Institute\, Main Floor Conference Room\, 170 St. George Street \nJapan’s 19th century entry into international society was dramatic and fraught with danger. In the four decades after being challenged to drastically alter its position in international society in 1853\, Japan reinvented itself as a modern sovereign state\, shedding its long-standing isolation and political practices. Faced with the crucial task of responding to existing Western norms of international society\, Japan’s leaders chose to conform. \nIn contrast with the majority of historically-focused inquiries\, Professor Okagaki introduces a political science perspective into the central questions of Japan’s internationalization. Why did Japan join the Western state system without voicing as much resistance as other Asian countries? How\, in turn\, did Japan’s entry affect international society? How did Japan balance international and domestic constraints and resources? What implications does the Japanese experience hold for other countries today in their encounters with prevailing international norms? \n  \n  \n  \nTomoko Okagaki is Professor of Political Science at Dokkyo University in Saitama\, Japan. She holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She was a visiting student at the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia\, and a visiting scholar at both Harvard University and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne \nProfessor Okagaki’s research interests include\, state socialization\, Asian regionalism\, and international political relations. She is the author of numerous publications including The Logic of Conformity: Japan’s Entry into International Society (2013)\, and co-translator of Kenneth Waltz’s Theory of International Politics (2011). \n  \nOchiai Yoshiiku. Picture of a Drinking Party among People of Five Countries at the Gankirô Tea House (Gokakoku Gankirô ni okeru sakamori no zu)\, 1860. IColor woodblock print\, ôban triptych\, 15 in. x 10 in. each. Prints and Photographs Division\, Library of Congress (84). (LC-USZC4-8479\, 8480\, 8481) \n 
URL:https://tr.jpf.go.jp/event/logic-of-conformity/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Main Floor Conference Room\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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