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Meet the faculty and staff of the Centre for the Study of Global Japan.
- Event Report: Innovations in Advancing Gender Equality
- EVENT REPORT: Japan: Climate Change Leader?
- Event Report: Japan’s Abenomics Reforms after Seven Years
- Event Report: Security for Japan with Junya Nishino
- Event Report: Voting Experiments in Japan with Go Murakami
- Event Report: Takako Hikotani Lecture on Japan’s ‘Value Diplomacy’ and the Rise of China
- Event Report: JAPAN NOW Lecture Series with Prof. Ryo Sahashi
- Welcome: Phillip Y. Lipscy, Inaugural Director of the CSGJ
- Welcoming Prof. Ito Peng as Affiliated Faculty
- Welcoming Prof. Kenichi Ariga as Affiliated Faculty
- Welcoming Prof. Rie Kijima as Affiliated Faculty
- Prospects for Japan’s G20 Osaka Summit: A Symposium
- EVENT REPORT: REFLECTIONS ON KAKEHASHI 2019
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Event Report: Innovations in Advancing Gender Equality
The Innovations in Advancing Gender Equality Symposium to commemorate this year’s International Women’s Day was held at the University of Toronto on March 3rd, 2020.
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EVENT REPORT: Japan: Climate Change Leader?
On March 4th, 2020, the Centre for the Study of Global Japan held a talk in order to address the question of whether or not Japan can remerge as a climate change leader. This panel was moderated by Professor Matthew...
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Event Report: Japan’s Abenomics Reforms after Seven Years
On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 the Centre for the Study of Global Japan invited Professor Takeo Hoshi from the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan. Professor Hoshi is the former Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Senior Fellow at the...
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Event Report: Security for Japan with Junya Nishino
On February 13, 2020, The Centre for the Study of Global Japan hosted a talk on Japanese foreign policy that was delivered by Junya Nishino, Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law and Politics, Keio University in Tokyo, Japan....
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Event Report: Voting Experiments in Japan with Go Murakami
On January 31, 2020, The Centre for the Study of Global Japan hosted a talk on voting experiments in Japan delivered by Go Murakami, an Associate Professor from the College of Law at Ritsumeikan University in Japan. He is currently...
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Event Report: Takako Hikotani Lecture on Japan’s ‘Value Diplomacy’ and the Rise of China
On Thursday, November 21, 2019, Takako Hikotani delivered an engaging lecture on Japanese foreign policy.
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Event Report: JAPAN NOW Lecture Series with Prof. Ryo Sahashi
On November 27, 2019, The Centre hosted the latest installment of the JAPAN NOW lecture series, featuring Prof. Ryo Sahashi of Tokyo University.
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Welcome: Phillip Y. Lipscy, Inaugural Director of the CSGJ
Professor Phillip Y. Lipscy has joined the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy as our Centre's inaugural director. He is an expert of Japanese politics and foreign policy who comes to us from Stanford University.
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Welcoming Prof. Ito Peng as Affiliated Faculty
The Centre welcomes Sociology Professor Ito Peng as affiliated faculty. She is an expert of political sociology specializing in family, gender, migration and comparative social policy.
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Welcoming Prof. Kenichi Ariga as Affiliated Faculty
We welcome Professor Kenichi Ariga, associate professor of political science, as affiliated faculty with the Centre for the Study of Global Japan. His research analyzes elections and incumbency advantage in Japan.
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Welcoming Prof. Rie Kijima as Affiliated Faculty
The Centre for the Study of Global Japan welcomes Professor Rie Kijima. Formerly a lecturer and Interim Director of the ICE/IEPA program at Stanford's Graduate School of Education, she is now an assistant professor in the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.
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Prospects for Japan’s G20 Osaka Summit: A Symposium
On May 8, 2019, the Centre for the Study of Global Japan, G20 Research Group (UofT), and the Consulate-General of Japan in Toronto presented a symposium on the upcoming G20 Osaka Summit, bringing together a range of distinguished international scholars and officials.
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EVENT REPORT: REFLECTIONS ON KAKEHASHI 2019
On Monday, April 8, 2019, ten students who participated in this year’s Kakehashi Project shared academic and personal reflections on their experiences in Japan during a roundtable presentation.
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