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HARVARD UNIVERSITY
VOLUME 14 NUMBER 1 FALL 2009
Lost in Transition:
Youth in
Postindustrial
Japan
Did you know...
• 6 new General Education courses are being
offered this year by Japanese studies faculty
with RI support.
• RI visiting faculty and postdoctoral fellows
at the Reischauer Institute and the Program
on U.S.-Japan Relations are offering 6 new
courses this year, including courses in
anthropology, government, and history.
Reischauer Institute Boosts
Harvard’s Curriculum with
Twelve Courses in 2009-10
• RI funded or facilitated the travel to Japan
of 96 Harvard College students, from 26
concentrations, in 2008-09 and Summer 2009.
Among this group 43% were concentrators in
math, the sciences, engineering, or economics.
• The 23 Harvard College students who held
Summer 2009 internships ranked their overall
experience 4.6 on a 5-point scale. The diverse
internships took students to an antiquarian
bookstore, politicial offices and campaign
trails, an art museum, consulting firms, an
international film festival, and a professional
baseball team, among others.
• Harvard now offers 3 summer school programs
in Japan, including a humanities-focused
program that has been held in Tokyo and
2 science programs at the RIKEN Brain
Science Institute in Saitama and at the RIKEN
Research Center for Allergy and Immunology
in Yokohama.
“Save the Princess” by Jonathan Cheng‘11, Psychology. Harvard Summer School Best Photo, 5th Annual Harvard College International Photo Contest
• During the past four years enrollment in
Japanese language study at Harvard has
increased 30 percent.
• Last year, RI gave 41 awards to Harvard
graduate students for dissertation completion
and production, summer language study,
research in Japan, and conference travel.
• Harvard has 31 Japanese studies faculty,
making it one of the largest Japanese studies
centers in the world. Last year, there were
more than 75 courses on Japan or with
significant content on Japan.
• Last year RI organized and/or supported
over 75 seminars, collaborative study projects,
workshops, conferences, symposia, research
projects, and film screenings.
• RI has 178 scholars and experts on Japan
in the greater New England community as
RI Associates in Research.
While the Reischauer Institute regularly contributes to Harvard’s curriculum through supporting
courses that focus on or include Japan in a significant way, this past year the Institute made an
all-out effort and worked with faculty to develop 12 course offerings for 2009-10.
Six of the offerings are RI-sponsored courses in the new General Education (Gen Ed) Curriculum
that replaces the Core Curriculum. This year’s freshman class (’13) is the first to be covered by the
Gen Ed program, with students expected to take one course in each of the eight Gen Ed categories.
The importance of having the curriculum in place for this academic year led to a major push across
the faculty to create new and exciting courses. RI responded to this need by providing incentives to
Harvard faculty through its Curriculum Enrichment Program to develop Gen Ed courses that deal
with Japan-related themes.
All six courses are being taught this year (see list on page 10). Some of them, including “Asia and
the Making of the Modern World,” “Inequality in Society in 21st Century East Asia,” and
“Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe,” cover broad themes. Others, such as
“Buddhism and Japanese Culture” and “Tokyo,” deal specifically with Japan.
The Japanese studies faculty offering RI-sponsored Gen Ed courses include Theodore C. Bestor,
Anthropology; Mary C. Brinton, Sociology; Andrew Gordon, History; and Shigehisa Kuriyama and
Ryuichi Abé, East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
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From the Director
Dear Friends,
Like universities across the United States, Harvard struggles with the aftermath of the global
financial meltdown of fall 2008. This has meant mandated budget reductions and, among other
things, calls on the various international and regional centers to use their resources to help the
university through the crisis. The challenge is to respond in ways that uphold the centers’ missions
and that honor commitments made in the past. The larger goal, from my standpoint, is preserving
and advancing international studies at Harvard.
Photo: Martha Stewart
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EDWIN O. REISCHAUER
INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES
Center for Government & International Studies
South Building
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
P 617.495.3220 F 617.496.8083
A major purpose of the Reischauer Institute from its origins over three decades ago has been to
promote research on Japan, and we continue to pursue that aim in a variety of ways. Through the
years, the Institute has also sought to give Harvard College students a chance to experience Japan.
The big area of change over the past 5-6 years has been the sheer amount of energy and resources
we’ve put into this latter mission, which we advance in two main ways. First, we created a
Curriculum Enrichment Program that works with Harvard faculty to develop undergraduate courses.
These need not deal entirely with Japan; indeed, we see great merit in courses that focus on broad
themes and include other countries. Our efforts at curriculum enrichment have produced a banner
crop this year, withan all-time high of 12 RI-sponsored courses, 6 of them in the new General
Education Curriculum. The other push has been to boost dramatically the number of Harvard
College students we help get to Japan. With almost 100 Harvard undergraduates in Japan last year,
we set a record on that score as well.
There is additional good news. Harvard’s President, Drew Faust, will make her first-ever trip to Japan
next March over spring break, visiting Kyoto and Tokyo. David Howell, currently of Princeton
University, will join the senior faculty next fall in the Department of East Asian Languages and
Civilizations (EALC). A leading scholar of the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, he is a huge addition to
Japanese studies at Harvard. And Melissa McCormick, whose work bridges premodern Japanese art
and literature, was promoted to Harvard’s senior ranks in EALC this past July. We rejoice at both
appointments.
[email protected]
www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs
© 2009 President and Fellows of Harvard College
SUSAN J. PHARR, DIRECTOR
Kodansha Ltd. Celebrates 100 Years
Kodansha Ltd. is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, commemorating its founding
in 1909 by Mr. Seiji Noma. The Reischauer Institute extends warm congratulations to
Kodansha and to its President and CEO, Mrs. Sawako Noma.
Since 1995, the Reischauer Institute has been honored to participate with Kodansha Ltd.
in hosting the annual Edwin O. Reischauer/Kodansha Commemorative Symposium at the
Reischauer/Kodansha House, Ambassador Reischauer’s former home. The event this year
was held on Friday, October 16th. On this very special occasion, Akira Iriye, Charles
Warren Research Professor of American History, gave the Symposium address, speaking
on “Transnational Japan.” Representing Kodansha were Mr. Ryu Yamane, Vice President,
from Kodansha Ltd. (Tokyo), Mr. Yoichi Kimata, Senior Vice President, from Kodansha
America, LLC, and Ms. Tomoe Sumi, Project Manager, also from Kodansha America, LLC.
From left: Yoichi Kimata, Susan Pharr, Kathryn Handlir, Audrey Ji-eun Kim,
Ryu Yamane, and Akira Iriye
The Symposium has also been the occasion of the awarding of the Noma-Reischauer Essay Prizes in Japanese Studies, which Kodansha established in 1995
to be presented annually for the best essay written by a Harvard College student and the top essay by a Harvard graduate student, on a topic relating to Japan.
Mr. Yamane presented the awards to the recipients of this year's prizes: Ms. Audrey Ji-eun Kim, A.B. '09, History, for her essay, "Crediting Empire: Politics,
Policies, and Perceptions of Japan in the London Bond Market, 1900-1914," and Ms. Kathryn Handlir, A.M. '09, Regional Studies-East Asia program, for her
essay, "Fads, Brands, and Fashion Spreads: Print Culture and the Making of Kimono in Early Modern Japan."
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Edwin Cranston Honored by Japanese Government
Professor of Japanese Literature Edwin A. Cranston was decorated by the Japanese
government in April with the distinguished Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
for his contribution to introducing classical Japanese literature to the people of the United
States and other parts of the world, and for nurturing young Japanologists. Professor Cranston
has dedicated himself to the study and teaching of Japanese literature at Harvard University for
the past 44 years. He is a master of Japanese waka, 31-syllable poems, of which he has
translated thousands from texts both ancient and medieval. Among his publications are A Waka
Anthology Volume One: The Gem-Glistening Cup (1993) and A Waka Anthology Volume Two:
Grasses of Remembrance (2006), which won the Modern Language Association’s Lois Roth
Award. He also received the prestigious Yamagata Banto Prize in Osaka in 2008 for his
accomplishments in Japanese poetry translation. Professor Cranston’s most recent work is
entitled The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame (2008). Many young Japanese literature
specialists mentored by Professor Cranston have gone on to further Japanese literature
scholarship and instruction through academic posts at major universities in the United States
and abroad. For his dedication and accomplishments, the Japanese government recognized
Professor Cranston as “a most worthy recipient of this distinguished award.”
Edwin Cranston (center) with Consul General Masaru Tsuji and
Fumiko Cranston
2009-10 Visiting Faculty
CHRISTOPHER W. HUGHES
TOMIKO YODA
Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor of Japanese Studies,
Department of Government
Visiting Associate Professor of Japanese Humanities,
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Christopher Hughes is Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies in the
Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK. He has
previously held posts at Hiroshima University, University of Tokyo, the International
Institute for Strategic Studies, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, and
The Free University of Berlin. He holds degrees from the universities of Oxford (BA and
MA), Rochester (MA), and Sheffield (MA and Ph.D.). He has authored several books
and numerous articles focusing on themes of Japanese government, politics, and
international relations, and since 2000 he has been co-editor of the journal The Pacific
Review.
Professor Hughes’s research to date has focused on Japan’s security and defense
policy; Japan’s international relations and grand strategy, with a particular interest in
East Asian regionalism, Japan-North Korea relations, Sino-Japanese relations, and the
U.S.-Japan alliance; and the study of security in the Asia-Pacific and globally. At
Harvard, he will concentrate on research projects dealing with changing civilian control
in Japan; Japan’s response to the nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula; Japan’s free
trade agreement strategy in East Asia; and Japan and Ballistic Missile Defense.
Courses: Japan and East Asian Security (fall); Asia-Pacific Security (spring)
Tomiko Yoda is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern
Studies and Program in Literature at Duke University, with an affiliation in the
Program in Women’s Studies. She has taught at Cornell University, where she was
Visiting Assistant Professor in 2002-03, and at Stanford University, where she
received her Ph.D. in Japanese in 1996.
Professor Yoda’s research focuses on modern and premodern Japanese literature,
literary history, and literary theory; Japanese intellectual history; issues of gender
in contemporary Japan; and feminist theory. She is the author of Gender and
National Literature: Heian Texts and the Constructions of
Japanese Modernity (Duke, 2004) and co-editor with Harry
Harootunian of Japan After Japan: Social and Cultural Life
from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present (Duke, 2006). She
has published articles in edited volumes and journals in both
Japanese and English on topics of gender issues in
contemporary Japanese economy and culture; Japanese
literary studies; and the intersection of the two. Her
forthcoming work, “Girl Time: Gender and Postmodern
Consumer Culture in Japan,” examines gender construction in
post-1960s Japanese consumer culture.
Courses: Introduction to Japanese Animation (fall); Girl Culture, Media, and Japan
(spring); and Gender, Nation, and Japanese Literature (spring)
Melissa McCormick Promoted to Professor of Japanese Art and Culture
In Spring 2009 Melissa McCormick became Professor of Japanese Art and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. An art
historian with an interdisciplinary perspective, Professor McCormick’s research focuses on the relationship of pictorial form to social history and contexts
of artistic production. Her recent book, Tosa Mitsunobu and the Small Scroll in Medieval Japan, studies the relationship of scale and format to pictorial
representation and literary genre, while providing a social and cultural history of aristocratic society in late fifteenth-century Kyoto. Professor McCormick
teaches undergraduate and graduate seminars on narrative scrolls, the art of kami worship, Genji painting, the arts of Asia, and gender and Japanese art.
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2009-10 Reischauer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellows
2009-10 RI Visiting
Scholars
Daniel Botsman
University of North Carolina
Liberation in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Raja Adal, Ph.D.
Harvard University, 2009
After earning his B.A. at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Raja Adal studied in Japan for
seven years, completing an M.A. in International Relations at the International
University of Japan in Niigata and beginning doctoral studies at Kyoto University. In
2002, he began work in comparative history at Harvard University, where he received his
Ph.D. in 2009.
At the Reischauer Institute, Dr. Adal will revise his dissertation for publication and conduct preliminary
research for a new project on the global history of the typewriter. His dissertation, “Nationalizing Aesthetics:
Art Education in Japan and Egypt, 1872-1950,” examines the birth of modern art education in Japan and
Egypt, tracing how drawing and calligraphy education were transformed from instruction in functional skills
to training in artistic practices and in the development of shared aesthetic tastes. In teaching drawing and
calligraphy, as well as music, Japanese and Egyptian educators tried to shape not only the understanding of
pupils, but their desires. This quest to influence children’s hearts inaugurated the global era of aesthetic
modernity, when nation-building called for controlling the desires of the citizenry.
Course: Asian and African Encounters with Empire, Dept. of History (fall)
Yongdo Kim
Hosei University
Manufacturing Industries in Japan and the U.S.
Takako Kishima
Waseda University
Gendering International Relations in the Asia-Pacific
Yuji Nasu
Saga University
The Japanese Constitution and the System of Regional
Government
Nobuhiro Nishitakatsuji
Kokugakuin University and Daizaifu
Tenmangu Shrine
Shinto in History, Art, and Cultural Activities
Tomoko Tsuno Okagaki
National Institute for Defense Studies,
Japan Ministry of Defense
Japan and the Institutionalization of the Sovereign
State System
Michael Fisch, Ph.D.
Columbia University, 2008
Dr. Michael Fisch conducted his graduate studies at Columbia University, earning his
Ph.D. in Anthropology in 2008. He has taught in the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Sophia
University in Tokyo and in the East Asian Studies Department at New York University,
and he has published on such diverse topics as the fiction of Murakami Haruki, chapel
weddings in Japan, and the 2005 Japanese media phenomenon The Train Man.
He is interested in modernity in Japan from the perspective of the evolution of mass mediated society,
circa 1900, and the development of mass society theory. His work in these areas forms the theoretical
underpinning for his research into new media and new forms of social organization and political
representation. Dr. Fisch’s dissertation, “On the Train: An Anthropology of the Technosocial in Contemporary
Japan,” examines the commuter train network in Tokyo and Osaka as site and apparatus for the organization
of urban life. A central argument of his dissertation is that an emerging relationship between the train and
the Internet is reshaping the commuting experience and culture surrounding Japan’s commuter train network.
Course: The Culture Machine: Youth Culture, Networks, and Commodities in East Asia, Dept. of Anthropology,
(spring)
Hiroshi Onitsuka
Iida City Institute of Historical Research
Modern Japanese Economic History and Politics
Ken’ichi Sasaki
Meiji University
Keyhole-shaped Mounds and Japanese State
Formation
Kiyotaka Uzaki
Oita University
Impact of Investment in Innovation on the Value of
Japanese and U.S. companies
2009-10 RI Graduate
Student Associates
Mikael Bauer
East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC)
Deborah Baxt Solomon, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, 2009
Dr. Deborah Solomon received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, in 2009, and she is a joint postdoctoral fellow of the Reischauer Institute and
Korea Institute. She studies the Japanese colonization of Korea and focuses specifically
on anti-Japanese Korean student activism during the colonial period. Her dissertation,
“Imperial Lessons: Discourses of Domination and Dissent in the 1929 Kwangju Student
Protests,” examines the relationships among language, power, and public space in two student protest
movements that both originated in the southwestern city of Kwangju in colonial Korea. “Imperial Lessons”
combines retrospective personal narratives and contemporary documentary sources to analyze how colonialera Korean student protest was enacted, witnessed, repressed, and remembered by differently-positioned
actors.
During the 2009-10 academic year, Dr. Solomon plans to explore further how colonial rule and student
resistance evolved in complex and mutually constitutive ways throughout the colonial period in Korea. She
will also study the connections and continuities between colonial-era student unrest and post-colonial social
protest on the Korean peninsula. Beginning in Fall 2010, Dr. Solomon will join the Department of History and
Political Science at Otterbein College as an Assistant Professor of Asian History.
Japanese and Chinese Buddhism in premodern Japan
William Fleming
EALC
Morishima Churyo and the Development of Late Edo
Fiction
Kyong-Mi Kwon
EALC
Korean Literature under Japanese Rule, 1930-1945
Regan Murphy
Religion
Buddhism and Kokugaku during the Tokugawa
Period (1600-1868)
Hiromu Nagahara
History
Rise of the Japanese Popular Music Industry and its
Critics, 1927-1955
Yongwook Ryu
Government
Identity Politics and Interstate Conflicts in East Asia,
1980-2008
Fumitaka Wakamatsu
Anthropology
Scientific Whaling in Japan: Ecology, Science, and
Cultural Nationalism
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Ruiko Connor Retires
and Offers her Reflections
After 23 years of working at Harvard University, Ruiko Connor retired in the summer of 2009.
At a reception in her honor on June 24th, Ruiko offered the following remarks.
The nature of the work I do could be placed in almost any context, but I am very glad that, when I had a chance thirteen years ago to return to work at Harvard, I came back to work
for the faculty in the area of my first “real job” when I was on my own after college.
Even while I was away from Harvard, I always remembered the faculty and staff for whom I had first worked, many of whom are here today – Professors Craig, Hibbett, Cranston,
Vogel, Kuno, Katayama, Rosenfield, and Professor Rosovsky (who was Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences during that time). In returning, I thought that with the skills I had
gained through subsequent work experience, I could be more helpful to them than before. But with the passage of time, many of them had retired from active teaching and administrative duties. Now it was my peers in age who were taking a lead in continuing the work of the Institute – Susan Pharr, Andrew Gordon, and Helen Hardacre. Knowing their
excellence, vision, and energy, and sharing common experiences of our generation, it meant a lot to me to work with them.
I am grateful to all our Reischauer Institute and Japan faculty for your constant help and kindness. I value and respect greatly what you do as scholars, teachers, and administrators; and in your private lives, your commitments – of which I am very aware – to human rights, the community, and the world.
And, Ted, Stacie, Margot, Mary, Montana, and Jenn, my staff colleagues, you have been at the center of my life for so long…the ones I see soon after awaking each morning and
work with all day, year after year, as a team. Likewise, colleagues in many departments; the Harvard-M.I.T. Data Center staff and Academic Technology Group, who have given me
the best IT education on the job; colleagues from the other Asia centers; Davis Center; our passionate cousins in Latin American studies; library colleagues; the AV team; the CGIS
operations team…you have all been at the heart of my working life.
Our students & postdoctoral fellows – our future, our great care – you bring great energy and creativity of thought, which perpetually invigorate us, and keep our minds young.
I think I will miss that the most. Work hard and aim for the best in everything you do. And, our visiting scholars. You bring the world to us here in Cambridge and share so much.
I do not mean to categorize everyone, but, in the various roles we assume, there are significant working relationships – and you know what they are.
Everyone has asked “what will you do now?” Well, a few months ago, I did not expect that my life would be fast forwarded like this. In our office, we were busily planning for the
summer and the start of the fall term. But with sudden critical choices to make, I could not treat them lightly. I love the work I do and the people I work with; and, as Susan remarked,
I am “too young to retire.” And so it was very difficult. But, family obligations – especially the care of my elderly mother – finally drove my decision. I know that many of you have
been in the same situation. It was my desire to be the good daughter – my last chance to carry out my filial duties and to do it right.
In 1950, my father’s future Harvard Medical School mentor, Professor David G. Cogan, went to Hiroshima as a member of a committee of the Atomic Energy Commission to study
radiation-induced cataracts. He later asked a Japanese colleague to recommend a young pathologist to help him in his research. In 1952, my father, then a young doctor and
junior faculty member teaching at Kyushu University, came to Boston for a trial year at the Harvard Medical School, in the Howe Laboratory of Ophthalmology. He was invited to
stay on. So, in 1954, my mother, younger sister, and I joined him here. It was hard, because of the restrictions on immigration then in effect. We were first denied a visa by the
American consulate in Kobe, but Dr. Cogan asked Senator Leverett Saltonstall to facilitate the process. I was 5 1/2 years old when I came.
It turned out to be a productive almost 40-year working relationship for the two scientists, Cogan and Kuwabara (at Harvard and later at the National Institutes of Health), and my
life became totally Americanized; it was a time when assimilation was expected. It has been hard for me to be truly transnational, but, all of you in the Japan field are my links.
I have eagerly absorbed all that you research, teach, and do.
Now I will have a little moratorium to take stock of my life; resuscitate long-ago projects related to my interests in art and words; visit Lamont Library to listen to recordings of
poetry – something I have been meaning to do for years during lunch hours, but have not yet done. Then, with fresh energy, I certainly plan to assume another mini-career for as
long as possible. So this is my opportunity to re-energize. If only we could have a thousand lives to do all the things we want to do. It makes me respect, even more, the focused
dedication all of you have toward your work; sometimes I wonder how you can actually do all the things I see you doing – it’s remarkable.
As we continue with our own life’s travels, as we must, I hope we will always keep a connection. It has been a tremendous privilege to work with everyone here. Thank you for all
you do and, today, for coming inspite of the rain to wish me well. Know that I will always wish the same for you. Thank you so much!
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Harvard Japan Summer 2009 Programs
H A R VA R D J A P A N S U M M E R I N T E R N S H I P P R O G R A M
Photo: Peter Bernard, East Asian Studies ‘11
When P E T E R B E R N A R D, EAST ASIAN STUDIES ’11 thought about spending the 2009 summer in Japan,
he probably never imagined that the environment in which he eventually landed would match so closely
his interest in Japanese literature. On an internship at The Isseido Booksellers, one of Japan’s most
illustrious antiquarian bookstores, Peter spent the summer preparing shipments of rare volumes for
far-flung libraries, helping out with translation issues when necessary, working the front desk, and
fielding questions from customers. He also accompanied the storeowner to rare book auctions, where
he learned first-hand about the antiquarian book business. Throughout, he was able to hone his
understanding of Izumi Kyoka (1873-1939), an acclaimed author and playwright, in whom he is very
interested, even viewing some of Kyoka’s first edition works in the store.
Peter Bernard with Takehiko Sakai, President of
The Isseido Booksellers
In contrast, K E V I N M A R T I N E Z , EAST ASIAN STUDIES ’11 spent his summer internship in the Mitoyo
City government in rural Shikoku. There he assisted the local government in conducting cultural exchange
between the U.S. and Japan, while conducting his own research into the role of the local government
in providing support for foreign workers and initiating green policies. Mitoyo’s aging population has
produced a labor shortage that has forced local agricultural and produce companies to seek foreign
workers, mostly from China and the Philippines. As part of his internship research, Kevin investigated the
complex relationships among these laborers, their companies, the local police force, and the city government. As the number of foreigners living and working in Japan continues to increase, Mitoyo City serves
as an interesting window into Japan’s demographic and immigration trends.
Photo: Sorina Codrea, Government and Economics ‘12
These glimpses of Harvard student internships in Japan barely begin to describe the diversity of
experience collected this summer. Twenty-three students held internships in fields ranging from
venture capital finance to break dancing, from professional baseball management to museum
administration.
Many student interns seem to make some deep connections with Japanese people and culture.
R A C H E L S T O R C H, FOLKLORE AND MYTHOLOGY ’10 writes the following:
Showa Women’s University interns Sorina Codrea and Rachel
Storch (second and third from left) participate in a woodblock print
workshop
I lived in a dormitory provided by Showa Women’s University. It was wonderful experiencing the
student life of my Japanese peers. I ate dinner every night in the dorm cafeteria, with the girls
mocking my inexperienced use of chopsticks and my strange tendency to put soy sauce on rice.
I made friends with some of the girls in my dorm and I went out shopping in Shibuya with them.
I study Meiji Era [1868-1912] Shinto at Harvard, so I really enjoyed spending my free time and
weekends visiting Shinto shrines. Meiji Jingu in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park became one of my favorite
spots to go and sit. I enjoyed just being surrounded by the beautiful early 1900s shrine architecture
and watching people, both Japanese and foreign, stream past the altar.
H A R VA R D S U M M E R S C H O O L J A P A N
Students seeking a more structured summer experience in Japan continue to opt for the Harvard Summer
School Programs. Eighteen Harvard College students were joined by eight students from other universities enrolled in for-credit Harvard-run programs this summer. Two programs in RIKEN laboratories gave
students a mix of hands-on lab experience and lecture courses: the RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Program ran for the second straight year, and the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology
made its debut as a for-credit opportunity for science concentrators.
Photo: LeVan Nguyen, Applied Math ‘11
The Harvard Summer School Program at Waseda ran for the third consecutive year, placing students in
homestays and offering two Harvard course credits. In courses with Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama
(“Medicine and the Body in East Asia and in Europe”) and Professor Mikael Adolphson (“Constructing the
Samurai”), the students made good use of local museums and historical sites to take a more hands-on
approach to their subjects. Each evening, sharing the experience with millions of Japanese commuters,
they returned home to their host families. One student enthused soon after the program ended:
Japanese language students Romeo Alexander
(Mathematics ‘11), LeVan Nguyen (Applied Math ‘11),
and Brandon Silverman (‘12) relax during an excursion
to a hot springs resort
[T]he program changed my life, and I am indebted to everyone who made it happen. It was
fantastic, every memory was important and enlightening, and I miss everyone already.
36 pounds lost, 3000 pictures taken, Japanese augmented sevenfold, massive amounts of
knowledge gained, and hundreds of new connections, sights and sounds made. A complete
success in my mind.
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I n to ta l , 96 s tu d e n ts fr o m
26 c o n c e n tr a ti o n s w e n t to
Japan last sum m er and
a c a d e m i c y e a r.
Photo: Ada Lio, Economics ‘11
T h e Ha r v a rd J a p a n Su m m e r
P r o g r a m s c o n ti n u e to
e n c o u r a g e s tu d e n ts to
d r e a m b i g , to i m a g i n e th e
i m p o s s i b l e , a n d to p u r s u e
w h a te v e r i n s p i r e s th e m .
Harvard Summer School students and summer interns prepare for a chilly overnight hike up Mt. Fuji
H A R VA R D J A P A N E S E L A N G U A G E P R O G R A M S
Fourteen students went to Japan to study Japanese language. Most of them enrolled in the Princeton in
Ishikawa Program (in Kanazawa) or the Hokkaido International Foundation Program. Both programs offer
intensive language instruction and homestay opportunities. The immersive nature of these programs
often allows students to advance a level when they return to campus to study Japanese.
Photo: Brandon Silverman, Chemistry ‘12
S E N I O R T H E S I S R E S E A R C H T R AV E L G R A N T S
Senior thesis research is another reason why Harvard students travel to Japan for the summer. Three
students were awarded Reischauer Institute Henry Rosovsky Undergraduate Summer Research Travel
Grants for summer 2009: K Y L E H E C H T , GOVERNMENT ’10, M A RI E K O D A M A , SOCIAL STUDIES ’10,
and Y O O N J I N L E E , ECONOMICS ’11.
Japanese language student Brandon Silverman (‘12)
leads an international group in the Hyakumangoku
Festival parade in Kanazawa
Hecht’s research typified the experience. Titled “Peace, Protest, and Politics: The Article 9 Movement and
Interest Group Advocacy in Japan,” his project deals with grassroots activism and civil society in Japan.
In particular, he focuses on the movement against revision of the war-renouncing Article 9 of the
Japanese constitution. His research was primarily interview-based. He spoke with representatives from
fifteen different groups regarding their organizations’ origins, activities, memberships, and funding, as
well as their personal reasons for getting involved in peace advocacy. Hecht found his experience to be
challenging and rewarding:
Photo: Mikael Adolphson, Harvard Summer School Japan faculty
Save for one instance in which the interviewee responded to my request with
disbelief and demanded that I show him my student identification upon arriving
at his office (the man turned out to be … the former president of his university’s Committee on Personal Information), everything proceeded smoothly. Of the
solicitations I sent out, probably only 15 percent were responded to, but in the
end I was able to speak with most of the groups that I was interested in. I
found, actually, that as my interviews continued I was building a larger network
of personal connections among members of this movement, and it was thanks
to some of those connections that I was able to gain access to two of my more
compelling interviewees.
In total, 96 students from 26 concentrations went to Japan last summer and
academic year. The Harvard Japan Summer Programs continue to encourage
students to dream big, to imagine the impossible, and to pursue whatever
inspires them.
Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama (back row, fourth from left) and Harvard Summer School
students visit Toshogu Shrine in Nikko National Park
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Japan’s Lost Generation
The following is a synopsis of Professor Mary C. Brinton’s book published in Japanese by
NTT Shuppansha in November 2008. The English version of the book, titled
Lost in Transition: Youth, Jobs, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan is forthcoming
from Cambridge University Press.
Lost in Transition: Youth, Jobs, and Instability in Postindustrial Japan tells
the story of Japan’s “lost generation,” the generation that came of age in
the country’s deep economic recession of the 1990s. The book’s central
argument is that Japan is in the midst of profound changes that have
had an especially strong impact on the young generation. These
changes are structural ones: the so-called “permanent employment
system” has unraveled for young workers and has been replaced by
temporary and insecure forms of employment. Moreover, Japan’s
much-admired system of moving young people smoothly from school
to work has frayed. The book argues that these changes have brought
about a loosening of youth’s attachment to school as the launching pad
that will guarantee their successful entry into the world of work, and a
loosening of youth’s attachment to the workplace as a source of identity
and security. A central theme of the book is that instead of labeling
Japanese young people as “parasite singles,” a phrase made popular by a
1999 best-seller by a Japanese sociologist, their attitudes and behaviors
need to be interpreted in the context of the fundamental structural
changes that have created a very different economic and social environment than the one their parents faced when they were young.
While acknowledging that young people are facing difficult employment circumstances in many postindustrial societies, Brinton makes
the case that the proliferation of more unstable and insecure forms of
employment in the postindustrial landscape has had a particularly
strong impact in Japan. There are two reasons for this. First, faced with
difficult financial circumstances in the 1990s, most Japanese companies
acted to preserve the jobs of middle-aged men and to drastically reduce
entry-level hiring. The
result was that young
people bore a disproportionate share of the
burden imposed by
economic restructuring
compared with countries such as the U.S.
Second, postwar
Japanese society had
unusually strong norms
dictating the timing
and sequence of life
events marking the
successful transition to
adulthood.
As many young people in the 1990s lost the opportunity, desire, or
ability to conform to these norms, they experienced a deeper sense of
confusion and alienation from mainstream society than is the case in
other societies that have had a greater range of normatively acceptable
pathways into adulthood. This has been especially true for less-educated youth, and the Chapter 1 briefly explains why economic inequality
is widening among the younger generation.
Chapter 2 lays out the ways that the central institutions of school and
work had structured individuals’ human capital development and life
course in the decades leading up to Japan’s plunge into economic
recession in the 1990s. It shows how starkly Japan and the U.S. have
contrasted historically in terms of the job-seeking process for young
men. In the U.S., young men assume they must rely on non-institutional “weak ties” in their search for work rather than on their academic
institutions, whereas in Japan, young men have relied on “institutional
social capital,” that is, introductions to employers by schools. As
Japanese young people’s access to this institutional social capital has
declined over the past fifteen years because of weakening ties between
schools and employers, the hitherto smooth school-to-work transition
that was guaranteed for most young people has crumbled. This has
hurt high school graduates the most, and economic inequality
generated by educational disparities is widening in the younger generation. This chapter lays the foundation for the discussion in Chapter 3
of the lower levels of overall interpersonal trust in Japan compared to
the U.S., which has made it difficult for Japanese young people to
develop the ability to call upon weak ties in their job search efforts.
Professor Mary Brinton and students in her Graduate Seminar in General Education “Comparative Institutions and
Inequality: East Asia”
Entry into a stable
full-time job is of
particular economic
importance in Japan,
and Chapter 3
describes why young
people have become
less able to rely on
school as an institution
that will guide them
into the workplace
through its connections
with local employers.
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Brinton draws on in-depth interviews with high school teachers and
employers to show how they conceptualize the recruitment process and
its changes in “post-bubble” Japan. She also discusses high school
students’ increasing participation in part-time jobs while they are still
in school and its effect on their independence and defiance of teachers’
authority. The latter part of the chapter outlines why the navigation of
the labor market using personal ties rather than institutional connections
is such new terrain for the “lost generation,” given the traditionally low
levels of interpersonal trust in Japan.
Macro-level changes in 1990s Japan that led to the weakening of high
school-employer ties are illustrated in Chapter 4. This is the decade
when the school-to-work system began seriously to deteriorate. The
chapter uses graduate placement data to illuminate differences among
high schools, with “low-quality academic high schools experiencing
greater deterioration in their relationships with employers compared to
industrial vocational schools.
In Chapter 5, Brinton uses unusually detailed recruitment data from the
Yokohama-Kawasaki area to show how the stratification of high schools
is related to very different outcomes for their graduates, based on the
amount of attention showered on them by employers recruiting new
employees. The findings complement the argument in Chapter 4 that
low-ranking academic high school graduates have fared considerably
worse in the 1990s and beyond than vocational high school graduates.
A comparison of how employers in the U.S. and Japan evaluate students’
part-time jobs and other more informal experiences such as community
participation appears in Chapter 6. Brinton examines the relative
narrowness of experience and qualifications considered “valid” by
Japanese employers and the difficulties this narrowness presents to the
young generation. The chapter focuses on the contrast in norms and
values between the more mobile American workforce and the traditionally more stable Japanese workforce and argues that a postindustrial
economy requires greater flexibility on the part of both employers and
jobseekers. Developing this flexibility is one of Japan’s current challenges.
The concluding chapter sketches the scenarios for what might come
next for Japan’s younger generation and the generation that follows it.
In doing so, the chapter articulates some of the challenges that
postindustrial economies and — recessionary periods in those economies
— pose for young workers, especially those with the least education.
The chapter returns to a view of Japan in a comparative context and
summarizes the particular challenges Japan faces in the globalized
21st-century environment.
New and Forthcoming Books on Japan
Harvard University Asia Center Publications Program
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/publications/pubs.htm
Christopher Bolton
James Dorsey
Robert I. Hellyer
The Fictional Science
and Scientific Fiction of
Abe Kobo
Critical Aesthetics:
Kobayashi Hideo,
Modernity, and
Wartime Japan
Defining Engagement:
Japan and Global
Contexts, 1640-1868
Lori Watt
Karen Laura Thornber
Christopher Gerteis
When Empire Comes
Home: Repatriation
and Reintegration in
Postwar Japan
Empire of Texts in
Motion: Chinese,
Korean, and Taiwanese
Transculturations of
Japanese Literature
Gender Struggles:
Wage-Earning Women
and Male-Dominated
Unions in Postwar
Japan
Dustjackets design: Jeff Cosloy
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ライシャワー
レ ポー ト
Reischauer Institute Boosts Harvard’s Curriculum
with Twelve Courses in 2009-10
ライシャワー研究所は 2009-10 年度のハーバード
のカリキュラムに12の講座を設けました
continued
続き
Professor Kuriyama, who also teaches in History of Science and is
known for his teaching innovations involving new media technologies,
is offering two Gen Ed courses this year. His ideas about teaching are
featured in the November-December 2009 issue of Harvard Magazine
栗山教授は、新しいメディア技術を使う教授法を取り入れながら、
科学史学科でも教鞭をとり、本年度のGenEdで2つの講座を教えて
います。彼の教授法は、ハーバード・マガジン11・12月号版
(http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/new-media-transform-college-classes).
(http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/11/new-media-transform-college-classes)
に掲載されています。
In addition to developing courses for the Gen Ed program, the
Institute brings visitors to Harvard who, while devoting a large part of
their time to research, also contribute in the classroom. This academic
year, Edwin O. Reischauer Visiting Professor Christopher W. Hughes,
Professor of International Politics and Japanese Studies at Warwick
University, is offering two courses in the Government Department.
A noted specialist on the international relations of East Asia and
Japanese security, Professor Hughes will offer a lecture course in Spring
2010 called “Asia-Pacific Security,” which is expected to be a major
draw for undergraduates and graduate students. Continuing tensions
over a nuclear North Korea, a rising China, and a newly-elected government in Japan that is reconsidering Japan’s security posture in the
region all kindle interest in the topic.
GenEdプログラムの講座を創設したのに加え、当研究所は、研究に
多くの時間を割きながらも授業にも貢献できる客員教授をハーバ
ードに招待しています。本年度は、エドウィン・ライシャワー客
員教授として、ウォーウィック大学のクリストファー・ヒュー教
授（国際政治・日本研究）が政治学部で2つの講座を教えていま
す。ヒュー教授は、東アジアの国際関係と日本の安全保障に関す
る著名な専門家であり、2010年春学期には「アジア－太平洋安全
保障」と題した講義を行います。北朝鮮の核問題や中国の進出など
で緊張関係が続くなか、日本の新政権は東アジアでの安全保障対
策を再考していることからも、この講義の題は興味深く、多くの学
部生と大学院生にとって魅力的なものとなると期待しています。
Other innovative courses are being offered by Reischauer Institute
Postdoctoral Fellows. This semester Raja Adal, a recent Ph.D. recipient
from Harvard’s History Department, is teaching the course, “Asian and
African Encounters with Empire.” In the spring, Michael Fisch will
offer a lecture course in the Anthropology Department called, “The
Culture Machine: Youth Culture, Networks and Commodities in East
Asia.” Other undergraduate courses are being taught with RI support
by this year’s two Advanced Research Fellows of the Program on U.S.Japan Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs:
Kay Shimizu, assistant professor at Columbia University, is offering a
lecture course, “The Political Economy of Japan,” while Kenneth Haig
will teach “Comparative Politics of Immigrations and Citizenship.”
Both of these courses are part of the Government Department’s
curriculum.
他にはライシャワー研究所のポスト・ドクトリアル・フェローも、
斬新な講座を教えています。昨年ハーバード大学歴史学科で博士
号を取得したラジャ・アダルは、
「アジア・アフリカにおける帝国
との遭遇」という講座を今学期教えています。また春学期には、
マイケル・フィッシュが「文化の機械：東アジアの若者文化、
ネットワーク、商品」という講義を人類学部で教える予定でいま
す。他にも、ウェザーヘッドセンター国際問題研究所の日米関係
プログラムに上級研究員として本年度在籍している2人の教授も
当研究所の支援を受けた授業を担当しています。清水啓コロンビ
ア大学準教授は、
「日本の政治経済」という講義を行い、ケネス・
ヘイグは、
「移民と市民権の比較政治学」という講座を教えてい
ます。2 つの講座は政治学部のカリキュラムに入っています。
The Institute has also initiated courses through the Harvard Summer
School/Japan program, where “Medicine and the Body in East Asia
and in Europe” will be offered for Gen Ed credit in summer 2010.
当研究所はまた、ハーバードサマースクール・日本プログラムでも講座
を開始し、「アジアとヨーロッパの医療と身体」がGenEdの単位として
2010年の夏に開設されます。
A list of the twelve RI-sponsored courses offered in 2009-10 follows.
Gen Ed courses appear first; in each case, the relevant section of the
Gen Ed Curriculum is indicated:
2009-10年度に当研究所が支援する講座のリストは以下になります。
GenEdの講座が先に挙げられ、GenEdカリキュラムの各関連項目も記
載されています。
F a l l 2009 c o u r s e s :
S p r i n g 2010 c o u r s e s :
C u l tu r e & B e l i e f 11 ( G e n E d ) : M e d i c i n e a n d th e B o d y i n E a s t A s i a
and i n Europe
S o c i e ti e s o f th e Wo r l d 22 ( G e n E d ) : A s i a i n th e M a k i n g o f th e
M o d e r n Wo r l d
Shigehisa Kuriyama; Parimal G. Patil, Sanskrit and Indian Studies; and Ian J.
Miller, History
Shigehisa Kuriyama, East Asian Languages and Civlizations & History of Science
F o r e i g n C u l tu r e s 84: To k y o
( G e n E d : C u l tu r e & B e l i e f o r S o c i e ti e s o f th e W o r l d )
Theodore C. Bestor, Anthropology
F o r e i g n C u l tu r e s 94. B u d d h i s m a n d J a p a n e s e C u l tu r e
( G e n E d : A e s th e ti c & I n te r p r e ti v e U n d e r s ta n d i n g )
S o c i e ti e s o f th e Wo r l d 29 ( G e n E d ) : I n e q u a l i ty i n S o c i e ty i n 21s t
C e n tu r y E a s t A s i a
Mary C. Brinton, Sociology
H i s to r i c a l S tu d y A - 14: J a p a n : Tr a d i ti o n a n d Tr a n s fo r m a ti o n
( G e n E d : S o c i e ti e s o f th e W o r l d )
Ryuichi Abé, East Asian Languages and Civlizations
Andrew Gordon, History
H i s to r y 76d : A s i a n a n d A fr i c a n E n c o u n te r s w i th E m p i r e
A n th r o p o l o g y 1690: T h e C u l tu r e M a c h i n e : Yo u th C u l tu r e , N e tw o r k s
a n d C o m m o d i ti e s i n E a s t A s i a
Raja Adal, RI Postdoctoral Fellow
G o v e r n m e n t 1273: T h e P o l i ti c a l E c o n o m y o f J a p a n
Kay Shimizu, USJRP Advanced Research Fellow
G o v e r n m e n t 2776: J a p a n a n d E a s t A s i a n S e c u r i ty
Christopher Hughes, Government
Michael Fisch, RI Postdoctoral Fellow
G o v e r n m e n t 1765: A s i a - P a c i fi c S e c u r i ty
Christopher Hughes, Government
G o v e r n m e n t 98h n : C o m p a r a ti v e P o l i ti c s o f I m m i g r a ti o n s a n d
C i ti z e n s h i p
Kenneth Haig, USJRP Advanced Research Fellow
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所長より
親愛なる友へ
米国中の他の大学と同様に、ハーバードも2008 年に起こった世界規模の金融危機の余
波と苦闘しています。とりわけ強制的な予算削減、また大学がこの危機を乗り切るた
Photo: Martha Stewart
めに資産運営の協力が学内の国際・地域研究所へ求められていることとして具体化し
ています。既存の任務を全うしながら、各センターの業績を称えていくことが、これ
からの挑戦です。私個人にとっては、ハーバードにおける国際研究を死守し、進展させ
ていくことがより大きな目標となっています。
30 年前に当研究所が創設されて以来、日本に関する研究を促進することが当研究所の
EDWIN O. REISCHAUER
INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES
重要な目標でした。そして、様々な形で私達はその目標を追求し続けています。長年
にわたり、当研究所は、ハーバードの学部生に日本が体験できる機会を与えるように
努力してきました。この任務を果たすために、多くのエネルギーと資源をつぎ込んで
きたことが、ここ5～6 年で起こった最も大きな変化と言えるでしょう。まず最初に、
私達は「カリキュラム充実化プログラム」を設置し、学部生向けの授業を開発してい
くよう教授陣と協同してきました。これらの授業は、日本のみを扱う必要はなく、む
しろ大きなテーマや他の国をも含むような授業にこそメリットがある、と私達は見て
います。カリキュラム充実化を図る努力は、当研究所が支援する授業が12も創設され、
そのうち 6つは新たなジェネラル・エジュケーション・カリッキュラムに含まれるとい
う大きな成果に実を結びました。また他には、日本に行くハーバードの学部生を支援
し、その数を大幅に増やすことにも努力を注ぎました。昨年は、約100人のハーバード学
部生が日本に滞在し、新記録を樹立しました。
Center for Government & International Studies
South Building
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
P 617.495.3220 F 617.496.8083
[email protected]
www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs
© 2009 President and Fellows of Harvard College
他にも良いニュースがあります。ドリュー・ファウスト大学長は、この3月の春休みに、
初の日本旅行に向かうことが決まっており、京都と東京を訪れる予定です。現在プリ
ンストン大学で教鞭をとるデービッド・ハウェルが、次の秋から教授として東アジア
言語・文明学科に加わることになりました。江戸・明治時代の研究を率先する学者と
して、彼がハーバードの日本研究に参加することは大きなことです。また、前近代の日
本芸術と文学を横断する研究をしているメリッサ・マコーミックも、この 7月に同学
科で教授ポストに昇進しました。我々は 2人が選任されたことを嬉しく思っています。
スーザン J. ファー
講談社創業100周年を祝う
野間清治氏が1909年に創設した講談社は、今年で創業100周年を迎え、記念
式典が行われました。ライシャワー研究所は、光栄なことに講談社と野間
佐和子社長宛てに祝辞を送り、1995年より「エドウィン・ライシャワー／講
談社記念シンポジウム」を講談社と毎年共催してきました。シンポジウム
はライシャワー大使が自宅として使用していた「ライシャワー・メモリア
ルハウス」で開かれ、今年は10月16日の金曜日に開催されました。.
この式典にのぞみ、入江昭、チャールズ・ウォーレンアメリカ史学名誉教
授がシンポジウムの基調講演を行い、
「トランスナショナルな国としての
日本」について講演しました。講談社からは◦山根隆取締役、講談社アメリ
カLCCから木俣洋一シニア・バイス・プレジデントと墨とも江 プロジェク
ト・マネージャーが同社を代表して参加されました。
木俣洋一、スーザン・ファー、キャサリン・ハンドラー、
オードリー・キム、山根隆、入江昭
シンポジウムでは、野間・ライシャワー日本研究論文賞の授賞式も行われました。1995年に講談社が創設したこの賞は、ハーバー
ド大学の学部生と大学院生が日本に関連するトピックについて書いた最も優秀な論文に贈られています。山根氏は、今年の受賞者
であるオードリー・キム氏（2009年歴史学部卒、論題「帝国への貸与：1900-1914年のロンドン債権市場における日本の政治、
政策、収受」）とキャサリン・ハンドラー氏（2009年東アジア地域研究修士号取得、
「流行、ブランド、ファッションの普及：近世
日本における版画文化と着物の構築」）に表彰状を送りました。
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本本
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所所
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ババ
ーー
ドド
大大
学学
ご存知でしたか。。。
・ライシャワー研究所の支援を受け、
日本研究の教授陣が、本年度のジェネ
ラル・エジュケーションで 6つの授業を
教えることになりました。
・当研究所と日米関係プログラムに所
属する客員教授、ポスト・ドクトラル
フェローは、人類学、政治学、歴史学
の授業を含む、新しい6つの授業を本年
度教えることになりました。
ライシャワー研究所は 2009-10年度
ハーバードのカリキュラムに
12 の講座を設けました
・当研究所は、2008-09 年度及び2009年
夏季に、26の分野を代表する96名の
ハーバード学部生に対し日本へ渡航
するための資金援助・支援をしまし
た。そのうち43％は数学、科学、工学、
または経済学専攻の学生です。
・2009 年に夏季インターンシップを
行ったハーバード学部生は、そこで得た
経験を5点満点で平均 4.6点と評価しま
した。インターンシップ先は、古本
屋、国会議員の事務所や遊説活動、
美術館、コンサルタント会社、国際映画
祭、プロ野球チームなど多岐に渡ってい
ます。
・現在ハーバードは、東京で行われる
人文専攻のプログラムと、埼玉にある
理研脳科学総合研究所と横浜にある理
研アレルギー・免疫科学総合研究セン
ターで行われる2 つのプログラムを含
め、日本で 3つの夏季プログラムを実施
しています。
・過去3年間で、ハーバードにおける日
本語の履修人数が30％も増加しました。
・昨年、ライシャワー日当研究所は、
博士論文執筆、夏季語学研究、日本で
の研究及び学会参加に対しハーバー
ドの大学院生に4 1 に上る奨学金を授
与しました。
・ハーバードには3 1 名もの日本研究
の教授陣が在籍し、世界で最も大き
な日本研究のプログラムの1つに
なっています。昨年日本に関する講
座、もしくは日本を大きく取り上げた
講座は7 5 以上を数えます。
・昨年ライシャワー研究所は7 5 回以
上のセミナー・共同研究プロジェク
ト・ワークショップ・学術会議・
シンポジウム・研究プロジェクトを
行い、支援しました。
・ニューイングランド地域社会にお
いて1 7 8 名の日本に関する研究者及び
専門家がライシャワー研究所の提携
研究員となっています。
「お姫様の救出」ジョナサン・チェン（2011年心理学科卒業予定）
、ハーバード・サマースクール最優秀写真、
第5回年ハーバード大学写真コンテスト
ライ シ ャ ワ ーに 当研 究所 は 、日 本に 焦 点を 当 て た 、もしくは日 本に関 す る内 容 を多 く
含む 講座を 支 援 し 、 ハーバードのカリキュラムに貢 献しています。今 年 2 0 0 9 - 10 年 度 も
当 研究所は教 授 陣と 協 力し な が ら全力を 尽 くし、1 2 の 講 座を 創 設しました。
当 研究所 が 支 援す る 講 座の う ち 6つ は 、以 前の コ ア ・プ ロ グ ラ ムと引 き 換 え に 新 設 さ れ
た ジェネラルエデュケーション (Ge n Ed) に入っています。 今 年 の 新 入生( 2 0 1 3 年 卒 業予
定 ） か ら、こ の Ge n Ed が取 り入れ ら れ、 8 つ の コ ース 枠 の中 か ら 1 つ ずつ講 座 を 選択 す
る こ と に な っ て い ま す 。 こ の カ リ キ ュ ラ ム を 本年 度か ら実 施す る に あた り 、教 授陣 は 、
斬新 で 面 白 い 講 座を 創 設 し よ う と 努力 し ま し た 。 こ の 要 望に応 え る た め に も 、当 研 究
所は、
「 カリ キ ュラ ム充実 化 プ ロ グ ラム 」を 通 じ て ハー バー ドの 教 授に 奨 励 金を 授 与
し 、 日 本 関連 の トピ ッ ク を 扱 う 講 座 を Ge n Ed で 創 設するよ う 働きか け ま し た 。
6 つの 講 座 全 て が 本 年 度 開 設 され て い ま す（ 以 下の リ ス ト を 参 照 ）。 その 中 に は
「 アジ アと 近 代世 界の 創 造」、「 2 1 世 紀の東 アジ ア社 会に お け る不 平等 」、 「 ア ジアと
ヨー ロ ッ パの 医療 と 身 体」 な ど の 大き な テ ー マ を 扱 っ た も の か ら 、「 仏 教 と 日 本 文 化 」、
「東京」な ど日 本に 特 化し た も の も あり ま す。
当研究 所が 支 援す る講 座 を 担 当 す る教 授は、 テ オ ド ル C . ベ ス タ ー（ 人類 学）、
マリ ー C. ブ リ ン ト ン（ 社 会 学 ）、 ア ン ドリ ュ ー ・ ゴ ー ド ン（ 歴 史学 ）、 栗 山 茂 久 、 阿 部龍一
（東アジ ア言 語・ 文 明学）が含 ま れ て い ま す 。
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