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Newsletter of the Japan Research Centre RC Jnews Newsletter of the Japan Research Centre January 2009 Issue 58 JRC MEMBERS Professor Timothy BARRETT Mrs Miwako KASHIWAGI Mr Satoshi MIYAMURA Professor of East Asian History Lector in Japanese Teaching Fellow in Economics Department of the Study of Religions Department of the Languages and Department of Economics [email protected] Cultures of Japan and Korea [email protected] [email protected] Dr John L BREEN Dr Barbara PIZZICONI Reader in Japanese Dr Griseldis KIRSCH Lecturer in Applied Japanese Department of the Languages and Lecturer in Contemporary Linguistics Cultures of Japan and Korea Japanese Culture Department of the Languages and [email protected] Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea Cultures of Japan and Korea [email protected] Dr John CARPENTER [email protected] Reader in the History of Japanese Art Ms Sonja RUEHL Department of Art and Archaeology Dr Mika KIZU Deputy Director (Distance Learning) [email protected] Lecturer in Japanese Department of Financial and Department of the Languages and Management Studies Dr Stephen H DODD Cultures of Japan and Korea [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Japanese [email protected] Department of the Languages and Professor Timon SCREECH Cultures of Japan and Korea Ms Fujiko KOBAYASHI Professor of the History of Art [email protected] Assistant Librarian Japan and Korea Department of Art and Archaeology Library and Information Services [email protected] Dr Lucia DOLCE [email protected] Senior Lecturer in Japanese Professor Peter SELLS Religion and Japanese Dr Costas LAPAVITSAS Professor of Linguistics Department of the Study of Religions Reader in Economics Department of Linguistics [email protected] Department of Economics [email protected] [email protected] Professor Andrew GERSTLE Dr Isolde STANDISH Professor of Japanese Studies Dr Angus LOCKYER Senior Lecturer in Film and Department of the Languages and Chair of the Japan Research Centre Media Studies Cultures of Japan and Korea Lecturer in the History of Japan Centre for Media and Film Studies [email protected] Department of History [email protected] [email protected] Dr Noriko IWASAKI Mrs Kazumi TANAKA Lecturer in Language Pedagogy Dr Helen MACNAUGHTAN Senior Lector in Japanese Department of Linguistics Lecturer in International Business Department of the Languages and [email protected] and Management (Japan) Cultures of Japan and Korea Department of Financial and [email protected] Ms Misako KANEHISA Management Studies Lector in Japanese [email protected] Ms Yoshiko YASUMURA Department of the Languages and Assistant Librarian Art and Music Cultures of Japan and Korea Dr Dolores P MARTINEZ Library and Information Services [email protected] Reader in Anthropology with [email protected] reference to Japan Department of Anthropology and Sociology [email protected] 2 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR A New Year, A New Chair t is a pleasure to wish everyone a This year’s programme is already well happy new year as the new Chair of the under way. It began with the first such Japan Research Centre, having taken Meiji Jingu lecture, which I gave to over from Tim Screech in September. coincide with the opening of a small I exhibition at the Japanese Embassy, Over the last six years Tim and John which celebrated the 150th anniversary Breen have made the JRC one of the of the opening of formal diplomatic School’s most active and interesting relations between Japan and the United Centres. They are going to prove a hard Kingdom in 1858. act to follow. A big thank you therefore to Tim and John, both of whom are The Annual Tsuda Lecture will take place spending a well-deserved year in Japan. as usual on the Wednesday after Read- Thank you also to Jane Savory and ing Week. This year we are delighted Rahima Begum, who run the Centres to welcome Professor Tomiko Yoda, of and Programme Office and without Duke University, a distinguished scholar whom the work of the Centre would be of Japanese literature, cultural studies impossible. and gender. We are happy to welcome a number We will also be holding two small work- of new colleagues. Noriko Iwasaki, Tanaka, who received the Foreign shops toward the end of the year, one on a new JRC member, has joined the Minister’s Certificate of Commendation rethinking the 1930s and one on critical Department of Linguistics as a Lecturer for her great contribution in promoting theory and emerging media, such in Language Pedagogy, having previous- Japanese language teaching in the UK as manga, anime, and cyberculture. ly taught at the University of California at and Europe; to John Breen for his pro- Details of all these events, together with Davis. Dr Iwasaki is an expert in second motion to Reader; and to Jane Savory our regular Wednesday seminar series, language acquisition, psycholinguistics on her recent wedding! will be announced on our website and and language testing and convenes the distributed via email. MA in Applied Linguistics and Language As Tim mentioned in the last newsletter, Pedagogy. one of the most heartening aspects Finally, you may have noticed that of the JRC at present is our relatively this is the first JRC News of the We also have two new Research secure financial position. We are most current academic year. Since we now Associates, Christine Guth and Evgeny grateful to our benefactors, whose rely increasingly on email and the Steiner. Christine has recently taken generosity supports the Tsuda Bursary website for announcements of upcoming up a joint appointment at the Royal and Meiji Jingu Studentships, the Meiji events and other opportunities, we College of Art and the Victoria and Jingu small grants for staff research, have decided to make the JRC News Albert Museum in Japanese design and the Annual Tsuda Lecture. Further an annual report on the activities of history. Evgeny is a Senior Research details about the funding opportunities the Centre and its members. The next Associate of the Sainsbury Institute for and this year’s awardees can be found edition, this coming autumn, will include the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures later in this newsletter and on the JRC a complete report of the activities of (SISJAC), with whom SOAS enjoys a website. this academic year. Please let us know thriving partnership. Details about this if you do not yet receive emails about year’s SISJAC fellows, who are based We were delighted to welcome Reverend upcoming events and we will add you to at SOAS, can be found later in this Miyazaki Shigehiro, the Vice Chief-Priest our mailing list. newsletter. of Meiji Jingu, in October for a ceremony to inaugurate the Meiji Jingu studentships. Angus Lockyer It is also a real pleasure to congratulate And I am happy to announce that Meiji Lecturer in the History of Japan colleagues and students on achieve- Jingu have generously agreed to support Centre Chair, 2008-2011 ments and milestones over the last year, an annual Autumn Lecture, with which a number of which deserve particular to inaugurate our year’s programme of mention. Congratulations to Kazumi events. 3 MEMBERS Travels, Talks & Publications John BREEN facilitating his research: Takagi Hiroshi John has had a busy and eventful at the Jinbunken, Rev Suhara at Hiyoshi 2008. He spent the last academic year Taisha and Yamaguchi Yukitsugu, a as a Visiting Fellow at Kyoto University, local historian. attached to the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Jinbunken). Just as John was preparing to come back to London, he was offered a position at John was researching and writing about the Kyoto-based International Centre Hiyoshi Taisha (Hie jinja as it was known for Japanese studies (Nichibunken). As before 1945), a cluster of seven major John puts it, ‘SOAS is, as we all know, shrines in Sakamoto, a small town in the best place to study Japan (outside Shiga prefecture, which extends from Japan), and my years at SOAS have the foot of Mt.Hiei to the shores of Lake been happy and stimulating. In fact, it Biwa. His research focused on how the gets better all the time… Still, I have shrines and their priests coped with the been at SOAS now for more than 20 recurrent disruptions of the early modern years and thought it was a time for a and modern periods—their destruction change.’ by Oda Nobunaga at the end of the 16th and the Tokugawa settlement at John will therefore be on unpaid leave the beginning of the 17th centuries, the for the next three years—and much ‘clarification’ of early Meiji by which the missed. But he will stay in touch through shrines were stripped of all traces of the newsletter and encourages anyone Buddhism, and the postwar changes in passing through Kyoto to get in touch at: the Japanese religious landscape. [email protected] John spent much of his time in archives Publications John T. CARPENTER in Shiga, which proved a goldmine, Editor, ‘Introduction: a Yasukuni John was re-appointed as Head of the including rich material on the Sanno genealogy’, and ‘Yasukuni and the loss London Office of the Sainsbury Institute festival, one of the focal points of of historical memory’, in Yasukuni, the for the Study of Japanese Arts and his investigations. He gave a number of war dead and the struggle for Japan’s Cultures. He was also appointed as presentations on the research during past, Hurst/Columbia University Press, an International Advisor for the Digital the year: in Kyoto, Otsu, and Sakamoto 2007. Humanities Center for Japanese Art itself; in Ise; and at Meiji Jingu and Culture, part of the Global Center and Ochanomizu Women’s University ‘Shinto’ in Bonk, Jonathan J.,ed., Encyclo- of Excellence program at Ritsumeikan in Tokyo.
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