Bmc hist unit 2.2_rise of japanese_militaristsAdrian Peeris
Just as in Europe, Fascism began to spread its influence in the Asia Pacific region. With a foothold in Japan in the late 20s and 30s - Japan's militarists were able to slowly gain political power in a political system that was losing support due to mishandling of economic and social policies. The new politicians from the far Right had all the solutions as they planned the take over of the political system. Their ultimate goal - to see an Imperial Japan with an Empire that would match those of the Western powers. This lecture dwells into how this group of "ultras" slowly gained influence and power.
The Paradox of the Japanese Politics of MemoryMarcin Wrobel
In this presentation, I argue that I argue that in the case of Japan - because of different historical experiences - building coherent historical narration is difficult and results in backlashes, as well as wars over history.
Bmc hist unit 2.2_rise of japanese_militaristsAdrian Peeris
Just as in Europe, Fascism began to spread its influence in the Asia Pacific region. With a foothold in Japan in the late 20s and 30s - Japan's militarists were able to slowly gain political power in a political system that was losing support due to mishandling of economic and social policies. The new politicians from the far Right had all the solutions as they planned the take over of the political system. Their ultimate goal - to see an Imperial Japan with an Empire that would match those of the Western powers. This lecture dwells into how this group of "ultras" slowly gained influence and power.
The Paradox of the Japanese Politics of MemoryMarcin Wrobel
In this presentation, I argue that I argue that in the case of Japan - because of different historical experiences - building coherent historical narration is difficult and results in backlashes, as well as wars over history.
Using the weekly news show “Meet the Press” as a model, students will portray George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Barack Obama in a television interview. Students will develop answers to the host’s questions by researching primary documents and current news articles.
Six engaging World and US history lessons with historic documents empower students to be the historian in the classroom. Free at iTunes and as a downloadable PDF.
Using the weekly news show “Meet the Press” as a model, students will portray George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Barack Obama in a television interview. Students will develop answers to the host’s questions by researching primary documents and current news articles.
Six engaging World and US history lessons with historic documents empower students to be the historian in the classroom. Free at iTunes and as a downloadable PDF.
Book Talk: Crossing Boundaries and Weaving Intercultural Work, Life, and Scholarship in Globalizing Universities (published by Routledge and co-edited with Zhu Hua, Birkbeck College, University of London) by Dr. Adam Komisarof
A short powerpoint which introduces the Global Financing Facility created to fund health programmes, including links to a video and briefings for more information
Professor Silver's Lindy and Jazz 101: The Hop's History and Harlem's Heroes
Jazz Dance and Music History Lecture at You Should Be Dancing...! Studios on January 10, 2016.
Tetsunari Iida: Can Japan Achieve a Sustainable Future without Nuclear Energy?
In the aftermath of the 3.11 Fukushima nuclear crisis, the long-term viability of the nuclear industry in Japan has been called into question, with a dynamic anti-nuclear social movement challenging the Japanese government's response to the crisis. While this movement initially enlisted tens of thousands of people, many of whom had not previously engaged in political activism, as time has passed, the anti-nuclear movement has failed to gain ground against the entrenched forces of conservative politics, even while anti-nuclear sentiment remains strong. A central moment in this process was the recent elections, which returned the Liberal Democratic party to power on a nationalist agenda that included plans to restart all of Japan's reactors, and even build new ones.
In contrast to the back-to-the-future politics of the LDP, the anti-nuclear candidate Tetsunari Iida, who ran for governor of Yamaguchi Prefecture, has called for a fundamental rethinking of Japan's energy policy away from nuclear energy to renewable forms that are more environmentally friendly. Although Mr. Iida experienced a setback in the 2012 elections, losing to a conservative candidate who was backed by the LDP, his campaign raised a number of issues for consideration that had not been previously addressed, invigorating the anti-nuclear movement throughout Japan.
For this presentation, Mr. Iida will discuss the political dysfunction that contributed to the nuclear crisis, and offer an alternate vision that has raised widespread support among a public alienated from mainstream politics, offering hope for a safer and more ecologically sustainable future.
As a business, how can you reduce the impact of tourism, and ensure that you have access to visitor attractions for years to come? How can you defend yourself against critics, and how can you detect 'greenwash'? Finally, students apply what has been covered by planning a sustainable holiday.
SUSTAINABILITY: WATER CONSERVATION AND ADAPTATION. Presentation suitable for Year 9 students. Basics of sustainability, contains: water conservation, flushing toilet, shower, bath, washing machine, washing hands, washing dishes, brushing teeth, cooking, drinking, facts about water, water activities, adaptation in deserts, rainforests and alpine areas.
Sea level rise is rapidly turning into major issues among our community and all levels of the government are working to develop responses to ensure these matters are given the uttermost attention in all facets of planning. It is more interesting to understand and
investigate the present day sea level variation due its potential impact, particularly on our national geodetic vertical datum. To determine present day sea level variation, it is vital to consider both in-situ tide gauge and remote sensing measurements. This study
presents an effort to quantify the sea level rise rate and magnitude over Peninsular Malaysia using tide gauge and multi-mission satellite altimeter. The time periods taken for both techniques are 32 years (from 1984 to 2015) for tidal data and 23 years (from
1993 to 2015) for altimetry data. Subsequently, the impact of sea level rise on Peninsular Malaysia Geodetic Vertical Datum (PMGVD) is evaluated in this study. the difference between MSL computed from 10 years (1984 – 1993) and 32 years (1984 – 2015) tidal data at Port Kelang showed that the increment of sea level is about 27mm. The computed magnitude showed an estimate of the long-term effect a change in MSL has on the geodetic vertical datum of Port Kelang tide gauge station. This will help give a new insight on the establishment of national geodetic vertical datum based on mean sea level data. Besides, this information can be used for a wide variety of climatic applications to study environmental issues related to flood and global warming in Malaysia.
Sustainable Manufacturing (MIT 2.008x Lecture Slides)A. John Hart
Slides accompanying 2.008x* video module on Sustainable Manufacturing, Prof. Tim Gutowski, MIT, 2016.
*Fundamentals of Manufacturing Processes on edX: https://www.edx.org/course/fundamentals-manufacturing-processes-mitx-2-008x
Presentation from JAOO 09 Australia on how to design software architectures to maxmise sustainable outcomes by limiting power and resource usage. Uses the Virtualisation Maturity Model (see Architecture Journal edition 18).
Why Difficult Wars Make Good Lessons (Christopher Nichols)ssuser54f779
This presentation is from the Discussion Leader Training of the Justice and War: The Experiences of Military Personnel and their Families Program.
The ”Justice and War: The Experiences of Military Personnel and their Families” program works with veterans, active service members, their families, and civilians to explore the relationship between the lived experience of war and concepts of justice. The program puts participants’ own experiences in dialogue with the past through discussion prompts that flesh out the concept of justice through themes such as duty, heroism, suffering, loyalty, and patriotism.
This program was made possible by the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
A theoretical Framework on Inflation and Retirement:
Improvements in longevity as well as declining fertility rates have led to an aging demographic across developed nations. These tendencies, alongside several decades of low inflation have led to shifts in pension and retirement policies across developed nations. It goes without saying that Retirement security remains a shared concern, one that has heightened as inflation has returned to the global landscape, adding further uncertainty to the financial security of retirees. From a policy perspective, monetary policy is the most blunt tool within the macroeconomic toolkit whereas retirement has increasingly become a household-level savings, investment and decumulation problem. Given the dependency of policy on inflation expectations and that of inflation expectations on household-level decision-making, we present elements of an incipient framework that may be used to integrate household and firm-level decision making into the contemporary macroeconomic policy toolkit.
The Finnish and Swedish accessions to NATO—even though incomplete as of now—have been interpreted in some corners as the beginning of the end for neutrality. Not picking sides in a war of aggression is untenable, they hold, cheering the decisions of some former neutrals to give up their signature foreign policies while berating those who still do not send weapons to Ukraine or sanction Russia. Whatever one’s stance on the policy side is, one point has been lost in the debate: neutrality is not a question of ideology but a fact of conflict dynamics. It just won’t go away. Not even the two World Wars or the 40 years of the Cold War could get rid of the “fence-sitters.”
Neutrality, always and everywhere, is a reaction to conflict(s). The current one over Ukraine is no exception, giving rise to neutral policies in roughly two-thirds of the world. It is a moot question if there should be neutrality or not. Nonaligned behavior of third-party states is a fact of international life and will remain one. There are really only two questions that matter: First, which neutrals will leave the stage, and which ones will be born? Second, will the neutrals play a constructive role in the new global conflict, or will they be relegated to the margins?
This talk will disentangle the neutrality debate by differentiating the legal components from the political and strategic aspects and discuss recent neutrality developments in Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Dual citizenship was once universally reviled as a moral abomination, then largely marginalized as an anomaly. During the twentieth century, states were able to police the status and manage incidental costs to the extent that full suppression proved impossible. More recent decades have seen wide acceptance of dual citizenship as those costs dissipated for both states and individuals. Powerful nonresident citizen communities have played a crucial role in winning recognition of the status. A handful of states -- Japan notable among them -- have held out against this clear trend and increasingly vocal emigrant and immigrant constituencies and children of bi-national couples. This session will situate Japan's resistance to dual citizenship in a global historical context.
November 28, 2022
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has given the go-ahead for a major redevelopment of Jingu Gaien, the cluster of sports facilities and green space adjacent to the National Stadium in Sendagaya. The project has recently become a focus of attention in Tokyo, with many people from across the political spectrum speaking out with concerns about the project.
The redevelopment plan is made possible by a loosening of height restrictions in the area that was implemented in conjunction with the Olympics, and former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori was involved in conceptualization of the plan. The redevelopment will eliminate nearly a thousand trees, two historic stadiums and several public sports facilities, and put in three high rise office buildings.
In this presentation activist Rochelle Kopp will describe the various concerns and issues related to the Jingu Gaien redevelopment project and how she and some other activists and academics are speaking out against the plan and urging that Governor Koike withdraw it and start over with input from the public and experts.
November 17, 2022
8 November 2022 was the last day of voting for the US midterm elections. These elections reflected the mood of American voters and give us some idea of the future course of American policy and of the political and ideological balance of power in the United States. They will also affect the ability of the Biden Administration to pursue its agenda.
Professor Yashiro, one of Japan's leading economists, will look at the results of Abenomics (a term coined to describe Japan's economic policy while Shinzo Abe was premier) and Prime Minister Kishida's plans for what he calls a "New Capitalism."
Observers of Japanese security and foreign policies have largely focused on analyzing Japanese policies in the area of traditional security. However, they would be remiss to disregard the string of new developments that have been occurring in Japan – namely that of “economic security.”
Prompted by rising U.S.-China competition, Japan has been undergoing rapid change in its economic security policies over the last few years. These changes range from organizational transformation to new legislation as well as increasing support for the private sector. This trend is likely to accelerate under the incoming Kishida administration, which has created a new ministerial post for economic security.
How has Japan’s economic security policy evolved in the last few years? What kind of changes will we likely see in Japan’s economic security policies under the Kishida administration? What impact will this “economic security awakening” in Japan have on Japan-U.S. and Japan-China relations? How should Japan cooperate with other key actors, such as the European Union, the Quad countries, the Five Eyes states, and Southeast Asian countries?
This seminar will address these critical questions and more with Akira Igata, who has been advising international organizations, the Japanese government, bureaucracy, and the private sector in economic security issues for many years.
Speaker Biography:
Akira Igata is Executive Director and Visiting Professor at the Center for Rule-making Strategies at Tama University. He is also the Economic Security Advisor for the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China and Senior Adjunct Fellow at Pacific Forum, a U.S.-based think tank. He advises Japan’s bureaucracy, politicians, and private sector as well as international organizations on economic security issues.
A half a year ago, the prospect of an LDP presidential election did not inspire flights of the imagination. After all, what could break the hammerlock the top three party factions – the Hosoda, the Aso and the Nikai – had upon the process of selecting the party leader? Who or what could outmaneuver the wily LDP Secretary-General Nikai Toshihiro, whom two prime ministers in a row found themselves powerless to budge from his post at the apex of the party’s secretariat?
Over the summer of 2021, however, several factors became catalysts for changes in the party’s internal power structures. A presidential campaign like any other had unfolded, with the faction leaders and the party’s senior officials left gasping as erstwhile subordinates have run away with the narrative and the initiative. So many assumptions about how the LDP “works” have been challenged that the unprecedented situation of half of the candidates being women has been largely subsumed.
What will we have learned from this election? Michael Cucek will offer his views, along with suggestions of avenues of future research into the contemporary LDP.
Closed Loop, Open Borders: Wealth and Inequality in India
Speaker:
Anthony P. D’Costa, Eminent Scholar in Global Studies and Professor of Economics College of Business, The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Japan and Russia: Contemporary Political, Economic, and Military Relations
Speaker: Yu Koizumi, Project Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo
Presentation: Russian Military Posture in Northern Territory
Japan and Russia: Contemporary Political, Economic, and Military Relations
Speaker: Elena Shadrina, Associate Professor, Waseda University
Presentation: What to Expect for Russia-Japan Relations: Contemplation against a Backdrop of Social and Economic Situation in Russia
Japan and Russia: Contemporary Political, Economic, and Military Relations
Speaker: James D. J. Brown, Associate Professor of Political Science at Temple University, Japan Campus
Presentation: Japan-Russia Joint Economic Projects on the Disputed Islands: What are they good for?
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Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Biological screening of herbal drugs: Introduction and Need for
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Natural Products, In vitro evaluation techniques for Antioxidants, Antimicrobial and Anticancer drugs. In vivo evaluation techniques
for Anti-inflammatory, Antiulcer, Anticancer, Wound healing, Antidiabetic, Hepatoprotective, Cardio protective, Diuretics and
Antifertility, Toxicity studies as per OECD guidelines
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
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It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
1. History, Territory and Japan’s
growing isolation in East Asia
Thomas U Berger
Associate Professor
Department of International relations
Boston University
For Presentation at Temple University, Tokyo
November 27, 2012
2. The Basic Problem
• Despite:
A) growing regional interdependence, and
B) a military balance that strongly favors the
US and its allies
We have growing regional acrimony, fueled by
tensions over history and minor territorial issues
Why?
9. Efforts to re-establish harmony seem
to not meet with enduring success
Premier Wen Jiao Bao in Yoyogi Park, May 31, 2010
10. Three Questions:
• What is the basis of the ways countries think
about history and territory (the Official
Narrative)?
• When and why do differing historical
narratives become the source of inter-state
conflict?
• What – if anything – can be done about it?
11. Forces shaping the Official Narrative
• Historical Determinist – historical memory
based on individual experiences
• Instrumentalist – historical memory
manipulated by cynical elites for their own
gain
• Culturalist – historical memory part of the
larger political culture of a society
• Combination of the above
12. Historical Determinism
• Powerful experiences can create powerful
memories
• Memories can be suppressed both by
individuals or society, but they often
resurface, even after many decades
• Individuals and groups press to have their
memories reflected in the official narrative
14. Instrumentalism
• Politicians and other elites manipulate official
narrative to promote their own agendas
• The balance of power between politicians and
interest groups determines the official
narrative
16. Culturalism
• The interpretation of events and interest are
central elements of a society’s political culture
• Each generation is socialized with a particular
historical narrative – through
education, movies, plays, etc.
• Over time, the historical narrative evolves as each
generation reinterprets events in its own way
• The existing historical narrative set the boundarie
for the kind of historical narrative a state can
adopt
18. The History of the History issue in Asia
• 1945-1951 – Initial Settlement
• 1951-1982 – Successful Japanese damage
control
• 1982 – 1992 – the beginning of the “history
issue”
• 1992-2002 – era of apology diplomacy
• 2002 –Deadlock over history – apology fatigue
19. Period 1 - Initial Settlement
• The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
• Reverse Course in US occupation policy
• Ascent of the Conservative LDP in Japan
• The Treaty of San Francisco –
Article 11 – Japan accepts the IMTFE Verdict
Articles 14-21 – limited reparations
regime, Western Allies give up further claims
• Ambiguous Boundaries created
20. Trial and Rehabilitation
The International Military Tribunal in the The Treaty of San Francisco signed
Far East – 1946-1948 November 1951-
22. Period 2 - 1951-1978 Successful
Japanese Damage Control
• Japan chooses to focus on damage control
• Taiwan and South Korea unsuccessfully push
for compensation and concessions by Japan
• Japan signs normalization treaties with all
major Asian nations except the DPRK
1952 Taiwan
1965 South Korea
1978 The PRC
25. Reasons for First Equilibrium
• Politics in Command - Instrumental factors
predominate historical memory and cultural
discourse
• PRC, ROK, Taiwan all authoritarian states
• The Left in Japan focuses on Japanese
victimization
• Japanese conservatives not interested in
pursuing “War Responsibility”
26. Period III – History Issue Resurfaces
• 1982 – The First textbook Controversy
• New MOE guidelines on textbooks
• Nakasone apology in Korea
• 1985 – Nakasone visits Yasukuni
27.
28. Drivers for the Emergence of the
History Problem
• Strong, historically rooted Anti-Japanese
discourse in China and Korea (Cultural
discourse)
• Pluralization allows victims groups to come to
the fore (Historical memory)
• Increased interdependence of Asian countries
– First strategic (Cold war)
– Then economic
• Use of human rights norms by victims groups
29. The Birth of Modern Chinese and
Korean Nationalism
The March 1rst, 1919 Movement in Korea
30. Korea – Colonial Modernity –
authoritarianism made in Japan
Park Cheung Hee – as an officer in the Japanese Imperial Army, ca. 1944
and as President of the Republic of Korea
32. Period IV – Groping for Reconciliation
• 1991 - Kaifu in Singapore – history key to a more
active role in Asia
• 1992 – Emperor visits China
• 1993 – Kono statement on the Comfort Women
• 1995 – Asian Women’s Fund
Murayama Statement
• 1998 – Kim Dae Jung-Obuchi Keizo Summit
• 2002 – Korea-Japan host the World Cup
36. Period IV – Deadlock over history
• 2001-2006 Under Koizumi tensions flare up
• Collapse of territorial negotiations with Russia
• Korean-Japanese reconciliation founders
under Lee Myun Bak
• Anti-Japanese riots in 2005 in China
• Japanese Apology fatigue
• Escalates into territorial disputes
37. Reasons for Deadlock
• Japanese conservative backlash and “apology
fatigue”
• Lack of active support for reconciliation from the
Korean government
• Lack of interest in reconciliation by the Chinese
government
• Temptation to utilize popular sentiments for
domestic political agenda
• Inability of governments (China, Korea and Japan)
to re-establish control over the diplomatic
agenda
39. Aggressively Patriotic Sentiments
Translation: Even if the whole of China is covered with tombs, [we]
must kill all Japanese; even if no grass grows in China, we must
recover Diaoyudao [the Senkakus]
43. Bottom Line – a Paradox
• The broad framework of international
relations – balance of power and
interdependence - favors general stability
• The political dynamics of the history issue –
the combination of historical memory, cultural
discourse and instrumental use of the issue by
opportunistic politicians – creates volatility
44. Risks for Japan and the US-Japan
Relationship
• Japan risks diplomatic isolation in East Asia
• Lack of sympathy on the part of the US –
especially with regard to the Comfort women
issue
• Danger of accidental escalation in the
Senkakus
47. Possible Counter measures
• Greater flexibility on territorial issues
• Damage control on history with China/
reconciliation with Korea – if Korea is ready
• CSBMs on Senkakus – when China is ready
• Is this politically possible for Japan and its
neighbors?