Nikkei Studies

2010 Nikkei Studies

Nikkei Lecture
 
May 21 オーストラリア・タツラ収容所の記憶〜ニューカレドニア日本人移民の足跡をたどって〜

2009 Nikkei Studies

The 8th Meeting
 
June 12 Yuko Konno (Ph.D candidate, University of Southern California)
"Asian American Historiography: Being a Graduate Student in the United States"
 
The 9th July 9 Hiroko Matsuda (Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taipei City)
"'settlers' or 'migrant'? - Migration of Okinawans to Colonial Taiwan"
The 10th
 
November 5

 

Ines P. Mallari(Administrator, Mindanao Kokusai Daigaku, Philippines)
"Philippine Nikkeijin Experiences Then and Now"
The 11th December 11 Hiroko Nakayama (Research Student, Graduate School of Intercultural Communication, Hosei University )
"Japanese language for Nikkeijin in Paraguay: The analysis of KOKUGO education"

 

2008 Nikkei Studies

The 1st Meeting

 

May 24 Alberto Fonseca Sakai (Assistant Professor, Josai International University)
"Tangled Nikkei and Latino Identities: Examining a Latin American Community in Japan through Ethnic Newspapers"

The 2nd Meeting

 

October 24

Taishou Nakayama
"T
he Japanese Emperor and Agricultural Migrants in Southern Sakhalin under the Japanese Administration"
 

The 3rd Meeting

 

November 22

Takamuchi Go (Japanese American Living Legacy)
"Nikkei Studies through Ethnic Studies: for more understanding, searching more necessity, for development and advancement of Nikkei people in Japan "

The Forth Meeting

 

December 20 Shigeru Kojima (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
"The difinition of Nikkei[jin] and its transformation"

Hikoro Noma (University of Victoria)
"A Case of Japanese Language Schools in Vancouver: Beyond Heritage Language Education"

The 5th Meeting
Film viewing
 

January 23 Producer:Nanako Kurihara (2008, 59 mins)
"Un Senhor Do Brazil visitando brazileiros no Japao"
 

The 6th Meeting

 

February 17

Patricia Yano (PhD candidate, Nagoya City University)
"
Japanese-Brazilians Living in Japan: The Case of Brazilians Families Living in Gifu Prefecture and their Problems on Adaptation"

The 7th Meeting

 
March 20 Takamuchi Go (Omoide Project)
Yoko Tsukuda(Tokyo Univ.)
Kodama Oba(Sophia Univ.)
Yuko Yamade(Ochanomizu Univ)
Francisco Oswaldo Alfaro Perez (Osaka Univ.) 
"Integration of Latin American Immigrants to the Local System of Education in Japan"
Johanna Zulueta(Hitotsubashi Univ.)

"Negotiating Place: 'Return' Migration, 'Home' and Identity in Okinawa "
Pauline Cherrier(Musashi Univ.) 
"Brazilian Public Representation in Multicultural Japan "
Yuukichi Niwayama
(Tokyo Univ.)
"The Emergence of ‘Canadian Nikkei’: A New Era of Japanese Canadians
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2007 Workshop

February 16

The Japanese Consotium for area Studies' Workshop for the Next Generation (under the joint auspices of Japan consortium for Area Studies and Center for Luso-Brazilian Studies)
"Searching for New approaches to Studying 'Nikkeijin'"