1997 Index of Lectures

1997-01-27 Annual General Meeting
"Adolfo Farsari, an Italian photographer in Meiji Japan"
Prof. Lia Beretta
(the lecture will be followed by light refreshments)

1997-02-24
"On the Track of Anglo-Japanese Relations: The Story of Viscount Masaru Inoue, "Father" of the Japanese Railways"
Miss Yumiyo Yamamoto

1997-03-25
"The Meanings of "Culture" in Japan
Dr. Brian McVeigh

1997-04-14 (Japan Times Building) 
(joint meeting with The Japan Times)
"Below the Masthead: "The Japan Times" in the English Language Press History of Japan"
Mr. Peter O'Connor

1997-05-19
"Garcia Hosokawa, Heroine of an Opera, 1698"
Rev. Dr. Thomas Immoos

1997-06-16
"Arthur Waley and Japanese Literature"
Dr. Adrian J. Pinnington

1997-09-22
"Auguste Rodin's Only Japanese Model, Hanako: The Differences between European and Japanese Responses"
Mr. Suketaro Sawada

1997-10-20
"Minakata Kumagusu: His Eight Years in England"
Dr. Carmen Blacker

1997-11-17
"Revisiting Meiji Japan: Views of Japan's First Western-Syle Buildings" (Illustrated with slides)
Mrs. Dallas Finn

1997-12-05 (French Embassy)
"Paul Claudel: A "Shinjin-Taishi" ("Diplomat-Poet") in Japan, 1921-1927"
Rev. Jacques Besineau, S.J.