2001 Index of Lectures

2001-01-22  Annual General Meeting
Canadian Embassy
"Japanese Netsuke: Treasured Miniatures"
HIH Prince Takamado (ASJ Patron)

2001-02-19
"Japan and Asia in a new Global Age: Can Asia become the most dynamic centre of the world economy in the 21st century?"
Professor Makoto Taniguchi (Waseda University)

2001-03-01 (special lecture)
"This Most Strange of Strange Places: The diaries of Jane, Lady Franklin, an intrepid traveller who came to Japan in 1862"
Dott. Maria Pia Casarini

2001-03-12
"A Half-Century of Interpreting Language and Culture: Retrospects and Prospects"
Mr. Masumi Muramatsu

2001-04-16
"Hariprabha Takeda in Early Taisho Japan"
Mr. Monzurul Huq

2001-05-21
"The Brush of Asia and the Forms of Europe"
Mr. Brian Falconbridge

2001-06-18
"The Element of Play in the Edo Period"
Prof. Nobuo Tsuji

2001-09-17
"The Nature of Kabuki and Bunraku Scenery"
Mr. Hiroshi Hamatani

2001-10-15
"Sumo: Samurai to Cyberspace -- How sumo is adapting to the changing times"
Mrs. Doreen Simmons

2001-11-19
"Japan Calling: The Origins of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Information Department in the Early 1920s"
Prof. Masayoshi Matsumura

2001-12-10
"Consensus-Based Decision-Making in a Global Society"
Dr. Jacqueline H. Wasilewski