...Asada Akira; Kyoto Selden Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Asada Akira Infantile Capitalism and Japan s Postmodernism: A Fairy Tale ^\llow me to talk semi-extemporaneously because I am not familiar with the aca­ demic customs of American Japanology, and because above all else...

... president of Tokyo Imperial University (today s Tokyo University). Major works include A New Treatise on Human Rights, which is based on social Darwinism. Kimura Bin (1931- ). Psychopathologist. Studied and teaches at Kyoto. His psychopathological and existential analysis of the Japanese ego is famous...

... Treaty Lands in Minnesota.” Intercontinental Cry , January 6 . intercontinentalcry.org/idle-no-more-and-the-implications-on-anishinaabe-treaty-lands-in-minnesota/ . Gilio-Whitaker Dina . 2011 . “Indigenous Peoples Call Canadian Kyoto Withdrawal Business as Usual.” Indian Country Today...

... Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Notes on Contributors Asada Akira is a member of the Research Institute for Humanistic Studies, Kyoto University, and the author of Kozo to chikara (Struc­ ture and Power) (1983). Brett de Bary is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature...

... concedes). And, third, we confront the gulf between the commonalities of our planetary existence and the everyday experience of human difference and division. This gulf was neatly captured in the crux of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, with its acknowledgment that responsibilities for climate change today...

...) and of Comment le sophiste est-il devenu parrèsiaste? (in French, ZINBUN no. 51, 2021, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University), among many other books and articles in Japanese and French. Ken Kawashima is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. He is author...

...-centeredness and a lasting re­ minder of the earlier modernist project. By the same measure, Asada Akira reads the prewar Kyoto philoso­ pher Nishida Kitaro, whose conception of the topos of nothingness (mu no basho) became the ground for denying the self altogether and establishing the place of emptiness...

... in Japan was roused when she joined her husband, an American colonel stationed there. Personal ob­ servations over a period of twenty-one months in Tokyo and Kyoto from the summer of 1946 to May, 1948, make up the main source material for her analysis. A job writing articles for the Osaka Mainichi, a large...

... percent will be required to prevent the planet from entering into cycles of cataclysmic, runaway cli- mate change.6 Yet the new bill, known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), measures emissions relative to 2005 rather than the Kyoto-mandated date of 1990.7 It promises...

... in the face of a crisis in their discipline? Kishi Tetsuo, a professor at the University of Kyoto, argues that any discussion of the future of the English department must start with the fact that the majority of students who choose...

... and Japa- nese imperialism in general in China are abundant in both Japanese and English. And they, too, end at A recent volume published by a group of historians at Kyoto University consists of several parts encompassing 24 the politics, economy...

... a miraculous new energy technology will simultaneously solve our energy and climate problems during that time, but another scenario is at least as likely: a perceived failure of Kyoto or international bickering over climate questions could foster the burning of abundant coal...

..., and posed this as a problem of trans­ lation (with this I wandered, all unwitting, into the whole bundle of issues that I came to learn surround Shuzo Kuki, Nishida, and the Kyoto School). My interest here lay in exploring the differences between two meditations on translation raised within my own intel­...

...- nese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto and encouraged the mobilization of intellectuals toward the project of ‘‘studying Japan Similarly, as Garon has shown, conservative government officials and con- cerned leaders of private...

... in Belgium, the dernier cri among artists in Scandinavia, what was arousing contro­ versy in Tokyo and Kyoto. Charles brought to the leadership of the National Humanities Center exceptional credentials as a scholar. It may give some sense of the great length of his career to say that I have taught...

... racially or socially, inas­ much as everybody belongs to the middle stratum despite all the differences which exist in fact. In July of 1942, a group of distinguished intellectuals, academics, and critics were summoned to Kyoto by the Literary Society (Bungakkai) to discuss the theme of overcoming...

... Developments in the Human Sciences at the University of Kyoto s Institute for Research in the Humanities on April 20, 2019. I thank in particular Kenta Ohji for his invitation and for his comments, along with those of Jun Hirose and Yoshiyuki Koizumi, in addition to all the members of the Kyoto-based...

... on the future of science and the university was held. The seriousness of the Japanese chief administrators was demonstrated by the list of participants: the presidents of the very best national universities such as Tokyo, Kyoto...

... propagated by the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement which acknowledged that developed countries were liable for the high levels of emissions and placed a heavier responsibility on these nations in mitigating climate change. Many of the energy professionals I met between 2016 and 2020 argued...

... and Osaka, great industrial centers; Naples and Yokohama, important and colorful seaports; Florence and Kyoto, shrines of culture and learning. In full measure, both countries have experienced the horrors and devastation of modern war with the same inevitable aftermath: wide­ spread starvation, tremendous...