I-House Public Programs

A series of lectures in spring and autumn and cultural events by outstanding specialists on contemporary themes or Japanse culture will be presented.

Lectures/Symposiums

Recent findings on broad subjects in social science and the humanities are presented by distinguished scholars and specialists from abroad and from Japan.

A Commemorative Lecture by the 2009 Japan Foundation Awardee Arthur Stockwin
Japanese Politics in a British Mirror

Speaker: Arthur Stockwin, Former Director of the Nissan Institute of
Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 7, 4:00-6:30 pm
*Following the one-hour lecture, a reception will be held.
Venue: Iwasaki Koyata Memorial Hall, International House of Japan
Admission: Free *prior booking essential
Language: English/Japanese (with simultaneous translation)
Sponsored by the Japan Foundation with support from the International House of Japan

 

Arthur Stockwin

Prof. Stockwin is a renowned professor of modern Japanese studies who clearly interprets the dynamics of Japanese politics and makes them comprehensible to the non-Japanese. He has been promoting the intellectual exchange and understanding between Japan and the UK as the founding director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford. He has published many books, including The Japanese Socialist Party and Neutralism (1968), Dynamics and Immobilist Politics in Japan (1988), and Governing Japan: Divided Politics in a Resurgent Economy (4th ed., 2008).

Photo Exhibitions

[The International House and Asian Intellectual Exchange: From Mutual Understanding to Network-building]

Modeled after intellectual interchange programs with Western countries, the Asian intellectual cooperation program was launched in 1967 for the purpose of nurturing friendly relations with Asian countries through the promotion of intellectual dialogue at the initiative of the non-governmental and private sector. Looking back on the House's history of cultural exchange and intellectual cooperation with Asia after its establishment in 1952, this photo exhibition aims at exploring the future of Asian intellectual exchange with the focus on a slight shift in direction from the enhancement of mutual understanding within a bilateral framework during the Cold War era to network-building in dealing with a global agenda within a multilateral framework after the collapse of the Cold War system.

Venue: Lobby of the International House of Japan
Period: October 1, 2007-January 31, 2008

Photo left to Right: I-House Managing Director Shigeharu Matsumoto and Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru; former Indonesian Ambassador to the U.S., Dr. Soedjatmoko and I-House managing Director Yoichi Maeda; Mr. Goenawan Mohamad, Editor-in-Chief, Tempo Magazine, who resided at the House as a fellow of the Asia Leadership Fellow Program 1997

Past I-House Public Programs

For past I-House Public Programs, please see this page.

Contact

Program Department
International House of Japan
5-11-16 Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo 106-0032 Japan
Tel: +81-3-3470-3211 Fax: +81-3470-3170
E-mail: program*i-house.or.jp (Please replace * with @)