Best Year of Japan Lecture Series (2013-2014) Podcasts

Ranked #1

Part One: The Body in the Films of Akira Kurosawa

Kerim Yasar, Assistant Professor in Japanese, Ohio State University presents The Body in the Films of Akira Kurosawa.

14 Nov 2013

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41mins

Akira Kurosawa

Ranked #2

Part Two: Perspectives on the Meiji Period, Panel

Speakers, Masako Racel, Doug Reynolds, Kazumi Hasegwa and Denis C. Gainty present at Year of Japan panel discussion on t... Read more

21 Nov 2013

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33mins

Ranked #3

Part One: Perspectives on the Meiji Period, Panel

Speakers, Masako Racel, Doug Reynolds, Kazumi Hasegwa and Denis C. Gainty present at Year of Japan panel discussion on t... Read more

21 Nov 2013

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47mins

Ranked #4

Part Two: The Toroku Arsenic Mine, Citizen Activism, and the Asia Arsenic Network

Timothy George will discuss the two parts of his current research project on Toroku, a hamlet in the mountains of Miyaza... Read more

16 Jan 2014

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33mins

Ranked #5

Part One: The Bubble Economy and the Lost Decade: Learning from the Japanese Economic Experience

Since the collapse of Japan's "Bubble Economy" in 1990, Japanese industry, finance, and society have struggled with pers... Read more

6 Mar 2014

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35mins

Ranked #6

Part Two: The Bubble Economy and the Lost Decade: Learning from the Japanese Economic Experience

Since the collapse of Japan's "Bubble Economy" in 1990, Japanese industry, finance, and society have struggled with pers... Read more

6 Mar 2014

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38mins

Ranked #7

Part One: Japan and the United States from Commodore Perry to the Post War Occupation: A Macro Story of Empires in Conflict

Professor LeBaron discusses the macro history of Japan and the United States. National history teaches us what is distin... Read more

27 Feb 2014

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29mins

Ranked #8

Part Two: Japan and the United States from Commodore Perry to the Post War Occupation: A Macro Story of Empires in Conflict

Professor LeBaron discusses the macro history of Japan and the United States. National history teaches us what is distin... Read more

27 Feb 2014

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30mins

Ranked #9

Part One: Roofs Overhead: Keeping Vanishing Folktales Alive

Takashi Takahara discusses Oniitashi (ogre-tilemakers) and Japanese figurative ceramics.

25 Feb 2014

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23mins

Ranked #10

Part One: Colors of Confinement: Examining Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese-American's Incarcerated during World War II

In this illustrated talk, Professor Eric Muller discusses rare Kodachrome photographs of imprisoned Japanese Americans t... Read more

20 Feb 2014

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21mins

Ranked #11

Part Two: Colors of Confinement: Examining Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese-American's Incarcerated during World War II

In this illustrated talk, Professor Eric Muller discusses rare Kodachrome photographs of imprisoned Japanese Americans t... Read more

20 Feb 2014

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19mins

Ranked #12

Part One: What Japan’s Department Stores Reveal About Gender, Culture and Consumerism in Modern Japan

Expanding from Edo (Tokugawa) Era Japanese merchant stores from the 1600s, full-scale department stores emerged in Japan... Read more

23 Jan 2014

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37mins

Ranked #13

Part Two: The Beauty and the Tyrant: The Legend of Giō in the Tale of the Heike and Beyond

Giō is a female dancer loved and abandoned by the powerful and ruthless military leader Taira no Kiyomori. Her story app... Read more

7 Nov 2013

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40mins

Ranked #14

Part One: The Beauty and the Tyrant: The Legend of Giō in the Tale of the Heike and Beyond

Giō is a female dancer loved and abandoned by the powerful and ruthless military leader Taira no Kiyomori. Her story app... Read more

7 Nov 2013

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38mins

Ranked #15

Japanese Printmaking: History, Techniques, and Motifs

The lecture will provide an introduction and overview into Japanese woodblock prints from the 17th to 19th century, comm... Read more

31 Oct 2013

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1hr 23mins

Ranked #16

Part One: Authentic Japanese Karate: A Performance and Explanation

Wayne Van Horne, Associate Professor of Anthropology explains and demonstrates Karate.

24 Oct 2013

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28mins

Ranked #17

Part One: The Japanese "Wild Geese": The Recruitment, Roles and Reputation of Japanese Mercenaries in Southeast Asia, 1593-1688

For almost a hundred years Japanese fighting men were employed across a wide area of Southeast Asia as mercenaries in th... Read more

17 Oct 2013

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41mins

Ranked #18

Part Two: The Japanese "Wild Geese": The Recruitment, Roles and Reputation of Japanese Mercenaries in Southeast Asia, 1593-1688

For almost a hundred years Japanese fighting men were employed across a wide area of Southeast Asia as mercenaries in th... Read more

17 Oct 2013

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45mins

Ranked #19

Behind the Mask: The Mysterious Samurai

For many people their introduction to the samurai – Japan’s hereditary warrior class - happens when they visit a museum ... Read more

17 Oct 2013

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1hr 1min

Ranked #20

Part One: Japan in the Eyes of KSU Students

A student panel leads discussion on Japanese culture and experiences while in Japan.

19 Sep 2013

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37mins