Roundtable Japan

This roundtable brings together several leading scholars to examine Japanese sports through historical and sociological lenses. The discussion offers a dynamic look at how sports reflect and shape Japanese society by exploring themes from nationalism and identity to the cultural meanings of celebrity and disability. Dr. Robin Kietlinski , historian, gender studies and Japanese studies scholar, ope...

More than fifteen years have passed since the Japanese Ministry of Education’s Global 30 project, which encouraged universities to accept more international students and was followed by a series of other projects that led to an increase in English-medium instruction (EMI) across faculties, newly-designed English-taught programs (ETP), and the concomitant hiring of many scholars with doctoral degre...

“Has Japan solved the problem of homelessness? And even if it has not, what lessons for other countries does the Japanese experience have to offer?  According to Japanese government statistics, Japan’s street homeless population peaked in 2003 at 25,296. The figure for 2023 was 2,830 – 2,575 men, 172 women, and 73 ‘unclear’. That is an 89% decline. Of course these figures must be treated with caut...