Japanese Power at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Event Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Dr. Susan Napier, Professor and Director of the Japanese Program at Tufts University

Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 3:30 p.m.
UT Campus, Meyerson Conference Room (WCH 4.118),
Dr. Susan Napier, Professor and Director of the Japanese Program at Tufts University, will speak on "Of Consumption, Cosplay, and Canaries: Japanese Power at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century." If Japan represents the future, what do we have to fear or hope for? Dr. Napier suggests that Japan act as a kind of sociocultural "canary in a coal mine", a kind of advance warning system for other industrialized nations—both positive and negative.

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