Events

【Yanai Initiative】Open Talk “From Karma to Kabuki: Kasane and the Making of an Early Modern Ghost” (July 2)

Dr. Daniel Poch (University of Hong Kong) Public Lecture | Sexuality and Aesthetic Knowledge in Mori Ōgai’s Literary Fiction | Thursday, June 25, 2026

Prof. Haruo Shirane Open Seminar | The Eco-Social Imaginary: A New Approach to Ghosts and the Supernatural in Japan | Wednesday, June 24, 2026

【Yanai Initiative】Open Talk “Beyond the Travel Guide: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Portrayal of “Kyoto” and “Tourism”” (June 8)

【Yanai Initiative】Open Talk “Did Heian-Period Infants Tell ‘Monogatari’?” (January 30)

【Yanai Initiative】Open Talk “Naruse Mikio and the Image of “Shoes”: Exploring the Japanese Reception of the Bluebird Film Shoes” (December 19)

【Yanai Initiative】Symposium “Aurality and Modernity: New Directions in Radio Studies” (November 30)

【Yanai Initiative】Open Talk ” Journey through the Ancient Imperial Capitals of Japan with Waka Poetry” (November 20)

【Yanai Initiative】Lecture By “Oppenheimer” Playwright Allan Marett “The Oppenheimer Noh: a story for the nuclear age viewed through an ancient lens.” (August 5)

【Yanai Initiative】Open Talk “What Novelists Heard in Silent Cinemas: Sound Culture in Japan” (July 11)