Moderator Shutaro Muto (Associate Professor, Niigata University)<\/p>\n
Report 1. Shigekazu Kondo (Professor, The Open University of Japan)
\n\u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa\u2019s Studies of the History of Medieval Southern Kyushu\u201d<\/p>\n
Report 2. Takashi Jinno
\n\u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa’s Historical Research from the 1930s Onward\u201d<\/p>\n
Report 3. Tadashi Ebisawa (Professor, Waseda University)
\n\u201c115 Years After A Study of the Taika Reforms\u201d<\/p>\n
Report 4. Toyomi Asano (Professor, Waseda University)
\n\u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa’s Studies of Legal History and the Origins of the Symbolic Emperor System\u201d<\/p>\n
Discussion<\/p>\n
Part 2: Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa’s East Asian Studies, 10:00 am to 12:40 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator Tadashi Ebisawa<\/p>\n Report 1. Yukimi Masui (Professor, Keiai University) Report 2. Yumiko Tomita-Matsutani (Librarian, Seisen University Library) Report 3. Shutaro Muto (Associate Professor, Niigata University) Discussion<\/p>\n Part 3: Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa and Advocacy for World Peace, 1:40 pm to 4:20 pm<\/strong><\/p>\n Moderator Michio Yamaoka (Professor, Waseda University)<\/p>\n Report 1. Haruko Yamauchi (Director, Seminar on Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa) Report 2. Bo Tao (Graduate Student, Yale University) Report 3. Haruko Nakamura (Research Librarian, Yale University East Asia Library) Discussion<\/p>\n Closing statement Tadashi Ebisawa<\/p>\n Overview of the Event:<\/strong><\/p>\n Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa, a Yale University professor, is known as a researcher who compared the feudal systems in medieval Japan and Europe. He also built the foundations for Japanese studies at Yale by taking on the responsibility of purchasing East Asian texts for the institution. Additionally, he levied various criticisms against the rise of Japanese militarism from the Russo-Japanese War through World War II in his written works and letters. Asakawa was engaged in a wide range of activities, but upon reading his works and letters one can see him integrating academic knowledge from Japan and the West and striving to create a universal humanities transcending East and West. In this symposium, the intention was to consider the ideals concerning knowledge that Asakawa aimed to achieve and thereby to gain an outlook on the future of the humanities at which we should be aiming.<\/p>\n *******************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n In memoriam of 70 years since the death of Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa, the symposium \u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa: The Building of the Humanities and His Legacy\u201d was held over the course of two days in Okuma Auditorium. Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa was the first Japanese national to become a Yale professor, and he was the person who built the foundation for Japanese studies at the university. Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa was born in the city of Nihonmatsu, Fukushima Prefecture. The symposium was attended by many, including members from Fukushima Kenjinkai and the Fukushima-based Asakawa Peace Association. The total number of attendees during the two days was 300.<\/p>\n At the start of the symposium, Professor Lee Sung-si, a director at Waseda University, introduced the audience to Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa and discussed matters such as his involvement with Ryusaku Tsunoda, who graduated from Tokyo Senmon Gakko (now Waseda University), as did Asakawa, before lecturing at Columbia University. Professor Lee also explained that he considered this symposium on Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa\u2014who had profound knowledge of the humanities of the East and West\u2014an opportunity to consider the crisis in, and the revitalization of, the humanities in East Asia.<\/p>\n Next, Waseda University Professor Takashi Jinno explained the purpose of the event, stating that various aspects of Asakawa would be spotlighted for discussion throughout the symposium. Specifically, the aspects to be considered were: in Part 1, Asakawa as a historian; in Part 2, Asakawa as the builder of the foundations for Japanese studies in the US; and, in Part 3, Asakawa as a pacifist. Professor Lee argued, however, that all three of these areas were organically linked with one another through Asakawa’s profound insights as a historian and that revealing these interconnections was the main goal of the symposium. Then, after a detailed description of the life of Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa, the microphone was handed over to the moderator for Part 1, Associate Professor Shutaro Muto.<\/p>\n At the beginning of Part 1, the moderator, Associate Professor Shutaro Muto, related Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa’s body of research as a historian, focusing on his studies of the Taika Reforms and the Iriki documents. Asakawa left numerous unpublished research documents, the Asakawa Papers, to Yale University, and in Part 1, most of the explications aimed to shed light on the overall picture of Asakawa as a historian based on these unpublished papers. After Muto\u2019s explanation of the purpose of this Part, there were presentations by scholars: \u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa\u2019s Studies of the History of Medieval Southern Kyushu\u201d by Professor Shigekazu Kondo, \u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa’s Historical Research from the 1930s Onward\u201d by Professor Takashi Jinno, \u201c115 Years After A Study of the Taika Reforms<\/em>\u201d by Professor Tadashi Ebisawa, and \u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa’s Studies of Legal History and the Origins of the Symbolic Emperor System\u201d by Professor Toyomi Asano. Afterward, the discussion consisted of dialogs among the presenters about their presentations, how they related to one another, and other matters before questions were taken from the audience.<\/p>\n On the second day, report presentations and discussions were conducted in Parts 2 and 3 of the symposium. Part 2 began with the moderator, Tadashi Ebisawa, explaining its purpose. Asakawa often analyzed matters relating to China and appears to have gained a strong interest in the country based, in particular, on the events surrounding the Boxer Rebellion. That time was a period of tumult for East Asia, and this could be described as a tense subject to touch upon. Nonetheless, the presenters each gave detailed reports relating to how Asakawa was involved with East Asia during this period: \u201cWilliam J. Tucker\u2019s University Reforms and the Role of Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa\u201d by Professor Yukimi Masui, \u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa and the Japan Library Association\u201d by Ms. Yumiko Tomita-Matsutani, and \u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa and Modern China\u201d by Associate Professor Shutaro Muto. Afterward, Professor Masui added depth to the discourse in the discussion section by presenting several keywords, including \u201ccosmopolitan,\u201d and then answered questions from the audience.<\/p>\n Next, in Part 3, the moderator, Professor Michio Yamaoka, explained the purpose of the final Part while describing the history of the Seminar on Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa. The scholars for this Part presented the following reports: \u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa’s Post-War Plan \u2018Democracy\u2019 and the Role of an Open Letter\u201d by Ms. Haruko Yamauchi, \u201cSociology and Social Evangelism: The Institute of Pacific Relations and the Progressive Concerns of a Protestant Missionary Network\u201d by Mr. Bo Tao, and \u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa and the International Auxiliary Language Association\u201d by Ms. Haruko Nakamura. Afterward, in the discussion, the moderator asked each presenter questions, leading to a detailed dialogue on matters such as Asakawa’s background as a pacifist, and then questions were taken from the audience.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thus, Part 3 concluded, and Professor Tadashi Ebisawa used his closing remarks to provide an overview of what was discussed in Parts 1 through 3 and to present an outlook on future research. The two-day symposium then drew to a successful close. The proceedings of the symposium are scheduled to be published in February 2019 by Yoshikawa Kobunkan under the tentative title Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa: The Building of the Humanities and His Legacy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Symposium in Memoriam of 70 Years Since the Death of Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa \u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa: The Building of the H […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-event_report-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cWilliam J. Tucker\u2019s University Reforms and the Role of Kan\u2019ichi Asakawa\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa and the Japan Library Association<\/p>\n
\n\u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa and Modern China\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cKan\u2019ichi Asakawa’s Post-War Plan \u2018Democracy\u2019 and the Role of an Open Letter\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSociology and Social Evangelism: The Institute of Pacific Relations and the Progressive Concerns of a Protestant Missionary Network\u201d<\/p>\n
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