Events

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

Public lecture (7/28) “The Circulation of Pure Land Imaginaire in Medieval East Asia: Focusing on Yuanzhao’s Pure Land Maṇḍala.”

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

Echoes of Asia: Emotion of East and West Asian Music (7/10) ◆Deadline: 07/03, 9am *Sign-up required

Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Conferral Ceremonies for September 2025

【Yanai Initiative】Four Days of English Language Noh : Oppenheimer/Blue Moon Over Memphis (August 6-9)

【Yanai Initiative】Lecture “Preserving and Reviving 1930s Japanese Paper Films”（June 13）

【Yanai Initiative】Open Talk “I See Dead People: Touring Jigoku on Mt. Tateyama” (June 19)

【Yanai Initiative】Paper Film Screening Event “The Hidden Origins of Japanese Animation” (June 14 – July 6)

【Yanai Initiative】International symposium “Japan Past & Present: Reimagining a Global Field” (May 29-31)