Greetings!
Philosopher Takahashi Tetsuya offers a wide-ranging critical assessment of
Japan's 3.11 triple disaster and current plans to resume nuclear power.
Positing the existence of a 'sacrificial system', he assesses not only the
responsibility of the Japanese state and TEPCO for the disaster, but also
the Japanese people, particularly those (himself included) who had
benefited from the nuclear power system in the Tokyo metropolitan region.
Announcing the Kyoko Selden Memorial
Translation Prize in Japanese Literature, Thought, and Society
The Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University is pleased
to announce a prize honoring the life and work of their colleague Kyoko
Selden. The prize will pay homage to the finest achievements in Japanese
literature, thought, and society through the medium of translation. Kyoko
Selden's translations and writings ranged widely across such realms as
Japanese women writers, the atomic bomb experience, Ainu life and culture,
historical and contemporary literature, poetry and prose, Japanese art, and
early education (the Suzuki method). In the same spirit, the prize will
recognize the breadth of Japanese writings, classical and contemporary.
The winning translations will be published online at The Asia-Pacific
Journal: Japan Focus. Deadline application: May 31, 2014. For more
information see here.
Have you used the APJ search engine? The best results may be obtained by
going to the left home page and typing in key words such as Okinawa, 3.11,
energy, or Vietnam War under Title.
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you wish to print it. It can also be copied and pasted into a Word file to
adjust type size and font. Let us know if you encounter problems. info.japanfocus@gmail.com.
Thanks to the generous support of our readers, we succeeded in
raising more than $12,000 to fund the Journal for 2014. The Journal will
remain free. You can still support the journal at our home page with your
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