Center for Japanese Studies @UHManoa. CJS is a coordinating unit in the School of Pacific & Asian Studies, fostering interdisciplinary academic study of Japan.
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ALT Dr. Patricia Steinhoff, retired Professor of Sociology and former Director of the UH Mānoa Center for Japanese Studies, with presenters Adam Manfredi and David Wallace. Dr. Adam Manfredi, Ph.D. in Japanese and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, presented “Murakami Haruki and Japan’s 1968,” exploring how Murakami Haruki’s early novels challenge the narrative of failure surrounding Japan’s 1968 student protests. David Wallace, Ph.D. candidate, in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, presented “Decades of Resistance: Method and Motivation in the Struggle Against New Tokyo International Airport (1964-Present),” exploring the Sanrizuka Struggle, where farming families and leftist students united against the construction of Narita Airport.
ALT Dr. Patricia Steinhoff, retired Professor of Sociology and former Director of the UH Mānoa Center for Japanese Studies, with presenters Adam Manfredi and David Wallace. Dr. Adam Manfredi, Ph.D. in Japanese and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, presented “Murakami Haruki and Japan’s 1968,” exploring how Murakami Haruki’s early novels challenge the narrative of failure surrounding Japan’s 1968 student protests. David Wallace, Ph.D. candidate, in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, presented “Decades of Resistance: Method and Motivation in the Struggle Against New Tokyo International Airport (1964-Present),” exploring the Sanrizuka Struggle, where farming families and leftist students united against the construction of Narita Airport.
ALT CJS Director Mark Levin with Japan Studies Librarian Mitsutaka Nakamura
