Zoom talks by the 20th Century Japan Research Award (2025) recipients4.4.2026 {en}

The convenors are pleased to host the zoom talks by the recipients of the 20th Century Japan Research Award (2025) at the University of Maryland.

Monday, April 6, at 7-8:15pm EDT – Talks by Mariko Azuma (Ph.D Candidate at Duke) and Yuki Hoshino (Ph.D Candidate at Stanford). Their talk titles are „Hotel Afterlives: The Visual Culture of Requisitioned Hotels During the Allied Occupation of Japan“ (Mariko Azuma) and „So Obviously Censored: Occupation-era Urban Maps of Osaka“ (Yuki Hoshino).
Monday, April 13, at 3-4:15pm EDT – Talk by Dr. Mire Koikari (Professor at University of Hawai’i at Manoa). Her talk title is „Manning the Ocean: Kaikoku Kenji (海国健児), Imperial Naval Academy, and Japan’s Transpacific Seascape.„

Please see our blog posts for more information as well as the zoom links for each event.

The talks are free and open to the public. No need to register in advance.