EJEA – European Japan Experts Association

The European Union and Japan have signed a major trade agreement, which will get rid of almost all tariffs on goods between them. It’s the EU’s largest trade deal ever, and will cover a third of the global economy. Leaders from both sides are hailing the deal as a victory for free trade, as the world’s biggest economies are racing to put up trade barriers against each other.
We speak to Heinz D. Kurz, economics professor at Austria’s University of Graz and member of the European Japan Experts Association.
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Date: April 13th and 14th, 2018
Venue: Yasuragi, Hamndalsfägen 6, 132 81 Saltsjö-Boo, Sweden
In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Sweden and Japan.
program brochure (with CVs and abstracts, pdf-file)

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14th meeting of the German-Japanese Society for Social Sciences on March 15-17, 2018 at the University of Osnabrück.
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From February 8 to May 31, 2018, the Johann Jacobs Museum presents an exhibition about Japanese sugar plantation workers in Hawai’i and, on the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration, considers a key moment in the history of the modern world: the emergence of Japan as a global power.

In 1885, the King of Hawai‘i commissioned a large oil painting as a gift for the Emperor of Japan–but the painting never reached the Imperial Household. This exhibition displays the painting for the first time outside of Japan, reconstructing its historical context and the lives of its protagonists. The painting serves as a window onto the late-nineteenth century world of the Asia-Pacific region, a world that was transformed by the emergence of Meiji Japan as an international power.

In 2018, the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Restoration, we look back on Japan’s entanglement with the Pacific through its labourers, its commodities and the image it wanted to project overseas. A Painting for the Emperor invites you to cross oceans and genres of art, and to consider more generally practices of framing and unframing in the narration of history.

In cooperation with the Chair for Global History, University of Zurich and the Chair for East Asian Art History, University of Zurich.

https://jacobsfoundation.org/en/a-painting-for-the-emperor/