Focus 580 with David Inge
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
Monday thru Friday, 10 am to noon on WILL-AM 580
Interview Archives: Japan
Wednesday February 18, 2004, 10:06 AM
"Picturing Performance: Japanese Theater Prints of the Utagawa School", on exhibit at The Krannert Art Museum, January 23 - March 21
Ron Toby, Professor of Japanese History, University of Illinois
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Categories: Art and Design • History • Theatre • Japan
Tuesday January 04, 2005, 10:06 AM
Japan Today
Kevin Doak, Ph.D., Department Chair East Asian Languages & Cultures and Nippon Foundation Chair, Georgetown University
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Categories: Foreign Policy-U.S. • International Affairs • Japan
Friday February 04, 2005, 11:06 AM
WRONG ABOUT JAPAN: A FATHER'S JOURNEY WITH HIS SON
Peter Carey, Author
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Categories: Children • Asia • Japan
Friday October 13, 2006, 11:06 AM
SHUTTING OUT THE SUN: HOW JAPAN CREATED ITS OWN LOST GENERATION
Michael Zielenziger, Visiting Scholar at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley
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Tuesday November 21, 2006, 11:06 AM
MISHIMA’S SWORD: TRAVELS IN SEARCH OF A SAMURAI LEGEND
Christopher Ross, Writer
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Tuesday December 12, 2006, 11:06 AM
BREAKING OPEN JAPAN: COMMODORE PERRY, LORD ABE, AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM IN 1853
George Feifer, Writer
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Categories: History • Asia • Japan
Wednesday December 27, 2006, 11:06 AM
BREAKING OPEN JAPAN: COMMODORE PERRY, LORD ABE, AND AMERICAN IMPERIALISM IN 1853
George Feifer, Writer
This is a repeat broadcast from Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 11 am
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Categories: History • Asia • Japan
Thursday October 22, 2009, 10:06 AM
The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan
Scott O'Bryan, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of History; Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University
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Categories: Business and Economy • Cultural Studies • Economics • Asia • Japan
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