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...important for students that they can make their own judgment, it’s easier for them to do that if they see historians disagree,” says Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, who teaches Historical Studies A-14, “Japan: Tradition and Transformation,” with History chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. “History is probably one of the best fields to team teach.”Team-taught humanities courses are often divided chronologically.“It’s a little better...
...chair of the History department, tells a story about the first time he had “a sense of real concern about what is going on with this administration.” That point came in a December 2001 planning meeting for Summers’ upcoming trip to Japan. The meeting, held in the president’s office in Mass. Hall, was led by Summers’ chief of staff and included Gordon and Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics Susan Pharr. The president was not present.“It was all about photo-ops and appearances...
...DIED. Shohei Imamura, 79, influential director of post-World War II Japan's new wave, who told haunting, often surreal tales of prostitutes, pimps and working-class heroes; in Tokyo. Rejecting the idealized, selfless protagonists of classical Japanese film, he depicted resilient men and women who guard their dignity even amid brutal conditions. In 1983's The Ballad of Narayama, one of two Imamura films to win the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, residents of a mythic 19th century village struggle with an edict requiring them to abandon their elders to die on a mountain. "I want...
...University with suspicion. Something of a watershed was reached when a student organization invited Howard Fast, a prolific author and a well-known American communist, to speak at one of its periodic forums. Fast was to debate Professor Edwin O. Reischauer (who later became U.S. ambassador to Japan) on the causes of the Korean War.The popular press exploded. Both major Boston newspapers attacked Harvard for permitting a notorious member of the U.S. Communist Party to appear on campus to propagandize innocent undergraduates. A Cambridge City Councilman, Edward A. “Fast Eddie” Sullivan, proposed that Harvard Yard...
...Rocky Relations Re your story on the dispute between South Korea and Japan over the Dokdo/Takeshima islands [May 8], South Korea continues to mistrust Japan more than 50 years after World War II because it continues to print government-approved school textbooks that whitewash the rape of Nanjing, colonial slave labor and the abduction of girls across Asia (including Korea) to serve as prostitutes for its soldiers. Ian Haight Pusan, Korea...