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Japan Society Annual Report 2006–07
Founded in 1907, Japan Society is a nonprofit, nonpolitical
organization that brings the people of Japan and the United
States closer together through understanding, appreciation
and cooperation. Society programs in the arts, business,
education and public policy offer opportunities to experience
Japanese culture; to foster sustained and open dialogue on
issues important to the U.S., Japan and East Asia; and to
improve access to information on Japan.
Front cover: Photo © Christine Knorr.
Japan Society
Annual Report 2006–07
Photo © Peter Aaron/Esto.
Contents
Directors & Officers
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Letter from the President
3
Centennial Honorary Committee
4
Japan Society Centennial
5
Special Events
6
Committees
10
Global Affairs
11
Corporate & Policy Programs
12
Policy Projects
17
Fellowships & Exchanges
20
Arts & Culture
22
Gallery
23
Performing Arts Program
28
Film Program
33
Lecture Programs
38
Education
41
Education Programs
42
Toyota Language Center &
C.V. Starr Library
47
Administration
49
Financial Statement
51
Japan Society Donors
52
Staff
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Summary in Japanese
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Directors & Officers
Directors
Deryck C. Maughan
Officers
Yoroku Adachi
Managing Director & Chairman, Kohlberg Kravis
Roberts Asia
Michael I. Sovern
President and CEO, Canon U.S.A., Inc.
Honorary Chairman
James S. McDonald
Gregory A. Boyko
James S. McDonald
Chairman and CEO, Hartford Life International, Ltd.
Chairman, Japan Society
President and CEO, Rockefeller & Co., Inc.
Henry Cornell
Henry A. McKinnell, Jr.**
Hideyuki Takahashi
Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Chairman of the Board and CEO, Pfizer Inc
Vice Chairman
Michael E. Daniels*
Masato Mori
Richard J. Wood
Senior Vice President, Global Technology
Services, IBM Corporation
President and CEO, Nippon Steel U.S.A., Inc.
President
Chairman
Jiro Murase**
Kendall Hubert
Anne d’Harnoncourt
Managing Partner, Bingham McCutchen Murase
The George D. Widener Director, Philadelphia
Museum of Art
Senior Vice President & Director of
External Relations
Satoru Murase
Partner, Bingham McCutchen Murase
Raymond M. Cochran
Chairman, Korea Exchange Bank
Kyota Omori
Vice President & Treasurer, Director of
Finance & Administration
Atsuko Toko Fish
Managing Executive Officer and CEO for the
Americas, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd.
Daniel A. Rosenblum
U.S.-Japan Cross Cultural Communication
Consultant
William G. Parrett
Vice President & Director, Corporate &
Policy Programs
Robert E. Fallon
Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Carol Gluck*
Susan J. Onuma
George Sansom Professor of History,
Columbia University
Peter G. Peterson**
Shinichi Goto
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
Senior Vice President, Toyota Motor North
America, Inc.
Chairman and CEO, WL Ross & Co. LLC
Honorary Patrons
H.E. Ryozo Kato
Joshua N. Solomon
Maurice R. Greenberg
Secretary
Senior Chairman, The Blackstone Group
Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Co.
Co-founder, East-West School of International
Studies
David W. Heleniak
Michael I. Sovern**
Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley
President Emeritus and Chancellor Kent Professor
of Law, Columbia University
Ambassador of Japan to the United States
of America
H.E. Kenzo Oshima
Merit E. Janow
Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Japan
to the United Nations
H.E. Motoatsu Sakurai
Professor, International Economic Law &
International Affairs, Columbia University
Howard Stringer
Frederick H. Katayama
Hideyuki Takahashi*
Anchor, Reuters
Vice Chairman, Japan Society
President and CEO, Nomura Holding America, Inc.
Mary Griggs Burke
Ryoichi Ueda
Tatsuro Goto
President and CEO, Mitsubishi International
Corporation
Robert S. Ingersoll
Susumu Kato*
President and CEO, Sumitomo Corporation
of America
Richard S. Lanier*
Chairman, Japan Society Executive Committee
President, Asian Cultural Council
Ambassador, Consul General of Japan in New York
Chairman and CEO, Sony Corporation
Honorary Directors
William W. Scranton
Paul A. Volcker**
Former Chairman of the Board of Governors,
Federal Reserve System
Edgar B. Young †
Stephen H. Long
President, International Operations, Citigroup Inc.
Richard J. Wood
President, Japan Society
Jun Makihara
Chairman, Neoteny Co., Ltd.
Motokazu Yoshida*
President and CEO, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.
* Member of the Executive Committee ** Life Director † Deceased April 2007
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Directors are listed as of February 28, 2007 to
reflect the work of those who contributed their
time in the service of Japan Society’s centennial
celebration. Please visit www.japansociety.org for
a current listing.
Letter From the President
When Japan Society was founded in 1907 by a group of New York leaders responding to
the visit of General Baron Tamemoto Kuroki, its founders correctly anticipated the importance of the Japan-U.S. relationship. In his keynote address 100 years later at the Society’s
Centennial Gala, former President Bill Clinton highlighted key contemporary issues in which
the Japan-U.S. relationship is extremely important: coping with climate change, finding a
peaceful solution in the Korean peninsula, integrating China into the international system,
and supporting Russia’s transition to a market economy and a democratic society. As Mr.
Clinton put it, progress in these areas “could not have happened without Japan.”
Photo © Ken Levinson.
The work of Japan Society—improving mutual understanding between our peoples—is
important because the Japan-U.S. relationship is important. Our founders would be surprised and pleased to learn that in this, its 100th year, Japan Society in New York City has
become North America’s single largest producer of high-quality content about Japan for
an English-speaking audience. In the fall of 2007 the gallery mounted a major exhibition
of modern Japanese ceramics: Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century
curated by Joe Earle, Chair of the Department of Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa at the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, who joins Japan Society in September 2007 as Vice
President and Director, Japan Society Gallery. The centennial exhibitions are Awakenings:
Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan (March 28–June 17, 2007) and Making a Home:
Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York (October 5, 2007–January 13, 2008).
In this centennial year our Performing Arts Program has already presented performances of pioneering contemporary Japanese theater
and dance as well as international works inspired by Japanese performing arts, and this summer, outdoor noh and kyogen. In addition,
this summer saw the Society’s first-ever large-scale festival of newest Japanese films, JAPAN CUTS, mounted by our Film Program.
Our Centennial Speakers Series began in January with exclusive discussions by top Japanese and U.S. business leaders, policymakers
and academics who have worked to shape the current nature of Japan-U.S. relations. Among the featured speakers were Eikoh Harada,
Governor Shintaro Ishihara, Yuzaburo Mogi, Joseph Nye and Ezra Vogel, with many more to come during the second half of the Society’s
centennial celebrations, which run through May 2008.
In June, Japan Society mounted TECH EPOCH, an 11-day program featuring advanced robots with opportunities for audience interaction.
This series linked the corporate and policy programs, the arts and education. The Education Program has expanded its work with New York
area students and teachers, and, through a new website, will provide Japan-related curricular materials to teachers outside the region.
Using digital media to share the content Japan Society produces, and to interact with and receive content from people in many locations,
will be an increasingly important part of our future. A new partnership with Keio University enables real-time, ultra high-speed, ultra highdefinition digital links with Keio and other leading universities around the world.
The U.S.-Japan Innovators Project used the Keio University partnership to great effect by bringing in a speaker from San Francisco to its
public symposium in Tokyo on January 23 and a speaker from Tokyo to its New York public symposium on May 24. The Innovators Project,
having completed a successful third year, is building a network of Japanese and American leaders who can collaborate on new solutions
to pressing social concerns to improve the quality of life, not just in Japan and the United States, but throughout the world.
Sincerely,
Richard J. Wood
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Japan Society Centennial Honorary Committee
Co-Chairs
David Rockefeller
Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda
Vice Chairs
The Honorable J. Thomas Schieffer,
United States Ambassador to Japan
His Excellency Ryozo Kato,
Ambassador of Japan to the U.S.
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The Honorable Michael H. Armacost
The Honorable Howard H. Baker, Jr.
The Honorable James A. Baker III
The Honorable Nancy Kassebaum Baker
The Honorable John Brademas
Tom Brokaw
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
Mary Griggs Burke
Dick Cavett
Willard G. Clark
The Honorable William Clark, Jr.
Professor Gerald L. Curtis
Richard and Peggy Danziger
Marian Wright Edelman
Dr. Frank L. Ellsworth
James M. Fallows
The Honorable Thomas S. Foley
Houghton Freeman
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
Charles O. Holliday, Jr.
The Honorable Robert S. Ingersoll
The Honorable Daniel K. Inouye
Jasper Johns
Professor Donald Keene
Dr. Henry Kissinger
William P. Lauder
Kurt and Tomoko Masur
Sir Deryck Maughan
Dr. Henry A. McKinnell, Jr.
The Honorable Norman Y. Mineta
The Honorable Walter F. and Joan Mondale
Jiro Murase, Esq.
The Honorable Paul H. O’Neill, Sr.
Dr. George R. Packard
The Honorable Leon Panetta
Professor Hugh Patrick
The Honorable Peter G. Peterson
Donald Richie
The Honorable John D. Rockefeller IV
Charlie Rose
The Honorable Donna Shalala
Isaac Shapiro
Stephen Sondheim
Michael I. Sovern
Julie Taymor
Alair Townsend
Professor Ezra F. Vogel
The Honorable Paul A. Volcker
Jack and Susy Wadsworth
Alan Webber
John W. Weidman
Robert Wilson
The Honorable Timothy E. Wirth
Edgar B. Young †
Tadao Ando
Setsu Asakura
Tetsuya Chikushi
Shinji Fukukawa
Dr. Yoichi Funabashi
Toyoo Gyohten
Noboru Hatakeyama
Dr. Kazuo Inamori
Arata Isozaki
Hideo Kanze ††
The Honorable Yoriko Kawaguchi
Kakutaro Kitashiro
Yotaro Kobayashi
Ambassador Takakazu Kuriyama
Nobuo Kuroyanagi
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Fumihiko Maki
Minoru Makihara
Hideki Matsui
Fujio Mitarai
Kenji Miyahara
The Honorable Kiichi Miyazawa††
Yuzaburo Mogi
Madame Hanae Mori
Minoru and Yoshiko Mori
Yoshiko Morita
Takeomi Nagayama †††
The Honorable Yasuhiro Nakasone
Taizo Nishimuro
Mansaku Nomura
Shijuro and Sadako Ogata
Ambassador Kazuo Ogoura
Kazuo Ohno
Ambassador Yoshio Okawara
Yoko Ono
Ambassador Hisashi Owada
Ambassador Kunihiko Saito
Tojuro Sakata
Somei Satoh
Ambassador Yukio Satoh
Soshitsu Sen XVI
Masahiro Shinoda
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Tadashi Suzuki
Tasuku Takagaki
Yoshio Taniguchi
Saburo Teshigawara
Dr. Junichi Ujiie
Jiro Ushio
† Deceased April 2007
†† Deceased June 2007
††† Deceased December 2006
As of June 29, 2007
J A PA N 1 00 :
Celebrating a Century 1907–2007
Japan Society celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2007–08 with
over 100 events and special centennial programs held throughout
New York City and Japan.
Japan Society is grateful for the generous support
of our Centennial Sponsors:
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The Society would also like to thank the Blanchette Hooker
Rockefeller Fund and David Rockefeller for their very generous
Centennial gifts.
Media sponsorship is provided by WNYC and LTB Media. As part
of the Millennium on View Program, Millennium UN Plaza is the
preferred hotel partner of Japan Society’s Centennial.
*CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION*
Celebrating a Century
An Exhibition from Japan Society’s Archives
Part 1: 1907–1918 • 1
Part 2: 1919–1941 • 1
F E B R U A RY– 3 1 M AY
JUNE–31 AUGUST
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The first two sections of a five-part rotating exhibition of select archival
materials from Japan Society’s 100-year history, including photographs,
letters, ephemera and books, exhibited on the Society’s A level (exhibition
concludes in June 2008).
* C E N T E N N I A L P U B L I C AT I O N *
Japan Society: Celebrating a Century 1907–2007
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A book commemorating Japan Society’s centennial by Michael A.
Auslin, revised and updated from Edwin O. Reischauer’s Japan Society
1907–1982: 75 Years of Partnership Across the Pacific (the Society’s
75th anniversary publication).
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1 Japan Society President Lindsay Russell and Executive Committee
member Hamilton Holt (Editor and Proprietor of the New York
Independent) at a dinner held in their honor at the Imperial Hotel
in Tokyo on September 25, 1911. Illustration from Tokyo Graffic.
2 A luncheon in honor of Ambassador Masayuki Tani, held at
the Plaza in March 1956.
3 His Imperial Highness Prince Naruhito and Mrs. John D.
Rockefeller 3rd view the Japan Society Gallery exhibition
Spectacular Helmets of Japan: 16th–19th Centuries in 1985.
Photo © William Irwin.
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4 A 1987 gala evening in honor of His Imperial Highness Crown
Prince Akihito (left to right): Billy Taylor, Carol Vaness, His Imperial
Highness Crown Prince Akihito, Aprile Millo, Her Imperial Highness
Princess Michiko, Japan Society Chairman Cyrus Vance and Ron
Richardson. Photo © Osamu Honda/Japan Society.
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Special Events
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Japan Society Centennial Gala Dinner
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1 Guests enjoy the festive evening at the Hilton NY Grand Ballroom. Photo ©
Satoru Ishikawa.
2 Left to right: Richard J. Wood, President, Japan Society; The Hon. J. Thomas
Schieffer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan; The Hon. John D. Rockefeller IV, U.S.
Senator, West Virginia; actor Ken Watanabe; Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda; and David
Rockefeller. Photo © Osamu Honda.
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The Gala Dinner celebrating Japan Society’s 100th anniversary,
held on May 9, 2007 at the Hilton New York, was an historic
evening and an important night for U.S.-Japan relations. Actor
and Master of Ceremonies George Takei welcomed nearly
1,000 guests gathered to honor Japan Society’s past, present
and future. Former President Bill Clinton, introduced by The
Hon. Paul A. Volcker, delivered a thoughtful and compelling
keynote speech to conclude the momentous evening. Special
guests of honor included Co-Chairs of the Centennial Honorary
Committee David Rockefeller and Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, as well
as The Hon. John D. Rockefeller IV, who shared his insight on
the Society’s centennial.
H.E. Motoatsu Sakurai, Ambassador and Consul General of Japan
in New York, presented the Foreign Minister’s Commendation
to Japan Society on behalf of Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro
Aso, following remarks from Japan Society’s chairman and
president. Living National Treasure kabuki actor Sakata
Tojuro IV treated the audience to a magnificent performance.
Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, Honorary Chairman of Toyota Motor
Corporation, received the Japan Society Centennial Award.
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3 Former and current ambassadors greet former
President Bill Clinton (left to right): The Hon. J. Thomas
Schieffer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and Mrs. Schieffer;
The Hon. Howard H. Baker, Jr., former U.S. Ambassador
to Japan; former President Bill Clinton; The Hon.
Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former U.S. Senator; H.E.
Kenzo Oshima, U.N. Ambassador to Japan, and Mrs.
Oshima; and The Hon. Walter F. Mondale, former
U.S. Ambassador to Japan. Photo © Zack Seckler.
4 Amb. Motoatsu Sakurai, Consul General of
Japan in New York, presents the Foreign Minister’s
Commendation to Japan Society President Richard J.
Wood (left) and Chairman James S. McDonald
(right). Photo © Satoru Ishikawa.
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5 Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda (left) receives the Japan
Society Centennial Award from Japan Society
Chairman James S. McDonald and Senator John D.
Rockefeller IV (right). Photo © Satoru Ishikawa.
6 Actor Ken Watanabe (left) with David Rockefeller.
Photo © Zack Seckler.
7 Former President Bill Clinton delivers the keynote
speech. Photo © Zack Seckler.
8 The Hon. Paul A. Volcker welcomes keynote
speaker Bill Clinton (left) to the stage. Photo ©
Satoru Ishikawa.
9 Performance by Sakata Tojuro IV, Living National
Treasure kabuki actor. Photo © Zack Seckler.
10 Martha Stewart meets Sakata Tojuro IV following
his kabuki performance, as Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. looks
on (far left). Photo © Satoru Ishikawa.
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the audience. Photo © Zack Seckler.
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1 Left to right: Joe Earle, Chair, Art of Asia, Oceania and
Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Dr. Kurt A. Gitter;
and Alice R. Yelen at the opening preview and reception
for Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New
Century. Photo © George Hirose.
2 Halsey and Alice North with ceramic artist Sueharu
Fukami at the opening preview and reception for
Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century.
Photo © George Hirose.
3 Hisashi Yamada, Director of Urasenke Chanoyu Center,
Yoko Makino (center) and Gina L. Chu (right) at the opening preview and reception for Contemporary Clay: Japanese
Ceramics for the New Century. Photo © George Hirose.
4 Dr. and Mrs. Richard J. Wood (left) greet Sir Howard
Stringer, Chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation, at a
reception in Tokyo introducing Dr. Wood as the new
President of Japan Society. Photo © Naho Baba.
5 Ann Nitze (left) and Judith Wood (right) with Yukio
Lippit, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art &
Architecture, Harvard University, at a dinner celebrating
the opening of Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval
Japan. Photo © George Hirose.
6 Guests at Japan Society’s Centennial Kick-Off Celebration
following Big Dance Theater’s performance of The Other
Here (left to right): Amon Miyamoto, Japanese theater
and Broadway director; Annie-B Parson, Co-Director,
Big Dance Theater; Richard S. Lanier, President, Asian
Cultural Council; Richard J. Wood, President, Japan
Society; and Paul Lazar, Co-Director, Big Dance Theater.
7 At the annual Japanese New Year’s Celebration,
guests sample traditional New Year’s foods. Photo ©
George Hirose.
8 Left to right: Actress Asaka Seto, singer and pianist
Akiko Yano, and film director Masayuki Suo following
the international premiere screening of I Just Didn’t Do It.
9 Noh & Kyogen in the Park actors Nomura Mansai,
Nomura Yuki and Umekawa Rokuro and musician Kamei
Hirotada (left to right) are joined by Japan Society Artistic
Director Yoko Shioya and audience member Mayuko
Kawakita at the opening night champagne reception.
© George Hirose.
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10 Left to right: Dean Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished
Service Professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of
Government; Richard J. Wood, President, Japan Society;
Yoko Makino; and The Hon. John Brademas, President
Emeritus of New York University, at a dinner hosted by
Ms. Makino at her residence following a lecture by Prof.
Nye. Photo © Yoko Suzuki.
11 Film director Alejandro González Iñárritu and actors
Rinko Kikuchi and Gael García Bernal at a special preview
screening of Babel. Photo © George Hirose.
12 H.I.H. Princess Takamado and acclaimed architect
Yoshio Taniguchi at a reception in Tokyo introducing
Richard J. Wood as the new President of Japan Society.
Photo © Naho Baba.
13 Left to right: Dr. John K. Gillespie, Stephen E. Globus
and noh actor Umekawa Rokuro, at the opening night
champagne reception of Noh & Kyogen in the Park.
14 Elizabeth Andoh, a writer and lecturer specializing in
Japanese food culture, conducts a special demonstration
and food tasting entitled “Washoku: Bringing Harmony
to Table,” held at the home of Halsey and Alice North.
Photo © Yoko Suzuki.
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Committees
Executive Committee*
Richard Lanier, Chair
Michael E. Daniels
Carol Gluck
Susumu Kato
Satoru Murase
Hideyuki Takahashi
Motokazu Yoshida
Seiji Tsutsumi
Jiro Ushio
Goro Watanabe
Ambassador Koji Watanabe
Program Committee*
Merit E. Janow, Chair
Robert G. Scott
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
Ryoichi Ueda
Susan Dentzer
Atsuko Toko Fish
Maurice R. Greenberg
Susumu Kato
Jun Makihara
Joshua N. Solomon
Hideyuki Takahashi
Finance Committee*
Art Advisory Committee
Robert G. Scott, Chair
Dr. Samuel Sachs, II, Chair
Gregory A. Boyko
Susumu Kato
Stephen H. Long
Jun Makihara
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
Michael Cunningham
Anne d’Harnoncourt
Margot Paul Ernst
Barbara B. Ford
Richard S. Lanier
Thomas Lentz
Stephen L. Little
Anne N. Morse
Amy G. Poster
Julian Raby
Emily J. Sano
Lea R. Sneider
Yoshiaki Shimizu
Jeremy Strick
Investment Committee*
Henry Cornell, Chair
Nominating and Corporate
Governance Committee*
David W. Heleniak, Chair
Robert E. Fallon
Merit E. Janow
Susumu Kato
Jun Makihara
Deryck C. Maughan
Henry A. McKinnell, Jr.
Kyota Omori
Audit Committee*
Satoru Murase, Chair
Stephen H. Long
Masato Mori
William G. Parrett
Japan Advisory Committee*
Shoichiro Toyoda, Chair
Kensuke Hotta
Kazuo Inamori
Yotaro Kobayashi
Minoru Makihara
Fujio Mitarai
Yoshihiko Miyauchi
Yuzaburo Mogi
Minoru Mori
Ambassador Moriyuki Motono
Minoru Murofushi
Yoshio Nakamura
Takeo Shiina
Shinjiro Shimizu
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Honorary Members
Sondra Castile
Sherman E. Lee
John Rosenfield
Corporate Council
Michael Auslin
Susumu Awanohara
Philip Berkowitz
William Ferguson
Lisa Finstrom
Michael Green
Mark Halperin
Shigeru Handa
Keiko Ikawa
Fred Katayama
Michael Krupa
Edward Lincoln
Jun Makihara
Satoru Murase
Alicia Ogawa
James Reed
Ann Rutledge
George Warnock
Film Advisory Committee
Donald Richie, Chair
Mary Lea Bandy
Celeste Bartos
Robert Gottlieb
Junji Kitadai
Akira Koike
Keiko I. McDonald
Masayo Okada
Nagisa Oshima
Richard Pena
Daniel Talbot
Performing Arts Advisory
Committee
Laurence Kominz, Chair
Philip Bither
John Gillespie
David G. Goodman
Stephen Greco
Margaret Lawrence
Judy Mitoma
W. Anthony Sheppard
John Weidman
Robert Woodruff
Yoshito Hori
Joichi Ito
Shuhei Kishimoto
Michael Kobori
Terrie Lloyd
Oki Matsumoto
Alicia Ogawa
Debra van Opstal
Thierry Porte
James G. Reed
Ann Rutledge
Hiroaki Saito
Ken Shibusawa
Hirotaka Takeuchi
Alan Webber
Keith Yamashita
U.S.-Japan Innovators Project
Cultural Advisory Committee
Honorary Members
James Brandon
Karen Brazell
Donald Keene
Thomas Rimer
Ralph Samuelson
Akihiko Senda
David d’Heilly
Thelma Golden
Yasuki Hamano
Yuko Hasegawa
Minoru Iki
Taneo Kato
Douglas McGray
Dominic Molon
Taeko Nagai
Fumio Nanjo
Shigeaki Saegusa
Ralph Samuelson
Emily Sano
Hiroshi Yanai
Board of Advisors
Social Advisory Committee
Susan Dentzer
Glen Fukushima
Glenn Hubbard
Kakutaro Kitashiro
Joseph Melillo
Fujio Mitarai
Wilbur L. Ross
Shinjiro Shimizu
Mitsuko Shimomura
Hirotaka Takeuchi
Hiroshi Tsukamoto
Yoshinori Yamaoka
Masakazu Yamazaki
Ayako Fujii
Rosanne Haggerty
Keiko Kiyama
Megumu Mizuta
Zenko Oda
Kensuke Onishi
Michael Reich
Yoshinori Yamaoka
Business Advisory Committee
Jack D. Cogen
Aron Cramer
Michael E. Daniels
Robert E. Fallon
*All executive committee listings are as
of October 19, 2006 to reflect the work of
those who contributed their time in the
service of Japan Society’s centennial
celebration.
Global Affairs
Outspoken Tokyo Governor
Shintaro Ishihara fields questions
from members of the press
following his evening critique
of the U.S.-Japan alliance. Photo
© Ken Levinson.
Corporate & Policy Programs
Japan Society’s Corporate & Policy Programs
2006–07 programming season launched amidst
significant political changes in Japan. September 20,
2006 brought an end to Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi’s administration, as noteworthy for its success
in revitalizing the Japanese economy as for its failure
to repair damaged relations with China and South
Korea. There was much speculation surrounding
incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Would he be
able to continue his predecessor’s structural reforms
that had so successfully brought the Japanese economy
back from 15 years of stagnation? Would he demonstrate the political will to reach out to Japan’s neighbors
who took offence to Kozumi’s repeated public visits to
Yasukuni Shrine?
While the Corporate & Policy Programs covered a
wide range of topics over the course of the season—
from digital privacy issues and Japan’s continued
economic recovery to corporate social responsibility
and Japan’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Law,
referred to as J-SOX—the underlying theme throughout was Japan’s evolving role on the regional and
global stages. Policy makers, business people and
academics visited to offer various perspectives on how
Japan could provide political and economic leadership
in a changing regional landscape, and how the U.S.Japan relationship could continue to form the underpinnings for security and stability throughout Asia.
On the policy side, former Assistant Secretary of State
James Kelly joined us to discuss Sino-Japanese tensions
and security implications for the U.S. Following a
breakthrough agreement in the stalled Six-Party Talks
to end North Korea’s nuclear arms program, lead U.S.
negotiator Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of
State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, gave his
assessment of the negotiations and the prospects for
denuclearization. We were joined in April by the
Ambassadors and Consuls General in New York from
Japan and India to examine the future of Indo-Japan
economic relations. In May, Tokyo Governor Shintaro
Ishihara offered his frank views on ways to improve
and strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance in the face of
China’s military rise.
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In business, we had the pleasure of taking a group
of distinguished U.S. executives, including New York
Stock Exchange Chairman Marshall Carter and Estée
Lauder President and CEO William Lauder, to exchange
views with Nippon Keidanren executives on corporate
social responsibility strategies U.S. and Japanese
multinationals use when operating in China and other
overseas markets. In December, we welcomed New
Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, who discussed the
importance of Japanese business investment to his
state’s economy. In late January, the CEOs of the
Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges visited to speak
about steps their exchanges are taking to meet the
demands of global financial markets. Along with
Korea Society, we co-hosted USTR’s Wendy Cutler,
who negotiated the recent Korean-U.S. free trade
agreement. Ms. Cutler evaluated the deal and offered
her thoughts on how the KORUS FTA will affect trade
between the U.S. and Japan.
Among academics who spoke this season, Harvard’s
Professor Ezra Vogel provided historical perspective
on the recent political tensions plaguing the JapanChina relationship in a program titled “Japan: From
China War to China Peace.” Harvard’s Kennedy School
of Government’s Joseph Nye later picked up on
this theme, broadening it to look at Japan’s regional
relations, and examined Japan’s desire to project
that proper balance of hard and soft power throughout East Asia.
Finally, we hosted two individuals who represent successful examples of cross-border culinary soft-power
projection. Eikoh Harada, Chairman, President and
CEO of McDonald’s Holdings Co. (Japan), discussed
how combining American-style business strategies
with distinctly Japanese menu offerings and customer
service reversed McDonald’s downward trend in
Japan and substantially increased revenues. Yuzaburo
Mogi, Chairman and CEO of Kikkoman, spoke about
his firm’s arrival in Wisconsin 50 years ago to manufacture locally the now ubiquitous Kikkoman soy sauce.
2 0 0 6 – 07 P R O G R A M H I G H L I G H T S
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1 Panelists and moderator gather after a discussion of the challenges for post-Koizumi Japan.
Left to right: Michael Auslin, Associate Professor
of History, Yale University; Director, Project on
Japan-U.S. Relations; Yuki Tatsumi, Research
Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center; Adjunct Fellow,
International Security Program, Center for
Strategic and International Studies; moderator
Edward Lincoln, Director, Japan-U.S. Center,
Stern School of Business, New York University;
Jing Huang, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies,
Brookings Institution; and Naotaka Matsukata,
Chair, Strategic International Business Practice
Regulated Industries & Government Relations,
Hunton and Williams LLP. Photo © Ken Levinson.
2 William Lauder, President and CEO of The
Estée Lauder Companies Inc., spoke at a conference on corporate social responsibility in Tokyo
co-sponsored by Nippon Keidanren; the Council
for Better Corporate Citizenship; and Japan Society.
conferences, panel discussions, seminars & symposia
E-mail, Blogs & Privacy: What Japanese Firms
in the U.S. Need to Know • 2 1 S E P T E M B E R •
Sponsored by Nixon Peabody LLP. • With Philip
Berkowitz, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP; Jerome
Coleman, Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP; and
George Pierce, Vice President and General
Counsel, Toyota Tsusho America, Inc. Bill Alpert,
Senior Editor, Barron’s, moderating.
Sino-Japanese Tensions & Implications for
U.S. Policy • 2 1 S E P T E M B E R • Co-organized by
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. •
With Michael A. McDevitt, Director, Center for
Strategic Studies, The CNA Corporation; James
Kelly, Former Assistant Secretary of State for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and Alan Romberg,
Senior Associate, Henry L. Stimson Center.
Stephen Orlins, President, National Committee
on United States-China Relations, moderating.
Leadership in Post-Koizumi Japan: Expectations
& Regional Implications • 1 1 O C TO B E R • With
Michael Auslin, Associate Professor of History,
Yale University; Director, Project on Japan-U.S.
Relations; Jing Huang, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy
Studies, Brookings Institution; Naotaka Matsukata,
Leader, Global Business Strategy Practice, Alston
& Bird LLP; and Yuki Tatsumi, Research Fellow,
Henry L. Stimson Center and Adjunct Fellow,
International Security Program, Center for Strategic
and International Studies. Edward Lincoln, Director,
Japan-US Center, Stern School of Business, New
York University, moderating.
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“Japan’s Comeback”—Has Structural Reform
Revitalized the Economy? • 3 N OV E M B E R •
Co-organized by Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc.
Supported by Japan Chamber of Commerce and
Industry of New York, Inc. Sponsored by Nippon
Life Insurance Company of America and Daiwa
Securities America, Inc. • Offsite event held at
Grand Hyatt New York. With Atsutoshi Nishida,
President and CEO, Toshiba Corp. Panelists:
Robert Dugger, Managing Director, Tudor
Investment Corporation; Yutaka Kosai, Senior
Adviser, Japan Center for Economic Research;
Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman and CEO, Rakuten,
Inc.; and Thomas Pugel, Professor of Economics
and Global Business, Stern School of Business,
New York University. Naoaki Okabe, Senior
Executive Officer and Editorial Page Editor, Nihon
Keizai Shimbun, Inc., moderating.
Japanese & U.S. Perspectives on Why Corporate
Social Responsibility is Good for Your Company’s
Bottom Line • 1 5 N O V E M B E R • Co-sponsored by
Nippon Keidanren and the Council for Better
Corporate Citizenship. • Offsite event held at
Nippon Keidanren Hall, Tokyo. With Marshall
Carter, Chairman, New York Stock Exchange;
Hiroshi Hirose, Director and Managing Executive
Officer, Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd.;
William Lauder, President and CEO, The Estée
Lauder Companies Inc.; James S. McDonald,
President and CEO, Rockefeller & Co., Inc.;
Chairman, Japan Society; and Nobuo Tateisi,
Executive Advisor, OMRON Corporation;
Chairman, the CBCC. Masakazu Kubota,
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Managing Director, Keidanren and the CBCC;
James S. McDonald, President and CEO,
Rockefeller & Co., Inc.; Chairman, Japan Society;
and Richard J. Wood, President, Japan Society,
moderating.
Internet Governance: The New World Order
in Cyberspace • 1 0 J A N U A RY • Sponsored by
Institute for International Socio-Economic
Studies. • With Izumi Aizu, Deputy Director,
Institute for HyperNetwork Society; Senior
Research Fellow, The New Institute for Social
Knowledge and Collaboration, Tama University;
Jordyn Buchanan, Site Reliability Manager,
Google and Chair, Whois Task Force, ICANN;
and Wendy Seltzer, Visiting Assistant Professor
of Law, Brooklyn Law School and Fellow, The
Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard
Law School.
CSR: Best Practices & Legal Risks •
1 4 F E B R U A RY • Sponsored by Epstein Becker &
Green, P.C. • With Michael Levine, Member of
the Firm, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. and
Stewart Mitchell, Senior Vice President and Chief
Strategy Officer, Sharp Electronics Corporation.
Hajime Matsuura, Correspondent, NIKKEI Inc.,
moderating.
J-SOX Readiness: Potential Impact & U.S. SOX
Lessons Learned • 2 2 F E B R U A RY • Sponsored
by Protiviti, Inc. • With Dominick R. Sabella,
Senior Vice President and Group Head,
Comptrollers Group, Headquarters for the
Americas, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ,
Ltd.; Yasumi Taniguchi, Managing Director, ERM
and Internal Audit Practice, Protiviti Japan Co.,
Ltd.; and Alice Young, Partner and Chair, Asia
Pacific Practice, Kaye Scholer LLP. William
Holstein, Editor-in-Chief, Directorship, moderating.
Ambassadorial Dialogue: The Future of
Indo-Japan Economic Relations • 4 A P R I L •
Co-sponsored by the India Policy Forum. •
With Neelam Deo, Ambassador and Consul
General in New York, Consulate General of India
and Motoatsu Sakurai, Ambassador and Consul
General in New York, Consulate General of
Japan. Bal Das, Partner, InsCap Management,
LLC; Chair, India Policy Forum, moderating.
Age Discrimination & U.S. Law: What Japanese
Firms Need to Know • 1 8 A P R I L • Sponsored by
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. • With Michael
McKenna, Senior Consultant, Japan Intercultural
Consulting; William Milani, Member of the Firm,
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.; and Debra Raskin,
Partner, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias and Englehard,
P.C. Michael Levine, Member of the Firm, Epstein
Becker & Green, P.C., moderating.
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*centennial event*
TECH EPOCH
Digital Social Responsibility: Searching for
Ethics on the Internet • 7 J U N E • Sponsored by
Morrison & Foerster LLP. Supporting
Organization: JETRO New York. • With Craig
Newmark, Founder and Customer Service Representative, Craigslist.org. Panelists: John Delaney,
Partner & Technology Transactions Practice Group
Co-Chair, Morrison & Foerster LLP; Dunstan Hope,
Director, Advisory Services, Information and
Communications Technology, Business for Social
Responsibility; and Dave Morgan, Founder and
Chairman, Tacoda, Inc. Brad Stone, Technology
Correspondent, The New York Times, moderating.
Balancing East Asia’s Potential: Leveraging
Japan’s Leadership to Build Regional Economic
Stability • 2 1 J U N E • Co-organized by Nikkei
America, Inc. Supported by Japan Chamber of
Commerce and Industry of New York, Inc.
Sponsored by Toyota Motor North America, Inc.;
Canon USA, Inc.; Nippon Life Insurance Company
of America; and Daiwa Securities America, Inc.
Corporate Supporter: All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.
Media Supporter: The Wall Street Journal. •
With John Bussey, Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Asia and Deputy Managing Editor, The Wall Street
Journal; Edward J. Lincoln, Clinical Professor of
Economics and Director, Center for Japan-U.S.
Business and Economic Studies, Leonard N. Stern
School of Business, New York University; and
Naoki Tanaka, President, The 21st Century Public
Policy Institute. Tetsuya Jitsu, Chief Editor,
Washington, D.C. Bureau, NIKKEI, Inc., moderating.
corporate lectures
Dr. Ian Bremmer on Markets & Increasing Risk:
The J Curve • 1 9 S E P T E M B E R • With Ian
Bremmer, President, Eurasia Group. Hideyuki
Takahashi, President and CEO, Nomura Holding
America, Inc.; Vice Chairman, Japan Society,
presiding.
Japanese Economic Recovery & Future Prospects
2 3 O C TO B E R • With Hiroshi Watanabe, ViceMinister of Finance for International Affairs of
Japan. Wilbur L. Ross, Chairman and CEO, WL
Ross & Co. LLC; Director, Japan Society, presiding.
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Amb. Christopher Hill Discusses Recent
Progress & Next Steps in the 6-Party Talks
• 6 M A R C H • Co-organized by The Korea Society.
• With Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of
State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United
States Department of State. Nicholas Kristof,
Columnist, The New York Times, presiding.
Ichigo’s Scott Callon Leads Japan’s Once-ina-Lifetime Shareholder Revolt • 3 M AY •
With Scott Callon, Partner and CEO, Ichigo Asset
Management, Ltd. Wilbur L. Ross, Chairman and
CEO, WL Ross & Co. LLC; Director, Japan Society,
presiding.
corporate luncheons
Microsoft Japan CEO on Digital Life: Lessons
Learned • 2 8 S E P T E M B E R • With Darren Huston,
President and CEO, Microsoft Co. Ltd., Japan
and Corporate Vice President. Jun Makihara,
Chairman, Neoteny Co., Ltd.; Director, Japan
Society, presiding.
Dupont Chairman & CEO on Transformation &
Sustainable Growth • 1 7 O C TO B E R • With
Charles Holliday, Chairman and CEO, E.I. du Pont
de Nemours & Company. Dennis Cuneo, Senior
Vice President, Toyota Motor North America, Inc.,
presiding.
High Hurdles: The Airbus Challenge in Japan •
Glen S. Fukushima, President
and CEO, Airbus Japan K.K. Richard J. Wood,
President, Japan Society, presiding.
2 6 O C TO B E R • With
Merrill Lynch Japan President Discusses the
Firm’s Turnaround • 1 2 D E C E M B E R • With
Izumi Kobayashi, President, Merrill Lynch Japan
Securities, Co. Kyota Omori, Managing Director
and CEO for the Americas, The Bank of TokyoMitsubishi UFJ Ltd.; Director, Japan Society,
presiding.
NJ Governor Corzine on Japan’s Role in
Bolstering State’s International Trade •
1 3 D E C E M B E R • Media Sponsor: NIKKEI
America, Inc. Supporting Organization: JETRO
New York. • With Jon Corzine, New Jersey
State Governor. Henry Cornell, Managing
Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Director,
Japan Society, presiding.
TSE’s Nishimuro Discusses Strategies to
Maintain Exchange’s Global Competitiveness •
3 0 J A N U A RY • With Taizo Nishimuro, President
and CEO, Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. John Thain,
CEO, NYSE Group, Inc., presiding.
KORUS FTA: Bilateral Benefits & Implications
for U.S.-Japan Trade • 2 5 A P R I L • Co-organized
by The Korea Society. • With Wendy Cutler,
Assistant United States Trade Representative for
Japan, Korea and APEC Affairs. Leslie Norton,
Foreign Editor, Asia, Barron’s, presiding.
UNIQLO: From Tokyo to New York to Global
Brand • 2 6 A P R I L • With Nobuo Domae, CEO,
UNIQLO USA, Inc.; Executive Vice President,
Member of the Board, FAST RETAILING CO., LTD.
Jotaro Hamada, Managing Director, International
Franchise Management, Citigroup Inc., presiding.
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1 New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine with Japan
Society directors Henry Cornell, Managing
Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. (left) and Jun
Makihara, Chairman, Neoteny Co., Ltd. (right).
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2 Christopher Hill, Assistant Secretary of State
for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States
Department of State fields a question from
the audience on the 6 Party Talks as presider
Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times
looks on. Photo © Ken Levinson.
3 Founder and Customer Service Representative
of Craigslist.org, Craig Newmark (left) responds
to a question from the audience in a discussion
of Internet privacy issues moderated by The New
York Times Technology Correspondent Brad
Stone. Photo © Ken Levinson.
4 NYSE Group CEO John Thain and Tokyo Stock
Exchange President and CEO Taizo Nishimuro
discuss their pending business alliance over
lunch. Photo © Ken Levinson.
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5 Hiroshi Watanabe, Vice-Minister of Finance
for International Affairs of Japan, takes a question from the audience as presider Wilbur L.
Ross, Chairman and CEO, WL Ross & Co. LLC;
Director, Japan Society looks on. Photo © Ken
Levinson.
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6 Nobuo Domae, CEO, UNIQLO USA, Inc. and
Executive Vice President, Member of the Board,
Fast Retailing Co., Ltd., comments on his firm’s
recent expansion into the U.S. apparel market.
7 Neelam Deo, Ambassador and Consul General
in New York, Consulate General of India (right)
and Motoatsu Sakurai, Ambassador and Consul
General in New York, Consulate General of Japan
(center) join to discuss the future of Indo-Japan
Economic Relation in an ambassadorial dialogue
moderated by Bal Das, Partner, InsCap Management, LLC and Chair of the India Policy Forum.
8 Moderator Dennis Cuneo, Senior Vice
President, Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
(left) and Charles Holliday, Chairman and CEO,
E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, share a
light moment over lunch before Mr. Holliday’s
discussion of Dupont’s reduced environmental
footprint. Photo © Ken Levinson.
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9 Merrill Lynch Japan Securities President Izumi
Kobayashi and Joyce Phillips, Head of International Retail Banking, Citigroup, Inc. enjoy the
reception prior to Ms. Kobayashi’s lecture. Photo
© Ken Levinson.
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centennial speakers series
This program was made possible by Citigroup Inc.
*centennial event*
Recipe for Success: Revamping the Corporate
Menu at McDonald’s Japan • 1 1 J A N U A RY •
With Eikoh Harada, Chairman, President and
CEO, McDonald’s Holdings Company (Japan),
Ltd. James S. McDonald, President and CEO,
Rockefeller & Co., Inc.; Chairman, Japan Society,
presiding.
*centennial event*
Japan: From China War to China Peace •
20 FEBRUARY • With Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II
Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences,
Harvard University. Michael Auslin, Associate
Professor of History, Yale University, presiding.
*centennial event*
Exploring Japanese Food Culture • 5 M A R C H •
Co-organized by NIKKEI America, Inc. and
JETRO New York. In-kind support provided by
Asahishuzo Co., Ltd.; ITO EN (North America)
INC.; Sapporo USA, Inc.; and Suntory
International Corp. • With Yuzaburo Mogi,
Chairman and CEO, Kikkoman Corporation.
Panelists: Elizabeth Andoh, author; Director, A
Taste of Culture; Daniel Boulud, Chef-Owner,
DANIEL; and Masaharu Morimoto, Chef-Owner,
Morimoto New York and Philadelphia. Jeffrey
Steingarten, author and food critic, Vogue
Magazine, moderating.
*centennial event*
Balancing Hard & Soft: Japan’s Search for
Stability in East Asia • 7 M A R C H • With Joseph
Nye, Distinguished Service Professor, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University. Mark
Halperin, Political Director and Correspondent,
ABC News, presiding.
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*centennial event*
Tokyo Governor Ishihara Critiques the U.S.Japan Alliance • 1 7 M AY • With Shintaro
Ishihara, Governor of Tokyo. Sandra Endo, Political
Reporter, NY1 News, presiding.
1 Eikoh Harada, Chairman, President and CEO,
McDonald’s Holding Company (Japan) Ltd.
confers with Japan Society Chairman James S.
McDonald, President and CEO, Rockefeller & Co.,
Inc. prior to his Centennial Speakers Series lecture.
Japan Society wishes to thank the following
corporations for their generous support of
Global Affairs Corporate & Policy Programs:
2 Centennial Speakers Series lecturer Yuzaburo
Mogi (right), Chairman and CEO of Kikkoman
Corporation, is joined by NIKKEI America, Inc.
President Kiyoshi Hasegawa at the Japanese
Food Culture Symposium. Photo © Ken Levinson.
global leaders:
American International Group, Inc.
Citigroup Inc.
Continental Airlines
Deloitte & Touche, LLP
Mizuho Securities USA
Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
corporate partners
Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.
WL Ross & Co. LLC.
additional support: Asahi Shuzo Co., Ltd.,
Asian Women in Business, Astellas USA
Foundation, All Nippon Airways Co., LTD.
(ANA), Canon USA, The Council for Better
Corporate Citizenship, Consulate General of
Japan in New York, Daiwa Securities America
Inc., Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., India Policy
Forum, Institute for International SocioEconomic Studies, Japan Airlines, Japanese
Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New
York, Inc. , ITO EN (North America) INC.,
JETRO New York, The Korea Society, Morrison
& Foerster LLP, National Committee on United
States-China Relations, Nikkei, Inc., Nikkei
America, Inc., Nippon Keidanren, , Nippon Life
Insurance Company of America, Nixon Peabody
LLP, Protiviti, Inc., Sapporo USA, Inc., Suntory
International Corp., The Wall Street Journal.
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(left), Distinguished Service Professor, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
responds to a question from presider Mark
Halperin, Political Director and Correspondent,
ABC News. Photo © Ken Levinson.
Policy Projects
The U.S.-Japan Innovators Project, Japan Society’s
Policy Project co-organized by The Japan Foundation
Center for Global Partnership, is a multi-year, multidisciplinary initiative connecting creative Japanese
and Americans to explore new avenues for collaboration and creating positive social change on global
challenges facing both countries in the 21st century.
In the winter of 2006–07, 28 Japanese and American
innovators gathered at the International House of
Japan in Tokyo for the second Innovators Project retreat,
(IN)SPIRE: Bridging Gaps. During the two-and-a-halfday retreat, Japanese and American social and business
entrepreneurs, artists, designers and other leaders
examined key unmet needs identified in the first retreat
in San Francisco (June 2006) and thought through
ways in which innovators could begin to address them.
Some key unmet needs included building essential
skills for innovators (improvisation, business acumen,
storytelling and scaling); building communities for
sustainability; and new paths for community funding.
In addition, retreat participants identified an unmet
need that Japan Society was already addressing and
should continue to do so in the years ahead: to provide
a “space”—both virtual and actual—for Japanese
and American innovators to connect, share ideas and
collaborate. Innovators regularly meet with people
in their own field of expertise, but rarely have the
opportunity to discuss major issues, or big ideas, with
people who approach the same problem or idea from
a completely different professional perspective. A multidisciplinary, multi-national approach was especially
appealing, they said.
The day after the retreat Japan Society co-organized
a day-long public symposium, Affecting Change Through
Social Innovation: Design, Scalability & Financing. The
event, commemorating Japan Society’s 100th and Keio
University’s 150th anniversaries, brought together
social entrepreneurs from Japan and the United States
to discuss design, building out and financing. These
three interrelated issues are critical to both Japanese
and American social entreprenuers, whether they are
just beginning to put their ideas into practice, or are
more established and looking for ways to increase
their impact.
In the spring of 2007, Japan Society invited six of
the innovators to the Society to help think through the
future of the U.S.-Japan Innovators Project, with the
ultimate goal of creating a self-sustaining, open source
network of Japanese and American innovators. This
“mini-retreat” was the first stage in developing a “place”
for innovators to meet. The Society asked the six
innovators their advice on a range of issues, including
identity, mission, who is a member and harnessing
technology. The thoughtful and invigorating discussions helped the Society lay the groundwork for the
establishment of the U.S.-Japan Innovators Network.
Taking advantage of some of the participants in the May
retreat, Japan Society organized a provocative public
symposium, Improvisation, Creativity, Collaboration:
Fueling Innovation in the 21st Century, which inaugurated
the New York studio for Keio University’s Research
Institute for Digital Media and Content. The studio,
based at Japan Society, brought in participant Daniel
Pink live from Tokyo via state-of-the art video conferencing.
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This project was generously funded by The Japan
Foundation Center for Global Partnership, the
co-organizer of the project.
This project was generously supported by
Citigroup Inc.
International transportation was supported
by Continental Airlines and All Nippon Airways
Co., Ltd.
Additional support was provided by Japan
Society's endowment for policy projects.
*centennial event*
(IN)SIGHT: Bridging Gaps • 1 7–2 2 J A N U A RY •
Additional support was provided by the JapanUnited States Friendship Commission, and Jack
and Susy Wadsworth. • Offsite retreat held in
Tokyo, with additional site visits in Japan. With
Yasushi Aoyama, Professor, Graduate School of
Public Policy, Meiji University; Marty Ashby,
Executive Producer, MCG Jazz; David d’Heilly,
President and founder, 2dkCo., Ltd.; Marc
Freedman, CEO and Founder, Civic Ventures;
Hideki Fujioka, Urban Development Dept.,
Business Headquarters Deputy, Unit Manager,
Cosmos Initia; Kumi Fujisawa, Vice President,
Thinktank SophiaBank; Chikara Funabashi,
President, WillSeed; Rosanne Haggerty, founder
and President, Common Ground Community;
Dervala Hanley, Strategist, Stone Yamashita
Partners; Scott Heiferman, founder, Meetup.com;
Katsuji Imata, Co-Director, CSO Network Japan;
Hideyuki Inoue, Representative, ETIC; Koichi
Kaneda, Deputy General Manager, CSR
Promotion Department, Daiwa Security Group;
Hiroki Komazaki, Representative Director, NPO
Florence; Kaori Kuroda, Co-Director, CSO
Network Japan; Limbon, architect and Professor
of Urban Planning, Ritsumeikan University; Kohei
Nishiyama, CEO and founder, elephant design;
Kensuke Onishi, President, PeaceWinds; Daniel
H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind and Free
Agent Nation, Contributing Editor, Wired and
Japan Society 2006 U.S.-Japan Media Fellow;
Ann Rutledge, Principal, R&R Consulting; Dai Sato,
screenwriter, Eureka Seven, Ghost in the Shell:
Stand Alone Complex, Cowboy Bebop and Samurai
Champloo; Max Schorr, Publisher and Founding
Editor, GOOD magazine; Ken Shibusawa, President,
Shibusawa & Co.; Mitsuko Shimomura, Chair and
CEO, Center for Health Care & Public Concern;
Cameron Sinclair, co-founder, Architecture for
Humanity; Bill Strickland, President and CEO,
Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild; Hiroshi Tasaka,
President, Thinktank SophiaBank and Professor,
Graduate School, Tama University; and Alan
Webber, Founding Editor, Fast Company magazine.
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*centennial event*
Affecting Change Through Social Innovation:
Design, Scalability & Financing • 2 3 J A N U A RY •
Co-organized by The Japan Foundation Center for
Global Partnership and Keio University; in cooperation with The Research Institute for Digital
Media and Content, Keio University. Additional
support was provided by the Japan-United States
Friendship Commission, and Jack and Susy
Wadsworth. • Offsite event held at Keio
University in Tokyo. Public symposium with
Hideyuki Inoue, Managing Director, Social Venture
Center, Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative
Communities (ETIC) and Assistant Professor, Keio
University; Jiro Kokuryo, Professor, Faculty of Policy
Management, Keio University; Masami Komatsu,
CEO, Music Securities Corporation; Hiroki
Komazaki, CEO, NPO Florence; Jun Murai, Vice
President, Keio University; Tomohiko Okabe, CEO,
Okabe Tomohiko Design Studio and Director,
Funnybee Corporation; Cameron Sinclair, cofounder, Architecture for Humanity; Bill Strickland,
President and CEO, Manchester Craftsmen’s
Guild; Villy Wang, President and CEO, BAYCAT
(via videoconference from San Francisco); Alan
Webber, Founding Editor, Fast Company magazine;
and Richard J. Wood, President, Japan Society.
*centennial event*
The Next Phase: Innovators Network (IN) •
2 3 –2 4 M AY • Additional support was provided by
The Henry Luce Foundation and Jack and Susy
Wadsworth. • Retreat with Marty Ashby,
Executive Producer, MCG Jazz; Kumi Fujisawa,
Vice President, Thinktank SophiaBank; Chikara
Funabashi, President and CEO, WillSeed; Rosanne
Haggerty, founder and President, Common
Ground Community; Hiroshi Tasaka, President,
Thinktank SophiaBank and Professor, Graduate
School, Tama University; and Alan Webber,
Founding Editor, Fast Company magazine.
*centennial event*
Improvisation, Creativity, Collaboration: Fueling
Innovation in the 21st Century • 2 4 M AY • Coorganized by The Japan Foundation Center for
Global Partnership; in cooperation with The
Research Institute for Digital Media and Content,
Keio University; media sponsor NIKKEI America,
Inc.; supporting organization GOOD magazine.
Additional support was provided by The Henry
Luce Foundation and Jack and Susy Wadsworth. •
Public symposium with Marty Ashby, Executive
Producer of MCG Jazz; Daniel H. Pink, author
of A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation,
Contributing Editor, Wired and Japan Society
2006 U.S.-Japan Media Fellow; Hiroshi Tasaka,
President, Thinktank SophiaBank and Professor,
Graduate School, Tama University; and Alan
Webber, Founding Editor, Fast Company magazine.
1 Marty Ashby, Executive Producer, MCG Jazz,
accompanied by Satoshi Takeishi on drums and
Noriko Ueda on bass as part of the public symposium on Improvisation, Creativity, Collaboration: Fueling
Innovation in the 21st Century. Photo © Aya Akeura.
2 Max Schorr, Publisher and Founding Editor, GOOD
magazine speaking during the retreat (IN)SIGHT:
Bridging Gaps. Photo © Hidenori Kondo.
3 Kaori Kuroda, Co-Director, CSO Network Japan,
in a breakout session during the retreat (IN)SIGHT:
4 Alan Webber, founder, Fast Company magazine and
Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind, in a dialogue
on “Innovation and Action in The Conceptual Age”
during the retreat (IN)SIGHT: Bridging Gaps. Photo ©
Naho Baba.
5 Cameron Sinclair, founder, Architecture for
Humanity, speaking at the public symposium
Affecting Change Through Social Innovation: Design,
Scalability & Financing. Photo © Satoru Inoue.
6 Rosanne Haggerty, founder and President,
Common Ground Community and Kohei Nishiyama,
CEO and founder elephant design, speaking at a
breakout session during the retreat (IN)SIGHT:
7 Dai Sato (right), screenwriter for Eureka Seven;
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex; Cowboy Bebop;
and Samurai Champloo, speaking on “Monogatari: The
Power of Storytelling” during the retreat (IN)SIGHT:
8 Chikara Funabashi, President, WillSeed, leading
the ice breaker session during the retreat (IN)SIGHT:
Bridging Gaps. Photo © Naho Baba.
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Fellowships & Exchanges
The U.S.-Japan Media Fellows Program is the sole
fellowship sponsored by Japan Society today. Born
out of the United States-Japan Leadership Program,
which began in 1984 and evolved into one of two
separate fellowships in 1996, the U.S.-Japan Media
Fellows Program is designed to provide established
journalists with a uniquely tailored and in-depth
experience in Japan, with the objective of fostering
a greater appreciation and understanding between
the U.S. and Japan. Each year the Fellowships &
Exchanges Program, working closely with the Foreign
Press Center, sends American journalists to Japan
for six weeks.
Three American journalists were sent to Japan for
the 2006 U.S.-Japan Media Fellowship. Daniel Pink,
Contributed Editor, Wired and author of the bestselling
books Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind,
examined the Japanese cultural and business aspects
of manga, or Japanese comics. He was particularly
fascinated with a phenomenon unlikely to happen in
the U.S.—the production and sale of fan-produced
manga based on the original work of published manga
artists and writers.
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Joshua Wolf Shenk, essayist, Director, Rose O’Neill
Literary House, Washington College, and author of the
critically acclaimed book Lincoln’s Melancholy: How
Depression Challenged a President and Fueled His Greatness,
explored the juxtaposition of two developments in
Japan: the rise in depression-related phenomena such
as Internet suicides and the hikikomori (shut-ins) and
the influence of “cool” Japan worldwide.
Brad Stone, currently the Technology Reporter for The
New York Times, wrote several pieces for Newsweek,
Newsweek International and Newsweek.com on subjects ranging from how Internet startups are reviving
the lost art of entrepreneurialism in Japan to Japan’s
booming arcade industry.
Many Fellows become involved in non-fellowshiprelated programs at Japan Society after they return to
the U.S. Japan Society Fellows Alan Webber and Daniel
Pink took part in the U.S.-Japan Innovators Project’s
first public symposium in May, which focused on the
importance of jazz and “right brain” qualities like
improvisation and playfulness in collaboration and
innovation. Both are participants in the Society’s U.S.Japan Innovators Project. Brad Stone moderated a June
Corporate Program conference titled Digital Social
Responsibility: Searching for Ethics on the Internet.
f e l lo w s h i p s
Fellowship Residency: 2006 United StatesJapan Foundation Media Fellows Program •
9 J U LY–2 8 A U G U S T • Brad Stone, Silicon Valley
Correspondent, Newsweek.
8 A P R I L–2 0 M AY • Daniel Pink, author and
Contributing Editor, Wired.
2 2 M AY– 3 J U LY • Joshua Wolf Shenk, essayist
and Director, Rose O’Neill Literary House,
Washington College.
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The United States-Japan Media Fellows
Program was generously supported by the
United States-Japan Foundation. Assistance
was provided by the Foreign Press Center
Japan. Transportation assistance was provided
by Japan Airlines.
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1 Daniel Pink (right) speaking with Kenichiro Mogi, Sony
Computer Science Laboratory, Tokyo, at a public forum
on creativity and right-brain thinking held at the Mori
Arts Center.
2 Joshua Wolf Shenk (left) with Issho Fujita, a Zen monk.
3 Brad Stone (center) with Professor Yasushi Aoyama
and his graduate students at Meiji University.
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Arts & Culture
Gorgeous Effigy (Kayo) (detail)
by Yoshikawa Masamichi, 2003.
Porcelain with bluish-green glaze
(seihakuji). Collection of Halsey
and Alice North. Photo by
Richard P. Goodbody.
Japan Society Gallery
Over more than three decades, Japan Society
Gallery has established a reputation as one of the
country’s leading centers for the study, publication
and exhibition of Japanese visual culture in all its
aspects. Working with a national and international
roster of museums, academics, curators and artists,
this year the Gallery resumed its practice of holding
two substantial exhibitions each year, one in the fall
and one in the spring, garnering high critical praise
from leading newspapers and eliciting an enthusiastic
public response. This year was also typical in that the
first exhibition was prepared by a sister institution
and brought to the Gallery at relatively short notice,
while the other was a long-term project, curated by
distinguished specialists commissioned by Japan Society.
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics for the New Century
came to Japan Society in September 2006 in an
expanded version featuring many additional loans
from New York collectors. The first show of its kind for
more than a decade, Contemporary Clay’s educational
mission drew favorable comment from the New York
Sun: “. . . the rich story of postwar ceramics production
in Japan is virtually unknown. By introducing us to
these important works of art, this handsome survey. . .
will go far to change this situation, making it clear
that Japanese ceramists have always been light years
ahead of the pack.” The exhibition also attracted the
attention of Matthew Gurewitsch of The Wall Street
Journal, who wrote that “. . . nature and memory remain
the wellsprings of creativity, creating affinities where
one least expects.” In his detailed analysis of the
exhibition’s six sections Gurewitsch noted that “The
list of astonishments goes on,” and pointed out the
constantly varying aesthetics of the works on display:
“witty silk-screened stoneware. . . chocolate butter
cream on an ash-glazed jar. . . silver-misted quilted
silk. . . rich syrupy moss greens. . . little bottles that
seem to whirl in place like dervishes.”
The second exhibition, held in spring 2007, was
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan,
described by its curators as “. . . a search for new ways
to understand Zen communities in medieval Japan.”
Awakenings reminded viewers that beyond our received
Western notion of Zen as a religion characterized by
baffling paradoxical statements, sudden enlightenment
and sketchy ink paintings, there exists a precious
corpus of images of both deities and spiritual leaders
that played a key role in the sect’s early development
in both China and Japan. Representations of the
Buddha and bodhisattvas; Bodhidharma, the first
Patriarch of Zen; Chinese and Japanese masters; and
various exemplars and assimilated local deities showed
visitors how figure paintings played an essential role
in shaping this dynamic new religious movement.
Curated by some of the country’s most respected
scholars and featuring priceless loans from leading
public and private collections in Japan, Europe and
the United States, Awakenings continued Japan
Society’s proud tradition of mounting exhibitions of an
ambition and sophistication that bears comparison
with the largest international art museums.
Awakenings attracted widespread national and international press attention, being described by the
Financial Times as “quietly spectacular” and by Holland
Cotter of The New York Times as “visually transporting.”
In his extensive review Cotter emphasized the exhibition’s success in correcting the received “1950s hipster
notion of what ’Zen painting’ means” and presenting
a “realm of medieval religious devotion that would
seem to have little connection to a modern Zen of
rock gardens and teapots.” Describing the show as
having a “dream-state feel,” he observed that “Each
image holds your attention, centers you right where
you are. Even after you’ve left and your eyes have
adjusted to the everyday light, you really feel you’ve
been somewhere out of the ordinary. And you have.”
The Gallery also enjoyed great success with its traveling exhibition, Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History,
co-organized by Japan Society and the Freer Gallery
of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. History of History opened
on June 3 to loud acclaim at the Institute for Contemporary Culture (ICC) at the Royal Ontario Museum,
Toronto. Following its run in Toronto, History of History
will travel to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.
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Opening Night Preview & Members’ Opening •
28 SEPTEMBER
Exhibition • 2 9 S E P T E M B E R –2 1 J A N U A RY
A vibrant survey featuring creative and iconoclastic
works by the finest contemporary Japanese ceramic
artists, this ground-breaking exhibition focused
on the collection of Halsey and Alice North was
curated by Joe Earle, former Matsutaro Shoriki
Chair of the Department of Art of Asia, Oceania,
and Africa at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
and since September 2007, Japan Society’s
new Vice President and Director of the Gallery.
After opening in Boston in fall 2005, the greatly
expanded exhibition, with many loans from leading New York collectors, debuted at Japan Society
with a breathtaking kaleidoscope of colors, forms,
glazes, textures and sizes that demonstrated
the multifaceted character of the contemporary
Japanese ceramic scene. Organized into six sections, Contemporary Clay showed sculptural works
by the influential postwar generation led by Yagi
Kazuo; vessels created by artists working in
Japan’s ancient stoneware centers; forms inspired
by natural phenomena; innovative explorations of
the porcelain medium; experimental, even eccentric pieces by individualist artists; and a wideranging survey of recent ceramics from Kyoto.
exhibition-related lecture
programs
Lectures programs for Contemporary Clay:
Japanese Ceramics for the New Century were
made possible by funding from the Lila WallaceReader’s Digest Endowment Fund and the Sandy
Heck Lecture Fund.
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Feasting on Ceramics: A Celebration of Nature’s
Bounty & Human Creativity • 7 N O V E M B E R •
See page 39 for complete program details.
Contemporary Clay: Japanese Ceramics
for the New Century
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Support for this exhibition was provided by the
Leadership Committee for Contemporary Clay:
Japanese Ceramics for the New Century:
Charles Danziger, Thomas C. Danziger and
Laura B. Whitman, Diarmaid B. O’Sullivan,
Karen Skurka, and Chris A. Wachenheim.
Transportation assistance was provided by
Japan Airlines.
1 Fragments with Gold Glaze (Kinsai no tohen) by
Yamada Hikaru, 1989. Stoneware, iron, vinyl line.
Collection of Halsey and Alice North. Photo by
Richard P. Goodbody.
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Exhibitions at Japan Society are made possible
in part by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest
Endowment Fund and the Friends of the Gallery.
Installations at Japan Society Gallery are supported by a generous gift from Henry Cornell.
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: New Visions
& Evolving Traditions • 3 0 N O V E M B E R • See page
39 for complete program details.
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: The
Collector’s Eye • 1 3 D E C E M B E R • See page 39 for
complete program details.
2 Wind (Kaze) by Kohyama Yasuhisa, 2004.
Stoneware. Collection of Halsey and Alice North.
Photo by Richard P. Goodbody.
3 Installation view, Contemporary Clay: Japanese
Ceramics for the New Century. Foreground: A
Cloud Remembered (Kumo no kioku) by Yagi
Kazuo, 1959. Stoneware, on wood base. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Background: Iga-ware Faceted Flower Vase (Iga
mentori hanaire) by Tsujimura Shiro, 2004.
Stoneware. Collection of Halsey and Alice North.
4 The Prayer (La Prière) by Matsuda Yuriko,
2004. Porcelain. Collection of Halsey and Alice
North. Photo by Richard P. Goodbody.
5 Faceted Covered Vessels with Pale-blue Glaze
(Seihakuji mentori futamono) by Yagi Akira, 2004.
Porcelain. Collection of Halsey and Alice North.
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*centennial exhibition*
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in
Medieval Japan
Organized by Japan Society, the Agency for
Cultural Affairs of Japan and the Independent
Administrative Institution National Museum of
Japan (Tokyo National Museum, Kyoto National
Museum, Nara National Museum and Kyushu
National Museum).
Awakenings was made possible by Fidelity
Investments through the Fidelity Foundation.
This exhibition was also generously funded by a
grant from the E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter
Foundation.
Additional funding was provided by the National
Endowment for the Arts, Jack and Susy Wadsworth,
The Blakemore Foundation, Chris Wachenheim,
the Asian Cultural Council, the New York State
Council on the Arts, the Mary Livingston Griggs
and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, the Abbot
Tani Foundation, and The Cowles Charitable Trust.
Additional support was provided by the
Leadership Committee for Awakenings: Zen
Figure Painting in Medieval Japan: Dr. Gail D.
Hashimoto, Diarmaid B. O’Sullivan, Chris A.
Wachenheim, and Jack and Susy Wadsworth.
This exhibition was supported by an indemnity
from the Federal Council on the Arts and the
Humanities.
Japan Airlines.
Media sponsorship was provided by WNYC and
LTB Media. As part of the Millennium on View
program, Millennium UN Plaza is the preferred
hotel partner of Japan Society’s Centennial.
Exhibitions at Japan Society are also made possible in part by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest
Endowment Fund and the Friends of the Gallery.
Installations at Japan Society Gallery are supported by a generous gift from Henry Cornell.
Opening Night Preview • 2 7
Members’ Opening • 2 8
MARCH
MARCH
Exhibition • 2 8 M A R C H –1 7 J U N E
The first systematic introduction to the subject of
medieval Zen figure painting mounted by a U.S.
museum in over 30 years, Awakenings explored
the origins and traditions of figure painting associated with Zen Buddhist communities of medieval
Japan and introduced a contemporary shift in the
way that scholars interpret Zen paintings. For the
first time, the intercultural contexts and specific
characters through which Zen communities
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represented themselves were examined. Coorganized by Japan Society and the Agency for
Cultural Affairs of Japan, and the Independent
Administrative Institution National Museum of
Japan, the exhibition featured 47 Japanese (Zen)
and Chinese (Chan) painted works from the 12th
to the 16th centuries and included a National
Treasure and 11 Important Cultural Properties.
Awakenings was co-curated by Gregory Levine,
Associate Professor, Department of History of Art,
University of California, Berkeley; and Yukio Lippit,
Assistant Professor, Department of the History of
Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Yoshiaki
Shimizu, Professor of Japanese Art History,
Princeton University, served as senior advisor to
the exhibition. Accompanying volume published
by Japan Society and distributed by Yale
University Press.
exhibition-related lecture
programs
Lectures programs for Awakenings: Zen Figure
Painting in Medieval Japan were made possible
by funding from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest
Endowment Fund, Jack and Susy Wadsworth, and
the Sandy Heck Lecture Fund.
Zen Art in Historical & Comparative Context •
page 39 for complete program
details.
1 5 M AY • See
Zen & Popular Culture: Interpretations, Reinterpretations, Misinterpretations • 1 4 J U N E
See page 39 for complete program details.
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1 & 2 Bukan, Kanzan, and Jittoku by Reisai
(act. mid-15th c.), Japanese, Muromachi period,
15th c. Pair of hanging scrolls, ink and colors
on paper. Property of Mary Griggs Burke.
Photo © Bruce Schwarz.
3 Installation view, Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting
in Medieval Japan. Left: Slumbering Budai. Attributed
to Muqi Fachang (Chinese, worked mid-to late 13th
century). Ink on paper. Kyoto National Museum.
Right: Hotei. Kano Masanobu (1434–1530). Ink and
light colors on paper. The John C. Weber Collection.
Photo by Steven Williams.
in Medieval Japan. Shakyamuni Descending the Mountain.
Painter unknown, 13th century. Ink on paper. Seattle
Art Museum. Photo by Steven Williams.
in Medieval Japan. Left: The Four Gentlemanly
Accomplishments. Oguri Sokei (worked late 15th–
early 16th century). Ink and light colors on paper.
Kyoto National Museum. Important Cultural
Property. Center: Zen Patriarchs. Attributed to Kano
Motonobu (1477–1559). Ink and colors on paper.
Tokyo National Museum. Important Cultural
Property. Right: White-Robed Guanyin. Zhengwu
(Chinese, worked 14th c.). Ink on silk. Kyoto
National Museum. Important Cultural Property.
Photo by Steven Williams.
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Performing Arts
This year Japan Society successfully completed
a five-year matching grant from the Doris Duke
Charitable Foundation for an endowment for the
Performing Arts. Awarded in 2001, the Duke
Foundation grant not only made this endowment
project possible, but also provided support for the
2001–06 seasons and to establish a commissioning
program. This season’s world premiere by Big Dance
Theater is the third commission in this series. The
Society is most grateful to the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation for is exceptional generosity and to
those corporations, foundations and individuals
who generously contributed to this campaign.
During the fall of 2006, the Performing Arts Program
presented performances under two themes. From
costume-play fetishisms and Lolita complexes, women
have come to occupy an almost obsessive focus
within Japanese culture. Girl, Girly, Girlish examined
the images of girlhood and ideas of femininity in
contemporary Japan with: YUBIWA Hotel’s audacious
and tender dance-theater piece CANDIES: girlish
hardcore; and the second installment in the Tzadik Label
Music Series, New Voices from Japan II: Power of the
New Japanese Woman. J-Comedy celebrated the
centuries-old traditions and current trends of Japanese
comedy in performance with a three-city tour of
Rakugo: Japanese Traditional Comedy, featuring rakugo
legend Katsura Utamaru; and Tokyo Vaudeville Show
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Theater Company’s production of Ryoma’s Wife,
Her New Husband and Her Lover by leading comic
scriptwriter Koki Mitani. A staged reading of
The Three Hagi Sisters by Ai Nagai, one of Japan’s
most beloved women playwrights, completed
both season themes.
In the spring of 2007 the Performing Arts Program
kicked off Japan Society’s centennial celebration with
the world premiere from New York’s award-winning
Big Dance Theater, The Other Here, based on the works
of Japanese author Masuji Ibuse and commissioned
by Japan Society. This year also marked the 10th
anniversary of the Contemporary Dance Showcase,
which took place at The Joyce Theater. The rest of the
spring and summer programming, presented under
the theme Noh~NOW!, encompassed a four-city tour
of Takeshi Kawamura’s contemporary noh plays AOI/
KOMACHI; Benjamin Britten’s opera Curlew River,
inspired by the noh play Sumidagawa in a production
directed by Yoshi Oida; works-in-progress showings
from two New York-based artists of Yukio Mishima’s
Modern Noh Plays; mech[a]OUTPUT, a multimedia
dance work based on the noh Dojoji from choreographer Koosil-Ja; and outdoor takigi (bonfire) style performances of classic noh and kyogen in Dag Hammarskjold
Park, across the street from the Society’s building,
featuring the most distinguished noh and kyogen
artists in Japan today.
performances
YUBIWA Hotel in CANDIES: girlish hardcore
Written & directed by Shirotama Hitsujiya
1 4 –1 6 S E P T E M B E R
These performances were supported by The
Saison Foundation for Japan Society’s Japanese
Theater NOW initiative and the Agency for
Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.
The ground-breaking performance company led
by Hitsujiya (recognized as one of “The World’s
100 Most Influential Japanese Women” by
Newsweek Japan) weaved an imagistic journey
from girlhood to old age.
Tokyo Vaudeville Show Theater Company in
Ryoma’s Wife, Her New Husband and Her Lover
Written by Koki Mitani
5 –7 O C TO B E R
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This award-winning play set at the dawn of the
Westernization of Japan was written by one of
Japan’s leading playwrights and starred popular
stage and screen actor B-saku Sato and Mitsuru
Hirata. Loosely inspired by real events, this cynical comedy follows the story of Oryo, the widow
of Ryoma Sakamoto (the freedom-fighting samurai often called Japan’s George Washington), and
her love affairs after her husband’s assassination.
Rakugo: Traditional Japanese Comedy
2 & 3 NOVEMBER
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The three-city tour of Rakugo was organized and
produced by Japan Society and was supported by
the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of
Japan. Touring cities: Washington, DC &
Portland, OR.
Best described as the traditional Japanese
vaudeville-entertainment of comic story-telling,
rakugo presents a solo performer seated on a
cushion who acts out anecdotes playing multiple
characters. This program featured four routines
celebrating the four seasons, including a traditional paper-cutting (kamikiri) accompanied by
live shamisen music. Four rakugo stars performed
in the program: Sanshotei Yumetaro, Sanshotei
Charaku, Hayashiya Imamaru and the legendary
Katsura Utamaru.
Play Reading Series: Contemporary Japanese
Plays in English Translation
The Three Hagi Sisters, written by Ai Nagai &
directed by Cynthia Croot
1 YUBIWA Hotel’s CANDIES: girlish hardcore.
Photo © Tom DiMauro.
2 Mitsuru Hirata (left) as Matsubei, B-saku
Sato (center) as Kakubei and Michiko Ameku
(right) as Oryo in Tokyo Vaudeville Show
Theater Company’s production of Ryoma’s
Wife, Her New Husband and Her Lover. Photo
© William Irwin.
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The Play Reading Series was supported, in part,
by the Kinokuniya Bookstore.
A comic spin on Chekhov’s classic The Three
Sisters, this play challenged ideas at the foundation of feminism in Japan. Playwright Ai Nagai
joined rehearsals in New York to collaborate with
American artists towards the public reading.
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1 Oni (guitar, left) and Pika (drums, right)
perform as Afrirampo, part of Tzadik Label Music
Series: New Voices from Japan II, Power of the
New Japanese Woman. Photo © William Irwin.
2 Koosil-Ja stars in her multimedia dance
performance mech[a]OUTPUT, based on the
noh play Dojoji. Photo © William Irwin.
3 Michael Bennett as The Mother in Benjamin
Britten’s opera Curlew River, inspired by the noh
play Sumidagawa. Photo © Tom DiMauro.
4 Paul Lazar (left) and Molly Hickok (right)
in the world premiere of Big Dance Theater’s
The Other Here, commissioned by Japan Society.
Photo © William Irwin.
5 Kanze Tetsunojo as the Ghost of Aritsune’s
Daughter in Izutsu. Photo © William Irwin.
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F R O M J A PA N I I
Power of the New Japanese Woman
Curated by John Zorn
Featuring Afrirampo, ni-hao!, Yuka Honda and
Miho Hatori
tion. Pulling from the short stories of Japanese
novelist Masuji Ibuse and the traditional dance
of Okinawa, choreographer Annie-B Parson and
director Paul Lazar wove together a mélange of
surreal investigation of mortality in a revelatory
collision of East and West.
9 & 10 DECEMBER
Presented in association with Tzadik. These
performances were supported by The New York
State Music Fund, established by the New York
State Attorney General at Rockefeller
Philanthropy Advisors.
The second installment in the Tzadik label new
music series presented four of the most cuttingedge Japanese female artists in the new music
scene. The first evening featured two wild girl bands
from Japan: noise-influenced guitar-drum duo
Afrirampo and pop-punk-trio ni-hao!; the second
night presented the two members of the nowdefunct hit band Cibo Matto, NY-based Yuka
Honda and Miho Hatori, in their own new bands.
10th Annual Contemporary Dance Showcase
at The Joyce Theater
Pappa TARAHUMARA, Kim Itoh + The
Glorious Future, Leni Basso & Noism07
1 6 –2 1 J A N U A RY
These performances were supported by the Agency
for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.
To celebrate its 10th year, the Showcase took
over on of the most prominent dance venues in
NYC, The Joyce Theater, and featured the cream
of the crop in Japanese contemporary dance,
many of whose U.S. or NYC debuts had been
produced by Japan Society over the last decade:
genre-bending Pappa TARAHUMARA, postbutoh dance of Kim Itoh + Glorious Future,
multimedia collages by Leni Basso, and the pure
physical aestheticism of Noism07.
*centennial event*
W O R L D P R E M I E R E J A PA N S O C I E T Y
CO M M I S S I O N
Big Dance Theater in The Other Here
7–1 0 F E B R U A RY
The Other Here was commissioned by Japan
Society, and co-produced with Big Dance Theater.
Co-commissioners for this project were the Clarice
Smith Performing Arts Center at the University
of Maryland, Dance Theater Workshop, and
Works & Process at the Guggenheim. This commission and production was supported by the
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional
support for The Other Here was provided by
Association of Performing Arts Presenters
Ensemble Theatre Collaborations Grant Program,
a component of the Doris Duke Charitable
Foundation Theatre Initiative and the Asian
Cultural Council. Special thanks to Amon Miyamoto
and ANA, All Nippon Airways, for support of the
company’s residency in Okinawa.
Layered with the award-winning company’s
fearless fusion of dance, music and visual design,
this Japan Society commission from Big Dance
Theater kicked of the Society’s centennial celebra-
*centennial event*
AOI/KOMACHI
Contemporary theater adapted from noh
Written & directed by Takeshi Kawamura
2 2 –2 4 M A R C H
These performances were presented by Japan
Society in partnership with The Japan Foundation.
The North American tour of Takeshi Kawamura’s
AOI/KOMACHI was organized by Japan Society
and co-produced by Japan Society and the
Committee for the North American Tour of the
Contemporary Noh Theatre Series I AOI and
KOMACHI, and was supported by the Agency for
Cultural Affairs, Japan, and The Saison Foundation
for Japan Society’s Japanese Theater NOW initiative. Touring cities included Washington, DC,
Hanover, NH and Boston, MA.
This double-bill of hallucinatory works from
famed auteur Takeshi Kawamura kicked-off the
season theme Noh~NOW! Reinterpreted from the
classic noh plays Aoi no Ue and Sotoba Komachi
these contemporary plays of poisonous love and
violent vengeance featured award-winning
actress and former Takarakuka idol Rei Asami
and legendary butoh artist Akira Kasai.
*centennial event*
Curlew River
20th-century opera influenced by Sumidagawa
by Benjamin Britten
1 2 –1 4 A P R I L
Curlew River was a production by Rouen/HauteNormandie Opera, 2005, originally premiered at
the International Festival of Lyric Art of Aix en
Provence in 1998. L’Opera de Rouen/HauteNormandie is supported by the City of Rouen, the
Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication/
DRAC Haute-Normandie, the Region HauteNormandie, the Conseil General de la SeineMaritime and the Conseil General de l’Eure.
Based on the classic noh play Sumidagawa, the
opera Curlew River was composed by British
composer Benjamin Britten in 1964. This original
production from Rouen/Haute-Normandie featured an international cast from the U.K., France
and the U.S. Acclaimed Paris-based actor/
director Yoshi Oida directed the production
with conductor David Stern.
*centennial event*
and The Watermill Center, HERE Artists
Residency Program (HARP), LMCC, The Field,
Maria Pessino, Susan Steele, Irving Benson,
Naomi Bethlahmy.
Two arresting plays adapted from the classic
noh repertoire by the infamous Yukio Mishima
were explored in this work-in-progress initiative.
Director Leon Ingulsrud staged a reading of his
English translation of Hanjo and New York-based
company The South Wing, led by director
Kameron Steele, staged a workshop production
of AOI! based on Mishima’s The Lady Aoi.
*centennial event*
TECH EPOCH
Koosil-ja in mech[a]OUTPUT
Contemporary Dance inspired by Dojoji
3 1 M AY–2 J U N E
These performances were made possible by
Japan Society. This project was supported by
The American Music Center Live Music for Dance,
the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
and generous individual contributions. Additional
support was provided by The Experimental
Television Center’s Presentation Funds, supported
by the New York State Council on the Arts.
Award-winning New York-based multimedia
artist and choreographer Koosil-ja presented a
dance performance based on the noh play Dojoji.
The theater was turned into an interactive game
space with a jagged hanamichi (entrance path)
running into the audience seats for this story of
a spurned woman and her transformation, told
through the juxtaposition of song, movement,
live music, video and live 3-D game space.
*centennial event*
Noh & Kyogen in the Park
Traditional Takigi Noh (outdoor bonfire noh)
at Dag Hammarskjold Park
1 9 –2 1 J U LY, 2 0 07
These performances were supported by the
Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of
Japan. Additional support was provided by
The Ford Foundation. Japan Society was
granted permission to use of a portion of Dag
Hammerskjold Park for this program by the New
York City Department of Parks & Recreation.
A rare opportunity to experience stellar noh and
kyogen performances in the outdoor takigi noh
style, this program featured Hojo, a forgotten
play from the late 16th-century Taiko-noh repertoire re-staged by acclaimed artist Umewaka
Rokuro; the classic noh play Izutsu performed by
Tessen-kai, led by Kanze Tetsunojo; and Igui, an
exuberant kyogen piece starring Nomura Mansai
with his seven-year-old son Yuki.
WORKS-IN-PROGRESS
Yukio Mishima’s Modern Noh Plays
Hanjo directed by Leon Ingulsrud
AOI! (based on The Lady Aoi) directed by
Kameron Steele of The South Wing
1 1 & 1 2 , 1 8 & 1 9 M AY
The South Wing’s AOI! was supported by Robert
Wilson RW Works, The Byrd Hoffman Foundation
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national tours
Rakugo Traditional Japanese Comedy
(The Arthur M. Sackler and Freer Gallery of
Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC;
Portland State University, Portland, OR)
Takeshi Kawamura’s AOI/KOMACHI
(Kennedy Center, Washington, DC; at Boston
Center for the Arts by Japan Society of Boston,
Boston, MA; Hopkins Center, Hanover, NH)
workshops & related events
Acting Intensive with Yoshi Oida
2 5 –2 8 O C TO B E R
Presented in association with Stella Adler
Studio of Acting.
Butoh Workshop & Audition with Akira Kasai
1 2 , 1 4 , 1 6 N OV E M B E R
An Evening with Takeshi Kawamura &
Richard Foreman
1 Akira Kasai (left) as Komachi
and Toru Tezuka (right) as the Film
Director in Takeshi Kawamura’s
contemporary noh play KOMACHI,
inspired by the noh play Sotoba
Komachi. Photo © Tom DiMauro.
19 MARCH
Co-presented with Martin E. Segal Theatre
Center; the Ph.D. Program in Theatre
and Continuing Education, The Graduate
Center, CUNY.
2 Legendary artist Katsura Utamaru
in Rakugo: Traditional Japanese
Comedy. Photo © William Irwin.
Noh Movement Workshop
2 1 J U LY, 2 0 07
Led by members of Tessen-kai.
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Japan Society 2006–07 Performing Arts
Programs were generously supported by The
Starr Foundation; the Lila Wallace-Reader’s
Digest Endowment Fund; the Doris Duke
Charitable Foundation; and the Endowment
for the Performing Arts.
Additional support was provided by The Globus
Family, Dr. John K. Gillespie, Asahi Beer Arts
Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels
Foundation, Inc., and the New York State
Council on the Arts, a State agency.
ANA, All Nippon Airways.
Plasma display was provided by Pioneer
Electronics (USA) Inc.
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Film Program
Alongside a number of premiere screenings and
exclusive film events during 2006–07, the Film
Program kicked off two very exciting new annual
programs: the Globus Film Series, a thematic series
to commemorate The Globus Family’s generous
support to the Society; and the first annual JAPAN
CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film. This year, we
also successfully increased our audience by 150
percent over the previous season.
In conjunction with the Performing Arts program
season theme Girl, Girly, Girlish, the Film Program presented the first Globus Film Series, Lolita in Full Bloom:
1980s Irresistible Heroines in the fall, with five films
rarely screened outside Japan starring the leading
“girls” of film who took Japan by storm in the 1980s.
To introduce these films to New York audiences, the
Film Program translated one of the films, Sailor Suit
and Machine Gun in its entirety and created English
subtitles, as well as adapting and enhancing the subtitles for Little Girl Who Conquered Time and W’s Tragedy.
In celebration of Japan Society’s centennial, the Film
Program inaugurated JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New
Japanese Film to showcase the wide variety of films
produced in Japan today. The 11-day extravaganza in
July 2007 included 18 U.S. and New York premieres
of feature films, over 60 short films, a free screening
for families, guest directors from Japan, Q&As, parties
and many related events. The New York Times called
JAPAN CUTS, “a rich and varied selection of recent
Japanese films.” Continuing the Student Sponsorship
Initiative started last year, enabled by support from
The Globus Family, 700 special student discount tickets
were made available during the festival, attracting
students from all over New York City.
Highlighting films with an international perspective,
the Film Program hosted the New York premiere
of Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles, a film by the
Chinese director Zhang Yimou, working with renowned
Japanese actor Ken Takakura. A preview screening
of the Academy Award winner Babel, a film that takes
place in the U.S., Mexico, Japan and Morocco, was
also presented, introduced by director Alejandro
Gonzáles Iñarritu and actors Riyako Kikuchi and
Gael García Bernal.
Masayuki Suo, director of Shall We Dance? and a longtime friend of the Film Program, returned to Japan
Society with the international premiere of his new film
I Just Didn’t Do It. In the spring, transgressive documentary director Kazuo Hara brought his first narrative
film, Many Faces of Chika, to the Society for its North
American premiere, followed by an intimate discussion
about his new experiences in feature filmmaking.
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2 0 0 6 – 07 P R O G R A M
HIGHLIGHTS
film series
G LO B U S F I L M S E R I E S
LOLITA IN FULL BLOOM:
1980s Irresistible Heroines
1 0 –1 9 N OV E M B E R
This series was supported by The Globus Family,
The Japan Foundation and the New York State
Council on the Arts, a State Agency. Opening
night’s LOLLIPOP PARTY was co-sponsored by
The Globus Family and L Magazine. The Student
Sponsorship Initiative was supported by The
Globus Family and the Criterion Collection.
A series of five popular films from the 1980s
rarely screened outside Japan, featuring female
pop stars known in Japan as “idols.” Presented in
conjunction with the Performing Arts Program’s
fall 2006 season theme Girl, Girly, Girlish.
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FILMS
Exchange Students (Nobuhiko Obayashi)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (Shinji Somai)
Typhoon Club (Shinji Somai)
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
(Nobuhiko Obayashi)
W’s Tragedy (Shinichiro Sawai)
*centennial event*
JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New
Japanese Film
5 –1 5 J U LY, 2 0 07
This series was supported by The Japan
Foundation, the New York State Council on the
Arts, a State Agency, and Sapporo USA, Inc.
The LAUNCH PARTY was sponsored, in part, by
Suntory. The ONIGIRI PARTY was sponsored, in
part, by The Globus Family. The Special Student
Discount was made possible by support from The
Globus Family.
This annual film festival was launched as a part of
the Society’s centennial celebrations. With rising
demands for new domestic films and directors
in Japan, JAPAN CUTS brought a sizable slice of
Japan’s dynamic contemporary film culture to
New York City.
LONG CUTS
5 –1 5 J U LY
Co-presented, in part, with New York Asian Film
Festival by Subway Cinema.
Eighteen U.S. and New York premieres of the best
in feature films, from blockbusters, cutting-edge
independent films and animation, to documentaries.
FILMS
Ants (Kaoru Ikeya); New York premiere
Big Bang Love (Takashi Miike); U.S. premiere
The Blossoming of Etsuko Kamiya (Kazuo
Kuroki); U.S. premiere; introduction by playwright
Masataka Matsuda
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Dear Pyongyang (Yonghi Yang); New York premiere
Death Note (Shusuke Kaneko); New York premiere, introduction and Q&A by the director
Death Note: The Last Name (Shusuke Kaneko);
New York premiere; introduction and Q&A by the
director
Exte: Hair Extensions (Sion Sono); U.S. premiere;
introduction and Q&A by the director
Faces of a Fig Tree (Kaori Momoi); U.S. premiere
Freesia (Kazuyoshi Kumakiri); U.S. premiere
Into a Dream (Sion Sono); U.S. premiere
Kamome Diner (Naoko Ogigami); New York
premiere; introduction and Q&A by the director
Komaneko—The Curious Cat (Tsuneo Goda);
New York premiere
Matsugane Potshot Affair (Nobuhiro
Yamashita); U.S. premiere
Memories of Matsuko (Tetsuya Nakashima);
U.S. premiere
Monsieur Greenpeas (Yasuo Kurita); U.S.
premiere; introduction and puppet animation
demonstration by the director
Nightmare Detective (Shinya Tsukamoto);
New York premiere
The Prisoner (Masao Adachi); U.S. premiere
Sway (Miwa Nishikawa); New York premiere;
introduction and Q&A by the director
1 Typhoon Club, part of the Lolita in Full Bloom:
1980s Irresistible Heroines film series. Photo ©
The Directors Company.
2 Sailor Suit and Machine Gun, part of the Lolita
in Full Bloom: 1980s Irresistible Heroines film
series. Photo © 1981 Kadokawa Herald Pictures,
Inc.
3 Faces of a Fig Tree, part of JAPAN CUTS:
Festival of New Japanese Film. Photo © 2006
AGORA Co., Ltd.
4 Komaneko—The Curious Cat, part of JAPAN
CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film. Photo ©
TYO/dwarf/KOMANEKO Film Partners.
5 Ants, part of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New
Japanese Film. Photo © Ren Universe, Inc.
6 Kamome Diner, part of JAPAN CUTS: Festival
of New Japanese Film. Photo © Kamome
Company Photo: Yoko Takahashi.
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7 Death Note, part of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of
New Japanese Film. Photo © 2006 “DEATH
NOTE” Film Partners © 2006 Tsugumi Ohba
Takeshi Obata.
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SHORT CUTS
5 –1 5 J U LY
Short films from the forefront of Japan’s emerging
independent filmmakers and video artists.
FILMS
Digista*; 21 films
Flowers of Waseda*; 5 films
German + Rain* (Satoko Yokohama)
Image Rings Presents Immoral Films*; 3 films
JVC Tokyo Video Festival Special*; 7 films
Look of Love* (Yoshiharu Ueoka)
Open Art*; 14 films
Strange Fruit*; 6 films
Video Art Night: More than Nature (curated by
Marco Antonioni)
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival
Special*; 3 films
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*Compiled by Nippon Connection, the Japanese
film festival in Frankfurt, Germany.
TURTLE BAY CUTS
8 J U LY
Gamera the Brave (Ryuta Tasaki); NY premiere.
A free family screening for the Turtle Bay community and beyond.
DISCUSSION
1 2 J U LY
With Miwa Nishikawa, director of Sway. Marian
Masone, Film Society of Lincoln Center, moderating.
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NY-JAPAN CUTS
1 2 J U LY
Three Japan-related film screenings and a networking salon for New York and Japan-based
filmmakers and industry professionals.
FILMS
KUSAMA: Princess of Polka Dots (Heather
Lenz); introduced by the director
Summer of the Serpent (Kimi Takesue); introduced by the director
Shall We Sing? (Reina Higashitani); introduced
by the director
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special screenings
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
24 AUGUST
Co-presented with SONY Pictures Classics.
Special preview screening of the film starring celebrated Japanese actor Ken Takakura, directed by
one of China’s foremost directors, Zhang Yimou.
Babel
2 4 O C TO B E R
Co-presented with Paramount Vantage.
A special preview screening of the Academy
Award-winning film, introduced by director
Alejandro González Iñárritu, and actors Rinko
Kikuchi and Gael García Bernal.
I Just Didn’t Do It
1 0 J A N U A RY
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Sponsored by Fuji Television Network, Inc.,
Altamira Pictures, Inc., Toho Co., Ltd. Reception
supported by Sapporo USA.
The international premiere screening of Masayuki
Suo’s (director of Shall We Dance) newest film,
introduced by Mr. Suo and actress Asaka Seto.
An Evening with Kazuo Hara & Sachiko
Kobayashi
1 M AY
North American premiere screening of Many Faces
of Chika (Mata no hi no Chika), the first fiction
feature film directed by acclaimed documentarian
Kazuo Hara. Following the screening, Hara and
partner Sachiko Kobayashi, screenwriter/producer
of the film, discussed their filmmaking process
with Ed Halter of The Village Voice.
Japan Society 2006–07 Film Programs were
generously supported by the Lila WallaceReader’s Digest Endowment Fund.
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Transportation assistance was provided
by All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.
1 Marc Walkow moderates a Q&A with director
Shusuke Kaneko (center), after a sold-out screening of his film Death Note during JAPAN CUTS:
Festival of New Japanese Film. Photo © David Hou.
2 Monsieur Greenpeas director Yasuo Kurita
demonstrates puppet animation, part of JAPAN
CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film. Photo ©
David Hou.
3 A crowd waits in line for tickets to one of several
sold-out screenings during JAPAN CUTS: Festival
of New Japanese Film. Photo © Ryo Nagasawa.
4 Ken Takakura in Riding Alone for Thousands of
Miles. Photo © 2006 CTB Film Company.
5 Rinko Kikuchi in Babel. Photo © Paramount
Vantage.
6 Director Masayuki Suo introduces his film I Just
Didn’t Do It at the international premiere. Photo ©
George Hirose.
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Lecture Programs
From medieval Zen to the front line of robotics
technology, Lecture Programs presented programs
on the most vital issues and trends in Japanese
culture. Highlighting the 2006–07 season was a
two-day symposium, Designing the Future: Japan’s
Tech Revolution, in which distinguished speakers ranging from corporate executives to leading designers
from Japan and the United States explored the latest
trends and future of design and technology. The event
featured a keynote dialogue between Jim Wicks,
Corporate Vice President of Consumer Experience
Design Group, Motorola, Inc. and Shunji Yamanaka,
President, Leading Edge Design Corp., on how to
anticipate future needs in the design process. This
program was part of TECH EPOCH, an 11-day summit
showcasing Japanese technological and design innovation, including interactive demonstrations, cuttingedge robotics and innovative automotive technology.
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Among the season’s many distinguished speakers
was David Bouley, chef and owner of Bouley, who
discussed his passion for sake and Japanese food at
the annual sake tasting and lecture. At “Japan Now:
Country Positions in Architecture,” internationally
acclaimed architect Toyo Ito explained the essential
concepts driving the creative process behind his past,
current and future projects. Another highlight was
“Meditation as Art—Art as Meditation: Thought on
the Relationship of Non-Intention to the Creative
Process,” where author and psychiatrist Mark Epstein
explored the intersection between Zen Buddhism,
meditation and the artistic process.
A series of lectures related to each Japan Society
Gallery exhibition addressed key intellectual themes
and explored issues raised by the art that went
beyond the context of the exhibitions themselves.
symposium
*centennial event*
TECH EPOCH
Designing the Future: Japan’s Tech Revolution
8 & 9 JUNE
This program was generously supported by
Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Transportation
assistance was provided by Japan Airlines, Media
sponsorship was provided by WNYC, and as part
of the Millennium on View program, Millennium
UN Plaza is the preferred hotel partner of Japan
Society’s Centennial.
With Hitoshi Abe, Chair, Department of
Architecture, UCLA and Principal, Atelier Hitoshi
Abe; Adam Balkin, Technology Reporter, NY1;
Naomi Hirose, Executive Director, General
Manager, Marketing & Consumer Relations
Department, Tokyo Electric Power Company;
Karim Lakhani, Assistant Professor of Business
Administration, Harvard Business School;
Tatsuya Matsui, Flower Robotics, Inc.; Christopher
Mount, Director of Exhibitions and Public
Programs, Parsons School of Design; Kohei
Nishiyama, CEO and founder, Elephant Design;
Naoaki Nunogaki, General Manager, Tokyo
Design & Research Laboratory, Toyota Motor
Corporation; Ken Okuyama, CEO, Ken Okuyama
Design; Clifford Pearson, Deputy Editor in Chief,
Architectural Record; Takanori Shibata, Senior
Research Scientist, Ubiquitous Functions
Research Group, Intelligent Systems Research
Institute, National Institute of Advanced
Industrial Science and Technology & SORST,
Japan Science and Technology Agency; Tomotaka
Takahashi, Principal, Robo-Garage; Nicholas
Thompson, Senior Editor, Wired Magazine;
Toyoyuki Uematsu, Senior Advisor in Charge of
Design, Panasonic; Jim Wicks, Corporate Vice
President of Consumer Experience Design Group,
Motorola, Inc.; and Shunji Yamanaka, President,
Leading Edge Design Corp.
lecture series
ARCHITECTS FORUM
Japan Now: Country Positions in Architecture
1 N OV E M B E R
Co-organized by the College of Architecture, Art
and Planning, Cornell University.
With Hiromi Hosoya, Hosoya Schaefer Architects;
Toyo Ito, Toyo Ito & Associates Architects;
Momoyo Kaijima, Atelier Bow-Wow; Mitsuhiro
Kanada, ARUP; Taira Nishizawa, Taira Nishizawa
Architects; and Sanford Kwinter, Associate
Professor of Architecture, Rice University.
Contemporary Clay Exhibition Talks
Held in conjunction with the Japan Society Gallery
exhibition Contemporary Clay: Japanese
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Ceramics for The New Century. Lecture programs for Contemporary Clay: Japanese
Ceramics
for the New Century were made possible
by funding from the Lila Wallace-Reader’s
Digest Endowment Fund. Additional support
was provided by the Sandy Heck Lecture Fund.
Feasting on Ceramics: A Celebration of
Nature’s Bounty & Human Creativity
Awakenings Exhibition Talks
Held in conjunction with the Japan Society Gallery
exhibition Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in
Medieval Japan. Lecture programs for Awakenings:
Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan were
made possible by funding from the Lila WallaceReader’s Digest Endowment Fund, Jack and Susy
Wadsworth, and the Sandy Heck Lecture Fund.
7 NOVEMBER
Zen Art in Historical & Comparative Context
With Elizabeth Andoh, Director, A Taste
of Culture culinary arts program, Tokyo;
Tadashi Ono, Executive Chef, Matsuri restaurant; and Harris Salat, freelance writer.
1 5 M AY
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: New
Visions & Evolving Traditions
30 NOVEMBER
With Louise Cort, Curator for Ceramics,
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Joe Earle,
Chair, Department of Art of Asia, Oceania,
and Africa, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
Halsey and Alice North, private collectors of
contemporary Japanese ceramics and principal lenders to the exhibition; and Richard J.
Wood, President, Japan Society.
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics: The
Collector’s Eye
13 DECEMBER
With Victoria Chan-Palay, collector of
ancient Southeast Asian art and contemporary Japanese ceramics; Beatrice Chang,
Director, Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd.; Steven Korff,
collector of 20th-century and contemporary
Japanese and American ceramics; Joan
Mirviss, Director, Joan B. Mirviss Ltd.; and
Richard J. Wood, President, Japan Society.
With Barbara Brennan Ford, Curator of
Japanese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Sarah E. Fraser, Associate Professor and Chair,
Department of Art History, Northwestern
University; Gregory Levine, Associate Professor,
Japanese Art, History of Art Department, U. C.
Berkeley; Yukio Lippit, Assistant Professor of
Japanese Art, Department of the History of Art
and Architecture, Harvard University; and
Yoshiaki Shimizu, Frederick Marquand Professor
of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.
Zen & Popular Culture: Interpretations,
Re-interpretations, Misinterpretations
14 JUNE
With Kenneth Kraft, Professor of Religion, Lehigh
University; Sun Ock Lee, founder, SunMuGa
Dance Company; and Helen Tworkov, President
of the Board, Tricycle Foundation and founder.
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.
1 Robot creator Tomotaka Takahashi, with his
robots FT and Chroino, explains his vision for
the relations between humans and robots at
Designing the Future: Japan’s Tech Revolution.
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general lectures
Keio University at 150: Connecting the Globe
at the Speed of Light
6 SEPTEMBER
With Yuichiro Anzai, President, Keio University
and the Research Institute for Digital Media and
Content; and Professor Hugh Patrick, R.D. Calkins
Professor of International Business Emeritus,
Columbia Business School, Director, Center on
Japanese Economy and Business, and Co-Director,
APEC Study Center, Columbia University.
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L E C T U R E & TA S T I N G
For the Love of Sake: David Bouley’s Passion
30 SEPTEMBER
Co-sponsored by the Sake Export Association.
With David Bouley, Chef and owner, Bouley.
Cultural Preservation for the Next Generation
15 NOVEMBER
Co-organized by Kyoto International Culture
Foundation.
With Lauren Cornell, Executive Director,
Rhizome.org.; Heather Hurst, Anthropology
Ph.D. candidate at Yale University and 2004
MacArthur Fellowship recipient; and Hiroshi
Senju, Nihon-ga artist.
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Meditation As Art—Art As Meditation:
Thoughts on the Relationship of Non-Intention
to the Creative Process
26 APRIL
Co-sponsored by the Tricycle Foundation.
With Mark Epstein, author and psychiatrist;
Philip Glass, composer; and Roshi Pat Enkyo
O’Hara, Abbot, Village Zendo.
Arts and Culture Lecture Programs were made
possible by funding from the Lila WallaceReader’s Digest Endowment Fund. Additional
support was provided by the Sandy Heck
Lecture Fund.
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1 Jim Wicks (right), Motorola’s Corporate VP
of Consumer Experience Design Group and
Shunji Yamanaka, Japanese industrial designer,
discuss the future of technology and design
during the keynote dialogue of the symposium
Designing the Future: Japan’s Tech Revolution.
Photo © Julie Lemburger.
2 Keio University President Yuichiro Anzai
talks about the significance and the future
vision of the university’s Research Institute for
Digital Media and Content at his lecture, “Keio
University at 150: Connecting the Globe at the
Speed of Light.” Photo © Aya Akeura.
3 Chef David Bouley speaks about his passion
for sake and Japanese food ingredients that he
utilizes at some of his acclaimed restaurants at
“For the Love of Sake: David Bouley’s Passion.”
Photo © Julie Lemburger.
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4 Gregory Levine, Associate Professor,
Japanese Art, History of Art Department,
U. C. Berkeley, explicates notions of “zen”
in his presentation at the panel discussion:
“Zen Art in Historical and Comparative
Context.” Left to right : Professor Levine;
Yukio Lippit, Assistant Professor of Japanese
Art, Department of the History of Art and
Architecture, Harvard University; Sarah E.
Fraser, Associate Professor and Chair of the
Department of Art History, Northwestern
University; Yoshiaki Shimizu, Frederick Marquand
Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton
University; and Barbara Brennan Ford, Curator
of Japanese Art, The Metropolitan Museum of
Art. Photo © George Hirose.
Education
Students participate in a gallery
lesson where they respond to
artwork verbally, visually and
through movement activities.
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Education Programs
Education Programs brings Japan to the classroom
and to the children of the New York metropolitan
area. During 2006–07, teachers and students enhanced
their knowledge about Japan through a variety of programs, including a study trip to Japan, partnerships,
weekend programs for children and the education
website, Journey through Japan. We led 11 prominent
professors of education from across the United States
on a study tour of Japan’s education system, where
participants got a behind-the-scenes view of Japan’s
K–12 schools and universities, exchanged ideas with
educators and government officials, and visited historic sites in Kyoto, Nara and Hiroshima.
Through two 30-hour comprehensive professional
development courses for educators, our program
helped improve teaching about Japan in K–12 schools. In
“From Emaki to Manga: The Development of Japanese
Literary Art & Multi-Functionalism,” participants
examined the development of Japanese illustrated
literary art from emaki (illustrated handscrolls) of the
Heian period to modern manga (graphic novels). In
“Religion in Japanese Culture & History,” educators
examined the central role religion has played in the
history of Japanese politics, economics, warfare and
the arts, with an emphasis on how to integrate these
themes into their teaching. A series of extremely popular one-day workshops informed educators on
Japanese puppetry, haiku and how to use kamishibai
storytelling to teach literacy, resulting in the creation
of many innovative and sophisticated lessons about
Japan for schools throughout the New York metropolitan area. A highly successful summer immersion
program taught students to produce documentary
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films on Japanese food, performing arts and expatriates
living in New York, and a special film screening through
our school partner alliance program on Japanese
baseball was attended by hundreds of students.
Education Programs plays an important role in providing educational outreach activities related to gallery,
performing arts and policy programs. In the past year,
we were particularly pleased to initiate the Responding
to series, in which two groups of students study and
respond to each Japan Society Gallery exhibition
through gallery lessons, scholarly lectures and artists’
demonstrations, culminating in an exhibition of student work. We also saw the development of a docent
corps for gallery exhibitions, as well as continuing our
popular interactive gallery tours for school groups.
Education Programs also ran numerous programs
for students and families featuring interactive demonstrations with Japanese robots and future automobile
technology. These programs were part of TECH
EPOCH, an 11-day summit featuring the latest trends
in Japanese technology and a highlight of the Society’s
centennial celebrations.
Throughout the year, we ran popular public programs
for children and families to learn about and experience
Japanese culture. Family program highlights this season included a New Year’s festival with games, music
and other festive and educational activities, as well
as a special program introducing traditional Japanese
puppetry (ningyo joruri), during which children and
families learned about this unique art form and participated in a performance.
1 K–12 educators learn about ways to incorporate
Japanese kamishibai (picture-board) storytelling
into their classrooms, led by Margaret Eisenstadt,
storyteller and founder of Kamishibai for Kids.
2 Participants in the Leadership in Education
Study Tour to Japan are greeted by the Dean of
the Japan Professional School of Education in
Tokyo. Photo © Kazuko Minamoto.
programs for educators
3 0 - H O U R I N - H O U S E CO U R S E S F O R
E D U C ATO R S
S T U DY TO U R TO J A PA N
Leadership in Education Study Tour to Japan
From Emaki to Manga: The Development of
Japanese Literary Art & Multi-Functionalism
6 –1 7 N O V E M B E R
2006 Leadership in Education Study Tour participants: Kristin Berman, The College of New
Rochelle; Margaret Crocco, Teachers College,
Columbia University; Namulundah Florence,
Brooklyn College, CUNY; Sherry Gibbon, Hobart
& William Smith Colleges; Olga Hubard, Teachers
College, Columbia University; Dorit Kaufman,
Stony Brook University; Guofang Li, Michigan
State University; Janet Miller, Teachers College,
Columbia University; Catherine O’Callaghan, Iona
College; Sherry Schwartz, SUNY at Geneseo; and
Judit Szente, University of Central Florida.
2 1 –2 5 A U G U S T
In cooperation with the New York City
Department of Education.
With Ken Barrett, Tenafly High School; William
Crow, Education Department, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Lori, D’Amico, English teacher,
Hunter College High School; Nicole FabricandPerson, Lafayette College; Barbara Ford, Curator,
Department of East Asian Art, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art; Elizabeth Hammer, Education
Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art;
Antonia Levi, Portland State University; Andrew
Watsky, Vassar College; and Hisashi Yamada,
Director, Urasenke Chanoyu Center.
Religion in Japanese Culture & History
1 7 & 3 1 M A R C H , 2 1 & 2 8 A P R I L , 1 2 M AY
In cooperation with the New York City
Department of Education.
With Kevin Carr, University of Michigan; Helen
Hardacre, Harvard University; Max Moerman,
Barnard College; and Janine Sawada, University
of Iowa.
O N E - DAY I N - H O U S E P R O G R A M S F O R
E D U C ATO R S
Haiku Workshop for K–12 Educators
2 1 O C TO B E R
With Stanford M. Forrester, haiku poet and
haiga artist.
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Japan’s Indigenous Religion: Shinto in
Annual Rituals
2 2 O C TO B E R
In conjunction with the Shichigosan ceremony.
With Max Moerman, Barnard College.
Discover Kamishibai: A Versatile Tool in
a Balanced Literacy Program
2 9 O C TO B E R
In conjunction with “Exploring Japan’s
Mystical Folktale Creatures & Ghosts through
Kamishibai.”
With Margaret Eisenstadt, storyteller and
founder, Kamishibai for Kids.
Japan’s Traditional Puppet Theater
(Ningyo Joruri)
2 5 F E B R U A RY
In conjunction with “Art Cart: Puppets
Come Alive!”
With J. Martin Holman, Professor, University
of Missouri-Columbia.
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programs for families
J A PA N ’ S A N N U A L F E S T I V I T I E S
Japan’s Star Festival (Tanabata):
Legend & Customs
8 J U LY
With Gay Merrill Gross, origami artist; and actors
Mitsuteru Matsuda and Suzue Nitobe.
Shichigosan (7-5-3) Ceremony
2 1 & 2 2 O C TO B E R
In cooperation with the International
Shinto Foundation.
With members of the International Shinto
Foundation.
Exploring Japan’s Mystical Folktale Creatures &
Ghosts through Kamishibai
2 9 O C TO B E R
With Nadine Grisar, storytelling specialist, PS 217;
and Aya Akeura, Press Officer, Japan Society.
Japan’s New Year’s Day Celebration: Oshogatsu
1 4 J A N U A RY
Featuring booths led by over 30 artists, presenters,
specialists and volunteer students from Keio
Academy of New York.
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Doll Festival (Girls’ Day): Hinamatsuri
3 MARCH
programs for students
SUMMER IMMERSION WORKSHOP FOR HIGH
*centennial event*
TECH EPOCH
Interactive Robot Demonstration
SCHOOL STUDENTS
5 & 7 JUNE
Japan Through Film
With Hiroshi Hashimoto, Executive Coordinator,
Corporate Communications, Toyota Motor North
America, Inc.; Takanori Shibata, Senior Research
Scientist, Intelligent Systems Research Institute; and
Tomotaka Takahashi, Robot Creator, Robo Garage.
1 0 –1 4 & 1 7–2 2 J U LY
In conjunction with Downtown Community
Television Center.
With Regge Life, documentary film producer/
director, and instructors from Downtown
Community Television Center.
O N E - DAY W O R K S H O P S F O R S T U D E N T S
Exploring Haiku & Haiga: Nature Inspired
Poems & Paintings
10 NOVEMBER
With Stephen Addiss, University of Richmond.
Meet ni-hao!
8 DECEMBER
In cooperation with the Japan Society Performing
Arts Program.
With the band ni-hao!
*centennial event*
TECH EPOCH
College & University Student
Roundtable Discussion
5 JUNE
With Hiroshi Hashimoto, Executive Coordinator,
Corporate Communications, Toyota Motor North
America, Inc.; Selma Sabanovic, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute; Takanori Shibata, Senior
Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems Research
Institute; and Tomotaka Takahashi, Robot Creator,
Robo Garage.
Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball Film Screening
& Panel Discussion for High School Students
Thornton Donovan School
1 2 J A N U A RY
6 F E B R U A RY
In cooperation with the Japan Society
Film Program.
With Kenneth Eng, film director; Linda Hoaglund,
Film Advisor, Japan Society; Ryohei Yamamoto,
Program Officer, Lecture Programs, Japan Society;
and student athletes from Keio Academy of
New York.
With Brian Camp, anime film critic and author;
John Holt, Animation Director, Animation
Collective, New York; Kazuko Minamoto, Deputy
Director of Education & Family Programs, Japan
Society; and Robert Fish, Director of Education &
Lecture Programs, Japan Society.
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With Keiko Sawaguchi, educator, Columbia
Grammar School; Masayo Ishigure, koto performer;
and Mayuki Murase, Director, New York branch of
the Mataro Doll Academy.
Celebrating Children’s Day in Japan (Kodomo
no hi): Kamishibai Storytelling & Crafts-Making
5 M AY
With Tara McGowan and Kamishibai Kidz.
ART CART PROGRAMS
Art Cart: Earth & Fire: Japanese Ceramics &
the Art of Nature
12 NOVEMBER
In cooperation with Japan Society Gallery.
With Keiko Ashida, ceramics artist; and Victoria
Moller, Education Associate, Japan Society.
Art Cart: Puppets Come Alive! The Art of Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater: Ningyo Joruri
2 5 F E B R U A RY
With J. Martin Holman, Professor, University of
Missouri-Columbia.
Art Cart: Sumi-e & Zen Portraiture
1 APRIL
In cooperation with Japan Society Gallery. Additional support for the Art Cart for Awakenings:
Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan was provided by the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation.
With Linda and Kate Mulhauser, sumi-e artists;
Suzanne de Vegh, Program Officer, Education &
Lecture Programs, Japan Society; and Victoria
Moller, Education Associate, Japan Society.
1 During a two-week summer program, high
school students created three short documentary
films chronicling aspects of Japanese life in New
York City, which were later screened at Japan
Society. Photo © Kazuko Minamoto.
2 Children playing fukuwarai games, one of
many traditional activities featured during Japan
Society’s Oshogatsu (New Year’s Day) festival.
3 Families enjoy a performance of the tale
of Orihime and Hikoboshi, the two star-crossed
lovers whose meeting is celebrated during
Japan’s annual Star Festival (Tanabata).
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3
Art Cart: Chanoyu
24 JUNE
With Mayuko Matsuda and members of the
Mushakouji Senke Bokusuikai NY branch; and
Suzanne de Vegh, Program Officer, Education &
Lecture Programs, Japan Society.
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in
Medieval Japan
R E S P O N D I N G TO. . . S E R I E S
2 9 M A R C H –1 7 J U N E
Responding to Contemporary Clay
With members of the Japan Society Docent Corps.
O C TO B E R –J A N U A RY
A D U LT & U N I V E R S I T Y G R O U P TO U R S
special family programs
for the New Century
Big Bird in Japan
2 9 S E P T E M B E R –2 1 J A N U A RY
19 APRIL
With Suzanne de Vegh, Program Officer,
Education & Lecture Programs, Japan Society.
In cooperation with Sony Wonder Technology Lab.
With Kazuko Minamoto, Deputy Director,
Education & Family Programs, Japan Society.
*centennial event*
TECH EPOCH
Touch, Feel & Interact with Robots
10 JUNE
With Corrine Doron, Program Manager, Sony
Wonder Technology Lab; Hiroshi Hashimoto,
Executive Coordinator, Corporate Communications,
Toyota Motor North America, Inc.; Takanori
Shibata, Senior Research Scientist, Intelligent
Systems Research Institute; and Tomotaka
Takahashi, Robot Creator, Robo Garage.
gallery lessons &
gallery-related programs
D O C E N T TO U R S F O R A D U LT S
With William Thrasher, independent curator and
adjunct faculty member, Rhode Island School
of Design; Keiko Ashida, ceramics artist; Suzanne
de Vegh, Program Officer, Education & Lecture
Programs, Japan Society; and Victoria Moller,
Education Associate, Japan Society.
Responding to Awakenings
M A R C H –J U N E
With Yoshiaki Shimizu, Frederick Marquand
Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton
University; Margo Magid, sumi-e artist; Suzanne
de Vegh, Program Officer, Education & Lecture
Programs, Japan Society; and Victoria Moller,
Education Associate, Japan Society.
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting
in Medieval Japan
2 9 M A R C H –1 7 J U N E
With Suzanne de Vegh, Program Officer,
Education & Lecture Programs, Japan Society.
G A L L E RY L E S S O N S P R E - K– G R A D E 1 2
Education Programs were made possible by
generous funding from The Freeman Foundation.
These programs were supported by Merrill
Lynch & Co., Inc. Additional support was
provided by Mr. and Mrs. Dean R. Thacker
and Lesley Nan Haberman.
for the New Century
With Victoria Moller, Education Associate,
Japan Society.
Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting
in Medieval Japan
2 9 M A R C H –1 7 J U N E
for the New Century
With Victoria Moller, Education Associate,
Japan Society.
With members of the Japan Society Docent Corps.
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1 Ceramic bowl created by a student participant
in the Responding to Contemporary Clay education
program. This piece was purchased by Japan
Society and now sits in the President’s office.
Photo © Sheldan Collins.
Toyota Language Center
The Society’s Japanese language education program,
which began in 1972 with just a single class, has
grown into one of the largest and most respected in
the nation. Today, the Toyota Language Center offers
12 comprehensive levels of Japanese, as well as a
variety of specialized courses and workshops including
shodo (Japanese calligraphy), ensuring that there is a
Japanese class for every level of student. In addition,
the Center caters to native Japanese speakers by
providing three levels of English conversation (ESL)
classes and a Japanese Language Teacher Training
Program at the beginning and intermediate levels.
C.V. Starr Library
The C.V. Starr Library houses approximately 14,000
volumes, in addition to a language library and an
impressive rare book collection. Its holdings include
a comprehensive collection of books (primarily in
English) on Japanese art, history, culture, society,
politics, economics, religion and many other subjects.
An ideal place for research on Japan and Japan-U.S.
relations, the library has also become one of the
favorite attractions of Japan Society visitors.
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Mini-Workshops: Learn to Read Hiragana
& Katakana
Japanese Language Teacher Training
Follow-Up Program
21, 22 SEPTEMBER
3 O C TO B E R – 5 D E C E M B E R
2 5 , 2 6 J A N U A RY
A continuation of the teacher training program,
providing the skills necessary to teach Japanese
at the intermediate level.
2 5 , 2 9 M AY
Enables beginning students to master efficiently
the reading of hiragana and katakana.
JETRO Business Japanese Proficiency Test
Japanese Language Courses
1 9 N OV E M B E R
25 SEPTEMBER–8 DECEMBER
Twelve levels of Japanese, from beginning to
advanced.
Offered in cooperation with the Japan External
Trade Organization (JETRO), this test provides
a standardized means for students to assess
their mastery of Japanese business language
and custom.
English Conversation Courses
Shodo Workshops I, II, III & Advanced course
2 9 J A N U A RY– 9 A P R I L
3 0 M AY–1 0 A U G U S T
3 O C TO B E R –7 D E C E M B E R
6 F E B R U A RY–1 0 A P R I L
9 M AY–2 0 J U LY
1 M AY–1 9 J U N E
3 0 J U LY–2 9 A U G U S T
1 0 J U LY–2 8 A U G U S T
This hands-on workshop introduces the techniques of shodo, a calligraphic art form that uses
a brush and charcoal ink on paper, wood plaques
and fabric.
FThree levels of English as a Second Language
(ESL) in 30- or 38-hour sessions.
1 Teacher training aide Mami Miyashita with
students in the Japanese Language Teacher Training
Program. Photo © Roy Mittelman.
2 Shodo students practice their work. Photo ©
Roy Mittelman.
Kanji I, II, III
3 1 M AY– 9 A U G U S T
Designed to enable those proficient in Japanese
to read Japanese newspapers with ease.
Economics & Business: Advanced Reading
Course I
5 J U N E –7 A U G U S T
Guides advanced language students in reading
the Nihon Keizai Shimbun and the Japanese
versions of Newsweek and Forbes, and also covers
important business customs.
Intensive Japanese Weekend Courses
1 1 , 1 2 , 1 8 & 1 9 N OV E M B E R
1
3, 4, 10 & 11 MARCH
1 6 , 1 7, 2 3 & 2 4 J U N E
Total immersion for people who plan to travel or
move to Japan or for students unable to attend
regular weekday classes.
Intensive Practical Japanese: Business &
Culture
2 5 A P R I L–2 4 M AY
Helps students master the fundamentals of
Japanese conversation, with special emphasis
on business and social occasions.
Japanese Language Teacher Training Program
2 4 A P R I L–2 4 M AY
Teaches essential classroom teaching skills to
native and fluent speakers of Japanese who have
had little or no formal training in the teaching of
Japanese as a second language.
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