\nin Celebration of the Publication <\/span>
\nFanning the Flames: Propaganda in Modern Japan<\/em><\/h5>\n
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Beginning Tuesday, June 1, 2021 | 12:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm ET<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Registration<\/strong> https:\/\/stanford.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_fGlZBVfcRJqsLNgdyL18Og<\/a><\/p>\n Events in the Series<\/strong>: Thursday, June 10<\/strong> Additional Lectures in the Series<\/strong> Participant Bios<\/strong>: Michael Auslin<\/strong> is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. A historian by training, he specializes in U.S. policy in Asia and geopolitical issues in the Indo-Pacific region. His publications include Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy<\/em> (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004) and Asia\u2019s New Geopolitics: Essays on Reshaping the Indo-Pacific<\/em> (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 2020).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/kyoto.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_2327-300x260.jpg\")
<\/a>Japan\u2019s Meiji Restoration brought swift changes through Japanese adoption of Western-style modernization and imperial expansion. Fanning the Flames<\/a> brings together a range of scholarly essays and collected materials from the Hoover Institution Library & Archives detailing how Japanese propaganda played an active role in fostering national identity and mobilizing grassroots participation in the country\u2019s transformation and wartime activities, from with the First Sino-Japanese War (1894\u201395) to the end of World War II.
\nThe Fanning the Flames<\/em> Speaker Series highlights conversations with leading scholars of modern East Asian history, art, and propaganda and is presented in conjunction with the book and upcoming online and physical exhibitions.<\/p>\n
\nTuesday, June 1 <\/strong>
\n12:00 pm PT | 3:00 pm ET
\nAnchors of History: The Long Shadow of Japanese Imperial Propaganda<\/em>
\nBarak Kushner, professor of East Asian History, University of Cambridge<\/em>
\nMichael R. Auslin, the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution<\/em><\/p>\n
\n4:00 pm PT | 7:00 pm ET
\n\u201cWar Fever\u201d as Fueled by the Media and Popular Culture: The Path Taken by Meiji Japan’s Policies of \u201cEnrich the Country\u201d and \u201cStrengthen the Armed Forces<\/em>\u201d
\nToshihiko Kishi, professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University<\/em>
\nKay Ueda, curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Hoover Institution Library & Archives<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDates and titles to be announced<\/em>
\nYuma Totani, professor of Japan, University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa<\/em>
\nAlice Tseng, Professor of Art History, Boston University<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBarak Kushner<\/strong> is professor of East Asian history and the chair of Japanese Studies in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. He has edited numerous books and written several monographs, including the award-winning Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice<\/em> (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015). In 2020 he hosted several episodes of a major Chinese documentary on Japanese war crimes and is currently writing a book titled The Construction of Injustice in East Asia: Japan versus Its Neighbors<\/em>.<\/p>\n