Artificial intelligence already has the potential to revolutionize healthcare in the near-future. This talk introduces Prof. Hosio’s work on digital health, highlighting the convergence of different digital technologies, some ongoing case studies on mental health, and crowdsourced, massively scalable online experiments exploring the cross-cultural differences and human factors.

Zoom Webinar
Tuesday, 3 October 2023, 16:30-18:00 JST

Over the past 15 years, a transformation of the international tax framework has occurred. Traditional instruments have been modified and completed by new rules aiming to better fight tax evasion and tax avoidance, including a global minimum tax of 15% for large multinationals. These changes have also fostered tax cooperation between authorities. What will happen to this reform in a context of geopolitical fragmentation and crisis of global governance?

Zoom Webinar
Friday, 20 October 2023, 16:00-17:30 JST

The so-called 'K' culture originating from South Korea has gained popularity not only in Japan but also globally. This talk will focus on understanding this current situation in the context of political, economic, and societal changes in South Korea since the late 1990s. By doing so, it will provide an opportunity to shed light on the relationship between culture and democracy in contemporary South Korea, and offer some modest insights for contemplating the often turbulent Japan-Korea relations.

Zoom Webinar
Tuesday, 24 October 2023, 10:30-12:00 JST

The new award-winning translation of The Bankruptcy by Júlia Lopes de Almeida makes this novel available to Anglophone readers for the very first time. To celebrate its publication, this symposium will gather the translators and editor of the novel together with scholars in translation and literary studies to discuss the state of world literature today and the role played by translation in Brazil, Japan and beyond.

Zoom Webinar
Thursday, 26 October 2023, 19:00-21:00 JST

The word feminism is extremely difficult to define because it has been theorized, discussed, and practiced in many different ways. I’ve also learned since coming to Japan that “feminism” can be equally as hard to translate into Japanese since the word feminizumu (フェミニズム) can take on different connotations and meanings, which do not always match the ways in which women’s movements and gender equality have been conceptualized here.

Shannon WELCH
2023.09.25

I am going to talk today about my relationship to Japan and Japanese literature. First, I will deal with some key experiences related to my encounter with Japanese literature. Then, I will focus on my views of the present and future of the field of Japanese literature.

Haruo SHIRANE
2023.06.08

I would like to say that my time at Tokyo College was by far the most exciting and productive of all the research appointments in my career. My field is premodern Japanese literature and culture, with interests in environmental studies and popular culture. This was the first time that I was in a truly international, deeply interdisciplinary environment with English as the common language with shared interests across many countries.

Haruo SHIRANE
2023.05.30

Tokyo College’s postdoctoral fellow Dr. Chunyan Li, and visiting scholar Jenni Schofield, who are both members of the Gender, Sexuality & Identity Group, interviewed two core members from Colorful Heart, Yuta ONAGA and Mikako UMAMORI about their experiences in Colorful Heart and insights about LGBTQ health and rights in Japan.

LI Chunyan, Jenni SCHOFIELD
2023.05.26

Tokyo College aims to generate new knowledge to contribute to the creation of an inclusive society and spark deeper public engagement with the University.