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NHK World, a broadcast service based in Tokyo, offers domestic and international English news 24 hours a day. NHK World presents information on Asia from various perspectives and covers politics, culture, science and industry news related to Japan as well as global affairs. The site includes NHK's Journeys in Japan...

The Transpacific Partnership (TPP) has received attention from Presidential candidates, the news media, and the Boulder community, with letters to the editor and columns in the local paper at least weekly. Since many of the TPP partners are Asian countries, it is appropriate that CAS organized a roundtable discussion of...

At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded to hit Japan rocked the Pacific coast of northern Japan, triggering huge tsunami waves. As of a year ago, the Japanese National Police agency confirmed the total death toll: 15,894 deaths, in addition to over 6,000 injured...

Congratulations to the CU Class of 2016, and especially to our graduating Asian Studies majors and minors! Best of luck in all of your future endeavors! Majors: Alexander "Zan" Appell John Hazuka Samuel Alfred Keoseyan Shelly Kim Emily Orendorff Amberly Brooke Rivera-Morrell Carmen Rodriguez Morgan Sweeney, magna cum laude Zesha...

On February 11, 2016, Professor Martin Manalansan IV, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian American Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, delivered a lecture at CU-Boulder to a standing room only crowd with HALE 230, seating 85, packed to capacity. Professor Manalansan’s talk, “(Un)moved: The Paradoxes of Disaffection among...

This year’s CU Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (CUBASGA) Conference was an enormous success. The conference took place on Friday, February 19 th and Saturday, February 20 th and featured two distinguished keynote speakers: Professor Ronald Egan of Stanford University and Professor Adam Kern of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Conference...

On January 22, 2016, Dr. Chika Watanabe, Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, presented the paper, “Tinkering with Difference: The Ethical Labor of Aid in a Japanese NGO.” Her visit was generously sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the...

CAS is pleased to partner with the Department of Geography and the Tibet Himalaya Initiative to invite John Osburg from the University of Rochester to present on "Business and Belief among Han Chinese Practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism in the People's Republic of China." In the context of a perceived spiritual...

This Thursday, April 21, Kathryn E. Goldfarb, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, will present at our last Luncheon Series event of the semester on, "Anonymity, Ancestry, and Family Registry: Adoption Debates in Contemporary Japan." In 2007, the Catholic Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, began operating the “kōnotori...

The South Asia Speaker Series is bringing Dr. David Gilmartin, Professor of Anthropology at North Carolina State University, on Tuesday, April 19, to speak on "Voting and Party Symbols in India: The Visual and the Law in Constituting the Sovereign People." Dr. Gilmartin's talk will begin at 5:00 p.m. and...