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Mitsui Distinguished
Lecture
What is the Mitsui Distinguished Lecture?
The East Asian Studies program, with support from John
Carroll University and the Cleveland Office of USA, Inc. and the
Mitsui USA Foundation, has sponsored the Mitsui Distinguished Lecture
each spring since its inaugural year in 1993. The lecture brings
both nationally and internationally prominent speakers to address
the concepts and historic issues that concern China, Korea and Japan.
The 2009 Mitsui Distinguished Lecturer is Dr. William Tsutsui.
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Dr. William Tsutsui is a professor of history at Kansas University. He is also the director of the Kansas Consortium for Teaching About Asia and executive director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas. Prof. Tsutsui is the author of Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (Princeton, 1998) and Banking Policy in Japan: American Efforts at Refrom During the Occupation (Routledge, 1988). He has received Fulbright, ACLS, and Marshall fellowships, and was awarded the Newcomen Society Award for Excellence in Business History in 1998, the John Whitney Hall Prize of the Association for Asian Studies in 2000, and the William Rockhill Nelson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2005.
The topic of this lecture is“ War and the Environment: The Case of Japan During World War II.”
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The effect of war on the environment can be tremendous. As governments assume a war footing, they redirect national resources for their war aims. In a total war, the environmental consequences are felt from the front-lines and bombed out cities--where the mark of war is so direct--to farmland, forests, and fisheries--where pressure to produce is most intense.
Through a wide array examples such as songbird populations, crab canning, erosion, and night soil use, Dr. William Tsutsui examines the impact of World War II on the environment of Japan and the Pacific and explores what environmental lessons this holds for us in the 21st century.
This lecture was featured at 5:30 p.m. on March 23 at the Donahue Auditorium in the Dolan Center for Science and Technology to kickoff John Carroll University's A Celebration of Scholarship!, a week-long, campus-wide showcase for research and scholarship by faculty and students. For more information on the Celebration, visit the website at http://www.jcu.edu/celebration.
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see the past Mitsui Distinguished Lectures.
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