1994 Asiatic Society of Japan lectures

Officers, Councilors and Committee Members

January 17 (Annual General Meeting)
"Ayutthayan-Japanese Relations in the Pre-Modern Period: A Bibliographic Reflection"
Dr. Yoneo Ishii

February 14
"The Maternal Malaise in Contemporary Japan"
Dr. Muriel R.P. Jolivet

March 14
"Symmetry and Dissymmetry: A Comparative Cultural Study of Japanese and Non-Japanese Cultures"
H.I.H. Prince Takahito Mikasa

April 11
"Sir Rutherford Alcock, the First British Minister to Japan, 1859-1864: A Reassessment"
Sir Hugh Cortazzi, G.C.M.G.

May 9
"The Arctic World: First Traditions"
Dr. Christopher D. Stephens

May 11 (Joint meeting arranged by the OAG)
"Germany and Japan as They Were in Tsingtao"
Mr. Aaron Cohen

June 13
"The Significance of Unpublished Local Records of the Tokugawa Period"
Mr. Robert G. Flershem

September 12
"Japanese Arts and the Formation of American Imagism - in Amy Lowell's Case"
Dr. Naoki Onishi

October 10
"Edoardo Chiossone"
Prof. Lia Beretta

November 14
"Mythical Elements in "The Secret History of the Mongols""
Dr. Roger Finch

December 12
"Japan in Canadian Culture"
Dr. John F. Howes

December 19 (Special lecture, Dutch Embassy)
"Family Planning, Abortion and the Buddhist Cult of Jizoh"
Prof. R.J. Zwi Werblowsky

Annual Report of the ASJ Council for 1994