Japanese Studies Lecture: Brexit and Japanese Studies: A Voyage of Discovery - RESCHEDULED

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Please note this event has been rescheduled to take place on Thursday 22 November from 5pm until 6pm with the wine reception starting at 18:00. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

A lecture about Brexit and Japanese Studies with guest speaker David Williams, BA, DPhil (Oxon), FRSA. Followed by a wine reception starting at 18:00.

Abstract

The lecture is in essence a personal encounter with the author of three recent books. The lecture is formal in structure but informal in spirit. It divides into four parts:

1. My Japan, Your Japan
2. Discovering Confucian Revolution or the Japanese as East Asians
3. Other People’s Minds: If Brexiteers Were More Confucian Minded
4. The Cardiff Interpretation: Japan as a Celtic Quest Like No Other

The substance of the lecture derives from the following books:

• Before We Go to War with China and N. Korea: The Unmastered Lessons of America’s Wars against Confucian Asia, from Pearl Harbor to the Fall of Saigon (2017)
• Better and Stronger Apart: The Practical Case for a New Partition of the British Isles, Why It May Be Time for the Remain and Leave Nations of these Islands to Go their Separate Ways, An Essay in Persuasion on Brexit (2018)
• The European Discovery of Confucian Revolution: The Orientalist Completes Machiavelli’s Unfinished Voyage (forthcoming in 2019)

Biography

Born in Los Angeles, Williams was educated in Japan and at UCLA, and contributed for many years to the Opinion Section of the Los Angeles Times. He has taught at Oxford, where he took his doctorate, Sheffield and Cardiff universities. He has worked for the Industrial Bank of Japan, Mitsui and Co., the Iran-Japan Petrochemical Co., and Tōyō Keizai (The Oriental Economist’). During twelve of his twenty-five years in Japan he was an editorial writer for The Japan Times, before working in financial services in Tokyo, London and New York City. He has regularly appeared on BBC Wales and has contributed his views to The Financial Times and Liberty magazine in Japan. Today he divides his life between Cardiff Bay and Bordeaux.

Simultaneous Translation

The event will be delivered in the medium of English. You are welcome to ask questions in the medium of Welsh during the QandA session. If you intend to do this, please contact mlang-events@cardiff.ac.uk by Wednesday 14 November to request simultaneous translation. Please note that 10% or more of those planning to attend will need to request this provision in order for it to be sourced and will be subject to resource availability.

Registration

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