Search:   Advanced Search   Gallery   About Us   Contact Us   עברית   Supreme Court Deputy-President Eliezer Rivlin (ret.) Joins Hebrew University Faculty of Law Not just our cars, but also living organisms need antifreeze to survive in the cold Nobel laureate Dr. Bruce Beutler to lecture, receive award at Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research Learn in Israel, Heal the World: Public health leaders from 20 countries will spend nine days learning and exchanging ideas in Jerusalem Music on our Minds: international conference on music and the brain will mix science and concerts German foundation awards two €250,000 prizes to Hebrew University researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences Professor Yoram Bilu to receive Israel Prize in sociological and anthropological research How to cut down on crime? Focus police in concentrated ‘hot spots,’ says Hebrew University criminologist Healing the world: 70 graduates of International Master’s in Public Health program to attend 2nd alumni workshop, reunion in Jerusalem It's a bird, it's a plane, it's…. Hebrew U?   29 April, 2007 International conference on Japan at Hebrew U. to honor leading Japan expert Prof. Ben-Ami Shillony Prof. Ben-Ami Shillony receives ''The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star,'' from the Japanese ambassador, bestowed on him by the Emperor of Japan. An international conference on Japan will take place at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem this week to honor Israel's leading Japan expert Prof. Ben-Ami Shillony on his recent retirement. The conference will take from today, Sunday April 29, to Wednesday May 2, in the Maiersdorf Faculty Club at the Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus. The conference, which is being held under the auspices of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies, will be opened by the Japanese Ambassador to Israel Yoshinori Katori and will feature speakers from Israel, Japan, the United States, Great Britain, Germany and India. Subjects to be discussed include: Wars and the military in 20th century Japan; The memory of WWII and the adoption of democracy in Japan; Post-war Japan's defense policy; The Emperor and leadership in post-war Japan; Comparisons between Jewish and Japanese theater; Japan in the early Hebrew press in Palestine at the turn of the 20th century; WWII in Japanese and Israeli memory; The Sugihara visas; Japan's Jewish policy in the late 1930s; Jewish scientists, Jewish ethics an the decision to drop the atomic bomb; and Japan's Middle East foreign policy. Polish-born Prof. Shillony taught Japanese history and culture at the Hebrew University for 35 years after receiving his Ph.D. in 1971, and was a research fellow at the universities of Tokyo, Berkeley, Oxford and Cambridge. He served as chair of the Hebrew University's Department of East Asian Studies and of the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. In 2000, he was appointed the Louis Frieberg Professor of East Asian Studies. In November 2000, the Emperor of Japan bestowed on him the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star (Kun-nitō Zuihōshō). Prof. Shillony's research focuses predominantly on modern Japanese history, particularly the pre-war and wartime periods, the symbolic role of the emperor in Japanese culture and history, Japan, the Japanese and their relationship and comparison to the Jews and the Russo-Japanese War. Downloadable File: Japanconf.doc
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