The Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series Fall 2009

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 17:00-

Haruki vs. Karamazov: Contemporary Japanese Literature

under the Shadow of the Great Russian

Mitsuyoshi NUMANO -Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology

Room 312, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

The lecture was attended by many students and academic staff members of East Asian

Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Comparative Literature, although it was

the busy time near the end of the semester. The lecture was so popular that the

classroom could not accommodate all of them, and thus the classroom had to be

changed. After Professor Yasunari Takada said greetings, representing the Todai-Yale

Initiative, Christopher Hill, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures,

introduced the lecturer. The lecture was given by Professor Mitsuyoshi Numano for

one and a half hour. As the lecture topics were timely, the comparative theory of Japan

and Russia was interesting, and he was eloquent, the lecture was followed

by an active and lively question-and-answer session.

September 23, 2009

The Impact of Audit Failure in Japan

Fumiko TAKEDA -Associate Professor, Graduate School of Engineering