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Tsugaru
as one of the last undiscovered areas of Japan
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What
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A lecture on "Tsugaru as one of the last undiscovered
areas of Japan" by Tsugaru District Researcher, Professor
Anthony S. Rausch (PhD) from Hirosaki University
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When
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September 12, 2009 (Saturday) from 3 PM to 4 PM
September 13, 2009 (Sunday) from 3 PM to 4 PM
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Where
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Bellevue College Main Campus
3000 Landerholm Circle SE, Bellevue, WA 98007.
Room: C-Bldg. Room No. C-164 [campus
map]
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Note
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THE NUMBER OF LECTURE ATTENDEES WILL BE LIMITED by the classroom capacity
(35). Pre-registration is advised
and on a first come basis. Pre-register by e-mail to president@enma.org.
Registration on the morning of the class will be permitted if the
class is not full.
There is NO Charge for this Presentation.
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Biography of Anthony S. Rausch (PhD)
Currently Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Hirosaki
University, located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, Anthony Rausch first
arrived in the Tsugaru District in the late 1980s. A Minnesota native
and graduate of the University of Minnesota, Rausch completed his
Master's Degree at Hirosaki University and his PhD at Monash University
(Australia). He has published on a wide-range of subjects concerning
rural Japan, including volunteerism, education and local media, and
local arts and crafts and cultural commodities in local cultural and
economic development. His books include The Birth of Tsugaru Shamisen
Music: The Origin and Development of a Japanese Folk Performing Art
and A Year with the Local Newspaper: Understanding the Times in Aomori
Japan, 1999, and he has contributed to The Formation of Tsugaru Identity
and Wearing Cultural Styles in Japan: Concepts of Tradition and Modernity.
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