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Tsugaru
as one of the last undiscovered areas of Japan





What

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


When

September 12, 2009 (Saturday) from 3 PM to 4 PM

September 13, 2009 (Sunday) from 3 PM to 4 PM

Where

Bellevue College Main Campus
3000 Landerholm Circle SE, Bellevue, WA 98007.

Room: C-Bldg. Room No. C-164 [campus map]

Note

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.



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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