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19-Sep-01
THE PELL CENTER'S THIRD THURSDAY LECTURE SERIES BEGINS TOMORROW WITH DR. TOSHIO NISHI
By Public Affairs Staff
NEWPORT, R.I. - Tomorrow (September 20) at 5 p.m. Dr. Toshio Nishi will inaugurate the Pell Center's Third Thursday Lecture Series. Dr. Nishi, a professor in the International School of Economics and Business Administration at Reitaku University, Japan, is currently a visiting fellow at the Pell Center.
Dr. Nishi has written extensively on Japan and the occupation of Japan by the United States following World War II. His books include Kuniyaburete MacArthur (The Invasion of MacArthur); Fukoku Jakumin: Nippon (Wealthy Nation, Weak People: Japan); Unconditional Democracy: Education and Politics in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952; and MacArthur no hanzai (The "Crime" of MacArthur). He has also written many articles for Japanese and American publications.
Dr. Nishi is currently working on several manuscripts including Fukoku Kyohei: America (in Japanese), Hearts of the Empire (in English), and an article in English titled "Holy Ghost, Divine Greed, Slow Massacre: The Europeans in 16th Century Japan." A critic of Japan's post-war political culture, Professor Nishi is one of the most sought after speakers on Japan's national speech circuit. His arguments for a stronger, more independent, and assertive Japan are controversial in Japan and among US audiences.
Nishi has been awarded many scholarships and grants, including an ongoing research grant from Reitaku University. From 1977 to 1985 he received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Hoover Institution. In 1977 he also received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship from the Harry S. Truman Library Institute in Missouri. Dr. Nishi is also a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Dr. Nishi received a B.A. in literature from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1964. He earned his M.A. in communications from the University of Washington at Seattle in 1968 and his Ph.D. in political studies of education from the University of Washington at Seattle in 1976.