Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 17:00 - Love and the Purpose of the Market Place: A Geopolitical and Cultural Perspective on Business Ethics
  Lord Stephen Green ((former Chairman of HSBC, and former Minister of State for Trade and Industry)), Professor Paul Fiddes (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford)

Saturday 17 May 2025

• 09:30 - OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: ‘Social and Economic Challenges and Opportunities’ Roundtable
  Jonathan Lusthaus (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford), Dr Gregory Thaler (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 17:00 - Scandals, Secrets and News: How Manuscripts Reshape Our Knowledge of Edo Culture
  Professor Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 17 October 2025

• 17:00 - Translated Scholarship and Japanese Universities: How Have Translations of Western Scholarship into Japanese Affected and Biased Japanese Academia?
  Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 23 October 2025

• 17:00 - Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia
  Dr Yoichi Nemoto (Hitotsubashi University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 17:00 - Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations
  Dr Karin Narita (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 6 November 2025

• 17:00 - Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation
  Helen O’Horan
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 17:00 - Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric
  Professor Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 20 November 2025

• 17:00 - Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan
  Professor Colin P.A. Jones (Doshisha Law School)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 17:00 - How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan
  Professor Trevor Incerti (University of Amsterdam)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 4 December 2025

• 17:00 - Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
  Dr Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 4 December 2020

• 12:00 - Family-Run Universities in Japan
  Dr Jeremy Breaden (Monash University), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies