USC
University of Southern California
Emeriti College

Noboru Inamoto

The Inamoto Lectureship

The friends and family of Noboru Inamoto established the Inamoto Lectureship in 1997 as a means of fulfilling the lifelong ideals of Professor Inamoto: to support closer ties between individuals and institutions in the United States of America and Japan and other East Asian countries.

Lectures and Panels

2009
The Japanese American Experience:
Intergenerational Perspectives on Changing Family Values and Culture

Moderator: Cheryl Tsuyuki
Panelists: Sean Miura, Keiko Nakada, Kae Nakayama, Randy Nakayama,
Katsuyoshi Nishimoto, and Ryan Onishi

2008
No lecture given

2007
Stanley Rosen
Professor of Political Science, USC
Moderator for: A Japanese Cultural Exchange:
Student Panel of Japanese Culture, Art, and Music

2006
Jonathan Reynolds
Professor of Art History, USC
A Tale of Two Katsuras: Ishimoto Yasuhiro and
the Photographic Representation of the 17th Century
Imperial Villa at Katsura

2005
Michael Blaker
Professor, author, and consultant
on Japanese business and governmental affairs
Can Japan Become a Major Diplomatic Power?

2004
Robert T. Singer
Curator and Head, Japanese Art Department,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
What Makes Japanese Art Unique

2003
Peter Berton
Distinguished Professor of
International Relations, USC
Japan's Territorial Dispute with Russia

2002
Robert A. Scalapino
Robson Research Professor of
Government Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Japan's Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

2001
James Yamazaki
Clinical Honorary Professor of
Pediatrics, UCLA
Children of the Atomic Bomb:
Prelude to the Twenty-First Century Post 911

2000
Peter Berton
Distinguished Professor Emeritus,
International Relations, USC
Japan on the Psychologist's Couch

1999
No lecture given

1998
Frank B. Gibney
President, Pacific Basin Institute
Pomona College
Japan's One-Party Disaster

1997
Fred G. Notehelfer
Professor of History, UCLA
Rethinking the Meiji Restoration


Click here for the Inamoto Lecuteship nomination form.