This talk is part of the “Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’” Two-day international graduate conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the Meiji Ishin at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford. For our full list of speakers, please see reopeningtheopening.wordpress.com

Panel 8 – Copyright Law and Border Control: Transnational Histories of Translators, Publishers, Passports, and Marine Animal Hunters

Maj Hartmann
Opening to Global Copyright — Japanese Publishers and the “Modernization” of the International Copyright Law
Takahiro Yamamoto
A backdoor wide open: Japan’s passport regime and marine animal hunters in the Kuril Islands