Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Winter 2020 Catalogue
University of California San Diego (UCSD): EXTENSION
On January 8th, 2020 the author of The Emperor and the Spy shared a new historical perspective on U.S. Japan relations during the first half of the twentieth century.
This Osher catalogue includes a description of the presentation.
The Osher presentation was two hours in length: during the first hour there was a slide presentation with many rare, primary source, historical materials that were discovered while researching for the novel The Emperor and the Spy, and the illustrated biography The Art of Peace. This biography highlights Prince Iyesato Tokugawa, heir to the last Shogun of Japan, who became the most influential Japanese international statesmen during the first four decades of the 1900s. It was only after Tokugawa’s passing in 1940, that Japan was pressured by militarists into joining the Axis Powers in WWII. The second hour of the Osher presentation was a question and answer session, with many insightful inquiries from the approximately one hundred attendees.
The video of the first hour of the presentation is available thru membership with the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute: Extension of UCSD, at a cost of twenty five dollars per year, which gives full access to hundreds of diverse presentations given by many professors from the San Diego and Los Angeles area as well as from experts from many other diverse disciplines.
Link to the Osher presentation
It is the goal that the novel and illustrated biography, accompanied by the blog posts on this website, will be enjoyed by general readers, and also serve as resources for classroom instruction on a fascinating period of history. They honor the memories of unsung heroes who strove to maintain peace, but in times of conflict, devoted themselves to protecting democracy and defeating fascism.
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