Report of International Symposium “Reception and Resistance: Life According to Western Science and Japan”

Date: 12nd June 2014

Time: 18:30-20:30

Venue: Hosei University Boissonade Tower 25th Floor Seminar Room of the Research Institute for Innovation Management, Hosei University Ichigaya Campus

Organisers: Shin Abiko (Hosei University) and Thierry Hoquet (Jean Moulin University Lyon 3)

Chair: Shin Abiko (Hosei University)

Executive Summary Hosei University Researach Center for International Japanese Studies held the international symposium “Reception and Resistance: Life According to Western Science and Japan” at Hosei University Boissonade Tower 25th Floor Seminar Room of the Research Institute for Innovation Management, Hosei University Ichigaya Campus on 12nd June 2014. In this time 9 participants discussed the issue of the relationship between “life” and “science” in Japan.