Posts Tagged ‘Japan’
May. 10, 2012 | Filed under: UBC Reports Stories | Tags: arts, asia, business, china, Education, Japan, Korea, language apps, learning, studentlife, technology, university apps
The UBC Asian Studies App is the first university Asian language mobile application and boasts 10,000 digitally animated Chinese characters.
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Mar. 8, 2012 | Filed under: Hot Topics, Media Release, News Feed, News Tip, Uncategorized | Tags: arts, asia, community engagement, Dept. of Asian Studies, earthquake, Fukushima, hot topics, Institute of Asian Research, intercultural understanding, Japan, Japanese earthquake experts, tsunami, UBC, UBC experts list, UBC Library
UBC experts and community members are available to comment on the March 11 anniversary of Japan’s “triple disaster” – the earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant meltdown.
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Feb. 29, 2012 | Filed under: UBC Reports Stories | Tags: arts, Fukushima, Japan, Japanese earthquake expert
Japan’s citizens are still reeling from what UBC Geography Prof. David Edgington calls “the triple disaster” of March 11, 2011. UBC Reports asked the Japan expert about clean-up efforts and the likelihood of a similar event in B.C.
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Mar. 16, 2011 | Filed under: Media Advisory, Media Release, News Feed, News Tip | Tags: Anne Trudel, Asia Pacific Memo, Buddhism, business, David Edgington, earthquake, earthquake expert, humanitarian aide, Japan, Jessica Main, Joseph Caron, Justin Elavathil, learning, nuclear crisis, nuclear safety expert, Paul Evans, politics, triple disaster, tsunami, webcast
Media are invited to attend a UBC forum where experts, students and the community will discuss Japan’s “triple disaster” of earthquakes, tsunamis and nuclear crisis.
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Mar. 11, 2011 | Filed under: Media Advisory, News Feed | Tags: earthquake, Japan, nuclear, nuclear safety expert, tsunami
University of British Columbia experts are available to comment on various aspects of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan.
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