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Japan Foundation “Mask Up 2020” Design Competition
In case you’re looking for a creative way to encourage people to wear masks and support distribution of free masks to various organizations, Japan Foundation’s Center for Global Partnership is sponsoring “Mask Up 2020,” a design competition. Open to all … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Pleasure in ProfitPopular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan Laura Moretti In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers’ … Continue reading
Call for Applications: Summer School in Early Modern Japanese Palaeography (Cambridge University, 2-14 August 2021)
Summer School in Early Modern Japanese Palaeography2-14 August 2021. Upon careful thinking and wide consultation with all the parties involved, including the senior officers of Emmanuel College, we have decided to conduct the 2021 programme virtually. The 2021 summer school … Continue reading
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Tagged hentaigana, Japan, Japanese language, kuzushiji, language, palaeography
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Book Announcement: Eating Wild Japan: Tracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes
Eating Wild JapanTracking the Culture of Foraged Foods, with a Guide to Plants and Recipes Winifred Bird with illustrations by Paul Poynter From bracken to butterbur to “princess” bamboo, some of Japan’s most iconic foods are foraged, not grown, in … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, food culture, food history, foraged food, Japan
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Book Announcement: Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination: Transnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical ImaginationTransnational Anarchism and the Reconfiguration of Everyday Life in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Nadine Willems In modern Japan, anti-establishment ideas have related in many ways to Japan’s capitalist development and industrialization. Activist and intellectual Ishikawa Sanshirō exemplifies this … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, anarchism, book announcement, intellectual history, Japan, modern Japan, politics
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Fun Link Friday: Ukiyo-Enerator
In case you need some more things to do on the internet instead of thinking about what you should be doing, the Ota Memorial Museum of Art collaborated earlier this year to create a “Make Your Own Ukiyo-e” page. Just pick … Continue reading
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Tagged art, early modern Japan, fun links, Japan, Japanese art, prints, ukiyo-e
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Book Announcement: Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women’s Rights in the United States
Comfort Women: A Movement for Justice and Women’s Rights in the United States Edited by Jung-Sil Lee and Dennis P. Halpin. This new edited volume archives nearly thirty years of activism, records the achievements of the “comfort women” redress movement … Continue reading
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Tagged comfort women, gender studies, Japan, Korea, war, World War II, WWII
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Resource: Denshō
How do we preserve peoples’ experiences and stories while placing them in historical context? How can these narratives help us to promote equity and justice? These are some of the driving questions behind Densho, a nonprofit organization begun in 1996 … Continue reading
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Tagged AAAPI, AAPI, archives, Densho, Japanese American history, Japanese-Americans, modern, modern history, resources, World War II, WWII
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Book Announcement: Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China
Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China BY CHIGUSA YAMAURA How do the Japanese men and Chinese women who participate in cross-border matchmaking—individuals whose only interaction is often just one brief … Continue reading
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Tagged China, early modern art, gender studies, Japan, marriage, modern China, relationships
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Happy 10th Anniversary, Shinpai Deshou~! 🎂
Oh my goodness! Amid the vortex that is this pandemic, July 30 rolled right by and I completely forgot that this year What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies celebrates TEN YEARS of activity! Wow!! A million thanks … Continue reading
What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 