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Author Archives: Paula
Call for Applicants: PhD Studentship in Modern Japanese History
The Department of History at the University of York is delighted to invite applications for a three-year PhD studentship to work on the history of Japan as a major producer of the natural insecticide, pyrethrum. This studentship forms part of … Continue reading
Job Opening: Postdoctoral Fellow (Project Researcher), University of Tokyo, Tokyo College
Tokyo College is looking to invite researchers from broad range of fields under the research theme, “The Earth and Human Society in 2050”, and carry out interdisciplinary collaboration to contribute to the realization of sustainable and inclusive future of humanity. … Continue reading
Job Opening: Associate Program Officer, Japan Foundation, New York
The Japan Foundation, New York seeks an Associate Program Officer for the Arts and Cultural Exchange program. This program promotes the introduction of Japanese arts and culture as well as exchanges between Japan and the United States through various fields … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan Max M. Ward In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state’s efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, Japanese history, Japanese society, law, modern Japan, radicalism, Taisho Japan
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Book Announcement: An Encyclopedia of Japan’s Cultured Warriors
Samurai An Encyclopedia of Japan’s Cultured Warriors by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Alphabetically arranged entries along with primary source documents provide a comprehensive examination of the lives of Japan’s samurai during the Tokugawa or Edo period, 1603–1868, a time when Japan … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600
A New History of Medieval Japanese Theatre: Noh and Kyōgen from 1300 to 1600 Authors: Pinnington, Noel J. This book traces the history of noh and kyōgen, the first major Japanese theatrical arts. Going beyond P. G. O’Neill’s Early Nō Drama of … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, Japanese theater, kyogen, noh, performance, performance studies, theater, theatre
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2019 Summer Kuzushiji Workshop
The Center for East Asian Studies Committee on Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the 2019 Early Modern Japan Summer Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji. The workshop will meet from June 17th-21st. The year’s workshop will feature two … Continue reading
Book Announcement: American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War by Duncan Ryūken Williams http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986534&content=reviews This groundbreaking history tells the little-known story of how, in one of our country’s darkest hours, Japanese Americans fought to defend their … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern history, religion, United States
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Book Announcement: The Haiku of Basho
The Haiku of Basho, by John White and Kemmyo Taira Sato The Buddhist Society, London: 2019 See: https://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/page/5-7-5-the-haiku-of-basho-1 Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is widely acknowledged as the greatest of all the Japanese haiku poets. In the original Japanese, the two defining features of … Continue reading
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Tagged haiku, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, Matsuo Basho, poetry
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Funding: Japan-US Friendship Commission Fellowships
The Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan is a joint activity of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Awards support research on modern Japanese society and political economy, Japan’s international relations, … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, japanese studies, JUSFC, research
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 