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Paula lives in the vortex of academic life. She studies medieval Japanese history.

Graduate Level Research Grants for non-U.S. Citizens

Posted on May 4, 2016 by Paula

I was recently asked about funding options for dissertating non-U.S. citizens in the field, as some of the major sources of financial support (such as Fulbright) are not open to non-U.S. graduate researchers regardless of whether they are affiliated with … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Nara Japan, 758-763: A Study and Translation of Shoku Nihongi,Tenpyō Hōji 2 – 7

Posted on May 1, 2016 by Paula

Ross Bender’s Nara Japan, 758-763: A Study and Translation of Shoku Nihongi,Tenpyō Hōji 2 – 7 is now available at CreateSpace and Amazon: https://www.createspace.com/5981677 This is the third in a projected five-volume translation of Shoku Nihongi for the years 749-770. Also available are The … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Fortune kitties

Posted on April 29, 2016 by Paula

Fortune cookies? Forget it! Fortune kitties are where it’s at now. Better known as “Hide-and-Seek Kitty Candies,” Dose recently let us know about these little treasures produced by the Felissimo Chou Club, which change their hidden kitties regularly so you can … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: ABC Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Phonograms

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Paula

University of Hawai’i Press has just published John R. Bentley’s ABC Dictionary of Ancient Japanese Phonograms, the first comprehensive dictionary of man’yōgana. It is the ninth entry in the ABC Chinese Dictionary Series edited by Victor Mair. The 600-page volume is … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Japan’s Invisible Trains

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Paula

As always, Japan leads the way in its railway technology and inventive designs. It was recently announced that the Seibu Railway company intends to build a train with an ultra-reflective design that will be (almost) invisible to onlookers. Science Alert … Continue reading →

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Funding: Louis Frieberg Post-doctoral Fellowships

Posted on April 18, 2016 by Paula

The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies offers post-doctoral fellowships for the year 2016-2017. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia. Fellowships are granted for one … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Paula

Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability was published by the University of Hawaii Press in January of 2016. The book is based on a decade of research into the documentary and material evidence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: 27th annual conference EAJRS

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Paula

The 27th annual conference of the European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS) will be held this year in Bucharest, Romania, 14 – 17 September 2016, organized by the Japanese Language and Literature Department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Osaka River kaitenzushi

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Paula

A group called The Osaka Cavas put on a delicious-looking art show recently in Osaka that featured giant plates of sushi floating on down Osaka’s Dōtonbori Canal like it was any old conveyor-belt sushi restaurant. Is your stomach rumbling yet? … Continue reading →

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Workshop: 2016 Reading Kuzushiji Workshop

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Paula

The Japan Committee of the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the 2016 Early Modern Japan Summer Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji. The workshop will meet from June 13th-17th and will be led by Professor Ken’ichiro Aratake of Tohoku University’s Northeast Asia … Continue reading →

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