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Resource: Asian/Asian Am Digital Studies
Dr. Anne Cong-Huyen, currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA, has assembled a wonderful list of websites, projects, and individuals related to Asian / Asian-American Studies + Digital Humanities. As she writes: … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, Asian American studies, digital humanities, digital studies, resource
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Book Announcement: Heritage Management in Korea and Japan
Via H-Japan Heritage Management in Korea and Japan: The Politics of Antiquity and Identity Hyung Il-Pai December 2013 298 pp. ISBN: 9780295993058 Paperback $30.00 ISBN: 9780295993041 Hardcover $70.00 Publisher’s blurb, from University of Washington Press: Imperial tombs, Buddhist architecture, palaces, … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book announcement, books, heritage, heritage management, heritage tourism, hyung-il pai, museum studies, nationalism
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Job Opening: Librarian, Okinawan Studies, U of Hawaii
Institution: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hamilton Library Location: Honolulu, Hawaii Position: Librarian, Okinawan Studies (11 Month, Tenure Track, Full Time, Permanent) Dates: Applications accepted continuously; will begin to be reviewed Dec 16 2013, for a potential Jan 2014 start … Continue reading
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Tagged job opening, librarian, library, okinawan studies, uh manoa, University of Hawai'i
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Resource: Travel Panda
I recently came across a site called The Inaka Project, which looked like a, potentially, truly wonderful travel guide site for Japan. The site aimed to flesh out guides to Japan’s inaka, or rural countryside, by providing guides and articles … Continue reading
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Tagged blogs, Japan, resources, travel, travel guides
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Book Announcement: Tang China in Multi-polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8941-9780824836443.aspx by Wang Zhenping 2013, 480 pages $65.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-3644-3, Hardcover Publisher’s blurb: Using a synthetic narrative approach, this ambitious work uses the lens of multipolarity to analyze Tang China’s (618–907) relations with Turkestan; the Korean states of Koguryŏ, Silla, … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature
Michael Emmerich The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature, Columbia University Press, October 2013 Cloth, 512 pages ISBN: 978-0-231-16272-2 $60.00 / £41.50 Publisher’s blurb: Michael Emmerich thoroughly revises the conventional narrative of the early modern and modern history … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book annoucement, books, Genji, Japanese literature, literature, The Tale of Genji
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IUC Professional Tutorials
We have written on a number of occasions about the excellent intensive Japanese language program at the Inter-University Center (IUC) in Yokohama. But, not everyone has the time or money for a 10-month intensive program, or even a seven-week summer … Continue reading
Job Opening: Assistant Curator of Japanese Art – Asian Art Museum (SF)
Institution: Asian Art Museum Location: San Francisco, CA Posted: 10/02/2013 Type: Full Time Department: Japanese Art Education: MA required, PhD preferred Languages: Japanese Reposted from Japan Art History Forum (JAHF) & Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS) mailing lists Position Summary The … Continue reading
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Tagged art, asian art museum, assistant curator, California, curatorial work, job opening, jobs, San Francisco
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Getting a Prepaid SoftBank Phone – even without resident card!
I’d had the impression, from various blogs and such mostly I suppose, that it was basically impossible to get a keitai (mobile phone / cellphone) in Japan – contract, or even prepaid – without a resident alien card (or permanent … Continue reading
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Tagged cell phone, Japan, keitai, living abroad, mobiles, phones, SoftBank, study abroad
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IUC Kanbun Summer Course
This summer, for the first time, the Inter-University Center (IUC) in Yokohama, about which we have posted before, offered an intensive summer course on how to read kanbun. It was quite common in Japan in certain periods, in certain circles, … Continue reading
What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 