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Category Archives: announcements
Book Announcement: Okada Toshiki & Japanese Theatre
Okada Toshiki & Japanese Theatre Edited by Peter Eckersall, Barbara Geilhorn, Andreas Regelsberger and Cody Poulton Playwright, novelist and theatre director Okada Toshiki is one of the most important voices of the current generation of Japanese contemporary theatre makers. He … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Touching the Unreachable Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan Fusako Innami Fusako Innami offers the first comprehensive study of touch and skinship—relationality with the other through the skin—in modern Japanese writing. The concept of the unreachable—that is, the lack of characters’ complete … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, Japanese culture, modern, modern Japan, phenomenology, relationality, touch, writing
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Book Announcement: The Tokugawa World
The Tokugawa World Edited By Gary P. Leupp, De-min Tao With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope. … Continue reading
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Tagged early modern, early modern history, early modern Japan, Edo, Edo period, Japan, Japanese history, Tokugawa, Tokugawa Japan
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Call for Participants: Ise and Japan Study Program
Kogakkan University (located in Ise City, Mie Prefecture) will be hosting an eighth year of the “Ise and Japan Study Program.” The program is open to graduate (Master or PhD) or post-graduate researchers (including faculty) who are interested in learning … Continue reading
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Tagged Ise, Ise Program, Japan, Japanese, research, study, study abroad
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Book Announcement: The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan
The Comic Storytelling of Western Japan: Satire and Social Mobility in Kamigata Rakugo M. W. Shores, University of Sydney Rakugo, a popular form of comic storytelling, has played a major role in Japanese culture and society. Developed during the Edo … Continue reading
Emerging Translator Mentorship Program (deadline 11/30)
The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) is offering an Emerging Translator Mentorship Program for 2022, the deadline for which is November 30! The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator … Continue reading
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Tagged American Literary Translators Association, Japanese, translation
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Book Announcement: Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan
Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan Editors Susanne Brucksch, Kaori Sasaki This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of … Continue reading
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Tagged Fukushima, Hiroshima, Japan, medical studies, medicine, modern Japan, Nagasaki, radiation, technology, technology studies
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Book Announcement: Samurai: A Very Short Introduction
Samurai: A Very Short Introduction Michael Wert The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were … Continue reading
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Tagged early modern Japan, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern Japan, premodern Japan, samurai, warrior history, warriors
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Book Announcement: Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature
Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature Series: Language, Writing and Literary Culture in the Sinographic Cosmopolis, Volume: 2 Author: Mareshi Saito Editors / Translators: Ross King and Christina Laffin In Kanbunmyaku: The … Continue reading
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Tagged Japanese, Japanese language, kanbun, language, literature, premodern, premodern Japan, premodern Japanese, writing
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Book Announcement: Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch
Yamamba: In Search of the Japanese Mountain Witch Editors Linda C. Ehrlich Rebecca Copeland Alluring, nurturing, dangerous, and vulnerable the yamamba, or Japanese mountain witch, has intrigued audiences for centuries. What is it about the fusion of mountains with the … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, folklore, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, yamamba
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 