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Category Archives: announcements
Funding: Library Travel Grant, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Japan Collection
The Japan Collection of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library is pleased to announce its first Library Travel Grant Program. Please visit the website for further information: https://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/japan/travelgrant ============================================ The UHM Japan Collection travel grant is made possible by … Continue reading
Call for Applicants: Funded MA research, University of Alberta
Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to opportunities for students to pursue a funded MA degree in East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta (in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada): http://www.eastasianstudies.ualberta.ca/ In particular for H-Japan members, students can … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian Studies, japanese studies, MA, MA degree, University of Alberta
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Call for Applicants: Summer Luce Postdoc Research Fellowship
CALL FOR 2020 SUMMER LUCE POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP APPLICATIONS The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History University of San Francisco (USF) The USF Ricci Institute is a premier global resource for the study of Chinese-Western cultural exchange with a core … Continue reading
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Funding: 2020 Moeson fellowship (LC’s Asian Division)
Applications are now being accepted for the Asian Division’s 2020 Florence Tan Moeson fellowship, which supports a minimum of five business days of research in the Asian Reading Room of the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). Here’s the link for … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades
Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades By Marc Yamada This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the “lost decades” of Japan’s Heisei period (1989–2019). Presenting … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, film, Japan, Japanese film, Japanese literature, literature, modern, modern Japan
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Funding: 2020-21 Fellowships in Japanese Studies, Harvard University
2020-21 FELLOWSHIPS IN JAPANESE STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY WCFIA PROGRAM ON US-JAPAN RELATIONS POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS During the 2020-21 academic year, the Program on US-Japan Relations, part of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs (WCFIA) at Harvard University, will offer postdoctoral … Continue reading
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Tagged funding, Harvard University, postdoc, postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral fellowship
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Book Announcement: Defamiliarizing Japan’s Asia-Pacific War
DEFAMILIARIZING JAPAN’S ASIA-PACIFIC WAR Edited by W. Puck Brecher and Michael W. Myers This wide-ranging collection seeks to reassess conventional understanding of Japan’s Asia-Pacific War by defamiliarizing and expanding the rhetorical narrative. Its nine chapters, diverse in theme and method, … Continue reading
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Tagged history, Japan, Japanese history, modern history, modern Japan, Pacific War, war, World War II, WWII
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Call for Applications: Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation MLitt/PhD Studentships (Newcastle)
Newcastle University invites applications from suitably qualified candidates who wish to pursue an MLitt (Masters by Research) or a PhD in Japanese Studies, or another field where the research focus is specifically related to Japan, starting October 2020, with possible … Continue reading
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Tagged japanese studies, Newcastle University, Sasakawa Foundation
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Funding: Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant
TRAVEL GRANT PROGRAM HARVARD-YENCHING LIBRARY HARVARD UNIVERSITY The Harvard-Yenching Library is pleased to announce its Travel Grant Program for the 2019-2020 academic year. The purpose of the grant is to assist scholars from outside the Boston metropolitan area in their … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvard University, Harvard-Yenching Library, research, travel grants
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Book Announcement: The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy
The Origins of the Modern Japanese Bureaucracy By: Yuichiro Shimizu Translator: Amin Ghadimi What is a bureaucracy, from where does it come, and how does it develop? Japanese have long described their nation as a “kingdom of bureaucrats”, but until … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, bureaucracy, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern Japan, modern Japanese history
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 