Category Archives: announcements

Job Opening: Program Officer – Asia, International Student Exchange Program (ISEP)

Posted on November 10, 2015 by LM

Employer: International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) Location: Arlington, VA Education: BA required; MA in relevant subject area preferred. Posted on October 30, 2015 Start date: November 16, 2015 POSITION SUMMARY The Program Officer, Asia serves as primary resource for counseling … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, job openings, jobs | Tagged International Student Exchange Program, job opening, study abroad | Leave a comment

Funding: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Paula

Support for dissertation and postdoctoral research in Japan in the humanities and social sciences Open for applications, next deadline is December 1st 2015. The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship Program provides recent PhD recipients and ABDs … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, funding, graduate school | Tagged fellowship, funding, Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS, research, travel | Leave a comment

Book Announcement: Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki

Posted on November 8, 2015 by LM

Via University of Washington Press. Time and Place Are Nonsense: The Films of Seijun Suzuki TOM VICK paperback not available $30.00 HARDCOVER (ISBN: 9780934686334) PUBLISHED: November 2015 SUBJECT LISTING: Perfoming Arts; Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 242 pp., 126 … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, culture | Tagged books, film, history, Japan, modern Japan | Leave a comment

Call for Papers: Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Paula

The Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (SJEAS) published by the Academy of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University, in Seoul, Korea would like to invite you to submit your papers on Japanese Studies for our 2016 Oct issue. Research areas SJEAS prefers are in the field … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, graduate school | Tagged call for papers, east asia, East Asian Studies, Korea, research, Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University | Leave a comment

Job Opening: Assistant Professor, Japanese Language and Literature

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Paula

California State University – Sacramento, World Languages & Literatures Tenure Track Instructional Faculty – World Languages and Literatures (Japanese) California State University, Sacramento, seeks applications for a Japanese full-time tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank to start during the … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, job openings, jobs | Tagged California, California State University, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese language, Japanese literature, job opening | Leave a comment

Funding: 20th Century Japan Research Award

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Paula

20th Century Japan Research Award for 2015-2016 The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for two $1,500 grants to support research in the library’s Gordon W. Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, funding, graduate school | Tagged 20th Century Japan Research Award, funding, Japan, modern Japan, research, University of Maryland | Leave a comment

Book Announcement: Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan

Posted on November 1, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan Author: McNally, Mark Thomas; 344pp. November 2015 Cloth – Price: $67.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-5284-9 Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan probes the … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, culture | Tagged book announcement, books, early modern, early modern Japan, history, intellectualism, kokugaku, nativism | Leave a comment

Job Opening: University of Hong Kong: Centre of Buddhist Studies

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Paula

Founded in 1911, the University of Hong Kong is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in teaching and research, and has been at the international forefront of academic scholarship for many years. The University has a comprehensive range … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, job openings, jobs | Tagged Centre of Buddhist Studies, Hong Kong, job opening, non-tenure track, professor, religion, University of Hong Kong | Leave a comment

Funding: Nippon Foundation Fellowship for Japanese language study

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Paula

Application Deadline: December 11, 2015 The Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC), administered by Stanford University, is pleased to announce a call for applications to the Nippon Foundation Fellows Program at the IUC for the academic year 2016-17. This program … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, funding, graduate school, language schools, study abroad | Tagged funding, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, IUC, Japan, Japanese, language study, Nippon Foundation Fellowship, Stanford University | Leave a comment

Book Announcement: Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan

Posted on October 25, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. 246pp. July 2015 Cloth – Price: $59.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-5153-8 Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the very categories … Continue reading →

Posted in announcements, culture | Tagged ACLS Program in Buddhist Studies, book announcement, books, Buddhism, modern Japan, religion | Leave a comment