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Category Archives: announcements
12th Annual JAT Contest for New and Aspiring JapaneseEnglish Translators
Organized and funded by: NPO Japan Association of Translators (JAT) Open to: Anyone with fewer than three years’ experience as a professional translator JAT membership not required Previous entrants (except winners) are welcome to enter again Divisions: Japanese-to-English, English-to-Japanese Entry … Continue reading
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Tagged contest, English, Japan Association of Translators, Japanese, translation, translation contest
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Job Opening: Program Officer, CLS (Focus on Indonesia, Japan and Korea)
Employer: American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS Location: Washington, DC Education: BA Deadline: September 28, 2015 SUMMARY: Based in Washington, DC, the Program Officer position for the Critical Language Scholarship Program administers intensive overseas summer language institutes for U.S. graduate … Continue reading
Job Opening: Assistant professor of Asian and Middle Eastern studies, College of William and Mary
Institution: College of William and Mary, Global Studies – AMES Location: Virginia, United States Position: Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies The Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Program at the College of William and Mary … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, Asian Studies, assistant professor, College of William and Mary, job opening, Virginia
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Job Opening: Assistant professorship in Japanese Studies, Modern Japan
Tenure-track assistant professorship in Japanese Studies, Modern Japan The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Modern Japan to be filled by August 1, 2016 or as soon … Continue reading
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Tagged assistant professor, Denmark, Japan, japanese studies, modern Japan, tenure track, University of Copenhagen
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Job Opening: Speech Writing and Public Relations, Consular Office of Japan in Anchorage
Employer: Consular Office of Japan in Anchorage Location: Anchorage, AK Type: full time Education: not listed Deadline: 25 Sept. 2015 Consular Office of Japan Seeking F/T coordinator mainly in charge of Speech Writing and Public Relations. Japanese language skills preferred … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, consulate, coordinator, education, job opening
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Workshop: Comparative perspectives on body materiality and structure in the history of Sinitic and East Asian medicines
Workshop announcement: “Comparative perspectives on body materiality and structure in the history of Sinitic and East Asian medicines”, October 2-4 2015, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Co-sponsored by The Wellcome Trust/”Beyond Tradition” Project at EASTmedicine, University of Westminster, London; the … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian medicine, east asia, East Asian Studies, medicine, Michigan, research, workshop
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Job Opening: Karashima Tsukasa Endowed Professorship of Japanese Language and Culture.
The University of Montana invites applications for an Associate Professor, tenure-track position in Japanese to begin August 2016. This position, in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, is the Karashima Tsukasa Endowed Professorship of Japanese Language and … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar
Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar Author: Takenaka, Akiko This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine’s role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, … Continue reading
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Tagged books, history, Japan, modern Japan, Yasukuni, Yasukuni Shrine
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Job Opening: East Asian religions, Northwestern University
Institution: Northwestern University, Religious Studies Department Location: Illinois, United States Position: Assistant Professor in East Asian Religions NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, The Department of Religious Studies invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment beginning September 1, 2016 at the rank of … Continue reading
Job Opening: Asian studies, University of Tokyo
Institution: University of Tokyo, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia Location: Japan Position: Associate Professor The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (IASA 東洋文化研究所) at the University of Tokyo has an opening for an associate professor in its … Continue reading
What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 