Category Archives: undergraduate

Resource: Okinawa Collection at GWU

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Travis

The George Washington University in Washington DC recently became (as far as I know) the second major university in the United States, and the first on the US mainland, to establish a separate Okinawa Collection within the university libraries. Since … Continue reading →

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Resource: Asia for Educators

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Paula

Educators from elementary to university level will find a vast amount of fantastic resources at the Asia for Educators website, which is an ongoing initiative of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University intended for both faculty and students … Continue reading →

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Resource: Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Paula

Those who are interested in art history or just a fan of early modern painting and prints can explore Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society, an online bilingual research project centered on situating the artist Hokusai (1780-1849) in his social and … Continue reading →

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Funding Opportunity: Rotary Yoneyama Scholarship 2018

Posted on August 13, 2018 by LM

Type: Undergraduate and Graduate (international students at Japanese universities) Application deadline: 15 December 2018 1:00P.M. Japan time for both April and fall (September/October) 2019 Enrollment. Japanese Level: N4+ Rotary Yoneyama Scholarship for applicants residing abroad is for overseas students scheduled to enroll … Continue reading →

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Resource: Japanese Children’s Literature: A History from the International Library of Children’s Literature Collections

Posted on August 1, 2018 by Paula

Japan’s National Diet Library (NDL) has a ton of digitized resources in both English and Japanese. So much so that sometimes it’s easy to forget how many of those resources have been curated into mini-exhibitions or databases geared toward specific … Continue reading →

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Call for Applications: Japanese translation workshop at Cardiff University (UK)

Posted on July 30, 2018 by Paula

JAPANESE TRANSLATION WORKSHOP 13-14 April, 2019, Cardiff University (UK) The School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University, in collaboration with Kurodahan Press, invites applications to participate in a Japanese to English literary translation workshop on 13-14 April, 2019. Translations produced during the … Continue reading →

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Resource: The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Paula

Today’s online resource is The Gail Project: An Okinawan-American Dialogue, a collaborative public history project and exhibition that addresses the fascinating history of Okinawan-American relations in the years following World War II. Based out of the University of California, Santa … Continue reading →

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Resource: Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection

Posted on June 27, 2018 by Paula

Those researching or just interested in modern Japanese history will find much to explore in Harvard University’s Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection. A compilation of manuscript materials and photographs related to the Japanese War Crimes Trial, these works originate from Joseph B. Keenan, … Continue reading →

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Resource: Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Paula

For those looking for more educational resources to use in the classroom, today we’ll briefly introduce a resource developed by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures with sponsorship from Hitachi: The Online Resource for Japanese Archaeology and … Continue reading →

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Resource: Metadatabase of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period

Posted on May 30, 2018 by Paula

Nagasaki University Library maintains a collection of Japanese photographs from the Bakumatsu (1853 and 1867) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods that represent some of the earliest photographs of Japan as it transitioned from the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji state. Holding … Continue reading →

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