Interior of a Jiufen tea house. Photo via Flickr user Jonathan Crow, via Munchies.
If you love the cinematic meals of Studio Ghibli, head over to Munchies for a tour of Jiufen, Taiwan, the town that inspired the iconic food scenes of Spirited Away. The side-by-side comparison shots are a wonderful addition to the story. いただきます！
Institution: C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posted: 02/20/2015
Recruitment Period: Open Feb 19, 2015 through Apr 6, 2015
Start date: June 1, 2015
Education: MLS
The Environment
The UC Berkeley Library is an internationally renowned research and teaching facility at one of the nation’s premier public universities. In a highly diverse and intellectually rich environment, Berkeley serves a campus community of 25,500 undergraduate students, 10,300 graduate students, and 2,000 faculty. The Library comprises 20 campus libraries, including the Doe/Moffitt Libraries, the Bancroft Library, the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, and subject specialty libraries. With a collection of more than 11 million volumes and a collections budget of over $15 million, the Library offers extensive collections in all formats and robust services to connect users with those collections and build their related research skills.
The C. V. Starr East Asian Library (EAL) of the University of California, Berkeley houses one of the largest research collections of print and electronic books and periodicals, manuscripts, rare editions, and graphics in the East Asian languages outside of Asia. Its comprehensive holdings encompass over 1 million print volumes, over 800,000 e-books and electronic journals, over 80,000 microfilms and media items, and over 3,000 current print serial titles. Languages represented include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and to a lesser extent, Tibetan, Manchu, and Mongolian. The East Asian Library supports teaching and research on East Asia, serving the campus community and a substantial number of off-campus users.
The East Asian Library’s Technical Services unit processes Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language materials for the East Asian Library, all other libraries within the University Library system, and affiliated libraries on campus. It employs nine career staff in addition to temporary and student employees. Its operations include original and copy cataloging, serials processing, and the cataloging of digital resources using appropriate metadata schema to facilitate access to digital collections.
Responsibilities:
The Japanese Cataloging Librarian reports to the Head of the East Asian Library’s Technical Services unit. S/he performs original cataloging of books, serials, manuscripts, audio-visual materials, e-resources, microfilm, maps, and other library materials in the Japanese language. All original cataloging is performed in compliance with national and local standards such as MARC21, RDA, AACR2r, LCSH, LCCS, and other appropriate cataloging and metadata standards as well as emerging technological solutions such as linked data. Records are given full MARC tagging by the cataloger, who is also responsible for contributing and maintaining authority records for Berkeley’s integrated library system and NACO. In addition, the Japanese Cataloging Librarian prepares in- house training materials and advises cataloging staff on cataloging-related issues, participates in the formulation of general cataloging policy and system design, and conducts special cataloging projects relating to Japanese materials. Occasionally, the Japanese Cataloging Librarian provides reference services on questions related to the use of the catalogs and other finding tools.
In addition to cataloging responsibilities, the incumbent will represent the Library in regional, national, and international cooperative programs concerning technical processing. The successful candidate should stay abreast of national trends and new developments in cataloging, with an emphasis on Japanese resources, and network with other library professionals within the Berkeley Library system as well as outside the University. The incumbent will also perform other related duties as assigned.
UC Berkeley librarians are expected to participate in library-wide planning and governance, and work effectively in a shared decision-making environment. Librarian advancement is partially based upon professional contributions beyond the primary assignment; the successful candidate will show evidence or promise of such contributions to the Library, campus, UC System, and profession.
Minimum Basic Qualifications at time of application
Additional Required Qualifications
Additional Preferred Qualifications
Institution: Peace Winds America
Location: Seattle, WA
Start date: March 1, 2015
Application deadline: March 31, 2015
Education requirements: BA
Employment type: Part time
Peace Winds America is opening a part-time position that will focus on development and fundraising, supporting ongoing disaster preparedness and recovery programs, and general office management. This position is well suited to current or aspiring development professionals with interests in fundraising, nonprofit development and management, and program design and management.
This position will have a duration of six months, with option for extension. It is a 20 hour/week position, which are flexible but must fall within normal business hours of 9:00-6:00, M-F.
Description:
Qualifications: Candidates with a background in nonprofit development/fundraising strongly preferred. Strong communication, organization, and writing skills are a must. Previous experience with NGOs, humanitarian work, marketing, or office management a plus. Ability to perform multiple tasks independently simultaneously and communicate findings with PWA team. Candidate must possess at least a BA.
Asia on Its Own Terms: Towards New Terminology and Narratives for Research in Asian Studies
Tel-Aviv University’s Asia on Its Own Terms Program invites students at MA and PhD levels, who are intrigued by the unique opportunity to be part of an exclusive initiative for a fascinating academic journey to constitute a world leading center, specializing in the diverse facets of China, India, Japan and Korea, and the terminologies they can offer to academic discourse in the age of globalization.
In recent years there is a growing scholarly interest in transitional processes in East and South Asian countries. Nonetheless, so far there have been relatively few attempts of an integrated and comparative study of these regions by venturing across geographical, political, and linguistic boundaries. The Asia on Its Own Terms program aims to readdress this shortcoming by facilitating interdisciplinary and cross-regional dialogues between scholars and students specializing in China, India and Japan. It is “border-crossing” both in cutting across parochial regionalism and artificial borders, and in cutting across disciplines.
For further information please send email to galiakal@tauex.tau.ac.il
For additional information regarding terms of acceptance and the procedures, contact Prof. Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni ofrag@post.tau.ac.il or Prof. Galia Patt-Shamir galiap@tau.ac.il
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Call for Papers: British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) Annual Conference 2015
Hosted by the Japan Research Centre (JRC), SOAS, University of London
Thursday 10 and Friday 11 September 2015
The British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) and the Japan Research Centre (JRC) at SOAS, University of London announce a Call for Papers for the BAJS Annual Conference to be held at SOAS, London on Thursday 10th and Friday 11th September 2015. This two-day conference will include a guest plenary session, parallel sessions of thematic academic panels, the BAJS AGM and evening networking events.
Call for Papers
We welcome submissions from established academics and doctoral candidates in any field of Japanese studies working within any academic institution internationally. Priority will be given to panel submissions, but individual paper submissions are also welcome and if accepted will be organised into thematic panels.
Panel submissions should organise around a key theme or field of Japanese studies, include an Abstract of each paper within the panel, comprise of no more than four presenters in any one panel, and if possible indicate a panel Chair/Discussant.
All submissions should include:
Submissions should be sent by email by the deadline of Friday 27 March 2015 to: bajs2015@soas.ac.uk
Submission outcomes will be advised by the end of April 2015. If accepted, all contributors will be required to register for the conference by the end of June 2015.
Participants will be responsible for organising their own travel and accommodation. Registration details will be announced early May 2015.
Webpage:
SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
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The Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS is presently recruiting Senior and Junior levels researchers in the framework of its newly established Centre for French-Japanese Advanced Studies in Paris (Centre d’Etudes Avancées Franco-Japonais de Paris, CEAFJP (http://ffj.ehess.fr/ceafjp.html).
The CEAFJP is a research and exchange platform coordinated by the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS, and located in Paris, France. The Centre is aimed at supporting researchers who wish to spend between 6 and 12 months in Paris, and to benefit from the excellent work conditions and from academic exchange with our international colleagues in Europe.
This call for applications concerns the five following thematic fellowships:
1. Banque de France fellowship “Macroeconomics and Economic Policy: Which Lessons from the Japanese Experience?” (http://ffj.ehess.fr/chaire_bdf.html)
2. Michelin fellowship: “Public innovation policies in Japan” (http://ffj.ehess.fr/chaire_michelin.html)
3. Renault fellowship: “Uses of the car between provided services and property in Japan, Korea, and Europe” (http://ffj.ehess.fr/chaire_renault.html)
4. Valeo fellowship: “Innovative technologies for a sustainable mobility” (http://ffj.ehess.fr/chaire_valeo.html)
5. Air Liquide fellowship: “Dietary habits and their sanitary and environmental impacts” (http://ffj.ehess.fr/chaire_air_liquide.html)
The deadline for applications is March 31st, 2015, 12 a.m. (midnight) GMT. Applications are submitted by email via ffj@ehess.fr.
The appointed Fellow will take up the post on 1 January 2016 or at a date to be agreed.
We also accept applications from Junior candidates applying for other fields or other themes of research for academic fundings on a competitive basis with the support of the following organisations (http://ffj.ehess.fr/autres.html) :
1. Research in Paris for Junior researchers (deadline: 23 March 2015)
2. Canon foundation in Europe for Junior researchers (deadline: 15 September 2015)
3. AXA research fund for Junior researchers (next campaign will open in October 2015)
For further information on the CEAFJP and on how to apply to these fellowship programs, please visit the website of the Centre (http://ffj.ehess.fr/ceafjp.html). Further particulars and details of the fellowship may be asked directly by email to Mr. Ken Daimaru (ffj@ehess.fr).
We deeply appreciate if you could encourage qualified researchers around you to apply to our programs.
WEAI Postdoctoral Fellowships Annoucement
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University is pleased to announce four postdoctoral positions for the academic year 2015-16. Three of these positions are part of the Borg Research Program, a three-year initiative to support teaching, research, and public outreach on issues relating the United States and East and Southeast Asia, funded by the Dorothy Borg Endowment. The fourth position is part of the INTERACT program, a pioneering program that focuses on developing global studies in the undergraduate curriculum through a network of postdoctoral scholars focused on cross-regional, trans-regional and interdisciplinary study.
For specific information on individual positions, including how to apply, please see links below:
For more information about any of these postdoctoral positions, please contact Laura Lechner, Student Affairs Coordinator, at weaipostdocs@gmail.com.
Kōmeitō: Politics and Religion in Japan
Ehrhardt, George, Axel Klein, Levi McLaughlin, and Steven R. Reed, editors
Japan Research Monograph 18
2014. 298 pp.
ISBN-13 978-1-55729-111-0
ISBN-10 1-55729-111-X
$25.00
http://ieas.berkeley.edu/publications/jrm18.html
The book covers Kōmeitō’s founding in Nichiren Buddhist doctrinal mandates and its subsequent development into an institutionally distinct political entity. Much of the volume deals with matters pertaining to political science – policy formation, candidate selection, electioneering, fund-raising, and strategies for operating in coalition – while others detail collaborations and conflicts generated by Kōmeitō’s origins in Sōka Gakkai, Japan’s largest active religious organization. It is the first book-length scholarly treatment of Kōmeitō, in any language, to appear in more than forty years. And it is coming out as Kōmeitō marks its fiftieth anniversary. A blurb and the table of contents:
“Anyone interested in contemporary Japanese politics needs to read this book. Certainly, no student of Japanese party politics can afford not to read it. This volume illuminates Komeito’s history, organization, electoral mobilization, and behavior in and out of power. More importantly, this book reorients our understanding of the intersection of religion and politics in Japan, a topic that has danced along the periphery of academic studies even as it has grabbed headlines in Japan and beyond. My only question is why scholars had to wait fifty years for such an incisive study of Komeito.”
–Robert Pekkanen, University of Washington
Part I. Introduction
Part II. The Context
Part III. The History
Part IV. The Structure
Part V. The Way to Power
Part VI. Conclusion
List of contributors — 277
Index — 279
Levi McLaughlin
North Carolina State University
Hello all!
Hope everyone is staying warm in this chilly weather. Just a notification that posts and email responses may slow down over the next three weeks, as I am participating in a three-week study program in Ise, Mie prefecture. Though responses may be slow, it will still be possible to contact the blog as usual via shinpai.deshou@gmail.com.
Additionally, for those of you who were interested in the article I wrote on funding short-term research projects, I’m happy to announce that the start of the digital archive resulting from that project, which was on Edogoma 江戸独楽 (hand-carved wooden tops), can now be found at the following address:
http://carvingcommunity-dentouart.com
If you’re interested in history or traditional Japanese art, do follow our work there in the following months as we add photos, audio, video, and the fascinating history of the people at the center of the project!
Stay warm, everybody! 🙂
Paula
The Japan Studies Association, with a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation, will conduct a three-week intensive workshop on Japan for faculty and administrators from U.S. two- and four-year colleges and universities. The workshop is for individuals who have little or no prior academic background on Japan and who wish to begin incorporating Japan Studies into their courses. The program is open to faculty in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business or Education. Administrators and librarians are also eligible to apply.
The workshop will run from May 25 through June 12, 2015 and will cover a wide variety of topics related to Japan, including history, politics, literature, business, and the arts. Its primary purpose is to introduce faculty/administrators into all aspects of Japanese society so that they can return to their institutions and begin incorporating Japan Studies into their teaching and research.
The workshop will be held at the University of Hawai’i, Manoa campus (UHM) in Honolulu, Hawai’i and will have multiple instructors, primarily drawn from the University of Hawai’i, Center for Japanese Studies but also including noted scholars from other universities and from Japan.
There will be only 12 participants selected for the Freeman Fellowships. Each participant will receive up to $500 to help cover roundtrip airfare to Hawai’i. Single rooms, some meals and a small stipend will be provided. Completed applications are due by March 18th, 2015. Successful candidates will be notified by March 22nd, 2015.
For further details and to apply, please visit JSA’s website at: http://www.japanstudies.org/jsa-freeman-foundation-summer-institute.html If you have any questions, address them to Dr. Joseph L. Overton, JSA President, at overton@hawaii.edu
What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 