Even Google Japan got in on the April Fool’s shenanigans this year, releasing this video about incredible new technology that will help all of us Japanese speakers input Japanese even faster than before. Subtitles are available in English and Japanese.
Google 日本語入力パタパタバージョン by googlejapan
On behalf of the Toshiba International Foundation, the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) selects candidates for a fellowship to undertake research in Japan.
The next application deadline is 10 May 2013.
Applications are invited for Toshiba International Foundation scholarships for a three-month stay in Japan to be completed by the end of March 2014.
Applicants must be doctoral students, and they should be specializing in any subject of Japanese studies at a European institution.
Applications should consist of a CV, a brief statement (not more than 300 words) of the project for which they wish to pursue their research in Japan, and a letter of support from the student’s supervisor or adviser, who should submit the application on the student’s behalf. For applications, please use our online submission system at www.eajs.eu , which will be accessible after 1 April 2013.
Since the purpose of the scholarship is to encourage the academic study of Japan by those who have not already had a long-term experience in Japan, applications by Japanese High School graduates will not be considered.
The EAJS has been asked by the Toshiba International Foundation to administer these scholarships, and the decisions will be made by the Council of the EAJS.
For further information on Toshiba International Foundation, please visit
http://www.toshiba.co.jp/about/tifo/eng/index.html
For further information on the TIFO fellowships or the EAJS, please feel free to contact the EAJS Office.
Institution: Wilfrid Laurier University, History Program – Brantford Campus
Location: Ontario, Canada
Position: Assistant Professor, Modern East Asia and the World
The History Program at the Brantford Campus of Wilfrid Laurier University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level in the History of Modern East Asia, beginning July 1, 2013, subject to budgetary approval. The applicants research expertise and upper year teaching abilities should centre on the history of East Asia. The ideal applicant should also be able to deliver introductory undergraduate survey courses in world history since 1450 and modern Asian history. A PhD, or one near completion, is required.
The successful candidate will be expected to teach four one-term courses per year, maintain an active research agenda, and engage in academic service. Applicants can learn more about the History Program
at http://www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=13180.
Interested candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and a teaching dossier that includes summaries of course evaluations, sample course outlines and samples of published work.
Candidates should also provide contact information (address, telephone and e-mail address) for at least three referees. All materials should be sent to:
Dr. Robert Kristofferson
c/o Valerie Clement
History Program
Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford Campus
73 George Street
Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3T 2Y3
The deadline for receipt of all materials is May 1, 2013.
Wilfrid Laurier University is committed to employment equity and values diversity. We welcome applications from qualified women and men, including persons of all genders and sexual orientations, persons with disabilities, Aboriginal persons, and persons of a visible minority. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.
Members of the designated groups must self-identify to be considered for employment equity. Candidates may self-identify, in confidence, to the Acting Dean of the Brantford Campus, John McCutcheon. Further information on the equity policy can be found at:
https://www.wlu.ca/page.php?grp_id=2465&p=10545.
Contact:
Dr. Robert Kristofferson
c/o Valerie Clement
History Program
Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford Campus
73 George Street
Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3T 2Y3
Website: www.wlu.ca
Via the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies alumni mailing list. More about the project on Michigan Today.
PhotoVoice Exhibit 2013 | April 9 – May 8
~ OPENING RECEPTION ~
Tuesday, April 9 ~ 3:00 to 4:30PM at II Gallery, 1F, School of Social Work Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
The PhotoVoice Exhibit
Japanese Women Talk about the Earthquake, Tsunami & Nuclear Disasters of March 2011
After the Great East Japan Disasters in March 2011, women in the disaster-affected areas of northern Japan joined an ongoing project called PhotoVoice. These women, diverse in age and other socio-demographic characteristics, took photographs of their lives and communities and discussed them in a small group since June 2011. Participants questioned and identified limitations and failures of the current disaster response policies and practices, as well as those concerning nuclear energy.
This special exhibit presents the photographs taken by women from the prefectures of Fukushima, Miyagi and Iwate, along with their “voices” that accompany the photographs (translated into English).
The overall goal of this PhotoVoice project is to strengthen the disaster response policies and practices in Japan (and beyond) by engaging the very women affected by the disasters in the analyses of societal conditions and collective efforts to address them.
The PhotoVoice Exhibit will be open from April 9th to May 8th @ II Gallery, 1F, SSWB.
Opening Reception – April 9th, 3:00 to 4:30PM (Light food and refreshments)
Professor Mieko Yoshihama, who is conducting the ongoing PhotoVoice project, will be in attendance to publicly present the opening of the 2013 PhotoVoice Exhibit at the International Institute. Language Lecturer Yoshihiro Mochizuki and students from the U-M Japanese Language Program will also share their experiences in helping to translate the original voices into English.
Join us in experiencing visual messages from disaster-affected women in Japan, about their struggles of surviving the disasters and their visions for the future.
Event co-sponsored by the U-M Center for Japanese Studies and School of Social Work.
https://www.cjspubs.lsa.umich.edu/electronic/michclassics/online/online.php
We are now beginning to convert a few of our titles into ebooks for Kindle and epub readers. The order and download process will be handled by a third-party, Sheridan Books, Inc., at their Shelf Wise site. Currently, three titles have been converted: Nowaki, A Page of Madness, and Research Guide to Japanese Film Studies.
See the CJS Publications website for an up-to-date list of the ebooks and other publications availably online.
Via the University of Hawai’i Press:
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-8947-9780824837426.aspx
The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle
Author: Kobayashi Takiji; Translator: Cipris, Zeljko;
This collection introduces the work of Japan’s foremost Marxist writer, Kobayashi Takiji (1903–1933), to an English-speaking audience, providing access to a vibrant, dramatic, politically engaged side of Japanese literature that is seldom seen outside Japan. The volume presents a new translation of Takiji’s fiercely anticapitalist Kani kōsen—a classic that became a runaway bestseller in Japan in 2008, nearly eight decades after its 1929 publication. It also offers the first-ever translations of Yasuko and Life of a Party Member, two outstanding works that unforgettably explore both the costs and fulfillments of revolutionary activism for men and women. The book features a comprehensive introduction by Komori Yōichi, a prominent Takiji scholar and professor of Japanese literature at Tokyo University.
320pp. January 2013
Paper – Price: $25.00ISBN: 978-0-8248-3742-6
Cloth – Price: $65.00
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April 19-20, 2013
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
The Japanese program of the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC), Emory University, invites you to attend a two-day conference on Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese Feminisms, to take place April 19-20, 2013 in Atlanta, GA, USA. This conference features presentations by Japanese Studies specialists from fields across the humanities and social
science disciplines who are engaged in innovative research intended to further our understanding of the diversity and evolution of Japanese feminist thought and activism, from the Meiji period to the present day. Panel presentations will be organized around the following themes: motherhood and family, sexuality,
politics, education and employment, and feminist theory.
The first day of the conference will culminate in a keynote panel discussion by four prominent scholars of Japanese feminism who represent a variety of viewpoints and disciplines: Vera Mackie, historian and Professor of Asian Studies and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at University of Wollongong; Mizuta Noriko, Chancellor and President of Josai International University and noted scholar of Japanese literature; Barbara Molony, Professor of Japanese History at Santa Clara University; and Ueno Chizuko, Professor Emerita of Sociology at Tokyo University.
For further details, or to register for this conference, please see the conference website at
http://halleinstitute.emory.edu/research/events_conferences/japanese_feminisms.h
tml.
This event is free and open to the public, but participants must register in
order to attend. Inquiries about this conference should be directed to Julia C. Bullock,
Associate Professor of Japanese Studies, Emory University, at
jbullo2@emory.edu.
This conference has been made possible by the generous support of the Provost’s Conference Center Subvention Fund of Emory University, the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, Emory’s Hightower Fund, the Halle Institute for Global Learning, the East Asian Studies Program, and the
Departments of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.
IJPAN, the Illinois Japan Performing Arts Network, presents a webcast of a staged reading of *Strolling Invader*, a new play being performed at the Japan Society of New York. This performance will be broadcast live on Monday, April 1 at 6:30 p.m. central time in the Dance Rehearsal Krannert (DRK) Studio at the Krannert Center for Performing Arts on the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus, as well as online at our website (ijpan.ncsa.illinois.edu). Playwright Tomohiro Maekawa will join the post-performance Q&A via live-streamed video broadcast from Japan. IJPAN will incorporate dynamic projections superimposed over the streaming video to enhance the performance for our live audience.
*Strolling Invader *is set in a small harbor town in Japan where, one by one, residents begin to lose their understanding of once familiar concepts such as “family,” “ownership” and “freedom.” These strange incidents are eventually linked to one resident, Shinji, who has been wandering around talking to his neighbors ever since his body and mind were taken over by an alien performing preparatory research on human beings before invading earth! *Tomohiro Maekawa**, *rising star playwright and director/founder of Ikiume Theater Company in Tokyo, is recognized for his illustrations of human emotion through bizarre sci-fi and horror stories. *Aya Ogawa*, New York-based writer, director, performer, translator and founder of knife inc., will translate Maekawa’s story and lead a cast of Americans in this staged reading. For more information, visit the Japan Society website http://www.japansociety.org/event/strolling-invader.
The performance viewing on the University of Illinois campus is free. The Krannert Center for Performing Arts is located at 500 S Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801. For any questions, please email
ijpan-webmaster@illinois.edu
Cafe ChocoTea gets creative with its latte art with character designs from LINE:
Image credit: Cafe ChocoTea.
LINE is an international cross-network smartphone app for messaging and calling popular in Japan and also comes with free and paid sets of emoji stamps. On the Cafe ChocoTea (Saitama prefecture) blog, there is a post about experimenting with making the designs in demi-tasse cups of hot honey milk. Unfortunately, they’re just practice art and not for sale, but who knows that will happen with popular demand?
Original post in Japanese here: “エスプレッソマシーンが…” on Cafe ChocoTea.
Note: This image has been going around Facebook largely uncredited, but I was able to track down the source. Please link to sources when you share images.
For more information, see
https://www.graduatecenter-lmu.de/global/index.php?lang=en
http://www.en.grk-globalisierung.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
Doctoral Fellowships
The DFG-Research Training Group “Globalization and Literature. Representations, Transformations, Interventions” established at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Germany), invites applications for
• 7 Doctoral Fellowships
starting in October, 2013, for up to 3 years. Funding amounts to € 1,300 per month; additional funding for travel grants etc. will also be available.
The DFG Research Training Group sets out to examine the function of literature in processes of globalization from a broad historical perspective, ranging from antiquity to the present day. Research interests focus on the question of how literature may be both a product and an active generator or producer of the cultural, economic, and political dynamics, collectively described as globalization. Researchers work in close consultation with a group of supervisors whose fields of competence include literature written in English, French, German, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and other languages. The study program, including critical theory and theories of globalization, is designed to provide a forum for intense exchange between fellows, professors, and visiting scholars from the fields of both literary studies and social studies. A more detailed account of the research program (in German) can be found at: http://www.grk-globalisierung.lmu.de
Applications (in English or German) are invited from highly-qualified graduate students. Applicants should have a university degree equivalent to Master level in literature, with a G.P.A. above the average. In exceptional cases, admission is possible on the basis of a B.A. (honours).Their research projects should contribute to the thematic focus of the research training group. Projects that include the exploration of earlier historical periods are particularly welcome.
Teaching and discussions will be bilingual. Applicants must therefore have an adequate comprehension level of both English and German, and speak at least one of these languages fluently. Please provide some evidence and/or documentation of your language competence.
Please apply electronically at: https://www.graduatecenter-lmu.de/global/
submitting the following documents (in pdf-format):
• outline of the research project (3,000 to 4,000 words)
• CV, including a detailed description of your academic career
• transcripts of all school and university diplomas
• letters of recommendation from two faculty members that give information on your qualifications and academic potential
• a sample chapter of your MA thesis (ca. 4,000 words)
• list of publications (if applicable)
Deadline for applications: April 30, 2013
What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 