Resource: ANA Experience Japan Fares

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Travis

There are a variety of ways to travel domestically within Japan on special passes or discounts – two of the most well-known are the Japan Rail Pass, which allows unlimited train rides on JR trains, for a set period (e.g. a 3-day pass, or a 7-day pass), including the Shinkansen, but is only available for those on a tourist visa*; and the Seishun kippu (“Youth Ticket”), which is cheaper, available to anyone, and allows unlimited train rides for a limited period, but is only available during certain times of year, and can only be used on local trains.

But, I only recently learned of another very useful option: ANA Experience Japan Fares, which allow you to fly anywhere within Japan for less than US$100 / €100.

These 10,800 yen flights include (near as I can tell) just about any domestic ANA route. It covers more than 34 airports, including not only the major cities (Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo), but also smaller airports such as Ishigaki, Yamaguchi-Ube, Yonago, Tokushima, even Hachijô-jima. Flights within Hokkaidô are half the price (5400 yen instead of 10,800 yen).

To use this fare, the following conditions must be met:

・Passenger must reside outside of Japan.
・Passenger must hold a passport issued by any country other than Japan, or be a Japanese passport holder with permanent residency outside of Japan.
・Passenger must hold an international ticket/tickets to and from Japan.

As I found these eligibility requirements just slightly vague, I called ANA to ask for clarification on “must reside outside of Japan.” I was told that even foreigners with a zairyû 在留 card (who are thus, legally, if temporarily, “resident” in Japan), e.g. those on a student visa or a “cultural activities” visa, are eligible for this fare. However, the return ticket (leaving Japan, to return to the home country), even if it’s for many months in the future, is required.

Fuller details are available on the ANA website.

*Or certain other particular cases.

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Job Opening: East Asian Art History

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Paula

Institution: Davidson College
Location: North Carolina, United States
Position:Tenure Track Faculty

DAVIDSON COLLEGE invites applications for a PROFESSOR OF EAST ASIAN ART HISTORY in the departments of ART and CHINESE/EAST ASIAN STUDIES.

An open-rank, tenure-track position in the Department of Art and the Department of Chinese Studies (which includes an interdisciplinary major and minor in East Asian Studies) will be available beginning July 1, 2018. The successful candidate will expand the breadth of the Art Department and the interdisciplinary East Asian Studies program to include East Asian art and visual culture. We seek candidates with demonstrated potential for excellence in and enthusiasm for teaching, active and high-quality scholarship, and a commitment to student advising and support. The teaching load is five courses/academic year (four courses in the first year of employment, in the case of an assistant professor). Courses will include a survey of East Asian Art, intermediate-level courses in the arts and visual cultures of East Asia, and a seminar in the candidate’s major area of interest. Candidates are encouraged to highlight their interest and/or experience in cross-disciplinary teaching in such fields as Writing, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Environmental Studies, Digital Studies, and our Humanities Program.

Candidates must complete an online application at http://employment.davidson.edu and attach the following:

a cover letter; a CV; graduate-school transcripts; a statement of teaching interests explaining the candidate’s demonstrated or potential excellence in, and enthusiasm for, undergraduate teaching; a statement of research interests; and a statement outlining how the candidate’s teaching, service, and/or research might contribute to Davidson College’s institutional commitment to diversity and inclusion.

E-mail contact information for three references should also be included, from whom letters of recommendation will be solicited by our system. The deadline for receipt of applications is November 15, 2017. Inquiries may be sent to Nina E. Serebrennikov, Chair of Art, at niserebrennikov@davidson.edu .

Davidson College is a highly selective, nationally ranked, residential, four-year liberal arts college, located in Davidson, North Carolina, close to the city of Charlotte. Davidson faculty enjoy a low student-faculty ratio, emphasis on and appreciation of excellence in teaching, outstanding research facilities, and a collegial, respectful atmosphere that honors academic achievement and integrity. Davidson is strongly committed to achieving excellence and cultural diversity, and welcomes applications from women, members of minority groups, and others who would bring additional dimensions to the College’s mission.

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Job Opening: Assistant Professor, Northeast Asian Critical Humanities, Asian Studies, Cornell University

Posted on October 3, 2017 by Paula

Institution: Cornell University
Location: New York, United States
Position: Assistant Professor

The Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University welcomes applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Northeast Asian Critical Humanities.  We seek teaching and research strengths in Japan and/or Korean studies, ideally including trans-national/inter-Asian empirical and theoretical interests.  Applications are welcome from candidates working in modern, or across premodern and modern, contexts.  Candidates should be prepared to contribute to the undergraduate curriculum through courses in their fields of specialization as well as through survey and gateway courses.  The successful candidate will enter a department that approaches Asian Humanities from diverse, but often complementary, disciplinary and theoretical arenas, including literature, film, media and visual culture, literary and intellectual history, religious studies, the investigation of imperial and colonial cultural forms and processes, translation studies, and study of modernities.  While the Department of Asian Studies constitutes the teaching and tenure home for this position, the successful candidate will also make contributions to one or more of Cornell University’s thematic and area studies programs.  Ph.D. in hand by July 1, 2018, and publishing record or strong potential for publishing is important.  Submit by November 1, 2017, a letter of application, curriculum vitae, reading sample, statement of teaching experience, and three letters of recommendation electronically at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9700.

The Department of Asian Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell embrace diversity and seek candidates who will create a climate that attracts students and faculty of all races, nationalities and genders.  We strongly encourage women and underrepresented minorities to apply.  Cornell University is a recognized EEO/AA employer and educator, valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities.

 

Contact: asianstudiesdept@cornell.edu

Website: http://asianstudies.cornell.edu/

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Symposium: Cinema and Social Change in Japan

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Paula

International Symposium
October 20-22, 2017
Kyoto University, Japan

This international symposium explores the impacts of cinema on social change, and vice versa. Taking Japan’s cinema-going culture as case study, we can trace how social change has been imagined, negotiated, or refuted through cinema texts. At the same time, everyday manifestations of social change may be influenced by cinematic imagery, narrative, or characterization. Encompassing new research on both Japanese cinema and imported cinema screened in Japan, as well as new or divergent platforms for film exhibition, this symposium brings together research from a variety of disciplines and time periods to compose a fuller picture of the intersections of cinema and social change in Japan.

Place: Science Seminar House, Building 10, Kyoto University North Campus, Kitashirakawa Oiwakecho 3-7-1, Sakyo ku, Kyoto, Japan, 606-8224

Organizer: Jennifer Coates, Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Kyoto University

Contact: coates.jennifer.2u@kyoto-u.ac.jp

Sponsors: Hakubi Center for Advanced Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences

Program:

October 20th 17:00-18:30                  Short film screening and reception

When Cinema Was King (documentary short, Jennifer Coates, 2017), Japanese with English subtitles.

October 21st

9:30-10:00                                          Welcome Remarks
10:00-12:00                                         Panel 1
12:00-13:00                                         Lunch
13:00-15:00                                         Panel 2
15:00-15:30                                         Tea Break
15:30-17:30                                         Panel 3

October 22nd

10:00-12:00                                         Panel 4
12:00-13:00                                         Lunch
13:00-15:00                                         Panel 5
15:00-15:30                                         Tea Break
15:30-16:00                                         Discussion
16:30-17:30                                         Closing Roundtable

Panel Schedule

October 21st

10:00-12:00     Panel 1: Season of Change: 1950-1970

Isolde Standish (SOAS, University of London), ‘A Question of Form: Dissent and the Nouvelle Vague’

Katsuyuki Hidetaka (Ritsumeikan University), ‘Collective Remorse for the Past: Transformation of Japanese Film and TV Representations of ‘the 300-Million Yen Robbery’ of 1968’

Chika Kinoshita (Kyoto University), ‘The Emergence of Teen Pregnancy Narratives in Post-Occupation Japanese Cinema’

13:00-15:00     Panel 2: War, Conflict, and Cinema

Eyal Ben-Ari (Kinneret Academic College) and Atsuko Fukuura (Shiga University), ‘The Japanese Self-Defense Forces and Cinematic Productions: Resonance and Reverberation in the Cultural Normalization of Organized State Violence’

Iris Haukamp (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), ‘The Four Lives of Matsugorō the Lawless’

Jennifer Coates (Kyoto University), ‘The Cinema Audience Under Occupation’

15:30-17:30     Panel 3: Race, Class, and Mixed Media

Ayami Ushida (Kyoto University of Art and Design), ‘Japan and Korea in Manga and Film’

Deanna Nardy (Kyoto University), ‘Tarzan In Japan: The Impact of Tarzan on Japanese Self-Representation in Comics and Film’

Alisa Freedman (University of Oregon), ‘Down in the Dumps: Tokyo Wastelands and Marginalized Groups in Japanese Film and Anime’

October 22nd

10:00-12:00     Panel 4: At the Margins: Others, Outsiders, and the Non-Human

Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University), ‘Learning From Animals’

Lindsay Nelson (Meiji Gakuin University), ‘Cinema at the Edge of the World: Visions of Precarity in the films of Kazuyoshi Kumakiri’

Ma Ran (Nagoya University), ‘Border-Crossing Japan: Kuzoku’s Politics of (Dis)location’

13:00-15:00     Panel 5: Queer Cinemas

Yuka Kanno (Doshisha University), ‘Community Building and Queer Activism through Film Festivals’

SPF Dale (Hitotsubashi University), ‘Trans Representation in Japanese Film’

Yutaka Kubo (Kyoto University), ‘Cinematic Responses to Queer Aging’

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Funding: Critical Language Scholarship Program

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Paula

We are pleased to welcome American students to apply for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program to learn critical foreign languages next summer on a fully-funded study abroad program.

The CLS Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American students enrolled at U.S. colleges and universities. Students spend eight to ten weeks abroad studying one of 14 critical languages. The program includes intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains.

CLS, a program of the U.S. Department of State, is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. CLS plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st century’s globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.

The application is now live and available online at:  http://www.clscholarship.org

Applications are due November 15, 2017 by 7:59pm EST.

Download a one-page flyer to promote the CLS Program in your community.

 

The fourteen languages offered by the CLS Program are:

  • Arabic
  • Azerbaijani
  • Bangla
  • Chinese
  • Hindi
  • Indonesian
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Persian
  • Punjabi
  • Russian
  • Swahili
  • Turkish
  • Urdu

 

Most languages offered by the CLS Program do not require applicants to have any experience studying critical languages. Language pre-requisites can be found on our website at http://www.clscholarship.org/about.

 

The CLS Program seeks participants with diverse interests, and from a wide range of fields of study and career paths, with the purpose of representing the full diversity of the United States. Participants are selected based on their commitment to language learning and plans to apply their language skills to their future academic or professional pursuits. Students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, science, social sciences, arts and humanities are encouraged to apply.

 

Prior to preparing their application, interested students should review the full eligibility and application information on the CLS Program website.

For news, updates and more information about the CLS Program, check out the CLS website or our Facebook page for updates!

 

CLS Website: http://www.clscholarship.org

CLS Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship

CLS Twitter page: https://twitter.com/CLSscholarship

For other questions, please contact us at: cls@americancouncils.org

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Book Announcement: Down with Traitors: Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China

Posted on October 1, 2017 by LM

XIADOWVia University of Washington Press

Down with Traitors: Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China
YUN XIA

CONTENTS

Throughout the War of Resistance against Japan (1931-1945), the Chinese Nationalist government punished collaborators with harsh measures, labeling the enemies from within hanjian (literally, “traitors to the Han Chinese”). Trials of hanjian gained momentum during the postwar years, escalating the power struggle between Nationalists and Communists. Yun Xia examines the leaders of collaborationist regimes, who were perceived as threats to national security and public order, and other subgroups of hanjian-including economic, cultural, female, and Taiwanese hanjian. Built on previously unexamined code, edicts, and government correspondence, as well as accusation letters, petitions, newspapers, and popular literature, Down with Traitors reveals how the hanjian were punished in both legal and extralegal ways and how the anti-hanjian campaigns captured the national crisis, political struggle, roaring nationalism, and social tension of China’s eventful decades from the 1930s through the 1950s.
YUN XIA is assistant professor of history at Valparaiso University.

“Yun Xia’s perceptive study traces the legal definition and the political usages of the profoundly emotive word hanjian (traitor). She looks at the years of the Resistance War and shows the ways in which the designation was used as China’s political world was increasingly polarized.”
-Diana Lary, author of The Chinese People at War and China’s Civil War

“Deeply researched and intriguing. Yun Xia details the scope of the traitor trials, which dwarfed the war crime trials of the Japanese.”
-Barak Kushner, author of Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice

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Job Opening: Tenure-Track Faculty: Modern East Asian Historian, University of St. Thomas

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Paula

Institution: University of St. Thomas
Location: Minnesota, United States
Position: Tenure Track Faculty

The History Department at the University of St. Thomas (MN) invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Modern East Asian history (post-1500). Geographic and/or thematic specializations are open. Position begins in Fall 2018. We are looking for a scholar-teacher who is committed to excellence in undergraduate teaching and who can demonstrate scholarly productivity and promise for ongoing research in their field.

The teaching load of three courses per semester involves some combination of the following: first-level course(s) such as East Asian Civilizations or World History for undergraduates who are completing their core area (general) requirement in historical studies as well as a broad range of upper-level course(s) in the history of East Asia for undergraduate history majors and minors.

Established in 1885, the University of St. Thomas is located in the major metropolitan area of Minneapolis-St. Paul, and is Minnesota’s largest private university. Its 10,000 students pursue degrees in a wide range of liberal arts, professional, and graduate programs.

 

Education requirements: Ph.D. (U.S. or foreign equivalent degree) in History or a related field required or alternatively, ABD candidates will be considered. All applicants must have demonstrable skills necessary for excellence in teaching.

All application materials must be submitted online at http://www.stthomas.edu/jobs/. Emailed materials, except letters of recommendation, will not be accepted.

Candidates will first be asked to (step 1) create an applicant profile and upload the required documents (listed below) and then (step 2) submit an online application and voluntary EEO form. Applicants should then arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to the History Department (step 3 – details below).

To ensure full consideration, application materials should be received by November 6, 2017.

Interested applicants should upload the following 5 documents to their profile (part of step 1):

1) Curriculum Vitae (upload into the “Resume” field)

2) Copy of academic transcript (upload into the “Graduate Transcripts” field)

3) Statement of teaching philosophy and experience, including evidence of teaching effectiveness (upload into “Teaching Philosophy” field)

4) Description of research agenda (upload into “Description of Research Agenda” field)

5) Writing sample (upload into “Scholarly / Professional Writing Sample”)

Please copy/paste a job-specific cover letter for the position into the “Cover Letter” section of the application (part of step 2).

At this time, please do not upload any documents beyond those requested. Candidates who are selected for further review may be contacted to submit additional materials at a later date.

Applicants should also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent (step 3) by mail to Dr. Catherine Cory, History Department, JRC 432, University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105 or by email to cacory@stthomas.edu.

Inspired by Catholic intellectual tradition, the University of St. Thomas educates students to be morally responsible leaders who think critically, act wisely, and work skillfully to advance the common good.

The University of St. Thomas is committed to the principles of diversity and inclusion, and the goals of affirmative action/equal opportunity. The University welcomes nominations and applications from a diverse applicant pool.

The University of St. Thomas, Minnesota Human Resources Department advertises the official job listing on its website. If you are viewing this posting from a site other than “Jobs at St. Thomas”, the University assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of information.

The University of St. Thomas is an Equal Opportunity Employer

 

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Job Opening: Japanese Studies, U of Arizona

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Travis


Institution: University of Arizona, Dept of East Asian Studies
Location: Tucson, AZ
Position: Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies (tenure-eligible)

From the university’s official job listing:

The Department of East Asian Studies in the School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SILLC) at the University of Arizona invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning August 2018 at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Japanese Studies with an emphasis in history, cultural studies, or thought. Ph.D. in hand is expected by the time of the appointment, August 2018.

We seek applicants with specializations that offer potential for trans-regional, interdisciplinary, and thematic resonance within the EAS department and across the university. Period of research specialization is open, but our strong preference is for broadly trained scholars of Japan who can contribute to teaching and advising across both the pre-modern and modern period. Doctoral training in historical method is preferred, but applications from other specialists in thought or intellectual history are welcome. We are particularly interested in applicants with innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to Japanese studies in teaching and research, who situate Japan in regional and global contexts and engage diverse audiences, and who broaden existing departmental strengths in literature, religion, linguistics, and the anthropology of East Asia. For candidates interested in the history or culture of science and/or technology in Japan, possibilities may exist for collaboration with Planetary Scientists working in collaboration with the Japan Space Agency.

Teaching responsibility is four courses per year, including a lower-division Japanese Civilization course complemented by upper-division courses on pre-modern and modern Japan, graduate courses, and topics in the applicant’s area of specialization. The successful candidate will demonstrate a promising record of teaching and scholarship. This is a benefits eligible position and the appointment starts in August 2018.

Minimum Qualifications:
*Ph.D. in Japanese Studies (or a closely related field) in hand by August 1, 2018.
*Experience in college-level teaching.
*Native or near-native fluency in Japanese and English.

Preferred Qualifications:

*Preference for broadly trained scholars of Japan who can contribute to teaching and advising across both the pre-modern and modern period.
*Doctoral training in historical method.
*Experience using innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to Japanese studies research.
*Preference will be given to candidates with evidence of excellent teaching.
*Experience using innovative teaching methods and/or curricular design to effectively engage a diverse student body.

To Apply:
Review of applications will begin on October 31, 2017

Candidates are asked to submit (all in English unless otherwise noted):
1. Cover Letter, which must address philosophy of teaching, as well as current and future research, and include contributions to diversity and inclusiveness.
2. CV
3. Writing Sample (Save as ONE PDF FILE — Two writing samples, in either Japanese or English. Samples may be published papers or dissertation chapters)
4. Teaching Evaluations (from the past three years, if available)
5. Three letters of recommendation that address your research and teaching ability and potential

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Fun Link Friday: Bamboo art and design

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Paula

A quickie fun link this week! The New York Times recently did an article highlighting a current exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on bamboo art that looks absolutely stunning. As the Met site states:

Featuring works of Japanese bamboo art dating from the late 19th century to the present—the period when basketry in Japan became recognized as an art form that transcends “craft”—this loan exhibition showcases more than 80 bamboo baskets and sculptures created by accomplished artists, including all six masters who have received the designation “Living National Treasure.” Highlighting key stages in the modern history of Japanese bamboo art, the exhibition is drawn from the Abbey Collection, one of the finest private collections of Japanese baskets and bamboo sculpture; most of the works have never before been presented in public.

The exhibit runs through February, but even if you aren’t in New York, you can check out images of this fantastic showcase through the New York Times article and on the Met website for current exhibits here. Check it out!

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Internship: Internship Program (unpaid) in Japan at Ibaraki Christian University (TEFL)

Posted on September 28, 2017 by Paula

Ibaraki Christian University offers opportunities for students at colleges and universities in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK and the US to explore teaching English at a university in Japan. You can find information on the entire program including Testimonials from previous interns via the ten links at the bottom of this page. After reading these pages thoroughly, if you have any specific questions about our internship program, please feel free to contact us.

The application form can be downloaded here. Please download it and input the information on your computer. This form works best with Adobe PDF Reader.

Additional Information

If you would like any additional information please feel free to contact us at English_internaticc.ac.jp. Please change the at to an @ mark. If you are having any trouble with the email address, you can reach us via Facebook by searching for Gendaieigo.

We have tried to be as detailed as possible in our explanation about our internship program. However, some of the details may change. Applicants should feel free to contact us at any time with questions or comments. First though, please reread our web pages as the information here will be updated regularly.

We are now accepting applications for internships for the academic year from April 2018 to March 2019. We encourage applying early as we will stop recruiting once all the positions have been filled. 

You may have come to this page through an advertisement we have previously released. Please note we have moved our information to the below links to enable us to provide important information in a clearer and more timely manner. We appreciate your understanding.

For more information:

http://www.gendaieigo.info/internship

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