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Book Announcement: The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women’s Higher Education in Japan

Posted on June 28, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women’s Higher Education in Japan Author: Furuki, Yoshiko 196 pp. January 2015 Cloth – Price: $31.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-5339-6 Categories: Asia, history, biography Description At the … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Japan: Pre-modern, Modern and Contemporary—A Return Trip from the East to the West. Learning in, about and from Japan

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Paula

CALL FOR PAPERS The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Japanese Department) at the “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University (Bucharest, Romania), with the support of its collaborators from Kyoto University and Osaka University (Japan), is pleased to announce organizing the third edition of … Continue reading →

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Resource: Teach 3.11

Posted on June 10, 2015 by Paula

Those with an interest in how to share and teach information globally about the Tōhoku earthquake/tsunami and its aftermath will be interested in the website Teach 3.11, a non-profit educational project of the Forum for the History of Science in … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Paula

Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan Edited by Matthias Hayek, Paris Diderot University and Annick Horiuchi, Paris Diderot University Listen, Copy, Read: Popular Learning in Early Modern Japan endeavors to elucidate the mechanisms by which a growing number of men and … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Curator of Gallery Education (PT), Japan Society (NYC)

Posted on October 16, 2014 by Travis

Japan Society in New York has just posted an opening for a part-time Curator of Gallery Education. This is to my knowledge a new position, which will be working alongside the three full-time Gallery staff, and four Education department staff. … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia: identity politics, schooling and popular culture

Posted on July 27, 2014 by Paula

Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia: identity politics, schooling and popular culture Paul Morris, Naoko Shimazu and Edward Vickers, editors (Routledge: 2013) 264 pp ISBN: 978-0-415-71399-3 In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued … Continue reading →

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Japan-America Student Conference 2014

Posted on March 11, 2014 by LM

Deadline: March 31, 2014 (rolling admissions) Location: Conference convenes in Des Moines, Iowa, and travels to San Francisco, New York City, and Washington, DC Education: About JASC: “An Introduction to the Japan-America Student Conference (JASC)” From July 30th to August 24th … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Seasonal American Language & Culture (ALC) Program Director, Volunteers in Asia

Posted on February 25, 2014 by LM

Institution: Volunteers in Asia (VIA), Stanford University Location: Stanford, CA Type: seasonal Deadline: March 31, 2014 Term: June 9, 2014 – early Sept Education: 4-year degree Job Summary: VIA seeks a seasonal program director to run VIA’s American Language & … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Native English Teachers (NETs), Osaka Prefectural Government

Posted on February 19, 2014 by LM

Via the JETWit Jobs mailing list. Institution: Osaka Prefectural Board of Education Location: Osaka, Japan Deadline: Feb. 20, 2014 Term: April 2014- March 2015 Education: Bachelors Other: must be living in or near Osaka pref. and have Education visa Description: … Continue reading →

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Funding: KCC Japan Education Exchange Graduate Program 2014

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Paula

Fellowship Application Deadline, December 20, 2013 KCC Japan Education Exchange Graduate Program 2014 KCC Japan Education Exchange will award a graduate fellowship to a graduate student who has a record of teaching effectively about Japan, or who shows promise to do … Continue reading →

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