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Tag Archives: Japan
Book Announcement: Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons
Behold the Buddha: Religious Meanings of Japanese Buddhist Icons James C. Dobbins Images of the Buddha are everywhere—not just in temples but also in museums and homes and online—but what these images mean largely depends on the background and circumstance … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Asian art, Buddha, Buddhism, Japan, premodern Japan, religious studies
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Fun Link Friday: Amabie sweets
Amidst the regular pandemic news over the last weeks, there have been numerous reports related to Japan centered on amabie アマビエ, a supernatural, mermaid-like creature from Japanese folklore. Although amabie only appears in one text from 1846 (and thus was probably … Continue reading
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Tagged fun link friday, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese sweets, sweets, wagashi
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Book Announcement: Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics
Japan Through the Lens of the Tokyo Olympics Edited ByBarbara Holthus, Isaac Gagné, Wolfram Manzenreiter, Franz Waldenberger This book situates the 2020 Tokyo Olympics within the social, economic, and political challenges facing contemporary Japan. Using the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary, contemporary Japan, Japan, modern Japan, Olympics, sports
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Resource: Historical Sound Recordings from the National Diet Library
As the digitization of resources grows, it’s important remember that not everything is visual! At the end of 2019 Japan’s National Diet Library announced that it had added 1,000 new recordings to its already substantial database of historical sound recordings. … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, Japan, Japanese media, media, multimedia, preservation, recording, sound
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Book Announcement: Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan
Masculinity and Body Weight in Japan: Grappling with Metabolic Syndrome By Genaro Castro-Vázquez Drawing on the concept of the somatic self, Castro-Vázquez explores how Japanese men think about, express and interpret their experiences concerning bodyweight control. Based on an extensive … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, culture, gender, gender studies, health, Japan, Japanese culture, japanese studies, medicine, modern Japan
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Writing into a Career: Learning How to Write and Adult in Japan and the United States
Today’s guest post is by Daniel Morales. Daniel Morales is a writer and translator based in Chicago. He studied Japanese literature at Harvard and writing at the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. After graduate school, he … Continue reading
Posted in living abroad, main posts
Tagged Japan, Japanese, journalism, language learning, professionalization, writing
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Book Announcement: Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya kaidan
Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya kaidan, ed. with an Introduction by Takashi Saitō Perhaps the most famous and oft told tales of horror in Japan, the Yotsuya kaidan tells of a young woman named Iwa and the curse she carried … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese literature, literature
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Funding: JUSFC-NEH Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is accepting applications for the Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan program. The program aims to promote Japan studies in the United States, to encourage U.S.-Japanese scholarly exchange, and to support … Continue reading
Book Announcement: A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750
A KAMIGATA ANTHOLOGY: LITERATURE FROM JAPAN’S METROPOLITAN CENTERS, 1600–1750 Edited by Sumie Jones and Adam L. Kern with Kenji Watanabe This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from … Continue reading
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Tagged Edo, Edo literature, Edo period, Japan, Japanese literature, literature
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Life after Japanese Studies (Part 2): Reconnecting with Professional Networks and Seeking Jobs after JET
This guest series features Danielle Reed, who launched her own consulting practice PinPath, LLC in November 2019. Previously she worked as the Senior Program Director of S&R Foundation, a private family foundation with the mission of supporting talented individuals with high … Continue reading
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Tagged bilingual jobs, Japan, japanese studies, job search, networking, US
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