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Tag Archives: Japan
Funding: Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship for Doctoral Candidates
JAPANESE STUDIES FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM This program provides support to outstanding scholars in the field by offering the opportunity to conduct research in Japan. 4-12 months of dissertation research in Japan for students in the humanities and the social sciences. Applicants … Continue reading
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Tagged fellowship, funding, Japan, Japan Foundation, japanese studies, research
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Book Announcement: Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan
Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan Edited by Janet R. Goodwin, Joan R. Piggott Landed estates (shōen) produced much of the material wealth supporting all levels of late classical and medieval Japanese society. During the tenth through … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, Heian period, history, Japan, Japanese history, Kamakura period, Muromachi period, premodern, premodern Japan, religion, shoen system
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Fun Link Friday: Portraits of samurai
I’ve been majorly guilty of neglecting our Fun Link Friday posts, being busy this last month running the medieval komonjo workshop here at Michigan, but as the summer winds down I’m starting to catch up on my blogging duties! So … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, early modern, early modern Japan, fun link friday, Japan, photography, warrior
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Resource: Japanese Children’s Literature: A History from the International Library of Children’s Literature Collections
Japan’s National Diet Library (NDL) has a ton of digitized resources in both English and Japanese. So much so that sometimes it’s easy to forget how many of those resources have been curated into mini-exhibitions or databases geared toward specific … Continue reading
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Tagged books, children, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, literature studies, writing
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Book Announcement: Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War
Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War Ethan Mark Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational … Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism, history, Japan, Japanese history, Java, modern history, modern Japan, war, World War II
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Funding: Fulbright U.S. Scholar Opportunities in Japan
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers teaching, research or combination teaching and research awards in over 125 countries for the 2019-2020 academic year.Opportunities are available for college and university faculty as well as for professionals and independent scholars. Awards that may be of interest to … Continue reading
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Tagged fellowship, fulbright, fulbright awards, Japan, research
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Resource: Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection
Those researching or just interested in modern Japanese history will find much to explore in Harvard University’s Joseph Berry Keenan Digital Collection. A compilation of manuscript materials and photographs related to the Japanese War Crimes Trial, these works originate from Joseph B. Keenan, … Continue reading
Job Openings: Kanagawa University
The Dept of Cross-Cultural Studies, at Kanagawa University, is in the process of expanding and restructuring into a separate faculty, 国際日本学部, to be located in a new high-rise in Yokohama’s central Minatomirai district. We are seeking TWO new Japan scholars … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Sound Culture Studies and Modernity in Asia
Call for papers for the Sound Culture Studies and Modernity in Asia Conference Organised by the Asian Sound Cultures and Modernity Project at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Date: 14- 15 September 2018 Tokyo University of Foreign Studies In Asia, as elsewhere, … Continue reading
Funding: Abe Fellowship Competition 2018
Overview The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP) announce the annual Abe Fellowship Program competition. Funding for the Abe Fellowship Program is provided by CGP. The Purpose of the Fellowship The Abe … Continue reading
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 