Tag Archives: Japan

Fun Link Friday: War Kimono

Posted on July 12, 2013 by LM

Cranes, carp, cherry blossoms…Zero fighters? I guarantee you haven’t seen kimono motifs like these before! Wolfgang Ruf of Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, collects rare wartime kimono from roughly 1894-1942 with soliders, weapons, and military vehicles. Today’s fun link, “Kimonos reveal Japanese … Continue reading →

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Resource: Tools for Banking, Finance, and Law

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Paula

Lately we’ve been fortunate to have a number of guest writers contributing articles related to translation and non-academic careers that use Japanese (and we have more to come in the near future!), but we’ve been a bit lax on updating … Continue reading →

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Workshop: Reading Late Edo Period Media and Society

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Paula

Reading Late Edo Period Media and Society: Kawaraban and Handwritten Manuscripts from the Kano Bunko Collection of Tohoku University September 16th – 20th, 2013 ORGANISERS Heidelberg University   ハイデルベルグ大学 Institute of Japanese Studies   日本学科 Akademiestrase 4-8 69115 Heidelberg Tohoku … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Paula

Wondrous Brutal Fictions:  Eight Buddhist Tales from the Early Japanese Puppet Theater.   Wondrous Brutal Fictions presents eight seminal works from the seventeenth-century Japanese sekkyō and ko-jōruri puppet theaters, many translated into English for the first time. Both poignant and disturbing, these whimsical narratives contain … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Director, Kyoto Center, Bing Overseas Studies Program

Posted on July 6, 2013 by Paula

Institution: Stanford University, Bing Overseas Studies Program Location:   Japan Position:   Director, Stanford Program in Kyoto Job Description: The Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford University is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Director for its program in … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Campus and Outreach Coordinator, Oberlin Shansi

Posted on July 4, 2013 by LM

Institution: Oberlin Shansi Location: Oberlin, OH Start date: September 2, 2013 Application deadline: July 22, 2013 Education requirements: 4-year degree Employment type: Full time Posted on June 24, 2013 Oberlin Shansi invites applications for the position of Campus and Outreach … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Japanese Studies or comparative cultural (including Japanese Culture in a world context)

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Paula

Institution:   Nagoya City University, The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Location:   Japan Position:   Associate Professor or Lecturer of Japanese Studies or comparative cultural (including Japanese Culture) , Nagoya City University, Graduate School of Humanities and … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Google Street View of Gunkanjima

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Paula

Just a quickie FLF today, folks! You may remember a fun link from last year brought to us by Nyssa on photography of abandoned sites in Japan (haikyo), a prominent subject of which was Gunkanjima 軍艦島, or “battleship island.” This island … Continue reading →

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Resource: Black Tokyo

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Travis

I was going to post this originally as a Fun Link Friday link, but while there’s definitely a lot of fun stuff on here, such as a recently posted video jokingly “hating” on tiny Japanese beer cans, Black Tokyo | … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy: Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge

Posted on June 23, 2013 by Paula

http://www.lit-verlag.de/isbn/3-643-90319-8 Contents 1       Introduction: Gender Matters (Angelika Koch and Brigitte Steger) 2       Manga Girls: Sex, Love, Comedy and Crime in Recent Boys $B  (B Anime and Manga (Hattie Jones) 3       Absent … Continue reading →

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