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Funding: 20th Century Japan Research Award

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Paula

20th Century Japan Research Award for 2015-2016 The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for two $1,500 grants to support research in the library’s Gordon W. Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Shimaji Mokurai and the Reconception of Religion and the Secular in Modern Japan

Posted on October 25, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. 246pp. July 2015 Cloth – Price: $59.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-5153-8 Religion is at the heart of such ongoing political debates in Japan as the constitutionality of official government visits to Yasukuni Shrine, yet the very categories … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Modern Japanese History, University of Washington

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Paula

Institution: University of Washington – Seattle, Jackson School of International Studies Location: Washington, United States Position: Modern Japanese History, Open Rank, Assistant, Associate or Full Professor The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Department … Continue reading →

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20th Century Japan Research Award for 2015-2016

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Paula

The Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the University of Maryland Libraries invite applications for two $1,500 grants to support research in the library’s Gordon W. Prange Collection and East Asia Collection on topics related to the period of the Allied … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Assistant professorship in Japanese Studies, Modern Japan

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Paula

Tenure-track assistant professorship in Japanese Studies, Modern Japan The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Modern Japan to be filled by August 1, 2016 or as soon … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Paula

Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar Author: Takenaka, Akiko This is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine’s role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Vassar College, Assistant Professor, East Asian History

Posted on September 12, 2015 by Paula

Vassar College, History Assistant Professor, East Asian History East Asia. The Department of History at Vassar College invites applications for a full time tenure-track appointment in East Asian History at the rank of assistant professor beginning August 2016. Vassar College … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Paula

Kirsch, Griseldis (2015). Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen. A History, 1989-2005. SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic. http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/contemporary-sino-japanese-relations-on-screen-9781472572394/ About Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen Japan and China look back on a history of friendship as well as … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Modern Japanese History, University of British Columbia, limited term

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Paula

Institution: The University of British Columbia, History Location: British Columbia, Canada Position: Assistant Professor (Limited-Term Appointment in Modern Japanese History) The Department of History, University of British Columbia (Vancouver), invites applications for a one-year position as an … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Energy in Modern Japan

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Paula

CALL FOR PAPERS VSJF Annual Conference 2015 “Energy in Modern Japan. Past, Present, Future“ The annual conference of the VSJF – German Association for Social Science Research on Japan – will take place on November 20-22, 2015in Leipzig. This year’s topic … Continue reading →

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