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Book Announcement: Mechademia 6

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Paula

As passive consumers of manga and anime become active users of cultural commodities, this volume explores the possibilities of, and challenges for, engagement. MECHADEMIA 6: User Enhanced Edited by Frenchy Lunning University of Minnesota Press | 336 pages | 2011 … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Modern Asian History

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Paula

Institution: University of Birmingham, School of History and Cultures Location: United Kingdom Position: Assistant Professor, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Modern Asian History University of Birmingham College of Arts and Law School of History and Cultures Lecturer (Assistant Professor) … Continue reading →

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Book Announcements: Modernism and Japanese Culture, Politics and Religion in Modern Japan, Rethinking Japanese Modernism

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Paula

Modernism and Japanese Culture By Roy Starrs. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 344 pages. Paperback: $25, Hardcover: $80. Webpages: UK: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=360186; US:http://us.macmillan.com/modernismandjapaneseculture/RoyStarrs Offering an in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism, in this book Roy … Continue reading →

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Conference: Piracy and Anti-Piracy Campaigns in Eurasia, c. 1600-1900

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Paula

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, “GLOBALIZING VIOLENCE, EMERGING MODERNITY: Piracy and Anti-Piracy Campaigns in Eurasia, c. 1600-1900” Date: 10-11 December 2011 Venue: Gakushuin Women’s College, Tokyo, Japan Organizer: JSPS grant-in-aid project (S) “Eurasia in the Modern Period: Towards a New World History” (Leader: … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Various fields of history including China, India, Asia’s relations with world, Assistant Professor

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Paula

Institution: Nanyang Technological University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Location: Singapore Position: Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary History Faculty Positions in Modern and Contemporary History The School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Paula

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo12046404.html Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism’s social and economic base has long been in mortuary service–a base now threatened by public … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Early Modern and/or Modern Japanese Literature

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Paula

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Taper Hall of Humanities 356, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357) is … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Japan’s Postwar

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Paula

Edited by Michael Lucken, Anne Bayard-Sakai, Emmanuel Lozerand Translated by J. A. A. Stockwin Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting “postwar” to be the years directly proceeding World … Continue reading →

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Fun Link Friday: Japan Trends

Posted on August 19, 2011 by tnguyen3729

What do Air Conditioned Shoes, Female-Only Apartments, and a Tokyo Music Subway Map all have in common? They’ve all been featured in Japan Trends, a website founded by CScout a company comprised of individuals with backgrounds in marketing, media, fashion, design and innovative … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Postdoc Research Modern Japan politics & science fiction

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Paula

Institution: Leiden University, The Netherlands, Modern East Asia Research Centre Position: 2-year Post Doctoral Research position Call for Applications Postdoctoral research position (38hrs/week 2 years maximum) Within the research project Beyond Utopia: New Politics, the Politics of Knowledge, and the … Continue reading →

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