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Book Announcement: The China Problem in Postwar Japan: National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Paula

Recently published with Bloomsbury Press as part of the series SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan, edited by Christopher Gerteis. Robert Hoppens, The China Problem in Postwar Japan: National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations, (Bloomsbury Press, March 2015), 298 pages, ISBN: … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women’s Higher Education in Japan

Posted on June 28, 2015 by LM

Via University of Hawai’i Press. The White Plum: A Biography of Ume Tsuda, Pioneer of Women’s Higher Education in Japan Author: Furuki, Yoshiko 196 pp. January 2015 Cloth – Price: $31.00 ISBN: 978-0-8248-5339-6 Categories: Asia, history, biography Description At the … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Japan: Pre-modern, Modern and Contemporary—A Return Trip from the East to the West. Learning in, about and from Japan

Posted on June 13, 2015 by Paula

CALL FOR PAPERS The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Japanese Department) at the “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University (Bucharest, Romania), with the support of its collaborators from Kyoto University and Osaka University (Japan), is pleased to announce organizing the third edition of … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Chair in Modern Asian History

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Paula

Institution: University of Amsterdam, Department of Anthropology Location: Netherlands Position: Full Professor, Chair in Modern Asian History The Department of Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam is hiring a Chair in Modern Asian History. The chair combines social … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Full professor, Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Paula

The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Japanese Studies invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within any field of the study of modern or pre-modern Japan (humanities and/or social sciences) to take up appointment on … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: The Goddess and the Dragon: A Study on Identity Strength and Psychosocial Resilience in Japan

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Paula

The Goddess and the Dragon: A Study on Identity Strength and Psychosocial Resilience in Japan Author: Patrick Hein Book Description: Neoliberal globalization affects the livelihoods and socio-economic conditions of people all over the world. This is also true for Japan where … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Regionalizing Culture: the Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia

Posted on December 21, 2014 by Paula

Nissim Otmazgin Regionalizing Culture: the Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia University of Hawai’i Press This ambitious work provides a comprehensive, empirically grounded study of the production, circulation, and reception of Japanese popular culture in Asia. While many … Continue reading →

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Funding: 20th Century Japan Research Award 2014-2015

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Paula

20th Century Japan Research Award for 2014-2015 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: Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Paula

The SOAS Japan Research Centre, in association with Bloomsbury, is pleased to announce the publication of the first book in its new SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan series. Jan Bardsley’s Women and Democracy in Cold War Japan reveals the diverse possibilities of … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Contemporary Japan

Posted on October 11, 2014 by Paula

Contemporary Japan (CJ) is the biannual journal of the German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo (DIJ) published by de Gruyter, Berlin, New York. We are currently calling for papers for the autumn 2015 issue. Articles should be submitted by 31 … Continue reading →

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