Tag Archives: Sendai

Funding Short-term Research Projects: Conducting an Oral History in Sendai

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Paula

As some of our Twitter and Facebook followers may know, back in February, my colleague Malina Suity and I ran a Kickstarter campaign to support an oral history project we conducted in Japan. The project was an epic foray into … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: 3.11 as History: a book (E/J)

Posted on June 2, 2013 by Paula

Published on 3.11 by staff members of Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai. The title of the book is 『歴史としての東日本大震災　口碑伝承をおろそかにするなかれ』（岩本由輝編、刀水書房、2013年）. It contains 5 articles, written by faculty member living either in the Sendai region, or in Soma City, Fukushima.

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Fun Link Friday: Toyo Ito Wins Pritzker Prize 2013

Posted on March 22, 2013 by LM

Japanese architect Toyo Ito has been named as the 2013 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Read the announcement and see a visual overview of his life’s work, including the Sendai Mediatheque library (which survived the 2011 earthquake), on Dezeen. … Continue reading →

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Sent to Sendai: Reflections of an ALT after the Tohoku Earthquake

Posted on March 11, 2012 by reedda02

On March 11, 2011, I had no idea that I would be moving to Sendai, Japan in less than half a year. When the earthquake happened at 2:46PM in Japan, it was 12:46AM in Washington, D.C. and I was asleep.  I … Continue reading →

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