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May 26, 2024

Workshop Series "Insider Perspectives" #1: Vietnamese Perspectives on June 23 at Sophia University

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/22

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Call for Chapters; OLAS vol. 4

From: Vyletalova Lenka <lenka.vyletalova@upol.cz>
Date: 2024/05/21

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DIJ Workshop: "Building a Sustainable Future: Integrating Consumption, Finance, and Education" on June 10, 2024

From: Luise Kahlow <kahlow@dijtokyo.org>
Date: 2024/05/21

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DIJ, Workshop on Sustainable Consumption and Finance, June 10

From: Markus Heckel <heckel@dijtokyo.org>
Date: 2024/05/21

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YCAPS event in Yokosuka on 4 June: "A Gentleman in Japan" w/ Professor Thomas Lockley

From: Jeffery Mazziotta <jeffmazziotta@ycaps.org>
Date: 2024/05/21

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YCAPS In-Person event in Fussa on 13 June: Climate Change, Maritime Security and the QUAD

From: Jeffery Mazziotta <jeffmazziotta@ycaps.org>
Date: 2024/05/21

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ISA Chicago 2025 CFP (panel on Vital but Unseen: Undersea Cables and Global Politics)

From: Ra Mason (PPL - Staff) <Ra.Mason@uea.ac.uk>
Date: 2024/05/20

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Annual Conference of the Japan Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law (30 June)

From: Emi OMURA <omura@cls-law.jp>
Date: 2024/05/20

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MJHA New Books on Japan: "Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire" editor 蔭木 達也 (KAGEKI Tatsuya) in conversation with Marnie Anderson

From: Dahlberg-Sears, Robert <dahlberg-sears.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu>
Date: 2024/05/20

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"Living Like a Common Man" - Online Screening & discussion with Sanderien Verstappen and Darshan Patel 12 June 2024 (Wed), ICC Sophia University X Free University Berlin

From: Megha Wadhwa <wadhwa.megha@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/05/20

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Film showing and Discussion: Tokyo Kurds

From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/05/19

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Call for Paper: A special issue on Japan's Diplomacy from the Hague Journal of Diplomacy

From: Saori N. Katada <skatada@usc.edu>
Date: 2024/05/19

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Nakahira Takuma's "Amami" and the Disorientation of Yamato Space on June 6 at Sophia University

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/17

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What's so great about global art? Ownership, nationalism, and hybridity at Sophia ICC on June 14

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/17

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Do We Live in a Neo-Colonial World? by Alexander Goerlach on June 11 at Sophia University

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/17

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The Whaling Issue Will Never End, even if Whaling Collapses with Jun Akamine on June 10 at Sophia U.

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/17

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Special Guest lecture with Screenwriter and Director, Eric McEver at Sophia University on May 29

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/17

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Avant-garde Artists and the Negotiation of Self-Expression in Wartime Japan at Sophia Univ. ICC on May 23

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/17

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[Job Ad] Graduate Research Assistant Position

From: Ahn, Ji-Hyun <jhahn01@uw.edu>
Date: 2024/05/14

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Next DIJ Forum (onsite only): "Promise of Freedom: Rethinking Modernity and World War II" June 6 / 6.30 pm (JST)

From: Luise Kahlow <kahlow@dijtokyo.org>
Date: 2024/05/15

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FCCJ Book Break. June 11. 18:00. Thomas Lockley, author of "A Gentleman from Japan"

From: FCCJ LIBRARY <library@fccj.or.jp>
Date: 2024/05/09

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(May 22) Brown Bag Lunch Seminar: Irina Novakova (Head of EADRCC, NATO HQ)

From: Akira Igata <igata@ip.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/14

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Japan's Technological Prowess Should Enable 2.3% Per Capita Growth, Part I

From: RICHARD KATZ <rbkatz@rbkatz.com>
Date: 2024/05/14

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Video of MJHA Roundtable on "Remaking Shōgun: Historians Assess" now available

From: Nick Kapur <nickkapur@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/05/08

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new publication: A Sociology of Journalism in Japan (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series)

From: Cesar Castellvi <cesar.castellvi@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/05/13

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Talk Announcement: Japan as a Liminal Power: Evolving Grand Strategies from Meiji to Reiwa, Wednesday, May 22 - Saori Katada (USC) and Kei Koga (NTU)

From: LEHENY David <dleheny@waseda.jp>
Date: 2024/05/13

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Talk at GSAPS/Waseda, May 20: "Crafting Japanese Immigrant Nationalism(s) in 1930s Hawai'i" by Professor Mire Koikari (Univ. of Hawai'i)

From: LEHENY David <dleheny@waseda.jp>
Date: 2024/05/13

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Sophia University ICC lecture "Past and Contemporary Visual Non-Nuclear Art" (in Japanese with English subtitles) on May 31st

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/13

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May 23 Free Lecture at Lakeland University: "Astrophotography"

From: Roger Grabowski <grabowski@japan.lakeland.edu>
Date: 2024/05/10

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June 1st: The 10th Annual Conference on Global Higher Ed, hosted by Lakeland University Japan

From: Roger Grabowski <grabowski@japan.lakeland.edu>
Date: 2024/04/24

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1923 Kanto Massacre; Documentary Film Screening

From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/05/10

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【Reminder: GAS Lecture Series #7】 Translation and the Right to Speak: The Global Turn in Contemporary Chinese Humanities (May 20, 2024)

From: Global Asian Studies (GAS) <gas@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/08

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New Book: Sustainable Societies in a Fragile World. Perspectives from Germany and Japan

From: Carola Hommerich <hommerich@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/08

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New publication "What are the limits of political violence? Ebihara Toshio's murder and the Umemoto-Kuroda controversy in 1970s Japan"

From: Ferran de Vargas <ferranidus@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/05/07

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May 24, 2024

Film series: Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film

From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/05/07

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Seiken Kotai Again?

From: Ian Neary <ian.neary@nissan.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2024/05/07

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Symposium "Liberal Democracies under Demographic Pressure: Insights from Germany and Japan" (German/Japanese language)

From: Stefanie Schwarte <S.Schwarte@lmu.de>
Date: 2024/05/07

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CFP Workshop "Imagined Futures in Japan and Beyond" [DIJ Tokyo]

From: Nicole Müller <mueller@dijtokyo.org>
Date: 2024/05/07

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May 23, 2024

Michael Kazin, Friday, 5/24. CPAS Seminar, "Contentious Alliance: American Democrats and Organized Labor"

From: 平松彩子 <ayakohiramatsu@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/05/07

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Upcoming DIJ Study Group (hybrid): "Inhabiting the Interstice: the Regulation of Post-Bubble Housing Insecurity in Tokyo", May 15 / 6.30pm (JST) / 11.30am (CEST)

From: Luise Kahlow <kahlow@dijtokyo.org>
Date: 2024/05/06

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MJHA New Books on Japan: "Asia and Postwar Japan: Deimperialization, Civic Activism, and National Identity" author Simon Avenell in conversation with Robert Hoppens

From: Dahlberg-Sears, Robert <dahlberg-sears.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu>
Date: 2024/05/02

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Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Japan's Policy Priorities under PM Kishida - A Conversation with the Cabinet Secretary for Public Affairs" with Noriyuki Shikata

From: Takashi Kiyoizumi (JFIT) <tkiyoizumi@ucsd.edu>
Date: 2024/05/02

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Roger Goodman talk (5/27 (M) 18:30 JST-hybrid): Towards an Anthropology of Resilience: Educational, Welfare and Medical Institutions in Contemporary Japan (Temple University Japan)

From: Sachiko Horiguchi <sachiko.horiguchi@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/05/01

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REMINDER: Two job postings: Research Associate (PhD) or Postdoc at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf for research on Japan's contemporary craft industries

From: Prof. Dr. Harald Conrad <harald.conrad@hhu.de>
Date: 2024/04/30

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Sophia University ICC with Japan Foundation presents a Panel Discussion "Women and Cultural Exchange" on May 23

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/04/30

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[ONLINE lecture] May 8 (10:00 CET/ 17:00 JST) "From Side Doors to Skill-Level Shifts: Japanese Labor Migration Policy and Its Impact on Ethnic Diversity" by Prof. Chikako Kashiwazaki (Keio University)

From: Aimi Muranaka <aimimuramy53@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/04/29

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May 20, 2024

UPDATE: CFP: 'Re-examining Japan's Cold War', 13 and 14 August 2024, Norwich, United Kingdom

From: FRENCH THOMAS W <french@fc.ritsumei.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/04/29

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Historians' Workshop: The Nineteenth Research Showcase

From: Michiko Suzuki <misuzuki@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/04/27

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JPOSS May 9 (Thurs) ET/10 (Fri) JST: Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe (Princeton University), "Japan and the African Development Bank"

From: Hodge, Megan <mhodge@wcfia.harvard.edu>
Date: 2024/04/27

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A Sociology of Confucianism as a World Religion at ICC, Sophia University on May 15

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/04/26

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A panel discussion "Women and Cultural Exchange" at ICC, Sophia University on May 23

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/04/26

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Special Lunchtime Lecture at ICC, Sophia University on May 16, 2024

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/04/26

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[Online seminar on May 16] "Raising the Bar in Grantmaking: Equity and Inclusion in Education" (GRIPS-Mansfield Foundation joint seminar)

From: Naomi Ando <ando@mansfieldfdn.org>
Date: 2024/04/24

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public lecture: Hiroko Kumaki and Jun Mizukawa, 4/29

From: Kathryn Goldfarb <kathryn.goldfarb@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/04/21

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Reminder: April 24th. Perception and Identity Narratives of Indian and Chinese Migrants in Singapore's Multicultural Mosaic

From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/04/21

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u:japan lectures - Karin Narita: "Defending culture, defining politics: Conservatism and the ideological politics of rearmament in postwar Japan"

From: u:japan lectures : Department of East Asian Studies : University of Vienna <ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at>
Date: 2024/04/19

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