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November 27, 2024

Event announcement: Two talks on skilled migration to Japan, Dr. Muranaka and Dr. Hof, at Doshisha University on Nov. 23rd, 1pm-3:30pm

From: Helena Hof <hof.helena@gmail.com>  
Date: 2024/11/11

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Notification of upcoming ICAS public events (Nov-Dec 2024)

From: Evelyn Yin-Farlov <evelyn.farlov@tuj.temple.edu>  
Date: 2024/11/11

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How Trump's Victory will impact Japan

From: RICHARD KATZ <rbkatz@rbkatz.com>
Date: 2024/11/11

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Call for papers and participants: Hitotsubashi University Transnational Sociology Student Workshop

From: Reina KUDO <r0e1i1n1a@icloud.com>  
Date: 2024/11/11

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CORRECTION & UPDATE: "In discussion with Özgür Çiçek", 12 November 2024 (Tues) ICC Sophia University X Free University Berlin

From: Megha Wadhwa <wadhwa.megha@gmail.com>  
Date: 2024/11/09

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JPOSS on Nov. 21 (Thurs) ET: Japan Decides 2024

From: Program on U.S.-Japan Relations <usjapan@wcfia.harvard.edu>  
Date: 2024/11/09

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November 23, 2024

Program - online section meeting "Education" (VSJF) on Nov. 15th, 2024

From: Lesch, Dr. Vincent Benvoglio <vincent.lesch@zo.uni-heidelberg.de>  
Date: 2024/11/09

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FCCJ Book Break. December 9, 2024. 17:45. Ulrike Schaede, author of "Japan Re-Emerges"

From: FCCJ Library <library@fccj.or.jp>
Date: 2024/11/08

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[MJHA] New Film on Japan: "1923 Kanto Massacre"

From: Dahlberg-Sears, Robert <dahlberg-sears.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu>  
Date: 2024/11/08

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CfP 2nd Swiss Asia Society Japan Conference "Centers and Peripheries in Japan", June 2-3, 2025, University of Zurich, Switzerland

From: David Chiavacci <david.chiavacci@aoi.uzh.ch>
Date: 2024/11/07

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Reminder: "Border-work as method: exploring creative practices and lexicons" workshop, November 10, Kobe

From: Spela Drnovsek Zorko <sdzorko@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/11/07

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DIJ Study Group: "Sustainability at Risk: Unraveling Yakushima's Complex Layers of Realities" 26. Nov., 6.30 pm (JST)

From: Luise Kahlow <kahlow@dijtokyo.org>
Date: 2024/11/07

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"Multicultural Education Nexus: Immigration, Ethnic Enclaves, and Stratification" Sophia University ICC on Nov. 29

From: Il Ju Kim <ilju.kim@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/11/06

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Lecture: Christian Ratcliff, "Bad Poems on Purpose, in Diaries That Aren't Diaries: Communicating Discontent at the Japanese Court" (Kanagawa U., Wed., Nov. 20, 3:30-5pm; in person only)

From: James Welker <jrwelker@me.com>
Date: 2024/11/06

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"In discussion with Özgür Çiçek", 12 November 2024 (Tues) ICC Sophia University X Free University Berlin

From: Megha Wadhwa <wadhwa.megha@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/11/06

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Call for Papers: Conference on Global Higher Education at Lakeland University Japan: June 7

From: Roger Grabowski <grabowski@japan.lakeland.edu>
Date: 2024/11/05

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【Reminder】 JF-GJS Initiative: Japan Foundation Fellow Conference 2024 (November 8, 2024)

From: Global Asian Studies (GAS) <gas@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/11/05

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November 21, 2024

Webinar: Citizen Movements, Civil Support, and Legislation -- How Survivors of Sexual Violence and Domestic Violence Have Achieved Legal Reforms

From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/11/03

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Invitation to the 2025 Fieldwork Workshop

From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/11/02

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Invitation to celebration for Glenda Roberts at the AAA

From: Allison Alexy <aalexy@umich.edu>
Date: 2024/11/02

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KCJS Postdoctoral Fellow 2025-26

From: Whitelaw, Gavin Hamilton <whitelaw@fas.harvard.edu>
Date: 2024/11/02

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Online Workshop: Technology & Society in Japan and Beyond (Fri: Nov 15, 2024)

From: Brucksch, Susanne <brucksch@teikyo-u.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/11/01

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November 15, 2024

u:japan lectures - Junki Nakahara: "Struggles over national memory and "shame"-based nationalism in Japan: Analysis of audience reception of the documentary film Shusenjo"

From: u:japan lectures : Department of East Asian Studies : University of Vienna <ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at>
Date: 2024/11/01

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Japanese Companies Losing Their Ability To Exploit New Technology, Part 2

From: RICHARD KATZ <rbkatz@rbkatz.com>
Date: 2024/11/01

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12th SCERU/GraSPP Research Seminar: Swedish Psychological Defence Agency - Director-General Discusses Disinformation and FIMI Countermeasures"

From: 石川 智香子. <ch-ishikawa@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/10/30

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[MJHA] New Books on Japan: "Prostitutes, Hostesses, and Actresses at the Edge of the Japanese Empire: Fragmenting History" Monday, November 4, 2024 | 7:00-8:30 PM ET

From: Dahlberg-Sears, Robert <dahlberg-sears.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu>
Date: 2024/10/31

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November 13, 2024

Participatory workshop "Border-work as method: exploring creative practices and lexicons", November 10, Kobe

From: Spela Drnovsek Zorko <sdzorko@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/10/30

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AP in Japanese Law and Society post, University of Oxford

From: Hugh Whittaker <hugh.whittaker@nissan.ox.ac.uk>
Date: 2024/10/30

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International Symposium Showcasing the Japan Biographical Database on Nov. 9

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/10/29

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Workshop on the transformation of East Asian Labor Markets through Skilled Migration, University of Tokyo, Nov. 2

From: Helena Hof <hof.helena@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/10/26

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FCCJ Book Break. November 19. 17:45. Helena Capkova, author of "Antonin Raymond in Japan 1948-1976"

From: FCCJ LIBRARY <library@fccj.or.jp>
Date: 2024/10/25

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u:japan lectures - Wolfram Manzenreiter: "'You'll never walk alone?' The meaning of social relations and belonging for happiness in rural Japan"

From: u:japan lectures : Department of East Asian Studies : University of Vienna <ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at>
Date: 2024/10/25

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CFP: Japan's Borders - ECR Writing Workshop, Nagasaki, March 2025

From: Edward Boyle <tedkboyle@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/10/25

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KoMiReC Seminar - Nov 22 - "Aspiring to stay? Prolonged stay-ing processes of high-skilled migrants in Japan" - Kobe University

From: Spela Drnovsek Zorko <sdzorko@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/10/24

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FCCJ Book Break. November 6. 17:45. Pierre-Antoine Donnet, author of "China The Super Predator"

From: FCCJ LIBRARY <library@fccj.or.jp>
Date: 2024/10/24

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[Waseda IAM] Reminder: Our upcoming events in October and November

From: LE, Phuong Anh <lephuonganh@fuji.waseda.jp>
Date: 2024/10/23

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[Daiwa Foundation] Upcoming Online Webinar in Social Science

From: Nanaka Kishi <nanaka.kishi@dajf.org.uk>
Date: 2024/10/22

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[Waseda IAM] Reminder: Our upcoming events in October and Novembe

From: LE, Phuong Anh <lephuonganh@fuji.waseda.jp>
Date: 2024/10/23

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CfA: SI in SSJJ

From: Steve Richard Entrich <steve.entrich@uni-due.de>
Date: 2024/10/23

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[MJHA] Roundtable: Colonial Taiwan in Japanese Studies Tuesday October 29, 2024 | 7:00PM-8:30 PM ET

From: Dahlberg-Sears, Robert <dahlberg-sears.1@buckeyemail.osu.edu>
Date: 2024/10/23

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EAJS Japan Conference 2025 at Tohoku University (SAVE THE DATE)

From: Zachmann, Urs Matthias <U.Zachmann@fu-berlin.de>
Date: 2024/10/22

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DIJ Study Group (hybrid): "Just Like Defeated Soldiers": The Imperial Japanese Military and the Looting of Post-Surrender Japan", Nov. 6, 5:30 pm

From: Luise Kahlow <kahlow@dijtokyo.org>
Date: 2024/10/22

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Conference announcement: Aso 2.0 and beyond

From: u:japan lectures : Department of East Asian Studies : University of Vienna
Date: 2024/10/21

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November 10, 2024

Reminder: FCCJ Book Break. October 30. 17:45. Naomi Pollock, author of "The Japanese House Since 1945"

From: FCCJ Library <library@fccj.or.jp> z
Date: 2024/10/21

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AJJ 2024 Conference

From: GILL Thomas P. <gill@k.meijigakuin.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/10/21

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"The German-Japanese Military Alliance in World War II" at Sophia University Instiute of Comparative Culture on Oct.31

From: Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Office <i-comcul@sophia.ac.jp>
Date: 2024/10/21

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What do the riots in UK portend? Lecture at Sophia University, Oct. 29th

From: David H. Slater <dhslater@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/10/21

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u:japan lectures - Nanase Shirota: "Precarious stepping stones: Transnational Japanese Hostesses in London and their labour, career and gendered migration"

From: u:japan lectures : Department of East Asian Studies : University of Vienna <ujapanlectures.ostasien@univie.ac.at>
Date: 2024/10/18

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November 1 Free Lecture at Lakeland University Japan: "Untold Stories in the History of Chanoyu"

From: Roger Grabowski <grabowski@japan.lakeland.edu>
Date: 2024/10/18

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Workshop on the transformation of East Asian Labor Markets through Skilled Migration, University of Tokyo, Nov. 2

From: Helena Hof <hof.helena@gmail.com>
Date: 2024/10/18

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