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• Introducing the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
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• Academic and Royal Launch for Oxford’s ASEAN Institute Campaign
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• New DPhil in Area Studies Launched at Oxford
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• ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 22nd Feb 2018 – University Deadline 23rd March 2018)
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• The Robin & Nadine Wells Scholarship
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018/2019 - Expression of Interest Deadline 31/08/2018
• 'Challenges of Compression'
• Nissan Seminar: Revisiting Kurosawa’s women; what a transcultural approach reveals
• Nissan Seminar: Prisons and Forced Labour on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido
• Nissan Seminar: Uniquely Japanese? Data science approaches to bilingualism and computer-mediated communication
• Nissan Seminar: Open Door or Sphere of Influence?: Japanese-French Negotiations over Fujian in 1906-7
• Nissan Seminar: The Daughter who sold her Mother: a memoir of family and survival in the Holocaust
• Nissan Seminar: Abenomics: Has it worked? Will it fail?
• Nissan Seminar: Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige woodblock prints at the Ashmolean Museum
• Graduate Seminar: Japan's Demographic Challenge - Can Japan survive without immigrants?
• Nissan Seminar: Bringing Back Yoshikono: Songs of 7-7-7-5 in a WWII-Era Osaka Rakugo Magazine
• Nissan Seminar: Warriors of the Buddha: Religion and Violence in Premodern Japan
• Nissan Seminar: The Haiku in Turkey and the Quest for a New Aesthetics
• Nissan Seminar: War, Work and Witnessing: Aesthetics and Ideology in Shindo Kaneto’s Cinema
• Nissan Seminar: Happy Americans, Unhappy Japanese, how about others? How Software engineers work and are rewarded in five countries
• Nissan Seminar: Child guidance centres in Japan: Social work, foster care, and the family-bond
• Nissan Seminar: BATJ Seminar February 2017 - Teaching “Japan” outside of Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Uniting the World after Defeat: World Federalism in Early Post-war Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Kishi Nobusuke and the Mobilization Empire: War and Conservatism 1918-1945
• Nissan Seminar: Collapsing Rural Japan - A New Approach for Revival
• Nissan Seminar: Rethinking how Japan does politics
• Nissan Seminar: The Political Economy of Cool Japan: the paradox of Japan’s creative industries policy
• SIAS Careers Day
• Nissan Seminar: Does Japanese Corporate Governance Need (Further) Reform?
• Nissan Seminar: Paradigmatic Origins of Contemporary Japanese Humanoid Robot Culture
• Nissan Seminar: The fierce urgency of ‘clear’ (kuriaa): nuclear waste, material recovery, and resourcefulness in post-tsunami Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Reflections on being the first foreign CEO of Sony
• Nissan Seminar: Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage”
• Nissan Seminar: Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities
• Special Event - Astor Lecture: Is There a Global History of Humanitarianism?
• Nissan Seminar: A one-day conference on Compressed Development in Asia and Beyond
• Talk by Chairman Stan Shih on Si-nnovation Island
• Visiting Fellowship for Pakistan Offers Mutual Benefits
• How to Turn Your DPhil into a Job?
• Major refurbishment over the next 22 months of the Hilda Besse Building, St. Antony's College
• Warren Stanislaus speaks at the British Universities International Liaison Association (BUILA)
• Former MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies and current DPhil History student, Warren Stanislaus receives the Rare Rising Stars award
• Professor Takehiko Kariya and Oxford alumna Asako Ishizawa have co-authored a new book
• Nissan Seminar: How to get, keep, and breed your pet: exploring human-pet relationships through Tokugawa animal guidebooks
• Nissan Seminar: Kana: The Forgotten “Women Hand” Characters and Empowerment of Women in Medieval Times
• Nissan Seminar: Skilled Migration: Solving Japan’s demographic crisis?
• Nissan Seminar: Japanese Mermaids in Darwin’s West
• Nissan Seminar: Gender/ed Justice: Feminism in War and Peace
• Nissan Seminar: De Moda Novoétnica: A Comparative Ethnographic Examination of Self-Styling between Indigenous Forums of Lequio and Brazil
• Nissan Seminar: Visualizing Fascism: Japan's State of Unexception
• Nissan Seminar: Under Double Monarchy: Early Hungarian-Japanese Relations in the global setting
• Nissan Seminar: Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Book Talk—Imaginative Mapping: Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras
• Ms Hiroe Kaji
• Japanese Studies at Oxford Newsletter
• New Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies
• Junior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in Japanese Studies
• Chui-Joe Tham
• Nissan Seminar: A sociological analysis of the journalistic profession in contemporary Japan
• Nissan Seminar: No more ‘Kings of the Mountain’ (Oyama no Taishō): Gendered leadership in Japanese unions
• Nissan Seminar: A Critique of the Category ‘Religion’ in Japan
• Recognised Students
• Nissan Special Event: Sake and Japanese food culture
• Nissan Seminar: New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Why, when and under which conditions Japanese students pursue study abroad
• Nissan Seminar: Probation in Japan: Some strengths and challenges
• Nissan Seminar: Whither Japan? Assessing Abe's legacy
• Nissan Seminar: ‘Generalized Violence' at home and 'Shadow Work' in Tokyo: Oral narrative research on foreign asylum seekers in Japan
• DPhil Candidate, Warren Stanislaus interviewed on the EdTech Podcast
• Former member of the Nissan Institute, Dr Ekaterina Hertog to head one of the 6 projects funded by ESRC to explore effects of AI on society and economy in UK and Japan
• The Future of Area Studies Roundtable
• University-Industry Collaboration to Launch Internships in Japan
• New initiative to integrate Japanese teaching, public engagement and outreach at Pembroke College
• Dr Satoshi Araki publishes article in the American Sociological Review
• Former MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies and current DPhil candidate Olga Puzanova publishes a new article called 'Contemplating a Russia-Japan Rapprochement'
• Building Work Announcement II
• Dr. Giulio Pugliese our new departmental lecturer in Japanese Politics
• Special seminar: Confucius and burakumin: celebrating two books
• Eiko Honda, DPhil candidate in History wins one of the top 3 prizes of the TIFO 30th Anniversary Essay Contest
• World leading expert on Japanese politics and society honoured by ANU
• Dr Chigusa Yamaura's article appears in the Critical Asian Studies Journal
• External Scholarships and Funding
• College, Departmental and University Scholarships and Funding Available for Postgraduate Students in Japanese Studies
• Funding for Research in Japan
• Kaoruko Kawashima
• Marco Di Francesco
• Zhihang Wang
• Dr Ann Waswo, 1940-2020
• Professor Junji Banno, 1937 - 2020
• Professor Chushichi Tsuzuki, 1926 - 2020
• Dr Mark Rebick, 1956 - 2015
• Professor Yoshida Teigo, 1923 - 2018
• The Sakaguchi Foundation DPhil scholarship
• John Crump Phd Studentships - BAJS members only
• Scholarship funding available at St. Antony's College, Oxford
• Nissan Seminar: The Dual Structure of Japanese Society: A Perspective on Work, Education, and Politics in Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Repositioning Japan in the Multi-layered Diversity of Asia: The Launch of Asian Families and Intimacies
• Nissan Seminar: Censorship in Japan
• Nissan Seminar: The Shipshape Archive: Rethinking Global History through Meiji Japan. This seminar is in memory of Ann Waswo.
• An Affair with a Village by Joy Hendry
• Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm by Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konish
• Commentary | Warren A. Stanislaus, The Great Reset: Afro-Japanese Pasts, Futures
• Nissan Seminar: Deciphering pre-modern Japanese manuscripts: kuzushiji recognition systems and AI
• Nissan Seminar: Life Stories of Indian Migrants in Tokyo: Fairytales and Nightmares
• Nissan Seminar: Ninjō and Sōseki's Writing of "Literature" in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Pirate of Precarity: The Fictive Afterlives of Idemitsu Sazō
• Nissan Seminar: Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neolibralism
• Appointment of Professor Timothy Power as Head of Division
• Yao (Chloe) Sun
• Nissan Seminar: Radical Utopian Communities: Japan, South Africa, and Jamaica in the Early Twentieth Century
• Nissan Seminar: Red/White/Yellow: Considering the Racial Situation in Japan from the Perspective of Marriage Discrimination Experienced by Ainu Women
• Nissan Seminar: Black Transnationalism & Japan Conference
• Nissan Seminar: The Cinematic Re-enactment of Naomi Kawase
• Nissan Seminar: Gastropolitics in the 1853-54 Perry Expeditions to Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Northern Exposures: A View of Japanese History From the Sea of Okhotsk
• Nissan Seminar: “Our Spirit Against Their Steel”–Japanese Popular Culture Goes to War
• Nissan Seminar: Raihōshin: Gods, Demons, and Cultural Heritage
• Remembering Ann Waswo
• Chinami Oka, former MSc in Modern Japanese Studies student (15/16), and now DPhil candidate in History has recently published a chapter (co-authored with Roger Goodman)
• MSc and MPhil Students in Japanese Studies
• Remebering Ann Waswo
• Dr Brian Powell
• Dr James McMullen
• Dr Lena Fritsch
• Dr Clare Pollard
• Professor Mari Sako
• Mr Philip Grover
• Shang Cheng
• Margaret Bryan
• Federica Costantino
• Dr Juliana Buriticá Alzate
• The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation PhD Travel/research grants
• Theodore C. “Ted” Bestor, 1951–2021
• Dr Olga Khomenko
• Dr Chinami Oka
• Ben Moeller
• Seijiro “Seiji” A. Takahashi
• Warren A. Stanislaus publishes in Teaching Media Quarterly
• Reforming capitalism, going digital and green.
• Nissan Seminar: Translating Where the Wild Ladies Are: A conversation on feminist solidarity and the modern-day legacy of ghost stories
• Nissan Seminar: Beyond "trans-border": Translation and Difference in Contemporary Japanese Literature
• Former MPhil in Japanese Studies student Gwenafaye McCormick has a new article published on the Global Kaiyo website
• A chapter of Professor Takehiko Kariya’s recently published book
• Professor Takehiko Kariya’s experience of 14 days quarantine when he returned to Japan last winter
• MSc in Japanese Studies student Emma Ruiters publishes another article on Japan-Africa
• Former MSc in Japanese Studies student Emma Ruiters talks on radio for the first time
• Mrs Sumire Hori
• Sarah Puetzer
• Dr Alice Baldock
• Peyton Cherry
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Nissan Seminar: From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry
• Nissan Seminar: Kabuki music and compositions
• Nissan Seminar: Geoeconomic implications of the Japan-EU Relations – trade, digitalization and sustainability
• Dr Giulio Pugliese to receive award from the Nakasone Peace Institute
• Student Travel Grants
• Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet
• Lukas Heller
• Dr Lewis Bremner, Dr Manimporok Dotulong and Professor Sho Konishi publish 'Reopening the Opening of Japan'
• Oxford Latin American History Seminar: Giving Shape to Silences in Mexican History
• Dr Olga Khomenko publishes 'The Faraway Sky of Kyiv. Ukrainians in the War'
• Scholars Olga Solovieva and Sho Konishi receive Accolade for their work on Japan's Russia
• Professor Roger Goodman appointed CBE in New Year Honours 2024
• Joel Littler publishes 'A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–1909' on Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press)
• Nissan Seminar: Criminal Crossroads: Underworld Dynamics in Contemporary Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Sensory Perception: Cultural Exchange, Development and Understanding
• Nissan Seminar: Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-History
• Nissan Seminar: Language as a Technology for Shaping Professional Identity: Translating ‘A Manual of the Steam Engine’ in Mid-Nineteenth Century Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
• Dr Chigusa Yamaura publishes 'An Imagined Shrinking Community: Japanese Nationalism and The Chronology of the Future'
• Professor D. Hugh Whittaker
• Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi co-edit a new volume, Black Transnationalism and Japan (Leiden University Press)
• Research Spotlight - Dr Marius Palz
• Hugh Whittaker’s new book Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation, is being published by Oxford University Press shortly
• Dr Martina Baradel
• The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Kristi Govella as Associate Professor of Japanese Politics and International Relations, from October 2024
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• Professor Jenny Corbett
• Professor Roger Goodman
• Dr Jennifer Guest
• Professor Bjarke Frellesvig
• Professor Sho Konishi
• Professor Ian Neary
• Professor Arthur Stockwin OBE
• Professor Linda Flores
• The East Asia Section of the Bodleian Libraries is offering an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated, creative and visionary individual to work as the Japanese Studies Librarian
• Natalia Doan discusses her research on Japanese television
• The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at OSGA invites applications for a full-time, 12-month Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Societies
• Professor Takehiko Kariya publishes ‘A Long & Wrong Road to Globalization: Why Have Japanese Universities Failed in “Catching Up” in the Twenty-First Century?’ in Daedalus
• Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada
• Professor Hugh Whittaker publishes 「日本経済復活の条件　ひしめく構想、相互補完カギ」 in Nikkei
• Professors Arthur Stockwin and Takehiko Kariya Met Emperor Naruhito in London on June 23
• Mr Makoto Uchida Awarded CBE
• Professor Takehiko Kariya's Valedictory Lecture is Now Available by Request on Our Official YouTube Channel
• Dr Giulio Pugliese publishes 'The European Union and an “Indo-Pacific” Alignment' in Asia-Pacific Review
• Dr Anna Sharko
• Dr Marius Palz
• Associates
• Nissan Seminar: Ryūtei Saryū – Rakugo Performer
• Nissan Seminar: Tanaka Denjiro VII – A Kabuki Music Performance
• Nissan Seminar: Beneath Modernism: The Transformation of Popular Culture from Edo to Modern Japan
• Nissan Seminar: I Am a Living Object: Decolonizing Museum Spaces with Indigenous Narratives
• Nissan Seminar: What Remains Invisible Still: Fukushima by Tsuchida Hiromi (2018) as the Formation of a Metaphor
• Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
• Dr Ian Rapley’s new book "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" is being published by the University of Hawai’i Press this month.
• Professor Kristi Govella
• Dr. Akira Shah's new article, "Minoritizing Identity: Imposing Racial & Cultural Illusions of 'the Japanese'" has been published
• DPhil Candidate Marco Di Francesco's new article, "Rakugo in the Time of COVID-19: How the Pandemic Changed Tokyo’s Traditional Storytelling Art," has been published
• Sho Konishi has contributed a chapter ‘Lev Mechnikov: Toward the Ocean’ in the book Elisee Reclus: Les 101 mots
• Olga Solovieva and Sho Konishi’s edited volume Japan’s Russia, Challenging the East-West released in paperback
• Dr Marius Palz publishes new article "Negotiating extirpation: On the political implications of declaring dugongs extinct in Okinawan waters" in Cambridge Prisms: Extinction
• Professor Kristi Govella publishes new policy brief “Institutionalizing US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Cooperation: Recent Progress and Future Prospects”
• Dr. Akira Shah's new article, "Decloaking Whiteness: Linguistic and Pedagogical Imperialisms of International Baccalaureate Teacher Education in Japan" has been published
• Professor Kristi Govella publishes new essay “US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Engagement on Economic Security: Disentangling Resilience, Competitiveness, and Protection”
• DPhil Candidate Ben Moeller's new article, "Outbound student mobility in Japan nose-dived. Why does the government claim it went up?" has been published in the latest issue of Japan Forum.
• DPhil Candidate Federica Costantino's new article "‘The first step towards racial equality’: The Kuroda-Araya engagement and the dream of a transnational non-white alliance" has been published in Modern Asian Studies
• Edward Rhys Jones
• Dr Olga Khomenko publishes "The Faraway Sky of Kyiv. Ukrainians in the War." in English
• Arron O'Connor
• Dr Pan Tomé Valencia
• Professor Takehiko Kariya
• A Thank You from the "Healthcare Delivery in Crisis?: The potential for mutual learning between Japan and the UK” Organisers!
• Dr Chinami Oka interviewed by the United Kingdom Historical Association
• Professor Kristi Govella publishes new article “South Korea’s Engagement in Asian Regional Outer Space Institutions: Economics, Security, and Institutional Design”
• MSc Student Nairne Brown publishes new article "Ainu Language Death and Indications of Change in a Japanese-Dominant Environment" in Michigan Journal of Asian Studies
• Nissan Seminar: Bringing Dark Heritage to Light: Monuments to Wartime Foreign Laborers in Japan
• Workshop: Transnationalism in East Asia and Beyond: History, Politics and Culture
• Alok Ranpise
• Congratulations to our second year MPhils!
• Farewell and thank you
• Emeritus Professor Takehiko Kariya publishes new article “Higher Education and Economic Inequality in Japan: Why Boosting Financial Aid Won’t Work”
• Professor Kristi Govella publishes new article “Undersea Cables, Geoeconomics, and Security in the Indo-Pacific: Risks and Resilience”
• Nissan Seminar: Scandals, Secrets and News: How Manuscripts Reshape Our Knowledge of Edo Culture (Professor Peter Kornicki, Cambridge)
• Nissan Seminar: Translated Scholarship and Japanese Universities: How Have Translations of Western Scholarship into Japanese Affected and Biased Japanese Academia? (Professor Takehiko Kariya, Oxford)
• Nissan Seminar: Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia (Dr Yoichi Nemoto, Hitotsubashi)
• Nissan Seminar: Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations (Dr Karin Narita, Sheffield)
• Nissan Seminar: Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation (Helen O'Horan)
• Nissan Seminar: Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric (Professor Raymond Yamamoto, Aarhus)
• Nissan Seminar: Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan (Professor Colin. P.A. Jones, Doshisha Law School)
• Nissan Seminar: How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan (Professor Trevor Incerti, Amsterdam)
• Nissan Seminar: Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts (Dr Halle O'Neal, Edinburgh)
• Dr Yosuke Buchmeier
• Professor Kristi Govella publishes new article “Undersea Cables and the Extension of Empire: The Rise of Britain, Japan, and the United States and the Competition to Connect Hawai‘i”
• Professor Hugh Whittaker's recent book 'Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation' published in Japanese