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H-US-Japan is an edited, international, nonpartisan network that provides scholars, graduate students, politicians, journalists, policy-makers, researchers, professionals, and others a free daily forum to discuss US-Japan relations in the context of economic, security, political, and diplomatic issues. The primary purpose for H-US-Japan is to enable researchers of US-Japan relations to exchange opinions about the significance of current affairs and historical events of Japan-US relations in depth, to discuss new articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis, and to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching.

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H-US-Japan: CFP: MARAAS 2023 Annual Meeting (September 30-October 1) at Elizabethtown College

H-US-Japan

5 May 2023

Call for Papers

“Fragility and Resilience: Asian Studies and the Pandemic”

51st Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference

Date of Conference: September 30-October 1, 2023

Location: Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA

DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: May 15, 2023

The last three years have been devastating for the study of Asia and its cultures. The pandemic has affected how Asia is perceived in the world and the popularity of its study in universities. However, we have also witnessed a reaction against this trend as the effects of the pandemic

H-US-Japan: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Professor T.J. Pempel-Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

H-US-Japan

11 May 2022

Subject: CONGRATULATIONS!!! Professor T.J. Pempel-Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon

Professor T.J. Pempel received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon. Congratulations!!

https://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/itpr_en/22_0429.html

H-US-Japan: Call for Papers - Death and Dying in East Asia

H-US-Japan

11 May 2022

Call for Papers

Death and Dying in East Asia

International Symposium May 5-7, 2023

The Timothy Light Center for Chinese Studies at Western Michigan University invites paper proposals for the 2023 Asian Forum on “Death and Dying in East Asia.” We welcome papers from all disciplines and on pre-modern and modern/contemporary periods. We especially welcome papers exploring the following issues: ideas, concepts, and discourses on the meaning of death and the afterlife; ritual texts, art and material culture related to death and/or funerary practices; miraculous tales about the

2022-23 POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS IN JAPANESE STUDIES AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

H-US-Japan

29 November 2021

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN JAPANESE STUDIES

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS) at Harvard University will offer several Postdoctoral Fellowships in Japanese Studies to recent PhD graduates of exceptional promise, to provide the opportunity to turn dissertations into publishable manuscripts and to continue research in Japanese studies.

Applicants must have received their PhD in 2017 or later, in Japanese studies, in any area of the humanities or social sciences. Selected fellowship recipients must have a registrar