Japanese History / Studies

We are pleased to welcome American students to apply for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program to learn critical foreign languages next summer on a fully-funded study abroad program.

Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) will admit doctoral candidates to its program, beginning October 1^st, 2019. Up to 10 candidates will be accepted.

GEAS offers a social science-based, structured 3-year PhD programme with a regional focus on East Asia (China, Japan, Korea).

Date:Tuesday, November 6, 2018 
Time:7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)
Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall, 1F Parliament
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speaker:Hiromi Murakami, the Founder and President of Japan Institute for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship (JSIE)
Moderator:Robert Dujarric, Director of ICAS

The Centre for Japanese Research and UBC Library at the University of British Columbia are proud to announce the launch of the Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource

The Contemporary Japan Group at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Social Science

(ISS, or Shaken), welcomes you to a lecture by

Date:Thursday, October 11, 2018
Time:7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.) 
Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall, 1F Parliament
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speaker:Richard Lloyd Parry, author and foreign correspondent of The Times
Moderator:Kyle Cleveland, Associate Director of ICAS
Admission:Free. Open to the public.
Language:English
Registration:icas@tuj.temple.edu

Call For Papers: Religion and Sport in Japan

Dear Colleagues:

We will hold an international Asia-Pacific Study seminar on 6 October (Saturday) at the Toyonaka Campus, Osaka University. You are very welcome to the seminar. Seminar papers should be ready one week prior to the seminar and available for prospective participants. If you wish to attend the seminar, please let me know by 26 September. We also look for additional discussants for both sessions. We will provide them with domestic travel expense.
Yone Sugita: sugita@lang.osaka-u.ac.jp

Thank you.

Date:Thursday, October 18, 2018
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)   
Venue:Temple University, Japan Campus, Azabu Hall, 1F Parliament
(access: http://www.tuj.ac.jp/maps/tokyo.html)
Speaker:Ryan Holmberg, Visiting Associate Professor at University of Tokyo, freelance art historian/critic and editor/translator of manga
Moderator:Kyle Cleveland, Associate Director of ICAS