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History of Global Japanese Studies: Frank Hawley

2023/03/21 (Tue) 13:52 by eajrs
On January 16 (Mon), 2023, in Conference Room 1, 3rd Floor, Building 33, Toyama Campus, Waseda University, a lecture meeting entitled “Looking Back on the History of Global Japanese Studies: On Frank Hawley and His ‘Horei Bunko’ Collection” was held, sponsored by Waseda University Research Institute for Letters, Arts and Sciences and the Ryusaku Tsunoda Center of Japanese Culture, and co-sponsored by Waseda University’s Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, Top Global University Project.
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Kuzushiji workshop 2023 accepting applications

2023/03/01 (Wed) 17:24 by eajrs
The NIJL/EAJRS Kuzushi-ji Workshop will be held online 19-21 April 2023. This year, Cambridge University Library will provide some material for the workshop. The workshop is free of charge. If you wish to apply for the workshop, please fill in the application form, and submit it to a.hirano@sainsbury-institute.org by end of 12 March. The detailed information can be found here:

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The Role of Libraries in Implementing Inclusive Information Society

2023/03/01 (Wed) 17:11 by eajrs
Dear colleagues,

You are invited to participate in a free Webex webinar,"The Role of Libraries in Implementing Inclusive Information Society - Centered on the National Library for the Disabled -" to be held on Thursday, March 23, 2023, at 14:00-15:15 pm (JST/UTC+0900).
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Job opening: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

2023/02/13 (Mon) 11:08 by eajrs
The East Asia Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin seeks a project coordinator for the Specialised Information Service Asia (Fachinformationsdienst Asien). The application deadline is February 23, 2023. For details and further information please visit: https://www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de/stellenanzeige/artikel/2023/02/02/wissenschaftlichen-mitarbeiterin-m-w-d.html
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Webinar: Information Sources for Japanese Studies

2023/02/02 (Thu) 17:40 by eajrs
The National Diet Library Japan would like to announce
"Webinar: Information Sources for Japanese Studies" to be held in February 2023.
For details, see [ https://www.ndl.go.jp/en/library/training_jsl.html ]

This webinar is intended for librarians, researchers, and other people outside of Japan who are engaged in Japanese studies.
The goal of this webinar is to teach and improve basic skills for finding and using information related to research in Japanese studies.
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18th Forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project

2023/01/22 (Sun) 17:26 by eajrs
The 18th Forum on the Collaborative Reference Database Project
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Tracing the Reception of Japanese Art in the West

2023/01/22 (Sun) 17:16 by eajrs
The Art Research Center (ARC), Ritsumeikan University, is pleased to announce an upcoming international symposium based on our long-standing international joint research collaboration with the team led by Prof. Hans B. Thomsen at the University of Zurich on digitizing Japanese art collections in Central Europe.
This event is held in English. Live simultaneous interpretation in Japanese is available.
We are looking forward to your participation.
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Job opening: German Institute for Japanese Studies

2023/01/22 (Sun) 17:05 by eajrs
Job opening: German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ Tokyo)

The German Institute for Japanese Studies in Tokyo is recruiting a full-time librarian. Expected starting date: 1 April 2023. Application
deadline: 20 February 2023.

More information in English (PDF <https://dij.tokyo/libjob>) and in Japanese (PDF <https://dij.tokyo/shisho>) and on our website <https://www.dijtokyo.org/>.
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Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts (NIJL)

2023/01/17 (Tue) 16:44 by eajrs
The National Institute of Japanese Literature plans to integrate the "Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books" and the "Database of Pre-Modern Japanese Works" to provide the new "Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts”.

Release date: March 1, 2023 (planned)
Name: Union Catalogue Database of Japanese Texts
URL: https://kokusho.nijl.ac.jp

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Japanese Handscrolls in the Collections of Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

2023/01/12 (Thu) 17:23 by eajrs
Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to explore the new thematic portal for the Japanese handscrolls in our collection at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (https://themen.crossasia.org/japanische-querrollen/).
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