CJS Autumn 2015 Newsletter

Centre for Japanese Studies E-Newsletter Autumn 2015 Welcome to the UEA Centre for Japanese Studies autumn e-newsletter. Please forward this on to anyone you think may be interested and let us know about any events or news you think would be of interest to the Japanese studies community in Norwich. The deadline for the next issue is 10 January 2015.

How to connect with Japan-related teaching, research and events through the Centre for Japanese Studies? It’s simple: Keep an eye on the website (www.uea.ac.uk/cjs) for full details of Japan-related teaching and research, and details of the members of CJS. Check out the CJS blog to see what the members of the CJS are up to The CJS Office has moved. We are now at ARTS 0.13A (just along the corridor from where we were before) with the same telephone number (591819). You can also reach us through email (cjs@uea.ac.uk).

A good start to the new academic year: Many thanks to everyone who joined us for the Centre for Japanese Studies Reception on Wednesday 7 October. In the distinguished company of the Lord Mayor of Norwich, Brenda Arthur, we welcomed home the first cohort of UEA students from their year abroad in Japan, and introduced a visiting delegation from the city of Nagaoka in Niigata prefecture, visiting Norfolk to look into establishing ties. Nagaoka produces some of the finest sake in Japan, and we are grateful to the Sake Samurai http://www.sakesamurai.co.uk/ for providing sake for the event. It was a great opportunity to meet colleagues interested in Japan from across the University, and we heard speeches from Professor John Charmley, Head of the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, home to CJS, Mika Brown, Yakult Lecturer and Head of Japanese in PPL, and Mr Suzuki Shigeichi, special advisor to the Mayor of Nagaoka, Mori Tamio.

New and returning students, guests and CJS members gather for the CJS Reception in the UEA Council Chamber

Looking forward to a new year full of Japanese promise: CJS works to promote the coordination of the wide range of Japan-related activity across the University, the city and further afield, and forms a bridge between UEA and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) which is located in the Cathedral Close, and SISJACs extended network that includes the British Museum (see below). The Vice Chancellor, Professor David Richardson, will make his first visit to Japan in November, visiting a number of important research partners and other supporters in Japan, meeting our second cohort of UEA students studying at Japanese universities, as well as hosting a reception at the International House of Japan in Tokyo. We will have a full report in our next e-newsletter. Various Schools across the University are working with Japan, and we will be bringing you news of Japan-related projects as they happen.

Japan Country Dialogue Group: as part of the University’s strategy to further enhance its international profile, the International Executive has established five Country Dialogue Groups. The Japan Country Dialogue Group, chaired by Simon Kaner, will meet three times a year, feeding into the International Strategy for the University’s Corporate Plan 2015-2020 and the University’s vision for 2030. The Secretary of the Japan Country Dialogue Group is Tracey Hearn, Country Development Manager for East Asia in the International Office (see below).

Japan at the British Museum: This autumn sees a special exhibition on Manga Now http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/manga_now.aspx at the British Museum curated by SISJACs Research Director, Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, who is also Professor of Japanese Arts and Cultures at UEA and Handa Curator in Japanese Arts in the Japanese Section of the Department of Asia at the British Museum. On Saturday 10 October Nicole chaired a special event with manga artist Hugo Yoshikawa (whose artwork can be seen on the front cover of our CJS leaflet) and manga expert Paul Gravett. Nicole will also give the December Third Thursday Lecture for SISJAC (see below). We have strong links with the British Museum. Simon Kaner is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Japanese Section in the Department of Asia at the British Museum, and works with colleagues there on projects relating to Japanese archaeology. We currently have a joint AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD student, Luke Edgington-Brown (AMA and the British Museum) who is completing his thesis on a unique collection of 5th-7th century AD (Kofun period) Japanese archaeological material collected by William Gowland, a mining engineer by training who spent 16 years living in Japan working for the Osaka Mint in the later 19th century, as one of a generation of ‘oyatoi gaikokujin’ (foreign specialists) employed by the Meiji government. This collection is currently the focus of a major reappraisal by a team of leading Kofun archaeology specialists – and we are currently planning a conference to present the results of their research in March 2016. SISJAC has a formal agreement of collaboration with the British Museum, and SISJAC Librarian Hirano Akira is Honorary Librarian of the Japanese Section at the Museum.

Over the coming year we will see more activities with the British Museum.

Sasakawa postgraduate studentships: For the second year running UEA has been awarded two Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentships in Japanese Studies. Each studentship is worth £10,000 towards tuition fees and living costs. Congratulations to this year’s recipients Akashi Motoko (LDC), working on a PhD on iconic Japanese author Murakami Haruki, and Stephanie Santschi (AMA), studying for the MA in Museum Studies. UEA, led by Vice Chancellor Professor David Richardson, was well-represented at a special reception organised by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, through which these studentships are funded by the Nippon Foundation, at the Embassy of Japan in London on 24 September. There will be a further competition for these postgraduate studentships in 2016. Potential Masters students are particularly encouraged to apply. Applications must be made through the Centre for Japanese Studies, and anyone interested in applying is encouraged to contact

us as early as possible. The deadline for applications will be February 2016, and more details will be available in the next e-newsletter.

Other opportunities for postgraduate study on Japan: We recommend those interested in pursuing postgraduate (and postdoctoral) studies about Japan to consider the new PhD studentships offered by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. Applications for the Japan Foundation funding programmes, which include postgraduate studentships in Japan are also now open (deadline 1 December). The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science also offers a number of programmes for researchers interested in Japan. Follow the links at the end of this e-newsletter.

Japanese Studies International Summer School: Following the success of the first ‘Japan Orientation: New Directions in Japanese Studies’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6Z8h6OUUQ in September 2014, 15 students from central Europe took part in the second Summer School in July 2015. This programme is sponsored by the Toshiba International Foundation, and in 2015 we were also able to offer several bursaries from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Further details, including bursaries available, can be found at www.uea.ac.uk/summerstudyabroad/japan. For a flyer: http://www.uea.ac.uk/documents/3355246/0/UEA+ISS+Japan+Orientation+2015+leaflet.pdf/998dc1 69-ccaf-496d-91cc-7b3cf7a4bbfe.

The Summer School will run again in July 2016, with applications due in March 2016.

Discover Japan Day: On 11 June over 140 secondary students from around Norfolk visited UEA for our first ‘Discover Japan Day’. Organised by HUM Outreach Officer Dr Kim Ridealgh and Mika Brown (PPL) in conjunction with CJS, the day offered students the opportunity get a taste of learning Japanese as well as having a go at taiko drumming, calligraphy, origami, singing, and to hear talks on Japanese art and heritage. This event formed part of UEAs Widening Participation programme and we hope it will be run again in 2016. The event also attracted interest from schools not involved in the Widening Participation programme e.g.: http://northwalshamhigh.norfolk.sch.uk/gifted-andtalented-students-discover-japan-at-uea/ SISJAC – University of Tokyo Short-term Programmes in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage: In August UEA students joined a small group of undergraduates from around Europe along with their counterparts from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tokyo, taking part in the second SISJAC – University of Tokyo Summer Programme in Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. As well as enjoying visits to museums and talks from University of Tokyo academics in Tokyo the group travelled to the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk in northern Hokkaido to take part in excavations organised by the University of Tokyo’s Tokoro Archaeological Field Station. The programme will run again in summer 2016, and those interested should check out the report of last year’s programme http://sainsbury-institute.org/news-events/tokyo-summer-programme-2015/ . Full details for the 2016 programme will be available shortly. In late February 2016 we will welcome an incoming group of undergraduates from the University of Tokyo, who will spend a fortnight in the UK, visiting museums in London and elsewhere in the UK before spending a week based in Norwich learning about archaeology and cultural heritage in East Anglia. There will be an opportunity for UEA undergraduates to take part in this programme, with the chance to spend time with some of the brightest students from Japan. Full details will soon be announced on the Sainsbury Institute website www.sainsbury-institute.org From the International Programmes Office: UEA continues to host regular visits from groups of students from Japanese universities. This summer we welcomed a group from Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, which has particular strengths in law and diplomacy. In February 2016

Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto will send a second group to UEA for a four-week programme of language and intercultural studies, working on a unique project with our Japanese Language students.

UEA is keen to strengthen links with our partners and can design fit-for-purpose courses that showcase our expertise in Japanese Studies.

British Council Inward Mission: UEA is also delighted to have been chosen as one of four institutions in the UK being visited by an important delegation from Japanese universities in November. The day-long visit will facilitate discussions around increasing outbound mobility, internationalisation and, developing overseas partnerships with twenty Japanese university representatives, and will be hosted by our Pro Vice Chancellor Academic, Professor Dave Petley.

Linking Norfolk and Japan: CJS continues to support the development of links between Norfolk and Japan. In June a third delegation from the small town of Nagawa-machi in central Japan visited Thetford, part of a series of exchanges inspired by flint and obsidian. In August, the Teenage History Club from the Ancient House Museum visited Nagawa, where they took part in the annual Obsidian Festival. Their impressions (recorded with the assistance of BBC Voices and BBC Radio Norfolk) are being uploaded to the Online Resource for Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (ORJACH) and will be available later in the autumn at www.orjach.org . In October, CJS and SISJAC hosted a visit by a delegation from the city of Nagaoka in Niigata prefecture, interested in exploring possible links with Norwich and Norfolk particularly in terms of regional development and heritage. In addition to UEA, and meetings with the Lord Mayor of Norwich and the Norwich Society, we visited many Norwich institutions interested in furthering links with Japan, including: the Norwich University of the Arts; Writers Centre Norwich, in their wonderful new HQ in the Dragon Hall on King Street; the Royal Norfolk Agricultural Association at the Norfolk Showground; Norwich Castle Museum; and heard about the wonderful work done by Norwich HEART (Heritage and Economic Regeneration Trust). The visit to Norwich was rounded off with a dinner at the Norfolk Club. In addition to the formal partnerships with Japanese universities and other institutions, these kinds of connections help deepen UEA’s engagement with Japan. Looking forward to the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2020, we are working with colleagues in Nagaoka to promote the idea of the Olympic cauldron being designed after the iconic prehistoric Flame Pots found in the Nagaoka region. And indeed we have an excellent example of these remarkable objects in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Further building understanding between Japan and Norwich, SISJAC will host a Norwich Society Corporate Breakfast on 29 November.

Dates for your diary: MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER: UEA GoGlobal ‘Experience the World on Campus’ Japan & Korea Day, organized by Career Central, Study Abroad Office, Dean of Students and Student Union. Further information and registration: http://www.ueastudent.com/events.

SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER: 'Introduction to Taiko' Workshop. 10.30 -13.30. £30 adults or two for one for UEA Japan Society students. (Youth Taiko on October 26th 16.30 – 18.00. £5 single or £8 for two). www.taikocentre.org.uk SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER: The Experience Japan Exhibition. Co-hosted by the British Council and Keio University, this year attended by 19 leading Japanese universities. Guest speakers including Dr Kaoru Umezawa (PPL). Royal Society. Please see: http://www.experience-japan.jp/.

UNTIL SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER: Exhibition ‘Manga Now: three generations’ curated by SISJAC Research Director Professor Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. British Museum, Room 3. http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/manga_now.aspx THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER: ‘Beauty and the Robot: future innovative collaboration between Science and Design’ by Furuta Takayuki and Yamanaka Shunji. Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art and Science 2015. 18:00 Norwich Cathedral Hostry. Entry Free. All welcome. http://sainsburyinstitute.org/news-events/toshiba-lectures-2015/ FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER: ‘Beauty and the Robot: future innovative collaboration between science and design’ by Furuta Takayuki and Yamanaka Shunji. Toshiba Lectures in Japanese Art and Science 2015. 18.00 Science Museum in London. Entry free. All welcome. http://sainsburyinstitute.org/news-events/toshiba-lectures-2015/ FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER: ‘Flint and obsidian’: opening of a special exhibition on flint at the Ancient House Museum in Thetford, which will include obsidian artefacts from Nagawa-machi in Nagano, part of the initiative linking the Neolithic flint mines of Grimes Graves in Thetford with the Hoshikuso obsidian mines in Nagawa. This special exhibition will run for a year (till autumn 2016) and there will be a conference relating to flint and obsidian in summer 2016.

THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER: IN-PACE seminar. Part of an ongoing series sponsored by the SISJAC-SOAS Collaborative Research Fund, introducing the new generation of researchers from the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. 17:00-19:00 SOAS, University of London.

THURSDAY 3 – FRIDAY 4 DECEMBER: ‘Creative art, activism and social crisis in Japan’: lecture and conference at the Norwich Cathedral Hostry, involving Kitagawa Fram, art producer behind the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, the largest outdoor art festival in the world, organised by Adrian Favell, Professorial Research Associate at SISJAC. Further details will be available shortly at www.sainsbury-institute.org.

THURSDAY 3 - FRIDAY 11 DECEMBER: ‘One thing leads to another - A Ceramic Journey’: exhibition of artworks by artist and educator Sue Maufe at SISJAC, 64 The Close, Norwich. This exhibition reflects on the artist’s journey from making the 5000 Dogu to working in Japan and her growing interest of ancient ceramics, geology and archaeology. Free, but limited opening hours.

Further details at www.sainsbury-institute.org THURSDAY 17 DECEMER: SISJAC Third Thursday Lecture ‘Manga Now at the British Museum’,

by SISJAC Research Director Professor Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere. 18.00 Norwich Cathedral Hostry. Entry free. All welcome.

People CJS Director Simon Kaner had a busy summer coordinating the second Japan Orientation Summer School (see above), and continues to make regular visits to Japan. In August he spent two weeks conducting research into the impact of the 2004 Chuetsu earthquake and earlier disasters on the historic landscapes of the Shinano and Chikuma River system in central Honshu, part of the ShinanoChikuma River project in conjunction with the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto.

While in Japan, he visited the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, the largest outdoor art festival in the world, as part of an initiative investigating art and archaeology in contemporary Japan (Related to this, SISJAC will be hosting a visit to Norwich by the founder of this Triennale, Fram Kitagawa, on

December 3, followed by a workshop at UEA, organised by SISJAC Professorial Research Associate Adrian Favell on December 4). Returning to Europe, Simon organised a session at the five-yearly Mesolithic Europe 2015 conference in Belgrade, Serbia, bringing together a number of Japanese prehistorians with their European counterparts. This will lead to a new publication, ‘From the Jomon to Star Carr’. He hosted a visit from the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, with whom SISJAC is concluding an agreement of research collaboration, which will result in a new book, ‘An Illustrated Companion to Japanese Archaeology’. He was interviewed by NHK (the Japanese national broadcaster) earlier in the summer for a special documentary on Jomon archaeology which will be aired in Japan on November 8th. In November Simon will be back in Japan, accompanying the Vice Chancellor on his first visit, and then giving a keynote lecture at a conference on Jomon World Heritage in Sapporo, Hokkaido (November 15). He will be back in December 11-13) for a special conference on museums at Kokugakuin University, Tokyo.

Mizutori Mami, Executive Director of SISJAC and Special Advisor to the University on Japan. As well as overseeing all of SISJACs programmes and partnerships, Mami is working on the relocation of SISJAC to the UEA Campus and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in 2019, and is coordinating the Vice-Chancellors visit to Japan in November. Mami has recently posted a new article on the Sainsbury Institute website about the future of Japanese government funding for humanities and social sciences http://sainsbury-institute.org/news-events/message-from-theexecutive-director/ – a topic that was highlighted in a recent article in the Times Higher Education Supplement: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/social-sciences-and-humanities-facultiesclose-japan-after-ministerial-decree Farewell to Dr Gibson D’Cruz, Senior Lecturer in the School of Health Science, who for the last few years has coordinated visits by trainee nurses from the Niigata University of Health and Welfare to Norwich. We wish Gibson a very happy retirement and look forward to working with Susanne Lindqvist, Director of the Centre for Interprofessional Practice at the Norwich Medical School who plans to deepen connections with health professionals in Japan.

Dr Lucio Esposito, Senior Lecturer in the School of International Development delivered a successful five-day ‘Key Skills in International Development’ programme hosted at the Study in the programme, which aimed to provide a comprehensive introduction to Development Studies, and to explore the complex relationships between society, the economy and the environment. Five of the students who took the Key Skills course will study at UEA from this September. Lucio will be repeating this introductory course in Tokyo again, during Golden Week 2016.

Adrian Favell is spending three months till the end of the year as Professorial Academic Associate at SISJAC. Adrian is a sociologist, recently appointed to the position of Chair in Sociology and Social Theory at the University of Leeds. After spending a year as a Japan Foundation-SSRC Abe Fellow in Tokyo 2006-7, he developed a series of works on the sociology of the contemporary Japanese art world, contributing to the yet-to-be-written art history of Japan since the Bubble of the 1980s. He is the author of the book Before and After Superflat, published by DAP/Blue Kingfisher in 2012, as well as essays published in Art in America, Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society,, New York, Artforum online and, in Japanese, in the leading review of Japanese contemporary art, Bijutsu Techo. He has also written for artists’ catalogues, and published a very widely read blog about the Japanese art scene from 2009-2013 in the online journal Art-iT. At the Sainsbury Institute, he is working on a book manuscript that looks at the relation of socially engaged art and architectural practices in Japan to the demographic, social and natural crises it has faced in an era of “post-growth” shrinkage and growing urban/rural divides. Notably, there are the extraordinary rural festivals of art producer Kitagawa Fram (Echigo-Tsumari), who will be invited to Norwich to speak about his life

and work at a conference in December 2015 on “Contemporary Art, Activism and Social Crisis in Japan”, which Adrian is organising. Adrian has also recently published essays on rural revitalisation projects in Seto, the Japanese contemporary art market, and the diaspora of young Japanese artists living abroad. http://sainsbury-institute.org/about-us/associates/academic-associates/ Tracey Hearn has been working in the international sphere of Higher Education marketing and recruitment for over 10 years. After completing an MA Culture and Communication at UEA in 2003, Tracey took up a position with INTO, assisting them in establishing the first INTO pathway preparation centre on a UK university campus. Since 2009, Tracey has been working within the University’s International Office, working to drive student recruitment, develop business and build relationships with overseas institutions and organisations, most significantly in Japan, Philippines, Russia, Taiwan and Thailand. Tracey has been travelling to Japan for over 7 years for both business and pleasure, and has assisted the University in increasing both its portfolio of Japanese partner institutions and Japanese student enrolments. Tracey is now Country Development Manager for East Asia, which includes responsibilities for China, Hong Kong, Macau, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

Farewell to Dr Ulrich Heinze, Sasakawa Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Visual Media in the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities in HUM, who has returned to Germany to pursue his research interests in Japanese media studies. Ulrich has been at UEA since 2008, brought the British Association of Japanese Studies to UEA in 2012, and has entertained and informed us through the CJS blog.

Farewell to Dr Fusako Innami, Lecturer in Japanese Language in PPL, who leaves us to take up a new Lectureship in Japanese Studies at the University of Durham. We are especially grateful to Fusako for delivering the Japanese language programme for the Japanese Studies Summer School.

Dr Naoko Kishita, who is qualified as a Clinical Psychotherapist in 2012 in Tokyo, joined the Department of Clinical Psychology within the Norwich Medical School as a Senior Post-Doctoral Research Associate in July 2014. Her clinical and research interests are in ACT, CBT, and Clinical Behaviour Analysis. http://www.uea.ac.uk/medicine/people/profile/n-kishita.

Kuwabara Hisao, Professor of Archaeology at Tenri University in Japan, will be spending six months at SISJAC from October. Professor Kuwabara specialises in the archaeology of the Yayoi period (c. 900 BC to c. 300 AD), when rice agriculture and metallurgy were first introduced to the Japanese archipelago. While in Norwich, he plans to study British archaeology and cultural heritage.

Dr Radu Leca took his PhD at SOAS, University of London, and will be spending the current academic year at SISJAC at Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow working on ‘The Backward Glance: Extraordinary Spaces & Identities in the Social Imaginary of Seventeenth Century Japan’.

Farewell also to Dr Akira Matsuda, Lecturer in Japanese Artistic Heritage in the Department of Art History and World Art Studies in the School of Art, Media and American Studies. Akira returns to his alma mater the University of Tokyo to take up an Associate Professorship at the Department of Cultural Resource Studies (文化資源学). We look forward to continuing to work with Akira as Academic Associate of the Sainsbury Institute.

Dr Sam Nixon is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Archaeology and Heritage at SISJAC. Sam is currently working on an online resource about East Anglian archaeology and cultural heritage from a Japanese perspective as part of our SISJAC-University of Tokyo Summer Programme, and with Simon Kaner on a range of projects exploring the global significance of Japanese and British

archaeology. Sam’s primary research interest is the medieval-era, with a particular emphasis on long distance trade networks linking European and Islamic medieval worlds to other parts of the globe.

Building on previous experience working in Japan, he is currently collaborating on a series of initiatives to link discussion of medieval-era archaeology in Japan into wider global networks and debates. http://sainsbury-institute.org/about-us/staff-2/senior-research-associate/.

Congratulations to Dr Alex Pouladis who just completed his PhD in ENV and has just taken up a JSPS Short-term Postdoctoral Fellowship at Kyoto University. Alex writes: ‘I got a Short-term Postdoctoral Fellowship for International Researchers through the JSPS London office. I'm working at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) at Kyoto University with Professor Takemi. I'm using WRF (a numerical weather prediction model) to study ash dispersal from the Sakurajima volcano and I want to assess the possibility of using high-resolution simulations to study ash dispersal close to the volcano, as well as the possibility of using the model as a forecasting tool (with mid- to low-resolution simulations). Actually next week we will be heading down to Kagoshima to meet Professor Iguchi and the observatory staff!’

Congratulations to Mary Redfern, just completing her PhD in Art History, who is taking up a new job as Curator of the East Asian Collections at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. Mary spoke about her research on the introduction of western tableware to Japan during the Meiji period at a recent Third Thursday Lecture at the Sainsbury Institute.

Dr Seung Yeon Sang has just completed her PhD at Boston University in the US on ‘The Formation of the Academic Discipline of Ceramic History in Modern Japan’. http://sainsburyinstitute.org/fellowships/robert-and-lisa-sainsbury-fellowship/seung-yeon-sang/ . She will be with SISJAC as Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow for the current academic year.

Dr Shoda Shinya, Academic Associate at SISJAC, is an EU-funded Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, where he is spending two years working on the Early Pottery project analysing ancient food residues on pottery sherds from archaeological sites with the York University bioarchaeology team lead by Dr Oliver Craig, an AHRC-funded project in which Simon Kaner is also involved. Shoda is on a two-year sabbatical from the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Nabunken), with which SISJAC is collaborating on several projects. Shinya is also leading the IN-PACE seminar series http://sainsbury-institute.org/news-events/in-pace/ , showcasing research by the new generation of researchers from Nabunken, organised through the SISJAC-SOAS collaborative research scheme.

Congratulations to Dr Eriko Tomizawa-Kay, who has been appointed Lecturer in Japanese Language in PPL. Eriko obtained her Ph.D. in 2013 from the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, specializing in modern Japanese art history, and the perception of nihonga (Japanese style painting) and the formation of nihonga collections outside of Japan.

Following the completion of her doctorate, she was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Art History Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2013 to 2014. In 2014, she was appointed as a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC), where she is now an Academic Associate. In October, Eriko organised a major conference on Japanese art history at SOAS http://sainsbury-institute.org/news-events/deconstructingboundaries/ Dr Tsuchikane Yasuko is Adjunct Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union in New York. As Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at SISJAC over the coming 6 months she will be working on ‘Dōmoto Inshō and the “Sacred Art World”: the Making of Modern Temple Art in the Twentieth

Century’ http://sainsbury-institute.org/fellowships/robert-and-lisa-sainsbury-fellowship/yasukotsuchikane/ Professor Yoshida Yasuyuki of the Department of Cultural Resource Studies at Kanazawa University will spend a year at SISJAC as Handa Japanese Archaeology Fellow, sponsored by the International Jomon Culture Conference. While in Norwich he will undertake research into public archaeology in the UK and will work on a publication arising from a series of seminars in Cultural Resource Studies that he has organised in Japan over the last couple of years.

Useful links and opportunities Embassy of Japan and Webmagazine: http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/ Japan Foundation: http://www.jpf.org.uk/ JSPS: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/ Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation: http://www.dajf.org.uk/ Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation: http://www.gbsf.org.uk/ Japan Society: http://www.japansociety.org.uk/ EU-Japan Centre: http://www.eu-japan.eu/ Canon Foundation : www.canonfoundation.org Applications for JET Programme : http://www.jetprogramme.org/ Japanese Language Proficiency Exam : http://www.jlpt.jp/e/index.html UEA Japan Society (Meetings on Monday evenings) : ueajapansociety@gmail.com Taiko Centre East: http://www.taikocentre.org.uk/ Career Forums: http://www.careerforum.net/event/?lang=E If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please email to cjs@uea.ac.uk.