Centre for Japanese Studies E-Newsletter Summer 2016 5th Anniversary Issue
The Centre for Japanese Studies was established in May 2011 ‘to lead and coordinate Japanrelated teaching and research across the University and beyond’. Five years on and the first cohort of Japanese language honours students are gearing up for their final examinations and graduation (our congratulations to two students on this course who have already secured jobs with the Japan English Teacher scheme), Japan is one of five priority countries and regions identified in the University’s developing Internationalisation Strategy, and the University is about to make two new appointments in Japanese History and International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy. Japan is firmly embedded at the University of East Anglia, and the connections will be reinforced with the move of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures to the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in 2019 or thereabouts. While CJS continues to be part of the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities, the CJS Office has moved to the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts (the mezzanine floor). Telephone 591819; email cjs@uea.ac.uk; website: www.uea.ac.uk/cjs
First Japanese Language Speech Contest at UEA: The 4th Nikkei Telecom Japanese Speech Contest was held on Friday 22nd April 2016 at the Council Chamber, UEA. This contest was started at University of Manchester in 2014, and this was the first time it has been held at UEA. In the oral presentation class, all the final year students have been working on creating speeches using the Nikkei Telecom database this year, and the six finalists have competed at the contest. The topics of the speeches were taken from a wide range of current