CJS Winter 2020 Newsletter

What’s in this issue Forthcoming Opportunities Japan in UEA Research Seminar reports UEA in Japan Forthcoming events Dates for the diary Welcome Message Happy New Year … of the Rat. We are well into the academic year here at UEA, and we have been working hard towards the launch of our new MA programme, as well as filling in the long evenings with exciting installments from our research seminar series. All these will be discussed in more detail below. Please take your time to read through the various news and announcements, and make a note of key dates in your diary. Do also send the newsletter on to anyone you think would be interested.

Developments at the Centre for Japanese Studies At the start of October, CJS welcomed in its new Project Co-ordinator Oliver Moxham, who will be assisting with the various projects we are working on here, particularly the research seminar series and upcoming Summer School programmes. Oliver is working in tandem with a part time MA in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, with a focus on the role of Japanese war memorials and museums in collective and transnational war memory.

We are also excited to annouce our new Lecturer of Contemporary Japanese Literature in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing for 2020, Dr Hannah Osborne. Hannah is an expert in the writings of Kanae Mieko, has a PhD from Leeds, an MA from SOAS and a BA from Sheffield. She is currently teaching at Cambridge and has also taught at Oxford, SOAS and Leeds. She is looking forward to being involved in Japan Now East and developing the Japanese Literature module for the new MA. This position is generously supported by the Japan Foundation, and is indicative of an exciting time for the UEA. We look forward to the autumn when we will launch our new MA in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies with the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities.

The UK Japan Season of Culture continues into 2020, marking Japan’s hosting the Rugby World Cup last autumn and the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer. In Norwich we will have our own Japan in Norwich season, including some very special CJS Research Seminars (beginning with distinguished poet Anthony Thwaite on 23 January), contemporary Japanese literature and art with Japan Now East in mid February, Manga-themed events in May, and two exhibitions by contemporary Japanese artists this summer, Leiko Ikemura at the Sainsbury Centre and Yuko Shirashi at the East Gallery of the Norwich University of the Arts. Lots to look forward to.

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Forthcoming Opportunities Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentships Application deadline: 29 February 2020 The Centre for Japanese Studies has once again been invited to submit applications for a number of Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentships. This is the 7th year of this programme and we have been very successful in securing several of these studentships for MA and PhD students at UEA. This year we have three Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentship holders in HIS and AMA. Each studentship is worth ÂŁ10,000 towards tuition fees and living expenses. In the first instance, please send a brief CV and a statement of interest (up to 500 words), specifiying the course you are interested in and your future plans in Japanrelated research and activity, to Professor Simon Kaner (s.kaner@uea.ac.uk) by 29 February.

Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowships Application deadline: 29 February 2020 Each year the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures offers post-doctoral fellowships of up to a year in duration based in Norwich. Full details are available at https://sainsburyinstitute.org/fellowship-category/robert-and-lisa-sainsbury-fellows/ Japan Orientation: an introduction to Japan and its place in the world Application deadline: 31 March 2020 In June 2020 we will be running the 7th Japan Orientation Summer Programme in conjunction with the International Programmes Office. This twoweek programme which includes seminars and academic fieldtrips to London and Cambridge aimed at advanced undergraduates offers an introduction to Japanese Studies and the opportunity to meet like-minded students. Once again we are delighted that this programme is generously supported by the Toshiba International Foundation.

Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship in Japanese Arts and Cultures Application deadline: 31 March 2020

For three weeks in late July and August 2020 we will once again host the Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship. This programme, aimed at advanced undergraduates and postgraduate students from around the world, brings 20 Fellows to Norwich and London for an intensive series of seminars and visits with world-leading specialists in Japanese arts and 2

cultures. This year a particular focus will be on Japan’s Digital Culture. This programme is generously sponsored by the Ishibashi Foundation.

MA Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies Launch 23 January, 4pm – 5:30pm, NEW SCI 0.03 The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts & Cultures together with the University of East Anglia are delighted to announce the launch of our new MA programme in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies, beginning in Autumn 2020. We will be holding an introduction to the programme on the 23 January in tandem with our first CJS Research Seminar of the year. Our first seminar will feature prominent poet Anthony Thwaite, discussing his poetry with both English and Japanese readings, followed by sushi platters.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be a fascinating evening. You can book your place in advance here.

We will also be hosting open days for the MA programme on campus on 29 January and 18 March. More information on the MA programme can be found on the UEA website and SISJAC website.

Japan Foundation/BAJS Postgraduate Workshop 2020 13 February 2020 Application deadline: 21 January 2020 The Japan Foundation is working in tandem with BAJS to introduce its 8th Postgraduate Japanese Studies Workshop, held at SOAS, University of London. The theme for this year is ‘Publishing Your Research’ and will focus on helping participants navigate the world of academic publishing.

Throughout the student-focused workshop, participants will be guided both leading scholars and those with insider knowledge of the academic publishing industry. The workshop also provides an excellent opportunity for networking among PhD students and academics, as well as 3

a forum to discuss future collaborations. Organisations will also be presenting their funding programmes and giving details of how they can help.

Registration is free and the workshop is open to UK based PhD students and masters students who are undertaking research about Japan (including comparative) in humanities and social science subjects.

More information is available on their website here.

Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies: Call for Applications Application deadline: Thursday 30th January 2020 The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation has funded postgraduate students of Japanese Studies on courses either in the UK or Japan since 2015. Daiwa is now receiving applications for 2020 from postgraduate students enrolled or enrolling in a Japanese Studiesrelated course in either Japan or the UK. The scholarship covers home tuition fees plus living expenses, payable at a rate of £1,000 per month in the UK and ¥260,000 per month in Japan. Further details and online application can be found at www.dajf.org.uk. Enquiries can be directed to scholarships@dajf.org.uk.

Japanese Language & Culture Program Senshū University has announced their JLC Program for the 2020-2021 academic year, offering the chance for students to spend a month at their Tokyo-based university engaging in intensive Japanese language and culture courses. Highlights include personalised classes, culturally-rich field trips, museum visits and the opportunity to live with Japanese roommates and host families. The program is offered four times a year as shown below. More details can be found on their website here.

Spring term 8 May 2020 – 6 June 2020 Application deadline: 3 March Summer term 19 June 2020 – 23 July 2020 Application deadline: 27 March Autumn term 25 September 2020 – 18 December 2020 Application deadline: 12 June Winter term 8 January 2021 – 27 February 2021 Application deadline: 16 October

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Japan at UEA: Reports from the last semester Okinawan Art in its Regional Context

An international conference on Okinawan Art in its Regional Context: Historical Overview and Contemporary Practice was held at UEA 10-11 October 2019. It was organised by Eriko Tomizawa-Kay with the support of UEA, the Japan Foundation, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Japan Foundation London, and the SISJAC-SOAS Collaborative Research Fund.

A fuller report is at the SISJAC website.

A packed conference room for Okinawan artist Yuken Teruya

Sasakawa Studentship Alumni Event On Friday 8 November, Sasakawa alumni from UEA presented en masse at the Sasakawa Studentship Alumni Event hosted at SOAS. The day consisted of quick-fire 5 minute presentations on individual research topics, displaying the huge range of topics covered by Japanese Studies researchers from male grooming practices amongst salarymen to the role of satire and humour in the development of Japan into a modern nation state. This was followed by constructive, tailored feedback from senior academics. A quick lunch and tea break saw much networking as attendees excitedly inquired about one another’s fields in between bites of sandwiches and sips of tea and coffee.

Commemorative photo featuring UEA Sasakawa Alumni

Afternoon discussions provided valuable information for budding researchers on navigating the world of publication, with representatives from Taylor & Francis, the Journal for Japanese Studies and Japan Forum. Future workshops and funding opportunities were then presented by representatives of the Japan Foundation, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Embassy of Japan. The day was rounded off by a warm reception, where UEA attendees thanked their wonderful hosts with a commemorative photo.

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Sainsbury Institute Third Thursdays The autumn brought some excellent lectures in this longstanding series. In November, Emura Tomoko from the National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo, spoke on The Expression of the Four Seasons in Japanese Paintings, beautifully illustrated with masterworks from the Rimpa School and others. In December we welcomed Professor Mickey Adolphson, Keidanren Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge who spoke on Medieval Japanese coinage, drawing some fascinating parallels between economic developments in Japan and the UK.

Emura Tomoko speaking on The Expression of the Four Seasons in Japanese Paintings

In January we begin the New Year with Professor Junzo Uchiyama, currently Handa Jomon Archaeology Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute, but formerly Director of the Mount Fuji World Heritage Research Centre of Shizuoka Prefecture, and Professor Mark Hudson of the Max Planck Institute for Science of the History of Humanity in Jena, speaking about Mount Fuji, that most iconic Japanese landmark, dreaming of which at New Year brings good fortune. In February we welcome Dr Halley O’Neale from the University of Edinburgh, and in March Christian Polak speaking about his new book on Georges Bigot, whose illustrations brought early western experiences in Japan to life. These lectures are free though booking is advised to secure a seat. Third Thursday Lectures are supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation and Yakult.

CJS Research Seminars – Autumn Semester This semester we were able to host a range of Japanese specialists, with content ranging from the evolution of broadcast interpretation to the roles of colonial and metropolitan cities in the Japanese empire. We regularly post updates on our seminars on the CJS website and twitter account.

Shimizu Takeshi on Broadcast Interpretation On the 31 October, we welcomed Shimizu Takeshi to discuss his years of experience in the world of broadcasting interpretation for our Research Seminar Series. His talk covered the history of live broadcast interpretation through such major networks as CNN, NHK and the BBC before referring to his own experience on the job as it evolved over the past 30 years. He ended on the varying skills required for the job and desirable talents for aspiring interpreters in the audience. Shimizu Takeshi then fielded a variety of questions from the audience on the future of broadcasting interpretation with the rise of AI and other means of automation, to which he responded that AI has yet to rise to the challenge of the complexities of the Japanese language.

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Dr Lindsay Black on Human (in)security in JapanMyanmar Relations On the 14 November, Dr Lindsay Black came over from Leiden University to give a talk on his latest research topic exploring the rhetoric behind Japan's 'chequebook diplomacy' in Myanmar. His talk covered Japan's consistent economic support in the 'rehabilitation' of Myanmar as it sought to cast off its 'pariah' status on the international stage and engage economically with world powers, particularly in the face of ongoing war crimes committed by the dominant military there. Key to Dr Black's discussion was the glaring ahistoricity of Japanese rhetoric on supporting Myanmar, positioning itself in contrast as a leading nation of Asia with complete disregard for its militarist past with then-Burma. Instead, they described Myanmar's reintegration to the world stage as it's own 'Meiji restoration', casting a problematic teleological perspective on national development in Asia.

Dr Hannah Shepherd on ‘A Tale of Two Cities’: Fukuoka and Pusan in the Japanese Empire On the 5 December, Dr Hannah Shepherd very kindly came to give us a talk on her research of imperial urbanisation only two days after having arrived back from a research trip in Japan. As such, she was able to give us a very fresh look at her research on the shifting of power and people across the Tsushima Strait between the two port cities of Fukuoka, Japan and Pusan, Korea during Japanese imperial rule. Her research challenges the notions of metropole-focussed approachs in study of empires by demonstrating how previously peripheral cities grew in importance once regular access was established with colonised neighbouring cities. This also challenges studies of western empires which suggest culture and modernity flowed one way from coloniser to colonised by studying regional change rather than focussing on any one city. This allows a focus on migration patterns of both Japanese and Koreans across the Tsushima strait from the days of Japanese-colonised Korea, with large influxes of Japanese to Busan and movement of Korean labourers by Japanese oligarchs, to the immediate post-war period and the calamatous repatriations of Japanese and Koreans unfamiliar with their ‘homelands’.

Dr Shepherd’s talk was a brief insight to her upcoming book Cities into Empire: Fukuoka, Pusan, and Japan’s Imperial Urbanization 1876-1953, the adaptation of her PhD thesis into a monograph. More details can be found on her Cambridge University profile here.

The past, present and future of Japan Orientation: a summative review Written by: Alexandra Cole, Head of International Programmes and Study Abroad/Assistant Head UEA International “A great opportunity for both beginners and advanced students of Japanese and Japanese culture that no one should miss.”

Back in 2013 UEA began discussions to host an intensive short course focussing on the study of Japan.

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UEA had launched its now well-established International Summer School in 2012, a year after the Centre for Japanese Studies welcomed the first cohort of degree seekers in 2011, and Prof Kaner had aspirations to broaden the portfolio of Japan-related study opportunities in Norwich. Building on a successful partnership with the Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO) and TIFO’s desire to deepen the understanding of the past, present and future of Japan across the Visegrad Four Central European states – Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – we developed a short course for the purposes of furthering Japan’s European integration. Our innovative summer programme launched - Japan Orientation: New Directions in Japanese Studies – hosting 14 students in the inaugural 2014 year.

“It is a truly amazing experience, which you cannot get anywhere else, to have the opportunity to meet and learn from experts in their fields.”

The flagship programme, delivered both on UEA’s Norwich campus and in the city centre, well-placed in the city that is home to the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC), was a huge success. The now a well-established two-week course is an exciting collaboration with the wider academic community, drawing in expertise since its launch from the University’s School of Art and World Art Studies (ART), the School of Film, Television and Media Studies (FTM), the School of Language and Communication Studies (LCS), the School of Environmental Sciences (ENV), the School of Political, Social and International Studies (PSI), and the School of Development Studies (DEV). This delivery has continued through a welldistinguished team of experts offering a range of lectures, participative seminars and academic excursions.

The course has included masterclasses from Mizutori Mami (former Diplomat and previously the Executive Director of SISJAC), Dr Imaizumi Yoshiko (Meiji Shrine Research Institute, Tokyo) and Professor Nicole Rousmaniere (Research Director of SISJAC and curator in the Department of Asia at the British Museum), and guest contributions from the Adapt Low Carbon Group (ADAPT), the Japan Foundation (JPF), the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences (JSPS), the Japanese Embassy, and the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT).

“If you are interested in Japan in general, this programme is the one to attend; it covers so many aspects of Japanese culture and history.”

Our course also gives the opportunity for an inclusive emersion in to teaching at a British University, taking a holistic approach to ensure participants feel fully supported through their experience living and learning in the UK. In addition to an in-depth schedule of academic tuition, the programme includes arrivals orientation and pastoral support, excursions and entry fees, study resources, relevant readings and academic guidance, contemporary accommodation in the heart of our beautiful campus set in 320 acres of rolling grassland, some meals and refreshments, social activities and a finale event with certificate presentation. One of the highlights are the embedded opportunities to chat with academic staff about Japan and the course and future study options, one of which being the University’s Vice Chancellor hosting a networking evening at his home at Wood Hall. Our most popular excursions have included The British Museum, London, both the Clare College and Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and a cultural visit to Blickling Hall Estate, a Jacobean stately home in Norfolk.

Students are encouraged, in their preparations, to consider ‘What Does Japan Mean to Me?’ and this very ethos has led to a lasting effect upon the dozens of alumni of the programme. Of particular significance was welcoming the programme sponsor, Mr Noguchi Koshi, Vice President of Toshiba of Europe, who with the support of Ms Iwanaga and the Japan Foundation have been integral in enabling so many students to benefit from the course and without whom the course could not have been so successful. UEA is delighted to have been identified as the course host and will continue to encourage a diverse participation to extend their enthusiasm for Japan, its history, Japan today and Japan tomorrow.

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“It was absolutely amazing and it has given me much more than I thought was possible. It will remain as a valuable part of my life.”

Participants of the inaugural year of the Toshiba International Foundation Summer programme, 2014. Fourth from left, Ms Iwanaga, Japan Foundation; fifth from left, Noguchi Koshi, Vice President, Toshiba of Europe.

UEA hosts the 8th year of Japan Orientation this summer and welcomes fee paying and scholarship applicants. Find out more here.

UEA in Japan UEA – Tohoku University Joint Conference report, 14 – 15 December Written by: Ra Mason, Sasakawa Lecturer in International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy, School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies December saw UEA further develop its University-wide research and exchange relationship with Tohoku University, sending an esteemed six-member interdisciplinary delegation to the Second Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies. The conference, oriented around the theme of ageing, was chaired by Professor Kabashima Hiroshi (Graduate School of Law) and co-organized by Professor Ono Naoyuki (Graduate School of International Cultural Studies), following their productive trips to UEA during the preceding year. Ra Mason led the organizing committee as co-organizer on the UEA side. The University was also represented by two keynote speakers: Dr Kishita Naoko (School of Health Sicences) and Professor Ganesan Arasu (School of Pharmacy), who greatly impressed their audiences with engaging, accessible accounts of pressing scientific problems presented by the challenge of ageing societies. Meanwhile, panels covered topics as diverse as dementia and immigration to history and education, including an enthralling screening from Dr Sherzod Muminov’s research on aging Japanese survivors of internment in the former Soviet Union. Feedback from the event was highly positive and the researchers involved are now seeking to build towards collaborative outputs and a follow-up workshop at UEA from 10-11 September this year.

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UEA Representatives Prof Ganesan Arasu, Drs Sherzod Muminov, Kishita Naoko and Ra Mason and colleagues at the Second Tohokou Conference on Global Japanese Studies

Dr Kishita Naoko at Osaka University and Tohoku University Dr Kishita Naoko from the School of Health Sciences (HSC) revisited Osaka University with her PhD researcher Ms Milena Contreras in December 2019. Dr Kishita delivered an invited lecture on psychological therapies with older people and carers to academic staff, researchers and clinicians from local services. Ms Contreras and a postgraduate researcher from Osaka University presented their project to a group of postgraduate researchers and exchanged ideas for future research. More details can be found here on the Osaka University website (in Japanese).

Dr Kishita Naoko at Osaka University

Dr Kishita also revisited Tohoku University with Prof Eneida Mioshi from HSC to attend the first UEA-Tohoku University joint conference and discuss the ongoing collaborative project on family carers of people with Motor Neurone Disease. Kaitlin Dudley from HSC is currently preparing for the data collection in the UK under the supervision of Prof Mioshi and Dr Kishita. Prof Muraoka Koko from Juntendo University and Prof 10

Ozaki Akiko from Tohoku University will be leading the data collection in Japan. The data collection is likely to start in April 2020 in both countries. Various psychological and cultural factors affecting wellbeing of family carers will be explored and compared between the UK and Japan.

Dr Kishita Naoko at Tohoku University

Rachel Gover meeting with Exchange Partners in Japan Between 6 November to 15 November, Study Abroad International Officer Rachel Gover visited six Exchange Partners across Tokyo. For two of these days Rachel participated in Temple University (Japan Campus)’s Study Abroad Fair to discuss opportunities to study at UEA. In the remaining days, Rachel visited five other Study Abroad partners (Waseda University; International Christian University; Meiji University; Sophia University; and Gakushuin University) to present information sessions to students and meet with Study Abroad colleagues. During the trip Rachel was also able to meet with some of UEA’s current outbound study abroad students who all spoke extremely positively about their time abroad. This trip was extra special for the Study Abroad team as this is the first time Study Abroad has visited Japan.

Joshi Puroresu: Japanese Women’s Wrestling Written by: Tom Phillips, Lecturer in Humanities, Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities At the beginning of December I travelled to Japan in order to conduct fieldwork for my study of contemporary women’s professional wrestling. My work is based on auto ethnographic observations made at wrestling events and interviews with industry stakeholders, and having already conducted research in the UK and US, I was keen to experience Japanese women’s wrestling first hand. Japanese women’s wrestling (or joshi puroresu) is particularly lauded by Western fans for its perceived notions of authenticity, tradition, and respect for its performers. Over the course of a week, I was able to attend seven joshi puroresu shows, as well as interview two promoters, exploring the Japanese cultural specificity of this global art form. In addition, I presented research on the Western perception of contrasting concepts of “women’s wrestling” and “joshi puroresu” at Nagoya University, International Christian University, and Meiji Gakuin University. The feedback and questions I received helped to inform the work I conducted in 11

Japan. The trip was invaluable to my research, and the warm welcome I received from Japanese scholars has me keen to maintain relations and develop future research networks.

Forthcoming Events Centre for Japanese Studies Research Seminar Series The CJS research seminar series continues next semester, with details of guest speakers to be announced shortly. Please make a note of the dates in your calendar – these can be found in our ‘Dates for your Diary’ section below. Details will be announced on the CJS Twitter account @CJS_Uea or you can subscribe to our mailing list by contacting cjs@uea.ac.uk Following discussions with regular attendees and CJS colleagues, this coming semester seminars will be held on Thursdays, at 17:30 (doors open at 17:15). Seminars are typically held in Room 0.03 in the New Science Building on the UEA campus, though please be sure to check the details of individual seminars on our website. These talks are free to attend, and no advanced registration is required.

Our next event will take place on Thursday 23 January with our first CJS Research Seminar of the new year. Director of CJS Simon Kaner will be in conversation with poet Anthony Thwaite, with readings from his latest anthology of his poems and their Japanese translations.

Japan Now East 13 – 21 February 2020 This year Norwich is hosting Japan Now East, a season of contemporary literature and art in Norwich in conjunction with the Writers’ Centre Norwich, inspired by the Japan Now initiative, which has been bringing cutting edge writers and artists to London for the past few years. Full details of the 2020 programme can be seen at https://japannow.co.uk. Events are shown below and all take place at the National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall: National Centre for Writing Book Club: Convenience Store Woman Thursday 13 February, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Free – suggested donation £2. Book in advance.

Join us and share your passion for reading! This quarter we’ll be talking about Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, which became an international sensation when it was published in 2018. Widely acclaimed for its ‘weird, fluorescent kind of beauty all of its own’ (Julie Myerson, Guardian) we’ll explore together the strange world of this modern Japanese classic in an informal, friendly discussion.

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Wild Grass on the Riverbank: Itō Hiromi and Jeffrey Angles Wednesday 19 February, 7pm – 8:30pm £5 – includes glass of wine Meet Itō Hiromi and Jeffrey Angles, both awardwinning writers and translators working with Japanese literature in English translation. Together they will discuss the publication of Killing Kanoko / Wild Grass on the Riverbank (published by Tilted Axis); a landmark dual collection by Itō, in a ‘generous and beautifully rendered’ translation by Jeffrey. Now widely taught as a feminist classic, Killing Kanoko is a defiantly autobiographical exploration of sexuality, community, and postpartum depression, featuring some of Itō’s most famous poems.

Translating Cultures Thursday 20 February, 11am – 1pm £15/£12 concession What are the issues of translating between two such different cultures and literatures as Japanese and English? What are the challenges and how do translators solve them? Find out more about the art and craft of translation with this informal workshop led by award-winning writers and translators Itō Hiromi, Jeffrey Angles, Shibata Motoyuki and Polly Barton. No prior translation experience or knowledge of Japanese necessary!

Nara to Norwich Over the coming two years CJS, SISJAC and SCVA will be working together on a major new project ‘Nara to Norwich: art at the ends of the Silk Roads’, comparing the arrival of Buddhism in Korea and Japan with the adoption of Christianity across East Anglia and around the North Sea region. Simon Kaner led a delegation of early Medieval specialists (working on Anglo-Saxons and Vikings) to Japan and Korea in summer 2019, and we are now planning a further research visit for our East Asian colleagues to come to Scandinavia.

Watch this space for further updates and associated events.

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Dates for your Diary Please make a note of the following events that might be of interest:

Thursday 16 January, 6pm, Third Thursday Lecture Norwich Cathedral Hostry Mount Fuji: Changing Landscapes in Japanese History Dr Junzo Uchiyama, Sainsbury Institute and Dr Mark Hudson, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Free to attend, contact SISJAC to reserve your place: sisjac@sainsbury-institute.org

Wednesday 23 January, 5pm-7pm, JRC Seminar Series, SOAS Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), London Waste knot: Materials, waste and productivity in postwar Japan Dr Sarah Teasley, Royal College of Art

Thursday 23 January, 5:30pm – 7pm, CJS Seminar Series NEW SCI 0.03, New Science Building, UEA campus Talk by Mr. Anthony Thwaite, BBC/University of Tokyo “Anthony Thwaite, poet, in conversation with Simon Kaner, with readings in Japanese and English”

Tuesday 4 February, 5:15pm – 6:45pm, CJS Seminar Series SCVA 01.10, Sainsbury Centre, UEA campus Gender and national image: Representations of figure skating in Japanese anime Dr Michael Tsang, Newcastle University

Thursday 20 February, 3:30pm – 5:30pm, CJS Seminar Series NEW SCI 0.05, New Science Building, UEA campus Base Politics in Okinawa Professor Takamine Tsukasa, Meio University, Okinawa, Japan

Monday 17 – Wednesday 19 Feburary, Global Opportunities Week 2020 UEA CareerCentral UEA CareerCentral will be running Global Opportunities week from 17-19th Feb, 2020. Keep an eye on CareerCentral for full details about our ‘Working in Asia’ event and to book a place.

Wednesday 19 February, 5pm-7pm, JRC Seminar Series, SOAS Russell Square: College Buildings, Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), London Stamping out Death in Japanese Buddhist Palimpsests Dr Halle O’Neal, University of Edinburgh

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Thursday 20 February, 6pm, Third Thursday Lecture Norwich Cathedral Hostry Word Embodied: Entangled Icons in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Art Dr Halle O’Neal, University of Edinburgh Free to attend, contact SISJAC to reserve your place: sisjac@sainsbury-institute.org

Thursday 12 March, 5:15pm – 6:45pm, CJS Seminar Series NEW SCI 0.03, New Science Building, UEA campus British Eurocentrism and the Challenge of Japanese Civilisation Dr Chika Tonooka, University of Cambridge

Thursday 19 March, 6pm, Third Thursday Lecture Norwich Cathedral Hostry Politics and Tradition: Georges Bigot in Meiji Era Mr Christian Polak, SERIC Free to attend, contact SISJAC to reserve your place: sisjac@sainsbury-institute.org

Thursday 7 May, 5:15pm-6:45pm, CJS Research Seminar NEW SCI 0.03, New Science Building, UEA campus “Castles Across Ages and Lands: An Interdisciplinary Seminar” in Collaboration with the School of History and Norwich Castle Dr Oleg Benesch & Dr Ran Zwigenberg

Thursday 7 May, 6:30pm-8:30pm, Royal Asiatic Society Lecture RAS, 14 Stephenson Way, London The Rehabilitaiton of Myth in the Archaeology of Ancient Japan and Korea Professor Simon Kaner Useful Links Embassy of Japan: http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/ Japan Foundation: http://www.jpf.org.uk/ JSPS: http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/ British Association for Japanese Studies: http://www.bajs.org.uk/ 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: ueajapansociety@gmail.com Taiko Centre East: http://www.taikocentre.org.uk/ Career Forums: http://www.careerforum.net/event/?lang=E

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