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• Nissan Seminar: Japan’s far more female future — in business, in the economy, in politics
• Nissan Seminar: Corporate Governance - Does one size fit all?: The case of Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Murakami Haruki, the Second Basement, and the Search for Self-therapy
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• Japan-based filmmaker John Williams, release of film in Tokyo
• Nissan Seminar: Nissan and the Changing Face of Japanese Management
• Nissan Seminar: Event to celebrate the launch of 100th volume in the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies/Routledge Series
• Nobusuke Tokura, SVP, NTCE, represents Nissan at Routledge Series anniversary at Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford University
• Application Deadlines Released
• Introducing the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies
• Professor Takehiko Kariya - Meritocracy, Modernity, and the Completion of Catch-up: Some Problems and Paradoxes
• Chiara Comastri
• Nissan Seminar: Bodies of Substitution: Materiality, Resemblance, and the transnational trajectories of Japanese Dolls
• Nissan Seminar: The Early Industrial History of Studio Ghibli
• Nissan Seminar: Slow Way Home: How the Japanese Have Preserved a Universal Walk-to-School System
• Nissan Seminar: The politics of violence, glue-sniffing, and liberation: making 1968 in Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Re-examining Japan in Global Context (グローバルな文脈での日本)-
• Academic and Royal Launch for Oxford’s ASEAN Institute Campaign
• Cora Tsang
• Statement on Behaviour
• New DPhil in Area Studies Launched at Oxford
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• St Cross College Graduate Admissions Open Day
• Ivan Morris Prize for the Best Dissertation in the UK given by the British Association of Japanese Studies
• New issue of the Nissan Institute Brochure now available
• Leverhulme Trust Early-Career Fellowships 2017
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• Dr Janey Messina joins SIAS
• SIAS Careers Day
• Panel Event: Status Seeking in World Politics: India, Russia and China in Comparative Perspective
• Horizon 2020 MSCA-IF-2017 - SIAS Internal Selection process
• BBC 4 Programme - The Art of Japanese Life
• Pitt Rivers Museum announces new book on its collections, specifically its important Japanese photographic collection
• Issue 9 of the Japanese Studies at Oxford Newsletter is now available
• Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities
• Storry Memorial Travelling Bursary 17-18
• SIAS/FCO East Asia Dialogue
• Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities
• SIAS Winter Newsletter
• ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 22nd Feb 2018 – University Deadline 23rd March 2018)
• Newton International Fellowship 2018 (SIAS Deadline: 1st March 2018)
• The Robin & Nadine Wells Scholarship
• Internships in Japan
• Dr Mateja Kovacic
• Prize winners of the 28th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2018/2019 - Expression of Interest Deadline 31/08/2018
• The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Seminar Series 2018: New Approaches in Japan and the UK
• 'Challenges of Compression'
• Nissan Seminar: Japan’s Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
• Nissan Seminar: Revisiting Kurosawa’s women; what a transcultural approach reveals
• Nissan Seminar: Prisons and Forced Labour on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido
• Nissan Seminar: Uniquely Japanese? Data science approaches to bilingualism and computer-mediated communication
• Nissan Seminar: Open Door or Sphere of Influence?: Japanese-French Negotiations over Fujian in 1906-7
• Nissan Seminar: The Daughter who sold her Mother: a memoir of family and survival in the Holocaust
• Nissan Seminar: Abenomics: Has it worked? Will it fail?
• Nissan Seminar: Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige woodblock prints at the Ashmolean Museum
• Graduate Seminar: Japan's Demographic Challenge - Can Japan survive without immigrants?
• Nissan Seminar: Bringing Back Yoshikono: Songs of 7-7-7-5 in a WWII-Era Osaka Rakugo Magazine
• Nissan Seminar: Warriors of the Buddha: Religion and Violence in Premodern Japan
• Nissan Seminar: The Haiku in Turkey and the Quest for a New Aesthetics
• Nissan Seminar: War, Work and Witnessing: Aesthetics and Ideology in Shindo Kaneto’s Cinema
• Nissan Seminar: Happy Americans, Unhappy Japanese, how about others? How Software engineers work and are rewarded in five countries
• Nissan Seminar: Child guidance centres in Japan: Social work, foster care, and the family-bond
• Nissan Seminar: BATJ Seminar February 2017 - Teaching “Japan” outside of Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Uniting the World after Defeat: World Federalism in Early Post-war Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Kishi Nobusuke and the Mobilization Empire: War and Conservatism 1918-1945
• Nissan Seminar: Collapsing Rural Japan - A New Approach for Revival
• Nissan Seminar: Rethinking how Japan does politics
• Nissan Seminar: The Political Economy of Cool Japan: the paradox of Japan’s creative industries policy
• SIAS Careers Day
• Nissan Seminar: Does Japanese Corporate Governance Need (Further) Reform?
• Nissan Seminar: Paradigmatic Origins of Contemporary Japanese Humanoid Robot Culture
• Nissan Seminar: The fierce urgency of ‘clear’ (kuriaa): nuclear waste, material recovery, and resourcefulness in post-tsunami Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Reflections on being the first foreign CEO of Sony
• Nissan Seminar: Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage”
• Nissan Seminar: Opium's Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control
• Nissan Seminar: Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities
• Special Event - Astor Lecture: Is There a Global History of Humanitarianism?
• Nissan Seminar: Beyond the Gender Gap in Contemporary Japan
• Martial Arts in the Middle East
• Nissan Seminar: Japan and the Great Divergence
• Nissan Seminar: The “Salaryman” Samurai: Japan’s Medieval Warrior and the “Birth” of the Early Modern World
• Nissan Seminar: Akira Kurosawa’s Reception of Tolstoy in the film Ikiru (To Live, 1952) in the Context of Postwar Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Japan and Brexit
• Nissan Seminar: Mishima Yukio and Takahashi Kazumi: Commitment and Literature in 1960s Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Multi-generational and Mutual-dimensional Nature of Care: A case study of Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Evacuees and refugees: What they lost
• Nissan Seminar: The Afterlives of Art in Japan: Gender, Affect, Photography
• Nissan Seminar: Making Films in Japan
• Nissan Seminar: How to swim in a thousand waves: female employment experiences from the front line
• Nissan Seminar: CANCELLED: The early ethnolinguistic history of the Japanese archipelago
• Nissan Seminar: Writing an “International” Cuisine in Japan: Murai Gensai’s 1903 Culinary Novel Kuidōraku
• Nissan Seminar: Is it Possible to “Become” Japanese? Social Markers of Acculturation and Gaining Acceptance for Immigrants in Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Leaning Out for the Long Span: Married Japanese Salarywomen’s strategies for maintaining careers and well-being in the 2000s
• Nissan Seminar: Mind control, coercion, or blind faith? Auto-biographical narratives of former Aum Shinrikyō members and the ‘Japanese psyche
• Nissan Seminar: Cultural and practical factors leading to Japan's PISA success: similarities and differences to other top-performers
• Nissan Seminar: A one-day conference on Compressed Development in Asia and Beyond
• Talk by Chairman Stan Shih on Si-nnovation Island
• Nissan Seminar: Remembering Ron Dore
• Nissan Seminar: University Reform or University Deform? Heroes, Villains & Fools in the Policy Discourse on Daigaku Kaikaku
• Nissan Seminar: Abe’s First Four Years - a Retrospective
• Nissan Seminar: Brokering anime: How to create a Japanese animation business bridge between Japan and India
• Nissan Seminar: Germany and Japan: Great or Middle Powers in Global Banking Regulation?
• Nissan Seminar: A colloquium on current research on Japanese politics
• Nissan Seminar: Transnational Displacement: Japanese single elderly men in Southeast Asia
• Visiting Fellowship for Pakistan Offers Mutual Benefits
• Two of our former MSc/MPhil students in Japanese Studies, Warren Stanislaus and Kara Juul writing together for the Times Higher Education
• Professor Takehiko Kariya gave a talk at Tsuda University
• The Oxford Alumni Club of Japan
• Vacancies
• Former MPhil student in Japanese Studies, Olga Puzanova has article published in the Journal of Eurasian Studies
• Former MPhil student in Japanese Studies Olga Puzanova publishes second article
• Second article from our former students Warren and Kara
• Former MSc student in Modern Japanese Studies, Chinami Oka publishes article with Professor Roger Goodman, Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies
• Former Japanese Studies student Kai Salisbury's Japan-based startup featured in the PR Times
• Alessandro Bianchi joins the Bodleian Japanese Library
• Associate Professorship in the Politics and  International Relations of Japan
• Nissan Seminar: 17 Short Lived
• Nissan Seminar: Reopening the "Opening of Japan"
• Nissan Seminar: The Making of a New Immigration State? Japan's Immigration Policy at a Historic Turning Point
• Arthur Stockwin to be awarded Honorary Doctorate for his service to the study of Japanese Politics
• Valedictory Lecture: Dōwa policy and the Japanese state
• Japan’s Energy Policy after the Fukushima disaster
• Takehiko Kariya recently published an article on university education reforms in Nikkei Shimbun Newspaper
• Okinaga Junior Research Fellowship in Japanese Studies
• Nissan Seminar: Governing Global Flowers. Japanese Politics and International Value Chains
• How to Turn Your DPhil into a Job?
• Major refurbishment over the next 22 months of the Hilda Besse Building, St. Antony's College
• Warren Stanislaus speaks at the British Universities International Liaison Association (BUILA)
• Former MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies and current DPhil History student, Warren Stanislaus receives the Rare Rising Stars award
• Professor Takehiko Kariya and Oxford alumna Asako Ishizawa have co-authored a new book
• Nissan Seminar: How to get, keep, and breed your pet: exploring human-pet relationships through Tokugawa animal guidebooks
• Nissan Seminar: Kana: The Forgotten “Women Hand” Characters and Empowerment of Women in Medieval Times
• Nissan Seminar: Skilled Migration: Solving Japan’s demographic crisis?
• Nissan Seminar: Japanese Mermaids in Darwin’s West
• Nissan Seminar: Gender/ed Justice: Feminism in War and Peace
• Nissan Seminar: De Moda Novoétnica: A Comparative Ethnographic Examination of Self-Styling between Indigenous Forums of Lequio and Brazil
• Nissan Seminar: Visualizing Fascism: Japan's State of Unexception
• Nissan Seminar: Under Double Monarchy: Early Hungarian-Japanese Relations in the global setting
• Nissan Seminar: Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Book Talk—Imaginative Mapping: Landscape and Japanese Identity in the Tokugawa and Meiji Eras
• Ms Hiroe Kaji
• Japanese Studies at Oxford Newsletter
• New Okinaga Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies
• Junior Research Fellow and Departmental Lecturer in Japanese Studies
• Chui-Joe Tham
• Nissan Seminar: A sociological analysis of the journalistic profession in contemporary Japan
• Nissan Seminar: No more ‘Kings of the Mountain’ (Oyama no Taishō): Gendered leadership in Japanese unions
• Nissan Seminar: A Critique of the Category ‘Religion’ in Japan
• Recognised Students
• Nissan Special Event: Sake and Japanese food culture
• Nissan Seminar: New horizontal inequalities in Japanese education? Why, when and under which conditions Japanese students pursue study abroad
• Nissan Seminar: Probation in Japan: Some strengths and challenges
• CANCELLED Nissan Seminar: Retreat from Remarriage? Evidence from Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Whither Japan? Assessing Abe's legacy
• CANCELLED Nissan Seminar: Why study Japan now? Towards a global conversation on the social sciences and humanities in dialogue with Kyoto University
• Nissan Seminar: ‘Generalized Violence' at home and 'Shadow Work' in Tokyo: Oral narrative research on foreign asylum seekers in Japan
• DPhil Candidate, Warren Stanislaus interviewed on the EdTech Podcast
• Former member of the Nissan Institute, Dr Ekaterina Hertog to head one of the 6 projects funded by ESRC to explore effects of AI on society and economy in UK and Japan
• The Future of Area Studies Roundtable
• University-Industry Collaboration to Launch Internships in Japan
• New initiative to integrate Japanese teaching, public engagement and outreach at Pembroke College
• Dr Satoshi Araki publishes article in the American Sociological Review
• Former MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies and current DPhil candidate Olga Puzanova publishes a new article called 'Contemplating a Russia-Japan Rapprochement'
• Building Work Announcement II
• Dr. Giulio Pugliese our new departmental lecturer in Japanese Politics
• Special seminar: Confucius and burakumin: celebrating two books
• Eiko Honda, DPhil candidate in History wins one of the top 3 prizes of the TIFO 30th Anniversary Essay Contest
• World leading expert on Japanese politics and society honoured by ANU
• Professor Takehiko Kariya interviewed by Asahi Globe
• Dr Chigusa Yamaura's article appears in the Critical Asian Studies Journal
• External Scholarships and Funding
• College, Departmental and University Scholarships and Funding Available for Postgraduate Students in Japanese Studies
• Funding for Research in Japan
• Departmental Lecturer in Japanese International Relations/Politics
• Professor Takehiko Kariya's recent article on education reforms in Japan is pubilshed in Asahi's WEBRONZA
• 30th Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese
• How will COVID-19 reshape the world? by J. A. A. Stockwin
• Former MSc in Modern Japanese Studies student (2009/2010) and DPhil student in History Yu Sakai has had his article Survive to be critical: The Wartime Graphic as a ‘masquerading’ media in the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905 published
• Dr Chigusa Yamaura publishes new book
• Former MPhil student in Japanese Studies Will Fee publishes a blog in Japan Foward
• We are pleased to announce a new arrival at the Nissan Institute, Dr Giulio Pugliese joins initially us as British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow, and from January 2021 as Departmental Lecturer in Japanese Politics and International Relations
• Black in Japan: Shifting the Narrative - An article for Nippon.com by Warren A. Stanislaus, former MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies student
• "Family-run Universities in Japan: Sources of Inbuilt Resilience in the Face of Demographic Pressure, 1992 - 2030" by Professor Roger Goodman and Dr Jeremy Breaden
• It's Time to Solve the Kuril Islands Dispute by Olga Puzanova, former MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies student
• Takehiko Kariya and Jeremy Rappleye have recently published “Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age: the Japanese Approach”
• Ann Waswo, 1940-2020
• Nissan Seminar: Compressed Development and Japan
• Giulio Pugliese publishes in Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
• Nissan Seminar: Education, Equality, and Meritocracy in a Global Age: The Japanese Approach
• Nissan Seminar: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the 21st Century
• Nissan Seminar: Marriage and Marriageability: The Practices of Matchmaking between Men from Japan and Women from Northeast China
• Nissan Seminar: Matsuo Bashô 松尾芭蕉 and the Poetics of Fûkyô風狂
• Nissan Seminar: Family-Run Universities in Japan
• Kaoruko Kawashima
• Dr Nadine Willems, former MSc student in Modern Japanese Studies publishes book Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination
• Nissan Seminar: New Directions in Japan’s Security: Non-US Centric Evolution
• Nissan Seminar: Japanese Resistance to American Financial Hegemony: Global Versus Domestic Social Norms
• Giulio Pugliese and Sebastian Maslow, publish in Asia Maior Vol.XXX
• Dr Giulio Pugliese writes in Japanese on the European Union's balancing act amidst deepening US-China competition during the COVID-19 crisis.
• Dr Michael Rivera King publishes book entitled 'Child Guidance Centres in Japan: Alternative Care, Social Work, and the Family'
• Marco Di Francesco
• Zhihang Wang
• Beyond Japan Ep.12: Black Lives Matter and Afro-Japanese Exchange with Warren Stanislaus
• British Embassy Tokyo Interview with Warren Stanislaus for Black History Month
• In Memoriam
• Dr Natalia Doan publishes article, "Samurai and Southern Belles: Interracial Romance, Southern Morality, and the 1860 Japanese Embassy," in the Journal of Social History
• Dr Ann Waswo, 1940-2020
• Professor Junji Banno, 1937 - 2020
• Professor Chushichi Tsuzuki, 1926 - 2020
• Dr Mark Rebick, 1956 - 2015
• Professor Yoshida Teigo, 1923 - 2018
• Special issue in the Australian Journal of International Affairs
• The Sakaguchi Foundation DPhil scholarship
• John Crump Phd Studentships - BAJS members only
• Scholarship funding available at St. Antony's College, Oxford
• Nissan Seminar: The Politics of Emotion and the ‘History Problem’ in Sino-Japanese Relations
• Nissan Seminar: Japan and the V&A since 1984: A Curatorial Travelogue
• Nissan Seminar: The Japanese Holistic Educational Framework during the Pandemic and its Implications
• Nissan Seminar: Military Discipline and Japanese War Crimes, 1941-45. This seminar is in memory of Ann Waswo.
• Nissan Seminar: The Dual Structure of Japanese Society: A Perspective on Work, Education, and Politics in Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Repositioning Japan in the Multi-layered Diversity of Asia: The Launch of Asian Families and Intimacies
• Nissan Seminar: Censorship in Japan
• Nissan Seminar: The Shipshape Archive: Rethinking Global History through Meiji Japan. This seminar is in memory of Ann Waswo.
• An Affair with a Village by Joy Hendry
• Japan's Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm by Olga V. Solovieva and Sho Konish
• Commentary | Warren A. Stanislaus, The Great Reset: Afro-Japanese Pasts, Futures
• Nissan Seminar: Deciphering pre-modern Japanese manuscripts: kuzushiji recognition systems and AI
• Nissan Seminar: Life Stories of Indian Migrants in Tokyo: Fairytales and Nightmares
• Nissan Seminar: Ninjō and Sōseki's Writing of "Literature" in Early Twentieth-Century Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Pirate of Precarity: The Fictive Afterlives of Idemitsu Sazō
• Nissan Seminar: Reworking Japan: Changing Men at Work and Play under Neolibralism
• Appointment of Professor Timothy Power as Head of Division
• Yao (Chloe) Sun
• Dr. Mateja Kovacic won a three-year Early Career Scheme of the University Grants Committee, for her project Transnational Anarchist Digital Networks.
• Nissan Seminar: Radical Utopian Communities: Japan, South Africa, and Jamaica in the Early Twentieth Century
• Nissan Seminar: Red/White/Yellow: Considering the Racial Situation in Japan from the Perspective of Marriage Discrimination Experienced by Ainu Women
• Nissan Seminar: Black Transnationalism & Japan Conference
• Nissan Seminar: The Cinematic Re-enactment of Naomi Kawase
• Nissan Seminar: Gastropolitics in the 1853-54 Perry Expeditions to Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Northern Exposures: A View of Japanese History From the Sea of Okhotsk
• Nissan Seminar: “Our Spirit Against Their Steel”–Japanese Popular Culture Goes to War
• Nissan Seminar: Raihōshin: Gods, Demons, and Cultural Heritage
• Remembering Ann Waswo
• Chinami Oka, former MSc in Modern Japanese Studies student (15/16), and now DPhil candidate in History has recently published a chapter (co-authored with Roger Goodman)
• MSc and MPhil Students in Japanese Studies
• Remebering Ann Waswo
• Dr Brian Powell
• Dr James McMullen
• Dr Lena Fritsch
• Dr Clare Pollard
• Professor Mari Sako
• Mr Philip Grover
• Nissan Seminar: A Dislike for Translation: How Natsume Sōseki Disowns World Literature
• Nissan Seminar: Animation, Animism and Auras: How Disney and Ghibli Changed the World
• Nissan Seminar: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic: Sei Shōnagon’s Pillow Book
• Shang Cheng
• Margaret Bryan
• Federica Costantino
• Nissan Seminar: Ryukyuan languages
• Nissan Seminar: Spatial Description Perspectives in Contemporary Japanese
• Nissan Seminar: Repackaging Japanese Authors for the Anglophone Sphere in the 21st Century: Murakami, Kawakami, Murata and Beyond
• Manimporok Dotulong publishes in Oxford Academic: Past and Present
• New article out by Takehiko Kariya and Satoshi Araki
• Professor Takehiko Kariya publishes in Discuss Japan
• DPhil candidate in History, Alice Baldock publishes in the Journal of Asian Studies
• DPhil candidate in History, Warren Stanislaus's research article is published in Japan Forum
• Nissan Seminar: Ainu: A head-marking language of the Pacific Rim
• Dr Juliana Buriticá Alzate
• Nissan Seminar: International trade and the environment: Japan's commitment to sustainability clauses in free trade agreements
• Nissan Seminar: Reality, Technology and Power: the deep relationship of modern Japan with Physics and physicists
• Nissan Seminar: Japan’s Failed Nation Building: Okinawa, 1972-2022
• Nissan Seminar: The UK-Japan Partnership in a Turbulent Era
• Italy's embrace of the Belt and Road Initiative: populist foreign policy and political marketing by Giulio Pugliese and others
• Chinami Oka publishes in The Historical Journal, Cambridge University Press
• Dr Satoshi Araki publishes article in the Journal of Applied Gerontology
• Dr Natalia Doan publishes “African America and Japan” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History
• Dr Natalia Doan shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society Alexander Prize
• The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation PhD Travel/research grants
• Warren A. Stanislaus delivers talk at the Asia Society, Japan
• Warren A. Stanislaus releases Japanese translation of his Japan Forum publication
• Theodore C. “Ted” Bestor, 1951–2021
• Dr Olga Khomenko
• Warren A. Stanislaus wins 2022 Ian Nish Prize for best article
• Dr Chinami Oka
• Ben Moeller
• Nissan Seminar: Japan’s 1968 on Trial
• Nissan Seminar: China under Watch: The Rise of Nationalist Power and the Japanese Press, 1926-1929
• Nissan Seminar: An anthropological approach to hybridity and tradition in contemporary global Japanese ceramic practice
• Nissan Seminar: Are robots the solution to Japan’s care crisis?
• Nissan Seminar: Still a bit-player?: Japan and human embryonic stem cell research
• Nissan Seminar: On use of Katakana in Japan
• Nissan Seminar: The Siberian Intervention of 1918-1922 From Below: The Pictorial Records of Infantryman Takeuchi Tadao
• Nissan Seminar: Simmering storm in the East China Sea: How Sino-Japanese competition risks fracturing a fragile status
• Seijiro “Seiji” A. Takahashi
• Warren A. Stanislaus publishes in Teaching Media Quarterly
• 4th Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies, ‘Humans and Nature in Crisis: Japanese Literature and Environmental Humanities’
• Reforming capitalism, going digital and green.
• CONFERENCE Reforming capitalism, going digital and green: Does Japan hold answers?
• Nissan Seminar: From Disgust to Compassion: Excrement in the Buddhist Narratives of Medieval Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Translating Where the Wild Ladies Are: A conversation on feminist solidarity and the modern-day legacy of ghost stories
• Nissan Seminar: Going Logo: What to Expect of Japan's G7 Presidency
• Nissan Seminar: Ivan Svit and Ukrainian - Japanese collaboration in Manchuria,1922-1945
• Nissan Seminar: CANCELLED
• Nissan Seminar: A Defeated Samurai of Japan’s Civil War and the Transnational Re-imagination of Civilisation in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
• Nissan Seminar: Beyond "trans-border": Translation and Difference in Contemporary Japanese Literature
• Nissan Seminar: Commoning the City: The Townscape Councils of Kyoto
• Missing Bodies, Missing Voices: Ordinary Lives and the Reframing of ‘Postwar Japan’
• Former MPhil in Japanese Studies student Gwenafaye McCormick has a new article published on the Global Kaiyo website
• A chapter of Professor Takehiko Kariya’s recently published book
• Professor Takehiko Kariya’s experience of 14 days quarantine when he returned to Japan last winter
• MSc in Japanese Studies student Emma Ruiters publishes another article on Japan-Africa
• Former MSc in Japanese Studies student Emma Ruiters talks on radio for the first time
• Mrs Sumire Hori
• Sarah Puetzer
• Dr. Natalia Doan (Okinaga JRF in Japanese Studies) was recently interviewed by Smithsonian Magazine
• Former DPhil student in History Dr Eiko Honda publishes in Modern Asian Studies
• DPhil in History candidate Chui-Joe Tham
• DPhil History Candidate Warren A. Stanislaus publishes chapter in edited volume
• Nissan Seminar: Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War
• Nissan Seminar: Are We Allowed to Find Beauty in the Face of Death and Destruction: Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima and Postwar Japan”
• Nissan Seminar: Title: Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan
• Nissan Seminar: How do Japanese public high schools respond to immigrant students? Challenges of diversity and educational equity in Tokyo
• Nissan Seminar: Expressing Gender Differences in Japanese Role Language
• Nissan Seminar: A New Era? Japan's New National Security Strategy and the Future of the US-Japan Alliance
• Dr Michael Rivera King - new chief executive of The Japan Society
• Professor Takehiko Kariya awarded the Medal with Purple Ribbon (紫綬褒章)
• Dr Alice Baldock
• Peyton Cherry
• Congratulations to Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet winner of the Ivan Morris Memorial Prize for his dissertation in Japanese Studies.
• An interview with Professor Takehiko Kariya is featured on the website of Emotional Link
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Nissan Seminar: Japan’s threat perception during the cold war: any lessons for today?
• Nissan Seminar: The Buddhist Body of the King: Ritual practices of consecration in medieval Japan
• Nissan Seminar: The universal language of the body
• Nissan Seminar: Japan’s “three national security documents” and fundamental reinforcement of defence capabilities: reinforcing a radical military trajectory
• Nissan Seminar: The Compass Rose meets the Rising Sun: a new era of NATO-Japan Relations
• Nissan Seminar: From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry
• Nissan Seminar: Kabuki music and compositions
• Nissan Seminar: Geoeconomic implications of the Japan-EU Relations – trade, digitalization and sustainability
• Commendations for Professor Roger Goodman and the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
• Nissan Seminar: The return of geopolitics in East Asia: Japan’s responses to regional uncertainty
• Dr Giulio Pugliese to receive award from the Nakasone Peace Institute
• Student Travel Grants
• Toma-Jin Morikawa-Fouquet
• Lukas Heller
• Dr Lewis Bremner, Dr Manimporok Dotulong and Professor Sho Konishi publish 'Reopening the Opening of Japan'
• Oxford Latin American History Seminar: Giving Shape to Silences in Mexican History
• Dr Olga Khomenko publishes 'The Faraway Sky of Kyiv. Ukrainians in the War'
• Scholars Olga Solovieva and Sho Konishi receive Accolade for their work on Japan's Russia
• Professor Roger Goodman appointed CBE in New Year Honours 2024
• Joel Littler publishes 'A Song of Fallen Flowers: Miyazaki Tōten and the making of naniwabushi as a mode of popular dissent in transwar Japan, 1902–1909' on Modern Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press)
• Nissan Seminar: Criminal Crossroads: Underworld Dynamics in Contemporary Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Sensory Perception: Cultural Exchange, Development and Understanding
• Nissan Seminar: Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature
• Nissan Seminar: Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-History
• Nissan Seminar: Language as a Technology for Shaping Professional Identity: Translating ‘A Manual of the Steam Engine’ in Mid-Nineteenth Century Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
• Nissan Seminar: This Monk Wears Heels – Buddhism and Sexuality
• Nissan Seminar: A Preview Test Screening of a New Documentary Film - The Squid and the Pine by John Williams
• Dr Chigusa Yamaura publishes 'An Imagined Shrinking Community: Japanese Nationalism and The Chronology of the Future'
• Professor D. Hugh Whittaker
• Natalia Doan and Sho Konishi co-edit a new volume, Black Transnationalism and Japan (Leiden University Press)
• Research Spotlight - Dr Chinami Oka
• Hugh Whittaker’s new book Building a New Economy: Japan’s Digital and Green Transformation, is being published by Oxford University Press shortly
• Dr Martina Baradel
• The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (OSGA) are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Kristi Govella as Associate Professor of Japanese Politics and International Relations, from October 2024
• The Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Japan's Strategic Vision Goes Global
• Japan Politics Colloquium
• Nissan Seminar: A Conversation with Author Sayaka Murata – Living, Writing and Transformation
• Nissan Seminar: New Life From the Ruins of Japanese Death Rites
• Nissan Seminar: Making of the “Feebleminded”: Gender and Family for the Medical Discourse Around Eugenic Sterilization in 1950s Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Great Power Politics and Japan’s Immigration Dilemma
• Nissan Seminar: Valedictory Lecture – A ‘Class’-Less Society Japan? How is Inequality Interpreted Without the Concept of Class?
• Nissan Seminar: Book Launch – Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
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• Miss Jane Baker
• Professor Jenny Corbett
• Professor Roger Goodman
• Dr Jennifer Guest
• Professor Bjarke Frellesvig
• Professor Sho Konishi
• Professor Ian Neary
• Professor Arthur Stockwin OBE
• Professor Linda Flores
• The East Asia Section of the Bodleian Libraries is offering an exciting opportunity for a self-motivated, creative and visionary individual to work as the Japanese Studies Librarian
• Natalia Doan discusses her research on Japanese television
• Antoni Lee
• The Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at OSGA invites applications for a full-time, 12-month Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Societies
• Professor Takehiko Kariya publishes ‘A Long & Wrong Road to Globalization: Why Have Japanese Universities Failed in “Catching Up” in the Twenty-First Century?’ in Daedalus
• Jessica A. Fernández de Lara Harada
• Professor Hugh Whittaker publishes 「日本経済復活の条件　ひしめく構想、相互補完カギ」 in Nikkei
• Robin Nicholson
• Professors Arthur Stockwin and Takehiko Kariya Met Emperor Naruhito in London on June 23
• Mr Makoto Uchida Awarded CBE
• Professor Takehiko Kariya's Valedictory Lecture is Now Available by Request on Our Official YouTube Channel
• Dr Giulio Pugliese publishes 'The European Union and an “Indo-Pacific” Alignment' in Asia-Pacific Review
• Dr Anna Sharko
• Dr Marius Palz
• Associates
• Nissan Seminar: A Conversation with Asako Yuzuki
• Nissan Seminar: Ryūtei Saryū – Rakugo Performer
• Nissan Seminar: Tanaka Denjiro VII – A Kabuki Music Performance
• Nissan Seminar: Beneath Modernism: The Transformation of Popular Culture from Edo to Modern Japan
• Nissan Seminar: I Am a Living Object: Decolonizing Museum Spaces with Indigenous Narratives
• Nissan Seminar: Princess Akiko of Mikasa – A Tale of the Royal and Imperial Costumes: The Trajectory of UK-Japan Relations
• Nissan Seminar: What Remains Invisible Still: Fukushima by Tsuchida Hiromi (2018) as the Formation of a Metaphor
• Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
• Dr Ian Rapley’s new book "Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880–1945" is being published by the University of Hawai’i Press this month.
• Professor Kristi Govella
• Dr. Akira Shah's new article, "Minoritizing Identity: Imposing Racial & Cultural Illusions of 'the Japanese'" has been published
• DPhil Candidate Marco Di Francesco's new article, "Rakugo in the Time of COVID-19: How the Pandemic Changed Tokyo’s Traditional Storytelling Art," has been published
• Sho Konishi has contributed a chapter ‘Lev Mechnikov: Toward the Ocean’ in the book Elisee Reclus: Les 101 mots
• Olga Solovieva and Sho Konishi’s edited volume Japan’s Russia, Challenging the East-West released in paperback
• Dr Marius Palz publishes new article "Negotiating extirpation: On the political implications of declaring dugongs extinct in Okinawan waters" in Cambridge Prisms: Extinction
• Professor Kristi Govella publishes new policy brief “Institutionalizing US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Cooperation: Recent Progress and Future Prospects”
• Workshop: Healthcare delivery in crisis? The potential for mutual learning between Japan and the UK
• Dr. Akira Shah's new article, "Decloaking Whiteness: Linguistic and Pedagogical Imperialisms of International Baccalaureate Teacher Education in Japan" has been published
• Nissan Seminar: Religion at the margins: Fear and belonging in minority religious communities in Japan
• Nissan Seminar: Meritocracy’s Children: Coming of Age and Senses of Injustice in Seoul and Tokyo
• Nissan Seminar: Balancing Commerce and Diplomacy: Japan's Strategy for Economic Security
• Nissan Seminar: Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction
• Nissan Seminar: Searching for Zan: A More-Than-Human Ethnography of Extinction, Militarism, and Protest in Okinawa
• Nissan Seminar: Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband and His Family Puts Him in a Cage
• Nissan Seminar: Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
• Nissan Seminar: Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Vision to Reality
• Professor Kristi Govella publishes new essay “US-ROK-Japan Trilateral Engagement on Economic Security: Disentangling Resilience, Competitiveness, and Protection”
• DPhil Candidate Ben Moeller's new article, "Outbound student mobility in Japan nose-dived. Why does the government claim it went up?" has been published in the latest issue of Japan Forum.
• DPhil Candidate Federica Costantino's new article "‘The first step towards racial equality’: The Kuroda-Araya engagement and the dream of a transnational non-white alliance" has been published in Modern Asian Studies
• Edward Rhys Jones
• Dr Olga Khomenko publishes "The Faraway Sky of Kyiv. Ukrainians in the War." in English
• Arron O'Connor
• Dr Pan Tomé Valencia
• Professor Takehiko Kariya
• A Thank You from the "Healthcare Delivery in Crisis?: The potential for mutual learning between Japan and the UK” Organisers!
• Dr Chinami Oka interviewed by the United Kingdom Historical Association
• Professor Kristi Govella publishes new article “South Korea’s Engagement in Asian Regional Outer Space Institutions: Economics, Security, and Institutional Design”
• Nairne Brown
• MSc Student Nairne Brown publishes new article "Ainu Language Death and Indications of Change in a Japanese-Dominant Environment" in Michigan Journal of Asian Studies
• Nissan Seminar: Bringing Dark Heritage to Light: Monuments to Wartime Foreign Laborers in Japan
• Workshop: Transnationalism in East Asia and Beyond: History, Politics and Culture
• Nissan Seminar: Violence and the Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Fiction
• Tanaka Symposium 2025: Tohoku and Transnational Solidarities
• Alok Ranpise
• Nissan Seminar: Decolonial and Indigenous Military Geographies of Okinawa and Beyond
• Conference: Re-assembling Manchukuo from below: Invisible Minorities, Politics, and Imagination
• OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: Introduction and Reflections on 20 years of SIAS/OSGA
• OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: ‘Social and Economic Challenges and Opportunities’ Roundtable
• Joint Nissan and Latin American Studies Centre Seminar: Tango in Japan: Cosmopolitanism beyond the West