On September 17th, we celebrated language diversity at the Global Languages Day event at DOKK1. The day included insightful talks and an engaging roundtable discussion highlighting similarities and differences among languages and regions around the world.
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Aarhus University hosts NAJS Conference 2024 Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society Last month, our Japan Studies Program organized the 18th NAJS Conference here in Aarhus. The conference featured a total of 29 papers on such diverse topics as architecture, drug smuggling, international relations, gender, economics and more. We had participants coming
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Researchers from our Japan Studies program presented some of the preliminary results of the project Coercive and Emotional Diplomacy in East Asia: Japanese Responses at the International Studies Association 2024 Annual Convention in San Francisco in early April.
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Just before the Easter Break, our second-semester students from the Japan Studies program had a somewhat unorthodox oral exam. In what has become an annual tradition, the students performed roleplays that they had written themselves.
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On 2 February, Jonathan Nilas Puntervold from our Japan Studies program successfully defended his dissertation – “If the Shoe Fits: Yamada Yoshio and the birth of neotraditionalist linguistics in Japan”
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The project “Coercive and Emotional Diplomacy in East Asia: Japanese Responses” held its second workshop online on Friday, the 19th.
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On November 24, we hosted a fascinating book talk by Heather Swanson from the Department of Anthropology here at AU about her new book: “Spawning Modern Fish: Transnational Comparison in the Making of Japanese Salmon”.
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On November 22nd, the third semester Japanese Studies students hosted a wonderful cooking event for the purpose of social and cultural exchange. The students invited current exchange students from Japan, as well as their professors and assistant teachers.
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On November 15th, we were delighted to host a lecture by Sonia Contera from the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. The lecture was titled Reality, Technology and Power: the deep relationship of modern Japan with Physics and physicists.
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Concert and Workshop with Traditional Japanese Instruments On 26 April, the Japan Studies program had the great and rare pleasure of hosting a concert and workshop with the traditional Japanese instruments koto and shakuhachi. Ayumi Shimonoto, a Yamada School koto performer, was joined by her daughter, Sakura Yuka, who is following in her mother’s footsteps,
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