CJS e-Newsletter Autumn 2021-22

October 18, 2021
What’s in this
issue
MA in
Interdisciplinary
Japanese
StudiesCJS 10th
anniversary
In-person
events &exhibits
Beyond Japan
PodcastCJS Colleague
Updates

Editor: Oliver MoxhamCJS Director: Professor Simon Kaner
Header photo by editor

Online events
General Links
Contact Us
Welcome Message

CJS ニュースレターへようこそ！

Welcome to the Autumn 2021 Centre for Japanese Studies e-Newsletter. In this issue we are happy toannounce the return to in-person events after almost two years of solely digital outreach. However, ouronline following will not be forgotten as we intend to provide the option of streaming in-person events to get
the best of both worlds. Our CJS Research Seminar series will also be staying online in webinar format for the
coming semester to bring you speakers from around the world. We continue to have a host of Japan-related
displays at the Sainsbury Centre, including a special guest exhibition by Leiko Ikemura which opened on 23rd
July – see the review in Apollo. Our Faces of Faith display has also been extended until the end of the year,
while those unable to visit in person can enjoy our online display at JapanInNorwich.org. Finally, we haveseveral updates from our CJS colleagues to share with you.
We always welcome feedback and are very happy to pass on Japan-related news of relevance to ourreadership – so do get in touch.
Stay safe and well,
Simon and Oliver
Editor’s note: Japanese names, barring special exceptions, are given in the Japanese form of family name firsti.e. MATSUMOTO Mariko
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21 October
The Arts and Culture of Intellectual History: Re-Encountering Nature and Science
with Dr Eiko Honda
23 OctoberCompilation of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Early Modern Japan:
Ryūkūan Processions and Edo
Kanagawa University webinar
29-31 October
CEEJA Workshop: Japanese Studies and Transnationalism
organised by the Consortium for Global Japanese Studies Nichibunken, Centre Européen d'Études Japonaises
d'Alsace (CEEJA) and Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies
7 November
Kobo A-B Workshop at the Sainsbury Institute: An Introduction to Borowith Kobo A-B
11 November
CJS Webinar: The history of translation of Beauvoir's The Second Sex in Japan
with Dr Julia Bullock, Professor of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University
18 November
Robert Sainsbury Lecture: The Presence of Absencewith Rebecca Salter, President of the Royal Academy
24 November 13:00
School of History Online Book Launch for
Eleven Winters of Discontent (Harvard University Press)
by Dr Sherzod Muminov (who will be in discussion with Professsor Simon Kaner)
9 December
Translating Mishima Yukio
with Professor Stephen Dodd

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MA in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies

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学際日本学

Last year, the University of East Anglia together with the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts
and Cultures launched our new MA programme in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies. This year we have 7
enthusiastic students joining the programme and we are delighted to welcome them to Norwich. We invite
any prospective students to join our blossoming programme from September 2022. Feel free to get in touchwith any questions you may have about the course and see our webpage for more information.
Administered through UEA’s Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities, home to the Centre for JapaneseStudies, this MA course is a collaboration of Japan specialists from both the University and the Sainsbury
Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. Lecturers with academic focus on Japan from several
schools of study at UEA, as well as academic staff of the Sainsbury Institute together have developed an
innovative interdisciplinary curriculum for students who want to know about Japan, its place in the world,
and its transforming cultural identity. For a taste of the diversity amongst our lecturers, watch our new video
on YouTube or check our Beyond Japan podcast episodes Series 1, episodes 1-7 for in-depth discussion withthe teaching team.

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10th anniversary of CJS: looking forward

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日本学センター10 周年

Professor Simon Kaner, Director of CJSThis autumn we celebrate some significant anniversaries: ten years of degree-level
Japanese language and Japanese Studies at UEA, along with the Centre for JapaneseStudies; and two decades of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts andCultures at our city centre headquarters, 64 The Close. These anniversaries offer an
opportunity to reflect on our achievements and to look forward to the future – what will
the next ten years bring for Japanese Studies in Norwich? We will be gathering views on
this over the coming couple of months and will report more fully in January.
It is also an opportunity to thank our generous supporters, the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, the GreatBritain Sasakawa Foundation, the Ishibashi Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Toshiba International
Foundation and Yakult, who provide the annual Yakult Prize in Japanese language studies.
We have big plans for this anniversary academic year. In November we welcome the President of the Royal
Academy, Rebecca Salter, to Norwich to give the Robert Sainsbury Lecture. We are planning to bring the
British Association for Japanese Studies and Japan Foundation Postgraduate Workshop in Japanese Studies to
Norwich in early 2022. And we are developing plans for our next Summer Programme ini Japanese Cultural
Studies – watch out for announcements about these and other events.
Other news from the Director
Summer 2021 saw Tokyo host the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, widely regarded as a success even though
the pandemic meant no live audiences. Simon took the opportunity to review the archaeology of the Olympic
megacity in Current World Archaeology, and to pull together some additional resources available atwww.sainsbury-institute.org/project/tokyoarchaeology. He also published a series of articles in the German
journal Antike Welt on the current state of Japanese archaeology, which he hopes to publish in English
shortly. A further publication was Cultural Flows between Japan and the World, drawing together the themesof the Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series organised by the Sainsbury Institute in Japan between 2014 and
2019.

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In-person events & exhibits

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対面イベントと展示

The Sainsbury Institute has been busy collaborating with our colleagues across Norwich to host a series ofJapan-related exhibits this summer as museums tentatively reopen to the public once more.
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Leiko Ikemura: Usagi in Wonderland
18 July – 12 December
Tickets: £8 or FREE for Members and UEA/NUA Student Members
Book your tickets here
Japanese-Swiss artist, Ikemura Leiko, presents a selection of paintings,
sculptures, drawings and photography in her first UK exhibition. Ikemura
has selected 50 works that span three decades of her career. Her art
appeals to our imagination with its childlike purity.
The exhibition’s dominant theme is the connectivity of all aspects of nature, be it human, animal,
plant or mineral, in an eternal circle of life. Through her fantastical figures and primeval landscapes,
Ikemura explores fragility, transience and slow evolutionary change – choosing to addressenvironmental issues from an empathetic, global perspective.
Usagi, meaning ‘rabbit’ in Japanese, is a recurrent mystical motif in Ikemura’s work, representing
rebirth, fertility and renewal. Her bronze sculpture, Usagi Kannon (Rabbit Bodhisattva of Mercy), will
stand in the Sainsbury Centre Sculpture Park from autumn 2021, providing a place of refuge to visitors
wishing to shelter beneath its generous skirt.
The exhibition has been developed in collaboration with the Sainsbury Institute to coincide with theJapan-UK Season of Culture.
Supported by The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Henry Moore Foundation, Japan-UK Season ofCulture and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.
Image Credit: Trees out of Head, Leiko Ikemura, 2015/20 © Leiko Ikemura and VG Bild-Kunst 2021

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Faces of Faith: Early Japanese Religious Statuary at the Sainsbury Centre
18 June – 31 December
Description by Oliver Moxham
As part of my MA course in Museum and Heritage Studies, I took partin a three-week internship with the Sainsbury Centre to design an
exhibit to join museums in Japan celebrating the 1,400th anniversaryof the death of Prince Shōtoku Taishi, the regent who brought
Buddhism to Japan. Faces of Faith is centred around the rare 13th
century wooden statue typically on display in the Living Area, “Female
Shinto Deity” (right), and seeks to put into context the significanceand value of such religious artefacts in Japan as well as the dynamic
history of East Asia Prince Shōtoku represents.
Of course, dealing with a semi-legendary figure from the 7th century
poses many questions. Who was Prince Shōtoku? Did he really fly up
to Mt. Fuji on horseback? Why was Buddhism so significant andwhere does Shinto fit into it? The exhibit breaks down thesequestions into three themes, looking at the historical, political andreligious context of Japan in the 7th century. To nourish any inquisitiveminds whose curiosity has been piqued by the exhibit, a dedicated “Shōtoku miniseries” has been
produced by Beyond Japan with an episode dedicated to each theme.
Kobo A-B Workshop at the Sainsbury Institute: An Introduction to Boro
Sunday 7 November 2021 | 10:00-16:00
Sunday 5 December 2021 | 10:00-16:00
Available to attend in person at the Sainsbury Institute (64 The
Close, NR1 4DH)
£90 per ticket
Book via the Kobo A-B website
Boro – ぼ ろ or Ranru らんる are both terms in Japanese which translate as old and tattered. The
term is now commonly used about all Japanese textiles that are patched or repaired garments or
bedding which have been mended, using fragments or oddments of cloth. Boro textiles originate fromthe Edo period through to the beginning of the Showa period in Japanese history. These items were
often handed down from generation to generation, usually within a family, and have become prized
and treasured pieces of textile art for the beauty inherent within each piece.
An introduction to BORO, looking and creating textile work and pieces that emulate and are in
sympathy with the repair approaches found within the world and creation of Boro/Ranru pieces.

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Beyond Japan Podcast

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ポッドキャスト再視聴

Beyond Japan has entered its second series. You can find Beyond Japan on
Spotify, Apple, Google, Anchor and many other servers. Alternatively, you
can subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest episodes.
Oliver recently wrote a report on Beyond Japan’s first year, noting its farreaching listeners from all ages and across the world. The report also
features glowing comments from former interviewees on how the podcast
makes their research more accessible and episodes feature on curricula atseveral prestigious universities. The full report will be published in 2022 on
JapanInNorwich.org.
New episodes come out every Thursday. More information is available here. In case you missed them, thefirst 6 episodes of the second season can be found below:

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CJS Colleague Updates

CJS スタッフ近況

We bid farewell to two colleagues who have helped shape CJS during its first decade: Dr Rayna Denison left
the University in Septemer to take up a new Professorship in Animation Studies at the University of Bristol.
And Dr Chris Hayes who masterminded our hugely successful Online Summer Programmes in Japanese
Cultural Studies and much more besides takes up a Lectureship in Tourism Studies at the University of
Teesside. We congratulate them both and wish them every success in their new ventures.
Upcoming publications
Our colleague Dr Ra Mason, Sasakawa Associate Professor of International Relations andJapanese Foreign Policy, shares with us his roster of upcoming publications due out overthe coming year:
Handbook of Disaster Studies in Japan (“Okinawa as a site of vulnerability andresilience”, Ed. Vol. chapter)
This chapter draws on a synthesis of historical literature and International Relations theory tochallenge contemporary framings of Okinawa through the case study of disasters that have struck the
prefecture’s formerly primary site of sovereign power, Shuri Castle. In so doing, it adopts a
decolonised, discursive interpretive approach to analysis of Shuri’s historical legacy as the centre of
Okinawan political, economic and social identity, before focusing discussion upon the two most recent
destructions of the Castle’s physical structure, in 1945 and 2019, respectively. In particular, thechapter critically assesses the responses to these incidents in terms of how, as a function of both great
power rivalry and liminal resistance to colonial conquest and military occupation, Okinawa hasremained vulnerable yet at the same time resilient throughout the intervening period, and looks set tocontinue that way (Darder 2018; Schwartz-Shea and Yanow 2011).
Japan’s Security Policy (“Layered Security on Okinawa”, Ed Vol. chapter)
Lying between Tokyo, Beijing and Taipei and hosting more than 74% of American military bases inJapan, Okinawa has often been referred to as the ‘Keystone of the Pacific’ within regional security
narratives. This is primarily because of its geo-strategically pivotal position along the so-called ‘First
Island Chain’, separating the Western Pacific and East China Sea, and its historically contested politicalstatus as a former tributary of China, colony of Japan and protectorate of the United States (US). Amid
this checkered history, the chapter below examines the case of Okinawa-related security issues from alayered perspective. In so doing, it critically interrogates how Okinawa has been understood,(re)constructed, and (re)framed across international, national and sub-national (local) contexts as ameans to shape respective policies under the reasoning or pretext of security, be that in geo-military,socio-economic, environmental or other terms. By making use of critical discourse analysis (CDA) andrisk-based theories of International Relations the discussion reveals how the intersections between
key actors, such as ministers of state, political parties, mass media, commercial interests (privatesector businesses), local government and a diverse range of activists, have created a highly complex
and asymmetrical tapestry of security layers, articulated via competing and contradictory narratives.
Japan-UK relations: old alliances, new partnerships (“UK-Japan Security Cooperation”, Ed Vol.
chapter)This chapter builds on the in-depth account of contemporary developments in U.K.-Japan security
relations provided by Mulloy. In contrast, however, with Shetler-Jones’ focused exposition of recent
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military exchanges, it does so by broadening the scope of analysis in order to interrogate the extent towhich the U.K. and Japan have moved towards a new so called special relationship across a range of
security spheres in the post-Brexit world. Given that Britain is arguably Europe’s most significant
contributor to regional and global security regimes, Brexit not only matters for the future of intraEuropean security, but also for how the U.K. – as ‘Global Britain’– forges relations with other key
external partners, including those from across Asia, led by Japan.
Crisis Narratives, Institutional Change, and the Transformation of the Japanese State (“A State of
Crisis: North Korean Missiles, Abductions, and the Transformation of Postwar Japan”, Ed Vol.
chapter)Japan’s post-Cold War state, market and societal-led responses to North Korea represent an
illustrative example of how the construction of a supposedly ongoing crisis has been effectively
undertaken to justify the recalibration of security risks – and a reconfiguring of security policy. This
chapter critically examines discourse from the Japanese Diet pertaining to North Korean affairs inorder to elucidate how the abduction of Japanese citizens, missile testing and nuclear proliferation
have been conflated in order to frame the DPRK as an entity amounting in itself to a multifaceted
security crisis. It thereby exposes the discourse-led process by which this conflated crisis on the
Korean Peninsula is appropriated to depict an increasingly vulnerable Japan whose security
capabilities – relative to those of its regional rivals – are seen to be in decline.
International Affairs (“Djiboutian sovereignty: worlding global security networks”, research journal
article)Japanese state-level agency is largely determined by the perceived interests of its own domestic andforeign policy elites, in broad (though fluctuating) alignment with US national interests as a juniorsecurity alliance partner of Washington. The controversial initiative to operate in Djibouti by leasing
part of the US Camp Lemonnier base passed through Japan’s National Diet in 2010, and was stealthily
enacted while the country’s media and political elite were focused on the triple disaster of the Great
East Japan Earthquake, the ensuing tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear power plant reactor
meltdown. The establishment of a fully operational Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF) facility in Djibouti
is an interesting case of atypical sovereignty performance, in initially sub-letting space from theprimary tenant, the US military, who in turn were leasing extraterritorial space from the sovereign
owner, Djibouti. In other words, Japan entered Djibouti’s sovereign territory through the outsourced
conditionality of an American forces base, but in practice gained effective sovereign-style control overDjiboutian territory, albeit in a highly confined physical space.
Interdisciplinary International Workshop on Ageing in Japan and the UK (GBSF-funded, hosted online
9th September 2021)
The workshop built upon the Second Conference on Global Japanese Studies, hosted at Tohoku
University, Sendai, in December of 2019, as part of the ongoing research and academic exchange
partnership between the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Tohoku University, established in 2018.
The event offered an interdisciplinary platform from which to examine how advanced economies
facing challenges associated with ageing society might learn from one another and develop more
integrated medical, social, economic and politico-administrative systems in order to contributetowards developing systemic improvements, reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience. Its
aspirational agenda was to develop research networks that adopt methodologically credibleinterdisciplinary approaches and responses to practical problems arising from ageing society, with aflexible focus upon Japan and the UK, and a view to wider application. The workshop served as astarting point from which to advance this agenda.
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Link to Youtube video of full conference: https://youtu.be/DU8xzrV_VB8
The Conversation UK (“US-Japan relations: why two new leaders need a fresh approach to thealliance in the Asia-Pacific”, online article: https://theconversation.com/us-japan-relations-why-twonew-leaders-need-a-fresh-approach-to-the-alliance-in-the-asia-pacific-154302).
When Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, global reaction was
overwhelmingly positive – and, in some parts of the world, bordering on the euphoric. In recent
addresses, Biden has asserted that “American alliances are our greatest asset” and pledged tomaintain the so-called “Quad” of the US, India, Australia and Japan to counter Chinese hegemony in
the Asia-Pacific region. Japan’s response to the new “leader of the free world”, though, has been
comparatively understated. This may come as something of a surprise given the vitriolic pursuit ofoutgoing president, Donald Trump, by the mainstream media and academia in the English-speaking
world.
JET Programme & Daiwa on campus
By Lisa-Rose Moller
The JET programme and DAIWA took part in the UEA Virtual Recruitment & Opportunities Fair on the
14th of October and had the opportunity to reach more than 1,500 students with information about
their programmes. We are looking forward to them joining us virtually again for our online ‘Global
Opportunities Week, 14-16th Feb 2022. Don’t forget to check out all the events that UEA
CareerCentral are running through the Autumn term.

Interview with Student Union Postgraduate Education Officer, Ayane
Hida
By Oliver Moxham
As a special audio-article for the e-newsletter, I was lucky
enough to be joined by Ayane Hida, the Postgraduate Education
Officer at the UEA Student’s Union (SU). Ayane studied an MA
in Global Intercultural Communication over 2019-20 at UEA
before taking on her current role. In the interview, I ask her
about her motivations for joining the SU, the challenges of therole during a pandemic and her plans for the future.
Listen in here: https://japaninnorwich.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Ayane-Hida-Interview.mp3

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CJS Research Webinar Series

For our 2021-22 CJS Research Webinar Series we will be resuming our monthly online sessions on the second
Thursday of each month, 13:00-14:00 BST. Please subscribe to our website, https://JapanInNorwich.org, foremail updates as soon as booking goes live. Our roster for the Autumn semester is as follows:
11 November
The history of translation of Beauvoir's The Second Sex in Japan
with Dr Julia Bullock, Professor of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Emory University
9 December
Missing the Point: The Art of Translating Mishima Yukio
with Professor Stephen Dodd
Other CJS-related events:
24 November 13:00
School of History Online Book Launch for
Eleven Winters of Discontent (Harvard University Press)
by Dr Sherzod Muminov in discussion with Professsor Simon Kaner

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Online/blended Events

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オンライン催し物

SISJAC Third Thursday Lectures
The Arts and Culture of Intellectual History: Re-Encountering Natureand Science.
With Dr Eiko Honda
Thursday 21 October 2021 | 18:00 GMT
Available to attend in person at the Hostry, Norwich Cathedral.
Available to watch online.
Book here
How have the arts and culture shaped the ways in which humans cometo understand nature? What kind of role have they played in uncoveringscientific facts and ideas? This talk will explore these questions with casestudies from intellectual history of modern Japan and contemporary art.
Ranging from microbes to knotweed, it invites the participating audience
to re-encounter what they thought they knew about nature and science
found in their everyday lives with fresh perspectives.
About the speaker
Eiko Honda specialises in intellectual history of modern Japan. She isparticularly interested in the ways in which the Humanities impacted thearticulation of modern scientific ‘truths’ within the wider context ofglobal political thoughts and the ‘environmental’ crisis. Through her
research on scientist-polymaths who embraced humanistic knowledge,
she illuminates the underlining logic behind interdisciplinary knowledge
formation of which existing historiography could not make sense. Her
fellowship at the Sainsbury Institute has enabled her to turn her DPhil thesis into a monographmanuscript tentatively entitled The Emergence of Queer Nature: Minakata Kumagusu (1867-1941)
and the Making of Microbial Paradigm, 1887-1900.
In parallel to her research in intellectual history, she investigates the implications of such histories toforms of knowledge-making required to face the climate crisis today. Her work received the Grand
Prize at the Toshiba International Foundation's 30th Anniversary Essay Contest on the research
agenda for Japanese Studies (2019). Prior to embarking on her DPhil in History at the University of
Oxford, she worked as a curator and writer of contemporary art and ideas in London as a curatorial
fellow for Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs (2013-2016). As a curator she specialised intransdisciplinary projects of art, sciences, and technologies in the context of Anglo-Asian historical
relations, delivering various exhibitions and education programmes on the topic.
For information on Dr Honda's publications: https://www.sainsbury-institute.org/info/eiko-honda
Notes on booking
The Sainsbury Institute retains no information collected via Eventbrite in accordance with GDPR
regulations. If you wish to subscribe for updates on events, you can sign up to our monthly e-bulletin
via our homepage or follow us on Twitter @SISJAC_UK.

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If you wish to attend in-person, we encourage you to wear a mask where possible. Please be awarethat the on-site elevator is unavailable due to flood damage and is awaiting repairs.

Robert Sainsbury Lecture: The Presence of AbsenceWith Rebecca Salter, President of the Royal Academy
Thursday 18 November 2021 | 18:30 GMT
Available to attend in person at Lecture Theatre 1, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ.
Available to watch online.
The extraordinary Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Collection illustrates the complexities, but also theimmeasurable rewards, of learning about each other mediated through art and artefacts. Their
Collection was created with love, an appetite to explore and include and, arguably, with an artist’s
eye.
Artists are, by nature, visually curious and hungry for the unfamiliar. Reflecting the spirit of theCollection, in the 2021 Robert Sainsbury Lecture, the artist and President of the Royal Academy ofArts, Rebecca Salter, will trace the development of her career through an examination of her long andenriching relationship with Japan and its culture. In the context of narratives around the dynamics of
the interactions between cultures, this is a very personal journey as seen through the eyes of an artist.
About the speaker
Rebecca Salter studied at Bristol Polytechnic and then at Kyoto City University of the Arts in Japan,
where she lived for six years. While living in Kyoto, Salter studied traditional Japanese woodblock
printing with Professor Kurosaki Akira and has since written two books on the subject. Her interest in
printmaking is combined with her main practice in painting. Until 2016 she was Associate Lecturer on
the MA Printmaking Course at Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London.
Salter exhibits regularly in London and internationally, and in 2011 she had a major retrospective into
the light of things at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut. An accompanying
exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery explored links between Western artists and Japan. She has
also been artist in residence twice (2003 and 2011) at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation,
Connecticut. Salter has undertaken several architectural commissions including 15 Sackville Street,
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Hospital. She has work in many private and public collections including Tate, British Museum, Yale
Center for British Art and Yale University Art Gallery.
Salter was elected as a Royal Academician to the category of Printmaker in December 2014 and, inJune 2017, was elected as the Keeper of the Royal Academy. On 10th December 2019 she was elected
the 27th President of the Royal Academy of Arts and became the first female President since theAcademy was founded in 1768.
Subscribe to the Sainsbury Institute e-bulletin to receive an email update when booking is available.
External events

Japanese Studies and Transnationalism
Webinar jointly organised by the Consortium for Global Japanese Studies Nichibunken, Centre Européen
d'Études Japonaises d'Alsace (CEEJA) and Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies
Friday 29 – Sunday 31 October
Registration deadline: 27th OctoberBook here
Read the full programme
In social science and humanities, transnationalism has been a thriving approach to understand ourworld today. Such a global and transnational turn has also impacted Japanese Studies. Nevertheless,the relationship between the transnational approach and area studies, including Japanese studies, canbe complex. On the one hand, accelerated transnational processes in our contemporary society haveurged our debates over the limitation, if not the invalidity, of examining area studies based on anation-state framework. However, on the other hand, we cannot avoid the fact that the nation-state
does remain and operates as a powerful institution that promotes and controls transnational flows
and practices even until today. As such, the workshop would like to call for papers that empirically andtheoretically touch upon the relationship between Japanese studies and transnationalism.
Specifically, the workshop welcomes a broad range of presentations that examine the process,interactions, and outcomes of Japanese transnationalism. Those papers can be historical orcontemporary cases from various fields in social science and humanities. At the same time, theworkshop also invites contributions discussing broader debates over the intricate relationshipbetween Japanese studies/area studies and transnationalism mentioned above.

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Compilation of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Early Modern
Japan:Ryūkūan Processions and Edo
Kanagawa University
Webinar
Saturday 23 October
Registration deadline: Tuesday 19 OctoberBook here
More information (日本語)This webinar (Japanese only) is part of a series exploring
depictions of common life in early modern Japan. This
talk considers the portrayal of everyday life in the streets
surrounding the 1850 procession of Ryūkūan
ambassadors to Edo. For more details, please visit thewebsite here: http://himoji.kanagawau.ac.jp/news/index.html#p-1126

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日本における新型コロナウィルスの情報

COVID News from JapanFor a running number of reported COVID19 infections, victims and recoveries in Japan, see the
Asahi Shimbun homepage [JP].
Infections: 1,701,132

Hospital Admissions: 6,726

Recoveries: 1,688,958

Deaths: 18,097

Vaccinations: 165,752,474
For non-Japanese speakers, the numbers on the webpage indicate:
Infections: Yesterday

Hospital Admissions: Yesterday(total)感染者：＋前日（総数）

Recoveries: Yesterday

Deaths: Yesterday(total)(total)(total)

入院者:＋前日

退院者：＋前日

死者：＋前日

（総数）

（総数）

（総数）

Vaccinations: Yesterday(total)ワクチン接種：＋前日（総数）
For a Japanese government public service video on coronavirus (Japanese only):
3 つの密を避けよう！
For Japanese speakers, here are two articles in English from the Japan Times laying out vocabulary coming
out of the crisis:••

The Japanese words used to encourage self-restraint
Cancellations, postponements, suspensions — words that define the times

General Links

お役立ちリンク

Orientations Magazine
Embassy of Japan
Japan Foundation
JSPS
British Association for Japanese Studies
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Japan Society
EU-Japan Centre
Canon Foundation
Applications for JET ProgrammeJapanese Language Proficiency ExamUEA Japan Society: ueajapansociety@gmail.com
Taiko Centre East
Career Forums
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