CJS e-Newsletter Autumn 2020-21

October 22, 2020
What’s in thisissue
WelcomeMessage
Online Summer
Programme
MA inInterdisciplinaryJapaneseStudies
Beyond Japan
Upcoming
EventsEditor: Oliver MoxhamCJS Director: Professor Simon Kaner
Header photo by editor

Scholarships
General Links
Contact Us

Welcome Message

CJS ニュースレターへようこそ！

Welcome to the Autumn 2020 Centre for Japanese Studies e-Newsletter. We have had some changes at theCentre for Japanese Studies over the summer, in particular with Oliver Moxham moving from theInterdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities to the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts andCultures. In addition, news about the Centre for Japanese Studies will now appear on our new website
JapanInNorwich.org. It makes a good opportunity to thank Ollie for all that he has done for CJS over the lastyear, and also to re-iterate how important is maintaining a strong relationship between the University andthe Sainsbury Institute through these difficult times. We have reverted to our previous once-a-semester
format but look out for updates on the website and on social media.
In this issue we will be reviewing what we have accomplished from our forays into the digital under COVIDconditions, including our Online Summer Programme, our ongoing Beyond Japan podcast series and our allnew website. We also have a raft of upcoming events to fill your virtual diary including the online revival of
our CJS Research Webinar series, as well as book launches and online lectures from our CJS colleagues. Finally
we present to you opportunities to take your passion for all things Japanese to the next level throughscholarships and digital learning resources.
We always welcome feedback and are very happy to pass on Japan-related news of relevance to ourreadership – so do get in touch and let us know what you think.
Stay safe and well,
Simon and Ollie
Editor’s note: Japanese names are given in the Japanese form of family name first i.e. MATSUMOTO Mariko1

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Online Summer Programme in Japanese Cultural Heritage
This summer the Centre for Japanese Studies atthe University of East Anglia and the Sainsbury
Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts andCultures invited applications for a special Online
Summer Programme in Japanese Cultural Studies.
This programme is offered in place of the Japan
Orientation Summer School (sponsored by theToshiba International Foundation) and theIshibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship inJapanese Arts and Heritage (sponsored by theIshibashi Foundation), postponed from summer
2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. It is ourcurrent hope that these two programmes will berescheduled to summer 2021.
The Online Summer Programme in Japanese
Cultural Studies will include a guided andinteractive exploration of digital resources
available for the field, including the Ishibashi Foundation Lecture Series held in Japan from 2014-2018, and anopportunity to engage with the production of a review of the future of Japanese cultural studies outsideJapan, building on an international conference on this theme held in Norwich in 2017. The Academic Directorof the Online Summer Programme is Professor Simon Kaner, Executive Director of the Sainsbury Institute andDirector of the Centre for Japanese Studies at UEA, and the programme will offer the chance for digital
encounters with academics from both organisations. There will also be opportunities to engage online withparticipants from around the world and to join the network of young specialists who have taken part in theJapan Orientation Summer School and the Ishibashi Foundation Summer Fellowship in previous years.
Participants who engage with all aspects of the programme will receive a Certificate of Attendance.
You can find out more about the summer programme at the Sainsbury Institute website here.

MA in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies

学際日本学

The University of East Anglia together with The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts andCultures are delighted to announce the launch of our new MA programme in Interdisciplinary Japanese2

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Studies. It’s been an unsettling time for prospective students, but we’ve worked hard to adapt and bring you
an exciting course for September 2020.
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 diversity amongst our lecturers, watch our new video on
YouTube or subscribe to our Beyond Japan podcast series for in-depth discussion with the teaching team.
For our inaugral year, we were delighted to welcome 8 students to the programme. We welcome them toNorwich with open arms and wish them the best of luck with their studies!
Beyond Japan Autumn 2020 Episodes

ビヨンド・ジャパン

Our groundbreaking podcast series Beyond Japan, now coming to you from the Sainsbury Institute, is back fora new academic year exploring the interdisciplinary nature of Japanese Studies and what insights the fieldprovides in other areas of study. We also touch on how world-leading experts developed their interest into
academic research with a brief retrospective at the start of each episode. Subscribe to our YouTube channel
for the latest episodes.
This semester we are bringing you weekly episodes tackling a range of topics. Available new episodes include:
Ep. #8: Sino-Japan Relations with Dr Giulio Pugliese

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Ep. #9: Japan-Korea Pop Culture Exchange with Dr Chris Perkins

Ep. #10: Kurosawa Versus Western Cinema with Dr Lola Martinez

Upcoming episodes include:• Ep. #11: Haruki Murakami in the Hong Kong Protests with Dr Michael Tsang• Ep. #12: Black Lives Matter and Afro-Japanese Exchange with Warren A. Stanislaus• Ep. #13: Hauntings and Discriminated Histories with Andrea De Antoni
CJS Research Webinar Series: ‘Disaster Memory’ with Richard Lloyd-Parry and Dr Mark Pendleton‘Disaster Memory’ with Richard Lloyd-Parry and Dr Mark Pendleton
Thursday 6 November
13:00-14:00 BST
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For our second CJS Research Webinar of the academic year, we are joined by Richard Lloyd-Parry andDr Mark Pendleton to discuss disaster memory in Japan. Discussion will be moderated by Nadine
Willems, Lecturer of History at UEA, and Oliver Moxham, Project Support Officer at the Sainsbury
Institute. As we approach the 10th anniversary of the 3/11 nuclear disaster at Fukushima, we discuss
the social memory of the disaster with acclaimed foreign correspondent Richard Lloyd-Parry whoseaward-winning 2017 book Ghosts of the Tsunami explores its reverberating impact on a regional,communal and social level. Dr Mark Pendleton, whose research on disaster memory includes
extensive studies of the 1995 Aum sarin attack in Tokyo, shares his insights on how memory forms inthe wake of disasters. The session will be rounded off by discussion between the participants formedby the Q&A.
About the speakers
Richard Lloyd-Parry is a writer and foreign correspondent for The Times(London) as the Asia Editor based in Tokyo. He has written several works
documenting years of coverage of momentous events in recent Japanese history
including the trial of Joji Obara in People Who Eat Darkness and the aftermath of
the 3/11 disaster in Ghosts of the Tsunami. The latter has been hailed as one of
the best books of 2017 by The Guardian, NPR, GQ, The Economist, Bookforum,
Amazon and Lit Hub for its powerful account of the circumstances around thedisaster which claimed 18,000 lives.
Dr Mark Pendleton is a social and cultural historian who joined the School for
East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield in January 2012 after completinga PhD in history at the University of Melbourne. His research is interdisciplinary
in nature, drawing from history, cultural studies, memory studies, literature,geography and critical theory. Mark’s doctoral thesis explored how the 1995
Tokyo subway gassing is remembered politically and culturally in the context ofpostwar Japan through various forms of life writing and memorial practices.
While developing his doctoral research into a book manuscript Mark’s latest research projects focus
on modern ruins and industrial heritage in Japan and on queer/LGBT literary figures in postwar Japan.
Upcoming Webinar
Our next webinar will be on Thursday 3 December around Afro-Japanese Exchange and Race in Japan.
More details will be made available on our website nearer to the time, so stay tuned for further
updates!
Upcoming Events & Opportunites

催し物

Online Book Launch: Ishikawa Sanshirō’s Geographical Imagination by DrNadine Willems
Monday 26 October 2020
12:00-13:00 BST
Book here on the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation website.
Ishikawa Sanshirō was a journalist and anarchist in the early twentiethcentury, active at a time of tremendous intellectual and social ferment.

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Geographical Imagination investigates his engagement with causessuch as farmers’ autonomy, gender equality, and anti-war and antipollution. Through Ishikawa’s personal journey – which includes several
years of European exile – the book invites us to reconsider the scopeand ambitions of anarchism in Japan at the time and reassesses
geographical thought as a basis for dialogue between Eastern andWestern radical thinkers.
In this book launch, the author, CJS colleague Dr Nadine Willems, will be joined in discussion of thebook’s themes by Dr Constance Bantman and Dr Ian Rapley. It will be hosted as an online webinar.
Spirits of Action: Japanese Manga and Sports
Wednesday 28 October 2020
12:00pm BST
Online Event hosted on Zoom.
Book your place at the Japan Foundation website.
Join our CJS colleague Rayna Denison, Senior Lecturer
in Film Studies at UEA, for an online discussion ofsports in manga.
Being an avid manga reader and a sport fanatic may seem to be mutually
exclusive characteristics. In Japanese manga history, however, they have always
been a good match and played well together in attracting manga fans as well as
enthusiastic sports players. From tennis to judo, a huge variety of sports havebeen a source of inspiration for the ‘sports manga’ form of the graphic novel
read by girls, boys, and young adults alike, and the genre has kept driving themarket and readership forward. Certain works have gained huge momentum andhave become a trend in Japanese society. The genre’s continuing popularity andinfluence is proven in the fact that many ‘sports manga’ titles have been adapted
into other media such as film and animation.
In the lead up to TOKYO2020 (postponed to next year), the Japan Foundation has invited Yoshimura
Kazuma of Kyoto Seika University to talk about the inseparable relationship between manga andsports. Succinctly tracing its history from post-war to today, YOSHIMURA will discuss the position of‘sports manga’ in Japanese culture and how its contents have evolved to reflect the time, society andpeople’s spirits, and indeed how the genre has managed to keep attracting Japanese readers, as wellas manga artists, even while changing its shape.
After Yoshimura’s presentation, there will be a brief conversation with Rayna Denison.
Yoshimura Kazuma completed coursework for a Ph.D. program at Ritsumeikan University. He currently
serves as the head of the Faculty of Manga, as well as at the International Manga Research Center. His
field of research is in the history of philosophy and manga studies. Yoshimura’s published workincludes Manga’s Handling of Prejudice (2007), Manga Textbook (2008), Multiple Hiroshima (2012),‘Chiran’ as a convenient manga experience – Media dynamics of ‘Authentic record on KAMIKAZE’(printed in The Birth of Chiran, edited by Yoshiaki Fukuma, Makoto Yamazaki, 2015), and Osamu
Tezuka – ‘the God of Manga’ fostered by unfavorable wind (printed in Intellectual History of JapanesePeople Vol.4 (2015, Iwanami Shoten).

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Dig Dogs – The Archaeology of Dogs in Japan: Talk by Professor
Simon KanerJapan House
Thursday 29 October 2020
17:00-18:00 UTC
Free to attend, booking essential
Dogs are indeed humankind’s oldest best friends and havereceived preferential treatment since ancient times. Track thelong relationship that dogs have enjoyed with the people ofJapan while examining archaeological finds in this talk byProfessor Simon Kaner, Executive Director of the Sainsbury
Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, and Head of the Centre for Archaeology andHeritage and Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia.
Encultured, named and anthropomorphised, dogs embody loyalty, friendship andskill – especially in the hunt. Starting with the newly re-investigated earliest known
burials of dogs from a prehistoric rock shelter in rural Shikoku, itself a remarkableearly example of ‘architecture for dogs’, we will follow the trail of ancient DNA to
track down doggy ancestors through the ages, sniffing our way down
anthropological and archaeological paths, stopping to check out a range of canineconnections, and chasing after some world-famous dog archaeologists themselves,as we explore how dogs have helped make us human.
The live online talk will be followed by a Q&A during which there will be an opportunity for guests tosubmit their own questions to the speaker.
This event is part of Japan House London’s Architecture for Dogs season which explores therelationship between dogs and humans. See the exhibition Architecture for Dogs in the Japan House
Gallery until 10 January 2021.
SISJAC Third Thursday Lectures
Our colleagues at the Sainsbury Institute hold monthly lectures around Japanese arts and cultures
every third Thursday. You can find out more about their upcoming events here.
Vice Chancellor David Richardson at Japan Society
Vice Chancellor of UEA David Richardson has been invited to speak at an upcoming Japan Society
event. Please see their website here for further details as they come.

Scholarships and Funding

奨学金の機械

Daiwa Scholarships: Language Study, Homestay & Work Placement in Japan
Application deadline: 3 December 2020

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The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is a UK charity supporting UK-Japan links throughawarding Daiwa Scholarships and Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies; offering grants to support
UK-Japan collaboration and organising events including seminars, and exhibitions at its London
headquarters.
The flagship Daiwa Scholarships programme was established in 1991. It is a unique 19-monthprogramme of language study, work placement, and homestay in Japan, following a month ofJapanese language study at the EJEF Centre near High Wycombe. If offers young and talented UK
citizens with strong leadership potential the opportunity to acquire Japanese language skills, and toaccess expertise and knowledge relevant to their career goals. No previous experience of Japan orJapanese is necessary, but an interest in and angle on Japan is essential.
With expertise in an average year ranging from swords to spin chemistry to history to railway
engineering, these Scholars set to achieve great things. Some of them will no doubt remain actively
engaged with Japan throughout their careers, but we are confident that all of them will be imbued
with an enduring love of Japan.
Language study in Japan is undertaken at the Japanese language study at the Center for Japanese
Language at Waseda University in Tokyo. A one-month Homestay is spent with a family outside Tokyo
at the end of the first year. The Work Placement is organised in consultation with each Scholar, andwith the help of the Foundation’s Tokyo Office.
Candidates must be: UK nationals aged between 21 and 35 years of age. Those with a degree inJapanese are ineligible for this programme, but may consider the Daiwa Scholarships in JapaneseStudies. More information is available here.
Application Timetable / Programme date details
3 December 2020: Application deadline
February and March 2021: Interviews (There are three interview stages)
From End of July/August 2021: 1- month Japanese language course in the UK
September 2021: Departure for Japan
Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies
Application deadline: 28 January 2021
This is a postgraduate Scholarship programme to support the study of Japanese Studies in either
Japan or the UK. Only UK citizens who hold or are completing a degree in Japanese Studies, defined asa course focussing primarily on the study of Japan, and containing a substantial Japanese language
component are eligible to apply.
Applicants who hold (or are completing) combined honours courses where Japanese Studies accounts
for at least 50% of the course may also apply. The Scholarship will cover university fees for thecourse in question, plus living expenses. Living expenses will be payable at a rate of £1,000 per monthfor periods spent in the UK, and ¥260,000 per month for periods spent in Japan.
Candidates for the Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies must be British citizens who are holders ofan Honours degree in Japanese Studies, defined as a course focussing primarily on the study of Japan,
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October 22, 2020and containing a substantial Japanese language component, and enrolled or enrolling in a JapaneseStudies-related course in either Japan or the UK.
Applications from candidates wishing to undertake courses at Japanese universities are particularlywelcomed.
More information for this scholarship is available here.
Queries can be directed to scholarships@dajf.org.uk
Find out more about Daiwa scholarships here.
Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentships
Application deadline: 28 February 2021
The Centre for Japanese Studies has once again been invited to submit
applications for a number of Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentships. This is
the 8th 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 wehave three Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentship holders in HIS and AMA. Each studentship is worth£10,000 towards tuition fees and living expenses. In the first instance, please send a brief CV and astatement of interest (up to 500 words), specifiying the course you are interested in and your futureplans in Japan-related research and activity, to Professor Simon Kaner (s.kaner@uea.ac.uk) by 28
February 2021.

日本にて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 theAsahi Shimbun homepage [JP].
For non-Japanese speakers, the numbers indicate:Nationwide infections: Yesterday (total) Deaths: Yesterday (total) Recoveries: Yesterday (total)
国内の感染者：＋前日（総数）

死者：＋前日（総数） 退院者：＋前日（総数）Visit the Pandaid website for comprehensive material for educating on coronavirus. Nosigner has contributed
many such manner posters including advising others to stay one tuna apart.
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 comingout of the crisis:••The Japanese words used to encourage self-restraintCancellations, postponements, suspensions — words that define the times

Click here for a comprehensive online document on Japanese universities adopting distance learning.

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For more information on Japanese universities see this twitter thread by Rochelle Kopp, professor at
Kitakyushu University, for resources.

お役立ちリンク

General Links
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.comTaiko Centre East
Career Forums

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