Prime Minister Ishiba closed his Hiroshima memorial speech by quoting a poem by Shoda Shinoe. It was published in 1947, in defiance of US Occupation authorities, who banned such poems. At the time Shoda believed her act could have resulted in imprisonment or the death penalty.

For those interested in kintsugi and Buddhist repair in art and ritual, I'm doing a few events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @asianstudiesed.bsky.social Lecture on Buddhist Repair, Spiegeltent, 17 Aug 10:30 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

On of the best Japan related jokes of all time, nearly impossible to top.

Bowl with Stamped Decoration https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.678

From #valentinesday to #bastilleday Printed, “3D” copy has finally arrived 👀📖🤗 #genderfluidity in #japaneseartsandculture

give way to the new day. #street #photography #morning

Researchers! Are you a fox 🦊 or a hedgehog 🦔? In this episode of Beyond the Books, Beth talks to self-professed fox-type, Dr Xuelei Huang. From cinema to smells, they dive into the softer side of history and cultural cosmopolitism in Republican China. Full episode: youtu.be/lrl234hkIZo

Upcoming lecture by Dr. Seth Jacobowitz @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on forensics and detective fiction, linking Britain / Scotland and Japan: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-set... #detectivefiction @uoe-llc.bsky.social @asianstudiesed.bsky.social

Welcome to @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social 👋

📚 Forthcoming Series: Short Introductions to Korean Studies (SIKS) Peer-reviewed, research-based, and Open Access. Covers #Koreanhistory, #politics, #society & #culture. Supported by AKSE. Proposals welcome. More: brill.com/page/forthco... #KoreanStudies #OpenAccess @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Now available in Open Access! 🔓 Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century by Yunxiang Yan Download it here for free: brill.com/display/titl... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

'Fine Day in May' - Kotozuka Eiichi, ca. 1950s. #JapaneseArt

A fine afternoon for our hanami yesterday 🌸😎🍱 #hanami #blossom #arthursseat #themeadows #maytime #花見　#花見

Repatriation of Ainu ancestral remains - yesterday the journey home began #readmore below: www.ed.ac.uk/news/2025/un...

May Day listening for #KoreanStudies #koreanempire #inourtime

Folks researching modern Japan: 3,700+ items of the Prange Collection’s Censored Newspaper Articles, items issued by the Civil Censorship Detachment 民間検閲支隊 (1945–1952), are now available (no login!) via NDL’s digital collections! More info: prangecollection.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/a... #NDLOutreach

Christ bearing his cross (1975) by Sadao Watanabe. 十字架を負うキリスト(1975年)。渡辺禎雄作品。 @sadaohanga.bsky.social #sadaowatanabe #渡辺禎雄 #民芸 #型絵染 #合羽摺 #四旬節 #사순절 #lent #veertigdagentijd #quadragesima #Fastenzeit #cuaresma #careme #聖金曜日 #goedevrijdag #goodfriday #karfreitag #vendredisaint #viernessanto

Scottish RME teachers: Buddhism Discovery Day: 12 June, 10am-2.30pm University of Edinburgh Includes Q&A with Thai Buddhist monk, meditation with Zen Buddhist priest, Buddhist Studies taster lectures, and Treasure Hunt for Buddhist art at National Museum of Scotland. Contact [email protected]

Video clip from Dr Youngmi Kim’s recent interview about the South Korean president’s removal from office: www.itv.com/watch/news/s...

Urgent petition to protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training - please sign and share!

Today! Join our final #asianstudiesseminar for this academic year Extraordinary Lives: Illustrated Hagiographies in Ming Book Culture, with Noga Ganany, University of Cambridge. LG08, 40 George Sq, 4-6pm. #inpersonseminar #allwelcome #chinesestudies #hagiography

Congratulations to Jess Polito, winner of theIndividual Presentation Category of the 20th annual UK-wide Japanese Speech Contest for University Students 🇯🇵💬🎉

We’re pleased to share details of the rescheduled talk in our 2024-2025 #AsianStudiesSeminar Series, titled “When Japanese Noh is not in Japanese: Intercultural Noh in English, French and Spanish,” with Dr Ashley Thorpe. 4 pm 26/3/2025 at LG.08, 40 George Square. #allwelcome #inpersonseminar

Every so often Hong Kong offers up an architectural gem - shophouse at #18 Ship Street, Wan Chai

Come by Digital Humanities Japan today at 12:15! Share your latest project and network with colleagues! #AAS2025

'We must not let advanced linguistic and cultural skills slip away out of a misinformed sense that technology will solve all our problems or that colonialism’s legacy will always fatally undermine efforts to promote better transnational understanding'

New poster for tomorrow’s talk, which has been relocated to Room LG10, 40 George Square. #japanesestudies #kabuki #genderstudies #theatrestudies #inpersonseminar #allwelcome

Today I try to give you SOME sense of who all these people are: torikae.baya.moe/blog/digress...

Shinkansen carriage given over to dog lovers today on the run between Tokyo and Osaka. Usually, dogs must be kept inside a pet carrier, but JR Tokai ran a わんわんエクスプレス ("Bow Wow Express") as a trial. www.sankei.com/article/2025...

Happy International Women's Day! Today, we celebrate the amazing achievements of women past and present - including the remarkable Chrystal Macmillan, the namesake of our School building. Read more about Chrystal Macmillan on our website: buff.ly/P3xgqy4 #IWD2025

Our next #asianstudiesseminar Transcending the Traditional: Developments in Contemporary Kabuki, with Dr Helen Parker Project Room, 50 George Square Wednesday 12 March, 4-6 pm #japanesestudies #kabuki #genderstudies #theatrestudies #inpersonseminar #allwelcome

Our free and open access online resource, the Chinese Religious Text Authority 宗教書籍規範索引, has just passed 5000 entries! Each provides users with detailed bibliographic information about a text, often with a link to a digitized edition. crta.info/wiki/Main_Page

Coming up this Thursday 6/3/25 in the #ScottishCentreforKoreanStudies Distinguished Lecture Series: Britain and The #DPRK with James Hoare OBE. 5-6:30pm, Lecture Theatre B, 40 George Sq. #allwelcome #inpersonseminar

Early spring weather in George Square Gardens last week 🌳🌤️In line with the colour of the sky we are pleased to report that we now have a link from our Asian Studies website inviting visitors to join us here on #BlueSky 🦋 #asianstudies #chinese #japanese #korean #eastasianstudies #jointheconversation

We regret that today’s #asianstudiesseminar has had to be postponed due to unforeseen circumstances. Our apologies for the short notice - we will post information on the rescheduling in due course.

I just put up the first full blog post! Today I'm summarising the story and talking about translating job positions in the Heian court torikae.baya.moe/blog/thought...

Ready to welcome participants to the Japan Foundation/BAJS PhD workshop 2025 #bajs #japanfoundationlondon #edinburghuniversity #llcatEdinburgh #ようこそ

"As an organization, the AAS stands with its transgender students and members and decries attempts to dehumanize or stigmatize them in any fashion." https://buff.ly/4b8M3Jo

Next #asianstudiesseminar Dr Ashley Thorpe, Royal Holloway, University of London:When Japanese Noh is not in Japanese: Intercultural Noh in English, French & Spanish 4pm 26/2/2025, 1.06, 50 George Square #japanesestudies #noh #interculturalnoh #english #french #spanish #inpersonseminar #allwelcome

how 2025 is going:

Join us for our next #AsianStudiesSeminar: “Holding North Korea to Account? Memory, Activism and the North Korean Human Rights Movement,” with Dr Sarah Son of #sheffielduniversity. 22/2/25 at 16:00, Room G.06, 50 George Sq. #inpersonseminar #allwelcome #koreanstudies #northkorea

Calling those interested in #KoreanStudies - what’s on in the Scottish Centre for Korean Studies Distinguished Lecture Series plus the Korea-related Asian Studies Seminars, all in one place

For those who would like to sign a petition to show the level of anger against Cardiff University's ill thought out and terribly communicated cuts, please follow this link: chng.it/nBpdvmYMwJ

And here is the full programme for our Asian Studies Seminar Series this semester #asianstudiesseminars #chinesestudies #japanesestudies #koreanstudies #allwelcome

Next in our 2024-2025 Asian Studies Seminar Series: “SOCIETY WORK”: SHAKING UP PARTY-SOCIETY RELATIONS? Dr Holly Snape, University of Glasgow, 5 February from 16:00 at 50 George Square, Room 1.06 (Project Room) #asianstudiesseminars #chinesestudies #inpersonseminars #allwelcome

Dr Youngmi Kim on South Korean democracy, saved by its people #asianstudies #koreanstudies #edinburghuniversity