Cool translation event coming up in Tokyo feat. Yuki Tejima, Jesse Kirkwood, Ginny Tapley Takemori, and Kalau Almony 👀📚 parallelwords-1.peatix.com

Carolina Negri (ed.) - Storia della letteratura giapponese Dalle origini all'Ottocento À paraître chez Einaudi

Call for Proposals: "Asian Studies in the Digital Age, Old and New," January 23-25, 2026 annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the AAS. Submit proposals by October 31 to join this conference at Georgia Tech.

Boarding call, time for one last trip across the pond this year. Tired enough to sleep sitting up, maybe?

Went to see Bread and Puppet Theatre perform last night. The show was "The Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress." At one point some of the performers were costumed as sheep. "Doggies!" said a little kid near me. "Moo! Moo!"

Amitabha Triad https://clevelandart.org/art/1918.501

#Newpost #guestcontribution by Stephanie Santschi on how to teach students studying *EastAsian *ArtHistory to use AI as a learning tool rather than as an academic crutch. #japaneseart #japaneseDH #DHandteaching digitalorientalist.com/2025/09/09/t...

TFW the skulls of your enemies are so numerous that they merge into a sentient mega-skull and ruin your evening reverie. (from a gōkan called 『石橋山義兵白旗』, featuring Kiyomori in all his reputed horribleness) (reposting with corrected text, sorry!)

Reporting back on this: did a test with a set of (hastily taken, in poor light) photographs of book pages, then ran them on both the ndlkotenocr-lite vs Google Document AI. Example result attached here, plus check of the first three lines. Also: had to modify the ndl code to respect exif rotation.

MOOCs "were supposed to expand access through web-based classes.” That’s one way of putting it. Another would be to say that they were about expanding the market for education past what the university was willing to pay for increasing the number of faculty to do the educating. tinyurl.com/bddbp7zh

In case you weren't up at 2am last night to catch the live broadcast from Japan, here's a link to the English news segment from NHK World broadcast on the Japanese Paper Film Project. Thank you to journalist Takatoshi Murakami & his amazing filming crew! www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Microsoft Word to begin saving people's documents in the cloud *by default* Reminder that LibreOffice is free and a good drop-in replacement for Microsoft Office software: www.libreoffice.org www.theverge.com/news/767522/...

Finally out now 🥳🎉 -- and in OA! 🙏 Katja Triplett / Yoshimi Orii / Pia Jolliffe (eds.) (2025): Japan in the Early Modern World: Religion, Translation, and Transnational Relations @ doi.org/10.1007/978-... Includes two contributions by yours truly on Jesuit prints from Japan. 1/

On Monday! Angus Lockyer (Rhode Island School of Design) on his new book “Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development”, in conversation with Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6239996

Japan Past & Present is pleased to announce that online registration is now open for Japan Past & Present’s symposium, "Humanistic Approaches to the Study of Premodern Japanese Law," to be held at UCLA with virtual streaming from September 26–27, 2025. ⚖️ japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event...

Using digital tools to bring order to the creative chaos in Rilke's notebooks: Our Visual Manuscript Analysis Lab collaborated with @dlamarbach.bsky.social to investigate 56 notebooks of one of the greatest German-language poets: uhh.de/csmc-rilke

Today is the anniversary of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923. How did people reflect on and memorialize the trauma of such disasters? Explore these and more votive slips printed several years after the event, held by the University of Oregon. #関東大震災 oregondigital.org/catalog?f%5B...

A female and male northern cardinal enjoy a spot of tea.

No Mt Greylock Trail Race this year, so tried the road version, which is even simpler: just run up the road to the top. 183 of us got our runner's high that way today, and the views from the monument at the top were spectacular too. Now time to rest hard before semester opens on Tuesday! #AmRunning

Good morning. Apologies for not being so active recently. Birthing the magazine you see below has taken up a lot of my time. A year in the making, LUXE is a new, JP & EN bi-lingual magazine for Japan. Launching 8th Sept. More news soon. More details in ALT. Have a great weekend. Luv&peace 🙏❤️

If you’re looking for tools to help with the study of Japanese calligraphy, there are resources out there! 🖌️ You can check out our CDDP Video by Emily Li (Ritsumeikan U) introducing the Art Research Center’s Kuzushiji Transcription Support and Archiving System: guides.nccjapan.org/cddp/video-s...

【本講座では、国立歴史民俗博物館の工藤航平准教授を講師に迎え、江戸時代の蔵書文化について詳しく解説していただきます。】 江戸時代の本棚～蔵書が語る知の形成・共有・継承（大手町アカデミア×人間文化研究機構 YouTubeライブ配信・オンライン無料特別講座） | Peatix academia20251008.peatix.com

BBC Breakfast this morning had a long segment about the 30th anniversary of Windows 95. So what vintage computer did they put in the studio as a handy prop? #windows95

Apply by Nov. 5, 9:00 PM ET for Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies! ACLS offers two types of fellowships to support research, writing & curriculum development: $15k flexible, short-term and $20k-45k long-term research fellowships. https://bit.ly/4nkGmwX

Bronze Ritual Bell https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.118

@asakiyume.bsky.social 👀 👀 👀

We are pleased to announce that we have chosen from a large number of applications six fellows for the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships in Japanese Arts 2025-2026 following a rigorous selection process.

On Aug 23, 1945, weather forecasts, which had been banned during the war, reappeared in Japan's newspapers. That same day, the Asahi Shimbun published an editorial titled A Reflection on Our Own Guilt A short 🧵 on journalism and fascism (for our friends at the NYT) in the wake of Japan's defeat

As the Osaka Expo remains ongoing, for those interested in the deeper history of exhibitions in Japan, please check out this online book talk event I am moderating in less than two weeks! mjha.org/event-6239996

I have made some updates to these interactive modern timeline flashcards+testing at Frog in a Well: 1) corrections/additions to some China timelines 2) tweaked the test feature for better mobile experience 3) added a "sort the dates" game 4) added some modern Japan decks froginawell.net/games/flash/

Those pesky roof/plumbing leaks in my office building have been neatly plumbed away--a sure sign the school year is about to begin!

「戦争省」への改称に意欲 トランプ氏、国防総省から

#SHARP just published a new #bibliography of #LGBTQIA #BookHistory. Hundreds of books and articles about #queer authors, readers, and publishing, as wells as some material about #libraries and allied fields. I am proud to be one of the contributors. #LGBTQ sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

‘We like lists because we don’t want to die’, said Umberto Eco. What drives our deep fascination with lists? PhD researcher Michael Hensley explores the meaning of Ethiopian and Eritrean book lists, offering glimpses into communities that would otherwise be lost: uhh.de/csmc-hensley

Well, that's a relief--been unable to get beyond "Internal Server Error" when trying to post to Bluesky since Thursday--also likes and reposts didn't work, maybe since Friday? Suspecting it has to do with going to/returning from UK, but who knows. BSky support was basically, "unplug & reboot," etc.🫤

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The latest T’oung Pao issue is out: brill.com/view/journal... @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

🚨Don't forget to submit your application for a Daiwa Scholarship by 4 Dec 2025! Gain a unique opportunity to - 🎌Spend a year learning Japanese - 🏡Enjoy a one-month homestay - 🏢Do a six-month work placement All in Japan! 🗾 More info here: dajf.org.uk/scholarships...

Mark your calendars! The 2025 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture will be given by Andrew Gordon (Harvard) on Monday, September 15, 2025, and is titled "After the Pandemic: Revising a Textbook and Rethinking History." REGISTER FOR ZOOM HERE: mjha.org/event-6201539

Do your PhD in Manuscript Cultures with us! Our Grad School invites applications for full PhD scholarships (3 years, 1300 EUR/month + allowances) in the Scholarship Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service @daadworldwide.bsky.social Apply by 30 Sep! More info here👉 uhh.de/csmc-scholar...

✅勅撰和歌集の配列に着目した「歌ことば」のTEIマークアップ手法の検討 ―『玉葉和歌集』雑二部を対象として― （持田玲） あり。 tei.dhii.jp/activities/d...

new OA book, Knowing an Empire. Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue, edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Wu Huiyi (in which I wrote a medieval chapter: "Imperial Territorial Data Before the Age of Print"), available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

JPP is pleased to announce the launch of the project Kawaii in Japan & Beyond: Theory & Praxis. This project creates approachable, open-access teaching materials exploring the concept of kawaii (cuteness) in and beyond Japanese cultural contexts. 🌏🧋🍭✨ japanpastandpresent.org/en/projects/...

Finding joy in this peak season for local weed Eutrochium purpureum, aka Joe Pye weed. Noone particularly plans for them to grow, but grow they do, undaunted, in great size & ubiquity round here, rising above other weedy herbage. Now they color this swampy spot off a nearby road--lovely! #Summer2025

Ariel Stilerman - Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing. help.aol.com/articles/dia... ht @mat.tl

Waseda U. currently has ten short-term positions available specifically targeting academics based in the US who may have trouble staying there long-term. www.waseda.jp/inst/wias/ne...

@tinyantennas.bsky.social making a run for it after a successful mission!

A huge congratulations to our Professor of Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Art, Dr. Joshua Mostow, who was conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon! 🇯🇵🎖️ asia.ubc.ca/news/profess...