"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

7/10 of us unionized and demanded 1) 250,000 salaries, the minimum to live healthily in Kyoto; 2) To pay our full transportation fee instead of 16,500 cap; 3) To pay our health checks they illegally didn't pay; 4) To extend our contract from 3/25 to 3/31 to help secure our insurance and pension

I'm on strike now with other ALTs (Assistant Language Teachers) working in Kyoto Prefecture High Schools via the dispatch company ALTIA CENTRAL. Our salaries, low at 240,000 yen per month, were cut this year to 210,000, and we can't sustain our lives anymore. Please support us!

❗ #StAndrewsDaySale coming soon... ✍️ Sign-up to our mailing lists so you don't miss out on all the details! https://edin.ac/33x7KRT

AICHI PREF. IS ENDING THE MATCHING PROGRAM WITH ISRAEL. We smashed the match 😭🥳 #BDS #SmashtheMatch

GREAT JOB ALERT! ProPublica is hiring another senior editor for our Local Reporting Network. The editor will edit the work of 4-5 reporters from our partner newsrooms, collaborating on projects that spur change. 💰 Salary range: $150,000 to $195,000 ➡️ Apply: propub.li/3JAIqme

🙏🏻 Friday 28.11, Kyushu University, Fukuoka. "Who Owns the Goddess? Pilgrimage-Tourism and Popular Devotion in Twenty-First-Century East Asia." Guest lecture (in English).

🪷 Friday 21.11, Tohoku University, Sendai. "Lady of the Whales: Comparing Maritime Kannon Worship in Vietnam and Japan." Presentation as part of the workshop "Kannon in Modern Ideology and Popular Practices", with Ayako Kimishima and Clinton Godart (bilingual).

🐋 Wednesday 19.11, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. 「現代社会における『鯨信仰』―ベトナムと日本の鯨祭祀をくらべて」. Guest lecture (in Japanese).

Our next Religious Studies colloquium event! -------------------- Moving Up the Cosmic Pole: Strategies for Legitimating Religious Authority in Buddhist Texts RELS Colloquium Ralph Craig (Whitman) Nov 13, 2025 at 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Cohen 204

I don’t think these petitions do much but I signed it as a NY voter. The closest I’ve ever gotten to voting against Chuck since there’s never a primary challenger.

premodern Japanese lit job in Hawai'i!

Goddamn the new Mac OS fucking sucks. Can’t find anything. Can’t click in and out of windows. Search settings not working. Enshitification on all fronts.

21 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2025-2026. See details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search. 🌏📊 Now 551 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...

JJS invites you to the following live, online event: Workshop on Submitting a Manuscript to JJS. Dec 3, 2025, 09:45 AM EST Coeditors Sabine Frühstück and Morgan Pitelka will present about things to keep in mind when preparing a manuscript. Register in advance: unc.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Find an action near you at this link👇

Hell welcomes home one of its own.

Register for our webinAAR happening tomorrow (November 4) on "The Role of Religion in Today’s Democratic Crises: Advancing Public Understanding," featuring @prri.org's Robert Jones, Katherine Stewart, former AAR President Eddie Glaude, and Rachel Mikva: aarweb.org/event/the-ro...

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future. Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

Viral on Twitter in Japan: Prime Minister Takaichi used to be TV presenter and gave a magazine interview in the 1990s in which she said Japanese men were too timid if they directly asked for consent from women. She criticized men who ask “Can I kiss you?” instead of just taking decisive action.

Lower the voting age. Kids have more skin in the game of politics than anyone else. Also legal residents should be able to vote regardless of nationality. You pay taxes? You can vote.

So it’s a chockcollar that cuts off oxygen to the brain. And the company convinced people that this prevents concussions? That’s “drinking bleach prevents Covid” levels of stupidity.

This👇🏻 at the very least for children. If the US can give 10s of billions of dollars in handouts to a dictator in Argentina, a Gatsby-esque ballroon, AND fund a genocide in Gaza, it can feed people.

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

12/21(日)15時〜のイベント、「Xジェンダーやノンバイナリーの視点から、男女二元制を考える」に登壇し、日本の非二元的な性をめぐる活動史について研究発表します！ 排除的な言説も目立つなか大事な機会をいただき、初めてご一緒するゲストの方も多く、楽しみにしています。ご関心ある方はぜひ。 申し込みは以下のフォームからお願いします。 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yet another reason not to go home for the holidays.

The JCP remains undefeated with the best posters. And best ethics.

SSJR is running another book talk! Please join us in two weeks for @sdahl.bsky.social's talk. Register here: furman.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Reading this line: “More voters believe Japan should strengthen its national capabilities, including its military, or risk being dominated by foreign powers.” I can’t help but wonder what these people think has happened over the last 80 years.

Iowa farmers are largely corn and soybeans and receive subsidies for those crops directly. The size of dairy farms varies widely by state, Tyson outsources the risk of raising the chickens to farmers who are effectively sharecroppers, & to explain the emerging probs in beef is a dissertation

This was a very informative discussion on the history of the term antisemitism, and I am looking forward to reading the book.

If you live in Japan, I recommend printing some of these out and just having them on you. Sadly, I could have really used one last night at dinner... t.co/rOZdnPIHFb (the link goes to a download site with an ad that is annoying to close etc. but the zip and enclosed pdfs are legit) #NoHateOsaka

Tessa Morris-Suzuki has posted this essay from 2021 on SSRN. The preface, which is about why it was originally written and why it is being posted four years later, is also interesting.

Join me at Lewis & Clark next year to teach 3-5 courses in Korean Studies! lewisandclark.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Faculty/job/...

The JJRS just published an excellent article by Dan Sherer on Oda Nobunaga's relationship with religious institutions. The article challenges the view, long held by historians, that Nobunaga was hostile toward religion. Using a trove of primary sources, Sherer argues that it was much more completed.

Our recent publication of a multilingual translation of Nishida Kitarō's Zettai mujunteki jikodōitsu is not available to order in print from online booksellers. Also available in that other online shopping site.

More taxes spent on the military and cutting taxes on fossil fuels. Making Japan Great Again.

Mark Bray es un profesor universitario que se ha tenido que exiliar de de EEUU por amenazas y autor del libro “Antifa” en @capitanswing.bsky.social Este sábado estaré acompañándole en Móstoles a las 18:00 junto a Elena Martínez en la librería Delirio. Mark necesita apoyo.

OMG we are governed by idiots.

As a former hoosier who grew up on the frontlines between Purdue and IU fandom, this brought tears of joy to my eyes.

It’s important to remember that admin hates you and see it as their job to replace you with some unpaid inanimate object.

The premise of this article is off and epitomizes why media & tech barons don’t understand humanities. A wise prof once told me that you don’t go to college to obtain information. You just need a library card for that. The purpose of college is to understand the problems underlying that information.

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs. Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

JOB> Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies (1978-), Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

New job: Stanford University - Center for East Asian Studies - 2026-27 Chinese Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship Stanford University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69321

If the system is recommending LLMs to write letters of recommendation, why bother requiring letters of recommendation?

See reviewer two’s comments

- put down the damn AI.