Wie die Astrologie die Wissenschaften voranbrachte Astrologie gehört zu den Pseudowissenschaften. Trotzdem haben Horoskope in der Antike Impulse für die moderne Astronomie und die Mathematik gegeben. Von Sven Kästner.

Research Scholar @jeffreykotyk.bsky.social on @tagesschau.bsky.social on the transmission of #ZodiacSigns through #Buddhism into East Asian culture. 🔭

🔗 buff.ly/yqQbsLz (GER)

#HistSci #Astrology #AstroSky #Astronomy #JapaneseStudies #Sinology

On 11/3/2026, Look at Me! –
Yonezu Tomoko and the Politics of
Intersectionality in Post-war Japan, with Dr Anna-Viktoria Vittinghoff
University of Sheffield, 16:15, Room 1.06, 50 George Sq #asianstudiesseminars #japan #postwar #japanesestudies #intersectionality #inpersonseminar #allwelcome

Librarian for Japanese Studies

After a year of hiring pause, we have finally resumed our search for Harvard's next #Librarian for #JapaneseStudies. Please help us spread the word!

Friendly reminder: you don't need to check all the boxes to be a competitive candidate.

careers.harvard.edu/job/libraria...

Join us now for a hybrid u:japan lecture by Stevie Suan (Hosei University, Tokyo) about "Coloration Strategies of (Non)Place in Anime: Globalization, Hybridity, and Mediating Japan"
japanologie.univie.ac.at/startseite/e...
#ujapanlectures @univie.ac.at @jstudiesvienna.bsky.social #japanesestudies

Ready for the new semester. This week’s Japanese notes.
#NewSemester #JapaneseStudies #LanguageLearning #StudentLife

FEATURED JOB: Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor Position at the Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Department of Innovative Japanese Studies - Tohoku University

networks.h-net.org/jobs/69567/t...

#edusky #academicsky #japanesestudies

『日本政治史』（有斐閣、2020年）が、繁体字中国語に翻訳され、『日本政治史:形塑現代日本的力量』（前衛、2025年11月）として刊行されました！
台湾をはじめ、中国語話者のみなさんに読んでいただけること、とてもとてもうれしいです！
監訳は楊素霞先生、翻訳は梁媛淋先生、鳳氣至純平先生、葉静嘉先生です。ありがとうございます！
#japanesestudies #japan #politicalhistory

Twitch Twitch is the world

Starting with some Japanese language studies then more Arc Raidin'

#Japanesestudies #trans #twitch #lgbt #nonbinary #ArcRaiders
twitch.tv/witchwiththezest

Available to Teach I am now at the halfway point of my 4-month Japan Foundation Fellowship, based at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS). I have achieved so much already since getting here back in September. W…

If your university is looking for someone to teach a short-term intensive course or to contribute one or more lectures to a programme, then please get in touch as I am available to teach. For details see hoodcp.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

#Japan #JapaneseStudies #Teaching

The first Editor's Digest of the 25/26 year is out now! 📚

Editor for Northeast Asian Studies, James Harry Morris, introduces some of the contributions he has particularly enjoyed over the past year.

🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/10/31/e...

#koreanstudies #japanesestudies #digitalhumanities

FEATURED JOB: Open Rank Faculty Positions in Japanese Studies, Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, Tohoku University - Japan

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#academic #education #japanesestudies #japan

I will also join this roundtable sponsored by the #JapanFoundation, New Horizons for #JapaneseStudies: Introducing and Unlocking the Collaborative Potentials of #JapaneseStudies in #SoutheastAsia

📅Oct 4 (Sat)
⏰11am-12:30pm
📍New Horizons, Oorala Lecture Theatre

#JSAA #JSAA2025

Hublshpener הובלשפּענער - Podstawowa bibliografia japonistyczna Poniższa bibliografia pomyślana jest jako podstawowy przewodnik po wartych polecenia publikacjach książkowych, przeznaczony dla studentów I roku filologii japońskiej (choć skorzystają z niej zapewne i...

🔓
Tomasz Majtczak: Podstawowa bibliografia japonistyczna z adnotacjami

Od teraz wersja aktualizowana dostępna jest pod nowym adresem (już nie jako plik PDF, lecz strona internetowa):
tinyurl.com/274qyy2e

#japonistyka #bibliografia
#japanesestudies #bibliography

Oliver Moxham standing before a projected slide titled "domestic heritage, international memory".

Last week I presented my PhD research to a packed room at the 50th British Association for #JapaneseStudies conference. The panel I convened on "Imperial heritage today and tomorrow" went down a treat with many pertinent questions from an engaged audience of scholars across the disciplinary spectrum

The keynotes for JSAA Biennial Conference University of New England (AU) on 2nd/3rd October will be hybrid (AEST). All welcome! To register, sign up here: forms.gle/2XdDxz6yshVE...

The full abstracts are found here: www.une.edu.au/about-une/fa... on a drop down screen.
#japanesestudies #jsaa2025

Happy to announce that I have started a new position at the National Museum of Japanese History. I will be based in Chiba for the next few years or so. Friends and colleagues in the Greater Kanto area, please do reach out! I'd love to meet new people! #JapaneseStudies #JapaneseReligions

Great morning u:japan lecture by Sebastian Polak-Rottmann (DIJ) live from EXPO 2025 Osaka!
japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectur...

#expo2025 #japanesestudies #ujapanlectures

Sharing happiness with others: Exploring rural perspectives on well-being in Austria and Japan A hybrid <i>u:japan lecture</i> by <b>Sebastian Polak-Rottmann</b> (DIJ Tokyo) live from the <b>EXPO 2025 in Osaka</b>

🌿 Florian Purkarthofer: "Nature based solutions? Rethinking climate & urban futures in Japan & Austria"
📆 9 October 2025, at #univie + Livestream EXPO
12:00 - 13:30 CEST | 19:00 - 20:30 JST

Read more here: 👉 japanologie.univie.ac.at/ujapanlectur...

#SDGs #UrbanStudies #JapaneseStudies

Great JFEC meeting today in #Sheffield @sheffielduni.bsky.social, energizing discussions and solid strategies for supporting #JapaneseStudies in the #UKhighered 🇯🇵🇬🇧

"Dollase's book is an important contribution." — MONUMENTA NIPPONICA

#SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/bdzzsyxx

#ChildrensLiterature #GenderStudies #JapaneseStudies #Literature #PopularCulture

Japan: Beyond Stereotypes, Clichés, and Tropes I am delighted to have been invited to give a lecture at the University of Central Lancashire on Wednesday 7 May. How do we study and learn about Japan? This is the main theme that this talk will c…

"Japan: Beyond Stereotypes, Clichés, and Tropes" - talk at the University of Central Lancashire on 7 May 2025.

#Japan #Stereotypes #Cliches #Tropes #JapaneseStudies #Lecture #Presentation #UCLan #UniversityOfCentralLancashire

hoodcp.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/j...

Volume 28 Issue 1 | Social Science Japan Journal | Oxford Academic The official journal of the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo. Publishes scholarly articles on modern Japan covering all social sciences, including studies of Japan?s internationa...

We are pleased to announce that the new issue of SSJJ is now available. This issue includes eleven articles and a special section on Japan’s 2018 immigration reform, guest-edited by David Chiavacci. Read the issue: academic.oup.com/ssjj/issue/2...
#JapaneseStudies #Migration

JFEC (Japan Foundation Endowment Committee) Scholar Spotlights: Awardees’ ongoing contribution

See how JFEC-supported scholars are advancing knowledge and driving change. *Our page is in development

#Japanesestudies #UK

jfecommittee.org.uk/scholar-spot...

If you've been funded my JFEC and want to be featured on our website,email: japanfoundationendowment@gmail.com #japanesestudies #UK #academia

"This timely study about the growing number of Japanese urbanites relocating to rural areas provides some cautionary tales about unrealized dreams and the long shadows of mainstream norms." — PACIFIC AFFAIRS

#SundayReview #ReadUP tinyurl.com/nr4tth4f

#Anthropology #AsianStudies #JapaneseStudies

Teaching The Basics About Japan While last year (2024) I only did a couple of talks outside of Cardiff University (‘Japan: The Basics’, book launch and ‘Why Study Japan?’ and ‘Japanese Popular Culture and Society’ at the Japan So…

Teaching The Basics About Japan

#Japan #TheBasics #JapanTheBasics #JapaneseStudies #Symbolism #AichiUniversityOfEducation #Aichi

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#JapaneseStudies colleagues who have experience with historical documents-- the term 段子 appears in a letter from Oda Nobunaga to Date Terumune listing gifts; in context it's alongside fabric and thread and the like, and the counter is 端. Nobunaga sent 10端 of it. What *is* this?

New poster for tomorrow’s talk, which has been relocated to Room LG10, 40 George Square.

#japanesestudies #kabuki #genderstudies #theatrestudies #inpersonseminar #allwelcome

“White Masks” on Which Skin?: Japan as an In-Between Country Anime, sushi, and that TikTok song? Why this simplistic framing of Japan can be problematic today. Illustration by Lydia Kempton (IG: @lydiak_arts)CONTENT WARNING: discussions of discrimination, colon...

Insightful perspective written by my student from Japan living abroad.

@edinburghuni #Japanesestudies
#internationalexchange

www.theedimagazine.com/post/white-m...

A poster with a brown background giving details of a seminar. On the right is a photo of an amateur kabuki actor in the dressing room, in full makeup and ready to put on their costume.

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