Me: Barely makes flight because I will only fly chic, pressed, and perfectly coiffed. Also Me: Gets drenched at the airport in a downpour during taxi drop off. Bonus Round: Doused by a car speeding through a puddle.

As I am preparing for my trip to Japan and bringing medication, why are all the illustrated characters rotund? disease.jp.lilly.com/diabetes_dac...

My review of Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder): “Like a sepia-toned photograph beginning to curl at the edges, [Matchbox] is a wistful story of the blink-and-you-miss-it moment between childhood and adulthood set at an important but easily-overlooked moment in Japanese history.”

“Mina’s Matchbox” by Yoko Ogawa

Tomoko lost her father when she was six years old. Now that she’s twelve, she will spend a year living with her mother’s wealthy sister in Ashiya while her mother goes back to school to study dress…

Please join us in person or virtually on September 11th, 2024 at 4:00 pm EST for an academic roundtable discussion featuring Okinawa's Governor Denny Tamaki, Dr. Sheila Smith Dr. Jennifer Kavanagh, and Dr. Mike Mochizuki (GWU). sigur.elliott.gwu.edu/2024/09/03/9...

[9/11/24] Okinawa’s Subnational Diplomacy: Promoting Cooperation and Preventing Conflict in East Asia

At the Elliott School of International Affairs

JPP is pleased to announce we will hold an international symposium on May 29-31, 2025 on the theme of "Japan Past & Present: Reimagining a Global Field," to be hosted at Waseda University! 🎉🗾🎤 japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/call...

Japanese translation/copyright question: If a scholar wants to translate an academic article from Japanese to English, is it correct that they only need permission from the author/copyright holder to do so? Is there a website, libguide, or other source that indicates this?

When you spot “your people.” There are some ideas crawling through that teetering jenga tsundoku.

There's a giant truck backing up on my street called Bookstore Movers and I am trying to remember what in the hell I ordered. . .

If we want to find a Japanese scholar with a common female name, but we only have the English transliteration, what next? How do we find this person?

Nothing says "end of the semester, no memory to give any effs" than just leaving your entire purse and wallet at home.

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