Students with any Japanese background (including no Japanese language background at all), are welcome at this workshop on manga language. Japanese manga are well known for their expressive illustrations, but less apparent to language learners is how the Japanese language contributes to the vividness of character development via yakuwariko ‘role language’ (Kinsui 2003) and hatsuwa

Join us Monday, February 12 for the second in our series this year about Diversity and Inclusion in Japanese Society. “Whole” (2019, 44 min) is a short drama created by writer Usman Kawazoe and director Bilal Kawazoe depicting Haruki, a biracial student who decides to quit college and travel to Japan and Makoto, a construction worker

Join us for a special book talk: Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China. Wenkai He (Ph.D., MIT, 2007), is associate professor of Social Science at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before joining HKUST, he was An Wang postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at

Join us for this special book talk with UW Japan Studies Program affiliate faculty Walter Hatch as he takes us through ‘Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan is Haunted by its Past and Germany is Not’. Germany, which brutalized its neighbors in Europe for centuries, has mostly escaped the ghosts of the past, while Japan

Panel Title Date | Time Room Location Japan Faculty   A038 – The Place of “Language” in Japan Studies/Research   Thursday, March 14 7:00 – 8:30 PM Jefferson A 4th Floor – Union St. Seattle Grand Sheraton Davinder Bhowmik, AL&L   A037 – Discourses of Youth in Imperial Japan: Rethinking Complex Realities of Race, Class,

Professor Ted Mack of the department of Asian Languages and Literature has been awarded the first Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies by the Modern Language Association in recognition of his monograph Acquired Alterity:  Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism (University of California Press, 2022).  This is the first book-length study in English

Juan Felipe Arroyave (MA/PhD Japanese) spent the summer in Japan with support from the Kasai-Buerge Scholarship. “Thanks to this award, I was able to spend two weeks in Japan as a Seminar Leader for the last edition of Komatsu Summer School (KSS),” reports Arroyave. “This bilingual summer camp, held in a rural area of Ishikawa Prefecture,

Special workshop for educators and UW students. In this interactive, reflective and practical workshop, William Matsuzaki with lead participants in posing various strategies to foster more welcoming, respectful, and safe learning environment/classrooms. Each person’s journey within diversity, equity, inclusion and access (DEIA) work is different, and it is important to honor each person’s place and

Christopher B. Johnstone, senior adviser and Japan Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, explores the evolution of the U.S.-Japan alliance over the last 30 years from the view of a policy practitioner who was directly involved in key developments at the White House and the Department of Defense. The U.S.-Japan alliance slowly,

Ken Tadashi Oshima, UW professor of architecture, has long been a keen observer and researcher of the work of architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright. ‘Frank Lloyd Wright: Architecture that Connects the World’ an exhibit curated by Oshima, is the first full-scale retrospective of Wright’s work in Japan in 26 years and shows the breadth