Welcome to Shinpai Deshou!
ようこそ！Feel free to search topics or browse by categories below. Our various resource links will be updated with each blog post. Please check back frequently for new, helpful sites! Contact us with questions or suggestions at shinpai.deshou@gmail.comCategories
- announcements
- applications
- blogs
- conferences
- culture
- CVs and resumes
- embassy
- events
- financial assistance
- fun links
- funding
- graduate school
- greetings
- homestay
- housing
- interviewing
- JET
- JLPT
- job openings
- jobs
- language schools
- living abroad
- main posts
- military service
- program review
- senior year
- site maintenance
- social networking
- study abroad
- study tools
- summer program
- textbooks
- Uncategorized
- undergraduate
- useful links
Tag Archives: Japanese history
Book Announcement: CHANGING LIVES: The ‘Postwar’ in Japanese Women’s Autobiographies and Memoirs
CHANGING LIVES: The ‘Postwar’ in Japanese Women’s Autobiographies and Memoirs (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) It is available in paperback ISBN: 978-0-924304-69-9. 216 pages. Changing Lives offers the reader substantial translations from memoirs and autobiographies by Japanese women. It contains … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, culture
Tagged Japan, womens studies, book announcement, women, books, Japanese history, postwar, memoirs, autobiography, women's history
Leave a comment
Book Announcement: Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of ‘National Learning’ and the Formation of Scholarly Societies
Leiden, Boston: Global Oriental, 2012 (313 p.) Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan offers a new perspective on scholarly networks and the foundations of modern Japan. Utilizing never-explored original sources and with a unique focus on the persons involved, Michael Wachutka elucidates how kokugaku … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, culture
Tagged book announcement, books, history, intellectual thought, Japan, Japanese history, kokugaku, meiji, Meiji period, modern Japan
Leave a comment
Postdoctoral Fellowships (Research Associate): modern Japanese/East Asian History “The Dissolution of the Japanese Empire and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Postwar East Asia, 1945-1965″
Institution: University of Cambridge, Department of East Asian Studies/Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Location: United Kingdom Position: Two Postdoctoral Fellowships (Research Associate) in modern Japanese/East Asian History for three year contract Two Postdoctoral Fellowships (Research Associate) … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Japan’s Great Stagnation: Forging Ahead, Falling Behind
W.R.Garside Waseda University, Japan and University of Durham, UK Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012 ISBN- 978-0-85793-821-3 This timely book presents a critical examination of the developmental premises of Japan’s high-growth success and its subsequent drift into recession, stagnation and piecemeal reform. … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, culture
Tagged books, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern Japan
Leave a comment
Job Opening: Japanese History, Two-year teaching postdoctoral fellow
2-Year Post Doctoral Fellow Institution: Hamilton College, History Location: New York, United States Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow in Japanese History The Asian Studies Program of Hamilton College invites applications for a two-year teaching post-doctoral fellowship for a scholar working … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, graduate school, job openings, jobs
Tagged Hamilton College, Japan, Japanese history, job openingr, New York, postdoc, postdoctoral fellowship, research
Leave a comment
Job Opening: Modern Japanese History
The University of Kansas Department of History is searching for an Assistant Professor in Modern Japanese History: Modern Japanese History The University of Kansas seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Modern Japanese history (post Edo period), to begin in … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, job openings, jobs
Tagged assistant professor, history, Japan, Japanese history, job opening, modern history, tenure track, University of Kansas
Leave a comment
Job Opening: Early Modern or Modern Japanese History
Institution: University of California – Los Angeles, History Location: California, United States Position: Assistant Professor, Associate Professor Tenure-Track Professor, Early Modern/Modern Japanese history, Tenure-Track Professor Tracking Number: 1130-1213-02 The UCLA History Department seeks a historian of early modern … Continue reading
Job Opening: Open Rank Professor of Medieval or Early Japanese History
Institution: Princeton University, East Asian Studies Location: New Jersey, United States Position: Assistant Professor, Full Professor Princeton University Open Rank Professor of Medieval or Early Japanese History The Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University invites applications … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, job openings, jobs
Tagged history, Japanese history, job opening, medieval, medieval history, open-rank, Princeton University, professor
Leave a comment
Job Opening: Early Japanese History, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Institution: Indiana University – Bloomington, East Asian Languages & Cultures Location: Indiana, United States Position: Assistant Professor, early Japanese History The Department of East Asian languages and Cultures at Indiana University invites applications for a tenure-track position … Continue reading
