‘Visas for Life’: The Story of Sugihara Chiune

This is to bring to your attention a Webinar event organised by Japan House scheduled on 25th November, honours the memory of the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara,
who was vice-consul of the Japanese Empire in Kaunas, Lithuania during WWII.

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From the British Library:

SOAS has announced 13 job cuts in the Library (nearly 25% of the staff).  It will be impossible for the Library to provide the same level of services once the School pushes through the plan. SOAS colleagues need your support so please sign their petition and circulate details to your contacts.

Petition - https://www.change.org/p/soas-university-of-london-stop-the-cuts-at-soas...

We are delighted to announce that the Fifth Graduate Summer School in Japanese Early-modern Palaeography will run from Monday 6 August to Saturday 18 August 2018 at the University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College (Cambridge, UK)

The Bodleian Libraries invite applications for the position of the Bodleian Japanese Librarian.

For the details, please see at:

https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=129512

The British Library is recruiting for the post of Head of Asian & African Collections.  For further details follow this link https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/6479349/head-of-asian-and-african-collections/

Please circulate this to any of your colleagues who might be interested in applying.