Call for Application : 3rd Professor Josef Kreiner Hosei University Award
This award has been created to publicly celebrate Professor Josef Kreiner in his remarkable academic efforts to promote Japanese studies in Europe and at Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies (HIJAS). At the same time we want to encourage overseas scholars of Japanese studies and to contribute to further development in this academic field.
The Japan Guide from The National Archives of the Netherlands
The Japan Guide from The National Archives of the Netherlands
The North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) is pleased to announce a new link to the updated Japan Guide of the National Archives of the Netherlands’ (NAN) on NCC’s Research Access Guides to Japanese Collections at http://guides.nccjapan.org/NAN.
2017 conference scholarships
Application term for scholarships has been closed
The European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS) especially wishes to encourage the participation to its conference of resource specialists and young scholars from institutions with limited financial means, or that have seldom or never attended an EAJRS conference. Therefore, with support from the Toshiba International Foundation, the organizers of the 28th EAJRS conference in Oslo would like to offer three scholarships, which will include:
New NDL courses with English subtitles
The National Diet Library, Japan, released two new e-learning courses with English subtitles.
- How to make good use of the NDL Digital Collections for Japanese Studies http://training.ndl.go.jp/course/under.html?id=58&lang=en
This course provides an introduction to the features of the NDL Digital Collections and how to search and use its contents from outside Japan.NDL to accept ILL/DD requests via email
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Access to the NDL digital collections from abroad
The efforts to achieve an extended access to the NDL digital collections from abroad have reached a new stage. The draft to change the respective law/regulations has been issued. Currently the Japanese government collects public comments concerning the draft. Please find below Prof. Takeuchi’s email. Prof Takeuchi (Vice-President of Chiba University and NCC’s former Japan liaison) has arranged the meeting of Ms. Noguchi and Mr. Dunkel with the representatives of the Bunkachō last year.
Position at British Library: Head of Asian & African Collections
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.
New Year's Wishes 2017