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Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)
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Recent News
MIRS Welcomes the Fall 2025 Cohort
The International Institute (II) is thrilled to welcome the newest cohort of students in the Masters of International and Regional Studies (MIRS) program!
2025 Leadership Appointments at the II and Its Centers and Programs
New director appointments start July 1, 2025.
The Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) promotes and disseminates research on Japan, fosters communication among diverse disciplines, and encourages new approaches in the understanding of Japan and its place in the world.
Founded in 1947, CJS is the oldest interdisciplinary center in the United States with a mission to promote research and teaching in Japanese studies.
CJS is home to faculty and students from a variety of disciplines and professional schools, artists and scholars visiting from near and far, and community organizations engaged in Japan-related activities in Michigan.
Events
Oct
16
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Island Societies and Maritime Networks between Ryukyu and Japan: The Amami Islands, 1609-1878
Thomas Monaghan, Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
12:00 PM
Room 747
Weiser Hall
Oct
30
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Finding Refined Friends: The Magazine
Gayū (1951–70) and Sinitic Poetry in Postwar Japan
Matthew Fraleigh, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan; Associate Professor, East Asian Literature and Culture, Brandeis University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
Nov
05
Book talk on "Buddhism: A Journey Through History" with author Prof. Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Donald S. Lopez Jr., U-M Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist & Tibetan Studies; Asian Languages & Cultures
4:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Nov
06
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan's Mountain in Nepal: The First Ascent of Manaslu and Reconciliation with Postwar Asia
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Professor of History, University of Colorado Boulder
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Nov
20
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Acknowledgment and Moral Accountability within Japanese Activist Spaces
Felicity Stone-Richards, Center for Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
12:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Dec
04
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Recrafting Closeness in Death: Relational Proxies for Future Japan/ese
Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
12:00 PM
Room 555
Weiser Hall
