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News and Events

Professor, and CJS Associate, John Campbell quoted in Reuters story on dementia in Japan

Professor, and CJS Associate, Linda Lim quoted in Marketplace story

U-M Hussey Papers make an appearance on Japan's NTV

CJS Affiliate, Prof. Kenneth Mori McElwain, discusses voting turnout among 18-19 year-olds on NHK World

Dr. Teo (CJS Affiliate) and Dr. Fetters' (CJS Member) study from CJS's "Saving 10,000" events published

Environmental Encounters in Japan

Meet Brad Hammond, the CJS Engaged Learning Coordinator

Leading sociologist talks gender issues in Japanese workplace

Erin Brightwell wins 2015 Ian Nish Prize

LSA Student Laura Suzuki makes splash at JLL Tokyo

CJS Faculty Member Jennifer Robertson discusses Japan's Genderless in the NY Times

Kazuhiro Soda's "The Oyster Factory" wins French film prize

Report on CJS conference on Japan's Economic and Security Policy in the Trump Era

Announcing Japanese Studies Radio Hour - Episode 7

Announcing Ann Arbor Japan Week 2017!

Japanese Studies Radio Hour Episode 8 - Beate Sirota Gordon & Japan's Postwar Constitution

CJS Faculty Member Michael Fetters named 2017 Chair of the Japan-America Society

Announcing The Detroit/Ishinomaki Collaborative Blog

Coming from a Good Place

Announcing the Japanese Performance Theory Workshop website

CJS Faculty Member Erin Brightwell wins 2017 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize

What Japan can teach us about the future of nationalism

Exploring Japan's 'genderless' subculture

Congratulations to CJS 2017-18 Toyota Visiting Professor Eric C. Rath!

CJS Associate Director, Prof. Shinobu Kitayama, has been appointed to the Robert B. Zajonc Collegiate Professor of Psychology

Panel celebrating the career of Professor Jennifer Robertson organized for the 2018 American Anthropological Association meeting in November

CJS faculty member Jennifer Robertson's article "Japan’s gender-bending history" translated and published in Japan Newsweek

U-M Asia Library Head and CJS Member Dawn Lawson wins 2018 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize

CJS faculty member Hitomi Tonomura talks gender and succession with CNN

CJS Associate Director Shinobu Kitayama elected president of the Association for Psychological Science

Japanese Language Program Director Mayumi Oka presented with Matthews Underclass Teaching Award

CJS Director's book selected for multiple awards from the American Sociological Association (ASA)

Jennifer Robertson discusses robotic pets with "IEEE Pulse"

CJS Director Kiyoteru Tsutsui's article featured in Newsweek Japan

Sign up today! 2019 U-M East Asia Workshop Registration

Professor Reginald Jackson receives the University Press Book Award

Michigan Daily covers lecture by Levi McLaughlin, 2019-2020 CJS Toyota Visiting Professor

Mark West, dean of the U-M Law School and former CJS director, talks ethics and lost wallets in Japan with the BBC

In a culture where communication tends to be indirect and messages are inferred, knowing how to "read the air" is crucial

Mandated TB vaccination predicts flattened curves for COVID-19 spread

CJS Congratulates Our 2020 Graduates

Professor William P. Malm to receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon from the Japanese government

The results of the Yuru-chara Design Contest are in!

Kiyoteru Tsutsui, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Japanese Studies on Black Lives Matter protests in Japan

Professor Emerita Jennifer Robertson in the NY Times

Reginald Jackson named director of CJS

The Japan Times reviews CJS Member Allison Alexy's new book, "Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary Japan"

More News in CJS Member Publications

Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies (Academic Year 2021–2022)

CJS MIRS student Elinor Lindeman awarded Contexts for Classics translation prize

Shinobu Kitayama named interim director of CJS

Hitomi Tonomura, CJS Faculty Member and Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies, was named one of four U-M University Diversity and Social Transformation Professors

Announcing the Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies (Academic Year 2022–2023)

Shinobu Kitayama receives the 2022 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award

New Scholarship Established and Student Awards Announced at CJS

Announcing the Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies (Academic Year 2023-2024)

Congratulations to CJS Director Reginald Jackson!

Professor Michael Fetters receives Award of Excellence from the Japan America Society of Michigan and Southwestern Ontario

Remembering Dr. Fetters

Announcing the Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies (Academic Year 2024–2025)

Denise Saint Arnault named interim director of CJS

Shinobu Kitayama receives the 2024 Association for Psychological Science William James Fellow Award

Michigan Daily showcases CJS MIRS student’s capstone project, on exhibit at the Clark Library

Denise Saint Arnault Named Director of the Center for Japanese Studies

Announcing the Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies (Academic Year 2025–2026)

Announcing the Teaching Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies (Academic Year 2026–2027)

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Conferences and Symposia

Japanese Performance Theory Workshop

Japan's Economic and Security Policy in the Trump Era

University of Michigan Medieval Komonjo Workshop 2018 | Commoners and Authority in Medieval Japan

US–Japan Auto Conference 2.0 | Friday, March 15, 2019

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A Celebration of Japanese Music and Dance: The Ethnomusicology Legacy of Professor William P. Malm

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The US Army's Intensive Japanese Language School

Okayama Field Station

CJS Directors, 1947 - Present

Michigan Talks Japan

Season 2, Episode 6 | Claire Maree

Season 2, Episode 5 | Vyjayanthi Selinger

Season 2, Episode 4 | Gabriella Lukács

Season 2, Episode 3 | Jolyon Baraka Thomas

Season 2, Episode 2 | Suma Ikeuchi

Season 2, Episode 1 | Charlotte Eubanks

Season 2 Trailer

Season 1, Episode 5 | Morgan Pitelka

Season 1, Episode 4 | Meghen Jones

Season 1, Episode 3 | Michael Strausz

Season 1, Episode 2 | Marié Abe

Season 1, Episode 1 | Levi McLaughlin

Japanese Studies Radio Hour