Launching its 50th year of publication, the winter 2024 JJS is live online (also available in print) with articles by Youjia Li, Ben Whaley, Alexander Murphy, Aaron Jasny, Małgorzata Karolina Citko-DuPlantis, & Christopher Hughes—& reviews of new books. https://t.co/Ooy77WKsbZ
Jolyon Baraka Thomas reviews Caleb Swift Carter, A PATH INTO THE MOUNTAINS: SHUGENDŌ AND MOUNT TOGAKUSHI. “Shows how various agents constructed Shugendō as a self-conscious, discrete tradition between the 16th and 18th centuries. @jolyonbt @UHPRESSNEWS https://t.co/r36Swkvv5w
According Amoghavajra's manual of Buddhist astrology (宿曜經) from the 8th century, 1月/1日 (first day of the New Year in the Chinese calendar) is always associated with the nakṣatra 室/Pūrvabhādrapadā. There's no alignment now, but it isn't too far off.
Did you know our Multimedia History Project records interviews with folks who founded NCC some 3 decades ago?😮 Learn about NCC’s beginnings & the field in this interview Amy Heinrich, former E Asia Library director @columbialib & founding director of NCC! https://t.co/eajcMZOyb3
If you need info on how to access digital information on premodern Japanese texts, you won’t want to miss this 2-part CDDP video guide by Jeffrey Knott (@nijlkokubunken) on NIJL’s Union Catalogue of Early Japanese Books 日本古典籍総合目録データベース!💻 📖 https://t.co/DhkC9AA7ZX
We are thrilled to announce the three finalists for the 2024 MJHA Dissertation Prize (given to a dissertation filed in 2022).
The winner will be announced next week, so stay tuned!
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"[...] production fluency and complexity in retour interpreting are not consistently lower as compared to interpreting into A language. The findings thus weaken the case for interpreting into one’s native language only."
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Video Message by PM Kishida at the ASEAN-Japan Economic Co-Creation Forum
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