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It gives us enormous pleasure to announce that, after more than 3 years of planning and preparation, Japan Past & Present is now up and running! 🎉🗾 JPP is a global information hub & repository that promotes research & teaching in the Japanese humanities!
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So what has Japan Past & Present been working on while our website is under development? 👀 Here are a couple of the great things already underway--first, the Japan in Translation Database! This project aims to be a centralized tool for locating primary sources in translation.
Our socials have been quiet while our dedicated web developers work on creating our website, but we thought it would be helpful to share a bit about what Japan Past & Present is and what exciting things the Japan Studies community has to look forward to! 🗾🥰
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この度、Japan Past & Presentは日本研究に携わる専門家のために「外部助成金データベース」を立ち上げました！日本研究のための世界中の助成金を250件以上集め、応募資格・条件などから絞り込み検索が可能なようにいたしました。💻🌏
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As a part of JPP's goals to connect researchers around the globe is the launch of Japan Scholar Search! JSS is a searchable directory of scholars in Japan Studies that hosts research and teaching profiles to promote scholarly communication and exchange. 🗾
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JPP is excited to host a Recent Publications 新刊 page showcasing in one central place the latest book & journal publications related to Japanese humanities around the world! 📚 Publishers can register with us to help make their materials more visible! 🔎
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Japan Past & Present is pleased to announce the launch of our External Grants database! This database provides a filterable list of more than 250 funding opportunities related to Japan Studies from all around the world. 💻🌏
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JPP is excited to announce we are offering Project Grants (up to $10k) to support the development of new public-facing resources by teams of scholars! 研究者チームによる新しい公共リソースの開発を支援すべく、プロジェクト助成金（最大1万ドル）を提供します！
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Are you participating in or holding a Japan-focused event? JPP hosts a community event calendar to share info on conferences, workshops, lectures, cultural events, exhibitions, films, & more around the world! 🌏🗓️ Upload the details for free to our site!
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Want to know more about JPP projects in the works? 👀 Our Early Modern Japan Collaborative's first major project is a full translation and transcription of a rare (possibly one of a kind!) 18th cen manuscript focusing on the love affairs & tragic murder of a young samurai. 💔
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Our socials have been quiet while our dedicated web developers work on creating our website, but we thought it would be helpful to share a bit about what Japan Past & Present is and what exciting things the Japan Studies community has to look forward to! 🗾🥰
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We are pleased to announce "Teaching Japanese Tea," an academic symposium (4/27) co-presented by
@JHLosAngeles
& the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities! 🍵
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Happening at
@BrynMawrCollege
on June 19: the US premiere of MARK: A CALL TO ACTION, a documentary that chronicles the life and work of scholar and activist in and beyond Japan, Dr. Mark Bookman (1991-2022). For more information, see our events page:
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Happening today: our thrilling Teaching Tea symposium! 🍵 17 scholars and practitioners of tea come together to speak on how they teaching tea and its myriad meanings! The outcomes of this weekend will be open-access teaching resources uploaded to JPP! ✨
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三年以上にわたって構想を練り上げ、準備をつづけてきたJapan Past & Presentが、本日、ようやく公開される運びとなりました！🎉🗾 JPPは、分野、時代、国を越えて日本の人文学研究の情報中枢として機能し、研究者をつなげ、研究と教育を促進するグローバルな情報ハブです！
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Did you know that JPP offers open-access filterable reading lists on a variety of topics related to Japan? 📚😮 Developed by our project teams or donated by scholars, these are a great place to start building your syllabus or just learn more about Japan!
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One of JPP's many features is our Hidden Christian World Heritage in the Gotō 五島の潜伏キリシタン関連世界遺産 project! Lead by
@gwynjapan
(
@UniNewEngland
), it explores oral histories & information on Hidden Christian UNESCO sites in the Gotō Islands. ⛪
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JPP is delighted to announce the recipients of our inaugural Project Grant competition! We received compelling, creative applications from researchers and educators around the world that embodied the global vision for the field to which JPP is committed.
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「世界の日本研究者一覧」でご自分のプロフィールを作成されましたか？この無料で検索可能な日本研究者のディレクトリでプロフィールを作成いただくことは、専門家や研究者の知名度を高め、学術的なコミュニケーションや交流を促進することにつながります！ 🔎🗾
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Call for Applicants: JPP is seeking multilingual specialists to assist in developing our online resources. This will be a short-term (2-month) paid team to assist with collecting information on conferences or journals relevant to the field. Deadline 8/21!
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A heads up for those signing up for our Japan Scholar Search 世界の日本研究者一覧: if you’re wondering why a location, language, or discipline does not appear in our filter, its because no one in that category has signed up yet! 💻 Please encourage your colleagues to join us! 😀
As a part of JPP's goals to connect researchers around the globe is the launch of Japan Scholar Search! JSS is a searchable directory of scholars in Japan Studies that hosts research and teaching profiles to promote scholarly communication and exchange. 🗾
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今世界各地では、どのようなイベントが開催されているのでしょうか？ JPPのイベントカレンダーでは、世界各地で開催される日本関連のイベント（会議、シンポジウム、ワークショップ、講演会、文化イベントなど）を掲載しています！ 🗓️
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JPP is pleased to invite applications for a short-term (2-month) team to assist in the development of our digital humanities resources for Japan Studies! 💻 We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds & institutions around the world to apply.🌏
#DHJPN
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A rare publication with high resolution photos of archival materials and ephemera on Japanese silent film narration through history! 🎬⬇️
No matter what kind of enthusiast, you won't want to miss the Yanai Initiative's companion book for The Art of the Benshi world tour! 🎞️ Lavishly produced, it explores benshi history, ephemera, & the transnational journey of silent film! Ordering info at:
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Reminder! 🚨 The deadline for our Project Grant applications is only 1 week away! Project Grants of up to $10k support the development of new public-facing resources in the Japanese humanities created by diverse teams of scholars around the world!
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We just welcomed JAH-Q as a publication editor, so the new issue appears on our Recent Publications page too! ☺️
Our faculty’s journal, Journal of Asian Humanities at Kyushu University (JAH-Q), is now out! Here’s the entire volume: , and individual articles can be accessed through .
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Rest assured, our
#AAS2024
merch has been thoroughly tested by experts, who tell us our pens make the best clickkity-clack sound when dropped onto the floor. 🖊️
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What other projects are currently in the works at JPP? 🗾 Another thing to look forward to is our Teaching Tea pedagogy unit, coordinated by Rebecca Corbett (
@USCLibraries
) and Michelle Liu Carriger (
@UCLA
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If you're registered for the Tools of the Trade conference in Boston next week, be sure to come to our exemplary projects panel to learn all about JPP and the exciting resources it has in the works...! You might even get a sneak peek at our website. 😍🗾
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プロジェクト助成金 deadline TOMORROW! 応募締切：明日！！ 😱 We are excited to receive your applications for our inaugural Project Grants for open-access teaching & research resources in Japan Studies! 🌟 Get it in by 4/30, 11:59pm PT・5/1, 3:59pm JT!
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JPPの第1回プロジェクト助成金の受賞者を発表致します！世界中の研究者や教育者から、魅力的で独創的な内容の応募をいただきました。キャリアステージや地域が異なる研究者チームも多く、日本人文科学研究のグローバル化に努めるJPPのビジョンを体現したものも複数ありました。
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プロジェクト助成金の応募締切まであと１週間となりました！ 🚨 世界中の多様な研究者チームに対し、最高1万米ドルを提供し、日本の人文科学における新しい一般向けリソースの開発を支援します！
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Register now to virtually visit this week's CineMAP Japan Beta, A Symposium: Location, Location, Location, May 3-4! 🎬 Film scholars will reflect on the affordances of CineMAP Japan, a database & mapping tool on locations where Japanese films were shot.
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We are grateful beyond words to all of the people who made this initiative possible. Our web developers, Text & Bytes, and our web designers, Hermann Germann, especially, have made this dream come to life! ✨
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Visit our site to learn more & find teaching resources サンプル教材, projects プロジェクト, information on recent publications 新刊 and event イベント, and our new networking platform, Japan Scholar Search 世界の日本研究者一覧! サイトをご覧ください！
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Reminder! 🚨 The deadline for our Project Grant applications is approaching (4/30)! ⬇️ We are excited to read all of your wonderful project proposals! 😀
JPP is excited to announce we are offering Project Grants (up to $10k) to support the development of new public-facing resources by teams of scholars! 研究者チームによる新しい公共リソースの開発を支援すべく、プロジェクト助成金（最大1万ドル）を提供します！
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We are excited to take part in an
@AASAsianStudies
Digital Dialogues session to introduce our global information hub & repository for Japan Studies! 🗾 Register and you might even get a sneak peek at our soon-to-launch site...! 👀 Note the date change! ⬇️
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Born from a happy confluence of overlapping visions, it is a collective effort to reimagine the Japanese humanities as a truly global area of study. A project of the Yanai Initiative at UCLA & Waseda University, it aims to foster greater equity among scholars on a global scale.🌏
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Our team is almost done transcribing & translating the text, which will be made fully accessible to anyone in the world. ✨ They're creating additional content like reading lists, annotated maps, and introductory essays to help specialists & non-specialists alike teach with it!😍
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This project is an international collaboration, with grad students, postdocs, faculty, and occasional pet friends from around the world. To date, it's supported by the Yanai Initiative, Yale University, Leiden University, and the Ailion Foundation. 🤝
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A huge thanks to everyone who joined our
@AASAsianStudies
session! The video should be available soon. 🫶 We hope you're getting as excited as we are for launch! Our collaborators & creators are doing incredible work for the field! Follow us here, FB, & Bluesky for the latest! 📱
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So what exactly is JPP? 🤔Hard to tell without a website ready, we know! Japan Past & Present is a global information hub and repository that promotes research and teaching in the Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders.
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Resources may include, but are not limited to, research and pedagogy guides, databases, video series, essays, lesson plans/syllabi, annotated translations, digital resources, or other innovative materials in support of open-access research and teaching.
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力強い応募が大変多かったため、今回は、当初予定していた4件ではなく、5件を授与することにしました。受賞者は以下の5つのチームです ⬇️
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JPPは、どのような人々が、どこで、どのような研究を展開しているのかを容易に把握できるようにすることで、公平で開かれた研究環境を築いていくことを目指しております。🌏
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Indeed, it proved so hard to narrow down the list of awardees that we have decided, in this first round of grants, to award five instead of the four we had originally planned. We congratulate the five teams that were selected! ⬇️
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What are some of the new & exciting events happening in Japan Studies? 👀 This week our Events page has additions from Yale CEAS,
@WEAI_Columbia
,
@JFToronto
, & more! Ask your org, center, or dept to upload their upcoming events for the field to explore!
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You can check out T&B's amazing work
@textandbytes
! They're responsible for some truly incredible projects, and we couldn't have done it without them! 😍
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In order to plan the database to be as equitable & sustainable as possible, we hired our first team to develop a extensive proposal beforehand. They considered content, evaluated existing resources, created data acquisition plans, discussed community investment, and more! 👑
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The establishment of JPP is supported by the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. This initiative was established in 2014 as a partnership between UCLA and Waseda University, with Michael Emmerch (UCLA) & Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda) as directors on the Japan side.
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Are you registered to join us on Wednesday? 👀 Come learn about JPP and get a preview of our exciting new community resources coming your way sooooon! 🗾👇
AAS Members: register now for next Wednesday's
#AASDigitalDialogues
session on New Resources in
#AsianStudies
. Check out new platforms and programs, and learn how you can get involved!
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最初は数人の話し合いから生まれたこのプロジェクトは、世界中の研究者が一緒になって日本の人文学を真にグローバルな研究領域として再構築するためのプラットフォームになるという、きわめて大胆な目標を掲げております。
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「世界の日本研究者一覧」は、ユーザーが検索・活用できる研究者一覧です。世界中の日本人文科学の専門家同士の人脈作りやコミュニケーションを促進することを目的としています！ 🔎🌏🗾
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UCLAと早稲田大学の共同企画である柳井イニシアチブが発案・開発したプロジェクトであり、その運営を柳井イニシアティブがこれからも担いつづけることになるのですが、
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What kind of Japan-related events are being offered around the world right now? On JPP’s Events calendar explore vents taking place across the world! Use the filter to find events by date, type, time period, & find out what's happening near you & online!🗓️
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Pardon the dust while we build our website. If you're curious about the Japan Past & Present project, you can learn more at our announcement here!
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This will include not just English and Japanese but any translated language. Want to know if Yoshimoto Banana’s work is translated into Dutch? Or if there is a French version of Kamakura period law codes? We’d like to know that too!
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A new year is here! JPP is cooking up some exciting things, and we hope to launch our site in the next couple of months. In the meanwhile, we're following all you fantastic Japan specialists. 🗾📱 Keep an eye on this space and we'll post any updates as the time approaches...!
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A core part of developing this hub is to provide equitable access to resources in pursuit of a more inclusive & diverse field. JPP is creating an infrastructure that fosters more international collaboration & creates opportunities for more voices to be heard in Japan Studies.
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Thanks to
@james_welker
for alerting us to the problem, and the folks at
@textandbytes
and
@statamic
for helping fix it so quickly! 🙌
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Protip!🖊️ When creating your JSS profile you can change the focal point of your profile photo right in the system! Navigate to your profile photo, click the file name, select "Focal Point," and click where on your photo you want the focus! 📸 Hit finish, publish, & you're done!
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The aim of the database will be comprehensiveness, multidisciplinarity, & increasing visibility of diverse resources that can be used by researchers & educators. We also see the idea of "Japan" as one "in translation" in more inclusive forms than modern geopolitical identities.
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This project will feature a 2024 symposium by multidisciplinary academics and practitioners of tea, who will be responsible for creating high quality public-facing pedagogy resources on tea history, culture, art, and practice throughout history! 😍🍵
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Another one of our projects is Japan Scholar Search. This will be a user-driven, searchable directory of Japan scholars intended to allow us to connect to each other more easily but also to make experts more easily findable for public-facing work where expertise can be sought.
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We are particularly interested in applicants with multilingual (and non-English) capabilities and knowledge of events and publications beyond the Anglophone world. The application window is short (❗), so please do consider applying and share with qualified colleagues!
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How do we manage such a potentially big organization with effective oversight while keeping momentum?🤔
@paularcurtis
(UCLA) is our Operations Leader, coordinating all admin & non-temporal groups, and our Advisory Board (under development) will provide additional advising.
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At UCLA Michael Emmerich is director. The Yanai Initiative has supported numerous events, projects & researchers. JPP is in keeping with its goals to make Japanese humanities more inclusive & equitable on a global scale. ✨ You can learn more on the site:
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「五島の��伏キリシタン関連世界遺産」プロジェクトでは、五島列島における潜伏キリシタンに関連のユネスコ世界遺産に着目し、オーラルヒストリーなどの情報を掲載しています。日本語はこちら：
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These offer short-term support to create public-facing resources related to Japanese humanities (broadly defined) to be published on the JPP site. JPPの「プロジェクト助成金」は、広義で日本に関わるトピックに関して、JPPのウェブサイトで公開されるリソースの開発を短期的に支援します。
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We are happy to report that this bug has been fixed! 🐛🥳 Users should no longer have any issues entering Japanese text in Safari on browsers or mobile when filling out their Japan Scholar Search profiles. If you encounter any other bugs please don't hesitate to contact us!
We are aware there's a Safari bug that makes Japanese text disappear when you hit enter as you create a Scholar Search profile. Very inconvenient for characters like ・「 and『 when doing names & pubs!🙃 We have filed a ticket with our CMS company & hope to get it fixed soon!
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研究・教育ガイド、データベース、ビデオシリーズ、エッセイ、授業計画・シラバス、注釈付き翻訳、デジタルリソース、その他革新的なプロジェクトなどが該当します。
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We consciously chose to have Project Managers based on different continents that represent three distinct disciplinary fields as well: history, literature & culture, and anthropology and religion. 🌏📖
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For this project, we also hired a short-term team to develop a proposal for JSS long before it's being built, so that we can address many important issues like tackling different cultures of privacy and communication. Crucial considerations!
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パブリケーション・エディターとしてのご登録ありがとうございます！JPPの「新刊」ページでは日本人文科学に関する世界各地の最新の書籍や学術誌を一元的に紹介しています。出版物の認知度を高めることにつながりますので、出版社の方はぜひJPPにご登録ください！
『中間小説とは何だったのか』『麻雀漫画50年史』がJapan Past & Present（
@JPPInfo
）の近刊サイトに掲載されました。
Recent Publications | Japan Past & Present
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By promoting a variety of research projects, pedagogy materials, events, networking, & more (with due credit to those who helped make it happen!) JPP’s goal is to generate a space to centralize resources, partner globally, & redistribute support/access to those who need it most.
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What are some of our planned resources? 👀 We have lots! Now that you know a little bit about Japan Past & Present and how it works, we hope you'll tune in later today to find out! Be sure to follow us here on Twitter or on Facebook at
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But how can JPP sustain itself and foster these networks? With YI seed funding, JPP is modeling the benefits of multi-institutional collaborations & inviting cosponsorship for projects, offering an institution-neutral space for many of these public-facing projects to live. 🤝
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Coordinating many events, projects, and resources is a big task. JPP’s infrastructure is built around 3 core temporal units, each with their own Project Manager: Nadia Kanagawa (Furman University), Angelika Koch (Leiden University), Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne).
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Full transcripts of the project interviews are available in English and Japanese! ユーザーは、Web ページのメインメニューにある EN/JP ボタンを使用して、オリジナルの日本語筆記録と英語翻訳を切り替えることができます。各インタビューの引用候補は、各筆記録の最後に記載されています。
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Each team's designated Team Coordinator helps to keep projects on task, and our team members have specific and consistent titles that will allow academics to put this work down on their CVs with ease!
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すでにプロフィールを作成された方は、ぜひ世界中の研究者のお知り合いにも登録を勧めてください！プロフィールは英語、日本語、またはその両方で作成いただけます！
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As seen above, our content creation is done around short-term teams & long-term teams who are paid for their labor. They're responsible for specific projects with a set end date & discrete goals. These teams are anywhere from 3-5 individuals & have their own internal leadership.
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On the site, temporal divisions help make our Japan-related content more legible to those outside of the field, while thematic connections will get us beyond those boundaries. We hope folks will come looking for materials they can use for classes, research, & comparative work! 🔎
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And don't forget the design aesthetic. Our slick visuals are thanks to Herrmann Germann, the dynamic design duo!
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We've already started projects partnered with UCLA & Waseda, but also Leiden, Yale, & the Ailion Foundation (Netherlands). With each new resource under development & new academic partners, we aim to strengthen community bonds & create more visibility for researchers & their work!
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The fact that JPP is divided into these units is not intended to silo or divide, but rather, to have our Project Managers leverage their expertise and networks to bridge these time periods & bring new bodies of scholars and scholarship together. 👋
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Stay tuned this week for more information on some more of our initial projects that are already underway and the great people behind them, as well as for opportunities to begin taking part in building JPP's resources. We're excited to be close to launch and hope you are too! 🥳🗾
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世界中の日本専門家の公平性を高める試みのひとつとして、幅広い方々が情報に簡単にアクセスできるようにすることがきわめて重要であると考えています。
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Oop, apologies, that should have read Bryn Mawr Film Institute, not college! Of course if you are at the college, it should be easy to come by! 😀
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「Japan Past & Present（JPP）」のイベントカレンダーでは、世界各地で開催される日本関連のイベント（会議、シンポジウム、ワークショップ、講演会、文化イベントなど）を掲載しています。情報の投稿は無料です！ 💻
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By creating an easy-to-use, filterable platform where it's easy to find our colleagues, particularly those in less visible or underserved areas, we aim to promote more equity in the field.
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