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Please join us March 19th for our next webinar, "Doing Research on Okinawa," featuring Lynette Teruya (University of Hawai'i-Manoa), Hana Omine (Okinawa Prefectural Library), Jacqueline Toma (Okinawa Genealogical Society of HI), and Cameron Vanderscoff (Okinawa Memories Initiative).

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I get to do one of those annoying "come work with me" posts. But seriously-- come work with me. GW is a great workplace! Data Services Librarian - lnkd.in/eWNHzt3H - Research Services Librarian for Business and Data - lnkd.in/eTCsZSAB -

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If you are in the DC area, you don't want to miss this screening and discussion at the GW Sigur Center and East Asia National Resource Center. Please share! "Mark--A Call to Action" with Director Ron Small and Paul Bookman, Mark's father. www.eventbrite.com/e/mark-a-cal...

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What is the Japanese saying that is the equivalent of "Jinx! Knock on wood!" when you and another person say the same thing at the same time? I heard this somewhere and cannot recall it.

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Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

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Heartbroken. Thoughts with the victims and their families. I regularly fly out of DCA and drive by it everyday. Stunned.

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Be my colleague at the Harvard-Yenching Library! We just opened our search for the next Librarian for #JapaneseStudies, who will become a core member of our small but mighty team. As with every job, you don't need to satisfy every qualification to apply. www.eastasianlib.org/newsite/harv...

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Excited to be working with @risahatanaka.bsky.social, Nobu, @resplendentluck.bsky.social, and @billytringali.bsky.social! 🥳

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Have you explored library travel grants to assist with your research? University of Maryland Libraries just opened their “Awards for 20th Century Japan Research” grant, supporting travel to work with their archives on modern Japan! Deadline 1/31! For more info, see: www.lib.umd.edu/about/awards...

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On 22 December, Okinawan women will hold a mass rally to express fury at US military sexual violence and Japanese government's complicity. US-Japanese media usually ignore these crimes or dismiss them as rare exceptions - but these crimes have been happening for decades. apjjf.org/2021/22/mitc...

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Since Alison isn't in the sky 🦋, I'll share the exciting news that her book "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952" is out now! 🥳 I had the privilege of reading some of this great work in our writing group along the way! www.routledge.com/Envisioning-...

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Join us at Japan Foundation Los Angeles on 12/4 at 7pm for "An Evening with Tomoka Shibasaki: Readings & Conversation"! 📖 Tomoka Shibasaki, Yanai Initiative Visiting Professor, will discusse her literary works, including the award-winning Spring Garden (Haru no niwa). www.jflalc.org/event-detail...

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MJ, my man.

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I am excited to share that @vierth.bsky.social and I will be holding our virtual summer East Asian Studies & Digital Humanities workshop once again! This workshop offers a 4-day crash-course in all things DH and their use in an East Asian Studies context. web.sas.upenn.edu/dream-lab/ea...

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Speaking of Japan Foundation, please sign up for their digital library card and borrow ebooks, audiobooks, digital magazines for free using the Libby app. Love the fact that it isn’t just English but also Japanese. www.jflalc.org/libby

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So excited that the advance copies have just arrived of my book!! Will be officially out (also in full open access) December 3rd from @ucpress.bsky.social!

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Reskeet to save someone’s fucking life

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Dissent “is the intellectual steel which strengthens the self in the face of the tyrant’s weapon of induced panic.” A good time to reread Elizabeth Janeway's The Powers of the Weak—a guide to using power when you're not in charge. neglectedbooks.com?p=4586

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Are you a translator or publisher with a new translation from Japanese coming out in 2025? Consider letting RJL know via DM or our website. RJL's "New & Upcoming Japanese Fiction" list has become one of the earliest, most-comprehensive, and most findable lists online with almost 13k views in 2024.

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You know when you buy that one tiny souvenir and it’s so teensy you lose it on the way back and you think it fell out in some rando place but you find it years later? I hope that’s what happened to the micro book I bought in Okinawa whose title I can’t remember and disappeared from my luggage…

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After driving in Japan for two weeks with courteous drivers who follow road rules, I resolved to bring this unbothered vibe back to driving in DC. It lasted less than 24 hours.

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The deadline for our Library Services Team at JPP is only 1 week away! We can't wait to review applications! 😀

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I was just told I look like the Pink Power Ranger. I don’t know her.

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I was today year's old when I learned that Coachella is an actual place, not a concert named after girls who like Coach bags.

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Me: Barely makes flight because I will only fly chic, pressed, and perfectly coiffed. Also Me: Gets drenched at the airport in a downpour during taxi drop off. Bonus Round: Doused by a car speeding through a puddle.

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As I am preparing for my trip to Japan and bringing medication, why are all the illustrated characters rotund? disease.jp.lilly.com/diabetes_dac...

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My review of Mina’s Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder): “Like a sepia-toned photograph beginning to curl at the edges, [Matchbox] is a wistful story of the blink-and-you-miss-it moment between childhood and adulthood set at an important but easily-overlooked moment in Japanese history.”

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Please join us in person or virtually on September 11th, 2024 at 4:00 pm EST for an academic roundtable discussion featuring Okinawa's Governor Denny Tamaki, Dr. Sheila Smith Dr. Jennifer Kavanagh, and Dr. Mike Mochizuki (GWU). sigur.elliott.gwu.edu/2024/09/03/9...

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JPP is pleased to announce we will hold an international symposium on May 29-31, 2025 on the theme of "Japan Past & Present: Reimagining a Global Field," to be hosted at Waseda University! 🎉🗾🎤 japanpastandpresent.org/en/news/call...

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Japanese translation/copyright question: If a scholar wants to translate an academic article from Japanese to English, is it correct that they only need permission from the author/copyright holder to do so? Is there a website, libguide, or other source that indicates this?

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When you spot “your people.” There are some ideas crawling through that teetering jenga tsundoku.

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There's a giant truck backing up on my street called Bookstore Movers and I am trying to remember what in the hell I ordered. . .

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Nothing says "end of the semester, no memory to give any effs" than just leaving your entire purse and wallet at home.

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