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News & Events

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  New Opening for Full-Time Lecturer in Vietnamese
  October 10, 2019
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  New Opening for Assistant Professor in Buddhist Studies
  September 25, 2019
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  REIWA:  Paul Atkins speaks about the new Japanese reign name at Japan Fair 2019
  July 9, 2019
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  Virtual Tokyo - A New Japanese Class in Spring 2020
  June 25, 2019

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Recent Research

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  Jennifer Dubrow, Sharafat and Bhal Mānsī
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  Zev Handel, Encyclopedia of Chinese Language and Linguistics
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  Heekyoung Cho, Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature
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  Justin Jesty, Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan
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  John Christopher (Chris) Hamm, The Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang
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  Jennifer Dubrow, The Aesthetics of the Fragment

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