News Archive

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The cover of the Winter 2024 volume of HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Professor Heekyoung Cho Featured in HUMANITIES Magazine
Nobuko Horikawa
Nobuko Horikawa Wins Distinguished Dissertation Award
Nobuko Horikawa
Paul Atkins and Nobuko Horikawa co-author article in Nature
Spring Poetry group photo
Asian L&L Celebrates Cherry Blossoms with Poetry
Asian L&L Language Students Win Japanese Speech and Skit Awards
Shusenjo
Feb 15: Film Screening & Director Q&A: Miki Dezaki's "Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the 'Comfort Women' Issue"
Washin Kai Haiku Event
Washin Kai "What is Haiku?" Lecture, Paul Atkins
Davinder Bhowmik, Sharalyn Orbaugh, and Chris Hamm
2022 Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture: "Japanese Propaganda and the Power of Love: Mobilizing the Wartime Empire", Sharalyn Orbaugh
“The Mountain is Empty; A Pinecone Falls,” line from a poem by Wei Yingwu
Paul Atkins Awarded Selden Prize for Translation
Sendai after the earthquake, tsunami flooding, and nuclear disaster
Students translate personal testimonies from survivors of the March 3, 2011 triple disaster in Sendai, Japan
Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan - Book Cover
Professor Justin Jesty Wins ASAP Book Award
Professor Atkins speaking at the podium
REIWA:  Paul Atkins speaks about the new Japanese reign name at Japan Fair 2019
Image of students working in groups in Virtual Tokyo class.
Virtual Tokyo - A New Japanese Class in Spring 2020
Professor Atkins speaks to alumni
Professor Paul Atkins speaks to alumni at UW Converge Tokyo
Prof. Atkins in office
Professor Paul Atkins' interview in the North American Post, now available in Japanese by Soy Source magazine
Jack Stoneman photo
Professor Jack Stoneman to lecture on Japanese art and influence, Friday, November 2 
Professor Atkins standing in office
Professor Atkins interviewed by the North American Post
Art and Engagement in Postwar Japan book cover
New Publication: Professor Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan
Mt. Fuji with cherry blossoms
Asian L&L receives Japanese Foreign Minister's 2018 Commendation
Heidi Pawels
Departmental Faculty Shine Brightly in UW's Interdisciplinary Honors Program
Junko Mori
2nd Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy Held at UW
Cho Book Cover
 Heekyoung Cho Publishes Translation’s Forgotten History: Russian Literature, Japanese Mediation, and the Formation of Modern Korean Literature
Book Cover
Davinder Bhowmik Publishes Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa
Summer Intensive Asian Language Classes Registration Begins April 14
2013 FLAS Fellowship Awardee - Chris Lowy