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Language learning and use in a changing world: A symposium in honour of Dr Robyn Spence-Brown at the Japanese Studies Centre

English to Japanese (E-J) Language teachers constantly search for new and improved texts which make students’ Japanese  language learning more effective and more enjoyable, using authentic sources.

After two long years of lockdown, the Japanese Studies Centre held its first in person event on 6 April, 2022:TOGETHER FOR THE FUTURE? WRITING A NEW GLOBAL HISTORY OF HIV AND AIDS FROM JAPANDr Mark Pendleton,  University of Sheffield, UK

The Japanese Studies Centre will be hosting a postgraduate symposium to be held at Monash University. This symposium centres on the theme of ‘Race and Diversity in Japan and Japanese Studies’—a theme that reflects the

The seminar on 8 August was a great example of collaboration, between two schools (SOPHIS and JSC/LLCL) and two universities (Yale and Monash) as supported through the Focus Program!

The Manga Library at the Monash Japanese studies Centre has one of the largest university-held manga collections with more than 7000 manga, covering all genres in Japanese, English and other languages.

A team of researchers from universities including Harvard, Nichibunken, Melbourne University, and Monash Japanese Studies Professor Carolyn Stevens, are collecting sounds of Japan to develop a ‘sonic repository’ of the country.

The Japanese Studies Centre (JSC) community said goodbye to Professor Takamichi ‘Tam' Mito (Kwansei Gakuin University), who has been a visiting scholar at the JSC over the last year with a seminar on 21 March, 2018.

During the week of 7-9 March, the Japanese Studies Centre (JSC) featured two Beatle-themed events to kick off the 2018 seminar series. The first was an academic launch of the JSC director Carolyn Stevens‘ new book, The Beatles in