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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · 1d

講演へのご登録はこちらからお願いします: ucf.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 高媛『帝国と観光―「満洲」ツーリズムの近代』with Ken Ruoff and 蘭信三. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

ucf.zoom.us

Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · 1d

In one week! #Japan #Manchuria #Tourism #日本 #満州 #東北 #観光

Modern Japan History Association @modernjapanhist.bsky.social · 1d

In one week!

高媛 (Ko En/Gao Yuan, Komazawa U) on a new book, 帝国と観光―「満洲」ツーリズムの近代 (Empire and Tourism: Modern Japanese Tourism in Manchuria), with Ken Ruoff (Portland State U), 蘭信三 (Araragi Shinzo, Sophia U), and Tadashi Ishikawa (U of Central Florida).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6206315

A screenshot showing the event text in both English and Japanese, and featuring a book cover with a woman wearing blue clothing.

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 2d

New job:

Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (KCJS) Postdoctoral Fellowship

Columbia University

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69271

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Julia C. Bullock @juliacbullock.bsky.social · 9d

It wasn't enough that he left us a wealth of outstanding work of his own to seed future scholarship, y'all. He wanted to fund yours too. Bless his soul. Please apply!

Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 9d

Thanks to the generosity of Mark McLelland, the AAS Northeast Asia Council offers research grants for scholars working on the history of Japanese sexualities and genders. Applications must be submitted by 5pm ET on October 1.

buff.ly/leBEUQr

Call for applications for a short-term research grant on the history of Japanese sexualities, honoring Mark McLelland, deadline October 1, 2025.

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Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social · 15d

Wow @utaustin.bsky.social maybe @utaustinihs.bsky.social maybe there are other ways to shout out to the department of East Asia Studies and the Department of History, but however that may be, they are doing some amazing stuff with in house games for their JapanLab! Just found even more stuff here.

Projects — JapanLab

www.utjapanlab.com

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · 14d

Registration is required for the book talk on Zoom. The link is below. Zoom上での講演となりますので、下記のリンクからご登録のほど、よろしくお願いします。
mjha.org/event-6206315

Modern Japan History Association - New Books from Japan #11: "Empire and Tourism: Modern Japanese Tourism in Manchuria"

mjha.org

Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · 14d

日本時間で10月１５日、アメリカの近代日本史学会
@modernjapanhist.bsky.social は駒澤大学の高媛先生
をお招きし、ご著書『#帝国と#観光―「#満洲」ツーリズムの近代』について講演して頂きます。討論者としてKen Ruoff先生と蘭信三先生も加わる予定です。朝9時開始ですが、奮ってご参加ください。

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · 14d

On October 14/15, we @modernjapanhist.bsky.social
invite Prof. Ko En/Gao Yuan (Komazawa Univ.) to a book talk about the #Japanese #empire, #Manchuria, and #tourism. We will be joined by two discussants, Ken Ruoff and Araragi Shinzo. Mark your calendars!

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H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 17d

New job:

Associate Director, Center for Humanities and Digital Research, UCF

University of Central Florida

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69144

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · Aug 28

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.

We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.

I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · Aug 27

Just noticed that Nichibunken's open access collection has a full text OA copy of book "Gender and Modernity: Rereading Japanese Women's Magazines" (152MB) nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/6419 - individual chapters can also be downloaded. Guess I don't need to wait for that inter-library loan.

国際日本文化研究センター学術リポジトリ

国際日本文化研究センターの研究成果を蓄積し, 公開しています. The research results of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies are accumulated and published.

nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Aug 26

Time filies. I felt the oppsoite twenty plus years ago and encouraged myself to go broad beyond the border. I couldn't even imagine a discourse like this would emerge. That's why I find the country and its history interesting!

Eike Exner @eikeexner.com · Aug 26

For those who read Japanese and have ever rolled their eyes at one of the innumerable TV shows where a foreigner is used to tell Japanese people how sugoi!! Nippon is, I wholeheartedly recommend this cathartic book by @hayakawa2601.bsky.social . It's not only incisive but often laugh-out-loud funny.

The book Nihon sugoi no jidai by Hayakawa Tadanori

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Aug 20

I greeted two professors at AHA before, one of whom introduced me to Dr. Boyle. If you don't know anyone there yet intend to apply for the program, you send a message to [email protected]. I believe they can forward it to the researcher you want to work with. Hope this helps!

Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Aug 20

As the successful applicants are expected to join one of the research groups, the applicants should contact one of the faculty group leaders ahead of their application. There is no contact information on their website: www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/research/...

Researcher Openings｜International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)

The mission of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), as an inter-university research institute funded by the government, is to promote and support the study of Japanese...

www.nichibun.ac.jp

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Aug 20

I share the news because it is part of Nichibunken's funded visiting program for Japan specialists outside Japan. If you want to apply for a yearlong research stay there at some point from April 2027 to January 2029, the deadline for the applications is October 31, 2025.

the call for applications to the visiting research program at Nichibunken

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'm pleased to share that I will stay as a visiting scholar in Nichibunken/日文研 during the calendar year of 2027. I will join the research group, "Island Japan," led by Prof. Ted Boyle and work on my project on mobilities between Japan and Cold War Asia.

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · Aug 1

***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for August 2025.

A thread.

I will update the thread over the course of the month.

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Aug 6

Dr. Jisoo Kim (GWU) and I look forward to it later in February as part of the "Making Connections" series by the American Society for Legal History!

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Christopher Nugent @cmbnugent.bsky.social · Jul 2

My department at Williams College is hiring! Williams is a wonderful place to work and my colleagues in the Chinese program are great. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Chinese
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Jun 30

***Call for Proposals***

Jecca Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, Amy Chazkel, and Evan Taparata are co-editing a special issue of Radical History Review focused on mobility regimes. Interested authors are invited to submit a 1-2 page proposal by July 7, 2025.

www.radicalhistoryreview.org/mobility-reg...

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congratulations!!

Ghassan Moazzin @ghassanmoazzin.bsky.social · Jun 26

Very happy to have signed a contract with @universitypress.cambridge.org for a book tentatively titled "A Business History of Modern China: c. 1800 to the Present". The book will cover the historical evolution of Chinese enterprise over the past two centuries [1/3]

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Jun 26

I know! See you in AAS or somewhere in the near future.

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congratulations!!🎉 I hope you are doing well!

K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social · Jun 25

Author copy fresh out of the box! I'm shaking!

@uofmpress.bsky.social made the publication process so smooth! And huge thanks for hosting an open access version, which will be available on my official publication date: August 5.

But if you'd rather buy a hard copy, use code UMWEB30 for 30% off!

Slightly blurry selfie of me, a middle aged white woman wearing glasses, holding a copy of my book after just having unboxed it.

Back cover of my book, which includes the summary and two blurbs that are available in full here: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/Teaching-and-Transformation-in-Popular-Confucian-Literature-of-the-Late-Qing3

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Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social · Jun 26

こんな時代であるけれど、です。
アメリカの人文系大学院への出願に関するブログシリーズ: (2) 教授への事前コンタクト（博士課程編）
www.tadashiishikawa.com/blog/vi1df4ecl7l8zvg5w57nirl24l4wpd

Tadashi Ishikawa - A Historian at the Margins

皆様いかがお過ごしでしょうか？６月下旬のフロリダは、いつも通り暑いです（笑）。さて、前回に本ブログを更新してから一ヶ月以上も経過したのですが、それは別にそこそこ忙しかったというだけではありません。このシリーズでは出願のテクニック的なことを書いているのですが、それ以前のアメリカへの留学そのものに関する構造的な問題があり、その問題を前にして些細なことを書いても意味があるのか？という感覚があったからです...

www.tadashiishikawa.com

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Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social · Jun 17

ThreeTT jobs in history of medicine, science, and environment at Texas State University. One in Public history
jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/sea...

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