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<< PRIME MINISTER'S DIARY >>

- Japan-Viet Nam Summit Meeting and Other Activities

<< COVER STORY >>

[WASHOKU -Japanese Food Goes Global-]

- Interview: Yoshihiro Murata
Owner, Kikunoi Restaurants
Japanese umami: makes for healthier global cuisine

- Interview: Masayuki Yamashita
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Aiming for a greater share of the global market

- Food Valley Tokachi
Hokkaido brand finds international success

- Edible Diamonds
Japanese fruit is beloved around the world

- Brewing Global Sake
Asahishuzo pushes the upper limits of quality

- Cutting Edge
The Tokyo Sushi Academy trains sushi chefs for the world

- An Unmistakable Aroma
750 years of soy sauce tradition takes to the tables of Europe’s finest restaurants

- Product ARITA
Japanese porcelain prized by chefs overseas

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<< STUDENTS’ CORNER >>

- Hanami:Flower Viewing

<< SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY >>

- The SuMIRe Project
Momentous Japan-led dark matter and dark energy research


<< JAPANESE ABROAD  >>

- Cool Mobility
Satoshi Sugie designs personal mobility for the next generation

<< 47 PREFECTURES: FROM A TO Y >>

- Miyazaki / Nagano

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Letras-Japonês da UnB.

Comunicamos a todos os interessados que:

saiu o EDITAL de abertura para a realização do concurso para seleção de um professor na área de Letras-Japonês da UnB.

Chamamos a atenção para o fato de que se trata de concurso misto para doutores com cadastro de reserva de portadores de diploma de mestrado. Ou seja, tanto doutores quanto mestres podem concorrer à vaga.

Seguem informações básicas abaixo, porém os interessados podem acessar a página da Universidade de Brasília (http://dgp.unb.br/concursos/docente-2014/category/8884-149), contendo o Edital completo, a Ficha de inscrição online, as Condições Gerais do Concurso e a publicação no D.O.U.

Gostaríamos de contar com ampla divulgação deste concurso e agradecemos a sua colaboração.

Atenciosamente,

Ronan A. Pereira

Coordenador do Curso de Letras-Japonês

Universidade de Brasília

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 EDITAL DE ABERTURA DE CONCURSO PÚBLICO DOCENTE N. 149, DE 27/03/2014.

A FUNDAÇÃO UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA (FUB), nos termos da Portaria Interministerial n. 182, de 20/5/2013, publicada no DOU de 21/5/2013, dos Ministérios de Estado da Educação e do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão, da Portaria Interministerial n. 405, de 30/8/2012, publicada no DOU de 31/8/2012, dos Ministérios de Estado da Educação e do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão, e em conformidade com a Lei n. 8.112/1990, com o Decreto 7.485/2011, com o Decreto n. 6.944/2009, e com a Lei n. 12.772/2012, alterada pela Lei n. 12.863/2013, de 24/9/2013, torna pública a abertura de inscrições para o Concurso Público de Provas e Prova de Títulos, e estabelece normas destinadas a selecionar candidatos para o cargo de Professor de Magistério Superior da Fundação Universidade de Brasília (FUB).

1 DAS DISPOSIÇÕES PRELIMINARES.
1.1 O concurso público será regido por este edital e pelo Edital de Condições Gerais, publicado no DOU n. 22, de 31 de janeiro de 2014, Seção 3, páginas 32 a 35, disponibilizado no endereço eletrônico http://www.dgp.unb.br/concursos e executado pela Fundação Universidade de Brasília (FUB).
1.2 O concurso público visa selecionar candidatos para o cargo de Professor de Magistério Superior, no primeiro nível de vencimento da classe “A”, nos termos do art. 8º da Lei n. 12.772/2012, alterada pela Lei n. 12.863/2013, de 24/9/2013.
1.3 A seleção para o cargo de Professor de Magistério Superior constará das seguintes provas:
a) Prova Escrita de Conhecimentos, de caráter eliminatório e classificatório, com peso dois;
b) Prova Oral para Defesa de Conhecimentos, de caráter eliminatório e classificatório, com peso dois;
c) Prova Didática, de caráter eliminatório e classificatório, com peso unitário;
d) Prova de Títulos, de caráter.
1.4 O concurso público será realizado no Distrito Federal.
1.5 A vaga destinada ao Cadastro de Reserva será provida somente se houver código de vaga disponível para esse fim.

2 DO CARGO
PROFESSOR DE MAGISTÉRIO SUPERIOR

Denominação: Adjunto “A”
Nível: 1
Classe: A
Área de Conhecimento: Letras – Japonês.
Requisito Básico: ser portador do título de Doutor na área de Língua Japonesa ou áreas afins.
Departamento de Lotação: Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras e Tradução – LET.
Regime de Trabalho: Dedicação Exclusiva – DE.
Vagas: 1 (uma).

Denominação: Assistente “A”
Nível: 1
Classe: A
Área de Conhecimento: Letras – Japonês.
Requisito Básico: ser portador do título de Mestre na área de Língua Japonesa ou áreas afins.
Departamento de Lotação: Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras e Tradução – LET.
Regime de Trabalho: Dedicação Exclusiva – DE.
Vagas: Cadastro de Reserva.

3 DA REMUNERAÇÃO

3.1 Classe	Denominação	Regime de Trabalho	Titulação	Vencimento Básico R$	Retribuição por Titulação (RT)	Total R$
A	Adjunto “A”	DE	Doutorado	3.804,29	4.540,35	8.344,64
A	Assistente “A”	DE	Mestrado	3.804,29	1.931,98	5.736,27

UCLA Asian Institute eNews | April 2014

UCLA-Shanghai Jiaotong University

Summer Text and Translation Workshop

County Archives of China in the 1950s

July 21-30, 2014

UCLA

Deadline: April 15, 2014

The UCLA Asia Institute invites applications by students from all disciplines who are interested in using newly available county-level archival materials from the 1950s to study the formation and implementation of government policies in local situations.This ten-day intensive summer reading and translation workshop will be held at UCLA and led jointly by R. Bin Wong, Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA, and Cao Shuji, Professor of History at Shanghai Jiaotong University. The workshop is intended to serve students developing dissertation topics in an environment that brings together American-based and China-based graduate students. Sessions will be conducted in a combination of Chinese and English languages. Click here for further information and to apply.

Economic Change and Emerging Asia-Africa Interactions Lecture

Gendered Spaces: Movement, Markets and Transactions Between China and Africa

Anita Wheeler Plummer, Spelman College.

Thursday, April 24, 2014

4:30 PM

11360 Young Research Library

The series is co-organized by the Asia Institute and the African Studies Center.

Prop Q: Queer Performance and Politics Series

Queer Regionalism, by Gayatri Gopinath, New York University,

author of Impossible Desires: Queer Desires and South Asian Public Cultures

Thursday, April 17

4:00-6:00 PM

Presentation Room, Charles E. Young Research Library

Prop Q is a public series hosted by the School of Theater, Film and TV and the Department of World Arts & Cultures/Dance comprised of films, roundtables, live performances, and guest lectures by prominent scholars who have impacted the field of queer theory and artists who highlight queer issues in their creative practice.

This presentation is co-sponsored by the Asia Institute.

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April Asian Studies Spotlight Events at UCLA

Center for Korean Studies

Wednesday, April 2

Contact and Interference: Hybridity in Korean Language, in comparison with English and French

Jongsok Koh

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

Royce Hall 314

Center for India and South Asia

Saturday, April 5

Prospects for Pakistan: Looking beyond 2014

Ambassador Cameron Munter

3:00-5:00 PM

UCLA Broad Art Center

Room 2160E

Rsvp required

Center for Buddhist Studies

Monday, April 7

The Relation of Early Buddhism in Northeast South Asia with Buddhism in Areas of Burma

Arlo Griffiths, Ecole francaise d’Extreme-Orient, Jakarta

4:00-5:30 PM

Dodd 275

Center for Chinese Studies

Wednesday, April 9

Film Stars in the Perspective of Performance Studies: Play, Liminality, and Alteration in Chinese Cinema

Yingjin Zhang, University of California, San Diego

4:00-5:30 PM

Bunche Hall 11377

Prop Q Series

Thursday, April 10

Lecture/Demonstration: “He is My Wife, He is My Mother”

Director Katherine Hui-ling Chou and performer Yi-Hsiu Lee

4:30-6:00 PM

MacGowan 1330

10383 Bunche Hall

More events posted here

Dear list members, Our next seminar will be held at 5:30-7:00pm on Friday April 11 in Woolley Rogers Room in the John Woolley Building at the University of Sydney. We hope you can attend. Kind regards, AABS Executive Beyond Zen: Engaged Buddhism in 1920s Japan Though we have moved beyond the assumption that engaged Buddhism was somehow distinctively Western, most studies have been of recent and contemporary movements. This paper extends the history of engaged Buddhism in time and place with an account of the Far Eastern Buddhist Conference, Tokyo, November 1925. This was a major public event, attended by over 3,000 people, including reform monks from China, Korea and Japan. The conference proceedings mapped out an extensive agenda for social and political reform in Asia and in the world at large. The vision was for action beyond philanthropy; Buddhist social action at this level required structural change and political engagement. The title of the paper is a reference to the fact that one of the ironies of the absence of Western knowledge of this significant aspect of Japanese Buddhism is that the images of Zen as the essence of Japanese Buddhism, a form of Buddhism characterized by its association with meditation, personal spiritual development, and cultural production - images that continue to dominate popular knowledge of Buddhism in Japan - emerged from this same movement of modern Buddhist social and political engagement. Associate Professor Judith Snodgrass Judith Snodgrass writes, researches and teaches in the areas of Buddhism in the West, Buddhism and Asian modernity, Buddhist nationalism, and Western knowledge of Asia at the University of Western Sydney. She is the author of Presenting Japanese Buddhism to the West: Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Columbian Exposition and is the current president of AABS.

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[Contents of Highlighting JAPAN March 2014]


<< PRIME MINISTER'S DIARY >>

- The Ceremony to Commemorate the Third Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake

<< COVER STORY >>

[Creative Roots]

- Wappa Project:
Akita’s traditional industry merged with fresh creativity

- 21st Century Yoroi:
Samurai armor for modern Japan

- The New Banshu Project:
Traditional textiles explore the world on wings of cool

- SANOMAGIC:
A wooden bicycle with a Japanese heart

- Tangible Earth:
Interactive technology nurtures a global perspective

- Cool & Kawaii Japan
Japan through the eyes of Miss International contestants
- Interview: Hideaki Ibuki
Director, Creative Industries Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

- Events Column
-Experience Japan’s creative appeal!

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<< STUDENTS’ CORNER >>

- Hina Matsuri - Girls’ Festival

<< SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY >>

- From Incurable to Curable
Real-time tumor tracking advances cancer treatment

<< JAPANESE ABROAD  >>

- Minami Tsubouchi: From Adversity to Leadership

<< 47 PREFECTURES: FROM A TO Y >>

- Mie / Miyagi

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Newsletter No. 13. 2014     March 31, 2014     New Articles Posted
Quick Links Home About Japan Focus Top 10 Articles RSS Feeds In This Issue  Koide Reiko  Critical New Stage in Japan's Textbook Controversy Christine Hong War by Other Means: The Violence of North Korean Human Rights John Mathews and Hao Tan Jousting with James Hansen: China building a renewables powerhouse	Greetings!  On March 29th, thirty associates and authors of APJ met at the Association for Asian Studies meeting in Philadelphia to chart the journal's future. Look for changes and new synergies and special issues as well as new design features in the coming months.  James Hansen, the leading US climate scientist recent critiqued the work on Chinese green energy policies by our authors John Mathews and Hao Tan. See their response in this issue and their article last week on China's energy revolution. Koide Reiko draws attention to a Critical New Stage in Japan's Textbook Controversy outlining the Abe administration's aggressive steps to consolidate control over historical memory in Japan's school textbooks. A recent influential report has placed human rights violations in North Korea at the center of global debate. Christine Hong offers a critical rethinking of the debate by enlarging the frame of reference to include the ongoing Korean War in War by Other Means: The Violence of North Korean Human Rights.      Thanks to  the generous support of our readers, we succeeded in raising more than $12,000 to fund the Journal for 2014. The Journal will remain free. You can still support the journal at our home page with your 501 (C) tax-deductible gift. Quick Links Register Now Last Month's Newsletter More About Us Our Sponsors Subscription Information The Asia-Pacific Journal is freely available to all. Your 501 (C) tax-deductible gift will help to make technical upgrades, defray technical, mailing and maintenance fees, and  enable us to expand our output. Payment by Paypal and credit card at our home page. Recommended support level: $25 and up ($10 for students and residents of developing countries); $40 for institutions including libraries, research centers, government offices. If you experience difficulty in subscribing, write to us with the error message at info@japanfocus.org  Subscribe
Koide Reiko Critical New Stage in Japan's Textbook Controversy     In order to be eligible for use at public and even private schools, Japanese textbooks must be compiled by private publishers in accordance with the National Curriculum Standards and then endorsed by a Ministry of Education (MEXT) organ, the Textbook Approval and Research Council, and finally authorized by MEXT in accord with their Textbook Examination Standards. In the process, scrutiny by "textbook experts" and "specialists" "ensures that the textbooks are objective and impartial." At one 2012 MEXT meeting, Abe Shinzo, who became prime minister a few months later, targeted one particular history textbook because it mentioned the forceful recruitment - the text called it "mobilization" - of women to the Japanese military's sanctioned brothels - classified as "comfort women" - during the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945).  This article analyzes how a textbook becomes part of a school curriculum by explaining carefully Japan's textbook screening process and the influence of State actors on textbook authors. Koide Reiko shows how history textbook content, standards, and review have been taken completely out of the hands of historians and educators and placed directly under the control of politicians, and warns against the selective and systemic forgetfulness that can lead to contempt toward other nations, fundamentalism, essentialism, isolationism, and ultimately, to war.   Read More. . . Christine Hong War by Other Means: The Violence of North Korean Human Rights    Offering an historicized overview of the consolidation of contemporary human rights as the dominant lingua franca for social justice projects, this article applies it to the debate over human rights in North Korea. What does the rights framework render legible and what consigns to unintelligibility? Hong examines the antinomies of contemporary human rights as an ethico-political discourse that strives to reassert the dominance of the global North over the global South. The human rights framing of North Korea has enabled human rights advocates, typically "beneficiaries of past injustice," to assume a moralizing, implicitly violent posture toward a "regime" commonsensically understood to be "evil," one that distances contemporary Korean issues from the ongoing Korean War. The North Korean human rights project has allowed a spectrum of political actors-U.S. soft-power institutions, thinly renovated Cold War defense organizations, hawks of both neoconservative and liberal varieties, conservative evangelicals, anticommunist Koreans in South Korea and the diaspora, and North Korean defectors-to join together in common cause. By contrast, Hong enables a range of critical perspectives - from U.S.- and South Korea-based scholars, policy analysts, and social justice advocates - to attend to what has hovered outside or been marginalized within the dominant human rights framing of North Korea as a narrowly inculpatory, normative structure. Christine Hong is an assistant professor of literature at UC Santa Cruz and an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute. She is co-editor of the Critical Asian Studies issues on "Reframing North Korean Human Rights" (45:4 (2013) and 46:1 (2014)).      Read More. . . John Mathews and John Hansen, Jousting with James Hansen: China building a renewables powerhouse We have the dubious distinction of being misrepresented by Dr James Hansen, surely the most famous climate scientist in the world. In this article, we begin our rebuttal by affirming our unbounded admiration for Dr Hansen. He is not only the world's top climate scientist but also a fearless, and deliberately activist, exponent of the view that the age of fossil fuels is - and must be - drawing to an end. Dr Hansen's research and activism are a major reason we are having this debate about climate and energy. So we have no disagreement that it is imperative to end the age of fossil fuels. Where we part company, however, is on the policy implications. We have been caught in Dr Hansen's wider trawl for what he calls "Renewables can do all" greenies, or what might better be called "Nothing but renewables" greenies (NBRGs). He accuses NBRGs of mistakenly promoting renewables at the expense of nuclear power and thereby opening the way towards the rise and conquest of the gas industry. Our concern however is with China and the representation of its efforts to build a sustainable energy system to underpin its awesome and dangerously polluting industrial machine.  See our article  China's Continuing Renewable Energy Revolution: Global Implications. Read more. . .