Workshops and Conferences

  • AJJ 2024 @ Tohoku University

    November 30th – December 1st  Call for Papers & Panels Community, Collaboration and Co-production Anthropologists have always relied on the trust, collaboration, and co-production of knowledge among informants/interlocutors and one…

  • JAWS/AJJ CONFERENCE 2025 University of Hyogo CFP

    The Japan Anthropology Workshop/ Anthropology of Japan in Japan joint Conference will be held in Kobe, from April 4 (Friday) to April 6 (Sunday), 2025. The conference will be onsite…

  • AJJ 2024 Meeting Announcement

    We are happy to announce that the 2024 meeting will be held November 30 – December 1 (Saturday – Sunday) at Tohoku University, Sendai. More details to follow.

  • Programme for 2023 Annual Meeting

    Click HERE for registration via Google Form Below are scrollable and downloadable files for the Programme, Abstracts, and Panels with Titles. Click ‘Download’ buttons for each.

  • AJJ 2023 AT MEIJI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY SHIROKANE CAMPUS December 2 -3 CALL FOR PAPERS

    Becalmed, adrift or slowly sinking? Life aboard the listing Japanese ship of state Compared with some other industrialized countries, Japan can seem like a pleasant place to live these days.…

  • 2022 Meeting program is ready!

  • 2022 Annual Meeting Call for submissions

    Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) Annual Meeting 2022Wellbeing in Contemporary Japan: Embodying Techniques, Skills and Environments Dec. 3rd (Sat) & Dec. 4th (Sun) 2022 VENUE: Kyoto University, Yoshida South…

  • 2021 Annual Meeting Program

    Anthropology of Japan in Japan “Crisis Anthropology” Annual Meeting Timetable 3–5 December 2021 Hosted by Akita International University Location: ZOOM Organizing Committee: Kaeko Chiba and Hisako Omori (Akita International University) Ben Grafström (Akita University)…

  • Call for Papers: Online Annual Meeting 4-5 December 2021

    Dear Friends This is a Call for Papers for the annual meeting of the AJJ which will hosted by Akita International University Japan. The Annual Meeting of the AJJ has…

  • AJJ 2020 Keynote is now on YouTube

    We are grateful to Temple University, Japan Campus for posting the Keynote Speech of our Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) 2020 Annual Meeting (December 5-6th. 2020). The speaker is…