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  • ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE 2024 BEFU AND BOOKMAN PRIZES

    The 2024 AJJ Conference was held on the weekend of November 30 to December 1 at the Aobayama campus of Tōhoku University. For the second year, we were delighted to…

  • Details on 2024 Meeting, Tohoku University

    Deadline for Submissions has been extended to Sunday 3 November. See previous blog posts for details on the conference. Click the titles below to go to the entry forms for…

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    ******* SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED! ******* ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN, IN JAPAN 2024 CONFERENCE TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, SENDAI, NOVEMBER 30~DECEMBER 1 Dear friends,    The deadline for submissions for the AJJ conference at Tohoku…

  • New Book Announcement

    We would like to announce the publication of Teaching Japan: A Handbook. This should be an ideal reference book for university libraries, and everyone teaching a course related to Japan and…

  • 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.

  • Mark Bookman Documentary Film Showings

    At last December’s AJJ meeting we were happy to inaugurate the Mark Bookman Prize, in memory of Mark Bookman, a young anthropologist specializing in disability issues who died very suddenly…