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  • 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…

  • Prize Announcements

    The executive committee of AJJ (Anthropology of Japan in Japan) is pleased to announce the results of the inaugural Harumi Befu and Mark Bookman Prizes, awarded at the 2023 Annual…

  • 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!

  • Job posting

    / The Institute for the Liberal Arts (ILA) at Doshisha University in Kyoto is hiring part-time lecturers for the following courses (beginning Spring 2023). Please refer to the JREC-IN ads…