EAJS Council Members 2023-2026
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2023: Ghent, Belgium
17-20 August 2023. Call for panels and papers now closed.
EAJS General Meeting 2023
As is the tradition of the EAJS, we will hold the EAJS General Meeting following the 17th EAJS International Conference (17-20 August 2023). In accordance with § 6 (1) of the EAJS Constitution, the EAJS Council would like to hereby invite all EAJS members to this meeting. Further information and the agenda for the meeting […]
EAJS 2023 Film Programme
Finding their niche: Unheard stories of migrant women
Film documents the life of two Indian migrant women who moved to Japan as trailing spouses and the challenges they faced in ‘finding their niche’
37 Stories about Leaving Home
In this award winning documentary, Shelly Silver presents an intimate portrait of a group of Japanese women ranging in age from 15 to 82, talking about their lives, families and society.
Rice field instead of Tokyo: The life of young women in the Japanese countryside
Nature instead of mega city – a film about young Tokyo women who courageously turned their lives around and gave a remote mountain village a new lease on life.
The Squid and the Pine
Over the course of several years the life of a Japanese fishing village unfolds slowly and undramatically despite deaths and accidents in the village and catastrophes in the world.
Wear a light: The Future with Juvenile Parkinson’s Disease
Etsuko Yoshida, who suffers from juvenile Parkinson’s disease, overcomes her physical disability and accomplishes her dream of taking photographs wearing a kimono with her beloved husband.
EAJS 2023: Religious Space
Religious Space: Power, Worship, and Image in Medieval Japan Room 6.60, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, 9000, Gent Workshop description The formation of medieval Japanese culture had been profoundly affected by religion, predominantly Buddhism. This phenomenon led not only to the emergence of particular forms of medieval state rulership, but also gave structure […]
