Prof. Dr. Verena BLECHINGER-TALCOTT (Immediate Past President)
Prof. Dr. Verena BLECHINGER-TALCOTT Immediate Past President The EAJS has grown to become the largest academic association in the field of Japanese Studies outside of Japan. It plays an important role linking national associations of Japanese studies in Europe and, at the same time, forms a nexus between Japan specialists in Europe and those in […]
EAJS Council Members 2023-2026
See the list of EAJS Council Members 2023-2026
2023: Ghent, Belgium
17-20 August 2023. Call for panels and papers now closed.
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.
2023 Venue & travel
The 17thInternational Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) took place in Ghent, the capital of East Flanders and a city, which is, according to the Washington Post, “Belgium’s unsung capital of cool.” National Geographic Traveller even sees Ghent “as the most authentic historic city in the world.” The city combines an impressive […]
