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12/23/2024

Distance learning opportunity! 💻 UH Outreach College is offering distance learning, non-credit Japanese Conversation classes on Saturdays! ✨ Contact [email protected] for more info 🙂

12/10/2024

Explore the resilience and cultural reclamation of Uchinaanchu (Okinawan) identity across Okinawa, Brazil, and Hawaiʻi ✨ As a department that offers two Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language) courses, we’d like to share with you an exciting presentation related to Uchinaa (Okinawa) happening on January 6, 2025! Join us in-person or online! ✨

🗣️ This presentation is titled “Symbols of Uchinanchu Reculturation: Hajichi Tattoo Practices and Online Solidarity Connecting Okinawa, Brazil, and Hawaiʻi” and will be presented by PhD student Mateus Rezende de Oliveira (Instagram: ) from the University of Tokyo and Moeko Heshiki, a Hajichi Artist based in Okinawa!

Please join us for this FREE session! Details are on the posted flyer 😊 This presentation is proudly organized by Akisamiyo (Instagram: ) 🌺

12/02/2024

🚨 Attention UH Mānoa undergrads! 🚨
Applications for the Fall 2025 Mānoa Political Internships are now OPEN! 🎓✨ Get ready to earn academic credit while gaining real-world experience in top federal and state government offices – including Washington, D.C., Hawaiʻi’s Governor and Lieutenant Governor offices, and more! 🌎🏛️

🗓️ Deadline: February 15th, 11:59pm (HST) via the STAR Scholarship System!

👥 Who can apply?
All UH Mānoa undergraduates (of any major!)
Minimum 3.0 GPA
Sophomore standing (part-time) or Junior standing (full-time)

💸 What's in it for you?
Achievement scholarship to cover tuition
Stipends for travel & housing in D.C.
Gain professional experience in top political offices

💥 Early Applicant Orientations:
Dec 4, 4-5pm
Dec 12, 5-6pm Both in Dean Hall 6
Questions? Reach out to Dr. Ruben Campos at [email protected] for coaching & more info!

Don't miss out – apply TODAY! 📲

11/29/2024

📚✨ Join us for a fascinating Talk & Book Launch of Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire!

🗓️ When: Friday, December 6, 2024
⏰ Time: 3:00–4:30 PM
📍 Where: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

🌟 Speakers:
🔸 Christina Yi (Associate Professor, University of British Columbia)
🔸 Andre Haag (Associate Professor, UHM EALL)

Dive into a thought-provoking conversation about the intersections of cultural production, identity, and colonial narratives within Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). From adaptations of Shakespeare to wartime propaganda films, this volume explores the complexities of race, nation, and ethnicity during a transformative era.

💡 Don’t miss this chance to hear from the editors and grab your own copy of the book, available on-site from UH Press!

📖 Event is FREE & open to the public. Spread the word! 🌍

For more info, contact Andre Haag at [email protected]

11/21/2024

🌸 Looking for a Spring 2025 course and interested in language learning and teaching? 🗣️📚 You can incorporate your Chinese, Japanese, and/or Korean studies in these two courses offered by Second Language Studies’ Dr. Graham Crookes! ✨🌸

11/14/2024

📣Don’t miss this golden opportunity to listen to our very own Dr. David Krolikoski’s lecture, The Politics of The Silence of Love in Colonial Korea! Congratulations and 축하합니다 Dr. Krolikoski for becoming the Eight Annual Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture awardee!! Hoʻomaikaʻi!! 📣⭐️

Registration link to join in-person: https:/ /go.hawaii.edu/dJb
Registration link to join virtually: https:/ /go.hawaii.edu/bJc

11/02/2024

ALL STUDENTS WELCOME! NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED! Looking for a fun class to take in Spring 2025? 🌸✨ Look no further! Darin Miyashiro-sensei will be offering koto (琴) courses MUS 127B and MUS 311C, and gagaku (雅楽) course MUS 311 I in Spring 2025! 🎶

Koto (琴) is a is a traditional Japanese 13-stringed musical instrument that resembles a long, flat wooden zither. Gagaku (雅楽) is the oldest form of classical music in Japan, traditionally performed at the imperial court and in important Shinto shrines.

Miyashiro-sensei will take you step by step to perform koto and gagaku! ☺️🌸✨ Register for MUS 127B, MUS 311C, and/or MUS 311 I for Spring 2025! ✨

10/29/2024

HAPPENING TOMORROW! 🇯🇵🇺🇸

🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/jasc77

📢 Calling all students interested in Japan-U.S. relations! Join us for the 77th Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) Virtual Info Session on October 29th at 8:30 PM ET | 5:30 PM PT (HAWAI‘I TIME: 2:30 PM)🌏✨

Learn about this exciting program, meet the team, and get answers to all your questions. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to explore cultural exchange and leadership opportunities with peers from Japan and the U.S.

➡️ Register now: https://go.hawaii.edu/2Za ⬅️

📩 Questions? Reach out to Rachel at [email protected] or Brandon at [email protected]. Let’s make JASC77 unforgettable!

10/24/2024

Manga/anime character drawing? ✍️ Ikebana? 🌷 Uchinaaguchi (Okinawan language)? Traditional games? 🎴

Join us at the Nippon Culture Day this Friday (10/25/24) from 9 AM to 2 PM at the Campus Center Ballroom! 🇯🇵🗾🏯🗼🍡🎎🎍🍙👘🍶🍣🌸

Come stop by and enjoy all the exciting hands-on activities, info tables, and performances! ✨

10/17/2024

On September 26-27, EALL hosted “Thus Spoke: Kim Hyesoon, Fi Jae Lee, Jack Jung,” the inaugural iteration for the Hee Kyung Lee Kwon Speaker Series that spotlights significant voices in Korean women’s literature. The event included a bilingual poetry reading, art talk, question and answer session, book signing, as well as a translation workshop. More information can be found in the story published by UH News: go.hawaii.edu/nWa 📖✨

“Thus Spoke” featured three guest speakers: Kim Hyesoon, Fi Jae Lee, and Jack Jung. Their profiles can be found in our previous post for this event.

10/16/2024

🌏✨ Exciting Opportunity! 🌎✨
Applications for the 77th Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) are NOW OPEN! 🇯🇵🇺🇸

JASC is a unique student-led exchange program founded in 1934, bringing together U.S. and Japanese university students to explore and strengthen the bonds between our two cultures. This year, JASC77 will be hosted in Japan, and participants will visit Osaka, Kyoto, Kumamoto, and Tokyo! 🗼🌸

🗓️ When: July 31 - August 21, 2025
👥 Who: 36 U.S. and 36 Japanese undergrad and grad students who are 18 years old or older at the start of the conference
🌟 No Japanese language required. All majors accepted!

Don’t miss this chance to engage in cross-cultural dialogue and make lifelong connections! Apply today!

10/10/2024

Chinese, Japanese, Korean Placement Exams 🦛
Placement exam season is among us! 🤓 Now is the time to register ☺️💛 ℹ️ Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email us at [email protected]! 🌺

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