Memorandum of Understanding  Signing Ceremony On November 13, past CJR co-director Christina Laffin represented the Centre at a signing ceremony for a Memorandum of Understanding with the Institute of International Studies at Gakushuin Women’s College. Professor Laffin offered a lecture in Japanese on the institutional history of Japanese literary studies outside Japan and plans were […]

The Inter-University Centre for Japanese Language Studies (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/IUC) is the leading institution for training graduate students in Japanese and equipping them for further research related to Japanese Studies. UBC is a member of the consortium and students are eligible for reduced tuition and access to funding. The deadline for the ten-month program is December 13 […]

We are excited to announce that the proceedings from the Hokkaidō 150 Workshop, which took place earlier in 2019, has been published as a roundtable in Critical Asian Studies. The new publication is accessible through the UBC library to students and faculty here (alternative). Interested readers who do not have UBC library access or other […]

On 13 February 2016, twenty-one undergraduate and graduate students from the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria travelled to Japan to spend a week in Yokohama, Sapporo and Tokyo.

The Kakehashi project allowed me to experience some of the areas of my study first hand and inquire directly with Japanese academics on a range of topics including disaster recovery, drivers of tourism, and international affairs. 

Traveling with a diverse and unique group of university students encouraged all of us to challenge our perceptions and see new perspectives, as well as engage in meaningful discussions about issues affecting Japan and the rest of the world.