2,696 search results for “japan studies” in the Public website
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Leiden Institute for Area Studies
To truly understand complex regions such as the Middle East and Asia, you have to know their culture, history and local societies inside out. Driven by curiosity for other cultures, the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) provides an understanding and analysis of current and historical…
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People
Overview of the Leiden Asia staff per area or country.
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Utagawa Hiroshige: The Landscape Artist as Pathfinder
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Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Meiji to 20th Century mokuhanga
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Gender and Agency in Careers: The Work-lIfe Experiences of Women Employed by Japanese and South Korean Firms
On Wednesday 14 February 2024 Yorum Beekman successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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An Unusually Caring Chigo (Buddhist Acolyte): The Medieval Japanese Tale of a Homoerotic Love Triangle and Its Hollow Center
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Peter VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
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Ab de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Living the (Proletarian) Life: Sata Ineko’s Autobiographical Writing
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Boudewijn WalravenFaculty of Humanities
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Xiao LuoFaculty of Humanities
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Haneen OmariFaculty of Humanities
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BSc Security Studies
On this page you will find all information about the Bachelor of Security Studies that you need as a first-year student.
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Maghiel van CrevelFaculty of Humanities
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The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period
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Onwards to noble death! War representation in the manga of Shigeru Mizuki
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Angelika Koch-LowFaculty of Humanities
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Henk Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Steven Hagers
Faculty of Humanities
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Shirley Alexander
Faculty of Humanities
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Geoffrey Cain
Faculty of Humanities
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Francesca Rosati
Faculty of Humanities
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Institute for Area Studies: Asia & the Middle East
The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is devoted to the study of places in the human world from antiquity to the present time in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.
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Dutch Grammar in Japanese Words
On the 12th of September, Lorenzo Nespoli successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Lorenzo on this achievement!
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Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study
This project investigates the globalization and cultural mediation of palliative care practices, policies and discourses.
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A Social History of Painting Inscriptions in the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644)
Wenxin Wang defended her thesis on 26 October 2016
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Amirardalan EmamiFaculty of Humanities
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Huei-Lan HsiungFaculty of Humanities
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Ewout and Nicole discover the world with Area Studies
Middle Eastern Studies, African Studies or International Relations: all examples of studies that are part of Area Studies at the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. Within Area Studies you study a region and immerse yourself in (complex) subjects of that region, such as cultural uniqueness, conflicts,…
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Memory and Identity
Research conducted in this group aims at furthering our understanding of how communities and individuals deal with social change, conflict and trauma through remembrance and commemoration as well as forgetting in the arts.
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Into the ether or the state? Legibility theory and the cryptocurrency markets
In this article, the authors explore why there is substantial cross-national variation in the level of regulatory clarity surrounding cryptocurrencies
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Caroline Fernandes CaromanoFaculty of Humanities
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Education
Overview of the Asia Programmes offered at Leiden University.
- Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific
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Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s
This edited collection brings together canonical texts on intermedia and expanded cinema in 1960s Japan, most of which translated into English for the first time, in hope to introduce the local critical discourse on this subject to international readership.
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Marat MarkertFaculty of Humanities
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Ōtsuka Kusuoko (1875-1910) in the Meiji Literary Field: Models of Authorship between keishū sakka and the "New Woman"
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Dialects as the key to Japanese prehistory
Japanese was not always the language spoken in Japan. Researchers link the arrival of the language in Japan with the migration of farmers around 400 BC. Linguist Elisabeth de Boer has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to carry out research on the further spread of the language in Japan.
- Student experiences
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Judith FrishmanFaculty of Humanities
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Migration History. The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st centuries) | Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 15/3
This volume edited by Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen aims to quantify and qualify cross-cultural global migrations and was published in the series 'Studies in Global Migration History'.
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Owada Chair
The Universities of Leiden and Tokyo jointly established a chair named after Professor Hisashi Owada in 2021.
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Forging ties abroad
In 2017, Leiden University secured ties with numerous foreign partners. This is how we bring foreign talent to Leiden, and ensure our students and scientists can gain experience across borders. In this article, we look back on four foreign trips.
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Arie van der KooijFaculty of Humanities
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Japanese Ambassador visits Leiden University
The new Japanese Ambassador, Michii Rokuichiro, visited Leiden University on 2 March.
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Berthe JansenFaculty of Humanities
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About the programme
The MA Asian Studies East Asian Studies offers focused study of China, Japan or Korea. You can study the country of your choice from an expansive number of disciplinary perspectives including history, literature, art, art history, sociology, anthropology, media, cultural studies, religious studies,…
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How climate change affects intangible heritage: ‘Specific materials to build instruments are disappearing’
What do climate change and traditional Japanese music have to do with each other? A great deal, university lecturer Andrea Giolai suspects. He has been awarded an NWO grant to study the relationship in more depth.