Join us for an Asian Studies Brown Bag talk by Kevin Mulholland, Visiting Assistant Professor, Japanese Program, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. This presentation looks at a moment in Japanese literary history where transitions in narrative created several gray… Read More
The Japanese Program is excited to host Saneyuki Hondo, President of US Nisshin Shokai, Inc. at the Language Center Oasis on the 1st floor of Curtin Hall. Mr. Hondo is involved in international agricultural trade, particularly between the United States… Read More
Join us as program alum Timothy MacKenzie shares with us his experience of the perils of translating, localizing, and adapting Japanese video games, animation, and manga for an English speaking audience.
Would you like to read Japanese as fluently as you read English? You can! it is painless and your language skills will improve by leaps and bounds beyond your textbook if you practice the art of tadoku. Sharon Domier, East… Read More
The Critical East Asian Humanities Reading Group C21 Collaboratory and the Japanese Program are proud to host the spring 2020 meeting of the Midwest Japan Seminar. The Midwest Japan Seminar returns to Milwaukee for the first time in decades. This… Read More
Come join us for a truly memorable and enlightening talk by Sharon Domier from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Learn more about the history of Japanese toilets and their appearance throughout the literary and visual history tradition of Japan! Free… Read More
Join us for a talk by Brigid E. Vance, Assistant Professor in the History Department at Lawrence University. In this talk, Professor Vance asks what happens to dreams after they are dreamed? How was such knowledge about dreams disseminated in… Read More
Join us for a talk and stargazing session at the Manfred Olson Planetarium! Free and open to the public
We are thrilled to welcome Nakamura Gankyo, kabuki actor of the most prestigious kabuki family in Japan, to perform a selection of kabuki dances from Musume Dojoji and Echigo Jishi. Nakamura-san will demonstrate how different interpretations of a dance play… Read More
You are invited to the social book review event, “Bibliobattle” by students who are currently taking Extensive Reading in Japanese. There are going to introduce their favorite books written in Japanese. Come and vote which book you want to read… Read More