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It's interesting that Reuters puts Ishiguro with Ōe and Kawabata.

Alors que l'autrice chinoise Can Xue est une fois de plus favorite pour le Prix ​​Nobel de littérature, largement traduite et primée dans le monde anglophone et au Japon, son oeuvre reste méconnue en France : les deux seules traductions (épuisées) datent de... 1992 et 2001 !

Japanese literature shows why human translation still counts AI and translation tech lower barriers to global communication, but literary translation requires the ability to convey tone, rhythm and cultural context.

I guess my job is secure for a while, then!

Translating Strange Houses Jim goes on a somewhat spoilery journey looking back on an issue encountered in translating Strange Houses by Uketsu, which ended up making a major difference on the book.

A look back on translating Strange Houses, with a bit of a spoiler discussion of one big issue.
#Uketsu #StrangeHouses #JapaneseLit #StrangePictures #Books

ad for an event where you can use AI to get life advice from dead writers, which uses a photo of Dazai Osamu

I already communicate with dead writers without using AI — I read! But I also would not have Dazai Osamu as the poster boy for ‘life advice’

N4 Kanji Book is released! It's free! Hey! You! Do you like #kanji? Are you studying #Japanese? Here's some free kanji practice for you! It's got kanji! It's got awkward sentences which force a single kanji into them over and over! Download it here:

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Recruitment Information for those who are currently affiliated with the university or research institute in the US Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) was established in September 2006 to enable promising and talented researchers to focus on their ...

Waseda U. currently has ten short-term positions available specifically targeting academics based in the US who may have trouble staying there long-term. www.waseda.jp/inst/wias/ne...

Hi, I'm a French person in an american movie. My name is Pierre Lafleur or Jean-Paul Dubois. I'm gonna say random french words in my english sentences like "Monsieur" ou "mon ami".
Sometimes I will say a full french sentence with a strong canadian accent.

@universityofkansas.bsky.social KU East Asian Library is offering a travel grant for scholars and grad students who will use the the library's East Asian language collections in FY26. Apply by 9/19: guides.lib.ku.edu/c.php?g=9498... #Sinology #AsianStudies #libraries

Thank you very much for the fantastic and stimulating workshop!!

Boulet est vautré sur un canapé, il regarde la télé (hors champ), une bière à la main. La télé (hors champ): "You're the new Captain America! - No Bucky, leave me alone!" Une bulle avec une flèche pointe vers Boulet: "Moi, réfléchissant au processus de création d'un film américain" Une autre bulle pointe vers la télé hors-champ: "Mes conclusions" On voit un jeune réalisateur face à un producteur. Ce dernier est une caricature vivante: sourire carnassier, cigare, lunettes noires, chemise hawaïenne. Le réal: "On va faire un film de superhéros, il nous faut des acteurs" Le prod (sortant un gigantesque sac avec un signe "$" sur le côté): "Voici un sac d'argent, prenez 300 millions et trouvez-nous des stars !"

Le réal (lisant sa tablette): "On va avoir besoin de pas mal d'effets spéciaux..." Un immense sac d'argent atterrit à côté du premier Le prod (hors champ): "Voici un autre sac avec quelques millions. Je veux des mecs qui flottent en l'air, des boules de feu et des hélicos qui explosent !" Le réal (hors champ): "Et pour la promo, il nous faudrait..." Le prod (l'interrompant, brandissant un troisième sac au dessus de sa tête): "Voilà un autre sac ! Faites des posters géants, des produits dérivés, des bandes-annonces sur tous les réseaux !"

Le réal: "Oh, et on a une scène qui se passe à Paris, ça va parler français pendant deux minutes." Le prod (une toute petite liasse de billets à la main): "Oh. Voilà 23$. Engagez un canadien, et dites aux autres acteurs de lire phonétiquement du Google Translate."

Retour sur Boulet dans son canapé. Boulet (in petto): "Je ne vois pas d'autre explication." La télé (Hors-champ): "Eille maudit cave, t'as-tu compris, lô ? - Ohlala meuneumeu Mademoiselle honhon fromage tour eiffel croissant honhonhon."

Rogatons Rediffusions - 28/04/2023 - "Doublage"
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Barely holding it together over these AI generated Japanese materials

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Japanese Study Apps That DON'T Use AI - Japanese Talk The plagiarism machine seems to be worming its way into everything. Here's a list of Japanese Study apps That DON'T Use AI!

I was going to post this article this weekend but Duolingo's recent doubling down on replacing humans with generative AI pushed me to get it out sooner.

Here's a list of amazing apps for learning Japanese that DON'T use generative AI!

#cancelDuolingo
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Let’s goooo, link to the event: events.humanitix.com/queer-and-fe... 💌💌💌💌 come hang out with us May 19-21 !!!

A call for papers for an edited volume on the language and linguistics of monsters/the monstrous.

Call for papers! I'm putting together an edited collection with @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social on "Monstrous Language": studies of the language of monsters, "others", and the in/unhuman.

Please share with any interested scholars! Abstracts are due end of May, with the goal of a complete draft in Dec.

Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs 2025

#CFP: Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs 2025, to be hosted by Ohio State in Columbus, October 10-12. Submit paper and panel proposals by May 31 for consideration.

“Ikigai” vs. Ikigai The long strange trip of a word from Japanese to English and back again

There are a lot of galaxy-brain moments in @hirokoyoda.bsky.social’s history of ikigai in Japanese and English. Most mind-blowing was how ikigai was seen as potentially dangerous, not so long ago. blog.hirokoyoda.com/p/ikigai-vs-...

[Call for Applications: The Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme in Japanese Arts 2025-26]

We are delighted to launch the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme in Japanese Arts, generously supported by the Ishibashi Foundation!
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Deadline approaching! ⬇️ We look forward to your applications!

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Is Not True www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.

Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.

On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.

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Yahoo! JAPAN あなたの毎日をアップデートする情報ポータル。検索、ニュース、天気、スポーツ、メール、ショッピング、オークションなど便利なサービスを展開しています。

Yahoo! Japan's "search to donate" for the 2011 Tohoku & 2024 Noto earthquakes is on now

It still works outside JP, so if you'd like to participate, enter 3.11 into the Yahoo! Japan* search bar
¥10/person gets donated
Searches only count until 23:59 JP local time
*Very importantly: NOT Yahoo dot com

Federal funds canceled for University of Iowa's International Writing Program The U.S. Department of State canceled its funding of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. It’s the end of a 58-year-old partnership, which has brought writers from all over the worl...

This does not make America great. So many astonishingly brilliant writers have come from this program.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

A living biwa (a Japanese stringed instrument) is embroidered in black and blue thread on an off-white cloth in a wooden hoop. It throws one arm out dramatically.

Two merry foxes are outlined in orange, embroidered on a white cloth in a round hoop. They are prancing toward the left side of the hoop.

Two women dressed in medieval Japanese traveling garb are lavishly embroidered on blue cloth in a wooden hoop. The woman on the left wears a red kimono with an olive green jacket and yellow traveling hat; the woman on the right wears a pink jacket that covers nearly all of her white and gold kimono and is partially draped over her head. They both look toward the left and seem to be gossiping about something.

Two skeletons are embroidered in black on a white cloth. The skeleton on the left is dancing and holding a red fan; the skeleton on the right is seated and playing a gold-colored flute. They both look quite jolly, but their anatomy is nowhere near correct! That's because this image is based details from a late medieval Japanese text. Written in Japanese in the center is "gaikotsu," which means skeleton.

All of my available embroidery pieces are now on my Etsy shop! Visit and see if there's one you'd like to adopt: kotenrose.etsy.com
There are now 6 pieces to choose from, and I add new ones all the time!
#art #artwork #Japan #embroidery #needlework #shopsmall #history #artist #handmade

✨🎀 NEW CFP: The Queer and Feminist Perspectives on Japanese Popular Cultures symposium (supported by the University of Tokyo, Media, Gender, and Sexualities Study Group) is coming back for its second edition!!!✨🎀

📩 Send us your abstract by March 21 at popculturesjapan@gmail.com✨

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A nice surprise. Penguin Random House is re-issuing my translation of Uno Chiyo’s The Story of A Single Woman ある一人の女の話。I first translated this novel in 1990 for Peter Owen in the UK and it was such an honor! “All the single ladies.”

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