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Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh
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Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh

https://llc.ed.ac.uk/asian-studies
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Join Japan Society of Scotland in person or online for a guest lecture by @aaronwmoore.bsky.social See the photo for details. please register for your free ticket here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dreams-fro...
November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Japan poised to get first female PM after Sanae Takaichi wins ruling party leadership | Japan | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Japan poised to get first female PM after Sanae Takaichi wins ruling party leadership
Margaret Thatcher admirer beat her more moderate rival to become leader of Liberal Democratic party
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October 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Welcome @jfecuk.bsky.social as you #jointheconversation 🦋🤗
October 6, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Prime Minister Ishiba closed his Hiroshima memorial speech by quoting a poem by Shoda Shinoe. It was published in 1947, in defiance of US Occupation authorities, who banned such poems.
At the time Shoda believed her act could have resulted in imprisonment or the death penalty.
August 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Oppenheimer: Noh Theatre in the Nuclear Age
80 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Allan Marett’s Noh play inspired by the "father of the atomic bomb" is being performed in Japan.
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August 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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halleoneal.bsky.social
For those interested in kintsugi and Buddhist repair in art and ritual, I'm doing a few events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @asianstudiesed.bsky.social

Lecture on Buddhist Repair, Spiegeltent, 17 Aug 10:30
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August 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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scriptingjapan.bsky.social
On of the best Japan related jokes of all time, nearly impossible to top.
July 26, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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cmakorean.bsky.social
Bowl with Stamped Decoration https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.678
To create the linear patterns visible on this bowl the potter quickly carved the design into the dark clay body. He then applied white clay slip with a brush over this general area. After the slip settled into the linear grooves, he wiped the surface excess away (although he "missed" an area near the parallel horizontal neck bands), leaving a whitish line. A greenish celadon glaze was then applied over the bowl. Punch'ong decorative techniques were a response to medieval Korean society's need for greater numbers of attractive, inexpensive housewares.
July 16, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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From #valentinesday to #bastilleday Printed, “3D” copy has finally arrived 👀📖🤗 #genderfluidity in #japaneseartsandculture
July 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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give way to the new day.
#street #photography #morning
July 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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Kabuki to Make Debut at U.K.’s Biggest Japan Festival
<p>Intricate costumes, bold makeup, stunning sets — the distinct characteristics of Japanese kabuki theater have become recognizable worldwide. With the artform having been showcased the world over, S...
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July 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Researchers! Are you a fox 🦊 or a hedgehog 🦔? In this episode of Beyond the Books, Beth talks to self-professed fox-type, Dr Xuelei Huang. From cinema to smells, they dive into the softer side of history and cultural cosmopolitism in Republican China.

Full episode: youtu.be/lrl234hkIZo
Quote from the podcast episode Beyond The Books Series 3 Episode 3. It says I'm interested in the soft side of history: cultural artifacts... Quote from the podcast episode Beyond The Books Series 3 Episode 3. It follows on from the first image and says... common people, even as tiny as smells. But they are never trivial. Quote from the podcast episode Beyond The Books Series 3 Episode 3. It follows on from the first image and says... They can tell a lot about politics and social change.
June 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Upcoming lecture by Dr. Seth Jacobowitz @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on forensics and detective fiction, linking Britain / Scotland and Japan: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-set... #detectivefiction @uoe-llc.bsky.social @asianstudiesed.bsky.social
Dr Seth Jacobowitz: "The Forensic Turn in Modern Britain and Japan: Criminology, the Human Sciences, and Detective Fiction" | IASH
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June 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Welcome to @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social 👋
dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social · May 27
Hello #AsianStudies community! 👋

We’re thrilled to join #Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our books, journals, digital resources, events and CfPs covering Asian Studies—across #history, #philosophy, #religion, #literature and #culturalstudies.

We can’t wait to connect with you all!
May 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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📚 Forthcoming Series: Short Introductions to Korean Studies (SIKS)

Peer-reviewed, research-based, and Open Access. Covers #Koreanhistory, #politics, #society & #culture. Supported by AKSE. Proposals welcome.

More: brill.com/page/forthco...

#KoreanStudies #OpenAccess
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May 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Now available in Open Access! 🔓

Chinese Families Upside Down: Intergenerational Dynamics and Neo-Familism in the Early 21st Century by Yunxiang Yan

Download it here for free: brill.com/display/titl...

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May 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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May 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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curiousordinary.bsky.social
'Fine Day in May' - Kotozuka Eiichi, ca. 1950s.
#JapaneseArt
Carp streamers fly in a clear blue sky above houses. Two children can be seen in the street below.
May 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
asianstudiesed.bsky.social
A fine afternoon for our hanami yesterday 🌸😎🍱 #hanami #blossom #arthursseat #themeadows #maytime #花見　#花見
Trees in blossom, with university buildings in the background A group of students gathered for a picnic under trees in blossom People walking along a path lined with trees, some of them in blossom A view of Arthur’s Seat with gorse in blossom, from the Meadows, where people are sitting under trees with pink and white blossom and playing games.
May 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Repatriation of Ainu ancestral remains - yesterday the journey home began #readmore below: www.ed.ac.uk/news/2025/un...
University returns ancestral remains to Ainu people in Japan
The University has repatriated the skulls of three Indigenous Ainu people back to their community in Japan.
www.ed.ac.uk
May 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
asianstudiesed.bsky.social
May Day listening for #KoreanStudies #koreanempire #inourtime
uoe-llc.bsky.social School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · Apr 28
The Korean Empire lasted only thirteen years, yet this transformative period had lasting consequences.

Holly Stephens (@asianstudiesed.bsky.social) will be one of three experts joining Melvin Bragg for #InOurTime on Thursday 1 May to discuss.

📻 BBC Radio 4; 9am

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Korean Empire
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th century in a bid for independence.
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April 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Folks researching modern Japan: 3,700+ items of the Prange Collection’s Censored Newspaper Articles, items issued by the Civil Censorship Detachment 民間検閲支隊 (1945–1952), are now available (no login!) via NDL’s digital collections! More info: prangecollection.wordpress.com/2025/02/09/a... #NDLOutreach
April 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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sadaohanga.bsky.social
Christ bearing his cross (1975) by Sadao Watanabe.
十字架を負うキリスト(1975年)。渡辺禎雄作品。

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#sadaowatanabe #渡辺禎雄 #民芸 #型絵染 #合羽摺 #四旬節 #사순절 #lent #veertigdagentijd #quadragesima #Fastenzeit #cuaresma #careme #聖金曜日 #goedevrijdag #goodfriday #karfreitag #vendredisaint #viernessanto
April 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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halleoneal.bsky.social
Scottish RME teachers:

Buddhism Discovery Day: 12 June, 10am-2.30pm
University of Edinburgh

Includes Q&A with Thai Buddhist monk, meditation with Zen Buddhist priest, Buddhist Studies taster lectures, and Treasure Hunt for Buddhist art at National Museum of Scotland. Contact halle.oneal@ed.ac.uk
April 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM