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Students and faculty in Japanese Studies earn Harvard recognition as Top Producer of Fulbright Students & Scholars for 2022-23

The U.S. Department of State, in collaboration with the Institute of International Education (IIE), has recently named Harvard University among the top producers of Fulbright U.S. Students and Scholars for 2022-23.

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Japanese Boatbuilding Workshop featured in Harvard University newspapers

The story of the Reischauer Institute's wintersession Japanese boatbuilding workshop has been shared in multiple news outlets around Harvard University, including The Harvard Gazette ("First Lesson in Japanese Boatbuilding: Don't Speak"), The Harvard Crimson

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RIJS Director Mary Brinton interviewed by The Asahi Shimbun

Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, was interviewed earlier this month by The Asahi Shimbun for an article recently published "労働ファーストの日本が人口減を止めるには ハーバード大教授の提言" ("How labor-first Japan can end population decline: a Harvard professor's proposal"). In this interview, Prof.

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RIJS Director Mary Brinton interviewed on BBC and ABC News Channels

Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Director of the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, was interviewed on January 23rd on the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) "The World Tonight" program and on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) NewsRadio. In each interview, she discussed Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's promise to take urgent steps in response to Japan's declining birth rate.

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Ian Miller featured in Harvard Gazette for new "Quad Lab" course

Professor Ian Miller (Professor of History and Faculty Dean of Cabot House) was recently featured in The Harvard Gazette for his new course HIST 15B "Quad Lab: Histories of Technology, Society, and Everyday Life at Harvard." This course investigates the people and places of the Radcliffe Quadrangle, formerly the residential campus of Radcliffe College, which now contains three Houses: Currier, Pforzheimer, and Cabot.

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