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JDA featured in special issue of Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus

The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, a leading scholarly online journal that explores the geopolitics, economics, history, society, culture, international relations and environment of the modern and contemporary Asia-Pacific region, has recently featured the Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA) Project in a two-part special issue, highlighted on the journal's homepage.

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Film Series "Planet at 50" featured in multiple local news outlets

The Harvard Film Archive series "Planet at 50" has recently been featured in The Arts Fuse and

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Film Series "Planet at 50" opens at the Harvard Film Archive

The Harvard Film Archive, in partnership with the Reischauer Institute, is hosting a special film series "Planet at 50" (April 11 – May 9, 2025), which celebrates the monumental contributions of the Kobe Planet Film Archive to cinema history as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.

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Alexander Murphy awarded Pyle Prize by Journal of Japanese Studies

Alexander Murphy, Assistant Professor of Language, Literature and Culture at Clark University and 2024-25 RIJS Postdoctoral Fellow, has recently been awarded the Kenneth B. Pyle Prize for Best Article in the Journal of Japanese Studies in 2024.

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Victor Seow awarded 2025 Sarton Prize for the History of Science by American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, has been awarded the 2025 Sarton Prize for the History of Science by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which recognized his "exceptional promise and distinguished achievements as an emerging scholar in the field."

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