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RIJS Japanese Boatbuilding Workshop Featured in Niigata Nippo

The Japanese boatbuilding workshop hosted by the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies with professional boatbuilder Douglas Brooks has been featured in the Niigata Nippo, in an article titled "Niigata no Wasen Bunka Kaigai e" ("Niigata's Japanese boatbuilding culture goes overseas").

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Victor Seow awarded John Whitney Hall Book Prize for "Carbon Technocracy"

Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, was recently awarded the 29th Annual John Whitney Hall Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) for his publication Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

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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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