
This program was designed to strengthen intellectual exchange between Japan and other countries, and to fortify Japan’s intellectual contribution in the world by supporting dialogue on regionally or globally shared issues.
2021-2022
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13th Japan-Canada Academic Consortium Student Forum: Peace and Security Cooperation in the Asia/Indo-Pacific | University of Alberta |
2020-2021
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Strange Transformations: The Supernatural and Early Modern Japan | Prince Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research, University of Alberta |
2019-2020
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Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS) Annual Conference | The Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning, McGill University |
2018-2019
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Conference on the Language of Japanese Food | York University |
The Nonhuman in Japanese Culture and Society | University of Victoria |
2016-2017
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Japan Futures Initiative (JFI) and European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN) Joint Conference: Japan's Future- International Reflections on Japan's Prospects for a new "Meiji" Transformation | Japan Futures Initiative, Keiko & Charles Belair Centre for East Asian Studies, Renison University College, University of Waterloo |
Property Ownership in Migration and Exile | University of Victoria |
2015-2016
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Japan Futures Initiative (JFI) Round-table Panel at the 2015 Conference of European Japan Advanced Research Network (EJARN) in Pavia (Italy) | Keiko & Charles Belair Centre for East Asian Studies, Renison University College, University of Waterloo |
Waka Workshop IX: Waka Pedagogy in Theory and Practice | Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta |
2014-2015
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Japan Today: Architects of Change | Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada |
2nd International Japanese Game Studies Conference | Prince Takamado Japan Centre, University of Alberta |
2013-2014
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Symposium on Early Modern Japanese Values and Individuality | University of British Columbia, Department of Asian Studies |
Challenges and Opportunities for Integrating Gender and Diversity into Tohoku Reconstruction: Policy Insights from Canadian Experiences with Intersectionality | University of Ottawa |
2012-2013
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Japan-Canada Food System Resilience Symposium | Food Policy Research Initiative |
From Nature to Technology: Issues in Contemporary Japanese Though and Philosophy | Faculty of Philosophy, Université de Laval |
Emerging Security Roles: Lessons for Japan from Middle Power Experiences | The Centre for International Governance Innovation |
2011-2012
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Centre for Japan Studies Symposium on Japan Studies in Canada | University of Waterloo |
Japanese Education in the Era of Globalization: Enduring Issues in New Contexts | University of British Columbia |
Junior Japanese Studies Librarian Training Workshop | Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto |
2010-2011
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Canada-Japan-Korea Social Policy Research Collaboration Symposium | University of Toronto |
2009-2010
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Research Conference on Japanese Migrants and Foreign Labour | University of British Columbia |
2008-2009
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17th Annual Meeting of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies | Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia |
Japanese Studies Workshop: The Challenge of Studying Japan | University of British Columbia |
2007-2008
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Cinema/Movement | York University |
Popular Culture Flows in Northeast Asia | Centre for Korean Research, University of British Columbia |
2006-2007
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Japanese Women Writing: Beginnings, Endings, Reversals and Returns | University of Alberta |
2005-2006
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17th Annual JSAC Conference: Connections and Identities in East Asia and Beyond | University of Alberta |
The City, the Body and the Text in Modern Japanese Literature | University of Toronto |
Philosophers in Japan | University of Montreal |
2004-2005
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Tensions and Linkages: CASA 25th Anniversary Conference | Canadian Asian Studies Association |
17th Annual JSAC Conference: Why Japan Matters More than Ever Before | University of Victoria |
2003-2004
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16th Annual JSAC Conference: Japan at a Crossroads | McMaster University |
Dimensions of Japanese Ethnicity Within and Without | Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia |
New Challenges for Welfare State Research | Department of Sociology, University of Toronto |
2002-2003
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15th Annual JSAC Conference: Japan in a Changed World | University of Calgary |
Conference on Social and Political Change in Japan | Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia |
Historical Consciousness, Historiography and Modern Japanese Values | Department of Germanic, Slavic and East Asian Studies, University of Calgary |
Changing Japanese Identities in Multicultural Canada | Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria |
Perspectives and Prospects on Canada-Japan Relations | Carleton University |
2001-2002
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14th Annual JSAC Conference: Japan in the Age of Globalization | University of Saskatchewan |
Across Time and Genre- Reading and Writing Japanese Women's Texts | University of Alberta |
ORBICOM: The International Network of UNESCO Chairs and Associates in Communications | Université du Québec à Montréal |
2000-2001
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13th Annual JSAC Conference: Japan and Asia Pacific in the 21st Century- History, Culture and Policy Issues | Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia |
Japan and the Institutions of National Translation | McGill University |
1999-2000
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12th Annual JSAC Conference: Mediating Japan- Transformations in the Production of Japanese Culture | McGill University |
Understanding Japan in the 21st Century | Institute for International Relations, University of British Columbia |
1998-1999
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Studies in Japanese Outdoor Space Exploitation | Centre for Japanese Research, Université de Laval |
11th Annual JSAC Conference: Japan After the Economic Miracle- In Search of New Directions | University of Northern British Columbia |
The Internationalization of the Japanese Management System | Faculty of Management, University of British Columbia |
1997-1998
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Japanese Teachers' Summer Workshop | Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education |
10th Annual JSAC Conference: Confidence and Uncertainty in Japan | University of Toronto |
Edo: Past and Present | Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia |
Conference on Japanese Popular Culture | Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, University of Victoria |