Happy New Year! Hope your start of the year has been great and what better way to welcome the new year than to listen to some podcast! Here's one on The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions with @jolyonbt.bsky.social @mcmullen.bsky.social hosted by yours truly. newbooksnetwork.com/the-new-nanz...

Happy to announce that I have started a new position at the National Museum of Japanese History. I will be based in Chiba for the next few years or so. Friends and colleagues in the Greater Kanto area, please do reach out! I'd love to meet new people! #JapaneseStudies #JapaneseReligions

Happy New Year! If I may indulge in a brief moment of shameless self-promotion in this new year, an article by yours truly has been published in the latest issue of the Journal of Religion in Japan. brill.com/view/journal... Those without institutional access, feel free to DM me.

This starter pack is officially full! If I get any more requests from people to be added I will make a "Japanese Studies 2" starter pack.

Lindsay Nelson-Santos@newsfromnihon.bsky.social · 2y ago

I made a Japanese Studies starter pack! Film, literature, sociology, history, cultural studies, translation, academic and academic-adjacent. Please reply if you want to be added (or removed)! go.bsky.app/AXJLiEA

Dear researchers who are interested in pre-modern Japan, NDL's OCR, now released, can read kuzushi-ji characters with such accuracy, despite the fact that it can be easily operated on a PC with a GUI. Please try it! github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk... The OCR result of the beginning of The Tale of Genji:

Kiyonori Nagasaki@knagasaki.bsky.social · 2y ago

Japan's National Diet Library has finally made its East Asian Classics OCR available for use on ordinary computers! This is targeted at woodblock prints, but I tried it on a copy of the Heart Sutra from BnF's Pelliot collection and found it to be passably usable! github.com/ndl-lab/ndlk...

CFP: Japanese Religions Vol. 47 Special Issue: Rethinking Christianity and Japanese Religions networks.h-net.org/group/announ... Please share and consider sending an abstract by 31/01! #buddhism #shinto #christianity #japan #japanesestudies