Upon the incident that took place in the Summer Institute 2018, the LSJ has issued a statement.

(1) Dates and Venue: June 22nd (Sat) and 23rd (Sun), 2019, Hitotsubashi University (Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo)
(2) Call for papers For details about abstract submission, see the following webpage.
Rules and Guidelines for Presentations
(3) Assistance at the 158th Meeting If you plan to attend this meeting and need any assistance such as a sign language interpreter or notetaker, please contact the LSJ office (lsj@nacos.com) as soon as possible. The deadline is May 17th, 2019.
(4) Childcare facilities at the 158th Meeting of LSJ Childcare facilities are being organized. Details will be announced on this page. Applications should be sent to lsj.childcare@gmail.com by May 31st, 2019.

Commemorative Events is updated.

Information about the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan was updated (Handbook uploaded! / A presentation is cancelled). Please check the webpage for the 157th Meeting.

The aid for Enlightenment and education project for language diversity is a fund established by the Linguistic Society of Japan as of January 2011. The aim of this aid is to support the members to make the result of their research projects on language diversity available to the public. Request for proposals for the fiscal year 2019 has opened; see below for the details.The application deadline is February 28. LINK (Japanese only)

The Linguistic Society of Japan is delighted to announce the winners of the Best Paper Award 2018 and the Best Presentation Award for the 156th Annual Meeting (University of Tokyo, June 2018).
＜The Best Paper Award of LSJ for the year 2018＞（1 winner）
POPPE, Clemens
"Iambic Feet in Japanese: Evidence from the Maisaka Dialect"
（Gengo Kenkyu（2016）Vol. 150, 117-135）
＜The Best Presentation Award for the 156th Annual Meeting (University of Tokyo, June 2018)＞（3 winners）
・Sakai, Mika
"Subject marking and agentivity in Kyushu dialects"
・Kurabe, Keita
"The syllabicity of the word-initial nasal in Jinghpaw"
・Yamada, Akitaka
"A Modal Approach to no-clauses in Japanese"
For details, refer to the following URLs.
[Paper Award LSJ 156]
[Presentation Award LSJ 156]

Information about the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan was updated (Program and Abstracts uploaded!). Please check the webpage for the 157th Meeting.

The page for "The 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan" was updated. It contains information about the childcare facilities.

A job opening at the General Education Center at Tottori University of Environmental Studies; the application deadline is January 21, 2019. For details, see here.

Application open for the academic use of NHK archives. Please see the link for the details (Japanese).

A job opening at the Center for Education of Global Communication at the University of Tsukuba;
the application deadline is September 25, 2018. For details, see here

A job opening at Hokkaido University; The application deadline is Monday, October 1, 2018. For details, see here (in Japanese)

A job opening at University of Hyogo; The application deadline is Friday, October 5, 2018. For details, see here (in Japanese)

A job opening at Kobe university. The application deadline is Friday, October 5, 2018. For details, see here (in Japanese)

Application open for the academic use of NHK archives. Please see the link for the details (Japanese).

A job opening at NINJAL; application deadline is November 20, 2018. For details, see here (in Japanese)

For details.