Upon the incident that took place in the Summer Institute 2018, the LSJ has issued a statement. (Released: 2018.11.20)

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(1) Dates and Venue: November 16th (Sat) and 17th (Sun), 2019, Nagoya Gakuin University (Atsuta-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi)
(2) Call for papers: August 1st -- 20th, 2019
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(3) Assistance at the 159th 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 October 11th, 2019.
(4) Childcare facilities at the 159th 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 October 25th, 2019.

The LSJ reports with regret the death of Dr. Hiruyuki Umeda, the 13th president of the LSJ (1994-1996). Dr. Umeda, passing away early in the morning of July 1, 2019, was a notable figure in the field of Korean linguistics and education. He will be remembered for his tremendous contribution to the development of the field, in particular with regard to the research and education of the Korean language, and for his devotion to the promotion of academic interactions between Japan and Korea.

Information about the 158th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan was updated (Handbook uploaded!). Please check the webpage for the 158th Meeting.
[NOTICE!]Please download the data from the website before you participate in the meeting!

Gengo Kenkyu invites the submission of manuscripts for a special issue (Number 158, expected publication date: September 2020) on the theme “Morphophonology in Japanese dialects”. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is 31 December 2019. For details, see the webpage.

The page for "The 158th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan" was updated. It contains information about the childcare facilities.

Information about the 158th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan was updated (Information about the childcare facilities and program uploaded!). Please check the webpage for the 158th Meeting.

The Linguistic Society of Japan is delighted to announce the winners of the Best Presentation Award for the 157th Annual Meeting (Kyoto University, November 2018).
・AOI, Hayato
"Plosives in Okinawa-Ie Ryukyuan"

・EBATA, Fuyuki
"Use in the negative sentence of the Tyvan interrogative suffix: explanation from egophoricity"

・HIRAKO,Tatsuya
"Historical study on the vowels in Izumo-Nita Japanese"

For details, refer to the following URL.
[Presentation Award LSJ 157]

A job opening for a position of associate professor or assistant professor, with tenure or on tenure track system, of art of English-Japanese simultaneous interpretation at Academy of Hiroshima University (Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Department of Studies of Human Cultures). application deadline is 5 p.m. Japan time on September 20, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese).

The Department of Theoretical Linguistics in the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies at the Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan) invites applications for Associate Professor or Senior Assistant Professor (Tenured Faculty Position) in linguistics with an anticipated start date of April 2020. For details, see the link at our HP or at JREC-IN (both in Japanese).

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology is seeking a full-time English and German lecturer, starting on April 1, 2020. The application deadline is October 25, 2019. For details, see the link at our HP (in Japanese) or at JREC-IN (in English).

A request for cooperation for the questionnaire on the financial situation of graduate students. If interested, please participate from the link here (Japanese only).

Application open for the academic use of NHK archives. Please see the link for the details (Japanese) (Application deadline: September 30, 2019).

A job opening for a position of teaching English at Tottori Univiersity; applicants limited to native speakers of English. The appointment starts on October 1, 2019. The application deadline is 5 p.m. July 18, 2019. For details, see here.

The Hakuho Japanese Research Fellowship invites leading international researchers to Japan for conducting residential research on the following areas: linguistics, language education, literature, and culture. Applications must be submitted online between June 3 and October 31, 2019. For details, click here.

A job opening at the School of International Relations at University of Shizuoka; The application deadline is August 30, 2019. For details, see here (in Japanese).