Event List
FY2025 the 4th Visiting Research Fellow Seminar
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 16:00-17:00
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Seminar Room 3-4 / Online
International Symposium Continuing Conversations:Re-viewing the Work of Ohshima and Torres Strait Kenkyukai
Saturday, December 13, 2025 13:30-17:00, Sunday, December 14, 2025 10:30-16:45
Seminar Room 4, National Museum of Ethnology
National Institutes for the Humanities Core Research Project "Research into the Interaction between Nature and Humans through Objects in the Anthropocene" 4th People, Things, and Nature Symposium "Isotopes Open Up Natural and Human History"
Saturday, December 13, 2025 13:00-16:00
National Museum of Japanese History Guidance Room / Online
The 287th NINJAL Salon "In Search of a Theory of Historical Semantics: A View from Japanese Focus Particles"
Tuesday, November 25, 2025 15:10-16:10
Multipurpose Room, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics / Online
Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 157th NINJAL Colloquium “On the Uses of the Imperative, Prohibitive and Optative Verb Forms in Old Japanese”
Tuesday, December 9, 2025 15:10-16:40
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics / Online
The 11th T3 Earth Forum
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 13:30-14:45
Incubation Room 2,Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Online
The 12th T3 Earth Forum
Thursday, November 13, 2025 10:00-12:00
Seminar Room ３&４, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Online
317th Observation Session: "Reading Chrysanthemum Cultivation Books - Focusing on Cultivation Tools"
Saturday, November 22, 2025 13:30-15:30
National Museum of Japanese History, Guidance Room
International Conference “What the invisible is. Anthropological perspectives from East Eurasia and beyond”
Sunday, October 26, 2025, 11:00-17:00
National Museum of Ethnology, Seminar Room 4
International Symposium: "Diplomacy and Japanese Collections in the Late Edo Period: Searching for Gifts from Japanese Missions Abroad"
Saturday, January 10, 2026 13:30-17:00, Sunday, January 11, 2026 9:30-15:15
Hitotsubashi Auditorium (2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, inside the Academic Center)
The 123rd Rekihaku Forum: "The Meiji Restoration and the Birth of a Nation in World History"
Saturday, December 13, 2025 12:30-16:30
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
“Materials Workshop” Series:Session XIII
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 15:00-17:00
National Institute of Japanese Literature (partially streamed online)
Project-meeting on Research on Literacy of Immigrants in Japan. "Understanding the Diversity of Reading and Writing: Different Ways and Forms of Support"
Saturday, November 29, 2025 10:30-16:30
Aichi Prefectural Government Sannomaru Annex 8F
464th Lecture: "The Life of a Kimono Collector - In the Footsteps of Nomura Shojiro"
Saturday, November 8, 2025 13:00-15:00
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
RIHN 20th International Symposium Knowledge and Training for Green Transformation
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Wednesday, 10 December 2025, 10:00-18:30, Thursday, 11 December 2025, 10:30-18:00
Lecture Hall, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Online
Project-meeting "Collaborative Japanese Language History Education with Generative AI: Reframing GHQ's Role"
Sunday, November 2, 2025 14:00-15:00
Online
Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 156th NINJAL Colloquium “Second Language Acquisition Research in Japanese Learner Corpora”
Tuesday, November 11, 2025 15:10-16:40
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics / Online
The 285th Nichibunken Thursday Seminar
Thursday, October 16, 2025 16:30～18:00
Seminar Room 1, International Research Center for Japanese Studies / ONLINE
The 155th NINJAL Colloquium “Rethinking Digital Communication: The Concept of ‘Uchi Kotoba’”
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 15:10-17:10
Multipurpose Room, NINJAL/Online
“Japanese Classics Day” Lecture
Saturday November 1, 2025 14：40-17：00
National Institute of Japanese Literature/Online
2025 NINJAL Tutorial "How to Use Web Tools for Learning, Teaching, and Researching Japanese Vocabulary"
Saturday, November 8, 2025 13:30-16:30
Soochow University (Taiwan)
316th Observation Session: "Fungi at the Botanical Garden of Everyday Life"
Saturday, October 25, 2025 13:30～15:30
Everyday Botanical Gardens, Arbour
FairFrontiers Project Public Seminar The Making and Un-Making of Frontiers: A FairFrontiers seminar and photovoice exhibition
Wednesday, October 16, 2025, 9:00-12:30
Lecture Hall, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature / Online
Joint Research Meeting on the Construction of Vocabulary Resources for Learner Dictionaries
Saturday, October 4, 2025 15:30-17:00
Online
Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpora [Beginner's Level]
Saturday, October 4, 2025 13:30-15:00
Online
Endangered Languages and Dialects of Japan Summit (Yaeyama)
Saturday, October 25, 2025 10:00-17:45, Sunday, October 26, 2025 10:00-16:30
Ishigaki Civic Hall (1-1-2 Hamasakicho, Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture)
463rd Lecture: "International Relations and the Tokugawa Diplomacy of the Late Edo Period"
Saturday, October 11, 2025 13:00-15:00
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
Y2025 the 2nd Visiting Research Fellow Seminar
Friday, September 12, 2025, 13:15–14:45
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Seminar Room 3-4 and online (ZOOM)
The 261st Nichibunken Evening Seminar
Thursday, September 18 ,2025 16:30-18:00
Seminar Room 2, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Onsite Only)
46th Rekihaku Film Club "Bali and Japan's 'Soul-Funeral Rites'"
Saturday, October 4, 2025 13:30-15:30
National Museum of Japanese History Auditorium
315th Observation Session: "Prehistoric Plants and Life as Revealed from Pottery"
Friday, September 26, 2025 13:30-15:30
National Museum of Japanese History, Botanical Gardens, Arbour
History of Hanzi Glyphs and Glyph Information Databases 3
Tuesday, August 26, 2025 13:00-17:10
Keio University Mita Campus (2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo)/Online
The 353rd Nichibunken Forum: "Discovering the Appeal of Sekai Kunizukushi: Fukuzawa Yukichi’s World in Pictures and Words"
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 18:30-20:30
3rd Floor, Conference Room, Heartpia-Kyoto
375 Shimizu-cho, Karasuma higashi-iru, Takeyamachi-dori, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto
＜Cultural Event＞ 100th Anniversary of Arabic Public Education in Japan under the Patronage of UNESCO
Sunday, September 21, 2025 13:30-16:10
National Museum of Ethnology Auditorium, Osaka
＜International Symposium＞ 100th Anniversary of Arabic Public Education in Japan under the Patronage of UNESCO
Monday, September 22, 2025 10:00-17:00
National Museum of Ethnology, Seminar Room 4
Japan-Netherlands Symposium International Training Program in Museums: Exploring Inclusive and Collaborative Engagement
Saturday, October 4, 2025 10:00-16:40
Minpaku Auditorium, National Museum of Ethnology
The 104th Meeting of JSAI SIG-SLUD
Monday, September 8, 2025 (12:55-17:50), Tuesda、、September 9, 2025 (9:00-16:20)
Hiroshima University Higashi-Hiroshima Campus
Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 154th NINJAL Colloquium“Cognitive Neuroscience of Word Order Preferences”
September 4, 2025 13:30-16:30
Online
Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 154th NINJAL Colloquium“Cognitive Neuroscience of Word Order Preferences”
Tuesday, September 9, 2025 15:10-16:40
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics / Online
NINJAL Seminar for Collaborative Research 2025
Thursday, September 4, 2025 13:30-16:30
Online
Hands-on Seminar on "Universal Dependencies"
Saturday, September 20, 2025 10:00-12:00
Multipurpose Room, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Universal Dependencies Research Meeting
Saturday, September 20, 2025 13:30-16:30
Auditorium & Multipurpose Room, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages 2025
Thursday, August 21, 2025 15:00-17:00, Friday, August 22, 2025 9:30-15:10
RYULAB (University of the Ryukyus, Regional Creation Research Building 1F)/Online
The 122nd Rekihaku Forum "Reading Society from Various 'Deaths'"
Sunday, September 21, 2025 10:00-17:00
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
Kapa Haka – the Maori Performing Arts ―― with Ngā Hau E Whā
Saturday, September 27, 2025 13:30-15:40
Auditorium, National Museum of Ethnology
462nd Lecture: "Economics of Medieval Temples: Faith, Monasteries, and Local Communities"
Saturday, September 13, 2025 13:00-15:00
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
Joint Meeting "Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization - From Theoretical, Fieldwork, Historical and Dialectal Perspective" Project and "Cross-Linguistic Studies on Grammatical Nominalizations: With a Focus on Classifiers and Gender Markers" Pro
Saturday, July 12, 2025 14:00-17:00
Online
The 284th Nichibunken Thursday Seminar
Thursday, June 26, 2025 16:30-18:00
Seminar Room 1, International Research Center for Japanese Studies and ONLINE (Zoom)
The 152nd NINJAL Colloquium “Digital Language Data: The Leibniz Institute for the German Language, National German and European Infrastructures”
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 15:10-17:10
Multipurpose Room, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics / Online
The 11st Nichibunken Kyoto Academic Bridge
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 18:00-20:00
The Hall, The Kyoto Shimbun Co., Ltd
461st Lecture: "Foreigners who lived in modern China"
Saturday, July 12, 2025 13:00-15:00
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
The 121st Rekihaku Forum "People Who Crossed Borders"
Saturday, August 2, 2025 12:30-16:30
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
313th Observation Session: "Wood Dating by Tree Rings and Climate Reconstruction"
Friday, June 27, 2025 13:30-15:30
Everyday Botanical Gardens, Arbour
45th Rekihaku Film Society "Folklore of Kudaka Island, Okinawa - 'Izaiho' and 'Irabu'"
Saturday, May 24, 2025 10:20-16:00
National Museum of Japanese History Auditorium
461st REKIHAKU Lecture: "Foreigners who lived in modern China"
Saturday, July 12, 2025 13:00-15:00
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
Japanese History Research Course Public Lecture
Saturday, June 14, 2025 13:00-15:00
National Museum of Japanese History (REKIHAKU), Auditorium
International Symposium “Global Perspectives on Japanese Media and Popular Culture History: Critical Lessons from a Century of Broadcasting”
Friday, July 11, 2025 13:30-16:00
Auditorium, International Research Center for Japanese Studies / Online streaming available
The 312th Observation Meeting: "Plants that sing the seasons and people's lives"
Friday, May 23, 2025 13:30-15:30
Everyday Botanical Gardens, Arbour
The 48th International Conference on Japanese Literature
Saturday, May 10, 2025 13:00-
Sundy, May 11, 2025 10:30-
National Institute of Japanese Literature / online
The 311th Observation Meeting: "Reading 'Sakurasaku Denpo' - Centering on the Sakurasou Ren (Hobby Club)"
Saturday, April 26, 2025 13:30～15:30
Everyday Botanical Gardens, Arbour
460th Lecture: "Research on Imperial Japan and New Exhibition"
Saturday, April 12, 2025 13:00-15:00
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
The 19th NINJAL Forum "Endangered Languages for the Future Generation: what to do now"
Sunday, March 16, 2025 13:00-17:00
NINJAL (10-2 Midori-cho, Tachikawa City, Tokyo)
Online
The International Symposium of Minpaku for the 50th Anniversary of the Museum’s Founding “Museums in the 22nd century – Designing the Museums of Tomorrow as Future Spaces for Communication”
Saturday, March 8, 2025 13:30-17:00(Doors open at 13:00)
Sunday, March 9, 2025 9:30-17:00(Doors open at 9:00)
National Museum of Ethnology Auditorium, Osaka
International Symposium of Minpaku for the 50th Anniversary of the Museumʼs Founding ”Art, Anthropology and MuseumsーPast, Present and Future”
Saturday, March 1, 2025 10:30-16:45
National Museum of Ethnology Auditorium, Osaka
Asia-Pacific Research Forum for ICH Safeguarding International Conference ‘New Frontiers of Research for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage’
Thursday, February 13, 2025-Saturday, February 15, 2025
Hours：10:15-17:00
location：Conference Room 5, Second Floor, National Museum of Ethnology (Online participation possible)
Rekihaku Video Forum 18 "Thinking about how to utilize footage"
Saturday, February 15, 2025 13:00-16:30
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
459th Lecture: "Edo City and Ukiyo-e"
Saturday, March 8, 2025 13:00-15:00
National Museum of Japanese History, Auditorium
43rd NIHU Symposium "Astronomy and Citizen Science"
Date: September, 24, 2025 - September, 26, 2025
Venue: National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
1st NIHU Symposium Human Cultures: Why Now?
Date: September 25, 2004
Venue: Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, Tokyo
2nd NIHU Symposium Walking Humanities: A New Relationship between the Humanities and Society
Date: June 25, 2005
Venue: Grand Cube Osaka (Osaka International Convention Center), Osaka
3rd NIHU Symposium Plant Domestication and Human Culture
Date: October 6, 2005
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
4th NIHU Symposium Why Do We "Love" the Flower?
Date: May 27, 2006
Venue: Kyoto International Conference Hall, Kyoto
5th NIHU Symposium What Kind of Letters Did People Write? Communication and Modern Japan
Date: September 30, 2006
Venue: Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall, Tokyo
6th NIHU Symposium Japan's Pop Culture Extending throughout the World: Manga and Anime
Date: June 2, 2007
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
7th NIHU Symposium View towards International Development Cooperation: Practice and Fieldwork
Date: November 30, 2007
Venue: IMP Hall, Osaka
8th NIHU Symposium Searching for New Images of Early-Modern History
Date: June 8, 2008
Venue: Tosho Hall, Tokyo
9th NIHU Symposium The Beauty of the Tale of Genji
Date: October 13, 2008
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
10th NIHU Symposium The World of the Night Procession of One Hundred Demons
Date: July 11, 2009
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
11st NIHU Symposium Japanese Language seen from Uchi(Inside) and Soto(Outside)
Date: December 5, 2009
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
12nd NIHU Symposium The Role and Fascination of Knowledge: Considering the Direction of Humanities Research
Date: July 9, 2010
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
13rd NIHU Symposium Food as an Interface between Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity
Date: July 16, 2010
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
14th NIHU Symposium Diversity of Language Patterns
Date: February, 19, 2011
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
15th NIHU Symposium Understanding the Uprisings in the Arab World
Date: July 2, 2011
Venue: Miyako Messe, Kyoto
16th NIHU Symposium The Ryukyu Islands Chain as Viewed from Asia: Its Maritime People, Products, and Culture
Date: September 23, 2011
Venue: Osaka Museum of History, Osaka
17th NIHU Symposium Remote Forests and Local Forests: How They Are Linked in the Global Era
Date: October 7, 2011
Venue: Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto
18th NIHU Symposium The World of Kamo no Chomei and Hōjōki
Date: May 19, 2012
Venue: Iino Hall, Tokyo
19th NIHU Symposium Thinking about the Turn of the Japan-China Relations Japan and China: Mutual Learning through the Perspectives of Culture and Female
Date: September 22, 2012
Venue: Doshisya University Meitoku-kan, Kyoto
Date: September 30, 2012
Venue: Waseda University Masaru Ibuka Auditorium,International Conference Center, Tokyo
Date: October 5, 2012
Venue: Aichi University Kurumamichi Campus Convention hall, Nagoya
Date: October 27, 2012
Venue: Seinan Gakuin University Seinan Community Center, Fukuoka
20th NIHU Symposium Commons and the Co-Creation of Well-being
Date: January 25, 2013
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
21st NIHU Symposium Japanese Language across the Ocean
Date: September 1, 2013
Venue: Hitotsubashi Auditorium, Tokyo
22nd NIHU Symposium A New Perspective on Japanese Immigrants Based on Image Data: Manchuria, Brazil, and the South Pacific
Date: October 11, 2013
Venue: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto
23rd NIHU Symposium The Diverse Lifestyles and Well-Being of the Elderly
Date: March 8, 2014
Venue: Iino Hall, Tokyo
24th NIHU Symposium Japanese Studies in the World: Speaking from Kyoto
Date: June 7, 2014
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
25th NIHU Symposium Global India Today: Economic Development and Democratic Government
Date: November 2, 2014
Venue: Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University, Kyoto
26th NIHU Symposium The Middle East in Distress
Date: April 25, 2015
Venue: Ibuka International Conference Hall, Waseda University, Tokyo
27th NIHU Symposium Siebold's Introduction of Japanese Culture: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of His Death
Date: January 30, 2016
Venue: Yakult Hall, Tokyo
28th NIHU Symposium Niche of Yokai
Date: June 11, 2016
Venue: Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Tokyo
29th NIHU Symposium Diversity of Japan’s Dietary Cultures: Thinking about Dietary Cultures on Food Production, Processing and Consumption
Date: October 15, 2016
Venue: Ajinomoto Group Takanawa Training Center, Tokyo
30th NIHU Symposium Rediscovering the Use and Value of Japan-Related Resources Recovered in the West
Date: June 3, 2017
Venue: Nishijin Plaza, Kyushu University, Fukuoka
31st NIHU Symposium Ecohealth: Healthy Living and the Environment
Date: February 17, 2018
Venue: Yakult Hall, Tokyo
32nd NIHU Symposium How Transdisciplinary Research Facilitates Informatics and Humanities Research
Date: February 26, 2018
Venue: Hitotsubashi Hall, Tokyo
33rd NIHU Symposium Rediscovery of History in Kagoshima: For New Perspectives of Regional Culture
Date: September 29, 2018
Venue: 101 Lecture Room, Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University
34th NIHU Symposium Studying the Region with the People: Methods for Utilizing Cultures of the Region in Japan and Taiwan
Date: November 10, 2018
Venue: TEPIA Hall, Tokyo
35th NIHU Symposium Sound that Connects the Middle East to Japan: Exploring Human Coexistence in Global Society through Music
Date: March 23, 2019
Venue: Kinsho Hall, Todaiji Culture Center
36th NIHU Symposium 「海外で《日本》を展示すること－KIZUNA展からその意義を探る－」
Date: Date: October 5, 2019
Venue: Faculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
37th NIHU Symposium 「この世のキワー自然と超自然のはざま」
Date: November 23, 2019
Venue: Knowledge Capital Conference Room Tower C
38th NIHU Symposium Worlds of History Opened Up by Computers: Considering the Digital Humanities
Date: January 25, 2020
Venue: Hibiya Convention Hall, Hibiya Library & Museum
39th NIHU Symposium Reconstructing Urban Disasters and the Paths of Typhoons in the Edo Period: A Climatology, Archaeology, and History Collaboration
Date: March 9, 2021
Venue: the Co・Mo・Re Yotsuya Tower conference room
40th NIHU Symposium The Evolution of Human Fantasy: How Literature Co-creates the Global Community
Date: March, 25, 2023
Venue: Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives
41st NIHU Symposium “Life and Death in the Context of War”
Date: January, 28, 2024
Venue: the Co・Mo・Re Yotsuya Tower conference room
42nd NIHU Symposium "Pioneering the Future of the Humanities Through Digital Humanities"
Date: July, 27, 2024
Venue: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto