We have launched a JSANZ YouTube Channel!Watch and enjoy outstanding speeches of the JSANZ winners since 2014!You can see English subtitles for both this year’s winner Amanda Deacon’s speech and last year’s winner Nathaniel Carter’s.
Here is the link – JSANZ YouTube Channel or you can copy and paste the following URL:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmT6U-nVHiKFPNkPFsy_uSg
Please share this information and attached flyer with your students and wider academic network.
Each year the Foundation offers three grants of $5,000 to support postgraduate research into contemporary issues in the Asian region. The 2017 application period closes 31 May.
These grants are intended for new research that will promote debate and discussion on matters relating to Asia and New Zealand with implications for foreign and trade policy.
Possible themes include:
Applicants must be:
For more information, visit the Asia NZ site.
This is an online national contest presented by JSANZ for students studying Japanese in the participating tertiary institution throughout NZ.
Present a speech with a theme “Travel” to audience and film it. Upload the video clip to YouTube and enter the competition.
Applications open on 1 May, close on 1 July. Winners will be announced on 31 August.
Ask your lecturer for more information and guidelines.
Huge congratulations to the three fantastic members of JSANZ for being awarded the Consul General’s Commendation!
Dallas Nesbitt (Co-Vice president of JSANZ, AUT), Michelle Lodge (JSANZ Executive member, Botanydown Secondary College), Kazue Takeda (Member of JSANZ, Liston College).
An article on JSANZ in the E-Cube magazine
Masayoshi Ogino talked about the activities of JSANZ, the book Creating New Synergies and current situation of the Japanese language education in New Zealand. Read the article.
An article on Japanese language education in New Zealand
An article by two members of JSANZ, Masayoshi Ogino and Junji Kawai has been published on the website of the Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language, where the role and activities of JSANZ are featured. Read the article.
Masayoshi Ogino presented Mr Mitsuru Murase (the Consul and Counsellor, Consular Office of Japan, Christchurch) with “Creating New Synergies: Approaches of Tertiary Japanese Programmes in New Zealand”. A review of the book by Dr Michiko Kaneyasu (University of Colorado Boulder) has also been published in the journal, Japanese Language and Literature (April, 2017).
AUT staff members at a gathering at the Consul General’s residence to express appreciation to Air NZ
Air NZ, has generously given a return ticket to Japan as first prize for the JSANZ speech competition. JSANZ would like thank Mr Duncan Small, Air NZ Head of Govt and Industry Affairs, Cath O’Brien, Regulatory Affairs Manager, and Anna Burton Garcia, International Affairs Manager for this wonderfully generous gesture and for their ongoing and warm support of our students efforts to learn Japanese and to become true global citizens. JSANZ would also like to acknowledge Mr Yokoyama, the Consulate General of Japan, Auckland, and his staff , for their excellent networking on our behalf.
Begin Preparing now for the 2016 JSANZ Speech Competition. This is the third year it has been held and we have had some wonderful entries. The prize for the first place winner will be a return ticket to Japan. There are no major changes from the previous two years except the date of notification of winners (31 August, 2016). Speech Contest Guidelines and Application Forms are attached. See below.
31 August: Application opens Application closes Notification of winners Wishing you all the best for the planning of 2016.Kind regards,Masayoshi Ogino PhD Chair for the 2016 JSANZ Speech ContestVice President, Japanese Studies Aotearoa New Zealand
JSANZ has now been officially accepted as a member of the Japanese Language Education Global Network (GN).
GN is an alliance that enables the exchange of information about Japanese language education around the world, with the aim of promoting international cooperation, practical activities for learning and teaching Japanese and international development of academic research. Currently, 10 countries and regions (US, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Europe) are affiliated with this Japanese language education alliance. This is a significant step for JSANZ.