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National Survey Published

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The project that a JSANZ team started in 2016 “Why I Am Studying Japanese: A National Survey Revealing the Voices of New Zealand Tertiary Students” has just been published in the journal ‘Japanese Studies’ (an Australia-based journal).

Thank you all very much for helping us to encourage students to go online for the survey, and to join the focus group sessions.

The following is the eprint link. Please feel free to pass on the link to anyone who may be interested in the findings of this project. 

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BJMFFZT24KCNRIERYR4X/full?target=10.1080/10371397.2019.1678365

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2017 JSANZ Tertiary Japanese Language Speech Contest

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We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2017 JSANZ Tertiary Japanese Language Speech Contest.

  • First place: Amanda Deacon (University of Canterbury)
  • Second place: Jack Hayes (University of Canterbury)
  • Third place: Corey Croker (University of Auckland)

We would like to congratulate all of the participants. The judges were impressed with the quality of their speeches and had great difficulty selecting the winners. Well done!

This year’s national champion Amanda Deacon will receive return air tickets to Japan. A huge thank you to Air New Zealand for supporting our event. Amanda’s winning speech video clip will be released soon through JSANZ Facebook and JSANZ website.

Jack Hayes and Corey Croker will receive Prezzy cards, sponsored by the Sasakawa Fellowship Fund for Japanese Language Education and the Japan Foundation.

We hope the participants continue their Japanese learning journeys and wish them all the best for their future.

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2016 JSANZ Speech Competition

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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.

Timeline

  • 1 May: Application opens 
  • 1 July: Application closes

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  

http://www.jsanz.org

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Graduate Profiles

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In order to create ‘role models’ for current and future students of Japanese, JSANZ is collecting stories of successful graduates who have studied Japanese or Japanese studies in NZ. There has been an excellent response, and profiles will be progressively uploaded to the JSANZ website.

They will also be used in promotional and advocacy materials by schools and tertiary institutions. The project is being conducted jointly with the Sasakawa Fellowship Fund for Japanese Language Education.

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Japanese Global Articulation Project (J-GAP) Membership

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The co-chairs of JSANZ, Penny Shino and Dallas Nesbitt and executive committee member Masa Ogino attended the Japanese Language Education Global Network (GN) meeting in Sydney on 13th July. The three JSANZ members attended the meeting to observe and were invited to join the network.

The meeting was attended by representatives from the member countries; Canada, Korea, Australia, Europe, America, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and most recently, Indonesia. Representatives from Vietnam were also observing the meeting. Each country reported on current activity and membership.

Professor Tohsaku gave an overview of the Global Articulation Project with its core aim to ‘Think Globally. Act Locally’. Updates on activity in the Global Articulation Project in Japanese Language Education, one of the main activities of the Global Network, had already been presented at a panel session on 11 July.

JSANZ appreciates the opportunity to observe the GN meeting and would like to aim at becoming a member of the Global Network in two years time, to coincide with the next ICJLE conference in Indonesia, 2016. This will give JSANZ time to fully establish the tertiary teachers’ network in New Zealand, to complete the many projects currently underway, and to make a long-term plan for effective participation in the Global Network. 

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JANZ database

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The JANZ database was just launched a year ago and has received Japan Foundation funding for its next phase. It’s quite exciting. UoA Minagawai-sensei attended a meeting about it at the recent JSAA conference in Melbourne, and she is our NZ contact person for the database. Thank-you Harumi for keeping us in the loop about this!

 It would be great if you could consider registering on the JANZ website.

 I have included some information about the database here:

 ‘The JANZ Database was launched in 2014 as an open-access, interactive directory of institutions with Japan-related programs and Japan specialists working in Australia and New Zealand within academic, business and public spheres.  This database increases public access to Japan-related expertise in Australia and New Zealand; links Japanese Studies specialists in our region and internationally; provides a resource for intending or current students; promotes the extensive body of scholarship produced in the field of Japanese Studies; and provides accurate profile data for the field for planning and resourcing purposes. In an increasingly competitive resource and funding environment we strongly believe the JANZ database can become a powerful resource for the advocacy of Japanese Studies education and research in Australia and New Zealand.

 The database homepage is https://janzdb.org/

 Please let others in your programme/department know about the database, as well as any others in your institutions who may be Japan specialists elsewhere.