NINJAL Forums
In an effort to contribute actively not just to the scholarly community but to the larger society, the Institute sponsors the NINJAL Forum to keep the general public informed about the results of the research being carried out within the Institute and in collaboration with other institutions.
16th “Research on Japanese Based on Diverse Language Resources: 'How far we have progressed and how much we have discovered!'”
| Date | Saturday, February 19, 2022 |
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| Venue | Online |
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| Outline | Details |
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15th “Endangered Languages in Japan and Asia: What can we do for the revitalization of endangered languages”
| Date | Saturday, February 27, 2021 |
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| Venue | Online |
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| Outline | Details |
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14th “My Way of Learning Japanese”
| Date | Saturday, November 30, 2019 |
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| Venue | Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Hall |
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| Outline | Details |
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13th “Exploring the History of Japanese Language”
| Date | Sunday, November 4, 2018 |
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| Venue | Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Hall |
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| Outline | Details |
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12th “Language Diversity and Communication”
| Date | Saturday, February 3, 2018 |
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| Venue | Tokyo Shoken Building |
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| Outline | Details |
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11th “The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics”
| Date | Sunday, September 10, 2017 |
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| Venue | Ritsumeikan University, Osaka Ibaraki Campus |
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| Outline | Details |
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10th “The Marvels and Mysteries of Mimetics”
| Date | Saturday, January 21, 2017 |
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| Venue | Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Hall |
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| Outline | Details |
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9th “Research on Japanese Language: 'How Far We've Progressed --- How Much We've Discovered!'”
| Date | Saturday, March 5, 2016 |
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| Venue | Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Hall |
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| Outline | Details, Report |
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8th “Kanji Education Across the World: Learning Japanese Kanji”
| Date | Sunday, September 21, 2014 |
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| Venue | Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Hall |
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| Outline | Details, Report |
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7th “How Modern Japanese Came to Be the Way It Is”
| Date | Sunday, March 30, 2014 |
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| Venue | Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Hall |
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| Outline | Details, Report |
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6th “Japanese Communication in a Global Society: Why Learning Japanese is Necessary”
| Date | Sunday, March 10, 2013 |
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| Venue | Hitotsubashi University, Hitotsubashi Hall |
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| Outline | Details, Report |
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5th “Rediscovering the Japanese Language: What Japanese and the Languages of the World Teach Us About Each Other”
| Date | Saturday, March 24, 2012 |
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| Venue | Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall |
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| Outline | Details, Report |
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In this forum Professor Tasaku Tsunoda heads a group specialists on the languages of Australia, Asia, and Africa. They discuss how seemingly unique features of Japanese, not found in English and other European languages, may be found in other languages as distant as the Philippines and Ethiopia. We rediscover what Japanese teaches about the languages of the world, and what the languages of the world teach us about Japanese.
4th “The Complexity and Fascination of Japanese Writing”
| Date | Sunday, September 11, 2011 |
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| Vanue | Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall |
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| Outline | Details, Report |
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In this forum we welcome experts in publishing, broadcasting, psychology and language teaching to discuss the complexity and fascination of Japanese writing and to foresee future developments.
3rd “Preservation of Dialect Diversity in Japan”
| Date | Saturday, December 18, 2010 |
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| Venue | Nadao Hall (Kasumigaseki) |
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| Outline | Details, Report |
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Four panelists reported on the state of various languages and dialects, about the importance of preserving diversity in language, and held an open discussion forum.
2nd “Fusion of Teaching and Research in Japanese Language Education - Connecting the Past and the Future”
| Date | Sunday, March 21, 2010 |
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| Venue | NINJAL |
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The Institute held an academic forum consisting of two keynote lectures (by Professor Rod Ellis and Professor Senko K. Maynard) and two symposia ("Research on Japanese Communication Skills Needed for Learners" and "Empirical Research for Japanese Language Education").
1st “Future Perspectives on Japanese Linguistics”
| Date | From Saturday, October 10 to Monday, October 12, 2009 |
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| Venue | NINJAL |
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The Institute invited leading domestic and foreign scholars of Japanese language studies and linguistics and held an academic forum consisting of two keynote lectures and four symposia ("The Future of Phonetic Research," "The Future of Change and Variation Research," "The Future of Historical Research," and "The Future of Grammatical Research").
