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News
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Jan 30, 2026
Event
NINJAL Symposium "Addressing Diverse Challenges in Language Communication: Towards Individual and Collective Well-being"
Date(s): March 23, 2026 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL -
Jan 30, 2026
Event
AJAPE-NINJAL Project Experiential Event: "Let’s Learn About the Migration: A Case of Japanese Abroad and Nikkei Dekasegi !"
Date(s): March 7, 2026 (13:00-16:00)
Venue: Japanese Overseas Migration Museum -
Jan 27, 2026
Event
"Shimamuni (Okinoerabu Language)" Exhibition & Opening Event: Let's Enjoy the Island Language !
Date(s): March 1, 2026 - June 30, 2026
Venue: Museum of Wadomari Town History and Folklore - Jan 26, 2026 Publication "NINJAL Research Papers" No. 30 was issued.
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Jan 26, 2026
Event
Project-meeting "Spatial Information Addition to Language Resource"
Date(s): February 19, 2026 (14:00-17:15)
Venue: NINJAL, Online
Upcoming Events
- Jan 30, 2026 Use of Computers for Oriental Studies: The 40th Research Seminar NINJAL
- Jan 31, 2026 AJAPE-NINJAL Project Seminar "Traveling Roots: The Lived History of the Nikkei Community in Peru" JICA Yokohama
- Feb 3, 2026 The 291st NINJAL Salon "Statistical Semantic Change Detection via Usage Similarities" NINJAL, Online
- Feb 7, 2026 The 20th NINJAL Forum"The Hidden World of Everyday Speech: Discovering Spoken Japanese Through Corpora" NINJAL
- Feb 14, 2026 Linguistics Festival 2026 Online
- Feb 15, 2026 AJAPE-NINJAL Project Seminar "Let’s Learn About the Connections Between Okinawa and Latin America" Ikiiki Center Kanazawa
- Feb 17, 2026 The 159th NINJAL Colloquium "On Implicit Strategies in Route Instruction: Focusing on Co(n)-text in Written and Spoken Depictions" NINJAL, Online
- Feb 19, 2026 Project-Meeting "Framework Establishment and Empirical Research for Comprehensive Archiving of Tourism Ephemera Materials in Japan" NINJAL
Research Resources
NINJAL develops a variety of language resources including corpora and databases for Japanese language studies and makes them available to universities, the scholarly community, and the general public.
About NINJAL
NINJAL is the international hub for research on Japanese language, linguistics, and Japanese-language education for non-native speakers. We disseminate the research results throughout Japan and worldwide.









