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News
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Jan 21, 2026
Jobs
Academic Employment Opportunities at the Advanced Language Science (E3P) Research Center
Open until 12 May, 2026, 12:00 p.m. (JST) -
Jan 20, 2026
Jobs
Academic Employment Opportunities in the Research Department.
Until the position is filled. -
Jan 16, 2026
Jobs
Academic Employment Opportunities in the Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research.
Until the position is filled. -
Jan 16, 2026
Event
AJAPE-NINJAL Project Seminar "Let’s Learn About the Connections Between Okinawa and Latin America"
Date(s): February 15, 2026 (13:30-15:00)
Venue: Ikiiki Center Kanazawa -
Jan 9, 2026
Jobs
Academic Employment Opportunities at the Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research.
Open until January 27, 2026, 16 p.m.
Upcoming Events
- Jan 23, 2026 - Mar 19 Exhibition: Linguistic Atlas — A Visual Exploration of Dialect Distribution
- 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
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.









