National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2020.03.23

Database

"Full Text Database of Kokugogaku" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2020.03.17

Database

"Kunten Database" has been released.

2020.02.26

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until March 17, 2020.

2020.02.25

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 844 additional items.

2020.02.21

News

Important information for visitors
Cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infection have been reported in Japan.
To prevent contagious diseases, please wear face masks if you have a cough, and please wash your hands frequently.
Depending on circumstances, events may be cancelled or postponed.
Please check our website regularly.

2020.02.18

Event

NINJAL Lectures on Japanese Linguistics
Date: February 29, 2020 (9:00-12:15), Venue: International Japanese Culture Institution

2020.02.18

Event

[cancelled]
The 3rd Symposium on How to Utilize the "BTSJ Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus"
Date: March 28, 2020 (13:00-18:10), Venue: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2020.02.18

Event

[cancelled]
Symposium "Natural Conversation Corpus" can change the Japanese Language Education-Introduction of the "BTSJ Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus", and its application to the teaching of Japanese-
Date: March 14, 2020 (13:00-17:50), Venue: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

2020.02.14

Event

[cancelled]
Seminar of the skewered-search system ‘KOTONOHA’ for NINJAL corpora
Date: February 29, 2020 (14:00-17:00), Venue: TKP Shinagawa Grand Central Tower Conference Center

2020.02.14

Event

[cancelled]
Project Meeting "The Construction of Diachronic Corpora and New Developments in Research on the History of Japanese"
Date: March 14, 2020 (10:00-15:00), Venue: NINJAL

2020.02.12

Event

[cancelled]
The 35th NINJAL Tutorial "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan"
Date: March 24, 2020 (9:30-16:40), Venue: Tohoku University

2020.02.12

Event

[cancelled]
Phonology Festa 15 (2020)
Date: March 15, 2020 (10:55-18:00), March 16, 2020 (10:00-17:05), Venue: Doshisha University

2020.02.12

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Research Resources.
Open until March 2, 2020.

2020.02.12

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until February 28, 2020.

2020.02.07

Event

[cancelled]
The 34th NINJAL Tutorial "Spontaneous conversation in Japanese and Politeness Theory"
Date: March 19, 2020 (10:30-17:30), Venue: Kurume University Satellite Campus

2020.02.07

Event

[cancelled]
The 114th NINJAL Colloquium "Ownership, Control, Access and Possession: The Ethics of Open Access in the Management and Dissemination of Linguistic Data"
Date: Tuesday, March 17, 2020, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: Mark TURIN (University of British Columbia)

2020.02.06

Event

[cancelled]
The 113th NINJAL Colloquium "Mean Length of Utterance (MLU) as a Language Acquisition Tool for Japanese: Problems and Possibilities"
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: MIYATA Suzanne (Aichi Shukutoku University)

2020.02.06

Event

The 112th NINJAL Colloquium "A Comparative Perspective on the Grammar of Particles"
Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2020, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: George TSOULAS (University of York)

2020.02.04

Event

[cancelled]
The 4th Workshop: "Corpus of Historical Japanese" Tutorial for Teaching Japanese Classical Literature
Date: March 2, 2020 (14:00-16:00), Venue: Gunma University

2020.01.29

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Public Relations Office.
Open until February 20, 2020.

2020.01.28

Event

[cancelled]
Symposium "Conversation Corpus" V
Date: March 9, 2020 (13:00-17:00), Venue: Hitotsubashi University

2020.01.24

Event

"NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ) Tutorial"
Date: February 1, 2020 (10:00-18:00), Venue: Shinagawa Intercity Hall & Conference

2020.01.22

Event

[Changed to online]
Symposium "Business Japanese and Crowdsourcing"
Date: March 20, 2020 (13:00-17:30), Venue: Online

2020.01.21

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 18 was issued.

2020.01.20

Event

NINJAL Lectures on Japanese Linguistics
Date: February 12, 2020 (10:00-17:30), Venue: Mandalay University of Foreign Languages

2020.01.20

Event

NINJAL Lectures on Japanese Linguistics
Date: February 9, 2020 (10:00-17:30), Venue: Yangon University of Foreign Languages

2020.01.16

Event

[postponement]
"I-JAS" Completion Symposium/The 5th Learner Corpus Workshop
Date: March 21, 2020 (10:00-17:00), Venue: Tachikawa Academic Plaza

2020.01.10

Event

Computational Psycholinguistics Tokyo
Date: January 31, 2020 (13:00-15:00), Venue: Waseda University

2020.01.09

Event

[cancelled]
Project Meeting "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan"
Date: March 8, 2020 (9:30-16:00), Venue: The Tachikawa Chamber of Commerce and Industry

2020.01.09

Event

[cancelled]
Symposium on Japanese Diachronic Corpora 2020
Date: March 13, 2020 (10:00-16:30), Venue: Tachikawa Academic Plaza

2019.12.26

Database

Retrospective data entry for items in the Collections of papers Data catalogued in the "Japanese Language Studies Annual Survey and Bibliography" completed (13,274items). Data (1,036items) added.

2019.12.24

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Variation Division.
Open until January 27, 2020.

2019.12.24

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Spoken Language Division.
Open until January 27, 2020.

2019.12.19

Event

Lecture-cum-workshop
Date: December 24, 2019 (10:00-12:30), Venue: University of Mumbai

2019.12.12

Event

Project Meeting "Investigation of Listening Comprehension Difficulties in Children with Developmental Disorders"
Date: January 25, 2020 (13:30-16:30), Venue: NINJAL

2019.12.10

Event

Second International Workshop on Noun Modifying Constructions and Nominalizations
Date: December 19, 2019 (14:30-19:00), December 20, 2019 (10:30-17:30), Venue: Deccan College

2019.12.10

Event

NINJAL Lectures on Japanese Linguistics
Date: December 21-22, 2019, Venue: Symbiosis Institute of Foreign and Indian Languages (Pune, India)

2019.12.02

Database

"The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research" has implemented Responsive Web Design (RWD).

2019.12.02

Event

Symposium "Seeking for a Japanese Language Learning Dictionary for Communication: Building and Developing New Dictionary for Chinese Learners"
Date: January 18, 2020 (9:00-18:00), Venue: Beijing Foreign Studies University

2019.11.29

Event

Computational Semantics Workshop
Date: December 17, 2019 (13:00-14:30), Venue: NINJAL

2019.11.27

Event

The 111th NINJAL Colloquium "Question-oriented Semantics for Japanese Sentence-final Particles"
Date: Tuesday, January 7, 2020, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: UEGAKI Wataru (University of Edinburgh)

2019.11.25

Event

Prosody & Grammar Festa 4
Date: February 15, 2020 (14:00-17:30), February 16, 2020 (10:00-16:20), Venue: Kobe University

2019.11.18

Event

The 8th Meeting of Signed and Spoken Language Linguistics
Date: December 7, 2019, Venue: National Museum of Ethnology

2019.11.18

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Theory & Typology Division.
Open until December 18, 2019.

2019.11.15

Event

Current issues in computational linguistics
Date: December 6, 2019 (10:30-18:00), Venue: Ochanomizu University

2019.11.08

Event

Lecture Meeting "Language Faculty Science as a Categorical Science: Experimental Illustration"
Date: Monday, December 16, 2019, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: HOJI Hajime (University of Southern California)

2019.11.08

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department JSL Research Division.
Open until December 4, 2019.

2019.11.06

Database

"Pioneering Linguistic Works in Japan" has been released.

2019.11.06

Event

Computational Psycholinguistics Tokyo
Date: November 22, 2019 (14:00-16:00), Venue: Waseda University

2019.10.30

Event

Project Meeting "The Construction of Diachronic Corpora and New Developments in Research on the History of Japanese"
Date: December 22, 2019 (13:30-16:30), Venue: Shirayuri university

2019.10.29

Event

NINJAL Lectures on Japanese Linguistics
Date: November 2, 2019 (9:00-17:00), Venue: Beijing Normal University

2019.10.29

Event

Lectures on Japanese Linguistics & Pedagogy
Date: November 1, 2019 (13:30-17:00), Venue: Beijing Foreign Studies University

2019.10.29

Event

Lectures on Japanese Linguistics & Pedagogy
Date: October 31, 2019 (16:00-17:30), Venue: Renmin University of China

2019.10.25

Database

Text data of “Goi kenkyu bunken gobetsu mokuroku” has been released.

2019.10.25

Event

2019 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Domestic)
"Japanese language education for a multilingual society of Japan"
Date: February 15, 2020 (13:00-17:00), Venue: Tachikawa Academic Plaza

2019.10.18

Event

Special Exhibition: "Hawaiʻi: 150 Years of Japanese Migration and Histories of Dream Islands"
Date: October 29 – December 26, 2019, Venue: National Museum of Japanese History

2019.10.18

Event

[cancelled]
NINJAL Symposium "Frontiers of Research on Japanese Grammar: Focusing on comparative studies on Japanese and its dialects"
Date: February 29, 2020 (10:00-17:00), Venue: Kansai University

2019.10.17

News

Due to legally required maintenance of the electrical facilities, some our contents and databases will be unavailable. We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, but appreciate your understanding.
- Maintenance period: from 18:00 on November 15, 2019 until 9:00 on November 18, 2019 (JST)

2019.10.15

Event

Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: November 17, 2019 (10:00-12:00), Venue: Nagoya Gakuin University

2019.10.10

News

NINJAL is under Earthquake-resistant construction from October 10, 2019 to March 31, 2020.
Please do not enter the property during this period, unless you are attending a publicly announced event.

2019.10.08

Database

"Catalogue of Document Boxes" and "Catalogue of Audio and Video Files" (both are collected in NINJAL Research Materials Room) have been released.

2019.10.01

Event

Computational Psycholinguistics Tokyo
Date: October 25, 2019 (13:00-15:00), Venue: Waseda University

2019.09.30

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,006 additional items.

2019.09.26

Database

"Images and Transcription of Isoho monogatari in the British Library collection" has been released.

2019.09.25

Event

The 110th NINJAL Colloquium "Syntactic and Morphosyntactic Variation Across Sign Languages"
Date: Tuesday, November 12, 2019, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: Susan FISCHER (Rochester Institute Technology / CUNY Graduate Center)

2019.09.13

Event

NINJAL ICPP 2019 (6th NINJAL International Conference on Phonetics and Phonology)
Date: December 13-15, 2019, Venue: Tachikawa Academic Plaza

2019.09.12

Event

Project Meeting "Comprehension of Indirect Utterances in Japanese conversation: Comparison among Japanese Children, Foreign Learners of Japanese and Artificial Intelligence"
Date: September 22, 2019 (13:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2019.09.06

Event

Workshop on modality and related matters
Date: September 19, 2019 (10:20-17:30), Venue: NINJAL

2019.09.06

Event

The 14th NINJAL Forum "My Way of Learning Japanese"
Date: November 30, 2019 (13:00-16:50), Venue: Hitotsubashi Hall

2019.09.03

Event

A Project Meeting on Frame Semantics
Date: September 21, 2019 (13:00-17:00), Venue: Nagoya City

2019.09.02

Event

The 33rd NINJAL Tutorial "Language diversity in Japan/Spontaneous conversation in Japanese and Discourse Politeness Theory"
Date: November 9, 2019 (9:30-17:15), November 10, 2019 (9:30-17:15), Venue: Soochow University

2019.08.30

Event

Project Meeting "Stylistic Variation in Minutes of the Assemblies"
Date: September 12, 2019 (15:00-16:30), Venue: NINJAL

2019.08.28

Event

NINJAL Seminar "Language resources as the foundation of Japanese linguistics"
Date: November 7, 2019 (14:00-17:00), Venue: Shanghai International Studies University (China)

2019.08.22

Event

JK 27 Satellite Meeting: the 1st NINJAL-SNU Joint Workshop
Date: October 17, 2019 (12:50-18:00), Venue: Seoul National University

2019.08.21

Event

Project Meeting "Stylistic Variation in Minutes of the Assemblies"
Date: August 27, 2019 (10:00-11:30), Venue: Kochi University

2019.08.21

Event

New Developments in Research on the Japanese Dialects based on COJADS
Date: September 6, 2019 (10:00-16:00), Venue: NINJAL

2019.08.20

Event

International Symposium "Construction and Applied Research of Corpora for Japanese learners"
Date: October 19, 2019 (9:10-17:30), Venue: Beijing Foreign Studies University

2019.08.09

Event

2019 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas)
"Japanese viewed from world languages"
Date: September 21, 2019 (14:00-17:50), September 22, 2019 (9:30-13:15), Venue: The Uzbekistan-Japan Center (Uzbekistan)

2019.08.09

Event

2019 National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas)
"Japanese viewed from world languages"
Date: September 17, 2019 (9:30-12:55), September 18, 2019 (9:30-13:00), Venue: Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages (Uzbekistan)

2019.08.08

Event

Project Meeting "The Construction of Diachronic Corpora and New Developments in Research on the History of Japanese"
Date: September 9, 2019 (13:30-17:30), Venue: Toyo University

2019.08.06

Event

International Symposium "Construction and Applied Research of Beijing Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (B-JAS)"
Date: October 20, 2019 (8:30-17:30), Venue: Beijing Normal University

2019.07.30

Event

Project Meeting "Investigation and Typification of Emergent Participation Framework in Conversation"
Date: September 11, 2019 (14:30-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2019.07.30

News

"NINJAL Survey and Guide 2019/2020" and "NINJAL Yearbook 2017" were issued.

2019.07.30

News

Our office will be closed from August 10 to 15 for summer vacation.

2019.07.29

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 17 was issued.

2019.07.29

Event

NINJAL Collaborative Research Project Symposium 2019 "Japanese Variation in Corpora: Informal Expressions"
Date: September 5, 2019 (13:00-16:30), Venue: NINJAL

2019.07.18

News

We will be performing maintenance to our host server in the following period. During this period, this site will not be available. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.
- Maintenance period: July 24, 2019, 10:00-13:00 (JST)

2019.07.12

Event

The 109th NINJAL Colloquium "National Language and English Language Education vis-a-vis University Entrance Examination Reform"
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2019, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: TORIKAI Kumiko (Rikkyo University)

2019.07.10

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Theory & Typology Division.
Open until August 7, 2019.

2019.07.09

Event

Language Resources Workshop 2019
Date: September 2, 2019 (10:30-17:00), September 3, 2019 (10:30-16:10), September 4, 2019 (10:30-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2019.07.05

News

Due to network equipment replacement, some our contents and databases will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding.
Replacement period:
- from 18:00 on July 12, 2019 to 24:00 on July 15, 2019(JST)

2019.06.28

Event

The 31st symposion on the application of computers in East Asian Studies
Date: July 26, 2019 (9:30-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2019.06.27

Event

The 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Date: August 6-11, 2019, Venue: Kwansei Gakuin University

2019.06.27

Event

Lectures on the Japanese language from cognitive/typological perspectives
Date: August 6, 2019 (10:00-12:00), Venue: Kwansei Gakuin University

2019.06.27

Event

Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Grammar Group "Toritate Expressions"
Date: July 28, 2019 (13:30-17:00), Venue: Shiinoki Cultural Complex

2019.06.27

Event

Lecture and Workshop "What We Learn from the Corpus of the Reading Comprehension Process of Non-native Japanese Learners"
Date: July 6, 2019 (10:00-15:30), Venue: International Christian University

2019.06.26

Event

Kobe-NINJAL-Oxford Linguistic Colloquium "Frontiers of Japanese Linguistic Research"
Date: July 21, 2019 (13:30-17:00), Venue: Kobe University

2019.06.25

Event

Computational Psycholinguistics Tokyo
Date: July 19, 2019 (13:00-15:00), Venue: Waseda University

2019.06.20

Event

Project Meeting "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan"
Date: August 3, 2019 (10:00-12:00), Venue: NINJAL

2019.06.20

Event

NIHONGO TANKEN 2019
Date: July 20, 2019 (11:30-16:00), Venue: NINJAL

2019.06.19

Event

Symposium "Diversity in spoken language"
Date: August 30, 2019 (13:00-17:15), Venue: NINJAL

2019.06.13

Database

"Conversational Strategy Data for Japanese Language Learners" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2019.06.13

Database

"Spontaneous Conversational Data for Japanese Language Learners" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2019.06.13

Database

"Spontaneous Conversational Data for Japanese Language Learners: Longitudinal Survey Results" has been moved. Please change your bookmarks.

2019.06.10

Event

Computational Psycholinguistics Tokyo
Date: June 21, 2019 (13:00-15:00), Venue: Waseda University

2019.06.07

Event

Symposium "NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese and it's applications to linguistic research" (The 44th annual conference of the Kansai Linguistic Society)
Date: July 14, 2019 (13:30-16:30), Venue: Kansai University

2019.06.07

Event

JSLS 2019 workshop "Development of a parsed corpus and its applications to linguistic research and education"
Date: July 7, 2019 (11:00-12:30), Venue: Tohoku University

2019.05.29

Event

Project Meeting "The Construction of Diachronic Corpora and New Developments in Research on the History of Japanese"
Date: June 29, 2019 (13:00-17:30), Venue: Meiji University

2019.05.29

Event

The 1st research meeting: The purposes of building of a "Japanese 1000 person natural conversation corpus for pragmatic analyses" and its utilization
Date: June 29, 2019 (10:30-17:30), Venue: NINJAL

2019.05.27

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 546 additional items.
The Book Data catalogued in the "Japanese Language Studies Annual Survey and Bibliography" in issues from 1990 to 1993 (5,041 items) added. In other words, retroactive data entry for items in the Book Data completed.

2019.05.24

Event

The 108th NINJAL Colloquium "English Tense Morphemes in Complement Clauses: Are Cessation and Parentheticality Relevant?"
Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2019, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: OGIHARA Toshiyuki (University of Washington)

2019.05.23

Event

International Symposium "Learning Sounds of Asian Languages"
Date: July 6, 2019 (10:00-17:00), Venue: The University of Tokyo

2019.05.22

Event

The 13th and 14th Workshop for Utilizing Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus Transcribed by BTSJ (Basic Transcription System for Japanese)
Date: June 2, 2019 (12:30-17:30), Venue: Nagoya University

2019.05.17

Event

70th anniversary open lecture meeting: "Quantitative Study of Language History"
Date: June 22, 2019 (14:00-17:00), Venue: NINJAL

2019.05.16

Event

The 11th and 12th Workshop for Utilizing Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus Transcribed by BTSJ (Basic Transcription System for Japanese)
Date: May 18, 2019 (12:30-17:30), Venue: NINJAL

2019.05.13

Event

Project Meeting "Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese"
Date: June 15, 2019 (14:00-18:00), Venue: Ochanomizu University

2019.05.08

Event

Computational Psycholinguistics Tokyo
Date: May 24, 2019 (11:00-13:00), Venue: Waseda University

2019.04.25

Event

NINJAL Seminar "New findings and discoveries in Japanese from language resources"
Date: May 9, 2019 (12:00-13:15), Venue: Keimyung University (Korea)

2019.04.23

Event

Project Meeting "Endangered Languages and Dialects in Japan"
Date: June 16, 2019 (9:30-16:00), Venue: NINJAL

2019.04.22

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Theory & Typology Division.
Open until May 20, 2019.

2019.04.22

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Variation Division.
Open until May 20, 2019.

2019.04.17

Event

The 107th NINJAL Colloquium "The Current State of the Aspect Hypothesis in L1 and L2 Acquisition: Where Do the Universals of Tense-aspect Acquisition Come from?"
Date: Tuesday, July 2, 2019, Venue: NINJAL
Speaker: SHIRAI Yasuhiro (Case Western Reserve University)

2019.04.15

Event

Project Meeting "Development of and Linguistic Research with a Parsed Corpus of Japanese"
Date: May 12, 2019 (9:00-12:00), Venue: Hirosaki University

2019.04.15

Event

"NINJAL Parsed Corpus of Modern Japanese (NPCMJ) Tutorial"
Date: May 11, 2019 (10:00-17:30), Venue: Hirosaki University

2019.04.05

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department Language Variation Division.
Open until May 7, 2019.

2019.04.03

Event

Project Meeting "Cross-linguistic Studies of Japanese Prosody and Grammar"
Prosody Group "Word Prosody and Sentence Prosody"
Date: May 11, 2019 (13:30-17:30), Venue: NINJAL

2019.04.01

News

The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics adopted its Open Access Policy on January 16, 2019. This Policy has been in effect as of April 1, 2019.