National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2023.03.28

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Financial Affairs Division.
Open until April 14, 2023.

2023.03.24

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until April 14, 2023.

2023.03.20

Event

The 247th NINJAL Salon "Simple Statistical Modelling of the Acceptance of COVID-19 Related Terms"
Speaker: YOKOYAMA Shoichi (NINJAL), AIZAWA Masao (NINJAL), TANAKA Makirou (Meiji University), HISANO Masaki (The University of Electro-Communications), TANAKA Yusuke (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Date(s): April 4, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: Online

2023.03.14

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until April 21, 2023.

2023.03.14

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 2,571 additional items.

2023.03.06

Event

5th Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): March 13, 2023 (17:00-18:00)
Venue: Online

2023.03.01

Database

“Contrastive Vocabulary Table of Japanese, German, French and Spanish” has been released.

2023.03.01

Database

The transcribed text of “Nihongo shoho (Hawai Kyōikukyoku, 1925) ” has been released.

2023.02.28

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Research Promotion Division.
Open until April 10, 2023.

2023.02.28

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Financial Affairs Division.
Open until March 16, 2023.

2023.02.24

Event

The 132nd NINJAL Colloquium "Heritage Languages and Language as Heritage: The Language of Heritage in Canada and Beyond"
Speaker: Mark Turin (University of British Columbia)
Date(s): March 14, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.02.22

Event

A Symposium on "Research on Literacy of Immigrants in Japan": A Collaborative Research Project of the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) "From “Literacy In School” to “Literacy as a Social Practice”: Case Studies of Returnees From China and Sakhalin"
Date(s): March 12, 2023 (10:00-16:00)
Venue: Waseda University

2023.02.22

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until June 13, 2023.

2023.02.17

Event

Project-meeting "Digital Library for Humanities"
Date(s): March 7, 2023 (13:00-15:30)
Venue: Online

2023.02.17

Event

Database and Premodern Japanese Dictionaries, Sino-Japanese Research
Date(s): March 4, 2023 (9:45-17:00)
Venue: Online

2023.02.16

Event

Project-meeting "A multifaceted study of language problems in multilingual and multicultural Japan"
Date(s): March 11, 2023 (13:00-17:15), March 12, 2023 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: Online

2023.02.16

Event

Symposium "Language, Cognition, and Interaction 11"
Date(s): March 4, 2023 (13:00-18:00)
Venue: National Institute of Informatics

2023.02.16

Event

Symposium "Conversation Corpus" VIII

Date(s): March 3, 2023 (11:00-17:30)
Venue: Online

2023.02.15

Event

4th Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): February 23, 2023 (17:00-18:00)
Venue: Online

2023.02.15

Event

NINJAL IR Symposium "What are the appropriate evaluation indicators for providing research resources?"
Date(s): March 7, 2023 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.02.14

Event

NINJAL-UHM Linguistics Workshop 2023
Date(s): February 16, 2023 (9:00-13:30), February 17, 2023 (12:20-16:00) (HST)
Venue: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Online

2023.02.13

Event

Project-meeting "A Study on the Use of Historical Documents of Social Surveys on Language"
Date(s): March 14, 2023 (15:00-17:00)
Venue: Online

2023.02.09

Event

2022 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas) "The Purpose of the Development of the “BTSJ 1000 Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus” and the “Natural Conversation Resource Bank (NCRB)” and its Application in Japanese Language Education"
Date(s): March 5, 2023 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology

2023.02.09

Event

2022 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas) "The Purpose of the Development of the “BTSJ 1000 Japanese Natural Conversation Corpus” and the “Natural Conversation Resource Bank (NCRB)” and its Application in Japanese Language Education"
Date(s): March 4, 2023 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: Chinese Culture University

2023.02.06

Event

2022 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Domestic) "Supporting dictionary searches using smartphones by learners of Japanese: the reality of the use of dictionary tools among learners of Japanese around the world"
Date(s): March 9, 2023 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2023.02.03

Event

Symposium on Japanese Diachronic Corpora 2023
Date(s): March 10, 2023 (13:00-17:30)
Venue: Online

2023.02.02

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until February 16, 2023.

2023.02.02

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until February 13, 2023.

2023.02.02

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Operations Support Office.
Open until March 8, 2023.

2023.02.02

Jobs

Employment Opportunities.
Open until February 17, 2023.

2023.02.02

Event

Project-meeting "Japan-related documents and artifacts in Hawaiʻi: historical and social survey interface"
Date(s): March 5, 2023 (13:00-15:30)
Venue: Online

2023.01.31

Event

The 46th NINJAL Tutorial "Introduction to utilization of the Corpus of Everyday Conversation"
Date(s): March 29, 2023 (10:00-16:30)
Venue: Online

2023.01.31

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 24 was issued.

2023.01.30

Event

The 246th NINJAL Salon "The Use of Gairaigo in JFL Learners’ Writing: An Analysis of the Longitudinal Corpus of Chinese Native Speakers"
Speaker: WU Mei (Meiji University)
Date(s): March 7, 2023 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2023.01.26

Event

The 131st NINJAL Colloquium "Points of Comparison"
Speaker: Christopher D. Kennedy (Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago)
Date(s): February 28, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.01.23

Event

The 130th NINJAL Colloquium "Rethinking Identities: Distributed Identities Across People, Places, Things and Languages"
Speaker: OTSUJI Emi (University of Technology Sydney)
Date(s): February 14, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2023.01.20

Event

18th CODH Seminar - Micro Typology and Digital Archive: Case Studies on Bantu languages and Japanese-Ryukyuan languages
Date(s): January 22, 2023 (16:30-19:30)
Venue: National Institute of Informatics, Online

2023.01.17

Event

The 129th NINJAL Colloquium "The Role of Word Order in Marking Case in Hentai Kanbun"
Speaker: Edith Aldridge (Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica)
Date(s): January 31, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.01.13

Event

Training Session on Full-Text Search System “Himawari”

Date(s): February 27, 2023 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2023.01.12

Event

3rd Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): January 21, 2023 (17:00-18:00) (JST)
Venue: Online

2023.01.11

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Operations Support Office.
Open until February 8, 2023.

2023.01.06

Event

Project-meeting "Old Japanese Dictionaries Data Sharing and Expansion for Vocabulary and Notation Studies"
Date(s): January 21, 2023 (13:00-17:15)
Venue: Online

2022.12.28

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until January 23, 2023.

2022.12.28

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until January 16, 2023.

2022.12.22

Event

Project-meeting of Learner Dictionaries
Date(s): January 8, 2023 (14:00-18:00)
Venue: Online

2022.12.22

Event

Linguistics Festival 2023
Date(s): January 28, 2023 (10:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.12.22

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 837 additional items.

2022.12.21

Event

The 45th NINJAL Tutorial "Analysing L2 Spoken Japanese: Using Beijing Longitudinal Corpus of Japanese as a Second Language (B-JAS)"
Date(s): March 14, 2023 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.12.21

Event

Endangered Languages and Dialects of Japan Summit in Okinoerabu (Amami)
Date(s): January 28, 2023 (13:10-17:30), January 29, 2023 (10:00-15:30)
Venue: Okierabu Bunka Hall, Online

2022.12.15

Event

International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): January 9, 2023 (8:00-13:00)
Venue: Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City

2022.12.15

Event

International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): January 3, 2023 (8:00-12:30)
Venue: The University of Da Nang

2022.12.15

Event

International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): January 2, 2023 (8:00-12:30)
Venue: The University of Da Nang

2022.12.15

Event

International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): December 29, 2022 (8:00-13:00)
Venue: Vietnam National University, Hanoi

2022.12.13

Event

The 17th NINJAL Forum "Japanese lexical resources: Their construction and applications"
Date(s): February 18, 2023 (9:10-16:05)
Venue: Online

2022.12.12

Event

2nd Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): December 17, 2022 (17:00-18:00) (JST)
Venue: Online

2022.12.08

Event

The 128th NINJAL Colloquium "Japanese Gendered First-person Pronouns: Norms, Identity, and Sexuality"
Speaker: NAKAMURA Momoko (Kanto Gakuin University)
Date(s): January 10, 2023 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.11.25

Event

The 13th Dialogue System Symposium (The 96th Meeting of JSAI SIG-SLUD)
Date(s): December 13, 2022 (9:50-18:45), December 14, 2022 (9:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.11.18

Event

The 127th NINJAL Colloquium "The Best Writing System of the World"
Speaker: Florian Coulmas (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Date(s): December 20, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.11.15

Event

1st Conference on Proto-japonic
Date(s): November 24, 2022 (22:00-23:00) (JST)
Venue: Online

2022.11.15

Database

Due to network maintenance, 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 17:00 on November 18, 2022 until 9:00 on November 21, 2022 (JST)

2022.11.04

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until November 18, 2022.

2022.11.04

Event

The 245th NINJAL Salon "The Ideologies Inherent in Literacy: Literature Reviews to Reconsider Japanese Language Learning Support"
Speaker: FUKUMURA Makiko (Ibaraki University)
Date(s): November 29, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.11.01

Event

Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation [Elementary level]

Date(s): November 5, 2022 (10:00-12:00)
Venue: Online

2022.10.27

Event

Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages
Date(s): December 4, 2022 (9:00-16:00)
Venue: Online

2022.10.17

Event

NINJAL Symposium "Pioneering the Study of Language Resources: Using Open Language Resources for Japanese Linguistics"
Date(s): December 10, 2022 (10:00-17:15)
Venue: Online

2022.10.14

Database

"The Audio Database of Hatoma Example Sentences" has been released.

2022.10.11

News

On November 14 and 15, the Research Library will inspect the library collection.

2022.10.11

Event

The 244th NINJAL Salon "Japanese Benefactive Passives Are Difficult to Comprehend than Benefactive Actives"
Speaker: OGAWA Masataka (The University of Tokyo)
Date(s): November 15, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.10.05

Event

NAMED 2022 (Neglected aspects of motion-event description 2022)
Date(s): November 3-4, 2022
Venue: Kyoto University, Online

2022.09.30

Event

The 243rd NINJAL Salon "Web-based Surveys on Language Problems in Multilingual and Multicultural Situations in Japan"
Speakers: FUKUNAGA Yuka (NINJAL), YARIMIZU Kanetaka (NINJAL), TAKAGI Chie (Osaka University), TAKAHASHI Tomoko(Kindai University), MITSUI Harumi (Kokugakuin University), YOSHIDA Sachi (Atomi University), ASAHI Yoshiyuki (NINJAL)
Date(s): October 11, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.09.26

Event

Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Japanese Dialects
Date(s): October 15, 2022 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.09.26

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,075 additional items.

2022.09.21

Event

Tokyo Egyptology International Symposium "200 Years after Champollion —Text and Context in Ancient Egypt—"
Date(s): October 15, 2022 (17:30-20:30)
Venue: Ikebukuro Sunshine City Bunka Kaikan, Online

2022.09.14

Event

"Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization" Project First Research Meeting of fiscal year 2022
Date(s): September 23, 2022 (13:30-16:45)
Venue: The University of Tokyo, Online

2022.09.08

Event

The 126th NINJAL Colloquium "The Reduction of Word-Prosody Systems in Slavic Languages and Dialects (with Some Furtive Comparison to Japanese)"
Speaker: Marc L. GREENBERG (University of Kansas)
Date(s): October 4, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.09.01

Event

The 124th NINJAL Colloquium "Charting the English Influence on European Languages: Anglified Danish as a Case Study"
Speaker: Henrik GOTTLIEB (University of Copenhagen)
Date(s): September 20, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.08.26

Event

Inter-University Research Institute Symposium 2022
Date(s): October 16, 2022 (9:50-16:40)
Venue: Nagoya City Science Museum, Online

2022.08.22

Event

The 125th NINJAL Colloquium "Introduction to Dutch Dialect Geography"
Speaker: Wilbert HEERINGA (Fryske Akademy)
Date(s): September 27, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.08.17

Event

The 7th Learner Corpus Workshop & Symposium
Date(s): September 17, 2022 (10:00-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.08.17

Event

The 123rd NINJAL Colloquium "Sign Language Methodology"
Speaker: Susan FISCHER (Rochester Institute of Technology / CUNY Graduate Center)
Date(s): September 13, 2022 (13:00-15:00)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.08.09

Event

Seminar on intonation labeling

Date(s): September 16, 2022 (11:00-15:30)
Venue: NINJAL

2022.08.01

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 23 was issued.

2022.07.29

Event

Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Historical Japanese [Excel Intermediate level]
Date(s): August 26, 2022 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.07.29

Event

Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Historical Japanese [Beginner's level]
Date(s): August 23, 2022 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2022.07.28

Event

NINJAL Open House 2022

Date(s): September 9, 2022
Venue: Web release

2022.07.26

Database

The List of Research Materials has been updated with 3 additional titles.

2022.07.20

Database

The following paper has been added to the "Pioneering Linguistic Works in Japan" site.
- "Shibata and Imada: Correlations Between Segments and Accent in Surnames" by SUGITŌ Miyoko (1998)

2022.07.19

Event

The 44th NINJAL Tutorial "Japanese Language Research by ‘Word List by Semantic Principles’"
Date(s): August 6, 2022 (10:00-15:00)
Venue: Online

2022.07.14

Event

The 242nd NINJAL Salon "From Motion to Emotion via Causality: A diachronic analysis of the expressions of “displacement” (te-)nokeru and (te-)shimau"
Speaker: ABE Sayaka (Middlebury College)
Date(s): July 26, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.07.14

Event

NIHONGO TANKEN 2022

Date(s): August 1, 2022
Venue: Web release

2022.07.12

Event

Project-meeting "Japan-related documents and artifacts in Hawaiʻi: historical and social survey interface"
Date(s): July 16, 2022 (13:00-15:00)
Venue: Online

2022.07.12

Event

The 4th Symposium of the Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
Date(s): September 3, 2022 (13:30-17:45)
Venue: Ryukoku University

2022.07.12

Event

International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): August 6, 2022 (9:30-16:30)
Venue: The Central Institute for Indian Languages

2022.07.12

Event

International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): August 4, 2022 (10:00-16:30)
Venue: Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute

2022.07.12

Event

International Workshop on Nominalization, Gender and Classifiers
Date(s): August 1, 2022 (9:30-16:30)
Venue: Indian Institute of Technology Madras

2022.07.11

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until August 5, 2022.

2022.07.08

News

"NINJAL Survey and Guide 2022/2023" was issued.

2022.07.07

Event

NINJAL/ROIS-DS Joint Seminar for Collaborative Research 2022
Date(s): September 12, 2022 (13:00-16:50)
Venue: Online

2022.07.05

Event

Picture Books of the Languages of Four Islands: See, Read, Listen, and Draw
Date(s): July 11 - August 10, 2022
Venue: Junkudo, Naha store

2022.06.30

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until August 5, 2022.

2022.06.28

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until August 8, 2022.

2022.06.20

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until June 29, 2022.

2022.06.17

Event

Research meeting of the semantics and grammar of predicates
Date(s): July 2, 2022 (13:30-14:45)
Venue: Online

2022.06.13

Database

Two more papers have been added to the “Pioneering Linguistic Works in Japan” site.
-AKINAGA Kazue "On Factors Contributing to Accent Shift" (1957)
-SAKAKURA Atsuyoshi "Historical Change in Conditional Expressions" (1975)

2022.06.10

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.

2022.06.07

Event

29th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG 2022)
Date(s): July 29-31, 2022
Venue: Online

2022.06.06

Event

Language Resources Workshop 2022

Date(s): August 30-31, 2022
Venue: Online

2022.06.06

Event

Workshop on Japanese Evaluation Dataset (JED2022): Breakout Session
Date(s): September 7, 2022 (9:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.06.06

Event

Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop
Date(s): September 5, 2022 (9:30-17:30), September 6, 2022 (9:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2022.06.01

Event

Tutorial: Preparing for open-access of the data collected through the Agency of Cultural Affiars' 1977-1985 research on the languages/dialects in Japan
Date(s): July 16, 2022 (13:00-16:00)
Venue: Online

2022.06.01

Event

New perspectives towards the reconstruction of Proto-Japanese-Ryukyuan: Research outlooks from the Ryukyuan languages
Date(s): June 19, 2022 (10:00-12:00)
Venue: Online

2022.06.01

Database

The List of Research Materials has been updated with 8 additional titles.

2022.05.30

Event

The 241st NINJAL Salon "Recent Academic Research Environment and Trends in Jxiv Preprints"
Speaker: YOKOYAMA Shoichi (NINJAL)
Date(s): June 21, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.26

Database

We have started distributing video data (mp4 format) of "Educational Video Material Series for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (produced from 1974 to 1995)". (application required)

2022.05.25

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,259 additional items.

2022.05.25

Event

The 122nd NINJAL Colloquium "Language and politics: Prime Ministers, Princess Aiko and Setouchi Jyakuchoo"
Speaker: AZUMA Shoji (The University of Utah)
Date(s): June 14, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.20

News

The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL) published the research data policy.

2022.05.18

Event

The 240th NINJAL Salon "Discovery of Another Ternary Tonal System in Yaeyaman: Fieldwork Report on the Lexical Prosodic System of the Kohama Dialect"
Speakers: CELIK Kenan Thibault (NINJAL), ASO Reiko (Meio University), NAKAZAWA Kohei (Shinshu University)
Date(s): June 7, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.18

Event

The 239th NINJAL Salon "Introduction of Ninjal Collaborative Research Projects Starting This Year"
Speakers: ASAHARA Masayuki, ASAHI Yoshiyuki, ISHIGURO Kei, ONISHI Takuichiro, OGISO Toshinobu, KOISO Hanae, TAKADA Tomokazu, YAMADA Masahiro
Date(s): May 31, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.11

Event

The 238th NINJAL Salon "Introduction to the Corpora of the Center for Language Resource Development"
Speakers: KOISO Hanae, YAMAZAKI Makoto, OGISO Toshinobu, NOYAMA Hiroshi, SUGA Wakako, KOHARA Yujiro
Date(s): May 24, 2022 (15:30-17:30)
Venue: Online

2022.05.09

Event

Joint Project-meeting of Annotation, Predicates, and Learner Dictionaries
Date(s): May 28, 2022 (10:30-12:00)
Venue: Online

2022.05.06

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until May12, 2022.

2022.05.02

Event

Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages
Date(s): May 28, 2022 (10:00-16:00)
Venue: Online

2022.04.28

News

NINJAL will be closed from April 29th to May 8th.
During this period, we will not be able to receive telephones, FAX or letters - for any queries please use the query form on our website (under the link 'Contact Us'), but keep in mind that we cannot guarantee quick responses. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your understanding.

2022.04.21

Event

The 237th NINJAL Salon "Relation between Construction and Simile: From Comparison of "atakamo" and "sanagara""
Speaker: KIKUCHI Rei (NINJAL)
Date(s): May 10, 2022 (15:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2022.04.15

Database

The Real-Time MRI Articulatory Databases, Version 1, has been released.

2022.04.11

Event

Research meetings of the semantics and grammar of predicates
Date(s): April 23, 2022 (10:30-12:00)
Venue: Online

2022.04.04

News

We have redesigned our website.