National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2024.03.29

Database

"Database of Basic Vocabulary in Education / Database of Basic Vocabulary in Japanese Language Education" has been released.

2024.03.22

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,370 additional items.

2024.03.21

Event

The 269th NINJAL Salon "Compilation of a Lexical Resource and a Folktale Corpus of Mamurogawa Town, Yamagata Prefecture: Towards a Comprehensive Linguistic Description of one Tohoku Dialect."
Speakers: Kenan CELIK (NINJAL), OSHIMA Hajime (NINJAL), MATSUKURA Kohei (Kanazawa University)
Date(s): April 16, 2024 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.03.14

Event

A Research Meeting on Encyclopedic Semantics
Date(s): March 25, 2024 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.03.11

Event

Project-Meeting "Digital Library for Humanities"
Date(s): March 26, 2024 (13:30-14:50)
Venue: Online

2024.03.04

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.

2024.03.04

Event

The 268th NINJAL Salon “National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Digital Archive NINDA: Building a Language Resource Platform in Accordance with International Standards for Digital Humanities and Open Science”
Speakers: So MIYAGAWA (NINJAL)
Date(s): March 26, 2024 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.02.29

Event

Joint Research Meetings of "The Semantics and Grammar of Predicates" and "Linguistic Expressions of Changes of States" I, II
Date(s): March 8, 2024 (13:10-14:50), March 9, 2024 (10:05-10:50)
Venue: Online

2024.02.21

Event

NINJAL IR Symposium "Evaluating the academic contribution of research results: breadth and depth, and methods and indicators"
Date(s): March 7, 2024 (13:30-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2024.02.21

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Center for Language Resource Development.
Open until 4 March, 2024.

2024.02.16

Event

Symposium on Japanese Diachronic Corpora 2024
Date(s): March 10, 2024 (13:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.02.15

Event

Project-Meeting of Learner Dictionaries
Date(s): February 27, 2024 (14:00-17:00)
Venue: Online

2024.02.14

Event

NINJAL Tutorial "Steps in and Tips for Conducting Research on Japan Studies and Japanese Language"
Date(s): February 22, 2024 (10:30-13:30) (Indian Standard Time)
Venue: Savitribai Phule Pune University (INDIA)

2024.02.14

Event

NINJAL Tutorial "Steps in and Tips for Conducting Research on Japan Studies and Japanese Language"
Date(s): February 23, 2024 (10:00-13:00) (Indian Standard Time)
Venue: Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth (INDIA)

2024.02.09

Event

Project-Meeting "Framework Establishment and Empirical Research for Comprehensive Archiving of Tourism Ephemera Materials in Japan"
Date(s): February 28, 2024 (15:00-17:00)
Venue: Tokyo Institute of Technology

2024.02.09

Event

Symposium "Conversation Corpus" IX
Date(s): March 18, 2024 (11:00-17:30)
Venue: Online

2024.02.08

Event

Symposium "Language, Cognition, and Interaction 12"
Date(s): February 28, 2024 (13:00-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL

2024.02.08

Event

The 100th Meeting of JSAI SIG-SLUD
Date(s): February 29, 2024 (10:00-18:35), March 1, 2024 (9:30-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL

2024.02.06

Event

The 142nd NINJAL Colloquium "Comparison of ‘Easy Languages’ in Germany and Japan: From the Viewpoint of Language Management Processes"
Speaker: KIMURA Goro Christoph (Sophia University)
Date(s): March 5, 2024 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.02.05

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at E3P-Linguistics Center.
Open until May 13, 2024.

2024.02.02

Event

The 30th Multicultural Exchange Forum
Date(s): February 15, 2024 (16:00-18:00)
Venue: Online

2024.02.01

Event

Project-meeting "Spatial Information Addition to Language Resource"
Date(s): February 22, 2024 (14:00-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.01.30

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 26 was issued.

2024.01.23

Event

NINJAL Transdisciplinary Projects Workshop 2023
Date(s): February 28, 2024 (13:00-16:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.01.22

Event

2023 NINJAL Tutorial "Research Methods for Written Japanese by Learners in Taiwan: Using Written Corpus of Learner Japanese (W-CoLeJa)"
Date(s): March 9, 2024 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: Soochow University

2024.01.19

Event

Project-Meeting "A Multifaceted Study of Language Problems in Multilingual and Multicultural Japan"
Date(s): March 17, 2024 (13:00-16:20)
Venue: Online

2024.01.16

Event

Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 141st NINJAL Colloquium "The Mechanism of Language Learning: The Role of Memory in Second Language Acquisition"
Speaker: KOYANAGI Kaoru (Center for Language Education and Research, Sophia University)
Date(s): February 20, 2024 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.01.12

Event

The 8th Learner Corpus Workshop & Symposium
Date(s): February 3, 2024 (10:00-12:00,13:00-17:00)
Venue: Online

2024.01.12

Event

Project-Meeting "A Multifaceted Study of Language Problems in Multilingual and Multicultural Japan"
Date(s): February 17, 2024 (13:00-16:20)
Venue: Online

2024.01.11

Event

Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages 2023
Date(s): March 17, 2024 (10:40-15:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.01.11

Event

The 140th NINJAL Colloquium “What Emerges from Combining the Results of Multiple Language Surveys?”
Speaker: SHIODA Takehiro（NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute）
Date(s): February 6, 2024 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.01.10

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until 13 February, 2024

2024.01.09

Event

Use of Computers for Oriental Studies: The 37th Research Seminar
Date(s): January 19, 2024 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2024.01.09

Event

The 265th NINJAL Salon "Does Syntactic Transformation Emerge from Communication?"
Speakers: KAJIKAWA Kohei (University of Tokyo), KUBOTA Yusuke (NINJAL), OSEKI Yohei (University of Tokyo / RIKEN)
Date(s): January 16, 2024 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2024.01.05

Event

Symposium "A Multifaceted Study of Language Problems in Multilingual and Multicultural Japan"
Date(s): February 10, 2024 (10:00-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL

2023.12.27

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until January 25, 2024.

2023.12.27

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Promotion of Collaborative Research.
Open until January 25, 2024.

2023.12.27

Event

The 266th NINJAL Salon "Flash Report from the Field: The Three-Pattern Prosodic System of Taketomi Yaeyaman"
Speaker: Kenan CELIK (NINJAL)
Date(s): January 23, 2024 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.12.26

Event

Symposium "Geography of Shinshu-Suwa and Citizen Science"
Date(s): January 20, 2024 (13:00-17:30)
Venue: Station square exchange terrace Swachao, Online

2023.12.22

Event

"The NIHU International Prize in Japanese Studies 2023", the Awards Ceremony and Commemorative Lecture

Speaker : SHIBATANI Masayoshi (Deedee McMurtry Chair Professor of Humanities and Professor of Linguistics Emeritus at Rice University)
Date(s): January 19, 2024 (15:00-16:40)
Venue: Online

2023.12.21

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,870 additional items.
Refurbished the search screen.

2023.12.15

Event

Picture Books of the Language of Taketomi Island: See, Read, Listen, and Draw
Date(s): December 26, 2023 - January 26, 2024
Venue: Yonagunikejuutaku

2023.12.11

Event

2023 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Domestic) "Language Education for Developing Good Thinkers: Question-Generation Preceding Reading / Listening and Cognitive Integration of Multiple Texts"
Date(s): February 29, 2024 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.11.21

Event

Project-Meeting "Japan-related Documents and Artifacts in Hawaiʻi: Historical and Social Survey Interface"
Date(s): December 2, 2023 (13:30-15:00)
Venue: Online

2023.11.17

Event

The 14th Dialogue System Symposium (The 99th Meeting of JSAI SIG-SLUD)
Date(s): December 13, 2023 (9:30-18:20), December 14, 2023 (9:30-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.11.17

Event

Linguistics Festival 2024
Date(s): January 20, 2024 (10:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2023.11.15

Event

NINJAL Tutorial "Introduction to Utilization of the Corpus of Everyday Japanese Conversation: How to Use “Chunagon”"
Date(s): December 2, 2023 (13:00-17:30)
Venue: Online

2023.11.07

Event

The 18th NINJAL Forum "75 Years of Gengo Seikatsu Studies at NINJAL: Capturing and Tracking Natural Language"
Date(s): December 16, 2023 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: Hitotsubashi Hall, Online

2023.11.02

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until November 30, 2023.

2023.10.25

Event

Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 139th NINJAL Colloquium "Empathy, Character and Grammar"
Speaker: KINSUI Satoshi (Director of Osaka Study Center, The Open University of Japan）
Date(s): November 28, 2023 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.10.24

Database

The List of Research Materials has been updated with 1 additional title.

2023.10.20

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Language Resource Development.
Open until November 20, 2023, 12 p.m. in Japan time.

2023.10.11

Event

Joint Meeting “Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization—from Theoretical, Fieldwork, Historical and Dialectal Perspective” Project and “Cross-Linguistic Studies on Grammatical Nominalizations: With a Focus on Classifiers and Gender Markers” Project
Date(s): October 28, 2023 (9:00-11:00)
Venue: Online

2023.10.11

Event

Joint Meeting “Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization—from Theoretical, Fieldwork, Historical and Dialectal Perspective” Project and “Cross-Linguistic Studies on Grammatical Nominalizations: With a Focus on Classifiers and Gender Markers” Project
Date(s): October 21, 2023 (9:00-11:00)
Venue: Online

2023.10.11

Event

Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpora [Beginner's Level]
Date(s): November 5, 2023 (10:00-11:30)
Venue: Online

2023.10.11

Event

The 258th NINJAL Salon "A Re-evaluation of the Number of Distinctive Tonal Contrasts in the Hatoma Dialect of Yaeyama"
Speakers : Kenan CELIK (NINJAL)
Date(s): November 7, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.10.06

News

On Nov. 13 and 14, the Research Library will inspect the library collection.

2023.10.03

Event

The 138th NINJAL Colloquium "Language Ideologies and Race in Japan: A Case Study of Yasashii Nihongo ‘Plain Japanese’"
Speaker: HIRAMOTO Mie (National University of Singapore)
Date(s): October 24, 2023 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: Online

2023.10.03

Event

NINJAL Symposium“Dos and Don'ts of Using Corpora”
Date(s): November 5, 2023 (13:30-18:00)
Venue: Online

2023.09.27

Event

The 257th NINJAL Salon "The Origin and Nature of the Kara Marking of the Standard of Comparison"
Speakers : MATSUMOTO Yo (NINJAL), UJIIE Keigo (NINJAL)
Date(s): October 17, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.09.19

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,489 additional items.

2023.09.08

Event

2023 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas)
Date(s): September 25, 2023
WIB (UTC+7) : 9:15-16:00
JST (UTC+9) : 11:15-18:00
Venue: Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Online

2023.09.07

Event

Inter-University Research Institutes Symposium 2023

Date(s): October 22, 2023 (10:30-16:40)
Venue: The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Online

2023.09.04

Event

The 137th NINJAL Colloquium "Lexical Typology and Cognitive Semantics: Extended Uses of Temperature Terms"
Speaker: Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (Stockholm University)
Date(s): October 3, 2023 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.09.04

Event

Symposium "A Multifaceted Study of Language Problems in Multilingual and Multicultural Japan"
Date(s): October 1, 2023 (18:30-21:15)
Venue: Online

2023.08.31

Event

Endangered Languages and Dialects of Japan Summit (Yonaguni)
Date(s): October 14, 2023 (13:10-17:45), October 15, 2023 (10:00-15:45)
Venue: Kubura elementary school

2023.08.29

Event

The 135th NINJAL Colloquium "Issues Related to the Reading of Japanese Personal Names Written in Kanji"
Speaker: SASAHARA Hiroyuki (Waseda University)
Date(s): September 12, 2023 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.08.24

Database

The List of Research Materials has been updated with 1 additional title.

2023.08.22

Event

A Special Lecture on Japanese Language Sciences / The 136th NINJAL Colloquium "Information Extraction from Documents: Application to Scientific Papers"
Speaker : Yuji Matsumoto (RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project)
Date(s): September 19, 2023 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.08.22

Event

Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Historical Japanese & Showa-Heisei Corpus of Written Japanese [Beginner's Level]
Date(s): September 12, 2023 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: Online

2023.08.22

Event

Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpus of Historical Japanese & Showa-Heisei Corpus of Written Japanese [Beginner's Level]
Date(s): September 6, 2023 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2023.08.08

Event

Project-Meeting on Research on Literacy of Immigrants in Japan"The Powerful and Rich Language Lives of Foreign Residents We Don't Know About: Focusing on Their Literacy Practices"
Date(s): August 26, 2023 (10:00-16:15)
Venue: Hokkaido University

2023.08.03

Event

The 134th NINJAL Colloquium "Remarks on Several Fundamental Issues in Second and Third Language Acquisition Research"
Speaker: Daniil M. Ozernyi (Northwestern University)
Date(s): September 5, 2023 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.07.25

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): August 26, 2023 (13:00-16:00)
Venue: Online

2023.07.24

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 25 was issued.

2023.07.21

Event

NIHONGO TANKEN 2023

Date(s): July 21, 2023
Venue: Web release

2023.07.20

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until 8 August, 2023.

2023.07.18

Event

The 255th NINJAL Salon "Ideographico-Lexical Fields in Japanese - Defining a Mew Notion"
Speaker: Grzegorz Waśniewski (Uniwersytet Warszawski / NINJAL)
Date(s): July 25, 2023 (16:20-17:20)
*Please note that the time of the event is different from the usual time.
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.07.14

Event

NINJAL/ROIS-DS Joint Seminar for Collaborative Research 2023
Date(s): September 8, 2023 (13:00-16:15)
Venue: Online

2023.07.13

Event

NINJAL Tutorial "Teaching and Learning Japanese Verbs and Particles: From a Contrastive Perspective with Some Indian Languages"
Date(s): August 8, 2023 (15:00～17:00) (Indian Standard Time)
Venue: Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth

2023.07.13

Event

NINJAL Tutorial "Teaching and Learning Japanese Verbs and Particles: From a Contrastive Perspective with Some Indian Languages"
Date(s): August 7, 2023 (7:30～9:30) (Indian Standard Time)
Venue: Online

2023.07.13

Event

Ad-hoc Talk, Endangered Language Project
Date(s): July 21, 2023 (13:30-15:00)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.07.07

News

"NINJAL Survey and Guide 2023/2024" was issued.

2023.07.07

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until 31 July, 2023.

2023.06.27

Event

The 254th NINJAL Salon "Junction of Grammaticalization in the Aspect Form of Japanese Dialects"
Speaker: KAMOI Shuhei (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science / NINJAL)
Date(s): July 25, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.06.26

Event

The 2nd Hands-on Seminar on Measurement Techniques for Speech Production
Date(s): August 31, 2023 (13:00-17:00), September 1, 2023 (9:30-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2023.06.23

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until 31 July, 2023.

2023.06.20

Event

Joint Meeting "Empirical Study of the Typology of Nominalization - From Theoretical, Fieldwork, Historical and Dialectal Perspective" Project and "Cross-Linguistic Studies on Grammatical Nominalizations: With a Focus on Classifiers and Gender Markers" Project
Date(s): July 15, 2023 (14:00-18:00)
Venue: The University of Tokyo, Online

2023.06.20

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,680 additional items.

2023.06.13

Event

The 253rd NINJAL Salon "Applying Semantic Transparency of Two-Kanji Compounds to Japanese Language Education: An Approach to Understanding and Inferring the Meanings of Two-Kanji Compounds"
Speaker: HONDA Yumiko (NINJAL)
Date(s): July 11, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.06.09

Event

The 252nd NINJAL Salon "Tokyo Vowel Devoicing 20 Years Later - A Panel Study Report"
Speaker: IMAI Terumi (NINJAL)
Date(s): July 4, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.06.08

Event

Language Resources Workshop 2023

Date(s): August 28-29, 2023
Venue: Online

2023.06.08

Event

The 251st NINJAL Salon "A Cognitive Study on the Acquisition Process of Conditional Expressions by Vietnamese-speaking Japanese Language Learners: An Analysis of Data from the CoLeJa Corpus"
Speaker: Le Thi Thu Ha (NINJAL)
Date(s): June 27, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.05.26

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities.
Open until 13 June, 2023.

2023.05.23

Event

The 250th NINJAL Salon "On the Nominalization in Ayacucho Quechua"
Speaker: MOROKUMA Yuko (NINJAL)
Date(s): June 20, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.05.19

Event

Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages 2023
Date(s): June 10, 2023 (10:00-15:50)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.05.12

Event

The 133rd NINJAL Colloquium "Iconicity: When Form Carries Meaning in Language"
Speaker: Spencer D. Kelly (Colgate University)
Date(s): June 6, 2023 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: Online

2023.05.11

Event

The 249th NINJAL Salon "Toward Classification and Reorganization of Conventional Implicature"
Speaker: IDO Misato (NINJAL)
Date(s): May 23, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.05.10

Event

Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2023
Date(s): September 14, 2023 (13:00-17:00), September 15, 2023 (9:30-12:30)
Venue: NINJAL

2023.04.17

Event

The 248th NINJAL Salon "Collection of Language Reception Information on the "NIKKEI Newspaper Article Open Corpus""
Speakers: ASAHARA Masayuki (NINJAL), KATO Sachi (Mejiro University), TAKAMATSU Junko (Nikkei Inc.)
Date(s): April 25, 2023 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2023.04.06

Database

“Database of a National Attitudinal Survey on Loanwords in Japanese” has been released.