National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2025.12.22

Event

The 158th NINJAL Colloquium “Accent Realization in Prosodic Words of Narada Japanese”
Speaker: KONISHI Izumi (The University of Tokyo)
Date(s): January 20, 2026 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.12.19

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,463 additional items.

2025.12.19

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until January 13, 2026, 16 p.m.

2025.12.12

Event

The 20th NINJAL Forum"The Hidden World of Everyday Speech: Discovering Spoken Japanese Through Corpora"
Date(s): February 7, 2026 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2025.12.09

Event

Training Session for OpenCHJ
Date(s): December 19, 2025 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2025.12.08

Event

Kobe-Oxford-NINJAL Linguistics Colloquium "Frontiers of Japanese Linguistics 4"
Date(s): December 11, 2025 (10:40–17:00)
Venue: Kobe University

2025.12.05

Event

Linguistics Festival 2026
Date(s): February 14, 2026 (10:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2025.12.01

Event

The 159th NINJAL Colloquium "On Implicit Strategies in Route Instruction: Focusing on Co(n)-text in Written and Spoken Depictions"
Speaker: KATAOKA Kuniyoshi (Aichi University)
Date(s): February 17, 2026 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.11.25

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until December 22, 2025, 16 p.m.

2025.11.17

Event

International Symposium on Language Processing Across Cultures
Date(s): January 14, 2026 (10:40-17:20)
Venue: Fukutake Hall, Online

2025.11.05

Event

NINJAL and NIJL IR Symposium“How to Measure and Visualize the Developing Human Resources as Outputs/Outcomes of the Collaborative Research Projects’’
Date(s): December 10, 2025 (13:30-17:30)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.11.04

Event

Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 157th NINJAL Colloquium “On the Uses of the Imperative, Prohibitive and Optative Verb Forms in Old Japanese”
Speaker: Bjarke Frellesvig (Professor of Japanese Linguistics, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford)
Date(s): December 9, 2025 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.11.04

Event

The 287th NINJAL Salon "In Search of a Theory of Historical Semantics: A View from Japanese Focus Particles"
Speakers: IDO Misato (NINJAL), MIYACHI Asako (Nagoya University), KUBOTA Yusuke (NINJAL)
Date(s): November 25, 2025 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.11.04

News

On Nov. 10 and 11, the Research Library will inspect the library collection.

2025.10.21

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at the Research Department.
Until the position is filled.

2025.10.21

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at the Research Department.
Until the position is filled.

2025.10.15

Event

Project-meeting on Research on Literacy of Immigrants in Japan."Understanding the Diversity of Reading and Writing: Different Ways and Forms of Support"
Date(s): November 29, 2025 (10:30-16:30)
Venue: Aichi Prefectural Government Sannomaru Annex

2025.10.09

Event

Project-meeting "Collaborative Japanese Language History Education with Generative AI: Reframing GHQ's Role"
Date(s): November 2, 2025 (14:00-15:00)
Venue: Online

2025.10.07

Event

Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 156th NINJAL Colloquium “Second Language Acquisition Research in Japanese Learner Corpora”
Speaker: SAKODA Kumiko (Hiroshima University Morito Institute of Global Higher Education: Specially Designated Professor)
Date(s): November 11, 2025 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.10.01

Event

The 155th NINJAL Colloquium “Rethinking Digital Communication: The Concept of ‘Uchi Kotoba’”
Speaker: MIYAKE Kazuko (Professor emeritus at Toyo University)
Date(s): October 28, 2025 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.09.29

Event

2025 NINJAL Tutorial "How to Use Web Tools for Learning, Teaching, and Researching Japanese Vocabulary"
Date(s): November 8, 2025 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: Soochow University (Taiwan)

2025.09.19

Event

Endangered Languages and Dialects of Japan Summit (Yaeyama)
Date(s): October 25, 2025 (10:00-17:45), October 26, 2025 (10:00-16:30)
Venue: Ishigaki Civic Hall

2025.09.19

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,230 additional items.

2025.09.19

Event

Joint Research Meeting on the Construction of Vocabulary Resources for Learner Dictionaries
Date(s): October 4, 2025 (15:30-17:00)
Venue: Online

2025.09.19

Event

Training Session for Chunagon on the Corpora [Beginner's Level]
Date(s): October 4, 2025 (13:30-15:00)
Venue: Online

2025.09.09

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Financial Affairs Division.

2025.09.03

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until September 22, 2025, 16 p.m.

2025.08.25

Event

Inter-University Research Institutes Symposium 2025
Date(s): October 4, 2025 (10:30-17:00)
Venue: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Online

2025.08.19

Event

History of Hanzi Glyphs and Glyph Information Databases 3
Date(s): August 26, 2025 (13:00-17:10)
Venue: Keio University Mita Campus, Online

2025.08.08

Event

The 104th Meeting of JSAI SIG-SLUD
Date(s): September 8, 2025 (12:55-17:50), September 9, 2025 (9:00-16:20)
Venue: Hiroshima University Higashi-Hiroshima Campus

2025.08.05

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research.

2025.08.01

Database

The List of Research Materials has been updated with 5 additional titles.

2025.07.31

Event

NINJAL Seminar for Collaborative Research 2025
Date(s): September 4, 2025 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: Online

2025.07.28

Event

Special Lectures on Japanese Language Science / The 154th NINJAL Colloquium “Cognitive Neuroscience of Word Order Preferences”
Speaker: KOIZUMI Masatoshi (Tohoku University)
Date(s): September 9, 2025 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.07.28

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 29 was issued.

2025.07.25

Event

Hands-on Seminar on "Universal Dependencies"
Date(s): September 20, 2025 (10:00-12:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2025.07.25

Event

Universal Dependencies Research Meeting
Date(s): September 20, 2025 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: NINJAL

2025.07.22

Event

Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages 2025
Date(s): August 21, 2025 (15:00-17:00), August 22, 2025 (9:30-15:10)
Venue: RYULAB, Online

2025.07.17

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities. Open until August 29, 2025.

2025.07.15

Event

NINJAL Japanese Language Education Lectures in Cairo (Egypt)
Date(s): August 11, 2025 (13:00-15:00), August 12, 2025 (13:00-15:00)
Summer Time (UTC+3)
Venue: The Japan Foundation, Cairo

2025.07.01

Event

AJAPE-NINJAL Project Conference“My Spanish, My Root: Experience as a Second Generation”
Date(s): July 6, 2025 (14:00-16:00)
Venue: SiRiUS

2025.06.30

News

"NINJAL Survey and Guide 2025/2026" was issued.

2025.06.27

Event

The 153rd NINJAL Colloquium “On Grammar Research for Japanese Language Education: Are ‘shiyō’ and ‘shimashō’ Merely Stylistic Variants?”
Speaker: MAEDA Naoko (Gakushuin University)
Date(s): July 22, 2025 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.06.27

Database

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

2025.06.24

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 2,766 additional items.

2025.06.16

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 12, 2025 (14:00-17:00)
Venue: Keio University, Online

2025.06.11

Event

The 4th Hands-on Seminar on Measurement Techniques for Speech Production
Date(s): September 2, 2025 (13:00-17:25), September 3, 2025 (9:00-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2025.06.11

Event

The 152nd NINJAL Colloquium “Digital Language Data: The Leibniz Institute for the German Language, National German and European Infrastructures”
Speaker: Andreas Witt (Professor at Leibniz Institute for the German Language / University of Mannheim)
Date(s): July 1, 2025 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.06.04

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at Operations Support Office.

2025.05.28

Event

Language Resources Workshop 2025

Date(s): August 28-29, 2025
Venue: Online

2025.05.27

Event

NINJAL International Symposium “Language Revitalization Synergy Symposium (LRSS) 2025”
Date(s): June 13, 2025 - June 16, 2025
Venue: NINJAL

2025.05.23

Event

What is a clause, what is a sentence?
Date(s): September 15, 2025
Venue: NINJAL

2025.05.23

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Research Department.
Open until June 17, 2025, 16 p.m.

2025.05.22

Event

History of Hanzi Glyphs and Glyph Information Databases 2
Date(s): June 14, 2025 (13:00-16:00)
Venue: Online

2025.05.21

Event

The 285th NINJAL Salon "Master-Apprentice in Practice: Okinoerabu as a Case Study"
Speakers: YOKOYAMA Akiko (NINJAL), IWASAKI Noriko (Nanzan University), KOH Tomoko (Japan International Cooperation Center), KOYAMA Tamiyo (Ritsumeikan University / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Date(s): June 24, 2025 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.05.16

Event

Symposium: "In Pursuit of the Ideal Dictionary"
Date(s): June 22, 2025 (13:30-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL

2025.05.09

Event

The 284th NINJAL Salon “The Historical Development of Honorific Forms of Compound Verbs: The Case of 'Miru' (to see)”
Speaker: WU Ningchen (NINJAL)
Date(s): June 17, 2025 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.05.09

Event

Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2025
Date(s): September 15, 2025, September 16, 2025
Venue: NINJAL

2025.05.02

Event

The 283rd NINJAL Salon “Design and Implementation of temari, a Morphological Annotation Support Tool Suited for OpenCHJ”
Speaker: YUN Huisu (NINJAL)
Date(s): June 3, 2025 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2025.04.30

Event

Project-meeting “An Empirical Study on the Theoretical Formation Process of Japanese”
Date(s): May 18, 2025 (14:00-15:00)
Venue: Online

2025.04.25

Event

NINJAL Open House "NIHONGO TANKEN 2025"

Date(s): July 5, 2025 (11:30-16:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2025.04.17

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at Center for Promotion of Collaborative Research.

2025.04.15

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): May 10, 2025 (14:00-18:00)
Venue: Keio University, Online