National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

2026.10.26

Event

The 166th NINJAL Colloquium "Japanese Language Education for Work amid Japan’s Policy Shift: The 'Realities' of Vietnamese Technical Intern Trainees"
Speaker: MICHIGAMI Fumie (Ritsumeikan University)
Date(s): December 1, 2026 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.10.26

Event

The 309th NINJAL Salon "A Quantitative Analysis of Japanese Words Derived with Sino-Japanese Affixes: Focusing on Database Construction and Affixhood"
QIN Zhouhan (SOKENDAI)
Date(s): November 24, 2026 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.10.22

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at the Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research.
Open until 17 November 2026 at 16:00 p.m. (JST)

2026.10.21

Event

2026 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas)
Date(s): November 28, 2026
(11:00-16:00 CST, 19:00-24:00 JST)
Venue: Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln (Germany), Online

2026.10.19

Event

Celebrating 20 Years of ChamaMe: WebChamaMe Meetup
Date(s): November 7, 2026 (13:30-16:00)
Venue: Online

2026.10.15

Event

ILAS–NINJAL Joint Conference on Semantics
Date(s): November 10, 2026 (9:00-17:20)
Venue: Academia Sinica (Taiwan)

2026.10.09

Event

The International Symposium on Reading Texts in Classical Languages through the Vernacular
Date(s): November 1, 2026 (9:30-18:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2026.10.09

Event

The 308th NINJAL Salon "The Development of Semantic Concepts and Syntactic Competence in Language Learning: The Roles of Age, Input, and Language Experience"
ZHAO Zhao (NINJAL)
Date(s): November 17, 2026 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.10.08

Event

AJAPE-NINJAL Project Short Film Screening and Talk"UBICUA—Ubiquitous and the Second Generation: Language, Objects, and Identity"
Date(s): October 24, 2026 (10:00-12:00)
Venue: SiRiUS

2026.10.01

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at the Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research.
Open until 23 October 2026 at 16:00 p.m. (JST)

2026.09.28

Event

Joint Lecture by Otemachi Academia and NIHU

Speakers : YAMADA Masahiro (NINJAL) and TANIGUCHI Joy (Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology)
Date(s): November 25, 2026 (18:00-19:45)
Venue: Online

2026.09.25

Event

Endangered Languages and Dialects of Japan Summit in Kikai (Amami)
Date(s): October 31, 2026 (10:00-17:40), November 1, 2026 (10:00-15:30)
Venue: Kikai Town Shizen Kyuyo Mura

2026.09.17

Event

Inter-University Research Institutes Symposium 2026
Date(s): October 17, 2026 (13:00-17:30)
Venue: Institute of Science Tokyo, Online

2026.09.15

Event

The 307th NINJAL Salon "On one more source of Old Japanese o₁"
YUN Huisu (NINJAL)
Date(s): November 10, 2026 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.09.08

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,717 additional items.

2026.09.07

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at the Research Department.
Open until 2 November 2026 at 12:00 p.m. (JST)

2026.09.07

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at the Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research.
Open until 2 November 2026 at 12:00 p.m. (JST)

2026.08.31

Event

The 306th NINJAL Salon "Deep Learning for Automatic Extraction of Articulatory Organ Contours and Inverse Estimation from Speech"
Speaker: SUN Jing (NINJAL)
Date(s): October 6, 2026 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.08.27

Database

The List of Research Materials has been updated with 2 additional titles.

2026.08.26

Event

NINJAL Mathematical Sciences Seminar #3 "Invariance and Equivariance in Language"
Date(s): September 10, 2026 (10:15-14:30)
Venue: NINJAL

2026.08.24

Event

Conservation of Endangered Languages and Prosody of Japonic Languages 2026
Date(s): September 3, 2026 (9:30-13:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.08.24

Event

Project-meeting on Research on Literacy of Immigrants in Japan."Exploring Japanese Reading and Writing Practices with Immigrants in Japan: Learning from Their Experiences"
Date(s): September 27, 2026 (10:30-16:30)
Venue: Waseda Univercity

2026.08.04

Event

A Special Lecture on Japanese Language Sciences / The 165th NINJAL Colloquium "What is the Difference Between a Mother Tongue and a Heritage Language? — Considering Language Education for Children with Foreign Roots"
Speaker: TAKAHASHI Tomoko (Kindai University)
Date(s): September 8, 2026 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.08.03

Database

"The Japanese Basic Verb Bank" has been released.

2026.07.27

Event

International Symposium "Documenting and Revitalizing Endangered Languages: Perspectives from Psycholinguistics and Digital Humanities"
Date(s): September 1, 2026 (9:30-17:15), September 2, 2026 (9:00-19:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2026.07.24

Publication

"NINJAL Research Papers" No. 31 was issued.

2026.07.24

Event

The 305th NINJAL Salon "The Possibility that ‘Sō nan da ne’ Became Established Earlier in Written than in Spoken Japanese"
Speaker: ISHIKAWA So (NINJAL)
Date(s): September 15, 2026 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.07.21

Event

Project-Meeting "Exploring the Acoustic Features of Parent-to-Infant Speech That Shape Infants' Language Development and Individuality"
Date(s): July 27, 2026 (13:00-17:30)
Venue: HASEKO-KUMA HALL (The University of Tokyo), Online

2026.07.21

News

"NINJAL Survey and Guide 2026/2027" was issued.

2026.07.17

Event

2026 NINJAL Tutorial "Lecture on Youth Language and Hands-on Analysis of Spoken Japanese Using Chunagon"
Date(s): July 25, 2026 (10:00-15:00)
Venue: Online

2026.07.16

Jobs

Academic Employment Opportunities at the Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research.
Open until 4 August 2026 at 16:00 p.m. (JST)

2026.07.14

Jobs

Employment Opportunities at the Center for the Promotion of Collaborative Research.
Open until 30 September 2026 at 16:00 p.m. (JST)

2026.07.07

Event

The 304th NINJAL Salon "The Transnational Social World of South Asian Migrant Entrepreneurs in Japan"
Speaker: FUKUDA Tomoko (Associate professor, Chiba University)
Date(s): July 28, 2026 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.07.07

Event

NINJAL Seminar for Collaborative Research 2026
Date(s): August 27, 2026 (13:30-16:50)
Venue: Online

2026.07.06

Database

"Japanese Grammar Pattern Bank" has been released.

2026.06.29

Event

AJAPE-NINJAL Project Film Screening and Talk: "In Between: In Search of Native Language Spaces"
Date(s): August 8, 2026 (14:00-16:00)
Venue: Kanagawa Plaza for Global Citizenship

2026.06.26

Event

2026 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Overseas) 'How Should Learners’ Compositions Be Evaluated ? - With a Focus on French Speakers'
Date(s): September 12, 2026 (9:30-12:40 CEST, 16:30-18:30 JST)
Venue: Université Paris Cité, Online

2026.06.23

Event

Evidence-based Linguistics Workshop 2026
Date(s): September 14, 2026 (9:30-17:15)
Venue: NINJAL

2026.06.18

Database

The Bibliographic Database of Japanese Language Research has been updated with 1,778 additional items.

2026.06.17

Event

2026 NINJAL International Symposium A Hot Summer of Learner Corpora: The World of Japanese Learners’ Writing as Seen through Language, Culture, and Development
Date(s): July 31, 2026 - August 2, 2026
Venue: NINJAL

2026.06.12

Event

AJAPE-NINJAL Project Film Screening and Talk: "Bunka: Exploring Food, Family, and Cultural Heritage across Generations"
Date(s): July 8, 2026 (18:00-20:00)
Venue: Yamato City Shibuya Learning Center

2026.06.10

Event

The 5th Hands-on Seminar on Measurement Techniques for Speech Production
Date(s): August 10, 2026 (10:00-21:00), August 11, 2026 (9:00-16:30)
Venue: KEIHANNA PLAZA

2026.06.05

Event

2026 NINJAL Seminar for Teachers of the Japanese Language (Domestic) "Cooperative Writing Education Using TEachOtherS: A Support System for Cooperative Writing Activities"
Date(s): July 26, 2026 (13:30-16:30)
Venue: NINJAL

2026.06.03

Event

A Special Lecture on Japanese Language Sciences / The 164th NINJAL Colloquium "What Does Understanding Words Consist In?: From the Perspective of the Later Wittgenstein"
Speaker: FURUTA Tetsuya (The University of Tokyo)
Date(s): July 21, 2026 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.06.03

Event

The 302nd NINJAL Salon "Various Aspects of Awareness of Multilingualism: A Case Study of Hiroshi Shoji"
Speaker: YASUDA Toshiaki (Graduate School of Language and Society, Hitotsubashi University)
Date(s): July 7, 2026 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.06.01

Event

The 303rd NINJAL Salon "An Information-Theoretic Approach to Human Sentence Processing"
Speaker: KAJIKAWA Kohei (Georgetown University)
Date(s): July 14, 2026 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.06.01

Event

Language Resources Workshop 2026

Date(s): August 20-21, 2026
Venue: Online

2026.05.28

Event

NINJAL Semantics Seminar 3
Date(s): June 12, 2026 (14:00-17:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2026.05.25

Event

The 301st NINJAL Salon "Databasing 'Butsuruishoko' "
Speaker: ONISHI Takuichiro (NINJAL)
Date(s): June 30, 2026 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.05.25

Event

Symposium "Kickoff Symposium for the Niijima Village–NINJAL Partnership Agreement: Nokosu-biija Shima-kotoba: Let’s Preserve the Island Languages"
Date(s): June 23, 2026 (10:00-12:00)
Venue: Niijima Residents' Center

2026.05.15

Event

The 300th NINJAL Salon "Sampling Design and Methodological Considerations for a Nationwide Survey of Foreign Residents"
Speaker: MAEDA Tadahiko (The Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research (ROIS-DS))
Date(s): June 16, 2026 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.04.27

Event

The 299th NINJAL Salon "A Basic Study on Transformed Sounds Essential for Learners of Japanese"
Speaker: LIU Zhiwei (Saitama University / NINJAL)
Date(s): June 9, 2026 (15:10-16:40)
Venue: NINJAL

2026.04.24

Event

NINJAL Open House "NIHONGO TANKEN 2026"

Date(s): July 4, 2026 (11:00-16:00)
Venue: NINJAL

2026.04.23

Event

The 297th NINJAL Salon "Distributed Publication, Structural Aggregation, and Corpusification of Linguistic Fieldwork Data on Japonic Languages: The Development of Nichiryū Genpō"
Speaker: Kenan CELIK (NINJAL)
Date(s): May 26, 2026 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.04.23

Event

The 163rd NINJAL Colloquium "A Psychological Perspective on Vocabulary Skills: Research Findings on Their Relationship to Reading Comprehension"
Speaker: INOHARA Keisuke (Kitasato University)
Date(s): May 19, 2026 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.04.16

Event

The 162nd NINJAL Colloquium "Culture and Logic: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, the United States, France, and Iran"
Speaker: WATANABE Masako Ema (Nagoya University)
Date(s): May 12, 2026 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.04.14

Event

BCCWJ2 Symposium: Public Release of Interim Results and Future Directions
Date(s): May 30, 2026 (13:00-17:00)
Venue: CO･MO･RE YOTSUYA TOWER CONFERENCE, Online

2026.04.03

Event

LLU 2026: Language Learning and Understanding for AI Scientists and Linguists
Date(s): November 11, 2026, November 12, 2026
Venue: Academia Sinica, Taipei

2026.04.01

Event

The 161st NINJAL Colloquium "The German-Italian Experience of Language Mapping on Paper and on the Web: Possibilities and Challenges"
Speaker: Stefan Rabanus (Full Professor, University of Verona)
Date(s): April 28, 2026 (15:10-17:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online

2026.04.01

Event

The 296th NINJAL Salon "Reproducing Children's Overregularization Using Language Models"
Speaker: HAGA Akari (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)
Date(s): April 21, 2026 (15:10-16:10)
Venue: NINJAL, Online