Japan and Kore Section News

SOAS students win top prizes at Japanese Speech Contest

SOAS University of London students once again took the top prizes at this year’s Japanese Speech Contest for University Students, securing first prize in the Individual Presentation Category and second prize in the Speech Category.

20th March 2018

SOAS enhances place among London’s elite universities in 2018 Guardian Guide

SOAS University of London has risen 5 places to 25th in the latest Guardian University Guide and is also rated in the UK’s top 15 for students’ satisfaction with teaching.

16th May 2017

SOAS students win top prizes at Japanese Speech Contest

14th March 2017

SOAS scholar's exhibition on Japanese erotic art inspires top fashion designer

An exhibition co-curated by Professor Andrew Gerstle, Professor of Japanese Studies, SOAS University of London and Leverhulme Research Fellow Dr Akiko Yano, along with Timothy Clark of the British Museum has inspired a new line of clothing by Japanese designer Issey Miyake.

5th October 2016

SOAS shortlisted for ‘Research Project of the Year’ at the Times Higher Education Awards 2016

SOAS University of London has been shortlisted for ‘Research Project of the Year’ at the Times Higher Education Awards 2016 for a project on Shunga led by Andrew Gerstle, Professor of Japanese Studies.

1st September 2016

SOAS scholar delivers fourth edition of Teach Yourself Cantonese

SOAS University of London language scholar Professor Hugh Baker and his collaborator Ho Pui-Kei have published the latest edition of their Teach Yourself Cantonese.

7th April 2016

SOAS to celebrate Centenary as well as 20th anniversary of MA Japanese Applied Linguistics

5th April 2016

SOAS to celebrate impact of 100 years of Japanese Studies with alumni

Wartime language students, diplomats, business leaders and entrepreneurs from SOAS University of London’s alumni community will come together at the School to celebrate the impact of 100 years of learning Japanese at SOAS University of London.

15th January 2016

SOAS to host UNESCO event to discuss revision of language index

UNESCO in cooperation with SOAS World Languages Institute, supported by the London Middle East Institute in UK, is organising a two-day consultative expert meeting on the revision of UNESCO’s Language Vitality Index which will be used for the development of UNESCO’s World Atlas of Languages.

17th November 2015

SOAS Japan expert consults on major new series exploring alternative post-Second World War history

Dr Griseldis Kirsch, Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Culture in the Department of Japan and Korea, has acted as a consultant on the highly anticipated new series 'The Man in the High Castle' set to be aired on 20 November as an Amazon Original Series.

17th November 2015

Francesca Orsini awarded €2.5 million grant to study world literature

Professor Francesca Orsini, Chair of the Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS), has been awarded an ERC advanced grant of €2.5 million to study world literature from the perspective of multilingual societies.

28th October 2015

How SOAS languages helped build post-war UK-Japan entente

The story of the Dulwich Boys, a group of young men who studied Japanese at SOAS, University of London during the Second World War, has been featured on the BBC Radio 4's Today Programme (01:41:27) and in the BBC Magazine.

12th August 2015

British Academy elects four SOAS scholars for outstanding research

Four SOAS, University of London scholars have been elected Fellows of the British Academy for 2014/15.

17th July 2015

SOAS’ Endangered Languages Documentation Programme receives a further $11 million from Arcadia

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at SOAS, University of London, has been awarded a new grant of $11 million (just over £7.25m) by Arcadia Fund. The grant is a renewal of the original £20 million donation Arcadia gave to SOAS in 2002, which resulted in the inception of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP).

27th April 2015

SOAS alumnus wins Japanese speech contest at 25th Sir Peter Parker Awards

SOAS alumnus Min Jeong from South Korea was awarded First Prize at this year’s Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese.

13th February 2015