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As of 1 April 1996, the new address of the European Association for Japanese
Studies is: c/o Prof. W. Pascha, East Asian Economic Studies, Duisburg University,
47048 Duisburg, Germany. Tel: +49-203-3789114, Fax: +49-203-3789157.
Frits Vos, emeritus professor of Japanese and Korean Studies of Leiden
University, has been honoured with the Yongjae Award for his
contributions to the development of Korean Studies in Europe. The award is named after Dr.
Paik Nak-chun, also known as George Paik (1895-1985), who used Yongjae as his penname.
Dr. Paik was a prominent Korean educator and served, inter alia, as President
of Yonsei University. It is the Institute of Korean Studies, headed by Dr. Park Yong-Shin,
of this university that confers the award. Frits Vos is the second scholar to receive it. The
first recipient was Professor James Palais of Washington University.
The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies , Harvard University,
has recently started publishing a bi-lingual newsletter to provide a forum of communication
for the field of Japanese studies. The newsletter will seek to create links with research
institutes for the undertaking of shared research and intellectual exchange.
Dr Lesley Connors joined the Japan Research Center at SOAS in October as
the temporary Lecturer in Modern Japanese Politics, teaching on the MA Area Studies (Japan)
course. Dr Connors returned from Japan 4 years ago, where she spent 14 years researching
and writing. her current research interest is Nakasone Yasuhiro, and she is at present
translating his autobiography as well as writing a biography on him.
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