23 April 2024
We are extremely proud of our alumna Tessa Rizzoli. Tessa, who graduated in 2020 from Japanese Studies at AMES, has recently published in Japanese a very interesting book on the Japanese language:『イタリア女子が沼ったジワる日本語』（亜紀書房、2024）
26 March 2024
'The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History' is out now
02 February 2024
The essay, titled 'Subjection and Citizenship: 1930s Nikkei Citizenry and Japanese-Language Education in Hawaii', features in the new publication from the Hoover Institution: 'Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War: An Untold History of the 1930s'
19 January 2024
The piece, co-authored with Steven Irvings, is titled: In the Black Ships’ Wake: Early American Enterprise at Treaty Port Hakodate
08 January 2024
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland has announced that Dr. Thomas P. Barrett, who is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate within the faculty, has been awarded the Society's 2023 Bayly Prize for his doctoral dissertation 'Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat', for which he received his doctorate for from the University of Oxford in 2022.
22 November 2023
The UK-Japanese Defence and Intelligence Relationship event recording is now available to watch online
03 October 2023
The Korean Studies section at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is excited to welcome the first awardee of the Yang Won Sun Foundation Postgraduate Studentship.
21 April 2023
The Japanese Studies Group at the University of Cambridge is thrilled to announce a generous donation from Mitsubishi Corporation London Branch to support our Summer School in Early Modern Japanese Palaeography.
07 March 2023
Congratulations to our students for their excellent performance at The Eighteenth Japanese Speech Contest for University Students, held on Saturday 4 March 2023
24 January 2023
Decades old question about Meiji era message in a bottle answered by Japanese Studies research group.
28 May 2019
Dr Paul Noorlander and Dorota Molin of the Hebrew and Semitic Sudies section share their experience of a recent field trip in Northern Iraq (KRG region), and give a general introduction to Neo-Aramaic, its long and rich history, and explain the causes for of its severe endangerment.
04 February 2019
Brigitte Steger is member of an interdisciplinary consortium at the University of Cambridge awarded a large UKRI grant to tackle plastic waste.