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The Association of Japanese Literary Studies will bring to campus scholars from a range of disciplines in the group’s annual meeting in February.

Oberlin’s history of embodying leadership and empathy in times of political and social turmoil makes the title of the upcoming traveling exhibit, Courage and Compassion , especially fitting.

The second-year student will study Japanese in Hikone, Japan.

The East Asian studies major will live and teach in Taiwan.

Annelise Giseburt ’16 has been selected as the first-ever recipient of the Shansi Hiroshima Fellowship.

Henry Aberle ’16 has been awarded a Shansi Fellowship to teach English at J.F. Oberlin University in Japan.

First-year Dai Li receives a Davis Projects for Peace grant to empower China’s factory workers through a labor-focused Android app.

Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura ’15 will study regional food systems as drivers of local economies in Japan.

An exploratory grant from the Henry Luce Foundation has paved the way for intensive study trips to China and Japan, special seminars on campus, and curriculum development.

Students try their hand at karuta, a Japanese card game of speed, memorization, and concentration.