J-Current Vol. 31, celebrating the academic accomplishments and events that took place during the 2023-2024 academic school year, is now available! Thank you for all of your hard work this past academic year, and we hope you enjoy our newest release of the J-Current. Please reach out to cjs@hawaii.edu to notify us of any omissions or requests for corrections.
Matthew and Kaitlyn, our 2024 Ehime Prefectural International Center (EPIC) interns, have been busy in Ehime since they arrived in May 2024, and have visited a number of sites in the course of their work and participation in the internship. You can keep up with all of their work on the EPIC Summer Internship Facebook page.
Dr. Bob Huey, even in retirement, has been diligently working to help complete a major collaborative project that began in 2020. Alongside faculty and graduate students in the East Asian Languages and Literatures (EALL) department at UH Mānoa, Dr. Huey collaborated with scholars in Japan and the Honolulu Museum of Art. This multi-year endeavor has culminated in the March 2024 publication of a unique bilingual print-and-online book, “The Heian Cultural Revival in Edo: Reading the Jūban Mushi-awase Scrolls in the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Lane Collection.” The book, with Dr. Huey and Dr. Teiko Morita (Kyoto Sangyo University) credited as co-editors, brings scholarly attention to an 18th-century treasure, Jūban Mushi-awase, from the museum’s Lane Collection.