
<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Some of you know that the book Women in Japanese Studies, edited by Alicia Freedman, has been published through AAS, featuring essays by some of the trailblazing women in Japan studies:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcup.columbia.edu%2Fbook%2Fwomen-in-japanese-studies%2F9781952636387&data=05%7C02%7Ckinejapan%40mailman.yale.edu%7Cb5f09cdb0c7d45da8a7d08dbfcf5749a%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638381903374777621%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ihgblDjmptEBl%2BVTaag3jgleaYzVfoaZd%2FKStCsuKIo%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/women-in-japanese-studies/9781952636387" shash="J6AlymNU9y4b6dh0HMwiLqGu9H8aJIuc60mlJbT5QN/J2xYTr2rC4HsPciFVQbKDrRRjvL/u2S2FjYrbFOk862Ul4i1nqIuTn+A022Si3B00PZ6riAh+C6t6tLFvUPeQxsxKQs7P8GPRpGchELxGs6hv52BC3ONR/H3QyWSAAJY=" class="">https://cup.columbia.edu/book/women-in-japanese-studies/9781952636387</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I wanted to mention it here because Maureen Donovan, a librarian at OSU who was key to the development of Kinema Club and KineJapan, is featured in the anthology. You can also see her in a video celebrating the launch of the book:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcup.columbia.edu%2Fbook%2Fwomen-in-japanese-studies%2F9781952636387&data=05%7C02%7Ckinejapan%40mailman.yale.edu%7Cb5f09cdb0c7d45da8a7d08dbfcf5749a%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0%7C638381903374777621%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ihgblDjmptEBl%2BVTaag3jgleaYzVfoaZd%2FKStCsuKIo%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://cup.columbia.edu/book/women-in-japanese-studies/9781952636387" shash="J6AlymNU9y4b6dh0HMwiLqGu9H8aJIuc60mlJbT5QN/J2xYTr2rC4HsPciFVQbKDrRRjvL/u2S2FjYrbFOk862Ul4i1nqIuTn+A022Si3B00PZ6riAh+C6t6tLFvUPeQxsxKQs7P8GPRpGchELxGs6hv52BC3ONR/H3QyWSAAJY=" class="">https://cup.columbia.edu/book/women-in-japanese-studies/9781952636387</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It’s a moving account of the development of the discipline.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">

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