Our Projects
Projects
The Sembazuru Centre for Japanese Studies runs academic, cultural and civic projects designed to promote the study of Japanese language and culture, to strengthen international partnerships and to bring Japan closer to the Cluj community.
Academic Projects
Research and international collaborations in the field of Japanese studies
Academic
Workshop internațional: Seasonal Imagery in Japanese Language, Culture and Literature
Workshop organised in collaboration with the Mutual Images Research Association, France.
Academic
The Japanese Dream: Discovering and Rediscovering the Other
Video conference within the World Wide Learning project, Ehime University, Japan.
Academic
A History of Translations into Romanian, 16th–20th Centuries (ITLR)
Vol. I Poetry, Vol. II Fiction – Beyond Europe, beyond Eurocentrism. Project coordinator: Prof. Muguraș Constantinescu, USV. Project funded by the Special Situations Fund (FSS).
Academic
My Japan ・ 私と日本. Scientific session of students and doctoral candidates, 2019
Oana Maria-Bîrlea, Ioana Ruxandra Toșu, Ioana-Ciliana Tudorică (eds.), preface by Rodica Frențiu and Florina Ilis. Cluj-Napoca: Argonaut, 2019.
Academic
The Tea Ceremony — ritual and existential principle
Project organised through the „Nipponica” Foundation in collaboration with the Urasenke Association, Japan.
Academic
Haruki Murakami in search of the „perfect sentence”
「完璧な文章」を求めるものとしての村上春樹 — Haruki Murakami in dialogue with Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima. Fellow’s Seminar, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo.
Academic
Idiomatic expressions as vehicles of cultural meaning
日本語・ルーマニア語における慣用語句の持つ文化的な意味の比較・対照研究 — A comparative/contrastive study of Japanese and Romanian. The Hakuho Foundation International Japanese Research Fellowship.
Academic
Research project on typological fields
類型論を視野に入れたナル表現研究会 — Research on expressions of „becoming” from a typological perspective, University of Tokyo.
Academic
20 years of Japanese studies at Babeș-Bolyai University
日本語できます — International symposium and published volume (Argonaut, 2019) containing the papers presented at the conference.
Academic
An invitation to dialogue — Japanese business people
Japanese business people among the students of the Japanese Language and Literature major. Guest: Mr Daisuke Kudo (Triple House SRL).
Academic
In search of Japan — students’ scientific session
An annual session dedicated to student research in Japanese studies, with presentations by undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students.
Academic
A decade of activity — Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai
Coordination of an anniversary issue of the Studia UBB journal dedicated to the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and to the Sembazuru Centre.Cultural Projects
Cultural events and initiatives promoting Japanese culture
Cultural
An evening of Japanese literature at Humanitas Bookshop
Themed evenings of reading and discussion on contemporary Japanese literature, including „9 cats — 9 Japanese novels”.
Cultural
Diplomacy and culture — 100 years of Romanian-Japanese diplomatic relations
A series of events marking the centenary of diplomatic relations between Romania and Japan, organised in partnership with the Embassy of Japan.
Cultural
Japanese Culture Day 文化の日
An annual celebration of Japanese culture: piano recitals (pianist Chiyo Hagiwara), calligraphy and origami workshops, haiku sessions.
Cultural
Rereading Japanese literature
A cultural project carried out in collaboration with TVR Cluj.
Cultural
Japanese students on an exchange visit
A visit by a delegation from Ehime University (Japan): Assoc. Prof. Shino Takahashi and students Nanae Kawakami and Takumi Matsumoto.
Cultural
When cultures meet — a mărțișor-origami workshop
Third-year Japanese students met pupils from Kyoto Municipal Hiyoshigaoka Senior High School and George Coșbuc National College.
Cultural
Introducing Romanian Culture to Musashino City, Japan
A project presenting Romanian culture through video clips made by students for the city of Musashino, host of Romania’s Olympic team at the 2020 Games.
Cultural
Book launch: Julien Bratu, „Management through harmony — learning from nature”
Launch of the volume published by Braco Forum, Bucharest, 2018.
Cultural
A stay in Japan as an intern at Outward Bound Japan
Launch of the internship partnership project with the Outward Bound Japan Association.
Cultural
„I, the reader” book club
Regular reading meetings on Japanese themes: recent translations, anniversary portraits of writers, book launches.
Cultural
Japanese set to music
A cultural workshop with pianist Chiyo Hagiwara (Tokyo) and students of the Japanese Language and Literature major.
Cultural
Haiku literary circle
An annual student haiku session coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Florina Ilis.Civic Projects
Community initiatives and partnerships bringing cultures closer together
Civic
100 Japanese cherry trees for the city of Cluj-Napoca
A donation from the city of Matsuyama (Japan) in the Centenary Year of the Great Union. Institutional partners: the Embassy of Japan, UBB, Cluj-Napoca City Hall, USAMV, the Cluj Horticultural Station, the „Sakura” Association (Japan), Ehime University, the Romanian Embassy in Japan. Sponsors: Carbochim, Rottaprint.Arrival • Receiving the donation – 26 October 2018 The region in focus – 10 April 2019 (min.: 18:48 – 34:50) Planting the cherry trees – 19 November 2020
Civic
The Sembazuru Centre for Japanese Studies at the Cluj Days
Annual participation in the Cluj Days with a stand promoting Japanese culture: origami and calligraphy workshops, cultural presentations.
Civic
Japanese for everyone — Junior Summer University
An introductory course in Japanese language and culture 日本語・日本文化入門, organised in collaboration with OSUBB.
Civic
Let’s learn Japanese together!
An intergenerational project carried out in collaboration with the „Șt. O. Iosif” day centre for the elderly, Cluj-Napoca.
Civic
The writer in the citadel
A cultural project carried out in collaboration with the Writers’ Union of Romania — Cluj Branch.
Civic
Origami for the children at Căsuța Bucuriei
Volunteering activities by Japanese students: origami workshops, Japanese stories, Children’s Day and Christmas activities.
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