ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

• A History of Romanian Translations, 16^th-20^th Centuries [Vol. I, Chap. V. Fictional prose - Beyond Europe, Beyond Eurocentrism] (project coordinator: Prof. Muguraș Constantinescu, USV);

• Oana Maria-Bîrlea, Ioana Ruxandra Toşu, Ioana-Ciliana Tudorică (coord.), My Japan ・私と日本. Scientific session for students and PhD students 2019, Preface by Rodica Frențiu and Florina Ilis, Cluj-Napoca: Argonaut Publishing House, 2019;

• Tea ceremony - ritual and existential principle, ‘Nipponica’ Foundation (in collaboration with Urasenke Association, Japan) [1999-2009];

• 完璧な文章」を求めるものとしての村上春樹。川端康成及び三島由紀夫と <対話する> 村上春樹 (Haruki Murakami in search of the ‘perfect phrase’. Haruki Murakami in dialogue with Yasunari Kawabata and Yukio Mishima) [Fellow's Seminar 2006-2007, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan];

• 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 (Idioms as vehicles of the cultural meaning: a comparative/ contrastive study between Japanese and Romanian) [The Hakuho Foundation International Japanese Research Fellowship (2014-2015, Tokyo, Japan];

• 類型論を視野に入れたナル表現研究会 (Research project on typological fields in which expressions that include the verb to become would fall under) [2017-2021, Tokyo University, Japan];

• 20 years of Japanese studies at Babeș-Bolyai University - organizing an International Symposium: 日本語できます. 20 years of Japanese studies at Babeș-Bolyai University [26.10.- 25.11.2018];

• Invitation to dialogue - Japanese businesspeople among students of the Japanese language and literature major; Guest: Mr. Daisuke Kudo [Triple House SRL] (14.05.2019);

• In search of Japan - Scientific session for students, masters and doctoral students [annual];

• A decade of activity for the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures & the Sembazuru Centre for Japanese Studies - the coordination of an anniversary issue of the magazine Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai [no. 1/ 2020].

• April-December 2021: DIPLOMACY AND CULTURE - 100 years of Romanian-Japanese diplomatic relations

• 2^nd November 2019: JAPANESE CULTURE DAY - Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania

• 7^th November 2017: Reciting Japanese literature (in collaboration with TVR Cluj);

• 1^st -13^th March 2019: Japanese students in exchange of experience - Visit of a delegation composed of Conf. Shino Takahashi together with students Nanae Kawakami and Takumi Matsumoto from Ehime University, Japan);

• 22nd March 2019: Book launch: Julien Bratu, Management through harmony - learning from nature (Braco Forum Bucharest, 2018);

• 25 March 2019: When Cultures Meet - Third year students majoring in Japanese Language and Literature, met with students from Kyoto Municipal Hiyoshigaoka Senior High School and George Coșbuc National High School in a mărţişor-origami workshop;

• March 2019: Introducing Romanian Culture to Musashino City, Japan – A project presenting the Romanian culture through video-clips, made by students of the Japanese language and literature major, for the city of Musashino, host of the Romanian Olympic team at the 2020 Olympic Games;

• April 2019: staying in Japan as an intern at Outward Bound Japan - Start of the internship partnership project with Outward Bound Japan.

• 100 Japanese cherry trees for the municipality of Cluj-Napoca, on behalf of the city of Matsuyama, in the Centenary Year of the Great Union [February 2018-November 2020]; Institutional partners: Embassy of Japan in Romania, UBB, Cluj-Napoca City Hall, USAMV, Cluj Horticultural Station, ‘Sakura’ Association (Japan), Ehime University (Japan), Embassy of Romania in Japan.
  Sponsori : Carbochim, Rottaprint.
  Arrival • Receipt of donation - 26^th October 2018
  Region in focus - 10^th April 2019 (min.: 18:48 - 34:50)
  Planting of the cherry trees - 19^th November 2020

• Let's learn Japanese together! - în colaborare cu Centrul de zi pentru vârstnici "Şt. O. Iosif", Cluj-Napoca
• Scriitorul în cetate - in collaboration with the Day Centre for the Elderly ‘Șt. O. Iosif’, Cluj-Napoca