{"id":991202,"date":"2026-07-28T12:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T09:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lett.ubbcluj.ro\/sembazuru\/about-us\/members\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:29:54","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lett.ubbcluj.ro\/sembazuru\/en\/about-us\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Sembazuru Centre for Japanese Studies brings together teaching staff, researchers, master’s and doctoral students and volunteers with a passion for Japanese culture, literature and language.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Sembazuru Centre for Japanese Studies brings together teaching staff, researchers and volunteers with a passion for Japanese culture, literature and language, active in research and in promoting Romanian-Japanese cultural relations since 1997.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Prof. Dr. Habil. Rodica Fren\u021biu<\/a><\/h3>\n

Director<\/p>\n

Director of the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures and of the Sembazuru Centre for Japanese Studies since their foundation (2008). She has published critical editions of old Romanian texts and specialised in cultural semiotics and Japanese poetics, publishing a number of volumes and studies. She has translated important Japanese writers into Romanian, and is known for her Japanese calligraphy exhibitions, awarded the Gold Prize (2016) and the Platinum Prize (2017) at Connect the World. International Japanese Calligraphy Exhibition.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Assoc. Prof. Dr. Florina Ilis<\/a><\/h3>

Teaching Staff & Writer<\/p>

Writer and researcher. She has published studies and articles on Japanese literature and culture, with a particular interest in the evolution of Japanese aesthetic concepts (mono no aware, wabi, sabi, y\u016bgen, etc.). She published a volume of haiku in collaboration with Rodica Fren\u021biu<\/a> and the novel \u201eFive Coloured Clouds in the Eastern Sky\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Lecturer Dr. Oana B\u00eerlea<\/a><\/h3>

Teaching Staff<\/p>

A graduate of the Faculty of Letters, Japanese-English major, and a scholarship student at Kobe University, Japan (2013\u20132014). Her research project explores Japanese advertising discourse from the perspective of pragmatics and cultural semiotics.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Lecturer Dr. Ciliana Tudoric\u0103<\/a><\/h3>

Teaching Staff<\/p>

A graduate of the Faculty of Letters, Japanese-English major. In 2017 she received a study scholarship at Kobe University, Japan. Her research focuses on Japanese calligraphy, approached through the lens of cultural semiotics.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Asist. Dr. Ioana To\u0219u<\/a><\/h3>

Teaching staff<\/p>

A graduate of the Japanese and Korean Language and Literature major (2012\u20132016) and a scholarship student at Kobe University (2015\u20132016). Research topic: \u201ePerspectives on translating Japanese comics (manga) and animated films (anime) into Romanian\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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H.E. Ambassador Natsuo Amemiya<\/p>\n

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Prof. Emeritus Dr. Yoshihiko Ikegami<\/p>\n

University of Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Emeritus Fumito Shimizu<\/p>\n

Ehime University, Japan<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Assoc. Prof. Shino Takahashi<\/p>\n

Ehime University, Japan<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Hiroshi Hayashi<\/p>\n

Universitatea Kobe, Japonia<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Emeritus Ikuko Seguchi<\/p>\n

Universitatea Kobe, Japonia<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Ota Reiko<\/p>\n

Showa Women\u2019s University, Tokyo<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Senshu Nishida<\/p>\n

Showa Women\u2019s University, Tokyo (maestru caligraf)<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Dr. Toshiyuki Sadanobu<\/p>\n

Kyoto University, Japan<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Dr. Ken Sasaki<\/p>\n

Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Dr. Arita Setsuko<\/p>\n

Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Dr. Dezs\u0151 Benedek<\/p>\n

University of Georgia, U.S.A.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Emiko Higashi<\/p>\n

Tokyo, Japan (sumi-e master)<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prof. Dr. Michael Finkenthal<\/p>\n

The Johns Hopkins University, USA \/ Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n