What's New

April 22th, 2023: The society's prize (in Japanese) is added.
April 3rd, 2021: Contents of "People and Culture in Oceania" has been updated.
March 22th, 2024: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 138 (in Japanese) were added.
January 4th, 2024: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated.
January 4th, 2024: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 137 (in Japanese) were added.
November 28th, 2023: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated.
November 28th, 2023: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 136 (in Japanese) were added.
May 8th, 2023: The 22th honoree information of the society's prize (in Japanese) was added.
April 27h, 2023: The board members were updated.
April 10th, 2023: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 135 (in Japanese) were added.
March 19th, 2023: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 134 (in Japanese) were added.
January 10th, 2023: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated. Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. The society's prize (in Japanese) is added.
August 10th, 2022: The 21th honoree information of the society's prize (in Japanese) was added.
August 10th, 2022: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 132 (in Japanese) were added.
April 25th, 2022: The report of the JSOS donation call for people suffering from the volcanic eruption and tsunami in Tonga (in Japanese) is posted.
March 1st, 2022: JSOS donation call for people suffering from the volcanic eruption and tsunami in Tonga (in Japanese) closed.
Jan 22nd, 2022: JSOS donation call for people suffering from the volcanic eruption and tsunami in Tonga (in Japanese) opened.
Jan 18th, 2022 : Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 130, 131 (in Japanese) were added.
June 24th, 2021: Job application information (Kanda University of International Studies and Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) has been updated.
May 28th, 2021: Contents of "People and Culture in Oceania" has been updated.
* Manuscripts for PCO can be submitted throughout the year. Those that reach the Editor by June 15, 2021 will be considered for Volume 37. Please contact the editors (pco[at]jsos.net), if your submission is planned after June 15, 2021.
April 1st, 2021: The board members were updated. : The official rule of the society (in Japanese) has been changed (Relocation of the secretariat).
March 22th, 2021: The 20th honoree information of the society's prize (in Japanese) and Ishikawa Eikichi Prize for Dr. Matori Yamamoto (in Japanese) were added.
March 8th, 2021: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 129 (in Japanese) were added.
December 20th, 2020: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated.
December 20th, 2020: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 128 (in Japanese) were added.
December 3rd, 2020: Information regarding government's refusal to appoint the nominated scholars as new members of the Science Council of Japan (in Japanese).
November 2nd, 2020: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated.
November 1st, 2020: JSOS board stated regarding government's refusal to appoint the nominated scholars as new members of the Science Council of Japan (in Japanese).
August 3rd, 2020: The 19th honoree information of the society's prize (in Japanese) and Ishikawa Eikichi Prize for Dr. Michiko Intoh (in Japanese) were added.
July 22th, 2020: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 127 (in Japanese) were added.
July 10th, 2020: Job application information (Kyoto University) has been updated.
June 28th, 2020: Grant program application outline from Resona Foundation for Asia and Oceania has opened to the public.
March 10th, 2020: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 126 (in Japanese) were added.
March 5th, 2020: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 125 (in Japanese) were added.
December 16th, 2019: 37th Annual Meeting page (in Japanese) is updated.
November 27th, 2019: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated.
October 8th, 2019: Notification about 40th anniversary meeting from The Australia and New Zealand Literary Society of Japan is linked.
September 27th, 2019: Contents of "People and Culture in Oceania" has been updated.
September 24th, 2019: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 123, 124 (in Japanese) were added. 36th Annual Meeting page (in Japanese) is updated.
July 2nd, 2019: The Society's Prize (in Japanese) has been updated.
June 19th, 2019: job application information (Meiji Gakuin University) has been updated.
May 21th, 2019: Grant program application outline from Resona Foundation for Asia and Oceania has opened to the public.
April 1st, 2019: The board members were updated.
December 25th, 2018: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original papers in the News Letter 122 (in Japanese) were added. 36th Annual Meeting page (in Japanese) is updated.
July 28th, 2018: Newsletter (in Japanese) is updated. Original paper in the News Letter 121 (in Japanese) was added.
April 18th, 2018: Contents of "People and Culture in Oceania" has been updated.
April 16th, 2018: the official rule of the society (in Japanese) has been changed.
March 14th, 2018: Original papers in the News Letter 118-120 (in Japanese) were added.
February 26th, 2018: Special site for 35th annual meeting (in Japanese) is updated (Detailed information pdf is uploaded).
December 11th, 2017: Special site for 35th annual meeting (in Japanese) is updated.
December 6th, 2017: The 17th Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize) application outline has opened to the public. They expect application from our society.
December 5th, 2017: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated. Special site for 35th annual meeting (in Japanese) is made.
November 28th, 2017: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated. The program of 2017's Kansai regional meeting (in Japanese) is now open to the public.
October 2nd, 2017: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated. The program of 2017's Kanto regional meeting (in Japanese) is now open to the public.
September 28th, 2017: Information of a vacant position (in Japanese) is given.
May 27th, 2017: the official rule of the society (in Japanese) has been changed due to the movement of secretary.
May 13th, 2017: The annoucement (in Japanese) of the extraordinary general meeting (on 27 May 2017 at Kobe Univ.) has been uploaded.
May 12th, 2017: "People and Culture in Oceania" Vol.33's deadline has been prolonged until June 15.
April 1st, 2017: Overall update has been done.
February 20th, 2017: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated. The program of The 34th annual meeting (in Japanese) is now open to the public.
January 18th, 2017: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.112-115).
January 13th, 2017: Original papers in the News-Letters No.115 (in Japanese) were added.
January 9th, 2017: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is updated. Invitations for The 34th annual meeting (in Japanese) opened.
August 4th, 2016: Original papers in the News-Letters No.112-114 (in Japanese) were added.
June 20th, 2016: The Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies backs up a seminar at Hosei University on July 16th (Sat), "Elements of Cultural Resilience and the Indigenous People of Aotearoa/New Zealand".
March 24th, 2016: The 15th honoree information of the society's prize (in Japanese) and Ishikawa Eikichi Prize for Dr. Masanori Yoshioka (in Japanese) were added.
March 1st, 2016: The 33rd annual meeting page (in Japanese) has been updated. The fixed program (pdf in Japanese) is now available.
February 25th, 2016: The 33rd annual meeting page (in Japanese) has been updated. Tentative program has been shown.
December 14th, 2015: Academic meetings page (in Japanese) is made. Invitations for The 33rd annual meeting (in Japanese), Kanto area meeting in 2015 (in Japanese), Kansai area meeting in 2015 (in Japanese) are linked from there.
October 14th, 2015: Original papers in the News-Letters No.109 (in Japanese) were added.
October 6th, 2015: Original papers in the News-Letters No.110 (in Japanese) were added (Until No.111, No.109 is still not uploaded, waiting author's permission).
September 4th, 2015: Official Journal "People and Culture in Oceania" page has been updated.
August 28th, 2015: The report of activities based on JSOS donation call for people suffering from the cyclone hitting Vanuatu (in Japanese) is uploaded.
August 18th, 2015: Some of Original papers in the News-Letters No.108-111 (in Japanese) were added.
May 18th, 2015: JSOS donation call for people suffering from the cyclone hitting Vanuatu (in Japanese) is modified to add link to the thanks-letter for this donation from the NPO.
May 14th, 2015: Report of the results of JSOS donation call for people suffering from the cyclone hitting Vanuatu (in Japanese) is opened.
May 3rd, 2015: JSOS donation call for people suffering from the cyclone hitting Vanuatu (in Japanese) closed
April 2nd, 2015: The 14th honoree information of the society's prize (in Japanese) was added. The board members (in Japanese) were updated. How to join the society (in Japanese) was revised.
March 25th, 2015: Information of job vacancy at Yap State Historic Preservation Office was shown.
March 23th, 2015: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.111).
March 20th, 2015: JSOS donation call for people suffering from the cyclone hitting Vanuatu (in Japanese) opened
December 26th, 2014: Announcement of 32th Annual Meeting (in Japanese).
July 11th, 2014: Information of job vacancy at Kagoshima University (in Japanese) was shown.
May 22th, 2014: two original papers in news letter No.107 (in Japanese) were added.
March 26th, 2014: The Society's Prize (in Japanese) has been updated.
March 11th, 2014: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.108).
February 3th, 2014: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.107).
December 29th, 2013: Announcement of 31th Annual Meeting (in Japanese).
September 9th, 2013: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.103) and two original papers in news letter No.106 (in Japanese) were added.
September 9th, 2013: A corrected page of People and Culture in Oceania Vol.28 (p.2) as PDF image has been uploaded.
March 24th, 2013: The Society's Prize (in Japanese) has been updated. "About the Society" (in Japanese)'s list of the board is revised to new one from April 1st 2013 to March 31st 2015.
March 12th, 2013: The 30th annual meeting program (pdf version available) in The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated.
March 9th, 2013: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.105).
January 29th, 2013: Announcement of Kansai Regional Meeting (in Japanese).
January 4th, 2013: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.104).
December 20th, 2012: A corrected page of People and Culture in Oceania Vol.28 (pp.111) as jpeg image has been uploaded.
November 20th, 2012: Announcement of Kanto Regional Meeting (in Japanese).
November 13th, 2012: Announcement of 30th Annual Meeting (in Japanese).
August 4th, 2012: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.103) and two original papers in news letter No.103 (in Japanese) were added.
April 6th, 2012: The page of "about the society" (in Japanese) was updated, relecting the moving of the board members.
March 31st, 2012: The page for The Prizes of the Society and the Ishikawa Eikichi Memorial (in Japanese) was added.
March 13th, 2012: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.102) and two original papers in news letter No.102 (in Japanese) were added.
December 28th, 2011: The official journal information was updated. The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.101) and two original papers in news letter No.101 (in Japanese) were added.
November 29th, 2011: Announcement of 29th Annual Meeting (in Japanese).
November 29th, 2011: Announcement of the Kansai Area Meeting 2011 (in Japanese).
September 12th, 2011: an original paper in news letter No.100 (in Japanese) was added.
August 30th, 2011: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.100) and an original paper in news letter No.100 (in Japanese) was added.
July 24th, 2011: Information of job vacancy at Tokyo University of Foreign Affairs (in Japanese) was shown.
March 30th, 2011: Program with abstracts of 28th annual meeting (in Japanese) was uploaded.
March 25th, 2011: Information of job vacancy at Tokyo University of Foreign Affairs (in Japanese) was shown.
March 23rd, 2011: On March 21st at the annual meeting, the Ichikawa Eikichi Prize was given for Dr. Kazumichi Katayama (Emeritus Professor, Kyoto Univ.) (see, photo). The 10th "Nihon Oseania Gakkai" Prize was given for Dr. Kazuko Matsumoto (Univ. Tokyo). Detailed information will appear on the next news-letter (No.100, in Japanese).
March 18th, 2011: Announcement of change of 28th Annual Meeting by the President (in Japanese).
March 17th, 2011: 28th Annual Meeting (place changed) (in Japanese).
February 25th, 2011: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.99).
February 1st, 2011: This site has moved to the new server. The new homepage URL (of English version) is http://www.jsos.net/index-e.html.
January 8th, 2011: original papers in news letter since No.97 (in Japanese) have become available as pdf files.
December 27th, 2010: official journal information was updated.
December 20th, 2010: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.98).
November 28th, 2010: Announcement of 28th Annual Meeting (in Japanese).
November 27th, 2010: Announcement of the Kansai Area Meeting 2010 (in Japanese).
November 11th, 2010: Announcement of the Kanto Area Meeting 2010 (in Japanese).
August 3rd, 2010: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.97).
May 10th, 2010: How to join? (in Japanese) was updated. (Guide to join the society (in English) was not changed yet.)
April 7th, 2010: official journal information was updated.
March 17th, 2010: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.96).
March 2nd, 2010: Links to related web sites were updated.
January 7th, 2010: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.95).
December 8th, 2009: Importance of financial support for progressing academic studies (petition in Japanese) is uploaded.
October 9th, 2009: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.94).
October 9th, 2009: The 30th anniversary publication, "Oceania-gaku" (in Japanese) is introduced.
July 31st, 2009: Abstract (distributable version) of the Kanto Area Meeting 2009 Symposium(pdf format, about 1.4 MB).
July 30th, 2009: Links to related web sites were updated.
July 16th, 2009: Official journal information (in Japanese) is updated.
July 2nd, 2009: Announcement of the Kanto Area Meeting 2009 Symposium.
April 21st, 2009: Information of the secretary office was updated.
April 2nd, 2009: Renewal of the board and the administrators (in Japanese) was done.
March 27th, 2009: The site design was changed to divide contents to Japanese and English pages.
March 26th, 2009: official journal information was updated.
March 20th, 2009: Design of the toppage has been changed.
March 11th, 2009: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.93).
December 16th, 2008: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.92).
November 5th, 2008: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.91).
October 17th, 2008: First announcement of 26th annual meeting (in Japanese).
September 30th, 2008: the Kanto area meeting in 2008 in cooperation with Rikkyo University Asia regional study's institute (in Japanese).
July 31st, 2008: official journal information was updated.
March 15th, 2008: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.90).
December 20th, 2007: Announcement of 25th annual meeting (in Japanese). The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.89).
November 22nd, 2007: the Kanto area meeting in 2007 (in Japanese) was modified.
November 19th, 2007: official journal information was updated.
November 8th, 2007: Announcement of the Kansai area meeting in 2007 (in Japanese).
October 25th, 2007: Announcement of the Kanto area meeting in 2007 (in Japanese).
July 17th, 2007: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.88).
April 11th, 2007: "JSOS donation call for people suffering from Solomon Islands earthquake and tsunami" (in Japanese) opened.
April 6th, 2007: "About the society" pages (both in Japanese and in English) were updated. Copyright assignment form (pdf) and policy on web-posting (pdf) opened.
April 3rd, 2007: Policy on the web-posting of publications from JSOS (in Japanese) and Contents and abstracts of PCO vol.21 opened.
March 16th, 2007: The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.87).
January 9th, 2007: Renewal of the archive of the Official Journal and the Official Journal Page.
December 26th, 2006: Announcement of 24th annual meeting (in Japanese). The society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (added the contents of No.86).
December 9th, 2006: official journal information was updated.
November 13th, 2006: Announcement of the regional meeting at Kanto area (in Japanese).
November 7th, 2006: Renewal of the archive of the Official Journal and the Official Journal Page.
October 3rd, 2006: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated, where the contents of newsletter (in Japanese) No.85 were updated.
August 30th, 2006: Announcement of the regional meeting at Kansai area (in Japanese).
August 2nd, 2006: link page was updated.
June 13th, 2006: official journal information (amongst the instruction for contributers) was updated.
May 7th, 2006: official journal information was updated.
March 30th, 2006: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated, where the contents of newsletter (in Japanese) No.84 were updated.
March 23rd, 2006: Past information of a fund is deleted to avoid confounding.
March 17th, 2006: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated, where the contents of newsletters (in Japanese) of No.84 were added.
December 22nd, 2005: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated, where the contents of newsletters (in Japanese) of No.82 and No.83 were added.
December 21st, 2005: Announcement of 23rd annual meeting (in Japanese).
November 10th, 2005: Announcement of the regional meetings at Kanto area and Kansai area (both in Japanese).
September 6th, 2005: Added a link to the 21st Pacific Science Congress in link page.
May 11th, 2005: Renewal of the board and the administrators (in Japanese).
May 10th, 2005: Linked the World Archaeological Congress Intercongress Osaka 2006 site (in Japanese).
February 21st, 2005: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated, where the contents of newsletters (in Japanese) of No.80 and No.81 was added.
November 1st, 2004: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated, where the announcement of 22nd annual meeting was added.
July 22nd, 2004: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated.
June 22nd, 2004: Announcement of cish sydney 2005 (in Japanese).
March 23rd, 2004: A report of 21st Academic Meeting (in Japanese) has opened.
March 19th, 2004: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated.
December 26th, 2003: the job application information has been updated.
December 2nd, 2003: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated. Announcement of the regional meeting at Kanto area (in Japanese) (PDF format).
November 5th, 2003: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated (previous one moved to the archive), where the announcement of 21th annual meeting was added.
August 9th, 2003: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated and previous communications (in Japanese) has been moved.
May 27th, 2003: Moved from u-tokyo to new site in nii.
April 15th, 2003: Renewal of the board and the administrators (in Japanese).
December 27th, 2002: the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated, where the announcement of 20th annual meeting was added.
August 9th, 2002: Links to JSOS-related WEB sites and Information of Job Application are updated.
July 30th, 2002: Added new link to The Japan Science Society's announcement of a research-grant.
May 13th, 2002: The announcement of 5th conference of European Society for Oceanists was added.
December 10th, 2001: the job application information has been updated.
November 9th, 2001: the job application information has been updated. the society's communication (in Japanese) has been updated, where the announcements of Kansai-area meeting and 19th annual meeting were added.
November 6th, 2001: Information of "Case report" (in Japanese) by Ajinomoto added.
October 10th, 2001: Renewal of the job application information (in Japanese)
September 17th, 2001: Information on Lecture on understanding Asia (in Japanese) added and Renewal of the job application information (in English)
August 30th, 2001: Renewal of the archive of the Official Journal and the Official Journal Page.
August 8th, 2001: Renewal of the job application information (in English)
July 12th, 2001: Renewal of the job application information (in English)
July 3rd, 2001: Renewal of the job application information (in English)
May 7th, 2001: Renewal of the archive of the Official Journal and the Official Journal Page. And, conference information added.
April 25th, 2001: Renewal of the board and the administrators, the address of secretariat
January 12th, 2001: Renewal of the job application information (in English)
December 20th, 2000: Renewal of the job application information (in English)
December 19th, 2000: Announcement of 18th annual meeting (in Japanese)
November 27th, 2000: Announcement of the summer school at Univ. Samoa (in Japanese).
November 10th, 2000: Announcement of Colloquium for Trobriand.
November 10th, 2000: Updated the link to Dr. SEKINE, Hisao's page in the link page.
October 16th, 2000: Announcement of Papuan Pasts Conference.
September 11th, 2000: Renewal of the job application information (in English)
September 7th, 2000: Renewal of the job application information (in English)
September 6th, 2000: Renewal of the job application information (in English)
July 11th, 2000: Renewal of the job application information (in English)
May 17th, 2000: Renewal of the job application information (in Japanese)
April 25th, 2000: Added a new link to Dr. SEKINE, Hisao's page.
April 6th, 2000: Renewal of the archive of the Official Journal and the Official Journal Page.
March 31st, 2000: Added a fund information (in Japanese)
March 21st, 2000: Renewal of the job application information (in Japanese)
March 21st, 2000: Added the contents of the news of the society No. 66 (in Japanese)
March 1st, 2000: Added a new link to Prof. Yoshioka Masanori's page.
January 12th, 2000: Added a new link.
January 11th, 2000: Added a link to a guide to the summer school at Univ. Samoa (by Prof. YAMAMOTO, Matori; in Japanese)
December 28th, 1999: Announcement of 17th annual meeting (in Japanese)
August 27th, 1999: Added the contents of the news of the society No. 64, which includes the report on the 20th anniversary international symposium (in Japanese)
May 6th, 1999: Renewal of the list of officers (in Japanese)
March 4th, 1999: Renewal of the job application information
March 2nd, 1999: Added the contents of the news of the society No. 63 (in Japanese)
February 8th, 1999: Renewal of the archive of the Official Journal
January 30th, 1999: Renewal of the job application information
January 11th, 1999: Added the contents of the news of the society No. 62 (in Japanese)
December 28th, 1998: Announcement of 20th anniversary and 16th annual meeting
December 12th, 1998: Added a job application
November 13th, 1998: Added a job application
November 11th, 1998: Added a new link
October 27th, 1998: Added a new link and the abstracts of vol.13 of Man and Culture in Oceania
October 20th, 1998: Added the abstracts of vol.14 of Man and Culture in Oceania
October 5th, 1998: Added the contents of vol.14 of Man and Culture in Oceania
September 25th, 1998: Added a new link
September 14th, 1998: Added a new link
September 10th, 1998: Added a new link
September 3rd, 1998: Added a new link
August 27th, 1998: Added new links
August 26th, 1998: Added a new link and job application page
August 15th, 1998: Added constitution and guide to join the society
August 13th, 1998: Made.