On  Sunday, February 12th, JASM will host J-Quiz 2023! Registration is now open. The new and updated JASM J-Quiz 2023 is for anyone who are interested. 

We are also very excited to introduce our brand new J-Quiz ambassador Kana-chan!  She  was created by renowned artist Hiro Suzuhira from Tokyo just for JASM's J-Quiz! 

Please register for both J-Quiz Part 1 and Part 2 through the links below:

Click here to register for J-Quiz Part 1

Click here to register for J-Quiz Part 2

Due to Hopin account limitations, we must limit the entries to the first 100 people. We hope you will be able to join us. Please register as soon

 as possible.

Part1

 (US Central Time)

9: 45 am (the site will open)

10:00 am Opening ceremony

10:30 am J-Quiz  (ca. 45 min.)

10:30 - 11:45 am Culture videos, College Fair, and  "Speed Networking" are open

Part 2

(US Central Time)

11:30 am - 1:30 pm Culture videos, College Fair, and "Speed Networking" are open

11:45 am - 12: 45 pm Guest Speaker Betsy Linehan-Skillings

12:50 pm - 1:05 pm Closing ceremony and group photo

1:05 pm - 1:30 pm Culture videos, College Fair, and "Speed Networking" are open

Guest speaker: Betsy Linehan-Skllilngs

Betsy Linehan-Skillings is a visual media translator working in the Japanese entertainment intustry. Born and raised in Minnesota with a big passion for Japanese language and media, Betsy shares JASM's mission to bring Japan and Minnesota communities together, and she was honored to serve as media coordinator in 2015. Before moving to Japan, she studied Japanee and science education at the University of Minnesota.

Try the sample quizzes below! (Please click the image to enlarge.)

The answeres are to find at the end of the event page.

One of the JASM’s important missions is to support Americans who want to learn Japanese and get to know Japan more.  We know there are so many who always study and read about Japan. As we hit our 50th Anniversary of our organization,  we created this Japan-focused trivia for anyone who is learning about Japan.

Our goal for J-Quiz is to encourage people to continue their study of Japanese language and culture and have a place to share with like-minded people.

Please join JASM on Thursday, February 16, at 6:00 pm (CT).  Mariko Nagai will talk about Japanese manners and customs and how they relate to those in the U.S. Participants can learn about manners and customs unique to Japanese culture in various situations and environments such as at school, work, and in public places. If you are interested in Japanese culture or in traveling to Japan one day, it will be a great opportunity to learn about everyday ways of communicating! 

Mariko Nagai is a Japan Outreach Initiative (JOI) coordinator hosted by University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Mariko is originally from Fukuoka City in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, and she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in intercultural studies from Seinan Gakuin University. Her first experience in the U.S. was as a high school student through a sister city cultural exchange program between Fukuoka City and Oakland, California. Inspired by this experience, she decided to join a month-long summer language school in Minnesota, as well as a study abroad program at Middle Tennessee State University during her bachelor's degree for two semesters.

Prior to serving as a JOI Coordinator, Mariko worked for six years as an English instructor and program coordinator, and two years as a conference organizer. It has always been a dream of hers to be a bridge between Japan and other countries, especially with the U.S. because of the experiences she had as student. She has been engaging the university and greater Nebraska community while connecting with many people and strengthening their understanding of Japan as a JOI Coordinator.

Registration will open March 20.

(Picture left) Fukuda Kodōjin, Landscape after Mi Fu, April 1918, hanging scroll: ink on silk, Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Suzanne S. Roberts Fund for Asian Art (2012.71.3) , (Picture below) Fukuda Kodōjin, Blue-green Landscape, April 1928, hanging scroll: ink and color on silk, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Gift of David Tausig Frank and Kazukuni Sugiyama (2015.111.21)

Please join us for Curator Talk “The Art and Life of Fukuda Kodōjin: Japan’s Great Poet and Landscape Artist” on Thursday, April 20 at 6:00 p.m. on Zoom.

Fukuda Kodōjin (1865–1944) was one of a handful of scholar-artists who continued the tradition of Japanese literati painting (nanga) in the early twentieth century. Kodōjin’s painting style is characterized by bizarrely shaped mountain forms rendered in vivid color or monochromatic ink that often include a solitary scholar enjoying the expansive beauty of nature. Not only a painter, Kodōjin was also an accomplished poet and calligrapher patronized by influential industrialists and politicians of the era. Following his death, he slipped into obscurity, and today is more appreciated outside his native Japan. The result of fifteen years of extensive research into more than eight hundred works, in April,

Dr. Andreas Marks will talk about his upcoming 344-page book that accompanies the first ever exhibition of Kodōjin outside of Japan, on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art from April to June 2023.

Please support JASM to continue with our mission and activities.

Dr. Andreas Marks is the Mary Griggs Burke Curator of Japanese and Korean Art and director of the Clark Center for Japanese Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. From 2008 to 2013 he was the director and chief curator of the Clark Center for Japanese Art and Culture in California. He has a Ph.D. from Leiden University in the Netherlands and a master’s degree in East Asian Art History from the University of Bonn, Germany. A specialist of Japanese woodblock prints, he is the author of 16 books. In 2014 he received an award from the International Ukiyo‐e Society in Japan for his research. He has curated exhibitions in a variety of media from pre‐modern to contemporary art and visual culture at 38 museums. His most recent book on Hokusai's reknown Fuji series was published by Taschen last summer. His next book will introduce 100 different types of Japanese demons and ghosts and is said to be released this autumn.