Due to stormy weather disrupting transportation, the first day’s program will be live streamed via Zoom. (Note: Greetings by PSJ president and vice president, general assembly, and awarding ceremony are open to PSJ members only.)
Special Lecture 1 and Special Lecture 2 on Day 1 (September 24) will be open to all (without fee). The Special Lectures will also be live streamed via Zoom.
Zoom information is as follows:

Meeting ID: 932 1386 5734
Passcode: 402986

• A PDF file of the program can be downloaded here.

Date:	Saturday, January 21st, 2017
Time:	1:30pm-5pm (Venue opens at 1pm)
Schedule：	1:30pm-3pm/3:20pm-4:30pm lecture/demo/activity with 20 minute break in between 4:30pm-5pm Q&A and discussion. Free to leave anytime.
Lecturer:	Shigeto Kawahara (Associate Professor, The Keio Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies)
Host：	Phonetic Society of Japan (Phonetics Promotion Committee)
Co-host：	Project for the Development of a Foundation for Strategic Research at Private Universities supported by MEXT, Center for Life-Span Development of Communication Skills
Venue：	Keio University, Hiyoshi Campus, Building 8, Room 812 https://www.keio.ac.jp/en/maps/hiyoshi.html(Building 8 is #16 on Campus Map)
Organizer：	Professor Yasuyo Minagawa (Faculty of Letters, Keio University)
Registration fee：	Free for students and PSJ members, 1000 yen for non-members
Capacity：	80
Details：	See Japanese page http://www.psj.gr.jp/jpn/introduction-to-phonetics/20170121.html
Registration：	Send an email to psjf.regist2016[at]gmail.com (replace [at] with @), with 0121講座申込み as subject. Email should include： – Name – Affiliation – Membership status (member/non-member) ・Please send separate emails for each participant. ・If you do not receive a reply within 5 days, please contact us again. ・Emails with other subjects may not be processed.

We will hold a public seminar to introduce the field of phonetics.
This seminar will focus on spoken Japanese dialects and introduction of the field of phonetics. We organized the seminar so that it will be interesting to everyone including high school and university students and the general public.

Date:	Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 (1:30-5:00pm)
Venue:	Kobe University Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Tsurukabuto Campus 1, Room B101 http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/access/rokko/campus.html (Building 14 on map)
Host:	The Phonetic Society of Japan (Phonetics Promotion Committee)
Participation fee:	Free
Capacity:	80 Please register in advance via e-mail. Registration on the day of the seminar is available only if the number of participants has not reached 80. Please refer to the PSJ website for registration updates. If e-mail is unavailable, please send mail for fax to the organizer.
How to register:	Please send an e-mail to psjf.regist[at]gmail.com (please replace [at] with @). Please write "1122 lecture registration" in the e-mail subject, and send your name, affiliation if you are a student (name of school or university), and your membership status (member or non-member). One e-mail should include information for only one person. If you do not receive a reply from the office after three days, please contact us. If you do not write "1122 lecture registration" in the e-mail subject, the e-mail may not be processed.
Program	1:00pm- Registration 1:30-2:15pm What is phonetics?” General linguistics and phonetics (Shin’ichi TANAKA, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University) Foreign language studies and phonetics (Chunyue ZHU, School of Languages and Communication, Kobe University) -Information engineering, medical science and phonetics (Ryoko HAYASHI, Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University) (There will be a Q&A session after the lectures) 2:30-5:00pm Introduction to spoken Japanese dialects: surprising pronunciations in dialects –west Japan including Ryukyu region– Lecturer: Professor Makoto KUNO (Professor Emeritus, Kochi University) (4:30pm- Q&A, 5:00pm end of seminar)
Organizer:	Ryoko HAYASI (Kobe University) Contact information: Tsurukabuto 1-2-1, Nada-ku, Kobe-shi, 657-8501, Japan. Faculty of Intercultural Studies , Kobe University. Fax: 078-803-7463 E-mail: onseigakunyumon[at]gmail.com (please replace [at] with @)

Date:	Saturday, December 13th, 2014 (1:30-3:30pm)
Topic:	Introduction to Speech Training for Japanese Instructors
Lecturer:	Kazuhiro ISOMURA, The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute
Venue:	Konan University, Okamoto Campus, Room 112 (8-9-1 Okamoto, Higashinada-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 658-8501 Japan) Access http://www.konan-u.ac.jp/access/ Campus map: http://www.konan-u.ac.jp/access/campus.html
Host:	The Phonetic Society of Japan (Phonetics Promotion Committee)
Organizer:	Tatsuya KITAMURA (Konan University)
Participation fee:	Free for members, 1000 yen for non-members
Capacity:	150 people (pre-registration necessary) *Please pre-register. Notification will appear on the PSJ website when the number of registration reaches 150. Please check whether registration is still open before you register.
How to register:	Please send an e-mail to psjf.regist[at]gmail.com (please replace [at] with @). One e-mail should only include information for one person. Please write “1213 lecture registration” in the e-mail subject, and send your name and membership status (member or non-member). If you do not write “1213 lecture registration” in the e-mail subject, the e-mail may not be processed. If you do not receive a reply from the office after three days, please send an e-mail again.
Abstract:	This lecture is targeted towards instructors teaching Japanese at language schools, university, or volunteer classrooms, as well as those who wish to become Japanese instructors in the future. The lecture will include how an instructor can listen to Japanese spoken by foreign speakers and provide advice to improve their pronunciation. Practical techniques such as pronunciation exercises and some tips on teaching pronunciation will also be introduced. This lecture will provide hints, for example, to the following instructors: You are teaching Japanese to foreign students, but are having difficulty understanding what they are saying. You would like to teach them how to improve their pronunciation, but you do not know how. You have attended a training program in order to become a Japanese teacher abroad. However, you had difficulty understanding phonetics and are worried about providing pronunciation tips as a native Japanese speaker. You are doing research on phonetics in graduate school, but have never taught Japanese to Japanese learners.