Welcome to the Melbourne Uni Japanese Club. 

We're a club for Japanese international students,
for students studying Japanese and for people who are interested in Japan.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook!

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Upcoming Events

Holidays!

With mid-year exams and the Winter Break here, MUJC is going into hibernation. We've be back in full swing come the first week back, and you'll also find us at Semester 2's O-Week so hope to see you there!

Japanese Noir: Violent Cops & Pistol Operas – Screening at ACMI, May 27-June 10

The Melbourne Cinémathèque is proud to present a season of film noir from some of the most innovative filmmakers in Japanese Cinema.

Commencing May 27, Japanese Noir: Violent Cops & Pistol Operas celebrates one of the most dynamic, raw and socially investigative forms of Japanese genre filmmaking - the crime film.  Often focusing on the brutal honor code of the Yakuza, the post-war emergence of youth gangs, the influence of American culture and military occupation and featuring narrative and stylistic abstraction, film noir and the broader crime genre are an important form of post WWII Japanese Cinema.

This season of films produced by the Shochiku studio features works by many of the key directors of Japanese Cinema including: Takeshi Kitano (his incendiary debut feature Violent Cop, 1989), Masaki Kobayashi (the dark but characteristically humanist Black River, 1957), Masahiro Shinoda (Pale Flower, 1964), and Nagisa Oshima (the seminal The Sun’s Burial, 1960).  The season concludes with two of the most striking examples of the form: Tai Kato’s I, the Executioner (1968), a legendary exploitation film portraying the disturbing anatomy of a serial killer, and Seijun Suzuki’s Pistol Opera (2001), a hyper-stylized reworking of his controversial classic Branded to Kill (1967).  Screening as follows:

Wednesday May 27   
7.00pm Violent Cop (1989)
8.55pm Pale Flower (1964)

Wednesday June 3   
7.00pm Black River (1957)
9.05 The Sun’s Burial (1960)

Wednesday June 10   
7.00pm Pistol Opera (2001)
9.05pm I, the Executioner (1968)
 

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Recent Events

End of Semester Lunch
Our final Kaiwa of the semester was full of sushi, takoyaki and gyoza... until it was all gone! The food didn't last long, but that didn't stop the event being a great success!

Nomikai
The Nomikai was a great success! We've got a load of photos on Facebook for your viewing pleasure.

AGM and the New Committee
The Annual General Meeting of the Japanese Club was held on Tuesday the 21st of April.
Also, a huge 'Thank you!' to the outgoing committee members, especially the (over-) hard-work and dedication of Izuma Ishikawa, our previous president! Be sure to give her your best rendition of a Karaoke-esque "Thank you, Izumi!" next time you see her. We've been left behind an incredibly successful club that would not have grown to the membership numbers that it has without her commitment and the work of all of the outgoing committee members.

The incoming crew are looking forward to adding more and more to the Japanese scene at Melbourne Uni with many great ideas for future events and activities. Be sure to welcome our new president, Melissa Ann De Silva and her motley crew. We are committed as a team to the success of the MUJC and hope that the results will show. but you can still help us make this club the best it can be by throwing any suggestions at us via email with a big "Suggestion!" in the subject line and we'll be sure to take any advice on board for the coming year (keep in mind that we can't guarantee a reply to all suggestion emails).

We all hope to see you at the next Kaiwa and any of our weekly events.

Dinner and Nomikai!
Our pre-Easter Break dinner at Hanabishi down on King St, which was a great success. The 15 seats available sold out quickly and the lucky ones dined on a selection the likes of juicy meatballs, fantastic gyoza, succulent teriyaki chicken, めっちゃ美味しいsashimi, and smooth green-tea icecream. Makes your mouth water, no? The fine selection of rice and plum wines provided the perfect companion to the feast. Mmmmmmm. We ventured out for some after-dinner drinks with the Swinburne and Monash University Japanese Clubs, ending the night with a more Aussie approach.
Be sure to watch this space for the next upcoming night out!

News & Events

Calendar of Events (PDF File)
Click here to see the calendar

KAIWA (conversation sessions)
Date: Every Tuesday until end of semester, excluding non-teaching periods.
Time: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Cost: FREE!
Place: Alice Hoy 242  (I,20 : Map)
What: Practice Japanese/English, meet new people, and enjoy a wide range of Japanese snack foods. Our Tuesday KAIWA sessions are also the best opportunity to see what we're all about. It is our largest weekly event and everyone is encouraged to sit back and relax while having a chat with Japanese-studying student, Japanese enthusiasts as well as REAL Japanese people! Feel free to bring along anything too! While not for getting your assignments done for you (and you thought you had a chance!) , those niggling grammar/vocab/phrase/nuance/dialect questions need bother you no more!

Club membership
$1 for University of Melbourne Student Union members, $3 for non-UMSU members.
To sign up, find a committee member during one of our regular events and they'll set you up. Alternatively visit level 2 in the Sidney Myer Asia Centre and get an envelope and membership form and follow the instructions provided.

Shimbun Newsletter O-Week Edition
Find our O-Week edition newsletter here.

Travel Seminar notes and websites
For those of you who came to our travel seminar, information, notes and useful websites can be accessed from the two links below. Note that the two files are almost exactly the same as last year, so please forgive us if they're full of mistakes/old info.
Notes
Useful websites

Want to look after our website?
We're searching for a new webmaster, so if anyone's interested, please contact us (enquiries@mujc.org.au).
You'll need to have basic html skills, be computer literate, be able to respond to requests to put information on the website at short notice, be a club member, etc. If you want to look after our Japanese language website as well, an intermediate level of Japanese would be good (e.g. equivalent to JLPT3) and an advanced level of Japanese would be even better (JLPT2 or JLPT1).

Regular Events

KAIWA: Every Tuesday 1:00-2:00pm
 
J-Drama: Probably Thursday 1:15-2:15pm.
 
JLPT: Levels 4&3 for 10 weeks, having 12 lessons.

Origami or calligraphy course

Club dinner/nomikai

Manga drawing class

Non-club News & Regular Events

Japaneasy - Japanese Language School
Are you interested in learning Japanese in Japanese by experienced, qualified and happy teachers? 5 main activities during lessons at Japaneasy Japanese language school; Speaking, Listening, Reading, Writing and Laughing!

Exchange club -Japanese Village 日本村-　is on every 2nd & 4th Wednesday, 7:30–9:30pm! Fee: $4 (Includes free drinks and snacks)
Culture introduction -Culture Village 文化村-　is on every 1st & 3rd Wednesday, 7–9pm!

Visit us:Level 4,126 Russell St (Between Bourke st and Lt Collins St) Melbourne, or call on 0422–266–308 (Mina)
www.japaneasy.com.au