APPLY HERE FOR SPRING 2024 JAPANLAB INTERNSHIPSNOTE: RECRUITMENT FOR THESE PROJECTS HAS CLOSED Virtual Museum of Japanese Sports How would you like to write your name in the annals of history alongside some of the world’s most outstanding athletes? Come join the select few who will pioneer the creation of The Virtual Museum of Japanese Sports—the only museum of its kind in the world! The wings of the museum will be filled with detailed descriptions of many Japanese sports, both native and imported, and their greatest practitioners through time. You will create the initial framework upon which this project will continually expand. Conspiracy Are you interested in true crime? Do you love solving mysteries? Do you want to turn a genuine legal mystery into an exciting video game? For Spring 2024, we’re recruiting 5 interns to work on an innovative video game focused on the Amboina incident, a famous and controversial conspiracy case that took place 400 years ago but which remains unsolved today. For centuries now scholars have dissected the Amboina case. It’s been the subject of countless pamphlets, books and other publications. But no-one has turned it into an exciting video game that places players at the center of a unsolved mystery. This is where you come in. The Warrior’s Heir Succession struggles are dramatic gold, from classic theater to modern TV. But they're also enlightening, revealing our assumptions about what makes a family--what makes a marriage, or a parent? What can be inherited or earned by personal effort? How much say do the beloved dead get after they are gone, and how do we the living prove what they wanted?The team will decide, together, how best to take centuries-old legal documents and bring to life the world they depict with a visual novel, courtroom drama, puzzle solver, or another interactive story. Our goal is to help teachers of world history put medieval Japan onto their syllabi and guide interested players through the complexities of premodern Japan's legal principles to our shared humanity. FOR SOME FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE INTERNSHIPS SEE HERE.FOR IMAGES FROM SOME PAST PROJECTS SEE BELOW
