Japanese studies

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Japanese studies (Japanese: 日本学) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, culture, history, literature, art, music and science. Its roots may be traced back to the Dutch at Dejima, Nagasaki in the Edo period. The foundation of the Asiatic Society of Japan at Yokohama in 1872 by men such as Ernest Satow and Frederick Victor Dickins was an important event in the development of Japanese studies as an academic discipline.

Japanese studies organizations and publications[]

In the United States, the Society for Japanese Studies has published the Journal of Japanese Studies (JJS) since 1974. This is a biannual academic journal dealing with research on Japan in the United States. JJS is supported by grants from the Japan Foundation, Georgetown University, and the University of Washington in addition to endowments from the Kyocera Corporation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS), founded in 1974, is an association primarily sponsored by Toshiba[1] and the Japan Foundation.[2] The BAJS publishes an academic journal called Japan Forum.[3]

In Europe, the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) is also funded by Toshiba and the Japan Foundation. It has held triennial conferences around Europe since 1973. Other academic journals dealing with Japanese studies include Monumenta Nipponica, a biannual English-language journal affiliated with Sophia University in Tokyo, and Social Science Japan Journal, published by Oxford University Press.

Scholarship on Japan is also within the purview of many organizations and publications dealing with the more general field of East Asian studies, such as the Association for Asian Studies or the Duke University publication .

Studies of the Meiji period have been published Yevgeniya Suda,[4] Ury Eppstein.[5]

The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), maintains the most comprehensive and up-to-date database of institutions of Japanese studies outside the United States and Japan. The database includes information on 1,640 institutions of Japanese Studies on 6 continents. The database can be found here

According to the Nichibunken database, the country with the most institutions of Japanese studies outside of the United States and Japan is China, with 121 institutions. Other countries containing the highest number of institutions include South Korea (85), England (69), Germany (64), Canada (61), Australia (54), and France (54).

Notable Japanologists[]

Scholarly journals[]

Online Resources[]

Japanese Studies Associations and Institutions in Australia, New Zealand, and Asia

Australia National University maintains a database of institutions of Asian Studies in Asia, which lists the institutions in 14 countries (Australia, New Zealand and 12 Asian nations) where Asian Studies are carried out. The online Directory of Asian Studies in Asia can be reached here.

Links to other Institutions of Japanese Studies in Asia:

Society of Japanese Language Education, Hong Kong

The Japanese Culture Association of Korea (JCAK)

The Japanese Language Association of Korea (JLAK)

The Japanese Language and Literature Association of Korea

Korea Association for Japanology (KAJA)

Japan Research Center, Seoul National University

Japanese Studies Associations and Institutions in Canada

The Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) promotes Japanese Studies in Canada and contributes towards increased knowledge about Japan and Canada-Japan relations. The JSAC website, which contains information about Japan-related events, conferences, and institutions across Canada can be reached here.

Japanese Studies Associations and Institutions in Europe

The European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) is an association begun in London and Oxford in 1973. It currently has members in 42 countries (roughly 650 personal members and 35 institutional members). It is open to the full range of the profession from established scholars through junior scholars to post-graduate students. Its activities tend to be grouped under the following disciplines: linguistics and language teaching; literature; religion and the history of ideas; history, politics and international relations; economics, economic and social history; anthropology and sociology; urban and environmental studies; visual and performing arts. The EAJS website contains a database of European dissertations in the field of Japanese studies, which can be reached through the EAJS home page: European Association for Japanese Studies

Links to other Institutions of Japanese Studies in Europe:

British Association for Japanese studies

Maison de la Culture du Japon (France)

German Association for Japanese Studies

Japanese Studies in Greece

Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

Polish Association for Japanese Studies

Research Organizations in Russia

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "International Foundation - Corporate Citizenship". Toshiba. Archived from the original on 2013-10-31. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
  2. ^ "The Japan Foundation > Main Activities > Japanese Studies and Intellectual Exchange > Topics > Associations & Institutions". Jpf.go.jp. Archived from the original on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2013-06-18.
  3. ^ "Publications". Bajs.org.uk.
  4. ^ Suda, Yevgeniya (2019). Western influences on the Japanese music in Meiji period (1868-1912) (Russian: "Западные влияния в музыкальном искусстве Японии периода Мейдзи (1868 — 1912)"). Kyiv: «Музична Україна». p. 272.
  5. ^ Eppstein U. (1983). The beginnings of western music in Meiji Era Japan: Thesis Ph. D. / Ury Eppstein. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University. p. 184.
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Media related to Japanology at Wikimedia Commons

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