Japanese studies or Japan studies ( Japanese : 日本学 , Hepburn : Nihongaku ) , sometimes known as 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 , history , culture , literature , philosophy , art , music , cinema , and science .
11-505: Jay Rubin (born 1941) is an American translator, writer, scholar and Japanologist . He is one of the main translators of the works of the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami into English. He has also written a guide to Japanese, Making Sense of Japanese (originally titled Gone Fishin' ), and a biographical literary analysis of Murakami. Rubin was born in Washington, D.C. , in 1941. Rubin has
22-596: A PhD in Japanese literature from the University of Chicago . He taught at the University of Washington for eighteen years, and then moved on to Harvard University , which he left in 2008. In his early research career he focused on the Meiji state censorship system. More recently Rubin has concentrated his efforts on Murakami and Noh drama. His publications include Modern Japanese Writers (Scribners, 2001) and Haruki Murakami and
33-838: 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 Positions: Asia Critique . The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) maintains an online database of institutions involved in Japanese studies research worldwide, including information on 1,640 institutions of Japanese studies. The database indicates that
44-535: Is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal covering Japan in social scientific perspective, semiannually published by Oxford University Press . SSJJ's editorial board is located at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo , and supported by the international advisory board members including Andrew Gordon ( Harvard University ), Carol Gluck ( Columbia University ), Jomo Kwame Sundaram ( United Nations ), and J. Victor Koschmann ( Cornell University ). SSJJ
55-602: Is listed in the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), under the "Area Studies" category. This article about a journal on economics is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . This article about a journal on Asian studies is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on
66-911: 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 and the Japan Foundation . The BAJS publishes an academic journal called Japan Forum . 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 ,
77-623: The "Thousand Years of Dreams" passages by Kiyoshi Shigematsu for use in the Japanese-produced Xbox 360 game Lost Odyssey . In 2018, he edited The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories . Rubin's translation of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami won the 2003 Noma Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature and was also awarded the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for
88-611: The Music of Words (Harvill, 2002; Vintage, 2005). His translation of 18 stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa appeared as a Penguin Classics in 2006. His debut novel , The Sun Gods , was released in May 2015 (Chin Music Press) and explores the relationship between a Japanese mother, Mitsuko, and her adopted, American son, Billy, as they face American internment during World War II . Rubin also translated
99-551: The Translation of Japanese Literature in 1999. Japanologist The historical roots of Western Japanese studies may be traced back to the Dutch traders based at Dejima , Nagasaki during the Edo period (1603–1867). The foundation of the Asiatic Society of Japan at Yokohama in 1872 by Western scholars such as Ernest Satow and Frederick Victor Dickins was an important event in
110-716: The country with the most institutions of Japanese studies outside the United States and Japan is China (121), while other countries containing a significant number of institutions include South Korea (85), England (69), Germany (64), Canada (61), Australia (54), and France (54). Since the declaration of 2010 as the "Japan Year" in Turkey , a yearly Japan Studies Conference has been held in Turkey. [REDACTED] Media related to Japanology at Wikimedia Commons Social Science Japan Journal Social Science Japan Journal ( SSJJ )
121-524: The development of Japanese studies as an academic discipline . 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
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