Japanese studies

Japanese Studies (or Japanology primarily in Europe) includes contemporary social sciences as well as classical humanistic fields.

European Japanology is the study of language, culture, history, literature, art, music, science, etc. 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 boost to this fledgling academic discipline which has since grown into an internationally respected field.

Notable Japanologists[edit]

University of Sheffield - School Of East Asian Studies
University of Virginia Japanese Text Initiative
National Taiwan University-Deparment of Japanese Studies
Harvard University - Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Ateneo De Manila University- College of Social Science Department of Japanese Studies
University of the East- College of Arts and Science Department of International Studies and History
University of California, Berkeley - Center for Japanese Studies
Columbia University - The Center for Japanese Legal Studies
Oxford University - Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
University of Santo Tomas- Faculty of Arts and Letters Department of Asian Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies - The Japan Research Centre and Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences – Centre de Recherches sur le Japon
Leiden University - Japanese Languages and Cultures
Universitas Indonesia - Japanese Area Studies Programme
University of the Philippines – Center for Asian Studies
Autonomous University of Madrid - Centre for East Asia Studies (Centro de Estudios de Asia Oriental)
National Chengchi University - Center for Modern Japanese Studies
National Sun Yat-sen University - Center for Japanese Studies
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Department of Japanese Studies
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies -College of Japanese