The Office of Research Exchange

Purpose:

The Office of Research Exchange was established to carry out planning and correspondence for research exchange with overseas institutions for Japanese studies.

Staff:

The Office is staffed by a director(also a faculty professor), three faculty professors, two associate professors, an assistant professor .

Directer

YAMADA Shoji, Professor

Faculty

Patricia FISTER, Professor

John BREEN, Professor

Nanyan GUO, Associate Professor

SANO Mayuko, Associate Professor

Activities:

1. Compilation and publication of Nichibunken Newsletter
   
   
2. Collection and organization of information relating to overseas institutions for Japanese studies, as well as the development of a database for this information.
   
   
3. Planning and formulation of exchange programs for scholars of Japanese studies.
   
   
4. Assistance for Nichibunken-sponsored international symposia overseas.
   
   
5. Research cooperation for overseas institutions and individual researchers of Japanese studies.
   
   
6. Research assistance for foreign researchers of Japanese studies in Japan.
   

Meetings Hosted by the Office:

Overseas Workshops

• International Symposia Overseas
In order to expand its research activities and research cooperation abroad, the Center has held periodic International Symposia outside Japan since 1995.

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• Overseas Meetings on Japanese Studies
Since the beginning of the 1999 fiscal year, Nichibunken has sent faculty members abroad several times a year to conduct small study meetings or workshops on trends in research in various countries. In organizing these meetings, our professors cooperate with host country scholars (and sometimes also with scholars from neighboring countries). We at Nichibunken provide backup support, including consulting about research ideas. By holding these meetings, we seek to carry out the international research cooperation activities that have been one of the fundamental objectives of this Center since its foundation, and to do so more actively and effectively than ever.
Nichibunken benefits in other ways from these overseas study meetings. These occasions offer good chances for our Center’s faculty to get acquainted with outstanding young scholars who are not yet known outside their home countries, and they also provide precious opportunities for our Center to gather fresh information about what is going on in Japanese studies outside Japan.

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• Research Exchange Symposia
In 2006, Nichibunken started a new series of conferences called Research Exchange Symposia, aiming to provide regular opportunities for communication between Japan specialists from around the world and Nichibunken faculty.
With the Office of Research Exchange playing a central organizing role, scholars from Nichibunken travel to places overseas where there is lively interest in Japanese studies and present some of their research findings. Friendly relationships develop from meetings with local researchers who specialize on Japan, and Nichibunken tries utilize up-to-date information about its overseas colleagues’ research environments and current work, along with their suggestions, in planning its own future research cooperation activities.

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Symposia for Foreign Researchers in Japan/Annual Symposium for Scholars Resident in Japan

In addition to conducting surveys of the condition of and trends in Japanese studies in other countries, the Office has organized symposia for foreign scholars who reside permanently or temporarily in Japan from fiscal year 1999 in order to form networks among those researchers and Nichibunken faculty and staff.

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