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Past Issues:

1. UMEHARA Takeshi, ed.,
   Nihon to wa nanika: Kokusaika no tadanaka de (What is Japan?),
   Tokyo: Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai, 1990.
2. YAMAORI Tetsuo, ed.,
   Nihon ni okeru josei (Cultural Status of Women in Japan),
   Tokyo: Meicho Kankokai, 1992.
3. HAMAGUCHI Eshun, ed.,
   Nihongata moderu to wa nanika: Kokusaika jidai ni okeru meritto to demeritto (What is the Japanese Model?),
   Tokyo: Shinyo-sha, 1993.
4. HANIHARA Kazuro, ed.,
   Nihonjin to Nihon bunka no keisei (The Formation of Japanese Population and Culture),
   Tokyo: Asakura Publishing Co., Ltd., 1993.
5. NAKANISHI Susumu, ed.,
   Nihon bungaku ni okeru "watashi" (The Self in Japanese Literature),
   Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1993.
6. YAMADA Keiji, ed.,
   Mono no imêji: honzô to hakubutsugaku e no shôtai (Images of Objects: An Invitation to Materia Medica and Natural History),
   Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994.
7. KUNO Akira, ed.,
   Nihonjin no takaikan (The Japanese View of the Next World, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 3),
   Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1994.
8. YAMADA Keiji, ed.,
   Higashi Ajia no honzô to hakubutsugaku no sekai (Pharmacopeia and Natural History in the Pre-Modern World: With an Emphasis on East Asia), Vols. 1 & 2,
   Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 1995.
9. ITO Shuntaro, ed.,
   Nihonjin no shizenkan: Jômon kara gendai kagaku made (The Japanese View of Nature),
   Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1995.
10. MURAI Yasuhiko, ed.,
    Kuge to buke: Sono hikaku bunmeishi teki kôsatsu (Court Nobles and Samurai),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 1995.
11. HAMAGUCHI Eshun, ed.,
    Nihon bunka wa ishitsu ka (Is Japanese Culture Unique?),
    Tokyo: Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai, 1996.
12. HAYAKAWA Monta and MORIOKA Masahiro, eds.,
    Gendai seimeiron kenkyû (Recent Developments in Contemporary Life Studies, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 9),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1996.
13. GUNJI Takao, ed.,
    Seiyaku ni motozuku Nihongo no kôzô no kenkyû (Constraint-based Studies on the Structure of Japanese, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 10),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1996.
14. YAMAORI Tetsuo, ed.,
    Nihon bunka no shinsô to Okinawa (The Deep Roots of Japanese Culture and Okinawa, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 12),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1996.
15. YAMADA Keiji and KURIYAMA Shigehisa, eds.,
    Rekishi no naka no yamai to igaku (The History of Illnesses and Medicine),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 1997.
16. KIMURA Hiroshi, ed.,
    Kokusai kôshôgaku: Kôshô kôdô yôshiki no kokusai hikaku (International Comparative Studies of Negotiating Behavior),
    Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 1998.
17. HAMAGUCHI Eishun, ed.,
    Sekai no naka no Nihongata shisutemu (The Japanese System in the World),
    Tokyo: Shinyo-sha, 1998.
18. HAMAGUCHI Eishun, ed.,
    Nihon shakai to wa nanika: "Fukuzatsukei" no shiten kara (What is Japanese Society?),
    Tokyo: Nihon Hoso Shuppan Kyokai, 1998.
19. NAKANISHI Susumu, ed.,
    Nihon no sôzôryoku (The Japanese Imagination),
    Osaka: JDC, 1998.
20. TSUJI Nobuo, ed.,
    "Kazari" no Nihon bunka (The Japanese Culture of Decoration),
    Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1998.
21. TSUDA Yukio, ed.,
    Nihonjin to eigo: Eigoka suru Nihon no gakusaiteki kenkyû (The Japanese and English, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 14),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1998.
22. IIDA Tsuneo and KASHIOKA Tomihide, eds.,
    Shijô seido no dôtai (Alterations in the Market System, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 15),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1998.
23. Sepp LINHART, Sepp, ed.,
    Nihonjin no rôdô to asobi: Rekishi to genjô (Japanese at Work and Play: An Historical Analysis to the Present, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 16),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1998.
24. YAMAORI Tetsuo, ed.,
    Nihonjin wa kirisutokyô o dono yô ni juyô shitaka (How Christianity Was Accepted by the Japanese?, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 17),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 1998.
25. KASAYA Kazuhiko, ed.,
    Kuge to buke Ⅱ: Ie no hikaku bunmeishiteki kôsatsu (Court Nobles and Samurai 2: Analyses of Ie from the Perspectives of Comparative Civilization),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 1999.
26. ITO Shuntaro, ed.,
    Nihon no kagaku to bunmei: Jômon kara gendai made (Science and Civilization in Japan: From Jomon Era to the Present),
    Tokyo: Douseisha, 2000.
27. KIMURA Hiroshi, NGUYEN Duy Dung, and FURUTA Motoo, eds.,
    Nihon-Betonamu kankei o manabu hito no tameni (Introduction to Vietnam-Japanese Relations),
    Kyoto: Sekaishisosha, 2000.
28. ISHIDA Hidemi, ed.,
    Higashi Ajia no shintai gihô (Physical Techniques in East Asia),
    Tokyo: Bensey Publishing Inc., 2000.
29. INAMI Ritsuko and INOUE Shoichi, eds.,
    Bungaku ni okeru kindai (Modernism in Literature, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 22),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2001.
30. SUZUKI Sadami, ed.,
    Zasshi "Taiyô" to kokumin bunka no keisei ("The Sun" Magazine and Forming of National Culture in Meiji Japan),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2001.
31. HASHIMOTO Takehiko and KURIYAMA Shigehisa, eds.,
    Chikoku no tanjô: Kindai Nihon ni okeru jikan ishiki no keisei (The Birth of Tardiness: The Formation of Time Consciousness in Modern Japan),
    Tokyo: Sangensha, 2001.
32. SENDA Minoru, ed.,
    Umi no kodaishi: Higashi Ajia Chichûkai kô (Marine Ancient History: Thinking about the Mediterranean in East Asia),
    Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 2002.
33. HAYAMI Akira, ed.,
    Kindai ikôki no jinkô to rekishi (Population and History of a Modern Shift Term),
    Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2002.
34. HAYAMI Akira, ed.,
    Kindai ikôki no kazoku to rekishi (Family and History of a Modern Shift Term),
    Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2002.
35. IMATANI Akira, ed.,
    Ôken to jingi (Japanese Kingship and Shintoism)
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2002.
36. KIMURA Hiroshi, ed.,
    Kokusai kiki gaku: Kiki kanri to yobô gaikô (International Crisis Study: Crisis Management and Preventive Diplomacy),
    Kyoto: Sekaishisosha, 2002.
37. LIU Jianhui
    “Kan” dai 10 gô (“Kan” vol. 10),
    Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2002.
38. LIU Jianhui
    Ajia yûgaku,
    Tokyo: Bensey Publishing Inc., 2002.
39. OMOTO Keiichi, ed.,
    Nihon-bunka to shite no shôgi (Shôgi as Japanese Culture),
    Tokyo: Sangensha, 2002.
40. TOKITA Alison and KOMODA Haruko, eds.,
    Nihon no katarimono: Kôtôsei, kôzô, igi (A Narrative of Japan: Oral Nature, Structure, and Meaning, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 26),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2002.
41. ISHI Shiro, UNO Takao, and AKAZAWA Takeshi, eds.,
    Buki no shinka to taika no gakusaiteki kenkyû: Yumiya hen (Interdisciplinary Research of Evolution and Degeneration of Arms: A Volume on Bow and Arrows, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 27),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2002.
42. LU Yuang Ming, SUZUKI Sadami, and LIU Jianhui, eds.,
    “Manshû roman” bekkan “‘Manshû roman’ kenkyû”,
    Tokyo: Yumani shobo, 2003.
43. YAMADA Shoji, ed.,
    Mohô to sôzô no dainamizumu (Dynamics of Copy and Creation),
    Tokyo: Bensey Publishing Inc., 2003.
44. KOMATSU Kazuhiko, ed.,
    Nihon yôkai gaku taizen (Japanese Monsters Study Encyclopedia),
    Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2003.
45. KAWAKATSU Heita, ed.,
    Ajia Taiheiyô keizaiken shi 1500-2000 (History of Asia Pacific Ocean Economic Bloc: 1500-2000),
    Tokyo: Fujiwara Shoten, 2003.
46. Muramatsu Michio and Shiraishi Takashi, eds.,
    Nihon no seiji keizai to Ajia shokoku (Political Economies of Japan and Asia, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 30), Vols. 1 & 2,
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2003.
47. Alexander VOVIN and OSADA Toshiki, eds.,
    Nihongo keitô ron no genzai (Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese Language, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 31),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2003.
48. YASUDA Yoshinori, ed.,
    Majo no bunmei shi (Witch’s History of Civilization),
    Tokyo: Yasaka Shobo, 2004.
49. YORITOMI Motohiro, ed.,
    Seinaru mono no katachi to ba,
    Kyoto: Hozokan, 2004.
50. SHIBAYAMA Tetsuya, ed.,
    Nihon no Jânarizumu to wa nanika: Jôhô kakumei ka de hyôryû suru dai yon no kenryoku (What is the Journalism in Japan?),
    Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2004.
51. ASANO Toyomi and MATSUDA Toshihiko, eds.,
    Shokuminchi teikoku nihon no hôteki kôzô (The Legal Structure of the Japanese Colonial Empire),
    Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2004.
52. ASANO Toyomi and MATSUDA Toshihiko, eds.,
    Shokuminchi teikoku nihon no hôteki tenkai (The Legal Development of the Japanese Colonial Empire),
    Tokyo: Shinzansha, 2004.
53. KURIYAMA Shigehisa and KITAZAWA Kazutoshi, eds.,
    Kindai nihon no shintai kankaku (The Body Sense of Modern Japan),
    Tokyo: Seikyusha, 2004.
54. INOUE Shoichi and Kansai Seiyoku Kenkyûkai, eds.,
    Sei no yôgo shû (The Glossary of Sex),
    Tokyo: Kodansha, 2004.
55. SHIRAHATA Yozaburo, ed.
    Hyakunin isshu mangekyô (Hyakunin isshu kaleidoscope),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2005.
56. SONODA Hidehiro, ed.,
    Gyaku ketsujo no Nihon seikatsu bunka: Nihon ni aru mono wa sekai ni aru ka (Japanese Culture from the Viewpoint of Reverse Absence),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2005.
57. YAMAORI Tetsuo, ed.,
    Kankyô to bunmei (Environment and Civilization),
    Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co., Ltd., 2005.
58. INAMI Ritsuko and INOUE Shoichi, eds.,
    Hyôgen ni okeru ekkyô to konkô (Border Transgression and Intermixture in Artistic Expression, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 36),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2005.
59. KASAYA Kazuhiko, ed.,
    Kuge to buke no hikaku bunmeishi (Comparison Civilization of Court Nobles and Samurai’s Histories),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2005.
60. YAMADA Shoji and Alexander BENNETT, eds.,
    Nihon no kyôiku ni 'Budô' o: 21seiki ni shin gi tai o kitaeru, (“Budô” to the Education of Japan),
    Tokyo: Meijitosho Shuppan, 2005.
61. E. KLOPFENSTEIN and SUZUKI Sadami, eds.,
    Nihon bunka no renzokusei to hirenzokusei (Continuousness and Non-Continuousness of Japanese Culture),
    Tokyo: Bensey Publishing Inc., 2005.
62. Jay RUBIN, TASHIRO Keiichiro, and NISHINO Haruo, eds.,
    Katsurazaka yôkyoku dangi (Five Noh Discussions on Katsura Hill, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 37),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2006.
63. YASUDA Yoshinori, ed.,
    Ryû no bunmeishi (Dragon’s History of Civilization),
    Tokyo: Yasaka Shobo, 2006.
64. A.J.H. LATHAM and KAWAKATSU Heita, eds.,
    Intra-Asian Trade and the World Market,
    London: Routledge, 2006.
65. KIOKA Nobuo and SUZUKI Sadami, eds.,
    Gijutsu to shintai (Technology and Body),
    Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2006.
66. YASUDA Yoshinori, ed.,
    Sangaku shinkô to Nihonjin (Mountain Worship and the Japanese),
    Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co., Ltd., 2006.
67. OCHIAI Emiko, ed.,
    Tokugawa Nihon no raifu kôsu: Rekishi jinkôgaku to no taiwa (Lifecourse in Tokugawa Japan: Dialogue with Historical Demography),
    Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2006.
68. ZHANG xiang and SONODA Hidehiro, eds.,
    'Hôken' 'Gunken' saikô: Higashi Ajia shakai taisei ron no shinsô (Feudalism or Centralized Bureaucracy: The Discourse of Social System in the East Asia),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2006.
69. SUZUKI Sadami and IWAI Shigeki, eds.,
    Wabi, sabi, yûgen: 'Nihonteki naru mono' e no dôtei (Wabi, Sabi, Yûgen: Process to be seen as the Essence of Beauty in Japan),
    Tokyo: Suiseisha, 2006.
70. KOMATSU Kazuhiko, ed.,
    Nihonjin no ikai kan: ikai no sôzôryoku no kongen o saguru (The Significance of Japanese Views of the “Other World”),
    Tokyo: Serica Shobo, 2006.
71. KASAYA Kazuhiko, ed.,
    Kuge to buke III: Ôken to gishiki no hikaku bunmeishiteki kôsatsu (The Coutiers and the Worriors 3: A Comparative History of Kingship and Courtesy),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2006.
72. UNO Takao, ed.,
    Jissen kôkogaku GIS: Sentan gijutsu de rekishi kûkan o yomu (Archaeology with GIS: Reading the Historic Spaces by High Technology),
    Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co., Ltd., 2006.
73. YAMADA Shoji, ed.,
    Bunka to shite no terebi komâsharu (Cultural Perspectives on Television Commercials),
    Kyoto: Sekaishisosha, 2007.
74. LU Yuang Ming, SUZUKI Sadami, and LIU Jianhui, eds.,
    Geibun,
    Tokyo: Yumani Shobo, 2007.
75. INAGA Shigemi, ed.,
    Dentô kôgei saikô, Kyô no uchi soto: Kako hakkutsu, genjô bunseki, shôrai tenbô (Traditional Japanese Arts and Crafts: A Reconsideration from Inside and Outside Kyoto),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2007.
76. Augustin BERQUE, ed.,
    Nihon no sumai to fûdo sei (Mediance in Japanese Habitation, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 41),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2007.
77. FENG Tianyu, LIU Jianhui, and NIE Changshun, eds.,
    Gogi teki bunka hensen,
    Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, 2007.
78. TAKEMURA Tamio and SUZUKI Sadami, eds.,
    Kansai modanizumu saikô (Rethinking of Modernism in Kansai Japan),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2008.
79. IMATANI Akira, ed.,
    Ôken to toshi (Kingship and City Culture),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2008.
80. Rien T. SEGERS, ed.,
    A NEW JAPAN FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems,
    London: Routledge, 2008.
81. KASAYA Kazuhiko, ed.,
    Kuge to buke Ⅳ: Kanryôsei to hôkensei no hikaku bunmeishi teki kôsatsu (The Courtiers and Worriors 4: A Comparative History of Bureaucracy and Feudalism),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2008.
82. SENDA Minoru, ed.,
    Kansai o sôzô suru (Kansai, Its Past and Future),
    Osaka: Izumi Shoin, 2008.
83. KONDO Noriyuki and KOMATSU Kazuhiko, eds.,
    Shi no gihô: Zaitaku shi ni miru sô no reisetsu, shiseikan (Ways to Deal with Death: Funeral Manners and Views on Life and Death as Seen through Cases of Death at Home),
    Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2008.
84. INOKI Takenori, ed.,
    Senkan ki nihon no syakai shûdan to nettowâku: Demokurasî to chûkan dantai (Social Groups and Networks in Interwar Japan: Democracy and Intermediary Organizations),
    Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co., Ltd., 2008.
85. SUZUKI Sadami, ed.,
    Nihon kenkyû dai 37 shû (Nihon kenkyû vol. 37),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2008.
86. HIDA Toyoro and INAGA Shigemi, eds.,
    Owari kirenai ‘kindai’: Yagi Kazuo to Obuje yaki,
    Tokyo: Bigaku Shuppan, 2008.
87. INOUE Shoichi, ed.,
    Seiyoku no bunka shi (Cultural History of Sexual Desire) Vols. 1 & 2,
    Tokyo: Kodansha, 2008.
88. WANG Weikun and UNO Takao, eds.,
    Kodai Ajia kôryû no sôgôteki kenkyû (Comprehensive Research on Cultural Interaction in Ancient East Asia, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 42),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2008.
89. INAMI Ritsuko and INOUE Shoichi, eds.,
    Kôda Rohan no sekai (The World of Kôda Rohan),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2009.
90. Shirahata Yozaburo, ed.,
    Tabi to Nihon Hakken: Idô to kôtû no bunka keisei ryoku (The “Discovery” of Japan, Nichibunken Japanese Studies Series 43),
    Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2009.
91. Matsuda Toshihiko and Yamada Atsushi, eds.,
    Nihon no Chôsen Taiwan shihai to shokuminchi kanryô (A Study of Bureaucracy of the Japanese Colonial Empire),
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2009.
92. Inoue Shoichi et al., eds.,
    Seiteki na kotoba (Sexual Terminology),
    Tokyo: Kodansha, 2010.
93. Yamada Shoji, ed.,
    Komonzu to bunka: Bunka wa dare no mono ka (The Commons and Culture: To Whom Does Culture Belong?),
    Tokyodo Publishing Co., Ltd., 2010.
94. Komatsu Kazuhiko, ed.,
    Yôkai bunka no dentô to sôzô: Emaki sôshi kara manga ranobe made,
    Tokyo: Serica Shobo, 2010.
95. ASAOKA Kunio and SUZUKI Sadami, eds.,
    Meijiki "shinshiki kashihonya" mokuroku no kenkyū,
    Tokyo: Sakuhinsha, 2010.
96. KASAYA Kazuhiko, ed.,
    Jūhasseiki Nihon no bunka jōkyō to kokusai kankyō,
    Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2011.
97. Shirahata Yozaburo et al., eds.,
    Toshi rekishi hakuran: Toshibunka no naritachi, shikumi, tanoshimi,
    Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2011.

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