Issued on November 6th, 2020
Revised on December 2nd, 2020

Joint Statement by the Academic Societies of the Humanities and Social Scienceson the Refusal to Appoint Nominees as Council Members to the 25 th Term of theScience Council of JapanWe, the 310 academic societies in the field of humanities and social sciences, support the “Requestfor Appointment of New Members for the 25 th Term” issued by the Science Council of Japan onOctober 2nd, 2020, and strongly demand the immediate realization of the following two points:
1. An explanation of the reason(s) why the nominees recommended by the Science Council of Japan
were not appointed.
2. The appointment of the nominees recommended by the Science Council of Japan who were notappointed.

Academic societies participating in this joint statement (140)
Art Education Society of Japan

Council of Academies for Social Policies*

Association for Cultural Typhoon*

European Union Studies Association in Japan*

Association for Early Japanese Literature*

Jochi Daigaku Shigakukai(Historical Society of Sophia

Association for Japanese Social Literature*

University)*

Association for Language and Cultural Education

History Educationalist Conference of Japan

Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies*

History of Educational Thought Society

Association for Narrative Studies*

Hokkaido Society for the Study of Education**

Association for Showa Literary Studies*Intercultural Education Society of Japan*

Association for the Study of Industrial Management

International Society for Gender Studies*（Japan）*
Association for the University Evaluation*

Japan Academic Association of Socio-education andService Learning**

Association Japonaise d'Etudes Sartriennes*

Japan Academy of Labor and Management*

Association of Historical Science (Rekishikagaku

Japan Association for Comparative Economic Stu-Kyogikai)

dies**

Bukkyo Bungakukai (Society of Buddhist Literature)*

Japan Association for Educational Media Study

Chiba Rekishi Gakkai (Chiba Historical Society)Japan Association for International Education*

Chihoshi Kenkyû Kyogikai (The Local History Confer-

Japan Association for Latin American Studies*ence)
Chuo Shigakukai (Historical Association of Chuo University)

Japan Association for Middle East Studies*Japan Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies
Japan Association for Philosophy of ScienceJapan Association for Social Policy Studies
Japan Association for the Comparative Studies of Management**
Japan Association for the Improvement of Conditionsof Women Scientists*
Japan Association for the Study of School Music
Education PracticeJapan Association for Urban Sociology*
Japan Association of Educators for Human Development

Japanese Society for Historical Studies of Social Welfare**Japanese Society for Law and Psychology*
Japanese Society for Physiological Psychology andPsychophysiology*
Japanese Society for Science and Technology Studies*Japanese Society for the Historical Studies of Early
Childhood Education and Care*
Japanese Society for the Study of Nursing and Social
Work*

Japan Comparative Literature Association*

Japanese Society for the Study of Social Welfare*Japan Education Law Association

Japanese Society for the Study of Social Work**

Japan Literature Association*

Kansai Sociological Association*

Japan Music Education Society**

Law Section of Association of Democratic Scientists*

Japan Outdoor Education Society

Manyo Society*Japan Schopenhauer-Association*

Nagoya Rekishikagaku Kenkyûkai (Nagoya Asso-Japan Society for Educational Technology*

ciation for Historical Science)

Japan society for Southeast Asian Studies*

Nara Historical Society

Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Com-

Nihon Kirisutokyo Syakaifukushi Gakkai (Japanesemunication*

Society for Christian Social Welfare Studies)*

Japan Society for the Study of Materialism*

Société Japono-Française de Sociologie

Japan Society for the Study of Technical and Vocational

Society for the Study of Diplomatics in Japan*

Education and Training*
Japan Society of Developmental Psychology*

Society of Archaeological Studies*
Syutoken Keiseishi Kenkyûkai (Association of History

Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences*of Creation of Metropolitan Area)

Japan Society of Mathematical Education

The Academy of Middle Ages Literature*

Japan Society of Political Economy*

The Association for High School-University Collabo-

Japan Society of Social Science on Latin America*
Japan Society of Sport Sociology*
Japanese Association for Contemporary Historical Studies*Japanese Association for Northern European Studies
Japanese Association of Higher Education Research**Japanese Association of the Sociolinguistic Sciences*

ration in History Education*
The Association for Studies of Culture and Representation*
The Association for the Study of Japanese Heian Literature*
The Association for the Study of Japanese Language
and Literature*

Japanese Byron Society

The Association of Japanese Clinical Psychology*

Japanese Educational Research Association

The English Linguistic Society of Japan

Japanese Federation of Philosophical Societies

The Historical Association of Senshu University

Japanese Research Association for Community Devel-

The Historical Science Society of Japanopment**

The History of Science Society of Japan*

The Institute for Fundamental Political Economy

The Japanese Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies*

The Japan Association for Developmental Education

The Japanese Society for Environmental Education**

The Japan Association for Feminist Economics*

The Japanese Society for Historical Studies (Nihonshi

The Japan Association for Korean Language Education**
The Japan Association for Qin-Han Historical Studies
The Japan Association for the Study on the History ofSociology*

Kenkyûkai)The Japanese Society for the Study of Educational
Objectives and Evaluation*
The Japanese Society for the Study on Teacher Education*

The Japan Association of Applied Psychology

The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology*

The Japan Federation of Societies for the Study of

The Japanese Society of Medieval Philosophy*

Religions**

The Kantoh Sociological Society*

The Japan Society for Historical Studies of Education*

The Kojiki Society

The Japan Society for the Study of Adult and

The Linguistic Society of Japan

Community Education**

The Narrative Literary Society**

The Japan Society of Educational Sociology*

The Osaka Historical Association

The Japan Society of Youth and Adolescent Psycholo-

The Phenomenological Association of Japan*gy*

The Philosophical Society of Tohoku*

The Japan Sociological Society*

The Phonological Society of Japan*

The Japanese Association for Environmental Sociolo-

The Research Society for Women's Historygy*

The Society for Ancient Literature*

The Japanese Association for Rural Studies*The Society for Japanese Linguistics*

The Japanese Association of Educational Psychology*

The Society for Research on Women's History

The Japanese Association of Psychology in Teaching

The Society for Sociological Theory in Japan*and Learning**
The Japanese Group Dynamics Association

The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language**

The Japanese Historical Council

The Sociology of Science Society of Japan*

The Japanese Psychological Association

The Tohoku Sociological Society

The Japanese Research Association of Psychological

The United Associations of Language Studies

Science*
The Japanese Society for Curriculum Studies*
The Japanese Society for Education of Young Children

Tokyo Rekishikagaku Kenkyûkai (Tokyo Associationfor Historical Science)*

Academic societies supportive of this joint statement (170)
A Japan Branch of the Society for the History of Asian
Casting Technology*
Akita Kindaishi Kenkyûkai (Akita Association forModern History)

Japan NPO Research Association*
Japan Scholarly Association for Asian Management*
Japan Society for Disability Studies*Japan Society for Distributive Sciences

Association for East European Studies**

Japan Society for Gender Studies*

Association for the Interdisciplinary Studies of Japa-

Japan Society for the Pedagogy of Physical Educationnese Buddhism*

Japan Society of English Language Education*

Association of Buddhist Philosophy*

Japan Society of Family Sociology

Associazione di Studi Italiani in Giappone

Japan Society of Korean Language Education**

Australian Studies Association of Japan*

Japan Society of Lifology*Business History Society of Japan**Japan Society of New Testament Studies*

Chiiki Joseishi Kenkyûkai (Association for Local

Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood CareHistory of Women)*
Doitsu Gendaishi Kenkyûkai (Association for German
Contemporary History)*
Hakusan Shigakukai (Association for Historical Studies of the Toyo University)*and Education*
Japan Society of Social Work in HealthJapan Society of Taoistic Research**Japan Society of the History of Physical Education andSport*

Heidegger-Forum in Japan

Japan Society of Vocational Rehabilitation

Hokkaido Sociological Association*

Japan Sociological Association for Social Analysis*

Institute of Science of Cultural History*

Japan Welfare Sociology Association*

International Association of Early Childhood Educa-

Japanese Association for Comparative Philosophy*

tionInternational Society for Akutagawa [Ryunosuke] Studies**
Iwate Society for Historical Studies
Japan Academic Society for Educational Policy**

Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology*
Japanese Association for Religious Studies*Japanese Association for the Social Studies*Japanese Association for the Study of ExtracurricularActivities

Japan Academic Society of Mathematics Education

Japanese Association for Tibetan Studies*Japan Academy of Business Administration**

Japanese Association of Modern East Asian History*

Japan Association for African Studies*Japanese Association of Qualitative Psychology*

Japan Association for College and University Educa-

Japanese Association of Religion and Ethics*tion

Japanese Association of School Education*

Japan Association of Gender and Law*

Japanese Association of Social Problems*

Japan Association of Regional and Community Stu-Japanese Association of Sociological Criminology**

dies*Japan Association of Research on Child Care Social
WorkJapanese Educational Research Association for theSocial Studies
Japanese Society for British Philosophy*

Japan Environmental Council*

Japanese Society for Neoplatonic Studies*Japan Federation of Management related Academies*

Japanese Society for Oceanic Studies**Japanese Society for the Study of Human Welfare andCulture

Spinoza Society of Japan*
Sundai Historical Association*

Japanese Society for the Study of Russian History

The American Literature Society of Japan**Japanese Society of Existential Thought*

The Association for Indology and Study of Religion**

Japanische Gesellschaft für Germanistik*

The Association for Kyosei Studies*Japanische Hegel-Gesellschaft*

The Association for Northeast Asia Regional Studies*Japanischer Verein fuer Goethes Naturwissenschaft*

The Association for the Study of Japanese Mountain

Komazawa Religious Study Institute*

Religion*

Kyoto Historical Science Association

The Association of Japanese Ballads and Songs*

Mifukushikai (Society of Early Japanese Literature)*

The Association of Japanese Geographers*

National Association for the Study of Educational

The Chubu Society for the Study of Education**

Methods**
Nihon Bungaku Fudo Gakkai (Japan Society for theGeo-climatological Study of Literature)**The Chubu Society of Philosophy*
The Confucianism Society of Japan*
The English Literary Society of Japan*

Nishida Philosophy Association*

The Gender History Association of Japan*Ôryô Shigakukai (Association for Historical Studies of

The Historical Association of Tokyo Gakugei Univer-the Bukkyo University) *sity

Peace Studies Association of Japan*

The Historical Society of Akita University

Philosophy of Education Society of Japan**

The Historical Society of Hosei University*

Phonetic Society of Japan*

The Historical Society of Waseda University*

Rakuhoku Shigaku Kai (The Rakuhoku Society of

The Human Geographical Society of Japan**

Historical Studies)
Schelling-Gesellschaft Japan*

The Japan Association for Russian and East EuropeanStudies**

Societe d'anthropologie historique

The Japan Association of Sandplay Therapy*

Société franco-japonaise de philosophie*

The Japan Christian Education Society*

Societé franco-japonaise des Sciences de l’Éducation*

The Japan Educational Administration Society**

Société franco-japonaise des Sciences historiques

The Japan Society for Historical Research of Manners

Société Japonaise de Linguistique Française*Society for Philosophy of Religion in Japan*
Society for the Study of Modern History*Society for the Study of Modern Japanese Buddhist
History*
Society for the Study of Pali and Buddhist Culture*

and Customs
The Japan Society for Studies on Educational Practices*
The Japan Society for the Geniza Studies
The Japanese Society of Health and Medical Sociology*

Society for the Study of Poverty*

The Japanese Archaeological Association*

Society for the Study of Working Women*

The Japanese Association for Behavior Analysis*

Society of Inner Asian Studies

The Japanese Association for Canadian Studies**

Society of the Child and Nature*

The Japanese Association for Migration Studies*

Socio-Economic History Society*

The Japanese Association for the Study of Guidance*

Sociological Society of West Japan*

The Japanese Association for the Study of PopularMusic*

The Japanese Association for the Study of Religion andSociety*
The Japanese Association of Home Economics Education*
The Japanese Association of Indian and BuddhistStudies*

The Kanto Educational Research Society**
The Osaka Association of Historical Sciences*
The Philosophical Association of Japan*The Political Economy and Economic History Society*
The Saigyo Association*
The Sinological Society of Japan*

The Japanese Association of Labor Sociology*

The Society for Comparative Family History*

The Japanese Association of Microcounseling*

The Society for History of Sengoku Studies

The Japanese Association of School Health**

The Society for Korean Historical Science*

The Japanese Association of Sociology for Human

The Society for Old Testament Study in Japan*

Liberation*

The Society for the History of Management Theories**

The Japanese Association of Special Education*

The Society for the History of Social Thought*

The Japanese Conference for the Study of Political

The Society for the Study of Occidental HistoryThought*

The Society of Christian Studies, Kyoto University

The Japanese Forest Economic Society*

The Society of English Grammar and Usage

The Japanese Historical Society*

The Society of Historical Research

The Japanese Society for Aesthetics

The Society of Historical Studies of Christianity,

The Japanese Society for Animal Psychology*
The Japanese Society for Historical Studies on HigherEducation*
The Japanese Society for History of the Performing
Arts Research*

Japan*The Society of Oriental Researches
The Society of Philosophy*
The Women's Studies Association of Japan*
Tohoku Historical Society

The Japanese Society of Christian Studies*

Tokai Sociological Society*

The Japanese Society of Social Psychology

University of Tsukuba Philosophical Association*

The Japanese Society of the History of Transport andWaseda Daigaku Tôyôshi Konwakai (Forum of Orien-Communications
The Japan-UK Education ForumNo asterisk: as academic society* : as board of directors of the academic society** : as president of the academic society

tal History of Waseda University)*