Library

The Nichibunken Library collects a wide range of materials
needed for research on Japan and makes these materials available
to researchers. It also provides access to Japanese studies-related
information of various kinds. The 600,000 titles in the library canbe searched via the OPAC, CiNii and OCLC WorldCat. Researchers
outside Nichibunken may use the inter-library loan system to apply
for document copying and loans of books and other materials. The
collection prioritizes books about Japan written in other languages
and translations of Japanese works originating in Japan and overseas.
In addition to books and periodicals, the collection includes coloredphotographs from the late Edo and Meiji periods, old maps, andvideo, DVD, and CD audio and visual materials.
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/library/

Visiting Research Scholars and FellowsAs an international research center, Nichibunken opens its doors to
the world by inviting many scholars from foreign countries to carryout international and interdisciplinary research related to Japaneseculture. The foreign scholars are classified either as “visiting researchscholars,” who are accepted for periods from three months to one
year and receive a salary from Nichibunken, or as “visiting researchfellows,” whose income is provided by public and other foundations.
In addition to carrying out their own research, foreign scholars
at Nichibunken take part in team research projects organized by
Nichibunken professors and deliver presentations at seminars,
forums, and international meetings. They also have the opportunity
to publish the results of their research in Nichibunken publications.
We hope that the close collaboration between these foreign scholars
and the professors at Nichibunken and members of their researchteams will become the base for the further development of Japanesestudies in the world.
Applications for Visiting Research Scholars and Fellows
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/research/employment/#gaikenkobo
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/research/employment/acceptance/

Nichibunken House

Public Databases Access

Nichibunken develops databases of the materials in its collection, theoutcomes of research by its faculty, and Japan-related materials heldby other organizations. It now provides public online access to 43
databases (As of April 1, 2022).
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/db/

Database of Visual Images in Modern Japanese Popular Magazines from the Kasho Museum Collection

Nichibunken House consists of family- and single-occupancy units.
Family-occupancy units are primarily for visiting research scholars
who stay for a long term, with their families. Single-occupancy units
comprise two zones, one for long-term users and the other for guests
such as team researchers here for a short stay.
Qualification for use :Short-term stays up to one month• Visiting Faculty Members• Team Researchers• Participants in International Symposiums
Long-term stays• Visiting Research Scholars• JF Research Fellows• JSPS Research Fellows• Visiting Research Fellows

National Institutes for the Humanities

International Research Center
for Japanese Studies
2022 Brochure
NICHIBUNKEN PROSPECTUS

Faculty

(As of April 1, 2022)

Director-General
INOUE Shōichi	History of manners and customs
Deputy Directors-General
Frederik CRYNS	Interaction between the Western world and Japan
MATSUDA Toshihiko	History of Japanese and Korean relations
Professors
ARAKI Hiroshi	Japanese literature
ISODA Michifumi	Japanese history
ISOMAE Jun’ichi	Religious studies; critical theory
ITŌ Takayuki	History of Chinese thought; cultural interaction inEast Asia; comparative culture
KUSUNOKI Ayako	Japanese political and diplomatic history; securitystudies
KURAMOTO Kazuhiro	History of ancient Japan
LIU Jianhui	History of cultural connections between Japan andChinaŌTSUKA Eiji	History of the arts of manga; Manga writingtheory; Yanagita Kunio studies;
Markus RÜTTERMANN	Japanese medieval social history; semiotics; historyof mentalities; history of behaviour
Timon SCREECH	Art history and history of the Edo period
SEKINO Tatsuki	Informatics
TAKII Kazuhiro	Constitutional history; comparative legal history
USHIMURA Kei	Comparative literature and culture; intellectualhistory
YAMADA Shōji	Informatics; history of cultural exchangeYASUI Manami	Japanese folklore; cultural anthropology
Associate Professors
Edward BOYLE	Border studies, heritage studies, geopolitics,cartography
ENOMOTO Wataru	Medieval history of international exchange
Assistant Professors
HIRAMATSU Makoto	Urban Sociology, sociology using quantitative
methods
MATSUGI Hiromi	Art history; art studies
SHIRAISHI Eri	Japanese art history
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor
MITSUHIRA Yūki ※1	History of music therapy

Team Research Projects 2022
Title of Project

Solid “Impermanence”/Fragile “Impermanence”:
The Transmogrification of the Classics and Future
Prospects
The Formation and Development of Western
Perceptions of Japan

Project Assistant Professor (The Center for Information and Public Relations, TheNational Institutes for the Humanities) and concurrently Specially AppointedAssistant Professor (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)

2021

Japan Review

36JAPAN REVIEWJ OURNAL OF THE I NTERNATIONAL R ESEARCH C ENTER FOR J APANESE S TUDIES

japan
review

NUMBER 36 2021

Japan Review is published annually. It is a refereed interdisciplinary
journal that carries manuscripts, research notes, review articles, aswell as annotated translations of important texts relating to Japan.
Submission to Japan Review is open to all those engaged in thestudy of Japanese culture past and present.

Project Leader(s)Professor

Araki Hiroshi
Professor

Frederik Cryns
Visiting Professor

A Popular Cultural History of Labor and the Human
Body: On the Connectivity of Wartime and Postwar
Mouths and Noses: A Cultural History of theJunctures between the Human Body and the Outside
World in Japan
Studying Nichibunken’s Collection of Inoue
Tetsujiro’s Correspondence: The Rise and Fall of theNation-State
Reconsidering the Early-Modern in the History ofEast Asia: In Search of a New Global History
What are Aristocrats, and What are Samurai?

Hoshino YukiyoProfessorŌtsuka Eiji
Professor

Isoda Michifumi
Professor

Isomae Jun'ichi
Visiting Professor

Karita Shinji
Professor

Itō Takayuki
Professor

Kuramoto Kazuhiro

Reconstructing Modern East Asian Cultural History
I: Focusing on the 19th Century

Professor

The Japanese Colonial Empire and the Global
Linkage of Knowledge

Professor

Yanagita Kunio as a connecter
Formation and Changes of Correspondence-Texts as
Seen in the Principle of ‘As If ’-Transpositions: The
Term Monjo, Its Styles, Signs, Representations, andIntentions

Liu Jianhui
Matsuda Toshihiko
ProfessorŌtsuka Eiji

The International Research Center for Japanese Studies(Nichibunken) was founded in 1987 to pursue international,interdisciplinary, and comprehensive research on Japanese culture
and to provide research cooperation and support for Japanese studies
scholars around the world.
In addition to research on the distinctiveness of Japanese culture,
Nichibunken emphasizes the perspectives of comparative studies
and cultural exchange. Its professors lead diverse interdisciplinary
team research projects on Japanese culture that bring together
specialists from a wide range of fields from within and outside
Japan. Nichibunken engages in international research collaborationof various kinds such as sharing research information with scholars
and research institutions around the world, and sponsoring theparticipation of its faculty at scholarly meetings held overseas.

PhD Program at Nichibunken

Nichibunken is the institutional home of the Department ofJapanese Studies in the School of Cultural and Social Studies at
the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI.
The department promotes interdisciplinary and comprehensive
Japanese studies education and research from an international
perspective. Students from abroad as well as from Japan enroll in thedepartment’s doctoral program. Under the special inter-university
researchers system, the department also accepts and trains graduatestudents recommended by other universities.

Professor

MarkusRüttermann
Visiting Professor

The Geological Characteristics of Japanese Culture

Suzuki Hisashi
Associate Professor

Enomoto Wataru
Japanese Style Education - from the Perspective of theHistory of Civilizations
Sports as Civilization, Sports as Culture※1

About Nichibunken

Cultural Creativity in a Shrinking Society:Individuals, Networks, Capital, and Systems

Professor

Takii Kazuhiro
Professor

Ushimura Kei
Professor

Yamada Shōji

Nichibunken Monograph SeriesThis series comprises scholarly books in English representing thehigh quality of research carried out at Nichibunken. Several volumeshave been co-published with publishing houses in the U.S. andEurope. The authors are primarily faculty members at Nichibunken.

International Research Center for Japanese Studies
3-2 Goryo Oeyama-cho, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 610-1192 Japan

https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/

Nichibunken Open Access

PDF files of publications of Nichibunken are available on
the Nichibunken website.
https://nichibun.repo.nii.ac.jp/?lang=english
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/library/search/repository/