The European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS or ヨーロッパ日本研究協会 ヨーロッパにほんけんきゅうきょうかい) was established in 1973 by European scholars in order to facilitate academic exchange in the field of
Japanese studies
Japanese studies (Japanese: ) or Japan studies (sometimes Japanology in Europe), is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese ...
within Europe.
Since 1976, conferences have been organised almost every three years.
All the activities of EAJS are mainly supported by the
Japan Foundation
The was established in 1972 by an Act of the National Diet as a special legal entity to undertake international dissemination of Japanese culture, and became an Independent Administrative Institution under the jurisdiction of the Ministry o ...
, the Toshiba International Foundation, as well as some private funds.
Sections
Each conference is divided into specialist sections with convenors for each one. For 2011 the ten sections were:
* Urban and Environmental Studies
* Language and Linguistics
* Literature
* Visual and Performing Arts
* Anthropology and Sociology
* Economics, Business and Political Economy
* History
* Religion and History of Ideas
* Politics and International Relations
* Translating and Teaching Japanese
Conferences
* 2021, Ghent / Belgium (held online)
* 2017, Lisbon / Portugal
* 2014, Ljubljana / Slovenia
* 2011, Tallinn / Estonia
* 2008, Lecce / Italy
* 2005, Vienna / Austria
* 2003, Warsaw / Poland
* 2000, Lahti / Finland
* 1997, Budapest / Hungary
* 1994, Copenhagen / Denmark
* 1991, Berlin / Germany
* 1988, Durham / UK
* 1985, Paris / France
* 1982, The Hague / Netherlands
* 1979, Florence / Italy
* 1976, Zurich / Switzerland
* 1973, Oxford, London / UK (1st)
Current president
* 2017-2020
Andrej BEKEŠ,
University of Ljubljana
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History Beginnings
Although certain ...
Past presidents
* 2014-2017
Bjarke Frellesvig
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*Bjarke Ingels (born 1974), Danish architect
**Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Copenhagen and New York based group of architects, designers, and builders
*Bjarke Mogensen ( ...
, University of Oxford
* 2011-2014
Rein Raud
Rein Raud (born 21 December 1961) is an Estonian scholar and author.
Early life
He was born in 1961 in the family of Eno Raud and Aino Pervik, both children's authors. He is the eldest of three children. His younger brother Mihkel Raud is a ...
, Helsinki University
* 2008-2011
Harald Fuess, Heidelberg University
* 2005–2008
Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo, Tübingen University
* 2003–2005
Brian Powell, Oxford University
* 2000–2003
Joseph Kyburz
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, CNRS Paris
* 1997–2000
Peter Kornicki
Peter Francis Kornicki (born 1 May 1950) FBA is an English Japanologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Cambridge University and Emeritus Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge.
Kornicki was born at Maidenhead on 1 May 1950, the eldest s ...
, Cambridge University
* 1994–1997
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit b. (born 20 August 1948 in Korntal) is a distinguished German Japanologist and Translator. In 1992 she was awarded Germany's most prestigious prize for distinction in research, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.
L ...
, Freie Universitaet Berlin
* 1991–1994
Adriana Boscaro
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Translations
*Arabic: أدريان
* Belorussian: Адрыяна (Adryjana)
*Bulgarian: Адриана (Adriana)
*Chinese Simplifi ...
, Venice University
* 1988–1991
Sepp Linhart
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*Sepp (given name)
*Sepp (surname)
*Science & Environmental Policy Project
* Sepp (publisher)
*Substantially equal periodic payments, US tax-law provision
*Single Edge Processor Package
*State Enterprise for Pesticide Production ...
, Vienna University
* 1985–1988
Ian Nish
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, London School of Economics
* 1982–1985
Olof Lidin
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*Per-Olov Ahrén (1926–2004), Swedish clergyman, bishop of Lund from 1980 to 1992
*Per-Olov Bra ...
, Copenhagen University
* 1979–1982
Charles Dunn, SOAS London
* 1976–1979
Joseph Kreiner
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, Bonn University
* 1975–1976 Joseph Kreiner, Bonn University
* 1973–1974
Patrick O'Neill, London University
Notes
External links
EAJS official home page
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