Willy F. Vande Walle (born November 21, 1949) is a Belgian academic, author,

Japanologist 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 Japanes ...

and

Sinologist Sinology, or Chinese studies, is an academic discipline that focuses on the study of China primarily through Chinese philosophy, language, literature, culture and history and often refers to Western scholarship. Its origin "may be traced to the ex ...

. Willy Vande Walle was born in Roeselare, Belgium. His secondary education focused on classical humanities (Greek-Latin) at Klein Seminarie Roeselare (1962–1968). He studied Oriental Philology and History at the

State University of Ghent Ghent University ( nl, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a public research university located in Ghent, Belgium. Established before the state of Belgium itself, the university was founded by the Dutch King William I in 1817, when t ...

and earned his doctoral degree in Oriental Philology in 1976.Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL)
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Career

Willy Vande Walle is Professor Emeritus 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 Japan ...

at the

Catholic University of Leuven University of Leuven or University of Louvain (french: Université de Louvain, link=no; nl, Universiteit Leuven, link=no) may refer to: * Old University of Leuven (1425–1797) * State University of Leuven (1817–1835) * Catholic University of L ...

(''Katholieke Universiteit Leuven'' or KU Leuven) in

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. He taught several classes such as Japanese language and literature, history of Japan, art history of East Asia, as well as history of China and Chinese poetry. The KU Leuven coursework is supplemented with active Internet learning programs linked to Japanese educational partners. Willy Vande Walle is the Belgian coordinator for projects conducted by the European Association of Japanese Studies.

Honors

* *

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 Ministr ...

: Japan Foundation Special Prize, 1992.Japan Foundation
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Main publications

* 1987 – ''Stratification in Verbiest's Works: The Astronomia Europaea and the Memorials.'' * 1989 – ''Takakura – Habits de la cour impériale du Japon / Keizerlijke gewaden uit Japan'' (with Muneyuki Sengoku). Brussels:

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Foundation International. * 1989 – ''Splendeur du théâtre No / Luister van het No-theater'' (with Eileen Kato, Tomoyuki Yamanobe & Shozo Masuda). Brussels: Europalia Foundation International. * 2001 -
''Dodonæus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period''
(with Kazuhiko Kasaya). Leuven: Leuven University Press.
OCLC 49539599
-- ''simultaneously published'' in Kyoto:

International Research Center for Japanese Studies The , or Nichibunken (日文研), is an inter-university research institute in Kyoto. Along with the National Institute of Japanese Literature, the National Museum of Japanese History, and the National Museum of Ethnology, it is one of the Natio ...

. * 2001 – ''Dodonæus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period'' (with Kazuhiko Kasaya). Leuven: Leuven University Press. ; OCLC 49539599 – ''simultaneously published'' in Kyoto:

. * 2003 -
''The History of the Relations Between the Low Countries and China in the Qing Era (1644-1911)''
with Noël Golvers. Leuven Chinese Studies XIV. Leuven: Leuven University Press. * 2005 (as editor)-- ''Japan & Belgium: Four Centuries of Exchange.'' Brussels: Commissioners-General of the Belgian Government at the Universal Exposition of Aichi 2005, Japan.

Notes

References

* Meyvis, Ludo
"Japanologie zoekt nieuwe wegen,"
''Campus krant'' (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). 10 May 2004. * Meyvis, Ludo. "Japanologie zoekt nieuwe wegen," ''Campus krant'' (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). May 10, 2004. *
"'Lost in Toykio' in opspraak: alles voor het geld?"
''TV-Visie.'' 18 March 2008. * "'Lost in Toykio' in opspraak: alles voor het geld?" ''TV-Visie.'' March 18, 2008. *

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