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National Institute for Educational Policy Research; National Institute for Environmental Studies; National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics; National Institute for Materials Science; National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; National Institute of ...
Riken (Japanese: 理研, English: / ˈ r ɪ k ɛ n /; [1] stylized in all caps as RIKEN) is a national scientific research institute in Japan. Founded in 1917, it now has about 3,000 scientists on seven campuses across Japan, including the main site at Wakō, Saitama Prefecture, on the outskirts of Tokyo.
Japan Review, which is published annually, accepts outstanding essays on Japanese culture from scholars across the globe, as well as research notes. It carries reviews of important books on Japanese studies. Japan Review also publishes Special Issues, the first of which was published in 2013 as "Shunga: Sex and Humor in Japanese Art and ...
The Tobunken was founded in 1930 as the Art Research Institute with an endowment established by Kuroda Seiki, former president of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts (Japan Art Academy). In 1952, it was reorganized into the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties with the establishment of departments of Fine Arts, Performing ...
The National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (Japanese: 防災科学技術研究所, romanized: Bōsai Kagaku Gijutsu Kenkyū-sho), also known as NIED, is a National Research and Development Agency [1] that conducts research on science and technology related to disaster risk reduction. [2]
It began as Institute for Research of Foreign Documents (蛮書調所, Bansho Shirabesho), a Tokugawa shogunate's translation bureau set up in 1857. [ 4 ] It was subsequently established as an independent educational and research institution with the name Tokyo School of Foreign Languages ( 東京外国語学校 , Tokyo Gaikokugo Gakko ) in ...
The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS) at Harvard University is a research center focusing on Japan. It provides a forum for stimulating scholarly and public interest. [1] The institute's function is to develop and coordinate activities concerning Japan among the various faculties at Harvard.
Organizational flowchart of NINS. The five institutes established under NINS are Japan's main centers of academic research in their respective fields. These institutes cooperate actively as a base for interdisciplinary research in natural science with universities, university-affiliated research institutes, and inter-university research institutes to promote the formation of new research ...