Activities Overview
Outline of Current Research Being Conducted at NIJL
NIJL is currently engaged in the following collaborative research projects as a means of promoting original research, both here in Japan and internationally, in the eld of Japanese literature. These projects are made possible by the efforts of scholars who collect and analyze relevant materials from all over the country, and who engage in academic conversations with various other institutions inside and outside of Japan.
Research and Collection
International Exchange
Japanese literature is studied throughout the world. An important challenge of Japanese literary research is that of analyzing Japanese literature while incorporating a view of world literary research. Based on such an awareness, the institute established an International Relations Exchange section in the International Collabora- tion Division in FY 2016 in order to invigorate international exchange activities. Similarly, positive activities are being implemented, such as the hosting of symposiums and research conventions overseas.
Conclusion of Academic Exchange Agreements
As an international center for Japanese literary research, the NIJL actively engages in a variety of academic exchange projects with researchers and research institutions overseas.
International Conference on Japanese Literature
We hold free-topic international conference, providing a Japan-based venue for scholars and students to share their research with a multinational audience fall every year.
Seminars on Premodern Japanese Books
We hold seminars on bibliography and literary culture with regard to Japanese classical books, which are a basis of Japanese culture, in collaboration with international researchers and research institutes.
Graduate Education
Special Inter-University Research Fellows
NIJL accepts graduate students at the request of universities and cooperates in university education.
The Department of Japanese Literature in the School of Cultural and Social Studies at SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
The NIJL functions as the Department of Japanese Literature in the School of Cultural and Social Studies at SOKENDAI.
This department was established in 2003 and accepts students into the doctoral course. The wealth of original texts and materials kept by the NIJL represent a key cultural information resource for researchers, and the aim is to use this to cultivate specialists in Japanese literature and peripheral areas of study through the comprehensive study of the external and internal characteristics, etc., of the materials in the NIJL collection.