Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (RIJS) at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 is a research center focusing on Japan. It provides a forum for stimulating scholarly and public interest.

The Institute's function is to develop and coordinate activities concerning Japan among the various faculties at Harvard. RIJS responds to scholarly and public interest in Japan from outside Harvard; and RIJS supports outreach activities such as lectures, conferences, symposia, exhibitions and films.

History

RIJS established as the Japan Institute in 1973 by Edwin Reischauer in 1973.

The Japan Institute was renamed in 1985 in honor of Reischauer's 75th birthday.

Directors

The RIJS Directors are selected from its senior faculty. There have been nine Institute Directors:

• Edwin Reischauer, 1974-1981
• Donald Shively
  Donald Shively
  Donald Howard Shively was an American academic, historian, Japanologist, author and professor emeritus of East Asian Languages and cultures at University of California, Berkeley.-Early life:...
  
  , 1981-1983
• Albert M. Craig
  Albert M. Craig
  Albert Morton Craig is an American academic, historian, author and professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.-Early life:...
  
  , 1983-1985
• Howard Hibbett
  Howard Hibbett
  Howard Hibbett （b. 1920）is a translator and professor emeritus of Japanese literature at Harvard University. He held the Victor S. Thomas Professorship in Japanese Literature....
  
  , 1985-1988
• Harold Bolitho
  Harold Bolitho
  Harold Bolitho was an Australian academic, historian, author and professor emeritus in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University The name Bolitho is of Cornish origin.-Career:...
  
  , 1988-1991
• Akira Iriye
  Akira Iriye
  is an historian of American diplomatic history especially United States-East Asian relations, and international issues. He is the only Japanese citizen ever to serve as President of the American Historical Association, and has also served as president for the Society for Historians of American...
  
  , 1991-1995
• Helen Hardacre
  Helen Hardacre
  Helen Hardacre is an American academic and Japanologist. At Harvard University, she is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society....
  
  , 1995-1998
• Andrew Gordon
  Andrew Gordon (historian)
  Andrew Gordon is a prominent scholar of modern Japanese history. He is Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University and former chair of the Department of History there from 2004–2007. He was Director of the Edwin O...
  
  , 1998-2004
• Susan Pharr
  Susan Pharr
  Susan J. Pharr is an academic in the field of political science, a Japanologist, and Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics, Director of Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at Harvard University...
  
  , 2002-2003; 2004-present

Selected works

RIJS's published list of occasional papers on Japanese Studies encompasses 51 works in 83 publications in 1 language and 410 library holdings.

• Multiple Logics of the Welfare State: Skills, Protection, and Female Labor in Japan and Selected OECD countries (1999) by Margarita Estévez-Abe
• Cost Reduction in Transmission and Distribution: a Key Issue for Liberalization of the Power Market (1999) by Shinya Nishigata
• Compliance from Within : MITI's Transition and Japan's Changing GATT Behavior (1999) by Amy Searight
• The Social Responsibility of Corporations (1999) by Masatoshi Taguchi
• Japan's Future Employment System : Recommendations Based on a Study of the Japanese and U.S. Labor Markets (2000) by Koki Hayakawa
• Exploration of Management Methods for Sustainable Development in Regional Governments (2000) by Nobuo Ino
• Style Differences at International Negotiations: a Comparison between Japan and the United States: Case Study of the International Negotiations on Global Climate Change (2000) by Takashi Kageyama
• Toward a More Desirable System of Foreign Exchange Management in Asia: Possible Roles for Japan and the United States (2000) by Yasuhiro Maki
• Reflections on Modern Japanese History in the Context of the Concept of "Genocide" (2001) by Gavan McCormack
• Policy Legacies: Japan's Responses to Domestic and International Environmental Problems (2000) by Isao Miyaoka
• Foreign Direct Investment Strategies of Japanese High-technology Firms in East Asia (2000) by Patricia A Nelson
• The Evolution of Japan's Politico-security Role in the Asia-Pacific Region: an Insider's View (2000) by Seiichiro Otsuka
• Respect for the Elderly's Votes: Theories of Interests and the Elderly in Japanese Healthcare Policy, 1995-2000 (2000) by Paul David Talcott
• Management of Internet Domain Names (2000) by Hidekazu Tanaka
• Rediscovering Women in Tokugawa Japan (2000) by Yutaka Yabuta
• From Feudal Fishing Villagers to an Archipelago's Peoples: the Historiographical Journey of Amino Yoshihiko (2005) by William Johnston

Further reading

• RIJS. (2001) Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, 2000-2001 Annual Report. OCLC 061741419

External links

• RIJS web site ;