Tokyo Metropolitan University,often referred to as TMU,is a Public Research University in Japan.
Osaka University,abbreviated as Handai (阪大),is a public research university located in Osaka Prefecture,Japan. It is one of Japan's former Imperial Universities and a Designated National University listed as a "Top Type" university in the Top Global University Project. The university is often ranked among the top three public universities in Japan,along with the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University. It is ranked third overall among Japanese universities and 75th worldwide in the 2022 QS World University Rankings.
Sophia University,also known by its Japanese name 上智大学,is a private research university in Japan. Sophia is one of the 3 prestigious Sōkeijōchi (早慶上智) private universities,a group of the top 3 private universities in Japan with the other 2 being Keio University and Waseda University,according to the Times Higher Education. It is also ranked number 18 in the 2021 Times Japan University Rankings. Founded by the Roman Catholic religious order of the Society of Jesus in 1913,the university has grown from its 3 original academic departments of Philosophy,German Literature,and Commerce to 9 undergraduate Faculties and 10 Graduate Schools,with over 13,900 students in total at the present moment.
Chuo University,commonly referred to as Chuo (中央) or Chu-Dai (中大),is a private flagship research university in Tokyo,Japan. Founded in 1885 as Igirisu Hōritsu Gakkō,Chuo is one of the oldest and most prestigious institutions in the country. The university operates four campuses in Tokyo:the largest in Hachiōji,one in Bunkyō,and two others in Shinjuku. Chuo is organized into six faculties,ten graduate schools,and nine research institutes. There are also four affiliated high schools and two affiliated junior high schools. When written in Chinese characters,Chuo University shares the same name with National Central University in Taiwan and Chung-Ang University in South Korea.
Ryōgen was the 18th chief abbot of Enryaku-ji in the 10th century.
Theodore C. Bestor was a professor of anthropology and Japanese studies at Harvard University. He was the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 2012. In 2018,he resigned as director from the Reischauer Institute following an investigation by Harvard officials that found he committed two counts of sexual misconduct.
Alexander Vladimirovich Vovin was a Soviet-born Russian-American linguist and philologist,and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris,France. He was a world-renowned linguist,well known for his research on East Asian languages.
Peter Francis Kornicki FBA is an English Japanologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Cambridge University and Emeritus Fellow of Robinson College,Cambridge.
John Whitney Hall,was an American historian of Japan who specialized in premodern Japanese history. His life work was recognized by the Japanese government,which awarded him the Order of the Sacred Treasure.
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.
Edward Kamens is Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Literature at Yale University,where he has taught since 1986. His dissertation focused on the Buddhist setsuwa collection Sanbōe,and more recently he has written on allusive or intertextual language in premodern literature,particularly utamakura in waka. He was Master of Saybrook College and is now a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. Professor Kamens and his wife,art history professor and former Saybrook College Master and current Yale College Dean Mary Miller,are rumored to appear as extras in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,part of which was filmed at Yale.
Richard John Bowring is an English academic serving as Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Fellow of Downing College. In 2013,Bowring was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class,Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon for contributions to the development of Japanese studies,Japanese language education and the promotion of mutual understanding between Japan and the United Kingdom.
Fabio Rambelli is an Italian academic,author and editor. He is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California,Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Andrew Edmond Goble is a professor of Japanese history at the University of Oregon in Eugene,Oregon.
Mary Clabaugh Wright was an American sinologist and historian who specialized in the study of late Qing dynasty and early twentieth century China. She was the first woman to gain tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University,and subsequently the first woman to be appointed a full professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale.
The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) is the main research center for international studies and area studies at Princeton University and is one of the oldest centers of its kind in the United States. The Institute focuses on an interdisciplinary approach and its associated faculty is drawn from more than 150 professors and other scholars from more than 25 different departments within Princeton. Its director is historian Stephen Kotkin,the John P. Birkelund ’52 Professor in History and International Affairs.
Yutaka Tsujinaka is a professor of political science and the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba. He is now teaching at the College of Social Sciences and the doctoral program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies. He is also the president of Japan Political Science Association,a member of the International Association of Universities (2012–2016),the director of Internationalization Subcommittee of IAU (2013–),the executive assistant to the President at University of Tsukuba (2013–) and the director of Institute for Comparative Research in Human and Social Sciences (ICR) (2014–). Youji Inaba professor of economy at Nippon University said in a newspaper column that Professor Tsujinaka talks in friendly Kansai dialect and always gives everyone warm smile as if he has "Tender-Heated DNA" in his body. (Nikkei:July 8,2015)
Shigetada Nakanishi is a Japanese biochemist and neuroscientist. Both a medical doctor and biomedical researcher by training,Nakanishi is the director of the Osaka Bioscience Institute and professor emeritus at Kyoto University. He has received several scientific awards for his research in neuroscience,having characterized the molecular structure or function of several protein receptors.
The Faculty of History is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge.
Jacqueline Ilyse Stone is an emeritus Professor of Japanese Religion in the Department of Religion at Princeton University's Department of Religion and a specialist in Japanese Buddhism,particularly Kamakura Buddhism,Nichiren Buddhism from medieval to modern times,and deathbed practices in Japan,She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
