Japan-Netherlands Institute

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The Japan-Netherlands Institute (????) is a research institute founded in 1975 to carry out research on historical Dutch-Japanese relations and to foster and promote modern academic and cultural exchange. In 1986, they received the Japan Foundation's special prize for contributions to cultural exchange and mutual understanding between Japan and other countries.

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Work

Intercultural-academic exchange

In 1986, the Japan-Netherlands Institute began a program to enable Dutch students and researchers to carry out an integral part of their research in Japan. Starting in 1994 the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science began supporting the institute eventually leading to its Japan Prizewinners Program(JPP) from 1995-2008 wherein Dutch students were selected to study Modern Japan for a year before being sent to Japan to study and carry out their research plans. 210 students ultimately passed through the JPP before its conclusion in 2008. Study abroad programs are still supported by the institute however.

In addition to their exchange programs, the Japan-Netherlands Institute holds symposiums on a wide range of topics, organizes lectures at their site or at Japanese universities by prominent Dutch scientists, publishes notices of the findings of young Japanese and Dutch scholars, and offers aide and assistance to Japanese and Dutch scholars within either country.

Research

Research on Dutch-Japanese studies is both supported and carried out by the institute, and forms the basis for a majority of their publications.

Current projects include:

• -Translation of the diaries from the Dutch trading factory at Dejima 1800-1860. Ten volumes have been published thus far.
• -Compiling and chronicling entries from the Dutch diaries.
• -Inventory of Dutch books in Japanese libraries of the Edo period.

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Publications

Regular publications

• Bulletin of the Japan-Netherlands Institute

(once/twice a year, mainly in Japanese)

• The Japan-Netherlands Institute Newsletter

(four/five times a year, mainly in Japanese)

• Journal of the Japan-Netherlands Institute

(published periodically, in English).

• Vol.1 Papers of the Workshop on the History of the Medical Exchange between Japan and the Netherlands, 1989.
• Vol.2 Papers of the Dutch-Japanese Symposium on the History of Dutch and Japanese Expansion in Memory of the Late Nagazumi Akira, 1990.
• Vol.3 Papers of the First Conference on the Transfer of Science and Technology between Europe and Asia since Vasco da Gama (1498-1998), 1991.
• Vol.4 Papers of the First Dutch-Japanese Law Symposium, 1992.
• Vol.5 Dutch-Japanese Relations during the Bakumatsu Period: The Monthly Reports of J.K. de Wit, 1993.
• Vol.6 Papers of the Third Conference on the Transfer of Science and Technology between Europe and Asia since Vasco da Gama (1498-1998), 1996.
• Vol.7 Procedure in the 21st Century: Papers of the Third Dutch-Japanese Law Symposium, 2001.
• Vol.8 Information and Privacy: Papers of the Fourth Dutch-Japanese Law Symposium, 2005.
• Vol.9 The Patriarch of Dutch Learning Shizuki Tadao (1760-1806): Papers of the Symposium Held in Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of His Death, 2008.

Other publications

The institute also regularly publishes the results of its research including translations, introductions to the Dutch language, and works on Dutch and Japanese relations.

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References

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External links

• Homepage, Japanese-Netherlands Institute

• Publications, list of their publications

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