Current Trends in Japanese Studies of China and Adjacent Areas

This article, like Marius Jansen's “Notes on Japanese Universities” (FEQ 12.2), has been prepared to acquaint Western scholars with significant developments in Japanese studies during the postwar period. It is organized on a different basis from Jansen's article, however, and is limited to studies of China (especially North China), Manchuria, Mongolia, Central Asia and Korea. Since complete coverage is out of the question in an article of this length, we concentrate on historical studies but also include significant advances in the humanities and to a certain extent in the social sciences.