Area Study

Japanese: エリア・スタディ - えりあすたでぃ
Area Study

...Each university created a country-specific regional research organization made up of researchers not only in geography but also in history, cultural anthropology, sociology, linguistics, political science, economics, etc., and also taught each language. For example, the University of Michigan established a Japanese Studies Institute, whose first director was geographer R. Hall, who wrote a guidebook that served as a guide for area studies, and after the war established a local center for the Japanese Studies Institute in Niike, Okayama Prefecture. Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword can be said to be a representative example of the results of Japanese studies during World War II. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "area study" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そこで,各大学に地理学のみならず,歴史学,文化人類学,社会学,言語学,政治学,経済学等の研究者からなる国別の地域研究組織を作り,それぞれの言語教育も行った。たとえばミシガン大学には日本研究所が設けられ,その初代所長には地理学者のR.ホールが就任して,エリア・スタディの指針となるガイドブックを著し,戦後は岡山県下の新池に日本研究所の現地センターを設置した。ルース・ベネディクトの《菊と刀》は第2次大戦中における日本研究の成果の代表例といえる。…

※「エリア・スタディ」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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