Japan Past & Present—JPP for short—’is a global information hub and repository that promotes research and teaching in the Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders.’
JPP is an online platform for ‘a collective effort to reimagine the Japanese humanities as a truly global area of study. JPP is a project of the Yanai Initiative at UCLA and Waseda University.’
The website has many open access resources for scholars of Japanese language, culture, arts, anthropology etc, including a list of recent publications, a section on Japan Scholar Search, Japan in Translation Database, and Library Resources.
Here is Japan Past & Present’s mission statement:
Open to participants around the world, JPP aims to provide equitable access to scholarly tools and materials, and to help realize an increasingly diverse and inclusive future for the field. We foster multilingual collaboration, communication, and scholarship, raising global awareness of Japan’s past and its enduring relevance in the present day.
JPP was created as a project of the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA and Waseda University, but it was envisioned from the start as an organization that spans national and institutional boundaries through meaningful partnerships.
The collective efforts of individuals, organizations, and institutions across the globe have made it possible for JPP to feature the resources on this site.
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