Hanoi, Vietnam
By Duong Phu Hiep
In concrete terms, the CJS has the following duties:
1. Constructing and undertaking both long-term and short-term research
programmes on the country, the people, the history, the economy, the politics,
the society, the culture, and the linguistics of Japan;
2. Coordinating and cooperating with domestics and international
institutions for studying and exchanging materials and information related to
Japan;
3. Taking part in training and expanding the knowledge of researchers doing
research on Japan;
4. Popularizing knowledge and providing information about Japan so as to
broaden the knowledge about Japan for the Vietnamese people; and
5. Gradually building the information-documentation-library system and
material-technical bases needed for Japanese Studies in Vietnam.
Organizational Structure
The director of the Centre is Prof. Dr Duong Phu Hiep; the vice-director is
Dr Nguyen Duy Dung. At present, the CJS has 30 full-time staff members
structured into 5 research departments and 2 functional departments as
follows: (1) Department of Japanese Economy; (2) Department of Japanese
Politics and Society; (3) Department of Japanese History; (4) Department of
Japanese Culture and Linguistics; (5) Department of Vietnam-Japan Relations;
(6) Department of Information, Document, and Library; (7) Department of
Administration, Personnel, and International Relations.
Research
CJS publishes a quarterly Japanese Studies Review of which 5 issues have
appeared. The Centre also publishes books and translated books introducing the
fruits of research about Japan by both domestic and foreign scholars.
In the years to come, the Centre concentrates on studying the following
research projects:
I. Economics: (a) Japan's economic structural changes from the Second World War to the present; (b) Japan's achievements in the modern scientific and technological revolution and their significance for Japan's economic development; (c) The role of State in stimulating the process of industrialization and modernization in Japan; (d) Japan's experiences in promoting private investment, mobilizing domestic capital, and reforming of state-owned enterprises; (e) Japan's experiences in developing the medium and small-scale enterprises; (f) Studying the Japanese-styled management experiences; (g) Studying the Japan's business organizations and investment law.
II. Politics, Society, and Law: (a) Japanese state's bodies: the Diet, cabinet, and Judiciary; (b) The role of the prime minister; (c) Japan's Constitution and the system of laws; (d) Japanese political parties and the role of the Liberal Democratic Party; (e) Japanese non-government social organizations; (f) Economic development and social equality in Japan; (g) Social structure in Japan; (h) Population and family in Japan; (i) Japan's social-welfare system; (j) Japan's experiences in organizing the state apparatus and recruiting, arranging, and using the officials; (k). Japan's experiences in solving social problems.
III. Culture and Education: (a) Japanese culture in comparison with other regional cultures; (b) Japan's experiences in selectively accepting human cultural achievements in bringing Japanese culture from the traditional to the modern, but still maintaining its national characteristics; (c) Religions in Japan, especially Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shinto; (d) Impacts of culture on industrialization and the modernization process; (e) New trends in education in Japan;
IV. History: (a) Japanese methodology in evaluating historical events and persons; (b) Studying the periodical-division in Japanese history; (c) Comparative study of Japanese and Vietnamese ideological history; (d) Comparative study about the methods of thinking between the Japanese people and the Vietnamese people.
V. Japan's foreign policies and Vietnam-Japan relations: (a) The role and impact of Japan on economic development of countries in Asia, particularly Vietnam; (b) Japan's ODA for Southeast Asian countries and Vietnam; (c) History of the Vietnam-Japan relations; (d) Japan's FDI in Southeast Asian countries and Vietnam; (e) Japan's foreign trade with Southeast Asian countries and Vietnam; (f) Japan's experiences in transferring its technologies to Southeast Asian countries and Vietnam; (g) Japan-US economic relations and their impact on the Asia-Pacific region; (h) Japan-US relation in the post-Cold War era; (i) Relations between the USA-China-Japan triangle in the post-Cold War era; (j) Japan's security policy in the Asia- Pacific region in the post-Cold War era.
The Centre for Japanese Studies expects to develop close relations with institutions all over the world for coordinating and cooperating in the field of Japanese Studies.
Centre for Japan Studies
H1 Building
Kim Ma Thuong St.
Cong Vi, Ba Dinh
Hanoi
Vietnam.
Tel: +84-4-8325 178 / -181 / -185
Fax: +84-4-8326653