Japanese Studies, Issue 3

Author: Editorial Board of Journal of Japanese Studies
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Journal of Japanese Studies Issue 3 is now available to readers again. This issue includes 1 invited paper, 18 submitted papers, and 2 book reviews, totaling 21 articles. The number of articles has significantly exceeded the previous two issues. This is a result of the strong support from Japanese researchers both domestically and internationally, as well as the attention the journal has received from the academic community since its first issue was published. Regarding research methodologies, several papers in this issue present new and increasingly popular approaches in linguistic research. Dài Bǎoyù’s (Japanese Corpora and Japanese Studies) introduces the author’s meticulously compiled corpus (4 million words in total) and highlights how corpora can contribute to the scientific development of teaching materials, the study of vocabulary and grammar, and the in-depth research and explanation of linguistic phenomena. The author also applies the corpus to investigate the issue of jita-sei (subject-object distinction) in Japanese verbs.
Lastly, attentive readers will notice that many papers in this issue mention in their footnotes that they benefited from valuable feedback provided by anonymous reviewers after submission or from comments and suggestions from fellow scholars during presentations at seminars or conferences, which led to revisions for greater scientific rigor and rationality. The establishment of this scientific and rigorous academic ethos, as well as the institutional mechanisms to uphold it, is what scholars both domestically and internationally hope to see—a new trend that reflects the vitality and growth of Japanese studies in China.