humanities groups in Tokyo
Below is a list (still incomplete but evolving) of the main humanities groups in the Tokyo region, for the benefit of researchers inside and outside Japan.
Most sites contain English pages, but some are Japanese-only (although they may often host events in English).
Please email us if you would like to suggest a link.
Most sites contain English pages, but some are Japanese-only (although they may often host events in English).
Please email us if you would like to suggest a link.
universities, libraries, and independent institutes
university departments
University of Tokyo - Events (English)
University of Tokyo - Events
University of Tokyo (Komaba Campus) Events (English)
University of Tokyo "Navi" - Events Blog
University of Tokyo Faculty of Letters Events
University of Tokyo Department of English Language and Literature
University of Tokyo - Modern Literature Department - Events
University of Tokyo - Institute for Advanced Studies in Asia
University of Tokyo Centre for Pacific and American Studies - Events
University of Tokyo Comparative Literature Department
University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy
UTalk (University of Tokyo Research Cafe)
University of Tokyo - Global Japan Studies network
University Museum, The University of Tokyo
Keio University - Events
Keio University - Events (English)
Keio University Research Center for Liberal Arts
Sophia University - Events
Sophia University - Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC)
Sophia University Institute of Medieval Thought
Sophia Institute of American and Canadian Studies
Waseda University - Events
Waseda University - Events (English)
Waseda University - News
Waseda University - Institute for Advanced Study
Waseda University - Humanities Faculty
Waseda University - Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies
Waseda University Eastern/Western Philosophy Research Centre
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies - Events (English)
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies - Events
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies - Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
United Nations University - Events
Temple University, Japan Campus - Events
Aoyama Gakuin University - Events
International Christian University - Events
Meiji Gakuin University - Events
Rikkyo University - Events
Rikkyo University - Institute for American Studies
Rissho University - Events
Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) - Events
Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) - Events (English)
Gakushuin University - Events
Hitotsubashi University - Events
Meiji University - Events
Meisei University - Events
Soka University - Events
Komazawa University - Events
Meiji Gakuin University - Humanities Events
Ferris University (Yokohama) - Events
Yokohama National University - Events
Toyo University Events
Ochanomizu University - Events
Japan University - Events
Kokugakuin University - Events
Nishogakusha University - Events
Chuo University - General Events
Hosei University - Events
Otsuma University - Events
Senshu University - Humanities Events
Hosei University - Japan Studies Center
Tokyo Metropolitan University - Events
Tsuda College - Events
Kyoritsu Women's University - Events
Daito Bunka University - English Department
Seijo University - Events
Lakeland University Japan Lecture Series
libraries
Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library)
Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library) - Special Lectures
Toyo Bunko - Documentation Center for Islamic Area Studies
International Library of Children's Literature (English)
National Diet Library - Events
National Diet Library - Events (English)
John Ruskin Library (Ruskin Bunko)
Japan Library of Mystery Literature - Events
Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library) - Special Lectures
Toyo Bunko - Documentation Center for Islamic Area Studies
International Library of Children's Literature (English)
National Diet Library - Events
National Diet Library - Events (English)
John Ruskin Library (Ruskin Bunko)
Japan Library of Mystery Literature - Events
other organizations in Tokyo
Intermediatheque
Arts Council Tokyo - Events
Japan Foundation - Events
The Japan-British Society - Events
International House of Japan - Calendar of Events
Embassy of Canada in Tokyo - Events (English)
Japan Foundation - Events
International Center for Japanese Studies
National Informatics Institute - Lectures
National Informatics Institute - Events
British Council - Events
National Institutes for the Humanities
National Institute of Japanese Literature
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Italian Cultural Institute Tokyo
America-Japan Society
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo
Institut français du Japon - Tokyo
Irish Embassy Tokyo - Events
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan - Book Breaks
National Archives of Japan
The Japan Academy
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Japan Association for Women's Education
Arts Council Tokyo - Events
Japan Foundation - Events
The Japan-British Society - Events
International House of Japan - Calendar of Events
Embassy of Canada in Tokyo - Events (English)
Japan Foundation - Events
International Center for Japanese Studies
National Informatics Institute - Lectures
National Informatics Institute - Events
British Council - Events
National Institutes for the Humanities
National Institute of Japanese Literature
National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Italian Cultural Institute Tokyo
America-Japan Society
German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo
Institut français du Japon - Tokyo
Irish Embassy Tokyo - Events
Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan - Book Breaks
National Archives of Japan
The Japan Academy
Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture
Japan Association for Women's Education
academic societies
(including pan-Japan literary societies)
british and irish literature
English Literary Society of Japan (ELSJ)
Victorian Studies Society of Japan
Japan Society for Medieval English Studies
Japan Association of English Romanticism (JAER)
Soundings English Literary Association
Tokyo Poetry Journal
Shakespeare Society of Japan
Society of Elizabethan Theatre Studies Japan
Iris Murdoch Society of Japan
Johnson Society of Japan
Dickens Fellowship Japan
Jane Austen Society of Japan
TS Eliot Society of Japan
Caledonia Society Japan
Gaskell Society of Japan
Joseph Conrad Society of Japan
Samuel Beckett Research Circle of Japan
Orwell Society of Japan
Japan Shelley Research Centre
George Eliot Fellowship of Japan
DH Lawrence Society of Japan
Japanese Byron Society
Virginia Woolf Society of Japan
Milton Association of Japan
Bronte Society Japan
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) Japan
The Yeats Society of Japan
New Association for English and American Literature
Oscar Wilde Society of Japan
Japan Society for Children's Literature in English
James Joyce Society of Japan
Victorian Studies Society of Japan
Japan Society for Medieval English Studies
Japan Association of English Romanticism (JAER)
Soundings English Literary Association
Tokyo Poetry Journal
Shakespeare Society of Japan
Society of Elizabethan Theatre Studies Japan
Iris Murdoch Society of Japan
Johnson Society of Japan
Dickens Fellowship Japan
Jane Austen Society of Japan
TS Eliot Society of Japan
Caledonia Society Japan
Gaskell Society of Japan
Joseph Conrad Society of Japan
Samuel Beckett Research Circle of Japan
Orwell Society of Japan
Japan Shelley Research Centre
George Eliot Fellowship of Japan
DH Lawrence Society of Japan
Japanese Byron Society
Virginia Woolf Society of Japan
Milton Association of Japan
Bronte Society Japan
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (IASIL) Japan
The Yeats Society of Japan
New Association for English and American Literature
Oscar Wilde Society of Japan
Japan Society for Children's Literature in English
James Joyce Society of Japan
north american literature
Canadian Literary Society of Japan
Japanese Association for American Studies
Japanese Association of Early Americanists
Thoreau Society of Japan
Nabokov Society of Japan
Melville Society of Japan
American Literature Society of Japan
Faulkner Society of Japan
Emily Dickinson Society of Japan
John Steinbeck Society of Japan
Saul Bellow Society of Japan
Hemingway Society of Japan
Mark Twain Society of Japan
Tokyo American Literature Society
Japan Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Walt Whitman Society of Japan
Japanese Association for Canadian Studies
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society of Japan
Japanese Association for American Studies
Japanese Association of Early Americanists
Thoreau Society of Japan
Nabokov Society of Japan
Melville Society of Japan
American Literature Society of Japan
Faulkner Society of Japan
Emily Dickinson Society of Japan
John Steinbeck Society of Japan
Saul Bellow Society of Japan
Hemingway Society of Japan
Mark Twain Society of Japan
Tokyo American Literature Society
Japan Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
Walt Whitman Society of Japan
Japanese Association for Canadian Studies
F. Scott Fitzgerald Society of Japan
world and anglophone literature
digital humanities
cultural studies and critical theory
Japan Black Studies Association
Japan Society for Children's Literature
Society for Ecocriticism Studies Japan
Association for Literature and Environment Japan
Multi-Ethnic Studies Association
Association for Cultural Typhoon
通訳翻訳 Web (translation and interpretation association) - Events list
Liberlit - Defence of the Role of Literary Texts in the English Curriculum
Society for Psychoanalytical Study of English Language and Literature
Association for Studies of Picture Books
Japan Society for Theatre Research
Japan Society for Stylistics
NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute
Japan Society for Children's Literature
Society for Ecocriticism Studies Japan
Association for Literature and Environment Japan
Multi-Ethnic Studies Association
Association for Cultural Typhoon
通訳翻訳 Web (translation and interpretation association) - Events list
Liberlit - Defence of the Role of Literary Texts in the English Curriculum
Society for Psychoanalytical Study of English Language and Literature
Association for Studies of Picture Books
Japan Society for Theatre Research
Japan Society for Stylistics
NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute
history and politics
area studies
philosophy and religion
museums, theatres, bookshops and cafés
museums
List of Literary Museums in Tokyo
Tokyo National Museum - Events
National Museum of Western Art - Events
National Art Center, Tokyo
Printing Museum Tokyo
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
Shiodome Museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum - exhibitions
Tokyo Station Gallery
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
University of Tokyo - Komaba Museum
University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai)
Yokohama Museum of Art
Setagaya Literary Museum
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art
Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Nerima Art Museum
Ota Memorial Museum of Art (ukiyo-e)
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
National Museum of Japanese History
Tokyo National Museum - Events
National Museum of Western Art - Events
National Art Center, Tokyo
Printing Museum Tokyo
Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
Shiodome Museum
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum - exhibitions
Tokyo Station Gallery
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
University of Tokyo - Komaba Museum
University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai)
Yokohama Museum of Art
Setagaya Literary Museum
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art
Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum
Nerima Art Museum
Ota Memorial Museum of Art (ukiyo-e)
Seikado Bunko Art Museum
National Museum of Japanese History
theatres
List of theatres in Tokyo | Tokyo Stages
Yokohama Theatre Group
Kakushinhan Theatre Company
Theater X, Ryogoku
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Tokyo Wonder Site (Institute of Contemporary Art and International Cultural Exchange)
Tokyo Art Navigation (Museum listings)
Yokohama Theatre Group
Kakushinhan Theatre Company
Theater X, Ryogoku
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Tokyo Wonder Site (Institute of Contemporary Art and International Cultural Exchange)
Tokyo Art Navigation (Museum listings)
books and bookshops
other websites
GoTokyo - listings of events and festivals (English)
Time Out Tokyo - Art & Culture
Kenkyusha - List of English Language Events
Japan Times Arts Listings
Metropolis - Events
Listing of Japanese academic websites (maintained by Hitoshi Goto)
Tokyo Wa (東京輪) - directory of Tokyo community groups and spaces
English Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan (NIHU)
Isobar Press
Art Byte Critique - artist network in Tokyo, including studio work and gallery visits
Time Out Tokyo - Art & Culture
Kenkyusha - List of English Language Events
Japan Times Arts Listings
Metropolis - Events
Listing of Japanese academic websites (maintained by Hitoshi Goto)
Tokyo Wa (東京輪) - directory of Tokyo community groups and spaces
English Resource Guide for Japanese Studies and Humanities in Japan (NIHU)
Isobar Press
Art Byte Critique - artist network in Tokyo, including studio work and gallery visits
