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Thanks to the donation from Mr. Tadashi Yanai (Chairperson, President and CEO, Fast Retailing Co. Ltd.), the Yanai Initiative has launched in 2014 as a joint collaborative project under Waseda University and the University of California, Los Angeles, aiming for transmission and propagation of the Japanese humanities.
Starting from 2020 Spring, we have reinforced our management structure for expanding its activities.
Specifically, we are providing academic symposia, introducing the Japanese traditional culture and the events that combines video, literature, and music. Furthermore, building the website as the research data repository that integrate useful information for researchers, also being providing information or impressive events in this field that beyond the general concept of Japanese humanities.

For more information on the Yanai Initiative Projects, please click HERE.

Japan Past & Present is a global information hub and repository that promotes research and teaching in the Japanese humanities across disciplinary, temporal, and geographic borders.