H-Net announces H-Japan, an international,
nonpartisan Internet discussion group spon-
sored by H-Net: Humanities-On-Line. It
provides scholars, graduate students and
professionals a free daily forum to discuss
Japanese history, culture, religion, and
society, including contemporary political,
diplomatic, security, and economic issues.
If you wish to subscribe to the list, please
send the following message (with a blank
subject line) to LISTSERV@h-net.msu.edu
sub H-JAPAN (Firstname Lastname, Affiliation)
for example:
sub H-JAPAN Yoichi Jones, Northern University
Applicants will be asked to fill out a short
form regarding your interests, and the
editors will then sign you up. You will auto-
matically receive messages in your email.
H-JAPAN is free: there are no dues or fees
of any kind. (Undergraduates need an e-mail
letter from a faculty sponsor to join.)
H-JAPAN is supported by the Center for a
Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation
(Kokusai Koryu Kikin Nichibei Center, who
have also given support to H-Asia and H-USA).
It is also sponsored by the Kansai Institute
of Asia-Pacific Studies of Osaka University of
Foreign Studies, the Department of History of
the Ohio State University, Michigan State
University, and the National Endowment for
the Humanities. H-Japan is directed by a
team of editors and an international edi-
torial board of scholars. It works closely
with the other H-Net lists, especially H-ASIA
and H-USA.
We invite subscribers to submit questions,
answers, comments, reports and replies to
H-Japan. H-Japan publishes syllabi, outlines,
handouts, bibliographies, listings of new
sources, guides to library catalogs and
archives, and reports on new software, data
sets and cd-roms. We post announcements of
conferences, fellowships, recently published
books on Japanese studies, and jobs. H-Japan
commissions serious book reviews and responses
from authors and audience alike.
H-Japan is an EDITED list. All messages
must be approved by the editors, and all
must be signed with the author's name and
e-mail address. Only messages that promote
scholarly dialogue will be published; no
"flames" or personal attacks will be published.
It is our intent to encourage international
participation and in particular to encourage
interaction among specialists in Japan and
others located throughout the world. To this
end, we are working to establish the ability
to transmit messages in Japanese. We are
now able to transmit Japanese messages; how-
ever to read and write messages in kanji,
members must have the appropriate communica-
tions software on their local PC or Mac-
Intosh machines. We hope in the future to
be able to provide information that will
assist our non-Japanese members and their
institutions to communicate in Japanese.
H-JAPAN will have a "gopher" and its own
page on the World Wide Web, which will
be fully bilingual.
For more information, please contact one
of the editors:
The Editors
Philip Brown
Department of History
Ohio State University
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
brown.113@osu.edu
TEL: +1-614-292-0904
FAX: +1-614-292-2282
Janet R. Goodwin
Bunka Kenkyu Center
Aizu University
Ikki-machi Tsuruga
Aizu-Wakamatsu-shi
Fukushima-ken 965-80 JAPAN
jan@u-aizu.ac.jp
FAX: +81-242-37-2751
Yoneyuki Sugita
Department of Area Studies, American Studies
Osaka University of Foreign Studies
8-1-1 Aomadani-Higashi, Minoh-City, Osaka 562 JAPAN
sugita@post01.osaka-gaidai.ac.jp
FAX/TEL: +81-0727-30-5416
Yukihiro Ohashi
Musashi high-school
Toyotama-kami 1-26-1
Nerima-ku, Tokyo 176 JAPAN
VYL02002@niftyserve.or.jp
TEL +81-3-5984-3863
FAX +81-3-5984-3883
Koichi Okamoto
Shakujii-dai 7-3-12-201
Nerima-ku, Tokyo 177 JAPAN
koichi@cfi.waseda.ac.jp
TEL +81-3-3929-3797
David Wittner
Associate Editor (subscriptions)
Department of History
Ohio State University
230 West 17th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210 USA
wittner.1@osu.edu
FAX +1-614-292-2282