Japanese studies

English

Etymology

From Japanese +‎ studies.

Noun

Japanese studies (uncountable)

1. (humanities) An academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the Japanese language, Japanese linguistics, and Japanese sociolinguistics.

   Synonym: (rare) Japanology

Translations

academic discipline

• Bulgarian: япони́стика f (japonístika)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 日本學／日本学 (zh) (Rìběnxué),

• Czech: japanistika f, japanologie (cs) f
• Dutch: japanologie f
• Estonian: japanoloogia
• Finnish: japanologia (fi), Japanin tutkimus
• Georgian: იაპონოლოგია (iaṗonologia), იაპონისტიკა (iaṗonisṭiḳa)
• German: Japanologie (de) f
• Hungarian: japanológia, japanisztika
• Japanese: 日本学 (にほん-がく, nihongaku)
• Khmer: ជប៉ុនវិទ្យា (cea’pon vityie)
• Korean: 일본학 (ilbonhak)
• Mongolian: япон судлал (japon sudlal)
• Norwegian: japanologi (no) m
• Polish: japonistyka (pl) f
• Portuguese: japonologia f
• Romanian: japanologie (ro) f
• Russian: япони́стика (ru) f (japonístika), японове́дение (ru) n (japonovédenije)
• Swedish: japanologi (sv) c
• Vietnamese: Nhật Bản học

Further reading

• Japanese studies, Japan studies, Japanology at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.