Vietnamese Studies in Japan

ROUSTAN Frédéric, "From Oriental Studies to South Pacific Studies ; The multiple Origins of Vietnamese Studies in Japan, 1881 to 1951", in Journal of Vietnamese Studies, vol.7, no.1, March 2011. Honorable mention from the Vietnam Studies Group Graduate Prize (Association of Asian Studies). Production of contemporary knowledge on Vietnam in Japan began in the early 1880s with Japanese Oriental Studies [Tōyōgaku東洋学]. However, it wasn’t until the early 1930s that Vietnam became a topic of study ..