Description of the history of Japanese language teaching in Russia and Central Eastern Europe:focusing on the changes from the socialist era

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00735
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02090:Japanese language education-related
• Research Institution: Yokohama National University
• Principal Investigator: OGAWA Yoshimi 横浜国立大学, 国際戦略推進機構, 教授 (50251773)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 日本語教育史 / 冷戦時代 / 旧ソ連 / レニングラード大学 / 日本人講師 / 大阪外大 / 東海大学 / ハンガリー

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The USSR produced a large number of Japanese researchers during the socialist era, and this study uses oral documents to clarify the system of Japanese language education at universities in the USSR and Japan that supported this. The growing political tensions between Japan and the USSR during the interwar period accelerated the development of Japanese-language personnel in the USSR, and this momentum continued unabated during the Cold War.　Meanwhile, while exchange between the two countries did not progress after the signing of the Soviet-Japanese Joint Declaration (1956), the Russian Department of the Osaka University of Foreign Studies and Tokai University were involved in Soviet Japanese language teaching for their own purposes and promoted personal exchange.

Free Research Field

日本語教育史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

言語教育の歴史には、言語人材の需要と国家間の緊張との間に大きな相関があることを示す事例が多数ある。社会主義時代のソ連における日本語教育もその一つである。本研究は、これまで断片しか知られていなかったソ連の日本語教育史の空白を埋めるとともに、日本の二つの大学が行った日本語教育が、従来とは異なる視座から安全保障をとらえていたことを示した。この成果は、あらゆる国際環境で教える言語教員養成の場において、複眼的視野育成のための素材となろう。