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Assistance for Promoting the Advancement of the Education & Research of the
Private University and Academic Frontiers Promotion Programme
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science
and Technology (MEXT) created the Special Assistance for Promoting the Advancement
of the Education & Research of the Private University to provide and prioritize
comprehensive support for building the research foundations and upgrading the
research capabilities of private universities that make up a large portion of
the institutes of higher learning in Japan. Within that, research institutes that
have produced results and offer future potential in research are selected for
the Academic Frontiers Promotion Programme with which MEXT prioritizes and provides
comprehensive support for building research facilities, equipment and systems
required for joint research with institutes inside and outside Japan.
Special
Assistance for Promoting the Advancement of the Education & Research of the
Private University, MEXT
> As
Successor to the Asian Cultural Research Center
The Asian Cultural Research Center was active from
1998 to 2002 as a research base for The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum, the
Aizu Museum and the Waseda University School of Letters, Arts and Sciences, promoting
joint research into academic frontiers in the three fields of theatre, art history
and archeology. The cooperative structure in these fields has grown and developed
through joint research over the past five years and formed a solid foundation
for future research. Nonetheless, theatre studies and an arrangement of art history
and archeology applied separately for and were accepted into the 21st Century
COE Programme, therefore research will proceed independently. Therefore, the Academic
Frontier has passed from the Asian Cultural Research Center to The Tsubouchi Memorial
Theatre Museum and will be resumed under the Comparative Theatre Studies between
Japan, Asia, and Europe project. Research into Asian culture had until this point
looked at Asian theatre. It focused on Japanese theatre with a broader scope that
encompassed Chinese theatre, and was correlated with art history and archeology
under the theme of the propagation of Buddhism and theatre. Studies also opened
up a mostly unexplored chapter into modern-day China, by collecting materials
on ethnic performing arts of Southwest China and other activities. Based on these
research results, the project now is taking up comparative studies of Japan and
Asia as well as Japan and Europe that will include ancient Japanese theatre and
will involve text and image research.
1998-2002 Activities of the Asian
Cultural Research Center
> Project:
Comparative Theatre Studies between Japan, Asia, and Europe
This project was newly launched in 2003 at The Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre Museum of Waseda University on the research results produced
by the Asian Cultural Research Center from 1998 to 2002 when it served as an Academic
Frontier under the Special Assistance for Promoting the Advancement of the Education
& Research of the Private University.
It integrates individual projects under a common theme of Japanese theatre and
the world around it. Through comparisons against theatres of other countries,
participants gain a deeper understanding of Japanese theatre, and this will be
a conceptual understanding of its true essence as learned through the elements
of texts and images. The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum not only houses the
largest collection of theatrical paintings and prints in Japan, but it also promotes
visual research of texts and digitized images through its vast collection of theatrical
materials. This approach is applied not only to Japanese theatre but all types
of theatre around the world in order to identify the difference and similarities
and to foment a greater understanding of differing theatrical forms.
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