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  • noun One who studies Japanology.

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Examples

  • And as a totally pointless aside, I wonder if there is any tendency among the long-term resident Japanologist population (of Japan) – ie those who (a) like the ‘culture’ rather than being here for the money and (b) like living here for type A, the sort of blood type that would enable them to fit in better with a nation of A-types (if not in pratice, at least in ideals)?

    “D-Mat” and the whole “blood type/temperament” thing… 2006

  • Immediately upon his return from Paris in September I went to see Serge Elisséeff, Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, a distinguished Japanologist and a Russian who had left at the time of the revolution.

    'Veritas' at Harvard: Another Exchange Bellah, Robert N. 1977

  • Personally, my colleagues (e.g. Professor Joy Hendry, a Japanologist, and Simon Underdown, a paleobioanthropologist in my department) and I have found it relatively easy to get on national BBC radio programs and sometimes into the national press, but only when we are able to illuminate clearly a current affair.

    CounterPunch 2009

  • "Those are stupid students," my Japanologist conflict-specialist friend said of the Iranian revolution.

    Ultrabrown 2009

  • I meet a man who is a Japanologist, a specialist in conflict studies and generally weird.

    Ultrabrown 2009

  • Language and cultural differences created complications, since I am not a Japanologist and don’t speak Japanese.

    Matsushita Leadership John P. Kotter 1997

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