HISTORICAL INVASTIGATIONS TOWARD A SHAPING THE MODERN PSYCHOLOGY IN JAPAN.

关于日本心理学史，至今仍有许多悬而未决的问题，比如：谁是(或谁是)日本现代心理学的奠基人(S)？他们在哪里、什么时候获得学位，谁是(或是)他们的上司(S)？还有另一个重要而基本的问题，比如心理学为什么会是今天的样子？日语学名“心理国”的由来：“心理国”是来自心理学还是心理哲学？心理学这个科学名称是什么时候、为什么、由谁在日语中变成“信理库”的？心理学在教育制度或课程中的作用是什么，特别是在当时的大学、明治和大正时代？这些问题之所以至今难以回答，最大的原因之一是缺乏历史文献，没有对当时在日本使用的科学和实验仪器进行系统的历史收集，除了少数案件或一些记录外，几乎所有的都消失了。基于这些情况，我们组织了研究小组来解决或澄清上述一些问题。我们走访了世界上许多档案馆和大学，收集了许多重要信息，讨论了上述一些问题，并听取了那里专业档案工作者和教授的评论。结果，我们能够解决或更多地澄清一些与日本心理学史相关的问题。这些成果在期刊上发表，或在国际会议或国内年会上发表。你也可以在虚拟档案馆看到这些。

There are unsolved or unclear open questions left until today about the history of psychology in Japan, like as follows ; Who was (or were) the founder(s) of modern psychology in Japan? Where and when did they earn degrees and who was (or were) their supervisor(s)? And also there are left another important and basic questions, such as Why is Psychology today the way it is? The origin of the scientific name, "Shinrigaku", in Japanese : Dose "Shinrigaku" come from Psychology or Mental philosophy? When and why, and by whom did the scinetific name of psychology become "Shinrigaku" in Japanese? What was the role of the psychology in the educational system or curriculum, especially in the universities at that time, Meiji and Taisho era? One of the biggest reasons why these are difficult problems to answer until today is a lack of the historical documents and no systematic historical collections of the scientific and experimental instruments used at that time in Japan, except a few cases or some records left, almost all were disappeared. And also, unfortunately we have not yet the official Arvhives of Japanese Psychology.Based upon these situations we organized research group to solve or to clarify some issues described above.We have visited many Archives and Universities in the world and gatherd many important information and discussed some issues above and received reviews by professional archivists and professors there. As the results, we were able to resolve or more clarify some problems related Japanese History of Psychology. These results were pubulished in the Journals or presented at the International Congrerss or domestic annual meetings. And also you can see those on the Virtual Archives.