HISTORICAL INVASTIGATIONS TOWARD A SHAPING THE MODERN PSYCHOLOGY IN JAPAN.

直到今天，关于日本心理学史仍有未解决或不清楚的开放性问题，例如：谁是（或曾经是）日本现代心理学的创始人？他们在何时何地获得学位，他们的导师是谁？还有另一个重要而基本的问题，比如，为什么今天的心理学是这个样子？学名“Shinrigaku”的日语起源：“Shinrigaku”是来自心理学还是心理哲学？心理学的学名何时、为何以及由谁在日语中变成了“新学”？心理学在教育体系或课程中的作用是什么，特别是在明治和大正时代的大学里？直到今天，这些问题仍然难以回答的最大原因之一是缺乏历史文献，也没有对当时日本使用的科学和实验仪器进行系统的历史收集，除了少数案例或一些记录外，几乎所有仪器都消失了。而且，不幸的是，我们还没有日本心理学的官方档案。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。我们访问了世界上许多档案馆和大学，收集了许多重要的信息，讨论了上面的一些问题，并接受了那里的专业档案学家和教授的评论。因此，我们能够解决或更明确一些与日本心理学史有关的问题。这些结果发表在期刊上，或在国际大会或国内年会上提出。你也可以在虚拟档案上看到。

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 One of the biggest reasons why these are difficult problems to answer until today is a lack of the historical documents and no systematic historical collections of the scientific and experimental instruments used at that time in Japan, except a few cases or some records left,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.