HISTORICAL INVASTIGATIONS TOWARD A SHAPING THE MODERN PSYCHOLOGY IN JAPAN.

关于日本心理学的历史，至今仍有一些悬而未决的问题，比如：谁是日本现代心理学的创始人？他们在哪里和什么时候获得学位，谁是（或曾经是）他们的导师？同时也留下了另一个重要而基本的问题，比如为什么今天的心理学是这样的？日本人的科学名称“Shinrigaku”的起源：“Shinrigaku”是来自心理学还是精神哲学？心理学的科学名称在日语中是什么时候、为什么、由谁变成了“真理学”？在明治和大正时代，心理学在教育系统或课程中，特别是在大学中扮演什么角色？这些问题之所以至今难以回答，最大的原因之一是当时日本所使用的科学实验仪器，除了少数事例或一些记载外，几乎都已消失，缺乏历史文献记载，也没有系统的史料收藏。同时，遗憾的是，我们还没有日本心理学的官方文献。基于这些情况，我们组织了研究小组来解决或澄清上述问题。我们访问了世界上许多档案馆和大学，收集了许多重要信息，并讨论了上述问题，并接受了专业档案工作者和教授的评论。从而解决或进一步澄清了日本心理学史研究中的一些问题。这些结果发表在期刊上或在国际会议或国内年会上发表。你也可以在虚拟档案中看到这些。

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 One of the biggest reasons why these are difficult problems to answer until today is a lack of the historical documents and no systematic historical collections of the scientific and experimental instruments used at that time in Japan, except a few cases or some records left,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