Oversea research project to gather historical documents, data, and records of experimental equipments about Japanese Psychology

这项海外研究项目的第一个目的是寻找或收集历史文献，告诉我们新心理学(即科学心理学和实验心理学)的产生背景，以及这种心理学在日本的接受和发展过程，并寻找将现代心理学带到日本的奠基人及其在世界这一学术领域的导师的记录。其次，我们不仅要留下记录，而且要留下在未来建立现代科学心理学中发挥重要作用的真实的历史实验装置。事实清楚地表明，在这些历史仪器中，冯特的计时器、希普的计时器和/或Scriputure的摆动计时器是测量心理时间最有用和最重要的工具，心理时间是用来澄清看不见的内在心理过程的反应时间或反应潜伏期。然而，几乎所有这些都做了…随着现代技术的创新，越来越多的历史、记录和仪器从世界各地的心理学部门的实验室中被丢弃或消失，只留在仍在世的老心理学家的记忆中，或保存在少数几个心理学史档案馆中，如阿克伦大学，以及最古老的心理实验室，如美国哈佛大学、约翰霍普金斯大学、克拉克大学。为了避免这场危机，对我们来说，尽快建立这样的档案馆和/或像阿克伦和哈佛大学那样收藏是非常重要的。因此，我们感到非常遗憾的是，对于我们来说，探索这样的海外档案和历史实验仪器收藏，或者是心理系和图书馆，寻找关于日本心理学史的必要信息和文献或记录，是必要的途径。基本上，这就是这个海外研究项目被计划的原因。通过这些研究，从以下几个方面阐明了现代西方心理学在日本大地上播种并开花结果的过程：1)日语学名“心理观”的起源来自于J·黑文的“心理哲学”一书，而不是心理学，并由Amane Nishi翻译成日语。2)谁把现代心理学带到了日本？谁是他们的导师？创始人的名字叫Yujiro Motora，1888年在约翰·霍普金斯大学获得博士学位，在G.S.Hall博士的指导下。Motora博士回到日本，在明治时代唯一的公立大学帝国大学找到了一个职位，第一次讲授心理物理学，并于1903年开设了他的实验心理学实验室。3)概述了摩托罗拉事件后日本心理学的发展历史，以及1927年成立的日本心理学会的发展背景。4)现代心理学通过日本的公立和/或私立教育系统以及洛克菲勒基金会等海外资金支持的传播过程。较少

The first aim of this oversea research project is to find out or to gather historical documents which tell us the starting background of new psychology (that means the scientific and experimental psychology), and acceptance and developmental processes of this psychology in Japan, and also to find the records of founders who brought modern psychology into Japan, and whose mentors of this academic field in the world. The secondly, it is very important for us to leave not only records but also real historical experimental devices that played important roles in establishing modern scientific psychology for the future. It was clearly shown that among those historical instruments, chronometrical instruments such as Wundt's chronograph, Hipp's chronometer and/or Scriputure's swing chronometer were the most useful and important tools for measuring mental time, which is a reaction time or response latency time used clarifying the invisible inner mental processes. However, almost all of these do … More cuments, records, and instruments thrown away or disappeared from laboratories of psychology departments all over the world with innovations of modern technology, and only remain in the memory of old psychologist who are still alive, or in a few Archives of the History of Psychology, such as Akron University, and the oldest psychological laboratory, such as Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and Clark University, in USA. To avoid this crisis, it is very important for us to construct such archives and/or to make collections as those at Akron and Harvard University as soon as possible. So, it is our great regret that it is an essential way for us to explore such oversea Archives and collections of historical experimental instruments, or department of psychology and library to find out necessary information and documents or records about Japanese history of psychology. Basically, this is the reason why this oversea research project is planed. From these research, the process of sowing modern western psychology and seeing it blossom on Japanese ground is clarified from various viewpoints as follows ; 1)The origin of the scientific name, "shinrigaku", in Japanese comes from the book titled "mental philosophy" written by J.Haven, not Psychology, and translated into Japanese by Amane Nishi. 2)Who brought modern psychology to Japan, and who was their mentor? The founder's name was Yujiro Motora, who received a Ph. D, under the supervision of Dr.G.S.Hall, from Johns Hopkins University in 1888. Dr.Motora returned to Japan and took a position at the Imperial University, which was the only public university in the Meiji era, and first lectured on psychophysics, opening his laboratory for experimental psychology in 1903. 3)An overview of the history of psychology after Motora in Japan and the background to the development of the Japanese Psychological Association established in 1927. 4)The spread processes of modern psychology through the public and/or private educational system in Japan and overseas financial support from such as the Rockefeller foundation.. Less