Japan Academy 日本学士院

This month’s featured S.I. Libraries exchange partner is the 120-year-old Japan Academy in Ueno Park, Tokyo, Japan founded in 1897 by Yukichi Fukuzawa under the name Tokyo Academy. 

The Academy’s mission is “to contribute to the advancement of science both in Japan and abroad.”  It has 150 regular members, who are selected based on their scientific accomplishments.  Its main activities include:

• the awarding of recognition prizes, such as the Imperial Prize, the Japan Academy Prize, and the Duke of Edinburgh Prize

• compiling and publishing the Academy’s journals

• holding public lectures

• conducting exchanges with academies and other organizations in other countries

They began sending us their Proceedings of the Japan Academy: Series A (mathematical sciences) and Proceedings of the Japan Academy:  Series B (physical and biological sciences) in 1975, and the Libraries has been adding the issues to our collections ever since.—Dana Feil and Polly Khater