About Our Society

The Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan was founded in 1954 at the suggestion of Prince Takahito Mikasa. The Society holds an annual meeting, organizes public lectures, and publishes two periodicals: Orient: Journal of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan, an annual, European-language journal, and Oriento (Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan), a biannual Japanese-language journal.

Board of Directors

Jiro Kondo	President	Waseda University
Hikari Egawa	Executive Director	Meiji University
Kazuo Morimoto	Executive Director	The University of Tokyo
Masayuki Akahori		Sophia University
Seiro Haruta		Tokai University
Shuichi Hasegawa		Rikkyo University
Daisuke Igarashi		Waseda University
Jun Ikeda		University of Tsukuba
Haruo Kobayashi		Tokyo Gakugei University
Tomoko Masuya		The University of Tokyo
Yoshihiro Nishiaki		The University of Tokyo
Izumi Takamiya		Kindai University
Yasushi Tonaga		Kyoto University
Makiko Tsumura		The Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo
Shigeo Yamada		University of Tsukuba
So Hasegawa	Auditor	Waseda University
Tatsuya Kikuchi	Auditor	The University of Tokyo
Hikari Egawa	Secretary General	Meiji University