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

Haruo Kobayashi	President	Tokyo Gakugei University
Shuichi Hasegawa	Executive Director	Rikkyo University
Kazuo Morimoto	Executive Director, Secretary General	The University of Tokyo
Masayuki Akahori		Sophia University
Jun Akiba		The University of Tokyo
Hikari Egawa		Meiji University
Daisuke Igarashi		Waseda University
Nozomu Kawai		Kanazawa University
Wakako Kumakura		Keio University
Tomoko Masuya		The University of Tokyo
Daisuke Shibata		University of Tsukuba
Izumi Takamiya		Kindai University
Ken’ichi Isogai		Kyoto University
Makiko Tsumura		The Ancient Orient Museum
Shigeo Yamada		University of Tsukuba
Tatsuya Kikuchi	Auditor	The University of Tokyo
Jiro Kondo	Auditor	Waseda University