Tokyo
Japan
Operator: EFEO
Established: 1994
Premises: Oriental Library/Toyo bunko

Head : Iyanaga Nobumi

École française d’Extrême-Orient
Toyo Bunko
Honkomagome 2-28-21
Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0021
Japan
Tel/fax +0081 3 3942 2119

Tokyo

The academic cooperation between the EFEO and the Tōyō bunko provides for exchanges of information, documentation, and publications, as well as joint research programs. The EFEO Centre in Tokyo is dedicated to promoting Franco-Japanese exchanges in the humanities and social sciences.

Principal activities

  • History and anthropology of religion in Japan
  • History of Sino-Japanese Budhism
  • Social and cultural history of printing in the pre-modern era
  • History of Japanese Art
  • Painters and publishing of the Edo period