About
Education
2013-2017 Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Language and Society, PhD of Arts
2011-2013 Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Language and Society, MA
2009-2011 University of Tokyo, Research Student
2001-2005 Yerevan Institute of the Humanities, BA
Professional Experience
2024- Associate Professor, Russian-Armenian University
2017- 2024 Senior Lecturer, Russian-Armenian University
2020- Visiting researcher, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
2019-2020 Visiting Research Scholar, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
2017-2018 Researcher, Hitotsubashi University
2016-2017 Lecturer, Saitama University
2014-2017 Lecturer, Yamano College of Aesthetics
2013 г. Teaching Assistant, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2005-2009 Lecturer, Yerevan Institute of the Humanities
Expertise
Modern and contemporary history of Japan, social history, history of medicine
Courses Taught
Japanese language, history of Japan, theory of translation
Trainings
2007 Japan Foundation Short Term Training Program for Foreign Teachers of the Japanese Language
Honors and Awards
2023-24 Japan Foundation Grant for Japanese Studies for the publication of the textbook Japanese Society (Project director).
2022-23 Japan Foundation Grant for Japanese Studies for organizing Series of Lectures on Japanese Studies in RAU (Project director).
2016 Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Public Interest Foundation (Kanken)
Academic Paper Award.
2015 Association for Promotion of International Understanding
Excellence in Teaching Award.
Textbook
Աստղիկ Հովհաննիսյան, Ճապոնական հասարակություն. ուսումնական ձեռնարկ, Հայ-ռուսական համալսարան, 2024, 176 էջ։ (Astghik Hovhannisyan. Japanese Society: A Textbook. Russian-Armenian University Press, 2024.)
Book Chapters
Astghik Hovhannisyan,「『何より清潔、よく顔を洗へ』：近代日本におけるトラホームについて」(“’Cleanliness Above All, Wash Your Face Well’: On Trachoma in Modern Japan”), in Manami Yasui, Lawrence Marceau (eds.), Sozō suzu shintai [Imagining the Body]. Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 2022, pp. 52-69.
Astghik Hovhannisyan,「サリドマイド事件の傷跡」(“Scars of the Thalidomide Crisis”), in Hideto Tsuboi (ed.). Sengo Nihon no kizuato [Scars of Postwar Japan]. Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 2022, pp. 306-320.
Astghik Hovhannisyan, “Japanese Language Education in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Kokuji Mondai (National Script Problem)” in Kayoko Hashimoto (ed.), Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 65-81.
2013-2017 Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Language and Society, PhD of Arts
2011-2013 Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Language and Society, MA
2009-2011 University of Tokyo, Research Student
2001-2005 Yerevan Institute of the Humanities, BA
Professional Experience
2024- Associate Professor, Russian-Armenian University
2017- 2024 Senior Lecturer, Russian-Armenian University
2020- Visiting researcher, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto
2019-2020 Visiting Research Scholar, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken)
2017-2018 Researcher, Hitotsubashi University
2016-2017 Lecturer, Saitama University
2014-2017 Lecturer, Yamano College of Aesthetics
2013 г. Teaching Assistant, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
2005-2009 Lecturer, Yerevan Institute of the Humanities
Expertise
Modern and contemporary history of Japan, social history, history of medicine
Courses Taught
Japanese language, history of Japan, theory of translation
Trainings
2007 Japan Foundation Short Term Training Program for Foreign Teachers of the Japanese Language
Honors and Awards
2023-24 Japan Foundation Grant for Japanese Studies for the publication of the textbook Japanese Society (Project director).
2022-23 Japan Foundation Grant for Japanese Studies for organizing Series of Lectures on Japanese Studies in RAU (Project director).
2016 Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Public Interest Foundation (Kanken)
Academic Paper Award.
2015 Association for Promotion of International Understanding
Excellence in Teaching Award.
Textbook
Աստղիկ Հովհաննիսյան, Ճապոնական հասարակություն. ուսումնական ձեռնարկ, Հայ-ռուսական համալսարան, 2024, 176 էջ։ (Astghik Hovhannisyan. Japanese Society: A Textbook. Russian-Armenian University Press, 2024.)
Book Chapters
Astghik Hovhannisyan,「『何より清潔、よく顔を洗へ』：近代日本におけるトラホームについて」(“’Cleanliness Above All, Wash Your Face Well’: On Trachoma in Modern Japan”), in Manami Yasui, Lawrence Marceau (eds.), Sozō suzu shintai [Imagining the Body]. Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 2022, pp. 52-69.
Astghik Hovhannisyan,「サリドマイド事件の傷跡」(“Scars of the Thalidomide Crisis”), in Hideto Tsuboi (ed.). Sengo Nihon no kizuato [Scars of Postwar Japan]. Kyoto: Rinsen shoten, 2022, pp. 306-320.
Astghik Hovhannisyan, “Japanese Language Education in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Kokuji Mondai (National Script Problem)” in Kayoko Hashimoto (ed.), Japanese Language and Soft Power in Asia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 65-81.
Scientific interests
- Japanese studies
- History of Japan
- Social History of Medicine
- History of Eugenics
List of publications
- Astghik Hovhannisyan,「アルメニアにおける日本語教育：その歴史と現状」(“Japanese Language Education in Armenia: Its History and the Current State”), Nihongogaku 2022-12, pp. 68-77.
- Astghik Hovhannisyan, “Preventing the Birth of ‘Inferior Offspring’: Eugenic Sterilizations in Postwar Japan”, Japan Forum Volume 33, Issue 3, Special Issue Reproduction and Population in Post-war Japan, 2021, pp. 383-401. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09555803.2020.1731570
- Astghik Hovhannisyan,「アルメニアにおける日本研究」(Japanese Studies in Armenia) in Sekai no Nihon kenkyu = Japanese Studies Around the World 2020, pp. 37-47.
- Astghik Hovhannisyan, 「あるアルメニア人女性が見た明治日本：ヘギネ・メリク＝ハイカジャンの 『日本一週旅行記』（1905）」(Perspectives of an Armenian Woman in Meiji Japan: Heghine Melik-Haykazyan's Travels in Japan (1905)) in Yurasia Kenkyu 63, Guznosha, 2020, pp. 59-66.
- Астхик Оганесян, «Принудительные стерилизации в Японии: Изучая Канагавские префектуральные архивы» (Involuntary Sterilizations in Japan: Learning from Kanagawa Prefectural Archives), Японские исследования 2020, 2 (Japanese Studies in Russia 2020, 2), pp. 32-45 . https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/prinuditelnye-sterilizatsii-v-yaponii-izuchaya-kanagavskie-prefekturalnye-arhivy
- Astghik Hovhannisyan, “The Testimony of a Victim of Forced Sterilization in Japan: Kita Saburō” The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Volume 18, Issue 7, No. 2, 2020. https://apjjf.org/2020/7/Hovhannisyan.html
- Astghik Hovhannisyan, “Ōta Tenrei’s Defense of Birth Control, Eugenics and Euthanasia” Contemporary Japan 30-1, 2018, pp. 28-42. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18692729.2018.1424261
- Astghik Hovhannisyan,「『国民病』の語り方：近代日本におけるトラコーマの場合」(The Discourse of “National Diseases”: The Case of Trachoma in Modern Japan) in Gengo Shakai 11, Hitotsubashi University, 2017, pp. 79-93.
- Astghik Hovhannisyan,「戦争と『眼』：1930年代から敗戦にかけての日本の近視予防事業」(War and Eyes: Myopia Prevention in Wartime Japan) in Gengo Shakai 10, Hitotsubashi University, 2016, pp. 244-255.
- Astghik Hovhannisyan,「近代日本における眼科学者の国字研究」(Ophthalmologists’ Kokuji (National Script) Research in Modern Japan) Shakai Gengogaku 14, 2014, pp. 121-140, Winner of Kanken Academic Paper Award 2016.