Institute of East Asian Studies
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts Charles University in Prague

Doc. Ing. Jan Sýkora, M.A., Ph.D.

Lukáš Zádrapa

Academic position and Field of Studies

Associate Professor
Vice-director of the Institute of East Asian Studies
Head of Japanese Studies

Modern and contemporary Japanese history
Economic and social history
History of economic thought
Modern Japanese society
Japanese paleography and diplomatics

Curriculum vitae:

Date of birth: May 20, 1961 in Jihlava, Czech Republic

EDUCATION, ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION
2011    Habilitation – vinia docendi (Charles University) in History and Culture of Asian and African Societies

2002    PhD. in History (Charles University) – specialization History and Culture of Asian and African Societies
Dissertation: Making of the Economic Society and the Origin of Economic Thought in Tokugawa Japan (Supervisor: Univ. Prof. Dr. Oldřich Král, Charles University).

1996    The Japan Foundation, Japanese Language Center (Urawa, Japan) – Training Program for Teachers of the Japanese language.

1994    M.A. in Economics (Saga University, Faculty of Economics, Japan) – specialization in Monetary and Economic policy
M.A. thesis: Shoji Koki no keizairon to bakumatsu no Sagahan: ‘Kenpo fukyoroku’ wo chushin to shite [Economic theories of Shoji Koki and Saga domain in the late Tokugawa period: With the focus on ‘Kenpo fukyoroku’] (Supervisor: Univ. Prof. Susumu Nagano, Saga University).

1988 – 1992   Czechoslovak Academy of Science, Institute of Economics (PhD. studies). Final (state) PhD. examination passed in May 1990; the studies temporarily interrupted in January 1991 due to the study in Japan (Japanese Government Scholarship, 1991 - 94) and in 1992 annulled because of the dissolution of the Institute of Economics.

1984    M.A. in Economics (Prague School of Economics) – specialization in International Economics and Theory of Foreign Trade
M.A. thesis: Specific Factors of the Economic Growth of Japan (Supervisor: Univ. Prof. Dr. Štěpán Müller, Prague School of Economics).

EMPLOYMENT, PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE, ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1992 – hitherto           Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Institute of East Asian Studies (Associate Professor)
      1994 – hitherto              Head of the Japanese Studies Program
      2007 – 2011                   Director of the Institute of East Asian Studies
      2011 – hitherto              Vice-director of the Institute of East Asian Studies

2005 – hitherto           Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Studies
(Lecturer in Politics and Economics in East Asian Countries)

2013 – hitherto           University of Economics, Prague
(Director of the Center for Asian Studies)

1985 – 1988                 Prague School of Economics, Faculty of International Economics and Foreign Trade
(Assistant Professor in International Economics)

FELLOWSHIPS (selected projects)
Kansai University, Osaka, Japan (Visiting Reseach Fellow funded by Kanasai University)
October – December 2012       
Joint Research Project: Research on the Formation of Consumer Society in Osaka

International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan (Visiting Research Fellow funded by the Ministry of Education, Czech Republic)
May 2012
Research Project: Innovation of the lecture course in “History of Japanese Thought”

Joetsu University of Education, Naoetsu, Japan (Visiting Research Fellow funded by Joetsu University of Education)
October – November 2010      
Research Project: Dictionary of Modern a Contemporary History of Japan

Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka, Japan (Visiting Research Fellow funded by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
September 2005 – September 2006
Research Project: Osaka Merchant Academy Kaitokudo and the Origin of Economic Thought in Japan

Seinan gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan (Visiting Research Fellow funded by The Japan Foundation )
October 2000 – September 2001
Research Project: Transformation of Japanese Economic System as a Consequence of Globalization

International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan (Visiting Associate Professor)
January 1997 – January 1998
Research Project: Economic Thought in Japan in Tokugawa Period (Comparative Approach)

The Japan Foundation, Japanese Language Center, Urawa, Japan
January – March 1996
Training Program for Overseas University Teachers of Japanese Language

Saga Univerisity, Faculty of Economics, Saga, Japan (Research Student funded by Japanase Ministry of Education - Monbusho)
January 1991 – March 1992
Research Project: Economic History of Japan

Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, Salzburg, Austria
May 1990
International Research Panel: „1992: Effect on the World Outside the European Community

ACADEMIC TEACHING ABROAD - VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
October 29 – December 1, 2012
Nihon ni okeru “keizai” shiso no naritachi oyobi sono tenkai: Kinsei kara kindai e [Origin of “economic” thought and its development in Japan: From early modern to modern times]
Course of lectures for the students of M.A. and PhD. programs.

Universität Heidelberg, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Germany
September 11 – 19, 2012
Summer School: Reading Pre-modern Japanese Texts
Course of lectures on the Japanese paleography and diplomatics (komonjogaku)

Joetsu University of Education, Joetsu, Japan                      
October 29 – November 30, 2010
Yoroppa ni okeru Cheko no rekishi, bunka oyobi shakai no yakuwari [Czech history, culture and society in European context]
Course of lectures for the students of M.A. and PhD. programs.

Ruhr Universität,
Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften, Bochum, Germany
December 11 – 14, 2009
Introduction to the Japanese paleography and diplomatics (komonjogaku)
Intensive course of lectures for the students of PhD program and the faculty.

Seinan gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan                                                                           

August 1 – 4, 2006 
Gurobarizeshon to Nihon shakai [Globalization and the Japanese society]
Course of lectures for the students of B.A. and M.A. programs.

Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
                                                                          
May 5 – 15, 2005
Modern Japanese Society, Intellectual History of Early Modern Japan, Readings in Early Modern Historical ManuscriptsIntensive courses of lectures for the students of M.A. program .  

Seinan gakuin University, Fukuoka, Japan                                                                           

July 14 – 17, 2003
Guróbarizéšon to nihonteki keiei [Globalization and the Japanese management]
Course of lectures for the students of B.A. and M.A. programs.

International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan

January 1 – Decenber 31, 1997
Visiting Associate Professor

MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL/INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARDS
2001 – hitherto
Japan Review (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Nichibunken, Kyoto) -   member of the International Advisory Board

2006 – hitherto
Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, (Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Vilnius) -  member of the Editorial Board

2006 – hitherto
Acta UP Orientalia (Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic) - member of the Editorial Board

2007 – hitherto
Archív Orientální: Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies (Czech Academy of Science, Oriental Institute, Prague) - member of the Editorial Board

2009 – hitherto
Dvacáté století/The Twentieth Century (Charles University, Faculty of Arts) - member of the Advisory Board

2010 – hitherto
Anthropologia integra (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) - member of the Editorial Board

2011 – hitherto
Japan Forum (British Association of Japanese Studies) - member of the International Advisory Board

RESEARCH PROJECTS (prepared, managed and successfully defended/approved)
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Name of the project: Japanese Economic Thought: Time and Space (Chief coordinator: Univ. Prof. Dr. Hiroshi Kawaguchi)
Period: April 2011 – March 2015

Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, Prague

Name of the project: Innovation of the lecture course in “History of Japanese Thought” Period: January 2012 – December 2012
Outcomes:
SÝKORA Jan. Reader in Early Modern and Modern Japanese Thought (electronic version).

European Social Fund, Operation Program Prague-Adaptability, CZ.2.17/3.1.00/31190

Name of the project: Innovation of B.A. programs through the implementation of subjects focused on the modern history of East Asia countries (Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam)
Period: January 2009 – December 2011
Total amount: 8,6 mil. CZK (350 000 Euro)
Outcomes:
SÝKORA Jan (ed.). Dictionary of Japanese Modern and Contemporary History (forthcoming).

Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, Prague
Name of the project: Language as a Human Activity, Its Product and Its Factor (Chief coordinator: Univ. Prof. Dr. Zdeněk Starý, Charles University, Prague)
Period: January 2005 – December 2011
Outcomes:
Japanese-Czech Dictionary of Current Terms (forthcoming)

Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, Prague
Development Project No. 460101/2007
Name of Project: Introduction Course in Japanese Paleography (komonjogaku)
Period: January 2007 – December 2007
Outcomes:
Implementation of the Introduction Course in Japanese Paleography with Reader.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
Name of the project: Osaka Merchant Academy Kaitokudo and the Origin of Economic Thought in Japan  (Individual research grant)
Period: September 2005 – September 2006
Outcomes:
SÝKORA Jan. Kaitokudo oyobi sono shuhen ni okeru keizai shiso no naritachi: 'Ri' wo meguru giron wo chushin ni (Origin of the Economic Thought in Kaitokudo and Its Intellectual Milieu: Discourse on the Nature of Profit). Kaitoku, 2007, 75, p. 19-34. ISSN 0288-4941.

The Japan Foundation, Japan
Name of the project: Mitsui Takafusa: Chonin kokenroku [Some Observations on Merchants] (Grant for the Czech translation of the classical Japanese text)
Period: April 2005 – March 2006
Outcomes:
MICUI Takafusa. Zápisky o obchodnících [Observations on Merchants] (Chonin kokenroku). Translation from classical Japanese annotation and introduction by SÝKORA Jan. Praha: DharmaGaia, 2005, 206 pp. ISBN 80-86685-44-6.

The Japan Foundation, Japan

Name of the project: Japanese-Czech Character Dictionary (Grant for the compiling and publication of the first Japanese character dictionary in the Czech Republic)
Period: April 2000 – March 2001
Outcomes:
SÝKORA Jan – LABUS David. Znakový japonsko-český studijní slovník [Japanese-Czech Learner´s Character Dictionary].  Praha: Paseka, 2000, 625 pp.  ISBN 80-718-5281-3. 

The Japan Foundation, Japan
Name of the project: Organization of the international conference „A New Dialogue Between Central Europe and Japan: A Tension Between Continuity and Change“ and publication or the proceedings.
Period: January 2000 – December 2000
Outcomes:
SÝKORA Jan (ed.). A New Dialogue Between Central Europe and Japan: A Tension Between Continuity and Change. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2001, 174 pp. ISBN 80-901206-5-2.

ORGANIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES FUNDED BY THIRD PARTY
October 7 – 9, 2010, Charles University in Prague
4th East Asia Net Research Workshop: Trust, Risk and Decoupling in East and Southeast Asia funded by the European Social Funds

May 8 – 10, 2005, Vilnius University, Lithuania
International Workshop: Networking Seminar in Japanese Studies co-funded by The Japan Foundation and Vilnius University

July 25 – 28, 2000, Charles University in Prague
International Symposium A New Dialogue Between Central Europe and Japan: A Tension Between Continuity and Change funded by The Japan Foundation

July 25 – 26, 1998, Charles University in Prague
The 11th International Conference on Japanese Language Teaching funded by The Japan Foundation.

LIST OF TALKS GIVEN AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERECES AND WORKSHOPS
Lectures delivered in the capacity of the invited speaker / visiting professor
PhD. Workshop in Japanese Studies. Supervisor of the PhD. projects in the field of the Japanese intellectual history. The Japan Foundation, Budapest, February 17 – 19, 2013.
SÝKORA Jan. Cheko to Doitsu no wakai: Haberu daitoryo to ‚kyozon‘ e no michi (Czech-German Reconciliation: President Havel and his way to the „coexistence“). The lecture of the visiting professor,  Kansai University, Osaka, November 26, 2012.
SÝKORA Jan. Nihon ni okeru ‚keizai‘ shiso no seiritsu oyobi sono tenkai: Kinsei kara kindai e (The origin and development of ‚economic‘ thought in Japan: From early modern to modern period). The lecture of the visiting professor, Kansai University, Osaka, November 21, 2012.
SÝKORA Jan. Chuo Joroppa ni okeru nihon kenkyu no genjo (Present situation in the Japanese studies in Central Europe). The lecture of the visiting professor, Kansai University, Osaka, November 20, 2012.
SÝKORA Jan. Unbearable Otherness: The problem of Social Exclusion in Modern and Contemporary Japan. Thek keynote lecture delivered at the international conference „Self and Other in Japan: Mutual Representations“. University of Bucharest, Bucharest, March 4, 2012.
PhD. Workshop in Japanese Studies. Supervisor of the PhD. projects in the field of the Japanese intellectual history. The Japan Foundation, Budapest, February 20 – 21, 2012.
SÝKORA Jan. Biródo kakumeigo no Cheko no nihongaku [Japanese Studies in the Czech Republic Since the Velvet Revolution]. The keynote lecture at the international conference „Nihongaku kokusai koryu purojekuto: Sono kanosei to kadai“ [Project of the International Exchange in the Field of the Japanese Studies: Its Perspectives and Problems]. Kansai University, Osaka, January 15, 2010.
SÝKORA Jan. Cheko ni okeru bunka no mori: Sono han’ei to kage [The “Forest” of the Czech Culture: Its Prosperity and Shadows]. The lecture of the visiting professor. Osaka International University, Osaka, August 10, 2006.
SÝKORA Jan. Cheko ni okeru bunka no mori: Sono kanbatsu ka bassai ka (The “Forest” of the Czech Culture: Its Thinning or Felling?). The lecture of the visiting professor.  Kobe Women‘s University, Kóbe,  July 19, 2006.
SÝKORA Jan. Kaitokudo to Nihon ni okeru keizai shiso no naritachi [Kaitokudo and the Origin of the Economic Thought in Japan]. The keynote lecture delivered at the annual meeting of the Kaitokudo kinenkai [Kaitokudo Memorial Society]. Osaka, July 11, 2006.
SÝKORA Jan. Cheko ni okeru nihon kenkyu no genjo oyobi sono kadai: Nihonshi no kenkyu to kyoiku wo chushin ni [The Present Situation and the Future Tasks in the Japanese Studies in the Czech Republic: With the Special Focus on the Education and Research in the Field of Japanese History]. The keynote lecture delivered at the annual meeting of Osaka rekishi kagaku kyogikai [Osaka Historical Society]. Osaka, July 8, 2006.
SÝKORA Jan. Cheko ni okeru nihongaku kyoiku to kenkyu: Sono genjo oyobi kaizen no yochi [Education and Research in the Field of the Japanese Studies in the Czech Republic: The Present State and the Scope for Their Improvement]. The lecture of the visiting professor. NIME, Tokyo, June 8, 2006.
SÝKORA Jan. Cheko kara mita Nihon no bunkei [Humanitites in Japan from the Czech Perspective]. The keynote lecture delivered at the international workshop on Humanitites in Japan. Nagoya University, Nagoya, February 28, 2006.
SÝKORA Jan. Cheko ni okeru kyóiku seido no shomondai (On the Problems of Educational System in the Czech Republic). Keynote lecture delivered at the annual meeting of LFKAI Society, Fukuoka, Japan, October 14, 2005.
SÝKORA Jan. A Historical Analysis of the Concept of Market Principles in Japan. The keynote lecture delivered at Kansai Modern Japan Group. Goethe Institute, Kyoto, September 21, 2005.
SÝKORA Jan. Yoroppa ni okeru Cheko bunka no yakuwari [The Role of the Czech Culture in the European Context]. The lecture of the visiting professor. Sapporo University, Sapporo, February 15, 2002.

Presentations at the international conferences / workshops with the acceptance limit
SÝKORA Jan. Consumption, Democracy and Social Exclusion in Moder nand Contemporary Japan. International conference „Via Japan: Japan-Imprinted Discourses“. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid, Spain, October 23 – 25, 2013.
SÝKORA Jan. Consume or Perish! : Consumerism and Democracy in Modern and Contemporary Japan. 13th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies. Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia, August 24 – 27, 2011.
SÝKORA Jan. The Discourse on ‘Profit’ in Tokugawa Intellectual Milieu. International Conference „Japan Times Now Past“. Ruhr Universität, Bochum, Germany, June 11 – 12, 2010.
SÝKORA Jan. The Economic Thought of Shōji Kōki and the Tenpō Reforms in Saga Domain. International workshop „Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan“. Columbia University, New York, June 26 – 27, 2009.
SÝKORA Jan. With Sincerity and Trust: Conceptualization of kyōsei in Kaitokudō intellectual traditions. 12th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies. Salento University, Lecce, Italy, September 20 – 23, 2008.
SÝKORA Jan. Light from the Periphery: Shoji Koki´s Economic Thought and the Intellectual Background of the Tenpo Reforms in Saga Domain. International Symposium „Economic Thought in Premodern Japan.“ Tübingen University, Blaubeuren, Germany, May 29 – June 1, 2008.
SÝKORA Jan. Taguchi Ukichi and His Concept of Japanese Civilization as Discussed in Nihon Kaika Shoshi (A Short History of Japanese Enlightenment). 11th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies. Vienna University, Vienna, Austria. August 31 – September 3, 2005.
SÝKORA Jan. Power of Imagination: Life and Work of Minakata Kumagusu. 6th Conference of Asian Studies: Problems and Investigations, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, May 11, 2005.
SÝKORA Jan. Concept of Market Principles in Early Modern Japan. 5th Conference of Asian Studies: Problems and Investigations, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, May 7, 2004.
SÝKORA Jan. Japanese Studies in Czech Republic: Past, Present and Future. 10th International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies. Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, August 26, 2003.
SÝKORA Jan. Notion of Market in Tokugawa Intellectual Millieu. International conference „Social Norms and Traditional Religions“. Leiden University, Leiden, Nedherlands, October 17, 1998.
SÝKORA Jan. Shoji Koki: Shirarezaru chiho gakusha ka Sagahan ni okeru Tenpo kaikaku no suishinsha ka (Shoji Koki: Unknown Provincial Scholar or the Designer of the Tenpo Reform in Saga Domain?). 14th International Conference of Orientalists [Toho gakkai] in Japan. Tokyo, Japan, May 14, 1993.

Presentations at the international conferences / workshops without the acceptance limit
SÝKORA Jan. City, Consumption and Social Exclusion in Contemporary Japan. East Asia Net Research Workshop „Future Cities and Space Reconfiguration in East Asia: Practices and Representations, Risk and Opportunities“. Jean Moulin Lyon 3 University, Lyon, France, October 17 – 19, 2013.
SÝKORA Jan.  Abenomics and Its Social Consequences. East Asia Net Research Workshop “A New Order in North-East Asia in 2013: New leaders, New risks?”, Lund University, Lund, May 9 – 11, 2013.
SÝKORA Jan.  Concept of ‘consumption’ and its transformation in the early modern and modern Japanese economic thought. International conference „Japanese Economic Thought: Time and Space“. Kokushikan University, Tokyo, March 6 – 7, 2013.
SÝKORA Jan. Economic nationalism in the early Meiji period: Sada Kaiseki and his economic theory. International conference „Japanese Economic Thought: Time and Space“. Charles University, Prague, 27. – 29. 8. 2012
SÝKORA Jan. Environmental Governance and the Role of Civic Society in Contemporary Japan. East Asia Net Research Workshop „Institutions and Trust in Environmental Governance in East Asia. Aveiro University, Aveiro University, Aveiro, Portugalsko, 19. – 21. 4. 2012
SÝKORA Jan. Who Actually Needs East Asian Studies?: East Asian Studies at Charles University Between the Tradition and the Change. East Asia Net Research Workshop „The Future of Higher Education on East Asia: Concepts and Experiences“. Vienna University, Vídeň, Rakousko, 15. – 17. 9. 2011.
SÝKORA Jan. Taguchi Ukichi and His Concept of Japanese Modernization. International conference „Between ‘National’ and ‘Regional’: Re-orientation of Studies on Japanese and Central European Cultures”. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, March 21 – 22, 2011.
SÝKORA Jan. Trust, Risk and the Role of Institutions in Early Modern Japan: Mere Anachronism or Useful Historical Experience? East Asia Net Research Workshop „Trust, Decoupling, and Risk in East and Southeast Asia“. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, October 7 – 9, 2010.
SÝKORA Jan. Supplementary report to prof. Alaina-Marca Rieua (Lyon University): Decoupling and Recoupling – Neo-liberalism and the Role of Science and Technology Policy in Japan. East Asia Net Research Workshop „Coupling, Decoupling and Recoupling in East and South East Asia“. Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark, November 6 – 8, 2009.
SÝKORA Jan. The Economic Thought of Shōji Kōki and the Tenpo Reforms in Saga Domain. International seminar „Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan“. Columbia University, New York, USA, June 26 – 27, 2009.
SÝKORA Jan. Poverty: The Risky Way Towards the Re-creation of the Identity in the Contemporary Japanese Society. East Asia Net Research Workshop „The Re-creation of Identities in Contemporary East Asia“. Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, April 23 – 24, 2009.
SÝKORA Jan. Kokuminsei wo han´ei suru shoku no bunka oyobi sono hensen: Cheko no shokubunka wo chushin ni [Food Culture as a Reflection of the National Character and Its Transition: With Regard to the Czech Cuisine]. International workshop „Shoku – motenashi – kazoku“ [Food – Hospitality – Family]. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan, December 15 – 17, 2008.
SÝKORA Jan. Perspectives of Business-academia Relations in Japanese Studies. International conference „Enhancing Mutual Exchange Between Japan and Central European Countries“. Sasakawa Central Europe Fund. Bratislava, Slovakia, March 19 – 20, 2008.
SÝKORA Jan. Between Logic and Emotion: Tokugawa Merchants Values in Comparative Perspective. International conference „European Japan Discourses IX: Logic and Emotion in Japanese Culture“. Charles University, Prague, September 22 – 24, 2006.
SÝKORA Jan. Universities or the “Professional” Schools: Where are the limits of the sangaku renkei [industru-university cooperation] policy? International workshop „Networking Seminar in Japanese Studies“. Vilnius University, Vilnius, Luthuania, May 9, 2005.
SÝKORA Jan. Japan Between Globalization and Localization: How Japan Should Respond to the Global Trends. International conference „Globalization and Regionalism in East Central Europe and East Asia: Comparison“. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, May 18, 2004.

LIST OF PUBLICATION

I. Monograph

SÝKORA Jan. Ekonomické myšlení v Japonsku [Economic Thought in Japan]. Praha: Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy, 2010, 200 pp. ISBN 978-80-7308-309-0.

II. Chapters in the monographs
SÝKORA, Jan. Ruth Benedictová: Chryzantéma a meč. Doslov [Ruth Benedict: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Epilogue]. In: BENEDICTOVÁ, Ruth. Chryzantéma a meč: Vzorce japonské kultury [The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture]. Praha: Malvern, 2013, p. 285-293. ISBN 978-86702-45-5.
SÝKORA Jan. Shōji Kōki no keizai shisō to Sagahan no keizai kaikaku[The Econonic Thought of Shōji Kōki and the Tenpō Reforms in Saga Domain]. In: KAWAGUCHI Hiroshi – GRAMLICH-OKA Bettina. Obei kara mita kinsei nihon no keizai shisō [Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan from Western Perspective]. Tokyo: Iwata shoin, 2013, p. 229-252. ISBN 978-4-87294-785-4.
SÝKORA Jan. Consumerism and Democracy in Interwar Japan. In: TIRALA Martin and MORITA Mamoru. Distant Symbols and Close Signs. Praha: Nová vlna, 2013, p. 110-122. ISBN 978-80-85845-31-0.
SÝKORA Jan. The Economic Thought of Shōji Kōki and the Tenpō Reforms in Saga Domain. In:  GRAMLICH-OKA Bettina and SMITS Gregory. Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan. Leiden: Brill, 2010, p. 157-178. ISBN 90-041-8383-3.
SÝKORA Jan. Japonsko na prahu 21. století [Japan on the Threshold of the 21th Century]. In: REISCHAUER Edwin O. – CRAIG Albert. Dějiny Japonska [Japan: Tradition & Transformation]. 2nd revised edition. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2009, p. 322-351. ISBN 978-80-7106-513-5.
SÝKORA Jan.  Japonská bezpečnostní politika na prahu nového tisíciletí: Zdroj stability či nová hrozba? [Japanese Security Policy on the Threshold of the New Millennium: The Source of Stability or the New Threat?]. In: LUPTÁK Ĺubomír a kol. Panoráma globálneho bezpečnostného prostredia: 2006 – 2007 [Panorama of the Global Security Environment: 2006-2007].Bratislava: Ministerstvo obrany Slovenskej republiky, 2007, p. 451-458. ISBN 978-80-89-89261-11-6.
SÝKORA Jan.  Svět tokugawských obchodníků [The World of Tokugawa Merchants]. In: MICUI Takafusa. Zápisky o obchodnících [Some Observations on Merchants]. Praha: DharmaGaia, 2005, p. 5-46.  ISBN 80-86685-44-6.
SÝKORA, Jan. Japonsko 90. let. [Japan in 90s]. In: REISCHAUER Edwin O. – CRAIG Albert. Dějiny Japonska [Japan: Tradition & Transformation]. 1st edition. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2000, p. 322-327. ISBN 80-7106-391-6.
SÝKORA Jan. Tokugawa jidai koki ni okeru keizai shiso no kosacu: Shoji Koki no keiseiron wo chushin ni [Economic Thought in Late Tokugawa Period: Economic Theory of Shoji Koki]. In: HAMAGUCHI Eshun (ed.). Nihon shakai to wa nani ka?: Fukuzatsukei no shiten kara [What does it mean “The Japanese Society“?]. Tokyo: Nippon hoso shuppankai, 1998, p. 236-252. ISBN 41-400-1833-X.

III. Articles and reviews in the academic journals
ARTICLES         
SÝKORA Jan. Editorial. Současná Evropa, 2013, 3, p. 3-7. ISSN 1804-1280.
SÝKORA Jan. Trust, Risk and the Role of Institutions in Early Modern Japan: Mere Anachronism or Useful Historical Experience?. Archív orientální, 2011, 2, p. 147-159. ISSN 0044-8699.
SÝKORA Jan - GOHORI Josef - HOSOE Yoko – TOKUMARU Sadako. Kaigo shisetsu ni okeru koreisha no shakaiteki nettowaku: Kaigo rinen, chiikisei, kazoku kankei, seibetsu nado ni yoru eikyo no kanten kara [Social Networks of Elderly Clients in Nursing-Care Facilities : The Effect of the Nursing Care Concept, Location, Family Relationship, Gender, etc.]. Kyoiku jissengaku ronshu, 2009, 10, 3, p. 159-170. ISSN 1345-5184.
SÝKORA Jan. Concept of 'kyosei' in Tokugawa intellectual tradition and the origin of modern company codes. Regioninés Studijos, 2009, 3, p. 107-119. ISSN 2029-2074.
SÝKORA Jan - HOSOE Yoko - GOHORI Josef. Vliv systému unit care na sociální síť klientů v seniorském věku [Impact of the Unit-Care System on Social Network of Elderly Clients]. Sociální práce, 2008, 8, 3, p. 64-74. ISSN 1213-6204.
SÝKORA Jan. Kaitokudo oyobi sono shuhen ni okeru keizai shiso no naritachi: 'Ri' wo meguru giron wo chushin ni [Origin of the Economic Thought in Kaitokudo and Its Intellectual Milieu: Discourse on the Nature of Profit]. Kaitoku, 2007, 75, p. 19-34. ISSN 0288-4941.
SÝKORA Jan. Saikaku to chifutan: Ihara Saikaku no sakuhin ni miru choninzo oyobi sono hensen [Saikaku and the Theory of Wealth: Portrait of Merchants in the Works of Ihara Saikaku]. Kokubungaku kaishaku to kansho, 2005, Special Issue, p. 225-234. ISSN 0371-8035.
SÝKORA Jan. Universities or ‘Professional’ Schools: Where Are the Limits of the Academia-Industry Linkage (sangaku renkei) Policy?. Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, 2005, 6, 1, p. 30-41. ISSN 1648-2662.
SÝKORA Jan. Concept of Market Principles in Early Modern Japan. Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, 2004, 5, 1, p. 8-22. ISSN 1648-2662.
SÝKORA Jan. Japanese Studies in the Czech Republic: Past, Present and Future. Bulletin of the European Association for Japanese Studies, 2004, 64, p. 12-16. ISSN 0308-5139.
SÝKORA Jan. The Development of Economic Society in Early Modern Japan and the Origin of Economic Thought of Tokugawa Merchants. Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Philologica 1/2001, Orientalia Pragensia XIV, Praha: Karolinum, 2002, p. 219-232. ISSN 0567-8269.
SÝKORA Jan. Cheko shakai wa doko e iku no ka: Cheko ni okeru 'shijo keizai e no kaiki' wo megutte [Where is the Czech Society Going to?: On the Problem of the Transition to the Market Economy in the Czech Republic]. Hikaku bunka kenkyu, 1998, 15, p. 175-182. ISSN 0289-5706.
SÝKORA Jan. Edo jidai no keizai shiso ni okeru shijo genri no gainen ni cuite no ikkosatsu [A Study on the Concept of the Market Principle in Tokugawa Economic Thought]. Nihon kenkyu, 1998, 18, p. 83-94. ISSN 0915-0900.

REVIEWS
SÝKORA Jan. Jakub Havlíček: Cesty božstev: Otázky interpretace náboženství a nacionalismu v moderním Japonsku [Gods Ways: Interpreting Religions and Nationalism in Modern Japan]. Mezinárodní vztahy, 2013, 48, 1, p. 90-93. ISSN 0323-1844.
SÝKORA Jan. Jiří Janoš: Japonsko a Korea: Dramatické sousedství [Japan and Korea: Dramatic Neighbourhood]. Dějiny a současnost, 2007, 29, 11, p. 46. ISSN 0418-5129
SÝKORA Jan. Nelehká cesta ke vzdálenému cíli [A Difficult Journey to the Distant Goal.] (a review of Dita Nymburská, Denisa Vostrá, Mima Sawatari: Japonština [Japanese Language]). Nový Orient, 2007, 62, 4, p. 58-60. ISSN 0029-5302.
SÝKORA Jan. Stefan Tanaka: Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History. Archív orientální, 1996, 3, p. 435. ISSN 0044-8699.

IV. a) Various important works
ARTICLES IN ACADEMIC PROCEEDINGS
SÝKORA Jan. Consumption as a Mean of Democratization in the Interwar Japan. Hikaku nihongaku kyoiku kenyu senta kenkyu nenpo, 2012, Vol. 8, p. 153-162.
SÝKORA Jan. Taguchi Ukichi and His Concept of Japanese Civilization. Proceedings of the International Workshop Between „National” and Regional”, 2011, p. 30-41.
SÝKORA Jan. Kokuminsei wo han´ei suru shoku no bunka oyobi sono hensen: Cheko no shokubunka wo chushin ni [Food culture as a reflection of national culture and its change: Focused on the Czech cuisine]. In: Nihon bunka kenkyu no kokusaiteki joho dentatsu sukiru no ikusei (Developing International Communication Skills in Japanese Cultural Studies). Tokyo: Ochanomizu University, 2009. p. 182-185.
SÝKORA Jan. Japan Between Globalization and Localization: How Japan Should Respond to the Global Trends. In: B. Hnízdo (ed.). Globalization and Regionalism in East Central Europe and East Asia: Comparison. Praha: Fakulta sociálních věd UK Praha, 2004, p. 191-201. ISBN 80-239-3650-6.
SÝKORA Jan. Vybrané problémy místní správy v současném Japonsku [Selected problems of the regional administration in contemporary Japan]. In: J. Hofman, J. Ježek, M. Lukáš (ed.). Sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní vědecké konference REGIO 2002 a IMPA 2002: Aktuální problémy regionálního rozvoje, Dálný východ a Česká republika [Proceedings from the international conference REGIO 2002 and IMPA 2002: Current problems of the regional development in the Far East and the Czech Republic]. Plzeň: Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2003, p. 233-251. ISBN 80-708-2927-3.
SÝKORA Jan. The Role of Institutions in the Making of Economic Society: Lessons from Early Modern Japan? In J. Ježek (ed.). Ausgewählte Probleme der Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung. Plzeň: Westböhmische Universität, 2001, p. 59-69. ISBN 80-708-2791-2.
SÝKORA Jan. Preface. In: Jan Sýkora (ed.): A New Dialogue Between Central Europe and Japan: A Tension Between Continuity and Change. Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2001, s. 9. ISBN 80-901206-5-2.
SÝKORA Jan. Čínský znak v japonském písmu. In: H. Třísková (ed.). Transkripce čínštiny. 1. vydání. Praha: Česko-čínská společnost, 1999, s. 115-118. ISBN 80-902-5153-6. 

PROCEEDINGS EDITING

SÝKORA Jan – ŠVAMBARITÉ Dalia. Expanding Frontiers: Japanese Studies in the New EU Member States. Acta Orientalia Vilnensia, 2005, 6, 1. ISSN 1648-2662. 109 s.
SÝKORA Jan. A New Dialogue Between Central Europe and Japan: A Tension Between Continuity and Change. 1. vydání.  Praha: Univerzita Karlova, 2001,  ISBN 80-901206-5-2. 174 s.

b) Dictionaries, encyclopedias, translations
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
KOLEKTIV. Velká všeobecná encyklopedie Diderot. Díl I. – III. [Great Universal Encyclopedia. Volume I. – III.]. Praha: Diderot, 2000. ISBN  80-902723-2-9 (Volume I), ISBN  80-902723-4-7 (Volume II), ISBN  80-902723-5-5 (Volume III). The entries related to the modern a contemporary Japanese history and modern Japanese society.
KOLEKTIV. Velká všeobecná encyklopedie Diderot. Díl IV. – VI. [Great Universal Encyclopedia. Volume IV. – VI.]. Praha: Diderot, 2001. ISBN 80-902723- (Volume IV), ISBN 80-902723- (Volume V), ISBN 80-902723- (Volume VI). The entries related to the modern a contemporary Japanese history and modern Japanese society.

DICTIONARIES
MALINA Jaroslav a kol. Antropologický slovník [Dictionary of Anthropology].Brno: Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2010. 309 p. ISBN 978-80-7204-560-0. The entries related to the Japanese anthropology and modern Japanese society.
SÝKORA Jan - LABUS David. Znakový japonsko-český studijní slovník [Japanese-Czech Character Dictionary]. Praha: Paseka, 2000,  625 p. ISBN 80-718-5281-3.

TRANSLATIONS
MITSUI Takafusa. Zápisky o obchodnících (Chonin kokenroku) [Some Observations of Merchants]. Praha: DharmaGaia, 2005, 206 p. ISBN 80-86685-44-6.
REISCHAUER Edwin O. - CRAIG Albert. Dějiny Japonska [Japan: Tradition & Transformation]. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2000, 441 p. ISBN 978-80-7106-513-5. (with LABUS David).
OKAMATSU Yoshihisa. Rozsévání (Tane wo maku) [Sowing the seeds]. Rožnov: PCentrum Rožnov, 1996, 131 p. (with ŠVARCOVÁ Zdenka).
SCARRE Chris (ed.). Zaniklé světy: Velký atlas archeologie (Past Words: The Times Atlas of Archeology, London, 1991). 318 p. Praha: Baset, 1995. ISBN 80-901891-2-1. (with DĚDOVSKÁ Jovana, GOJDA Martin, SKLENÁŘ Karel, DOLEŽELOVÁ Jana, HALÁSZOVÁ Věra).
BATEMAN Graham – EGAN Victoria (ed.). Zeměpis světa (Encyclopedia of World Geography, Oxford, 1993). 512 p.  Praha: Columbus, 1994. ISBN 80-901727-6-8.   (with BUŠKOVÁ Marta, CÍLEK Václav, HULEC Otakar, CHOCHOLOVÁ Libuše, KLÍMA Vladimír, LYSONĚK Josef, MAREK Jan, MÜLLEROVÁ Petra, PANTŮČEK Svetozár, PELLAR Ruben, REJCHRTOVÁ Alžběta, SOUČEK Jakub, SÝKORA Jan, TOMEŠ Jiří, VALENTA Petr).
LASKI Kazimierz. Úvahy o přechodu od příkazových ekonomik k tržním [Concepts of Transition from Command Economies to Market Economies]. Politická ekonomie, 1991, 1.
VANEK Jaroslav. Krize a reforma: Východ a Západ - Eseje o společenské ekonomice [Crises and Reform: East and West - Essays in Social Economy, Ithaca]. Praha: Institut výchovy a vzdělávání Mze, 1990, 143 p. IBSN 80-710-5012-1.
VANEK Jaroslav. Problém přechodu od centrálně plánovaných k demokratickým decentralizovaným sociálním ekonomikám [On the Problem of Transition from Centrally-planned to Democratic Decentralized Socialist Economies]. Politická ekonomie, 1990, 9.
SHIONOYA Yuichi. Schumpeterova rodina v Třešti [Schumpeter Family in Trest]. Politická ekonomie, 1990, 11.

V. Other publications
TRANSCRIPTIONS OF PANEL DISCUSSION
SÝKORA Jan: Kinsei šónin no sekai: Micui Takafusa 'Čónin kókenroku' wo čúšin ni (The world of Tokugawa Merchants: Mitsui Takafusa 'Some Observation on Merchants'). Kyoto: Kokusai nihon bunka kenkyu senta, 1998.  26 p. (transcription of the presentation at the 96th Nichibunken Forum, 10. 6. 1997).
SÝKORA Jan - KIM Uchang – MONNET Livia -  MOSK Carl – TSURUTA Kinya. Nihon ojobi Nihonjin: Soto kara manazashi (Japan and the Japanese: Look from Outside). 1. vydání.  Kyoto: Kokusai nihon bunka kenkyu senta, 1998. 75 p. (transcription of the panel discussion at 101st  Nichibunken Forum, 11. 11. 1997).

NON-ACADEMIC ARTICLES
SÝKORA, Jan. Japonsko harmonické?:  O japonské národní povaze, kulturních stereotypech a krizi hodnot v současném Japonsku [Harmonious Japan?: On Japanese national identity, cultural stereotypes and crisis of values in contemporary Japan]. Magnus,  2013, č. 5, s. 20-22. ISSN 1804-9257.
SÝKORA Jan. Titul za rok? Japonštinu neošidíte [Degree in a year?: Japanese language cannot be circumvented]. Lidové noviny, 3. 11. 2009
SÝKORA Jan. O zajišťování chodu ÚDLV, japonských studiích, sakuře a chryzantémně. Rozhovor pro elektronický časopis Člověk, 2007, (http://clovek.ff.cuni.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2007101508).
SÝKORA Jan. Japonsko za Abeho vlády: Další ztracený rok [Japan uder Abe rule: Another lost year].  Mezinárodní politika, 2007, 31, 11, s. 29-31. ISSN 0543-7962.
SÝKORA Jan. Koizumiho divadlo roku 2005 aneb historické drama o třech dějstvích [Koiyumi’s theatre of 2005]. Mezinárodní politika, 2006, 30, 3, s. 4-7. ISSN 0543-7962.
SÝKORA Jan. Společnost na rozcestí: Zdroje japonské identity [Society at crossroad: Roots of Japanese identity]. Dějiny a současnost, 2006, 28, 7, s. 40-43. ISSN 0418-5129.
SÝKORA Jan. Politická kultura v dnešním Japonsku: Blýskání na lepší časy v nedohlednu [Political culture in contemporary Japan]. Mezinárodní politika, 2003, 27, 5, s. 10-12. ISSN 0543-7962.
SÝKORA Jan. Vývoj japonského písma a japonské písmové systémy [Development of Japanese writing]. Typo, 2003, 1, 6, s. 6-9. ISSN 1214-0716.
SÝKORA Jan. Japonské vysoké školství [University education in Japan] Kokoro, 2003, 14, 1, s. 33-35. ISSN 1213-7510.
SÝKORA Jan. Japonské slabičné písmo [Japanese syllabic writing system]. Nihontó, 1998, 4, s. 38-41.
SÝKORA Jan. Čínský znak v japonském písmu [Chinese character in Japanese writing system]. Nihontó, 1998, 2, s. 3-10.
SÝKORA Jan. Způsoby japonské datace [On Japanese chronology]. Nihontó, 1998, 2, s. 11-17.
SÝKORA Jan. Cheko ni okeru shijó keizai he no kaiki no shomondai wo megutte [On the problem of the return back to the market economy in the Czech republic]. Burutaba, 1997, 51, 15. 6. 1997.
SÝKORA Jan. Bakusei kaikaku wo sasaeta shonin gakusha [Merchant scholar as a designer of domainal reforms]. Asahi shinbun, 1994, č. 40476, 22. 3. 1994.
SÝKORA Jan. Dobře promazaný stroj: Kdo vlastně vládne v Japonsku [Well lubricated machine: Who actually rules in Japan]. Respekt, 22. 8. 1994. ISSN 1801-1446.
SÝKORA Jan. Nic než můj kolektiv: Několik poznámek o Japonsku [Nothing else but my group: Some reflections on Japan]. Respekt, 8. 8. 1994. ISSN 1801-1446.
SÝKORA Jan. Japonština se mění [Japanese language is changing]. Kokoro, 1991, 2, 1.
SÝKORA Jan. Senioři vládnou [Seniors rule]. Československý profit, 1990, 7.

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