Project timeline

  • September-December 2006:
    • status questionis of existing academic research about manga
    • contact Japanese research partners and agree on areas of cooperation
  • January-March 2007
    • presentation and publication of status questionis on Japanese studies web portal
    • start development of reference materials (module 1)
  • April-June 2007
    • study visit to Japan (module 2, visual language)
    • continued development of reference materials (module 1)
  • July-September 2007
    • description of visual language in manga (module 2)
    • purchase of manga
    • creation of illustration database
  • September –December 2007
    • start development of contextual online dictionary (module 4)
    • online publication of reference materials (= delivery of module 1)
  • January-March 2008
    • presentation and publication of description of visual language in manga (= oelivery of module 2)
    • description of grammatical and lexical characteristics of manga Japanese (module 3)
    • agree upon organisation of Social Developments, Economy of Japan, and Japanese III courses
  • April-June 2008
    • organise the above-mentioned courses
    • continued description of grammatical and lexical characteristics of manga Japanese (module 3)
  • juli-september 2008:
    • presentation and publication of description of grammatical and lexical characteristics of manga Japanese on Japanese studies web portal
    • delivery of contextual dictionary (module 4) as part of the Japanese studies web portal
    • from the start of the 2007-2008 academic year, implementation of the newly developed teaching methods in various courses