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{"title":"Translating 'Islam' into Japanese - Concerning the Japanese Version of the Qur'an and Its Translation Strategy","authors":"Rana Haggag","doi":"10.15057/30925","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/30925","url":null,"abstract":"Japan is a country whose religious traditions are the furthest removed from monotheistic belief systems. Japanʼs oldest indigenous belief form is considered to be polytheism and animism (neither being monotheistic), which eventually mixed with Buddhism that was later imported from China and Korea. In such historical circumstances, it is supposedly difficult to obtain a thorough understanding of monotheistic philosophy and belief. To this end, we examine a Japanese translation of the Qurʼan under the assumption that the cultural distance between the source and target language is accommodated according to various translation strategies. What is the relationship between religious text, especially holy text that is at the center of faith and doctrine, and the act of translation? As any religion has its own cultural background, it will encounter different linguistic and cultural contexts from those inherent within it, when it is exported from its birthplace to other places. Herein lies the problem of the translation of religious texts. Since any holy text is written in an individual language, its translation into a foreign language may incur the risk of losing its original ʻholy meaning”. Specifically, “the holy resists translation” (Long 2005: 1). From such perspective, the problem regarding the translation of religious texts occupies an important place if we seek to understand the limits of translatability. In Islam, the Qurʼan is considered to be an “inimitable” text; only the Qurʼan in Arabic deserves to be named a sacred text, and any Qurʼan that is translated into languages other than Arabic is merely an explanation or commentary; basically, it is not the Qurʼan. As a result, there have been very few translation studies on Qurʼanic text. According to Abdul-Raof, “[t]he problem of Qurʼan untranslatability has always been dealt with from a theological and historical point of view” and “there is no study available today that accounts for the problem of untranslatability of the Qurʼan from linguistic and applied translation studies (Abdul-Raof 2001: 1). El-Hadary critically examined the concept of “equivalence”, advocated by E. Nida, between original text and target text, and discussed various questions about the “untranslatability” of the Qurʼan from the viewpoint of linguistic theory (El-Hadary 2009). Thus, translation studies about the Qurʼan have really only just begun. In fact, both Abdul-Raof and El Hadary deal only with the translation from Arabic to English. In this paper, I would like to go one step further in the Hitotsubashi Journal of Arts and Sciences 60 (2019), pp.39-49. C Hitotsubashi University","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125118424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Weber's Konzertstück op. 79, or Programming Piano Concertos in Early-nineteenth Century Concerts (The Birth of the Piano Concerto, Chapter 5)","authors":"Shinji Koiwa","doi":"10.15057/30924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/30924","url":null,"abstract":"A survey of nineteenth-century concert programmes would astound many people for various reasons. First, the length of each event is difficult to imagine for modern concertgoers. It was not unusual for a concert to last three or four hours. As the century progressed, the number of performed pieces per concert was reduced and concerts were shortened; this trend was already perceptible by the middle of the century (Schwab 1971: 15). However, nineteenthcentury concerts in general were still longer than most in the twenty-first century in Japan, where we are accustomed to events lasting from 7‒9 pm. Today, for example, most Japanese music admirers would be surprised at the length of events such as a concert programmed by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770‒1827) on 2 April 1800 that featured seven works, including a symphony of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756‒91) and one of Beethoven (the premiere of his first symphony). The constitution of a concert series at the Music Academy in Berne in 1803 shows that some restriction was necessary to stop concerts from becoming excessively long.","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129840410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Transition of the Monk's Dance (Sŭngmu) from Ritual Dance to Folk Art in Modern Korea to 1945","authors":"Yeounsuk Lee","doi":"10.15057/30923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/30923","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133408745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Von einem jungen Japaner: Toshio Morikawa - Thomas Mann Briefwechsel (1)","authors":"I. Ogata","doi":"10.15057/30922","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/30922","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131647519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"WELCHEN EINFLUSS HAT DAS LERNEN FÜR DIE UNIVERSITÄREN AUFNAHMEPRÜFUNGEN IN JAPAN AUF DIE LERNENDEN","authors":"R. Degen","doi":"10.15057/29742","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/29742","url":null,"abstract":"Die universitären Aufnahmeprüfungen in Japan sind high-stakes-Tests, deren Ergebnis einen starken Einfluss auf die Karrieremöglichkeiten der Geprüften hat. Demensprechend generieren sie einen beobachtbaren Washback-Effekt. In der vorliegenden qualitativen Studie wird anhand von Fragebögen an drei japanischen Universitäten und einem Fokusgruppeninterview mit Studierenden untersucht, wie das Testlernen das Lernverhalten der Studierenden während der Oberschulzeit beeinflusst und geprägt hat.","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123725321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE TENSE-ASPECT SYSTEM BETWEEN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH: A FOUNDATION FOR A PEDAGOGICAL GRAMMAR OF JAPANESE USING LEARNERSʼ KNOWLEDGE OF THEIR MOTHER TONGUES","authors":"I. Iori","doi":"10.15057/29741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/29741","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125538416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"VIELSCHICHTIGE IRONISIERUNG DER ERZÄHLERREDE IN DER ZAUBERBERG : EINE REAKTION AUF DAS MODERNE-BEWUSSTSEIN BEI THOMAS MANN","authors":"I. Ogata","doi":"10.15057/28992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/28992","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122007104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"READING FICTION FOR WHAT IT IS: IDEOLOGIES VS PLOT DEVICES IN ARTHUR GOLDENʼS MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA","authors":"Marie Orise","doi":"10.15057/28990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/28990","url":null,"abstract":"When Arthur Goldenʼs novel Memoirs of a Geisha was published in 1997, it became an overnight success. It stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year (Smith), and had sold four million copies in English and had been translated into 32 languages by June 2001 (Sims). The novel received critical acclaim worldwide, and inspired a successful eponymous Hollywood film released in 2005, whose worldwide box office sales amounted to 161.5 million USD (The Numbers). Goldenʼs tale of Sayuri, who is sold to a geisha house at a young age, but who overcomes all obstacles, becomes a star geisha, and wins an extramarital partnership with the man she has loved since girlhood, has been applauded by readers from different parts of the world. However, the authenticity of the presentations of Japanese culture as well as geisha culture in the novel has been questioned. Scholars and journalists alike have commented that Golden has had three barriers to overcome in writing the novel. Dinitia Smith observes:","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"2012 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130920805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"VOCABULARY LEARNING THROUGH COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING","authors":"Tomonori Ono","doi":"10.15057/28989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/28989","url":null,"abstract":"As the level of technology increases, an increasing number of U.S. and U.K. universities are incorporating Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) into their curricula. This study investigates the potential value of an online vocabulary learning system called Memrise for memory retention and the learning of difficult, foreign vocabulary. To determine the potential value, twenty-six undergraduate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students in a TOEFL iBT preparation course were requested to study the 400 Words of TOEFL data set on Memrise. Fifty-one most incorrectly identified words were categorized according to accuracy, and frequency. An average acquisition accuracy rate of above 75% was obtained for the majority of difficult foreign words. Although longer foreign words tended to be harder to memorize than shorter foreign words, shorter, obscure foreign words tended to be equally challenging for students. This suggest that both word length and prior language experience has an effect on memory retention. Overall, repeated exposure of difficult foreign words through spaced intervals seemed to aid memory retention and vocabulary acquisition highlighting the value of using Memrise for vocabulary learning.","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122806022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"А.М. КОНЕЧНЫЙ И НОВЫЙ ЭТАП В ИССЛЕДОВАНИИ ИСТОРИИ КУЛЬТУРЫ И ПОВСЕДНЕВНОЙ ЖИЗНИ СТАРОГО ПЕТЕРБУРГА ̶ ≪РЕСТАВРАЦИЯ≫ НАРОДНЫХ ГУЛЯНИЙ ДОРЕВОЛЮЦИОННОЙ РОССИИ","authors":"Токуаки Баннай","doi":"10.15057/28988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15057/28988","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":265291,"journal":{"name":"Hitotsubashi journal of arts and sciences","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133320357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}