James Heisig
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James W. Heisig is a philosopher who specializes in the field of philosophy of religion
Philosophy of religion
Philosophy of religion is a branch of philosophy concerned with questions regarding religion, including the nature and existence of God, the examination of religious experience, analysis of religious language and texts, and the relationship of religion and science...

. He has published several books, their topics ranging amongst the notion of God in Jungian psychology, the Kyoto School
Kyoto School
The Kyoto School is the name given to the Japanese "philosophical movement centered at Kyoto University that assimilated western philosophy and religious ideas and used them to reformulate religious and moral insights unique to the East Asian cultural tradition." However, it is also used to...

 of Philosophy, and contemporary interreligious faith. He currently resides in Nagoya, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, where he continues to conduct research in the Nanzan
Nanzan University
is a private, coeducational university located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The main campus is in the Shōwa Ward of Nagoya City, with another in Seto City and a recently established satellite campus near Nagoya's Takaoka Station on the subway Sakura-dōri Line....

 Institute for Religion and Culture. He is also famed among students of the Japanese
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...

 and Chinese language
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

s for his Remembering the Kanji
Remembering the Kanji
Remembering the Kanji is a series of three volumes by James Heisig, intended to teach the 3007 most frequent Kanji to students of the Japanese language. The series is available in English, Spanish and German...

and Remembering the Hanzi series.

Books

  • Remembering the Kanji
    Remembering the Kanji
    Remembering the Kanji is a series of three volumes by James Heisig, intended to teach the 3007 most frequent Kanji to students of the Japanese language. The series is available in English, Spanish and German...

    series (1977, 1987, 1994)
  • the Kana
  • Heisig, James and Timothy Richardson, Remembering Simplified Hanzi 1. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu (2009). Also Remembering Traditional Hanzi 1. , Volume 2 of each book is currently in preparation.
  • Imago Dei: A Study of C. G. Jung's Psychology of Religion (Studies in Jungian thought) (1979)
  • Philosophers of Nothingness: An Essay on the Kyoto School (Nanzan Library of Asian Religion and Culture) (2001)
  • Heisig's profile page http://nirc.nanzan-u.ac.jp/staff/jheisig/index.html
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