Willy Vande Walle

Willy F. Vande Walle is a Belgian academic, author, Japanologist and Sinologist.
Willy Vande Walle was born in Roeselare, Belgium. His secondary education focused on classical humanities at Klein Seminarie Roeselare. He studied Oriental Philology and History at the State University of Ghent and earned his doctoral degree in Oriental Philology in 1976.

Career

Willy Vande Walle is Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He taught several classes such as Japanese language and literature, history of Japan, art history of East Asia, as well as history of China and Chinese poetry. The KU Leuven coursework is supplemented with active Internet learning programs linked to Japanese educational partners.
Willy Vande Walle is the Belgian coordinator for projects conducted by the European Association of Japanese Studies.

Honors

Japan Foundation: Japan Foundation Special Prize, 2000.
Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon, 2006.
Honorary Doctorate, Kansai University, 2009.

Main publications

1987 – Stratification in Verbiest's Works: The Astronomia Europaea and the Memorials.
1989 – Takakura – Habits de la cour impériale du Japon / Keizerlijke gewaden uit Japan. Brussels: Europalia Foundation International.
1989 – Splendeur du théâtre No / Luister van het No-theater. Brussels: Europalia Foundation International.
2001 -- . Leuven: Leuven University Press. ; -- simultaneously published in Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
2001 – Dodonæus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in the Tokugawa Period. Leuven: Leuven University Press. ; OCLC 49539599 – simultaneously published in Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
2003 -- with Noël Golvers. Leuven Chinese Studies XIV. Leuven: Leuven University Press.
2005 -- Japan & Belgium: Four Centuries of Exchange. Brussels: Commissioners-General of the Belgian Government at the Universal Exposition of Aichi 2005, Japan.