Christian Galan

Christian Galan (born in 1960) is a French Japanologist and professor of Japanese language and civilization at Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès University (formerly Toulouse-le Mirail) and a researcher at the French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE; formerly Japanese Studies Center CEJ) of the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco, Paris). He has devoted most of his work to the study of the Japanese education system.

Within the IFRAE, he directs the research group "Education, Childhood(s), and Society in East Asia" (EESAO) and has co-directed with Emmanuel Lozerand the research group "Speech and debates of the Meiji era". He is also director of the Toulouse branch of the CEJ, and co-director with Yves Cadot of the French academic journal ''Revue d'Études japonaises'', established in 2024. Provided by Wikipedia