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Japanese Psychological Research 2005, Volume 47, No. 2, 47–51 Special Issue: The history of psychology in Japan The history of psychology in Japan Editorial EDITORIAL Munksgaard In 1903, a new laboratory of psychology was established in Tokyo Imperial University (now University of Tokyo) by Professor Motora in collaboration with Matsumoto, one of Motora’s students, who was a lecturer in psychology.

The establishment of this new laboratory was one of the milestones of Japanese psychology. It was a wooden, one-storey house. In it, sensitive psychological experiments could be conducted in an ideal environment, because there was no intellectual tradition of psychology during the feudal era in Japan.

Although psychology was introduced to Japan immediately after the Meiji restoration in 1867 (Azuma & Imada, 1994; Kido, 1961; Sato & Mizoguchi, 1997; Oyama, Sato, & Suzuki, 2001), it was not “modern” psychology, but something that more resemble