Abstract:

"Folklore" in modern folkloristics is a collective concept based on mutual negotiation within the academic community of folklore studies, and this negotiation is also a process of academic construction. At the same time, this academic construction also determines that it can be reconstructed in a new academic context. While modern folkloristics presupposes that folkloristics should be "folkloristics of one country", the Japanese academic circle advocates "folkloristic of the world", which responses to the new reality of folklore life and folkloristics under globalization and thereby has become a new enterprise. However, we should also realize that new academic ethics is required in the co-operation and academic communication to pursue "folkloristic of the world" that shall go beyond any "hegemony".

Key words: folklore, negotiation, folkloristics of one country, folkloristics of the world