born in Paris (1930)
live in Japan
E-mail : jpmassa@gol.com

• Posts and duties
• Publications
• Other activities
• What I like...

University of Paris (1949-1957) :

• - agrégation (history / geography) , 1957
• - doctor of geography (thesis on "The Japanese House"), 1974

Posts and duties:

- Research and teaching

• Lycée JJ Rousseau in Saigon (Hô-Chi-Minh) -1957 -1960
• Maison franco-japonaise of Tokyo -1960 -1963
• Ho-chi-Minh University, 1963-1964
• C.N.R.S. (National Centre for Scientific Research), 1964-1972
• Athénée Français of Tokyo - 1972- 1990
• Tokyo University -1980-1990
• Chûo University -1980 - 1991
• Oû University (Koriyama) -1991 - 1997
• Waseda University
  • School of Political Science and Economics, since 1990
  • School of Law, since 1998

- Others :

From 1988 until 1991 I was the only foreign member of three committees at the Prefecture of Tokyo, working respectively on the development of the Sumida River, the Plaza in front of the New City Hall and the (canceled) International Exhibition of Urbanism "Tokyo Frontier".

Publications :

- French Language :

• Découverte de la France (with N. Tobari), Surugadai Shuppansha,1974
• Utilisons à propos les locutions françaises (with Y. Fukui), - id.
• Redécouverte de la France (with N. Tobari), - id.--, 1976
• L'histoire de Paris" (with N. Tobari) - id; - 1977
• Un jeune Français découvre le Japon - id. -, 1978
• Paris et la province (with Y. Abe) - id. - , 1981
• Sophie, Clara et Jacques à Paris (with T. Izumita, S. Nakajima et Y. Maekawa), Daisan-Shobo, 1993

- Far Eastern Geography (in French) :

• La maison japonaise et la neige, P.U.F. 1966
• Géographie du Japon, P.U.F., 1968 (6th edition,1996)
• La Chine, A. Colin, 1970
• Le Japon (en collab.), Larousse, 1971
• L'agglomération de Tokyo, La documentation française, 1974
• Pays et paysages d'Extrême-Orient, P.U.F., 1977
• La Corée, P.U.F., 1980
• La maison japonaise (thèse), P.O.F., 1981
• La Corée (with A. Delissen) in "Géographie Universelle", Belin/Reclus, 1994
• chapters about Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Korea and Hongkong in "Manuel de Géographie, Term. L, ES, S", Belin, 1995
• all entries (geography) about China, Japan and Korea in "Encyclopédie Larousse" and "Encyclopédie Universalis"

- Anthropology of the house (in French) :

• La maison, espace social, P.U.F., 1983
• La maison, espace réglé, espace rêvé, Reclus, Montpellier 1993
• Demeure Mémoire, Parenthèses, Marseille 2000
• Du confort au bien-être - la dimension intérieure, L'Harmattan, 2002
  
• Habiter - rêve, image, projet, L'Harmattan, 2003
• Eloge de l'inconfort, Parenthèses, 20
• Produire l'espace habité, L'Harmattan, 2007

• Habiter au Japon, Parenthèses
• Les demeures de la solitude, L'Harmattan

• Trente-six manières d'être chez soi

- Published or translated into other languages:

• Watashi no Nihon hakken (My Discovery of Japan), Tokyo; Sanseido, 1965
• Japanese Islands, Tokyo; Tuttle, 1979
• Furansu, fudo to seikatsu (France : the Land and the Life), Tokyo; Sanshusha, 1982
• La vivienda como espacio social (The House as a Social Space), Mexico City, 1988
• Shin Chosen joho (Geography of Korea), Tokyo; Hakusuisha,1988
• Japans Geografi, Furulund (Sweden), 1996
• Ie to Nihon bunka (The House in Japanese Civilization),Tokyo; Heibonsha, 1997

- Contributions to :

• "Annales, Histoire, Sciences sociales"
• "Cahiers internationaux de Sociologie"
• "Corps écrit"
• several periodic publications of geography or orientalism
• Introduction of "Le Japon" ("Guides bleus" collection), Paris; Hachette, 1989

Other activities:

- PHOTOGRAPHY:

• Publication of photographies in the art magazine Geijutsu Shinchô, Tokyo, 1962
• Eight exhibitions in 2005-2006:
  • Five in Japan:
    • Pentax Gallery : Au hasard du chemin
    • Kodak Gallery : Voyage d'hiver
    • Franco-Japanese Institutes of Tokyo and Yokohama : Ombres du Japon
    • Maison France-Japonaise : Ecrit sur l'eau
  • Three in France :
    • Rodez and Brive : Regards sur le Japon
    • Saint Geniez d'Olt : Feuilles d'ombre
• Books :
  • Ombres du Japon, Hokutô-sha, Tokyo 2005
  (in preparation :)
  
  • Le voyage d'hiver, with poems by Matsuo Bashô

- OTHER :

• Lectures :
  • Maison Franco-Japonaise of Tokyo (in French):
    • Japan : a peripheral or radiating culture ?
    • Strolling in Paris, strolling in Tokyo
    • Jules Verne : the solitary hero and the social problems
  • Elsewhere (in Japanese):
    • France and Japan : an aesthetic parallel (Kôriyama)
    • The Paris of Victor Hugo (id.)
    • Dwelling en France, dwelling in Japan (Matsuyama)
    
    
• from 1967 until 1986, weekly programme in French for the NHK radio in Tokyo
• participation in several symposiums and conferences in Japan about problems of japanese urban development
• publication of photographs in the art magazine "Geijutsu Shincho", Tokyo, 1962
• exhibition of collages at the Athénée Français Gallery, 1981

What I like...