Sinology is the study of China...?

Question

My question is this, is there a similar field that deals with the study of Japan?

Answer 1

There's two questions here.

1 Sinology used to be a term that defined the study of Chinese language and literature, but it is now used to define the study of any Chinese cultural traits.

2 No, there is no other similar elegant term for the study of Japanese culture.

Yes you will have to conform with japanology.

Answer 2

as dumb as it sounds, it's Japanology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-logy