Abstract: In recent years, “Course Ideology and Politics” has become an important topic in the field of higher Japanese language education in China, with various achievements emerging in parallel, playing a positive role in promoting the reform of Japanese language teaching and the construction of new liberal arts. In order to systematically grasp the research trends of ideological and political education in Japanese language courses in Chinese universities, this article uses CiteSpace software to visually analyze the relevant literature included in the CNKI database from 2018 to 2024. Research has found that the study of ideological and political education in Japanese language courses in Chinese universities has roughly gone through three stages: the incubation period, the exploration period, and the expansion period, showing a development trend of continuous expansion of research scale, increasingly diverse themes, and significant improvement in depth and breadth. However, compared with the English academic community, the Japanese academic community still faces problems such as insufficient policy interpretation, serious lack of theoretical construction, and excessive homogenization of achievements in curriculum ideological and political research. In the process of promoting and deepening ideological and political research in Japanese language courses in the future, the academic community needs to adhere to keeping up with the times and strengthening the orientation of the times; emphasize innovative thinking and break through the constraints of paradigms; strengthen the literature foundation and enhance academic validity. Based on the characteristics of the discipline, we deeply cultivate theoretical construction to promote the organic integration of ideological and political education concepts in the curriculum with the reform of Japanese language teaching, and then promote the connotative construction and high-quality development of higher Japanese language education in China.

Key words: course ideology and politics, CNKI database, higher Japanese language education, bibliometric analysis