and Climate Change in Modern/Contemporary Japanese Literature and Culture.” These seminars focus on the reading and discussion of primary texts in Japanese and scholarship in both English and Japanese ...

The MA program in Japanese is designed to provide advanced-level training in Japanese language, literature and civilization, with the aim of preparing students for both Japan-related professional ...

Keene, one of the foremost Western scholars of Japanese literature, often likened his ... interested in Japanese culture when he found an English translation of "Genji Monogatari," or "The Tale ...

A Western style building constructed near Sagami Bay in this east Japan city in 1937 was a vacation home of a Meiji period ...

American-born Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene (1922-2019) was 16 when he encountered kanji Chinese characters. So different from the English alphabet, the ideograms captivated him.