Course meets: Tuesday and Thursday 11:30-12:50 in Fayerweather 217a Office Hours: Monday and Thursday 9:15-10:00 and by appointment Requirements: Assigned readings are to be completed before class.

He was 96. Keene, one of the foremost Western scholars of Japanese literature, often likened his relationship with Japan to a marriage. He even decided to become a citizen after the 2011 ...

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 ...

Each semester, we offer two seminars in Japanese literature across different historical periods that are centered around the intensive study of particular texts, genres, and theories. See our graduate ...

Our Japanese studies program allows you to specialize in film, literature, video games, or pop culture while advancing your language skills and learning more about current events. You will graduate ...

This paper surveys the recent literature that empirically examines foreign direct investment (FDI) in Japan. This paper focuses on the quantitative evidence on the following questions: 1) Did FDI in ...

Kanagawa -- A Western style building constructed near Sagami Bay in this east Japan city in 1937 was a vacation home of a Meiji period (1868-1912) minister, and now serves as a literature museum ...

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.

Japanese-born British author Kazuo Ishiguro is being celebrated around the world for winning this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy cited his "novels of great emotional force".

(Japanese original by Akihiro Ogomori, Photo and Video Department) Soft light filters onto a staircase at the Odawara Literature Museum in the Kanagawa Prefecture city of Odawara on June 20 ...