Division of Japanese Culture Studies
The Division consists of three departments: Department of Japanese Linguistics/Applied Japanese Linguistics, Department of Japanese Culture, and Department of Eurasian Languages and Cultures. The disciplines covered by these departments include the study of Japanese language and communication, literature, folklore and anthropology and the study of Eurasia.
The Department of Japanese Linguistics/Applied Japanese Linguistics offers courses in two different streams: Japanese linguistics and applied Japanese linguistics. The Japanese linguistics stream covers four areas: origin and history of Japanese, dialectology, language and culture, and the structure of Japanese. The applied Japanese linguistics stream introduces students to studies connected with the teaching of Japanese as a foreign language. This includes sociolinguistics and intercultural communication.
The Department of Japanese Culture covers the study of general issues of Japanese culture as well as its particular aspects. The department offers courses on a wide range of topics, including ancient, medieval, early modern and modern literary genres. It also offers courses in oral literature, folklore studies and theatre studies. In order to achieve deeper understanding of Japanese culture, students are required to obtain basic knowledge of Japanese linguistics, history of ideas, religion, as well as historical sociology, the history of images and documents and comparative literature.
The Department of Eurasian Languages and Cultures provides a wider context for understanding Japan: the context of Japan's Eurasian neighbors. The department offers programs of linguistics, cultural anthropology on languages and cultures of the native people of Far East, Korea, China, Mongolia, Siberia and Inner Asia. Courses on Ainu language and culture are available in the department, as well as courses in general linguistics. The department organizes international research projects on different topics and senior students are welcome to participate in them.
Representative Courses
- Introduction to study of Japanese Culture (4)
- Methods in the Study of Japanese Culture (4)
- Methods in the Study of Eurasian Cultures (4)
- Introduction to Linguistics (4)
- History of Japanese Classical Literature (4)
- Cultural History of Japanese Performing Arts (2)
- History of Japanese Modern Literature(2)
- History of Japanese Thought (4)
- Japanese Ancient Literature (2)
- Lecture in Japanese Literary Form (2)
- Japanese Early Modern Literature (2)
- Modern Japanese (4)
- Contemporary Japanese (4)
- Methods in Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (4)
- Inter-Cultural Communication (4)
- Sociolinguistics (4)
- Cultural Exchange in Eurasia (2)
- Japanese Oral Literature Seminar (2)
- Japanese Modern Literature Seminar(2)
- Elementary Linguistics Seminar (4)
Academic Staff
Department of Japanese Culture
- HASHIMOTO Hiroyuki, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof., (Japanese performing arts)
- MIURA Sukeyuki, M.A., Prof., (Japanese oral narratives, Japanese ancient
literature)
- SHIBA Kayono, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof., (Japanese medieval literature)
- TAKAGI Gen, Ph.D., Prof., (Japanese Early Modern Literature)
- TAKEUCHI Hiroya, M.A., Assoc. Prof. (Library and Information Science)
- TAKITO Mitsuyoshi, M.A., Prof., (Japanese modern literature, literature
of Japanese naturalism, culture in the Meiji period)
Department of Japanese Linguistics and Applied Japanese Linguistics
- GODO Kazuaki, M.A., Assoc.Prof., (Japanese linguistics, history of Japanese
language, pre-modern Japanese)
- MATSUMOTO Hirotake, M.A., Prof., (Japanese dialectology, Ryuukyuu dialectology,Japanese
linguistics)
- MURAOKA Hidehiro, M.A., Prof., (applied Japanese linguistics)
Department of Eurasian Languages and Cultures
- KANNO Kenji, M.A., Assoc.Prof., (linguistics, syntax, pragmatics)
- NAKAGAWA Hiroshi, M.A., Prof., (linguistics, Ainu Language, Ainu oral literature)
- OGIHARA Shinko, Ph.D., Prof., (ethnology of Northern Asia, oral literature,Ainu
study)
- TAGUCHI Yoshihisa, M.A., Assoc.Prof., (historical linguistics, phonology)
- YOSHIDA Atsushi, Ph.D., Assoc.Prof., (cultural anthropology of northern
Eurasia, historical and ecological anthropology)
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