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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meiji University in Tokyo said Friday it has acquired the land and building of Hilltop Hotel adjacent to its main campus with ...

Angles' lifelong interest in Japan and Japanese literature began when he went to southwestern Japan as a 15-year-old exchange student. Since then he has gone to Japan multiple times, spending many ...

17 as the 2017 winner of the prestigious Yomiuri Prize for Literature in poetry. Angles won the prize—comparable to America's Pulitzer Prize—for his book of Japanese-language poetry "Watashi no ...

Julie Otsuka’s debut novel When the Emperor was Divine tells the story of a Japanese American family forced to live in an internment camp during World War II. In five concise chapters, Otsuka presents ...

Since then the writer has popularized Japanese literature at an unprecedented scale. While Murakami certainly heightened international awareness of Japan’s writers, his alma mater has long been ...

Japan’s richest man donated $31 million to the study of Japanese humanities at UCLA on Oct. 3. Tadashi Yanai, the president ...