Masters and Doctoral programs in Japanese Studies
Kyushu University

Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies
Fukuoka, Japan

In 2011 the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, created the International Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Social and Natural Sciences. Lectures and guidance for these programs, part of Japan’s Global 30 Program, will be taught entirely in English.
We are an interdisciplinary graduate school with Japanese Studies as one of our discipline areas.  Students specializing in Japanese Studies also would, of course, be trained in using Japanese language sources.  This is an excellent opportunity to do advanced graduate work in Japan, in close proximity to Japanese resources and scholars, but without having to have university-level Japanese language ability. We admit students twice a year, for semesters starting in April and October.

Details about the program are available here.

Applications for the program are available here.

Faculty teaching Japanese Studies who can serve as advisers include:
Faculty teaching Japanese Studies who can serve as your adviser include:

Matthew AUGUSTINE (Columbia University), who specializes in the international history of Northeast Asia with a focus on modern Japan. His current research is on the history of U.S. military occupations in Japan and Korea.

Andrea GERMER (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), who specializes in 20th century gender studies and visual propaganda.

Andrew HALL (University of Pittsburgh), who specializes in 20th century Japanese colonial policy, particularly language and education policies in Manchuria and Korea.

Koji MIZOGUCHI (University of Cambridge), who specializes in Japanese archaeology and training students in archaeological field work.

Hitoshi NAKANO (Kyushu University), who specializes in the state and society of Japan in the medieval and early modern periods, particularly the Toyotomi Hideyoshi regime and the invasions of Korea.

For the further information, please contact to Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies (hbddaiga@jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp), or one of the faculty advisers .

The preliminary application deadline for the upcoming April semester is December 16, 2011