Department of Japanese Language and Literature

*Student application for the Major will be suspended in and after AY 2024.

People think through words, and through their thinking they have created literature and culture. To think about the Japanese language that we learned without even being aware of it, and literature and culture created through Japanese, is to think about what we are as individuals and also leads to thinking about society and the world. By teaching literature, the Department of Japanese Language and Literature helps to raise students’ abilities of self-expression, and to deepen their understanding of literature in general. Also, by acquiring through their own power the knowledge necessary to live in the modern world, and by acquiring positive Japanese skills, students become able to participate in our modern internationalized society as deeply humane citizens.