The UW Japan Studies Program, the campus-wide organization of faculty and units serving students studying Japan in various disciplines has been renamed the UW Center for Japanese Studies. While our mission remains the same, the new name better reflects our role as the hub for Japanese research, teaching, non-classroom programming, collaborations across the entire UW

Join us in-person to learn about research fellowship opportunities in Japan through the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Funding is available for: Graduate Students Postdoctoral Scholars Professors (of any level) Researchers (of any level) JANUARY 16, 2025 Noon – 1:00 PM Thomson Hall 317

The Inter- University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC) in Yokohama is currently accepting applications for our 2025–2026 10- month intensive program. The Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC) is the world’s leading center for the study of advanced Japanese and has provided language training to over 3,000 individuals. First established in Tokyo in

On November 18 we look at Nakagawa Shun‘s 2017 short film Karankoe no Hana. On a summer school day the school nurse enters an English class to make a brief remark that LGBT (Q+) persons are real and it is normal. Students begin to wonder why the ‘announcement’ and if it involves a classmate. Reactions,

On November 13 award-winning author Tomoka Shibasaki joined us at the UW for a screening of ‘Asako I & II’, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s (Drive my Car) 2018 award-winning film following Shibasaki’s mysterious pop romance novel ‘Nete mo Samete mo’. The story begins with Asako, a young woman who meets and falls madly in love with a

UW Japan is screening three movies in November featuring Documentary / Drama / Diversity it is a full month.  First up on November 7 our documentary Carving the Divine (2019, 99 min.) a film that offers a rare look into a 1400-year-old Buddhist woodcarving tradition and the practitioners struggling to preserve its legacy in a

The UW Japan Studies Program is pleased to announce that the Waseda Global Leadership Fellows Program (GLFP) is transitioning from its current home in the Honors Program to the UW Japan Studies Program effective October 1. Now in its 11th year the GLFP offers undergraduate students a chance to study a full year at Waseda

Join us October 23 for a presentation by Professor Joshua Mostow which explores how knowledge of the Hyakunin Isshu (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each) collection spread among the commoner class in Japan’s early modern Edo period (1600-1868) to become the foundation of popular literary literacy through the booming print culture, especially by means of illustrated commentaries in

On August 1, 2024 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan announced Jackson School Professor Emerita Marie Anchordoguy as a recipient of the 2024 Foreign Minister’s Commendations; Anchordoguy, whose work focuses on the political economy of Japan, was acknowledged for her 35-year academic career promoting the research of Japan in the United States. “The Foreign

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Meet Raechel, a second-year Asian Languages & Cultures MA student. Raechel graduated from UW in 2021 with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Linguistics, Japanese, and Asian Languages & Cultures and has returned to UW to further her studies. Her research interests are how transgender and gender non-conforming people navigate the explicitly gendered aspects