StudyQA — Master: Japan in Asia Cultural Studies

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The Japan-in-Asia Cultural Studies Program offers students an excellent opportunity to develop a deep understanding of, and critical insights into, the rich and complex relations between Japan and other East Asian countries in modern world history and globalizing contemporary society. The courses offered on the program engage interdisciplinary and transnational approaches to exchanges, interactions, and interrelations between Japan and other East Asian countries in their global historical contexts. At the same time, the program is designed for students to master integrated knowledge and analytical research skills in one or more specialized academic discipline such as literary studies, cinema studies, modern history, intellectual thought, and visual culture.

The planned courses include

History of Asian culture
Cultural studies of modern and contemporary Japan
Genealogy of theories on Japanese culture
Modern Japanese fiction
Modern literary theory
Colonial modernity in Japanese and East Asian literature
Film theory
Japanese cinema history
Asian cinema history
Cinema and cultural theory
Visual culture

With a balanced program between interdisciplinary and specialized studies as well as our professors’ insightful individual guidance, we support and encourage students to demonstrate new theoretical and historical perspectives on Japanese culture in Asia, exploring the ways people in Japan and other East Asian countries have enacted multifaceted relationships and negotiations through literature, cinema, and other sociocultural products and affairs. Students will also have the advantage of participating in international conferences, workshops, and other events that the Japan-in-Asia Cultural Research Center of the Graduate School of Humanities regularly organizes in Nagoya and other locations (such as Freiburg in Germany and Shanghai in the Republic of China, where the members of the Center have organized scholarly events in recent years). Such opportunities enable students to contact and learn from many internationally distinguished scholars from different countries.
Graduates from this program are encouraged to continue to develop their research in a Ph.D. program or to play a significant part in a variety of governmental, commercial, and other social sites. In either case, they are strongly expected to engage with international tensions and issues with the in-depth knowledge, broad views, and keen analytical thoughts they have cultivated in this program in order to contribute to the improvement of our global society and the coexistence of people beyond national borders.

TOEFL: minimum score of 80 iBT; 550 PBT
IELTS: minimum band score of 6
Application fee: JPY 5,000
Payment of the registration fee (JPY 282,000)
Application Form
Bachelor's Degree Diploma (or Prospective Bachelor's Degree Diploma) from Your University (Original Copy)
Academic Transcript for Undergraduate Education (Original Copy)
Certified Score Report of the GRE
Research Proposal
Two Letters of Reference (Original Copies)
Summary of Undergraduate Graduation Research
Major Publications
Documents Showing Other Strengths
Document Validating Your Nationality and Residence Status
Japanese Government (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) Scholarship Application Form