Japanese Studies
| Specialisation of: | Asian Studies |
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| Degree: | Master of Arts in Asian Studies |
| Mode of Study: | Full-time |
| Duration: | 2 years |
| Start date: | September |
| Language of instruction: | English |
| Location: | Leiden |
| Croho/isat code: | 60840 |
The two-year specialisation in Japanese studies is unique in the Netherlands. With a world-class teaching and research portfolio that covers East Asia and looks at the region from a multi-disciplinary standpoint, the programme provides you with unique insights into a comprehensive range of cutting-edge topics in modern and pre-modern Japan.
The MA programme in Leiden is an international and cosmopolitan one, drawing students from around the world. This gives the programme an outward-looking and creative tone that seeks to foster ‘world citizens’ as well as first-class scholars.
Building on the uniquely long and intimate relations between The Netherlands and Japan, Leiden University has one of the oldest and most established centres of Japanese Studies in the Western world.
Staff
Professors teaching this programme:
- Dr. Lindsay Black – International Relations of East Asia
- Prof. dr. Katarzyna Cwiertka – Modern Japan (Social History and Material Culture)
- Dr. Aya Ezawa – Modern Japan (Sociology)
- Prof. dr. Matthi Forrer – Extraordinary Professor of the Material Culture of Pre‐Modern Japan
- Dr. Riikka Lansisalmi – Japanese Linguistics
- Dr. Ethan Mark – Modern Japan (History)
- Prof. dr. Hisashi Owada – Professor of Japan‐Europe Relations
- Dr. Kiri Paramore – Pre-modern Japanese History
- Prof. dr. Ivo Smits – Arts and cultures of Japan
- Dr. Henny van der Veere – Japanese Religion
- Dr. Guita Winkel – Modern Japan (Anthropology)
- Dr. Keiko Yoshioka – Japanese Linguistics
For a full list of all this programmes lecturers, see the Japanese Studies staff page.
