Cultural Anthropological and Ethnological Studies in Japan

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The following is a list of Departments and Research Institutes in Japan where one may study cultural anthropology and/or ethnology at the postgraduate level or above. We have tried our best but the list is still not complete yet.

Hokkaido-Tohoku Area Kanto Area Chubu Area Kinki Area Chugoku-Shikoku-Kyushu-Okinawa Area

Hokkaido-Tohoku Area

• Hokkaido University
  Department of History and Cultural Anthropology
  Department of Northern Culture Studies
  Nishi 7-chome, Kita 10-jo, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-0810

• Tohoku University
  Program in Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Letters
  Kawaguchi Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi, 980-8576
  
  Devision of Social Anthropology, Graduate School of Environmental Studies
  Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579
  

• Yamagata University
  Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies
  1-4-12 Kojirakawa-machi, Yamagata, 990-8560
  

Kanto Area

• Chiba University
  Department of Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School of Humanities
  1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-City, Chiba, 263-0022

• Hitotsubashi University
  Department of Social Anthropology, Graduate School of Social Sciences
  2-1 Naka, Kunitachi City, Tokyo, 186-8061

• Japan Women's University
  1-1-1 Nishi-Ikuta, Tama-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, 214-8565

• Keio University
  Dept. of Ethnology & Archaeology, Faculty of Letters
  2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0073 Japan
  fax: +81-3-3798-7480
  MA & PhD courses. Integration of History and Archaeology, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. Biological Anthropology is compulsory.

• Musashi University
  Graduate School of Humanities
  1-26-1, Toyotama-kami, Nerima-ku, Tokyo 176-8534

• National Museum of Japanese History
  117 Jonai-cho, Sakura City, Chiba, 285-8502

• Ochanomizu University
  Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences
  2-1-1 Ohtsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610
  Ochanomizu University is a prominent Japanese institution for women's higher education with 130 years of history and tradition. We offer both master's and doctoral programs in cultural anthropology with special emphasis on gender studies. Master's program is offered at the Department of Gender and Development Studies, Division of Gender and Social Sciences. Doctoral program is offered at the Department of Gender Studies, Division of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. For details, please feel free to contact Professor Satoshi Tanahashi (Tanahashi.satoshi@ocha.ac.jp).

• Saitama University
  Department of Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Liberal Arts
  255 Shimo-Okubo, Urawa City, Saitama, 338-0825

• Seijo University
  Graduate School of Literature
  6-1-20, Seijo, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 157-8511
  The Graduate School of Literature, Seijo University, offers master's and doctoral programs in Japanese Cultural Studies. For further information, please contact Dr. T. Uesugi (uesugi@seijo.ac.jp).

• Sophia University
  Sophia's Graduate Program in Area Studies (SGPAS), Graduate School of Global Studies
  7-1, Kioicho, Chiyodaku, Tokyo 102-8554
  

• Tokyo Gakugei University
  Asian Studies Program, International Education Course
  4-1-1, Nukui-kitamachi, Koganei-shi, Tokyo 184-8501

• Tokyo Metropolitan University
  Major in Social Anthropology, Graduate School of Humanities
  1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji City, Tokyo, 192-0397
  Email: itomakot@bcomp.metro-u.ac.jp

• Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
  Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa
  4-51-21 Nishigahara, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114-0024

• Toyo University
  Department of Sociology, Graduate Program for Sociology
  5-28-20 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8606

• The University of Tokyo
  Department of Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8902
  
  Social Sciences in Education, Graduate School of Education
  Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033
  Sociology, Anthropology, Economics are utilized to study such issues as educational organaizations, the systems of higher education, the social implications of education, and comparative inter-cultural studies on globalizing educational processes.
  
  Institute of Oriental Culture
  Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033
  Asian Studies in interdisciplinary (Humanities and Social Sciences) perspective.

• University of Tsukuba
  Institute of History and Anthropology
  Tennodai, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki, 305-8571

• Utsunomiya University
  The Graduate School of International Studies
  350 Mine-machi, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, 321-8505

• Chubu University
  Study of International Relations, Graduate School of Global Humanics
  1200 Matsumoto-machi, Kasugai 487-8501

• Nagoya University
  Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Comparative Studies of Humanities and Social Sciences Division, Graduate School of Letters
  Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

• Nanzan University
  Department of Anthropology
  18 Yamazato-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya City, 466-8673

• Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
  School of Knowledge Science
  1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan

• International Research Center for Japanese Sutudies (Nichibunken)
  3-2, Oeyamacho, Goryo, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 610-1192

• Kobe University
  Graduate School of Cultural Studies and Human Studies.(master course)
  Graduate School of Culture Studies(doctor course)
  1-2-1Tsurukabuto, Nada, Kobe city, Japan 657-8501
  email: goda@cs.cla.kobe-u.ac.jp

• Kyoto Bunkyo University
  Department of Cultural Anthropology
  80 Senzoku, Makishima-cho, Uji City, Kyoto 611-0041

• Kyoto University
  Department of International Cultural Studies, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies & Graduate School of Human and Environment Studies
  Yoshida-Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
  
  Center for African Area Studies
  46 Shimoadachi-cho, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
  The Center aims to promote basic studies of nature, man, and culture in Africa employing the ecological method in its broad sense. Its staff teach the Course of African Studies, in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University.
  
  Center for Southeast Asian Studies
  46 Shimo-adachicho, Yoshida, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
  

• Nara Women's University
  Department of History, Sociology and Geography, Faculty of Letters
  Department of Culture and Humanities, Faculty of Human Life and Environment
  Department of Culture and Humanities, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences
  School of Social Life and Human Environment, Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences
  Kita-Uoyanishimachi, Nara 630-8506

• National Museum of Ethnology
  10-1 Senri Expo Park, Suita, Osaka 565-8511
  fax: 81-6-878-7503

• Osaka University
  Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Human Sciences
  Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871

Chugoku-Shikoku-Kyushu-Okinawa Area

• Fukuoka University
  Graduate School of Humanities, Course of Socio-Cultural studies (MA)
  8-19-1, Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180

• Hiroshima University
  Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences
  2-1 Kagamiyama 1 chome, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-0046

• Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands
  1-21-24 Korimoto, Kagoshima 890-8580
  Fax: +81-99-256-9358
  

• Kyushu University
  Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies
  4-2-1 Ropponmatsu, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka 810-8560
  
  Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies
  6-19-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi 812-8581
  B.A., M.A. and Ph.D courses are available in Cultural Anthropology, Religious Anthropology
  and Educational Anthropology at Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies.

• Okayama University
  Faculty of Letters
  3-1-1 Tsushima-Naka, Okayama 700-8530

• Seinan Gakuin University
  Graduate School of International Cultures
  6-2-92 Nishijin, Sawara-ku, Fukuoka-shi 814-8511

• The University of Tokushima
  Graduate School of Human and Natural Environment Sciences
  1-1 Minamijosanjima-cho, Tokushima-shi, Tokushima 770-0814
  Fax: 81-886-56-7298

• University of the Ryukyus
  Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (MA, Doctor's Program)
  1 Senbaru Nishihara-cho, Okinawa 903-0213

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