The Ph.D. program in Japanese allows you to specialize in Japanese language and culture while preparing you for an academic career at the university level. You will learn from renowned faculty doing research in this region and graduate with expertise in the Japanese language, research methods in an academic discipline, and pedagogy. The Ph.D. program consists of at least 30 credit hours in courses in East Asian Studies, as well as 12--15 credit hours in an outside field that you choose, such as fine arts, history, political science, folklore, or comparative literature.

Global-J develops human resources who are fully capable of participating in overseas English-language scholarly environments, grounded in the scholarly accomplishments in Japanese literature and culture of Waseda University. In contrast to existing conventional Japanese-language courses in Japanese literature, which aim to produce research papers for Japanese-language academic journals and to place graduates in Japanese-language education institutions

The Graduate School of Humanities aims to help students explore traditional Japanese culture in a comprehensive and systematic way. By investigating the tangible and intangible aspects of the national culture, students can become highly qualified experts in their chosen field and effective interdisciplinary researchers.