Tag Archive for: Japanese Studies


Paul Terasaki, 86, transplant medicine pioneer, philanthropist, UCLA faculty member and alumnus
Paul Ichiro Terasaki, who spent three years with his family in…

New app helps students learn to read ancient Japanese writing form
Can a new app that takes a scholarly yet playful approach to…

Center shatters myth of ‘quiet’ Japanese Americans imprisoned in camps
With help from elderly survivors of the World War II internment…

Literary translator brings Japanese novelist posthumous acclaim
Michael Emmerich, an associate professor of Japanese at UCLA,…

Gift from top international businessman will propel Japanese studies at UCLA
A $2.5 million gift from Tadashi Yanai, the chairman, president…