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…