Japanese Studies Program at the University of Missouri

05/03/2017

THIS FRIDAY (May 5) JAPANESE STUDIES PROGRAM LUNCH. Starting at 11:30 is our End-of-Semester Mizzou Japanese Studies Program LUNCH at OSAKA Japanese Restaurant.
If you are anywhere near Columbia, Missouri, please join us. If you have ANY kind of connection with the Japanese Studies Program at MU, please come. Feel free to bring friends. We are going to enjoy each others company and celebrate all the great things that have been happening in Japanese Studies. This marks 24nd time we have gathered for the Japanese Studies lunch. (This is the end of our 12th year!!) We hope to see you at Osaka, at 120 West Nifong, just behind the BreakTime station, just a few hundred yards west of the intersection of Providence and Nifong. If you NEED a RIDE, we will be picking up riders at the small parking lot just outside the north 2nd floor entrance of Strickland at about 11:15.

08/22/2016

YOU CAN STILL ENROLL IN BEGINNING JAPANESE LANGUAGE (Japanese 1100). Don't worry that it is too late. We will provide ample tutoring to catch you up. NO BACKGROUND IN JAPANESE is needed or expected. It's no problem if you've missed the first days of class.

For more info, send email to Japanese Studies Program coordinator, Prof. Martin Holman at [email protected] >>>PLEASE SHARE!!!!

08/22/2016

We still have space in first-year Japanese. Japanese 1100 can still accept students. Don't worry that you missed the first day or two or three of class. We have tutorial sessions to catch you up with the rest of the class. No previous knowledge of Japanese is necessary to enroll. For more info, send email to Japanese Studies Program coordinator, Prof. Martin Holman at [email protected]

08/22/2015

We still have space in Japanese 1100 (Beginning Japanese) for Fall Semester 2015. Even if the section you want looks full on Myzou, we can still get you in. Just drop me a message to [email protected] .

05/07/2015

JAPANESE STUDIES PROGRAM LUNCH. TOMORROW (Friday, May 8) starting at 11:15 is our End-of-Semester Mizzou Japanese Studies Program LUNCH at OSAKA Japanese Restaurant. If you are anywhere near Columbia, Missouri (or even if you are far away and want to make the trip), please join us. If you have ANY kind of connection with the Japanese Studies Program at MU, please come. Feel free to bring friends. We are going to enjoy each others company and celebrate all the great things that have been happening in Japanese Studies. This marks end of the TENTH year (and 20th time) we have gathered for the Japanese Studies lunch. I hope to see you at Osaka, at 120 West Nifong, just behind the BreakTime station, just a few hundred yards west of the intersection of Providence and Nifong. If you need a ride, please let us know. Also, it is fine to come late. PLEASE SHARE this post.

12/11/2014

JAPANESE STUDIES PROGRAM LUNCH--Tomorrow (Friday) 11:30 at Osaka Japanese Restaurant in Columbia, Missouri. EVERYONE IS WELCOME.

This Friday (TOMORROW) at 11:30 at Osaka Japanese Restaurant, just off Nifong a few hundred yards west of Providence and behind BreakTime. (Google Maps below) If you need a ride please be waiting at the small service parking lot on the northwest side of Strickland. You are welcome to bring friends along. If you need a ride, stop by the small parking space the NW side of Strickland by 11:15. Feel free to bring friends and SHARE this post so everyone knows. Former students and anyone who is interested in Japan are welcome. (Sorry, but everyone is on their own when it comes to paying for lunch.)

https://maps.google.com/maps?ie=utf-8&gl=us&hq=osaka+japanese+restaurant+columbia+mo&daddr=120-a+W+Nifong+Blvd,+Columbia,+MO+65203&panel=1&f=d&fb=1&dirflg=d&geocode=0,38.908592,-92.337909&cid=10434162336555671414

11/10/2014

SUMMER 2015 STUDY in JAPAN INFO SESSION TODAY (Monday, 10 Nov 2014) 4:00~5:00 PM in S203-AES Memorial Union. Find out all you want/need to know about deadlines, scholarships, etc. No Japanese language experience is required. Please tell your friends. Can't make it to the session today? Email me at [email protected]

11/10/2014

Summer 2015 Study in JAPAN Info Session TODAY (Monday):
INFO SESSION TODAY (Monday, 10 November 2014) 4:00~5:00 PM in S203-AES Memorial Union

Come find out more about the MU Summer Study Program in JAPAN. No previous Japanese language background is necessary.
Japanese Language, Culture, Bunraku Puppetry, Taiko Drumming, Japanese Traditional Archey, and More!
(More info about deadlines, scholarships, etc. in the message fom the International Center below.)
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From: MU INTCTR FacultyPgms
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 4:48 PM
To: Swartz, Morgan K.
Cc: Holman, Martin
Subject: Info Session: Japanese Language, Culture & Bunraku Puppetry

Dear Students,

Spend a summer in Japan on our Japanese Language, Culture & Bunraku Puppetry faculty-led study abroad program! Train in traditional puppet theater and perform at the Iida International Puppetry Festival. Improve your language skills through course work and living with a host family. Tour Kyoto and Nara before settling in Iida, located in Japan's "Southern Alps." If you would like to learn more, you can attend the upcoming information session on Monday, November 10, from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in S203-AES Memorial Union. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn about the program from Faculty Program Director, Martin Holman.

Applications for this program are due by Feb. 16, 2015. Students who complete their applications by the priority deadline of Dec. 19, 2014, will reserve their places in the program and be eligible for additional scholarships.

Web: international.missouri.edu

The Japanese Studies Program at the University of Missouri provides students with the opportunity to study Japanese language and culture through a variety of classes and activities on the MU campus and through a range of summer, one-semester, and academic-year study abroad programs in several locati…

08/28/2014

SUSHI BUFFET TODAY. Students, Former Students, Faculty, and Friends of the Japanese Studies Program at the University of Missouri and their friends, come to HyVee at Nifong and South Providence for the all-you-can-eat SUSHI BUFFET at 5:30. We hope to see as many as possible for our first Japan gathering of the new academic year.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/405+E+Nifong+Blvd,+Rock+Bridge+Shopping+Center,+Columbia,+MO+65201/@38.911739,-92.3326498,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x87dcb71aba78cf05:0x2faaf1665c0dde29?hl=en

08/19/2014

Japanese classes will be starting at Mizzou in a week. Due to a change in Summer Welcome policy (with which I was NOT pleased), we were not allowed to promote the Japanese 1100 course to incoming freshmen the way we have for the past 10 years, so our total enrollment for fall is lower than normal.
I NEED YOUR HELP. Please share the post from June 13 that appears BELOW this one on the "Japanese Studies Program at the University of Missouri" page (not this post) on your own FB page. PLEASE. We need to get word out. Please tell your friends. Japanese 1100 does not assume any previous knowledge of Japanese. We start from zero level. The more students we have, the more support the Japanese Program gets from the University. Thanks!!!!

06/13/2014

BEGINNING JAPANESE (Japanese 1100) FALL 2014

You can enroll NOW. Often Summer Welcome advisors discourage new freshmen from taking a language, but freshmen are welcome in J1100. This year, half of the students who completed the first-year language series are preparing to leave for Japan in the fall to study, with FULL TUITION scholarships.

The class is for beginners--no previous knowledge of Japanese is required. Even if you have been told by an advisor that you should wait to take a language, why wait so long to learn something so valuable, to have a great time, and to prepare yourself for a career too?

And if the class appears to be full on Myzou, just drop me (Prof. Martin Holman) a Facebook message or email to [email protected] and we will provide you with the "cheat code" that will allow you to enroll.

Please SHARE. PLEASE

06/05/2014

More than 30 University of Missouri students have received full-tuition scholarships (and in many case additional scholarships on top of that) to study for a full academic year at Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies in Japan for 11 months from September 2014 until August 2015. While in Nagasaki, the MU students will live with Japanese host families as they take classes in Japanese language, history, literature, business, art, management, and more for credit that will be transferred back to count toward their degree programs at Mizzou. This represents the largest number of MU students ever to study in Japan for an academic year in the history of Mizzou. In fact, half of the students who completed the first-year Japanese language course at MU in spring 2014 will be studying in Japan during the coming academic year. Congratulations to all MU students who are heading to Japan this fall.