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Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities

yanai.initiative@humnet.ucla.edu | 310-206-8235

The Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities is a collaboration between UCLA and Waseda University in Tokyo, intended to support a sustainable, equitable future for the Japanese humanities. Its activities include the advancement of scholarship on Japanese literature and the arts; support for literary translation; public arts programs; and the creation of digital educational content and smartphone apps.