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Founded in 1947, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (Kyoto Gaikokugo Daigaku) is a premier private language and international affairs university in western Kyoto. Operating under the motto PAX MUNDI PER LINGUAS ('World Peace through Languages'), KUFS offers intensive education in 19 foreign languages, international relations, translation science, and Japanese language pedagogy.
Prestigious merit scholarship providing full or 50% tuition remission for international students enrolled in the Department of Global Studies or Global Tourism.
Four-year undergraduate degree taught entirely in English covering international security, post-colonial human rights, and global trade economics.
Two-year graduate degree in simultaneous and consecutive interpreting, literary translation, and legal-commercial translation between Japanese and English/Spanish.
Semester-long practical internship placement with UN agencies, international cultural consulates in Osaka/Kobe, or multinational trading chambers.
Institutional financial assistance scheme providing an automatic 30% tuition fee reduction to eligible visa-holding international undergraduate students.
Six-week upper-level certificate module analyzing overtourism mitigation, UNESCO intangible cultural preservation, and ryokan eco-lodging in Kyoto.
One-year post-master's fellowship investigating communicative Japanese language teaching methodologies, kanji acquisition psychology, and digital language tools.
President
Prof. Dr. Takahiro Ono is President in the Office of the President & Department of Hispanic Studies at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS), conducting advanced research in Spanish and Latin American literature, Intercultural communication theory, International university diplomacy.
Topics: Spanish and Latin American literature, Intercultural communication theory, International university diplomacy, Foreign language educational pedagogy
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Global Studies & International Relations
Prof. Dr. Craig Smith is Professor of Global Studies & International Relations in the Department of Global Studies at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS), conducting advanced research in East Asian security politics, Transnational migration and identity in Japan, Conflict resolution in the Asia-Pacific.
Topics: East Asian security politics, Transnational migration and identity in Japan, Conflict resolution in the Asia-Pacific, Peace education methodologies
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Applied Linguistics & Cognitive Semantics
Prof. Dr. Nobuo Saji is Professor of Applied Linguistics & Cognitive Semantics in the Graduate School of Foreign Studies at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies (KUFS), conducting advanced research in Cognitive linguistics and metaphor processing, Vocabulary acquisition in second language learning, Lexical semantics.
Topics: Cognitive linguistics and metaphor processing, Vocabulary acquisition in second language learning, Lexical semantics, Corpus-based language analysis
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