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Tokyo University of Foreign Studies(TUFS)

English has been taught right from the outset of the university's long history, and graduates of the English Department have always been highly sought-after in the areas of government, foreign trade (including foreign-based companies), banking, as well as the press, publishing, broadcasting, manufacturing and retailing. Numerous students continue on to graduate schools here and abroad, and many have become prominent academic figures in the field of linguistic research or area studies.
Today, 39 students in the School of Language and Culture Studies and 37 in the School of International and Area Studies (North-western Europe, North America, and Oceania) are selected each year to study English as their major language, but English is also chosen as the second language of concentration by the majority of students at TUFS.

TUFS English Learning Center

What is TUFS?

1. A world center for language teaching and research

Approximately 50 languages are taught within the regular curriculum, and several more are being researched at TUFS. Asian languages, some of which are taught only at TUFS in Japan, comprise about half of the total number.

2. A world center for new cross-disciplinary area and transcultural studies

Specialists in various academic fields in the humanities and social sciences conduct educational and research activities covering nearly all the world's reg10ns.

3. A world center for Japanese-language education

As a world center for Japanese language teaching, the study of Japanese-language pedagogy, and the training of Japanese-language teachers, TUFS functions in an advisory capacity to Japanese-language educational institutions both at home and abroad.

History

The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies is the oldest institution in Japan that is devoted to international studies. It began as Bansho Shirabesho (Institute for Research of Foreign Documents), a government translation bureau founded in 1856. It was then established as an independent educational and research institution with the name Tokyo Gaikokugo Gakko (Tokyo School of Foreign Languages) in 1899. In 1999, the University celebrated the 100th anniversary of its "independence."

suburb in the western part of Tokyo. Students belonging to the schools of Language and Culture Studies (1480 students), International and Area Studies (1500 students), and the Graduate School of Global Studies (148 students enroll in the Master's Course and 40 students in the Doctoral Course every year) study about languages and cultures of the world. In addition to this, the campus also holds the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa and the Japanese Language Center for International Students.