Mestrado em Literatura Japonesa

Graduate Program in Japanese Literature aims to enrich and develop Onomichi literature and art history and to foster people who willfully contribute to society.

This program focuses on the following:

(1) Japanese ways of consideration and comprehensiveness of language culture

This program explores the origin of Japanese literature / culture that has created the characteristics of the Japanese language.

(2) Restoration of communication with human beings, history, environment, and nature

Onomichi has a traditional art culture consisting of beautiful nature and enriched historical environment. Essential research and investigation of Japanese literature and culture could be an important starting point to promote precise human nature and expressive sensitivity.

(3) Realization of genuine internationalization

High-level adults and/or vocational specialists with genuine global sense are prospective resources to contemporary society.

Onomichi city has been a center of economic and cultural development in the Seto Inland Sea area since ancient times. Onomichi City University shows the originality of its academic design, and improved academic and cultural perspectives in its “Wisdom and Beauty.”

Onomichi City University has three departments in two faculties: Economics, Management and Information Science; Japanese Literature, and Arts and Design. Japanese Literature and Art are two icons to express that Onomichi city aims to be the ideal artistic and cultural city filled with vitality and sensitivity.