We are located at 11270 Bunche Hall on the UCLA campus. For specific questions regarding the Center, please contact Mariko Bird , Assistant Director. Our event notices are sent out via U.S. mail as well as via e-mail. If you would like to be on our mailing list, please enter your name and address via our mailing list form. Research on Japan remains one of the prime objectives of UCLA's Center for Japanese Studies.
Research is also the chief mission of the university.
In keeping with this mission, the Center continues to stress faculty support as one of the Center's fundamental responsibilities. We remain convinced that the search for new ideas, the exploration of intellectual frontiers, and the willingness to wrestle with complex problems benefits not only the individual scholar, but bears rich rewards for the broader society. In the past, our faculty support have focused on a small grants program that assists the UCLA professors with travel, research assistance, archival work, and other research related expenses. Many of our faculty members have been able to visit and work in Japan with such support. To deal with the critical need for expertise on Japan, the highest priority of UCLA's Center for Japanese Studies is to find adequate support for the training of a new generation of Japan scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities including Japanese language specialists.