Center for Japanese Studies

The Center for Japanese Studies (CJS) is an Organized Research Unit constituted of UC Berkeley Academic Senate faculty members with research and teaching interests inJapan. Founded in 1958, CJS promotes the study of Japan at UC Berkeley in a wide variety of ways including, but not limited to, funding faculty and graduate student research grants, administering Center sponsored or co-sponsored events such as colloquia, workshops, and conferences, hosting visiting scholars and postdoctoral fellows, and supporting a variety of campus units in their efforts to strengthen the study of Japan.