Japanese Studies Program @ York University

Mirror Sites: Buna Kusu Tsuge

Japanese Section

Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

Address:	4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Canada, M3J 1P3
Phone:	416-736-5016
Fax:	416-736-5483
Main Office:	Ross South 580
Counter Hours:	8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (Monday - Friday)

　　　　　 「日本語科にようこそ」

Welcome to the Japanese Studies Program !

Japanese Program at a glance

Event Calendar & Announcement
Attention please !!!! The jp1000 tutorials scheduled before the first lecture (Sept. 14) will be held as scheduled. The in-class tutorials will be held on line in the first week. Please make sure you check the Moodle site of your tutorial regarding Zoom links. The 2021 Japanese Language Proficiency Test is cancelled again this year due to the pandemic of COVID-19. link Worldometer: Coronavirus World Wide List link

Highlight
Seven students participated in the 39th Ontario Japanese Speech Contest held on line on March 7, 2021. All of them presented their speechesextremely well and York has six prize winners. Congratulations! Grand Prize: Peter Wenxiang Zang (Intermediate)(jp2000) Beginners 1st: Heshan Wadumasethrige (jp1000) Beginners 2nd: Taek Oh (jp1000) Beginners 3rd: Harmony Newcombe (jp1000) Open 1st: Lilika Zhang (jp3000) Special Prize: Richard Pelchat (Advanced)(jp3000) Y-File link All three York participants won the 1st prize in the National Contest. Congratulations! Beginners 1st: Heshan Wadumasethrige Intermediate 1st: Peter Wenxiang Zang Open 1st: Lilika Zhang Y-File link

Lectures & Speeches

Online lecture: 'Simultaneous interpretation' by Ms. Akiko Shinoda Nov. 15. 2013 (JF, JSAC & York) link

Articles on Japan

'World’s oldest living person celebrates 117th birthday' - Metro link
'This Japanese Shop Is 1,020 Years Old. It Knows a Bit About Surviving Crises.', New York Times, January 7, 2021 link
'Overall Best Countries Ranking' link
'Ranked: The 25 Smartest Countries In The World' link
'Doorway to Japan' by Isabella Bird link
'Best countries in the world 2020' link
'World's Smartest Countries' link

Businesses by our graduates

Our former student, TK Chan, has opened Platform Espresso Bar at 4450 Hwy7, Unit #2, Markham. They are hiring part-timers. Link
Our former student, Yadi has been running Fika Cafe at 28 Kensington Ave., Toronto.
FIKA Cafe a beautiful coffee shop in the heart of Kensington market / open daily 10-6 / email info@fika.ca, www.fika.ca Link
Our former student, Bob, has been running Ikki Sushi on 2253 Kingston Rd., Scarborough. / open daily 11:00 - 23:00 except for Monday Link

You Tube picks

Interview - Noam Chomsky 'Requiem for the American Dream', Nov. 15, 2019 link
Travel - Nara link
Travel - 'Unbeaten tracks in Japan' by Isabella Bird link
Kanji - '70% of Kanji vocabulary used in Chinese was created in Japan' link
Japan-China - surprised in Japan link link link link

Japanese Studies Program @ York University

ヨーク大学日本研究科 Open Learning Environment

Japanese Section

Japanese Program at a glance

MOODLE (eClass)