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1) Introduction
This Department of Japanese aims to produce competitive elites with specialized practical knowledge and advanced Japanese who can lead the global age. The department also produces Japanese teachers and lecturers by offering teacher training courses. Due to the increase in personnel and cultural exchange between Korea and Japan through the effect of the cultural opening and Korean pop art, there have been great needs for experts in the areas of Japanese business, Japanese tourism, and Japanese translation and interpretation. To meet these needs the department offers a curriculum which allows students to develop good command of Japanese skills, to obtain certificates, to be ready for promising jobs by focusing on practical on-the-job training. In parallel to these programs, the department runs student exchange programs with the sister-school universities in Japan, overseas language training, cultural experience programs, and exchange programs with Japanese entrepreneurs to produce elites equipped with internationalism and abilities required by the global age.

2) Characteristics
-This department offers teacher training courses.
-This department provides systematic intensive language training for different levels. (The students are required to obtain JPT certificates for different years.)
- The department runs a cross credit system with its sister-school, Nagasaki University of Foreign Languages.
- This department offers a Japanese cultural history tour program.

3) Possible jobs after graduation
teacher, Japanese-related educational institutes, diplomat, Japanese companies or organization within or outside the country, translation and interpretation agency, travel agency, tourism-related organization, airline companies, duty-free shops, convention enterprises, container and shipping companies, trading companies, press, publishing companies, cultural organization, going to a graduate school