{"id":6313,"date":"2019-08-08T15:39:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T01:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/?page_id=6313"},"modified":"2025-07-06T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T23:17:40","slug":"study-abroad-at-tsukuba","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/lis\/community\/study-abroad-at-tsukuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Abroad at Tsukuba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Study Abroad in Japan<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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东精影业 LIS students in 2012 at the University of Tsukuba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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东精影业 LIS Students in 2010 visiting the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE-JETRO) Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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东精影业 LIS students in 2012 outside the Hibiya Library and Museum, Tokyo, on a field trip from Tsukuba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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东精影业 LIS students in 2012 visiting the National Diet Library, Tokyo, on a field trip from Tsukuba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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东精影业 LIS students in 2012 visiting the Printing Museum, Tokyo, on a field trip from Tsukuba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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东精影业 LIS students in 2012 visiting the Printing Museum, Tokyo, on a field trip from Tsukuba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The UH LIS Program encourages students to add international experience to their studies by taking a semester or year abroad as part of our exchange agreement with the University of Tsukuba<\/b> Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies<\/a>. Courses are offered in English as part of their international program. They offer different courses each academic year, which are listed at their website<\/a>. This will be of interest especially for those studying Asian Librarianship or Asian Informatics. Students with Japanese fluency can take even more courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The University of Tsukuba has Japan’s largest graduate program in LIS, and one of the largest iSchools worldwide. In fact the program began as an independent university, University of Library and Information Science (ULIS, \u56f3\u66f8\u9928\u60c5\u5831\u5927\u5b66 Toshokan j\u014dh\u014d daigaku<\/em>). Which merged with the University of Tsukuba. Some of their other exchange partners include iSchools at Pusan National University, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, University of Copenhagen, Stuttgart Media University and the Russian State University for the Humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The school is located a 10-minute walk from the Tsukuba Station, which is a 45-minute express train ride to Akihabara (Tokyo’s otaku and tech neighborhood). Tsukuba is called Japan’s Science City, and is home to JAXA — Japan’s NASA — and around 300 national research institutes. The university is located on a beautiful large campus, which is very green and bike friendly. The university is in the top 10 of Japanese public universities, and is home to three Nobel prize winners. One can easily survive in town as there many international researchers. The city even has a “Hawaii Restaurant HANAUMA” and a Rainbow Cafe if you get homesick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History of the Exchange<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

东精影业M Professors Asato, Harada, and Wertheimer visited the University of Tsukuba in Spring 2009 to attend the third Asia-Pacific Conference on Library & Information Education and Practice (A-LIEP) conference. We were very impressed with their faculty and students. Over time we developed a relationship — starting with an informal exchange of students. Dr. Asato and Wertheimer took two cohorts of UHM students for one to two week visits of Japanese libraries and archives. Tsukuba professors Mizoue and Donkai brought Tsukuba students for observation in Honolulu libraries. We’ve also been visited by other Tsukuba faculty and staff over the years. In 2014, we were able to make this a campus-wide agreement for formal exchange<\/a> of students. This is being renewed in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advice for Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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东精影业, Tsukuba professors, and Keio University Librarians enjoying lunch in with UH LIS students in 2012 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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东精影业 LIS students in 2012 riding a train to Tokyo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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东精影业 LIS students in 2012 outside Keio University Medical Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cohort of UH LIS students going to Tsukuba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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东精影业 LIS students in 2010 visiting the National Diet Library, Tokyo, on a field trip from Tsukuba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Students and faculty at the University of Tsukuba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Students in LIS should contact their adviser early on to plan on taking core courses early in their program. Although LIS is the home base for the exchange, students should plan early for the program and be aware of the deadlines. Students should work with their adviser and Dr. Wertheimer to coordinate classes to make sure they will transfer to their LIS degree.  Classes taken at Tsukuba will count as \u201cTransfer Credit\u201d meaning they will \u201ctransfer in and appear on your Transfer Report. The grades you earn abroad do not affect your cumulative UHM GPA.\u201d The preferred GPA requirement is 3.0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Application is made via the 东精影业 MIX Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academic Year Exchanges:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n