Outline

Keio University’s Graduate School of Letters offers the Japanese History Program. This program regards history as the accumulation of individual human acts, the study of which provides knowledge of a person and the society in which they live. We are always seeking more knowledge, taking into consideration the target area and time, or rather the results of adjacent science beyond traditional academic disciplines. In this program, our lab provides two types of graduate courses: a lecture and a seminar in paleography. We strive to train professionals who will fulfill in-demand positions after completing the program, including professors, museum curators, archivists, and historical teachers at junior and high schools. Further information about each course in this academic year is shown below.

Detailed Information

• Lecture of Paleography（古文書学特殊講義）

In this course, the lecturer trains students to read handwritten historical materials. The majority of handwritten materials before the early twentieth century used a cursive style. Therefore, even students whose mother tongue is Japanese have to work hard to learn to read these materials.
　Historical document of the Ikeda family (Keio University Collection)

• 2023 Academic Year

Program	Master
Lecturer	(Professor Emeritus) Ioku, Shigehiko [Ph.D., History, Meiji University]
Title	Analyzing Historical Documents in Keio University's Collection
Semesters	Spring and Fall

• Seminar（日本史特殊講義演習・日本史特殊講義・日本史特殊研究）

The lecturers of these courses are top historians in Japan, and they apply their research outcomes in an individual course. Students will appreciate the leading-edge research on modern Japanese history. Furthermore, they will be given opportunities to present their research, and the lecturers will provide constructive suggestions and opinions.
　Archival research at the Board of Education of Nakatsu City, Oita

• 2023 Academic Year

Program	Doctor and Master
Lecturer	(Professor Emeritus) Ioku, Shigehiko [Ph.D., History, Meiji University]
Title	Research on Japanese History in Pre-modern and Modern Periods
Semesters	Spring and Fall

Program	Master
Lecturer	Koyama, Yukinobu [Ph.D., History, Chuo University]
Title	Reading in Historical Documents written by a Village Headman
Semesters	Spring and Fall

Program	Master
Lecturer	Maeda, Kiyotaka [Ph.D., Economics, Keio University]
Title	A Guide to Cliometrics
Semesters	Spring and Fall

Program	Master
Lecturer	(Adjunct Lecturer) Yuzawa, Noriko [Ph. D., Literature, Tsukuba University]
Title	Economic History of Living
Semesters	Spring and Fall