Take your Master’s or PhD in Japan
I was forwarded an extremely useful message from my Japanese professor the other day. Those who are currently taking or finishing up undergraduate degrees concerned with East Asia, or Information technology, you might want to have a look at this.
“In 2008, the University of Tokyo (UT) launches a new International Master’s/Doctoral Degree Program: Information, Technology, and Society in Asia (ITASIA) at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies (GSII). This program offers intensive graduate level education designed to foster analytical strength and insight into Asian societies and international relations, at a time when information and communication technology are having an increasingly profound impact on the region.
The program is tailored for both international and Japanese students who are motivated to pursue active professional careers on the regional and global stages. All instruction will be conducted in English, so proficiency in Japanese is not a prerequisite.” — ITASIA Website
Of course this doesn’t apply to me quite yet for several reasons, but I am going to keep it in mind depending on how my outlook on Japan job hunting goes (Job hunting in Japanese is 就職：しゅうしょく：Shuushoku). I’m just putting this out here in hopes that it might reach somebody that is interested. If you’re uber smart and don’t speak Japanese this is a great chance for you to get over to Japan for an extended period of time. Not to mention, you’d be studying at the top university in Japan to boot (the University of Tokyo, also more commonly referred to in Japan as 東大：とうだい：Todai, an abbreviated form of Tokyo Daigaku meaning Tokyo University).
If you’d like to read up on more of the details check out the website: http://itasia.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
Anybody out there that is pursuing a degree in East Asian Studies / Japanese linguistics like myself? Or am I the only one 
