Unique or Universal. Japan and Its Contribution to World Civilization t.1

The first Japanese language classes at our university commenced in 1919 and soon expanded into literature and translation studies. After World War II, Professor Wieslaw Kotanski, the undisputed founder of Japanese studies in Poland, an outstanding linguist and a scholar of religion and Japanese culture, educated several generations of students and specialists. It was thanks to him that in 1957 the Department of Japanese Studies was created. Today, Japanese Studies is the most popular BA major at the University of Warsaw with 22 times more candidates than our admission quota.