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Department	Division	Degree Sought	Student Intake	Application Period	Timing of Admission Decision Notification	Course Start Date
N/A	N/A	Master's	few students			2009

OVERVIEW / The Bilingual Master's (LL.M.) degree program in Law (BiP) offers students the unique opportunity to engage in graduate level study of law in a "bilingual" environment at a law faculty in Japan. The program seeks to overcome one of the principal obstacles to graduate legal education in Japan, namely language, by providing students with the possibility of taking classes and writing a thesis in English, as well as Japanese. As such, the program facilitates rapid improvement in Japanese ability whilst allowing students to engage in classroom study and supervised research across a wide range of subjects in the field of law.
BiP is principally intended for lawyers and /or Japanologists interested in:-Obtaining a deeper understanding of Japanese culture and society through the study of historical and contemporary issues in Japanese law; -Preparing for a legal career in Japan or connected to Japan by studying Japanese and international business law, and participating in an internship program at international law firms, companies and government agencies; -Learning more about Japan's East Asian neighbors and locating Japan in the regional context; -Improving Japanese language ability by studying law in Japanese, as well as attending regular language courses. BiP KEY POINTS / ●Flexible curriculum comprising courses taught in Japanese and English All students are expected to complete a 20-credit coursework requirement (approximately 5 courses per semester over one year / two semesters). Courses may be chosen from a wide selection offered by the Graduate School of Law in both Japanese and English.
http://www.law.kyushu-u.ac.jp/programsinenglish/