The Division of Related Fields aims at providing various classes to bridge and complement the curricula of five departments in the faculty. These are divided into three categories. First, we offer the following Area Studies classes which the five departments do not cover: Russian Studies, Japanese Studies, and Special Area Studies (including the Middle Eastern Studies). Second, to support interdisciplinary foreign studies in each department, we also provide introductory classes to study the basics of disciplines encompassing language, literature, political science, and economics as well as special classes such as Linguistics, Law, the Principle of Economics, Japanese Linguistics, and Methodology of Teaching Japanese. Third, in the Division, students study international issues across the area boundaries through International Relations, International Law, Comparative Culture, and so on. If students want to write graduation theses under our teaching staff, they are required to register for a minor in either Linguistics and Comparative Culture or International Relations. The unique existence of the Division has become more and more indispensable in our university education in the recent turbulent global world. Teacher Education Program for teaching Japanese to Speakers of Other Languages This program is offered to all students in our university. In addition to the classes provided as part of the Division curriculum, we offer students a teaching practicum and the other unique activities which are held in cooperation with the local communities and schools. Not only abroad, but also in the local communities where many foreigners have come to live with us, the demand for Japanese is rapidly growing. Students who finish the course become certified instructors.