The two post-graduate programs offered at Minpaku provide an ideal place for training and for graduate education. In order to broaden the students‘ perspectives, both Departments expect the students to take full advantage of the extensive holdings in the Museum‘s library and in its collections, which include ethnological materials from around the world, as well as extensive archives of films, photos, video-tapes, and recordings of languages and music. Students are required to do their own fieldwork and are advised to actively utilize the computer to aid in the objective analysis of their data.
As an Inter-University Center, the Research Institute of the Museum provides students with opportunities to participate in academic meetings with researchers having various specialties from other Japanese educational and research Institutions.
Departments
Programs of the School of Cultural and Social Studies
Offered at the National Museum of Ethnology
Offered at the National Museum of Ethnology
The Department of Regional Studies
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In the Department of Regional Studies, anthropological training is provided for research on the cultures of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Oceania. The training is typically followed by long-term fieldwork on a specific aspect of a regional culture of the student‘s choice, with an emphasis on in-depth description and analysis following traditional ethnological approaches, paying special attention to the local culture‘s historical and contemporary contexts.
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A moment in the Graduate Students‘ Room
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The Department of Comparative Studies
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The program of the Department of Comparative Studies is offered for students who are interested in the comparative and cross-cultural study of social systems, technology, environment, religion, arts, and other aspects of culture. Students are expected to focus their research particularly on the cross-cultural aspects of their chosen subject and to develop theoretical interpretations of the comparative data. To achieve this goal, new research methods are sought after, integrating relevant information technology and interdisciplinary approaches with the methods traditionally applied in ethnological studies.
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 A graduate seminar
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Other programs of the School of Cultural and Social Studies and the Departments and Institutions where they offered are:
Japanese Studies (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Japanese History (National Museum of Japanese History)
Cyber Society and Culture (National Institute of Multimedia Education)
Japanese Literature (National Institute of Japanese Literature)
Japanese Studies (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Japanese History (National Museum of Japanese History)
Cyber Society and Culture (National Institute of Multimedia Education)
Japanese Literature (National Institute of Japanese Literature)