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Spring 2025 DEALL Graduate Selected as Osaka World Expo Youth Ambassador
Piper Harrell, a double major in Japanese and International Studies, has been selected as a U.S. Department of State Youth Ambassador for the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan. Piper will…

Congratulations DEALL Graduates!
The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures was thrilled to celebrate student graduations on May 4, 2025 as part of Ohio State's 2025 Spring Commencement. In addition to scores of…

Graduating DEALL Senior accepted to the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program!
DEALL’s graduating senior Lexi Strickland has been accepted to the Japan Exchange and Teaching program (JET). As an Assistant Language Teacher, Lexi will be engaged in language instruction and…

DEALL's Japanese program ohanami picnic
DEALL's Japanese program hosted an ohanami (cherry flower viewing) picnic on April 16. Students, graduate students, and teachers in the program gathered, ate ohanami essentials inarizushi (…
DEALL Buckeyes at WICL-7 held at BYU (April 2025)
The Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics (WICL) is a biennial conference series that was inaugurated at OSU in Spring 2012, as the only conference series in the Western Hemisphere that…
DEALL Buckeyes Presented at 2025 CHINOPERL as part of AAS
A number of DEALL Buckeyes returned to Columbus to attend the 2025 annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) in March. Among the organizations that host their annual conference in…
Congratulations to National Honor Society Honorees!
Five graduating seniors in DEALL were inducted to the Japanese National Honor Society College Chapter in Spring 2025. They are Sierra Ford, Alexandra Strickland, Robert Scott Carroll Jr.,…

DEALL undergraduate students excel at the 6th Midwest Korean Speech Contest
DEALL undergraduate students participated in and received awards at the 6th Midwest Korean Speech Contest, held at the Korean Cultural Center of Chicago on Saturday, April 5, 2025. Nineteen…
DEALL Awards over $30,000 in student scholarships!
This week, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures awarded nearly $30,000 in scholarship awards to 28 undergraduate and graduate students. These scholarships which come from a…