本課程除了銜接一年級下學期之後的語言溝通領域、文化領域、社會領域之各個概論外，並可為最後一學年的必修科目「專題研究」打下良好的基礎。本課程的主要內容是日本相關問題，但除了日本外，還探討台灣、中國大陸、沖繩、韓國、東南亞等亞洲、世界各地的歷史、時事問題。在課堂上，從語言、文化、社會的各種角度探討台灣、日本、亞洲各地的多元文化，以重新思考作為日本語言文化學系的學生該如何面對學習日語和相關學問、活動。

In addition to connecting the various introductions in the language communication field, cultural field, and social field after the second semester of the first grade, this course can also lay a good foundation for the compulsory subject "Special Research" in the last academic year. The main content of this course is Japan-related issues, but in addition to Japan, it also explores historical and current affairs issues in Asia and the world, such as Taiwan, mainland China, Okinawa, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. In the classroom, we explore the multiculturalism of Taiwan, Japan, and other parts of Asia from various perspectives of language, culture, and society, in order to rethink how students in the Department of Japanese Language and Culture should face learning Japanese and related knowledge and activities.

本課程為《表象文化概論》《語言溝通概論》《社會文化概論》課程之基礎橋樑，亦為大四專題研究之起源。課程藉由考察各種不同的社會性課題來養成學生對既有言論做批判性思考，並透過團體作業及討論培育學生追求良好溝通模式的習慣。

This course is the basic bridge for the courses "Introduction to Representational Culture", "Introduction to Language Communication" and "Introduction to Social Culture". It is also the origin of the senior year's special research. The course develops students' critical thinking on existing remarks by examining various social issues, and cultivates students' habit of pursuing good communication models through group assignments and discussions.

古川ちかし、林珠雪、川口隆行編著《日本語在台灣韓國沖繩做了什麼?》致良出版社,2008
班納迪克．安德森《想像的共同體：民族主義的起源與散布》時報出版,2010
松田良孝《八重山的臺灣人》行人出版社,2012
與那原惠《到美麗島：沖繩、臺灣　我的家族物語》聯經出版,2014
笹沼俊暁《流轉的亞洲細語：當代日本列島作家如何書寫台灣、中國大陸》游擊文化出版,2019
小熊英二《「日本人」的界限：沖繩・愛努・台灣・朝鮮，從殖民地支配到復歸運動》聯經出版,2020
陳培豐《「同化」的同床異夢：日治時期臺灣的語言政策、近代化與認同》麥田出版,2021
小熊英二《單一民族神話的起源：日本人自畫像的系譜》新知三聯書店,2021
金文京《漢文與東亞世界：從東亞視角重新認識漢字文化圈》衛城出版,2022
李妍淑《作為思想的“國語”：近代日本對語言的認識》新知三聯書店,2022
網野善彥《重新解讀日本歷史》民主與建設出版社,2023
愛德華．薩依德《東方主義》立緒,2023

"What has Japanese done in Taiwan, South Korea and Okinawa?" compiled by Furukawa Miyako, Lin Zhuxue, and Kawaguchi Takayuki, Chiliang Publishing House, 2008
Benedict. Anderson, "Imagined Communities: The Origins and Spread of Nationalism" published by The Times, 2010
Matsuda Yoshitaka "Taiwanese in Yaeyama" Pedestrian Publishing House, 2012
Yonawara Megumi's "To Beautiful Island: Okinawa, Taiwan: My Family Story" Liankei Publishing, 2014
Toshiaki Sasanuma's "Current Asian Whispers: How Contemporary Japanese Island Writers Write about Taiwan and Mainland China" Guerrilla Culture Publishing, 2019
Eiji Oguma, "The Boundaries of "Japanese": Okinawa, Ainu, Taiwan, and Korea, from Colonial Domination to the Return Movement" Liankei Publishing, 2020
Chen Peifeng's "Strange Bedfellows of "Assimilation": Language Policy, Modernization and Identity in Taiwan during the Japanese Occupation" Wheatfield Publishing, 2021
Xiaoxiong Eiji "The Origin of the Mononational Myth: The Genealogy of Japanese Self-Portraits" Xinzhi Sanlian Bookstore, 2021
Jin Wenjing "Chinese Language and the East Asian World: Reunderstanding the Chinese Character Cultural Circle from an East Asian Perspective" Acropolis Publishing, 2022
Lee Yeon-sook ""National Language" as Thought: Understanding of Language in Modern Japan" New Knowledge Sanlian Bookstore, 2022
Yoshihiko Amino "Reinterpretation of Japanese History" Democracy and Construction Press, 2023
Edward. Said's "Orientalism" 2023