Japanese Careers

A degree in Japanese opens more doors than you might think. Our alumni have gone on to careers in healthcare, business, education, technology, and beyond.

Kaito Esselstrom - Middle Level Education

I am a senior at UVM studying Middle Level Education with a minor in Japanese. Being half-Japanese,...

Alexandra - UI/UX designer

My experience with Japanese language and culture at UVM has thoroughly enriched my life. When I was...

Aidan Seipke - Teaching Japanese

I studied Japanese for four years in high school, but it was my time in the Japanese department at...

Sam Porter - Instructor Manager

I graduated UVM in May 2014 with a BA in Japanese Language and a minor in Mathematics. I moved to...

Pedro Teixeira - Marketing & Analyst at Global Firms

I graduated from UVM in Spring 2014, majoring in Psychology and Japanese. My Japanese studies, in...

Shannon Bennett - Medicine

Even though I’m in my third year of medical school and graduated undergrad six years ago, I still...

Lauren Posklensky - Early Childhood Education

I originally took Japanese to fulfill my language requirement from CAS, but ended up loving the...

Brigitte Gagnon - Nursing with Japanese

I am a Nursing Major, but I knew going into college that I loved learning languages and wanted to...

Kyle Rusk - Japanese Engineering Firm

Like many in my generation, I developed an interest in Japanese anime, manga, and games early on....

Changgyun Jay Jang - International Business

In my second year at UVM, I started taking Japanese courses out of curiosity about learning a new...

Nancy Bernhardt - Japan Exchange and Teaching Program

Despite never having formally studied the language before, I entered UVM's Asian Languages and...

Allison Beebe - Statistical analyst for pharmaceutical companies in Japan

Although I have a Japanese mother and grew up speaking and writing Japanese, the Japanese...

Benjamin Smith - Japan Exchange and Teaching Program

I have been interested in language study since I first started studying Latin in middle school....

Veronica Ruth - Medical researcher in Japan

I have studied Japanese since my junior year of high school and continued throughout my four years...

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