日语专业成立于1971年。是国内较早成立的日语专业之一。是山东省特色专业建设单位。该专业成立近半个世纪以来,已经为社会输送了近万名优秀的人才。他们活跃在外交、外贸、外事、教育等领域,为山东乃至全国的中日交流做出了很大的贡献。该专业从2002年起招收日本语言文学文化方向的硕士研究生。
Established in 1971, the Japanese program in Shandong University is one of the earliest in China and is now a featured specialty in Shandong Province. In the fifty years’ development, the program has produced nearly 10,000 qualified talents who now work in diplomacy, foreign trade, foreign affairs and education, etc. and serve the Shandong–Japan and the Sino-Japan exchanges. A graduate program was established in 2002 in the Department of Japanese Language and Literature.