Welcome to the JapanLab!

Free Educational Games＋Digital Humanities

We are a digital humanities project hosted by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin. Our goal is to generate a steady stream of faculty-advised, student-designed educational video games about Japanese history, culture, and language for use in Japanese Studies classrooms. On our website, you can play our games, find lesson plans and resources for teaching with digital humanities, and learn about bringing our program’s framework to your institution.

Explore Our Games　→

JapanLab Framework
Educational Resources

Find our games on itch.io

at https://japanlab.itch.io/

The Censor’s Desk
Palace of Poetry
Ako: A Tale of Loyalty
Ready, Set, Yokohama!
Ghosts Over the Water
Death and Taxes

This initiative is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin and in the past has generously received funding from the Japan Foundation.

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