Humanities has not only Japanese, Chinese, Western Classical, English, German, and French language and literature, but is further subdivided into linguistic history, literature, literary history, and even sub-sub-divided chronologically.
像人文科學研究科除有國語（日本語）、中國、西洋古典、英、德、法等文學與語學的研究外，每種語言之下還細分語史、文學、文學史，有時還依古代、中世、近世、近代等時間分類。