For students in the department of Asian Studies, English, as well as Chinese and Indonesian, are requirements. There are universities that offer these two classes separately, but Nanzan University’s Department of Asian Studies is the only department that requires both. Chinese is spoken not only amongst the 1.3 billion people in mainland China, but is widely used amongst the 25 million hua ren (Chinese descendents) in Taiwan and other parts of Southeast Asia. Indonesian is the national language of Indonesia, the major nation of Southeast Asia. However, in neighboring Malaysia and Brunei, and even in Singapore (which is often thought of as an English-speaking nation), Malay, Indonesian’s brother language, is the national language. If one is able to learn English for a total of three languages, one will acquire the strength to be an active player all throughout Southeast Asia. There are also many opportunities to become familiar with Korean and Thai.