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人文科学 (jinbunkagaku) Japanese meaning: humanities | Kotomora
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He is majoring in the humanities at university.
Research in the humanities takes a long time.
Kanji 文 sentence, literature, style 科 department, course, section 学 study, learning, science Related words 人文科学 and 人文学 both mean 'humanities', but 人文科学 emphasizes its status as an academic discipline (often contrasted with 自然科学/社会科学), while 人文学 is the broader, slightly less formal term for the field itself.
Opposites 人文科学 covers literature, history, and philosophy, whereas 自然科学 covers physics, chemistry, and biology—together with 社会科学 they form the three standard divisions of academic study.
人文科学 focuses on the humanities (literature, philosophy, history), while 社会科学 focuses on the social sciences (economics, sociology, political science).
Etymology Compound of 人文 (じんぶん, 'human culture; humanities') and 科学 (かがく, 'science'). The term is a modern calque from Western academic classification.
He has continued his research in the field of the humanities for a long time.
