The NIJL functions as the Department of Japanese Literature in the School of Cultural and Social Studies at SOKENDAI.
This department was established in 2003 and accepts students into the doctoral course. The wealth of original texts and materials kept by the NIJL represent a key cultural information resource for researchers, and the aim is to use this to cultivate specialists in Japanese literature and peripheral areas of study through the comprehensive study of the external and internal characteristics, etc., of the materials in the NIJL collection.

NIJL accepts graduate students at the request of universities and cooperates in university education.