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Located across the road from the Yamasa II building, the studio is located in a renovated Japanese house. This house is the oldest of the 6 buildings on the campus, however it actually hosts some leading edge projects and some of the Institute's key supporting infrastructure.

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Better known amongst students as 'The Shack' - the house contains the infogallery project and some office space usually containing some development projects managed by the International Office and the Radio Station. A large proportion of the media studio staff have moved across to Aoi Hall, but a significant part of yamasa.org and the associated support websites, dtp publications, online learning resources etc are constructed or maintained here. The technical support for the Online Center for Japanese Studies - particularly development of the increasingly massive streaming audio and video archive is managed by the studio.

The traditional tatami matting has been removed and the floor elevated to accommodate the large quantities of fiber-optic cable and pipes that the studio requires. Inside the studio itself there is a large number of PC's and Macintosh computers, scanners, color copiers and associated infrastructure.

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The studio is of course well wired and laptops are easily connected via LAN cards and all networks operate at high speed. All of the support staff are full time. Yamasa is the only Japanese language institute with these services.

Quite a few students do short internships or work part-time in the building. A large part of this homepage was written by students using the center and a significant part of the translation and web development of online learning systems is done by students in the advanced classes.

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