The International Bachelor's Program East Asia (IBO) at the University of Hamburg offers intensive language training, sound teaching of the East Asian culture and a regional focus on history and the present. The study mainly takes place in small groups with state-of-the-art technical equipment and personal support. To study belongs a stay abroad at a university in the respective region, besides there are course-accompanying introductions into the scientific work and a targeted vocational orientation. The four-year IBO focuses on providing profound knowledge of the Japanese language and culture in an interdisciplinary and intercultural context.