Colleges in America with Japanese majors...

[Mamoru]

I can't seem to find a reliable search engine (the one I used prior was http://www.collegeboard.com/ , but they seem to have removed Japanese from their major list).

Are there any colleges in America with Japanese as a major? Preferably somewhere from the Mid-west, South, New England, or the Mid Atlantic.
The only criteria being that it be a public school, and willing to accept GED applicants.

I also don't understand too much about college concepts; the way I have it in my head, I wanted to go to a CC nearby and major in something (like, say, English or another foreign language) for two years, and then transfer out-of-state to another college and switch my major to Japanese.
Would I have an Associate's for those first two years be, and be able to get a Master's in Japanese?
What I'm basically asking is: can I go to CC for 2 years, then transfer to a new college for 4 years, totalling up 6 years?

Thank you for your time!

[Buenchico]

You've posted on a UK-based site. There aren't many people around here who have an in-depth understanding of the US higher education system. (Even your abbreviations, such as 'CC' and 'GED' are a mystery to most of us. Further, here in the UK, a 'public school' is confusingly a private fee-paying establishment at pre-university level!).

You might find more authoritative responses on the US-based sites:
http://answers.yahoo.com/

http://www.answerbag.com/

However, despite their omission from Collegeboard.com, there are definitely some Japanese courses available in the USA. e.g. Pittsburgh
http://www.pitt.edu/~deall/japanese/major.html
Penn state
http://complit.la.psu.edu/japanese/programMaj. htm
Ball State:
http://www.bsu.edu/languages/majors/japanese/
Vermont:
http://www.uvm.edu/~all/?Page=requirementsjapn .html

See also this thread:
http://www.jref.com/forum/archive/index.php/t- 19735.html

Chris