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The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences pursues the creation
of academic knowledge and the systemization of new value, while seeking
out paths to interdisciplinary studies and integration of academic fields
from the perspective of “co-existence.” Graduate Schools in the fields
of Humanities and Social Sciences are expected not only to contribute to
the development and increased depth of academic research and to produce
researchers (i.e., pass on knowledge) in individual research fields, but
also to promote education and research (interdisciplinary research and
research that combines the sciences and the humanities) that can respond
to many issues that the modern society has faced.
It has become necessary to foster outstanding manpower that can accurately
understand the social, cultural, and religious diversity of societies and
organizations in countries around the world, minimize the physical, cultural
and psychological damages caused by conflicts between cultures - from wars
between countries to regional conflicts - and transform the frictions and
discord arising from those conflicts into new order and cultures. In recent
years, it has also become necessary to build flexible education and research
organizations that combine various fields, in order to maintain a multi-faceted
view of the societies and organizations that are part of complex interactions.
With societies and economies becoming increasingly borderless, information
technologies more evolved, and industries and corporate management more
advanced, we must foster employees and specialists who can respond to these
trends. The regional community has made strong requests for the University
to “return knowledge to the community,” by providing a venue for the increase
of the skills of public servants and employees of companies and other organizations,
and for lifelong education targeting mature students. The Graduate School
of Humanities and Social Sciences has put in place various types of education
and research structures to respond to these issues.
This Graduate School has independent functions and roles for fundamental
specialized education in the undergraduate and specialized education, and
maintains an education and research system in which each of these functions
and roles can interact organically. The transition from the undergraduate
program to the Master’s Program provides students with an increase of depth
and breadth of specialized research and interdisciplinary studies. In the
Doctoral Program, students receive education and guidance in conducting
research from more comprehensive and advanced interdisciplinary perspectives.
The Graduate School offers an education and research system that is fully
capable of accommodating individual research in the traditional academic
fields of the humanities and the social sciences (including the humanities,
law, economics, and management).
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