Messages from Dean

  The Graduate School of International Studies and Regional Development fosters researchers and practitioners with advanced expertise who can contribute to the issues facing the international and local communities from global and interdisciplinary perspectives.

  Our graduate school has excellent faculty members from diverse fields of research and backgrounds who have been involved in education and research all over the world. In addition to daily research guidance by multiple academic supervisors, advice can be obtained from all faculty members for research plan presentation sessions, master’s thesis interim presentation sessions and other occasions. These arrangements help bring graduate students and faculty members close. We also accept professionals with working experience and international students and provide research guidance from a wide range of perspectives to various academic interests of those students. Furthermore, students can study qualitative and quantitative research skills, presentation skills in foreign languages, and obtain a master’s degree with courses offered in English.

  Since its establishment in 2015, our graduate school has already developed human resources who are active in international and local communities. Our faculty members will do their utmost to support graduate students to discover their own research themes and to reach new knowledge and research findings. All the faculty members are looking forward to meeting students who are willing to contribute to their international and local communities by bringing about changes to help solve their challenges.