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Common theme: Changes in the regional structure of Northeast Asia: Path toward better co-existence of society from trans-border viewpoint

About this project:
As the joint academic institute, the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) has taken a central role in integrating six humanity research institutes under the funds from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports Science and Technology. With the start of the 3^rd Mid-term Plan on April 20, 2016, NIHU has established new subsidiary organizations called “Center for Information and Public Relations” and “Center for Transdisciplinary Innovation”. The former aims for effective communication and publication of research outcome. The latter is to promote and integrate new transdisciplinary projects. The 3^rd Mid-term Plan aims to reorganize Area Studies projects NIHU has promoted for the last 10 years, namely “Islamic area study”, “modern Chinese area study”, and “modern Indian area study” into “area promotion projects” under a new organizational system. Through this process, the promotion project for Northeast Asian area studies has been launched as a new Area Studies project. This “Promotion Project for Northeast Asian Area Studies” will be conducted under the control of NIHU’s Center to Promote Humanity Studies as a part of “Promotion Project for modern Middle Eastern Area Studies”, “Promotion Project for South Asia Area Studies” and “Promotion Project for modern Chinese Area Studies”.

Network for Area Studies of Northeast Asia (from the basic plan of this project)
Area promotion projects are taken as network-based research projects. The “Promotion Project for Northeast Asian Area Studies” will lead Northeast Asian region related researches, conducted by six research institutes in Japan. These six institutes include National Museum of Ethnology as a central institute, Slavic-Eurasian Research Institute of Hokkaido University, Center for Northeast Asian Studies of Tohoku University, Center for Far Eastern Studies of the University of Toyama, and Institute for North East Asian Research of the University of Shimane and Waseda Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies of Waseda University as well as NIHU’s two institutions including Research Institute for Humanities and Nature and National Museum of Japanese History. The project aims to create and enhance research cooperation among these research institutes and other national and international research institutes they have already established cooperative relationship, through the networks of people and information, so to further develop joint researches and surveys.