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Message from the President
The National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU), which is one of the Inter-University Research Institute Corporations, was established in 2004. It consists of five research institutes, namely the National Museum of Japanese History, the National Institute of Japanese Literature, the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, and the National Museum of Ethnology. These five research institutes have transcended their traditional fields of study and joined together, and by also bringing nature and environment into view, formed the center of a comprehensive research program on culture and the humanities. By creating a new paradigm from such cooperation, NIHU is trying to deal with the difficult issue of the 21st century in which nature and the historical actions of mankind have become inextricably linked on a global scale.
As one of the projects to achieve these goals, NIHU will promote a program entitled “Inter-Institutional and External Joint Research” to be conducted by the five institutes playing the central role and inviting researchers in universities and research institutes in Japan and abroad to participate. Also, to promote the usage of the massive amount of research materials possessed by the five institutes, NIHU is now fully engaged in the preparation of a “Humanities Database Network” in which the materials are digitized, accessed through a common on-line platform, and supplied as information. Furthermore, in order to actively promote programs concerned with regional studies, NIHU has established a Center for the Promotion of Area Studies. With researchers in the institutes participating actively in research projects that transcend their fields of specialty while maintaining their own originality, NIHU continues its efforts to develop the organization into a true center to lead the world in comprehensive academic research on culture and the humanities. April, 2008
Akihiro KINDA 
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