ASAFAS Education

更新日:2014/02/15

The Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies promote education and research based on field surveys in the area. Based on the five-year doctoral program, the School emphasizes in its curricula long-term fieldwork and holistic understanding of Asian and African ecology, society and culture and their interrelations which have shaped what Asia and Africa are today. Other than training specialists of Asian and African area studies, the School also hopes to produce personnel capable of working in international aid organizations and accordingly is prepared to issue Master’s degrees when needed. Recently, there are two division, Division of African Area Studies, and Division of Southeast Asian Area Studies. The latter has four departments, 1. Ecology and Environment, 2. Comparative Social Transformation, 3. Environment, Society and Culture, 4. South and West Asian Area Studies. For detail, please see WEB:

http://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/english/feature.html