Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University

Last Updated: 2025/08/05

As globalization continues, people and goods are increasingly crossing various borders, including national borders. In this course, we aim to comprehensively address the issues arising from a variety of transboundary movements, focusing on three perspectives: immigration, tourism, and science and technology. Through these lenses, we deepen our understanding of the conflicts and transformations resulting from the asymmetrical encounters of civilizations and cultures that globalization inevitably brings.

Students’ research themes	Master’s program: Foreigners in Meiji Japan, Text-Image Relations in the Classics, Gardens in Myths, View of Nature, Environmental Issues, Food and Toxic Chemicals, Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism, Xu Guang-qi’s View on Mathematics
Teaching staff	Hirotaka INOUE, Professor Subjects: History of Trans-border Societies Research fields: American studies with a focus on the history of intellectuals in the United States. Masato KARASHIMA, Associate Professor Subjects: Transborder Societies and Cultures Research fields: International History of Tourism, Political Economy of Knowledge and Culture. Takeshi CHUJO, Lecturer Subjects: Representations of Immigration in media and political discourse Research fields: Immigration Studies, Regional Studies (Belgium) and Sociolinguistics Togo TSUKAHARA, Professor Subjects: Science, Technology and Society, etc. Research fields: Science history and technological societies.

Students’ research themes

Master’s program: Foreigners in Meiji Japan, Text-Image Relations in the Classics, Gardens in Myths, View of Nature, Environmental Issues, Food and Toxic Chemicals, Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism, Xu Guang-qi’s View on Mathematics

Teaching staff

Hirotaka INOUE, Professor
Subjects: History of Trans-border Societies
Research fields: American studies with a focus on the history of intellectuals in the United States.

Masato KARASHIMA, Associate Professor
Subjects: Transborder Societies and Cultures
Research fields: International History of Tourism, Political Economy of Knowledge and Culture.

Takeshi CHUJO, Lecturer
Subjects: Representations of Immigration in media and political discourse
Research fields: Immigration Studies, Regional Studies (Belgium) and Sociolinguistics

Togo TSUKAHARA, Professor
Subjects: Science, Technology and Society, etc.
Research fields: Science history and technological societies.

Transcultural Studies