Chairperson of the International Committee on Historical Studies visits our university

On Monday, February 26, 2024, Professor Catherine Horrell of the French National Center for Scientific Research, President of the International Commission on Historical Sciences (ICHS), and Professor Edoardo Tortarolo of the University of Eastern Piedmont, Secretary General of the ICHS, visited the university in the presence of Professor Watanabe Hirotaka of Faculty of Law at our university, who also serves as a director of the ICHS headquarters. The ICHS was founded in Geneva (Switzerland) in 1926 and is affiliated with the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It is a committee with a long history and tradition worldwide, with a research conference commemorating its 100th anniversary scheduled to be held over six days at the University of Jerusalem. In addition, Japan is a representative Asian country that participates in the ICHS, with Nitobe Inazo, who was then Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, participating in the committee's inaugural conference, and four historians from Japan have been elected as directors and vice-presidents of the headquarters.

This visit was made possible by the decision to hold the committee's board meeting, general meeting, and research conference at our Hachioji Campus in October 2024. Our university's Chairman and President Yoshihito Okinaga expressed his respect for the visit of the two committee representatives and posed sharp questions backed by his own theories on the nature of history and international exchange in academics, leading to an enthusiastic discussion on our university's Educational Philosophy of "internationalization." After the meeting, the chairpersons toured our Kasumigaseki Campus and Hachioji Campus in preparation for the autumn conference.

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