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Students can enter the ISGS in April or October. TheFebruary, and for the October semester in July. For details

Integrated Sciences for Global Society

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Evolution of the Earth
Climate & Disasters

Comprehensive
Earth SciencesResources & Environment
Atmosphere & Water
Biodiversity

Comprehensive Scienceof Biological Environment

Foods
Life and It's existence

ISGS is located in the East Zone 1 building.

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Science & Technology
Conflicts & JusticeInternational
Poverty & Redistribution
Cooperation,
Security and Safety Growth & Development
Social Diversity
Discrimination & Dominanceand Coexistence
WelfareMutual Understanding

Communication◇SUBWAY→JR→BUS

JR Hakata Station→(Subway Kuko Line)→Meinohama Station (Transfer JR Chikuhi Line※)→Kyudai-Gakkentoshi Station→ (Showa Bus) →Ito Campus◇BUS

JR Hakata Station→Nishitetsu Bus (at Hakata station A bus stop)→Ito Campus

From Tenjin◇SUBWAY→JR→BUS※Alternatively, board a train bound for NishiKaratsu or Chikuzen-Maebaru, which eliminates the need to transfer at
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Representation
Media

From Hakata Station

Tenjin →(Subway Kuko Line) →Meinohama Station (Transfer JR Chikuhi Line※)→Kyudai-Gakkentoshi Station→(Showa Bus)→Ito Campus◇BUS
Tenjin →Nishitetsu Bus(at Tenjin 2B Solaria Stage bus stop) →Ito Campus

Toleration & Symbiosis

Language, Mediaand Communication Consensus Building

Fukuoka Airport →(Subway Kuko Line)→Meinohama Station (Transfer JR Chikuhi Line※)→Kyudai-Gakkentoshi Station→ (Showa Bus) →Ito Campus

Comprehensive
East Asianand Japanese Studies

Education
Reciprocal Benefits of Diversity
Spatial-Temporal Diversity

https://isgs.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Student Aﬀairs section
744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Phone: +81-92-802-6372
Fax: +81-92-802-6396
E-mail: jbkkyomu3@jimu.kyushu-u.ac.jp

WebsiteGraduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global Society

https://isgs.kyushu-u.ac.jp

ISGS is a unique interdisciplinary and international institution,offering a broad range of courses in the Humanities,
Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences.
Faculty from different fields routinely team-teach,creating a vibrant approach in knocking down disciplinary barriers.

International Program
The Graduate School of Integrated Sciences for Global
Society (hereafter ISGS ) oﬀers an International Master sand Doctoral Programs in the humanities, social sciences,and natural sciences, in which lectures and guidance aretaught in English.

Program Overview
ISGS was built on the predecessor Graduate School ofSocial and Cultural Studies, which was founded in 1994.
ISGS is a unique interdisciplinary and international
institution, oﬀering a broad range of courses, which aims toResearch Highlights
Cutting-edge Interdisciplinary Research

1 on the Coastal Seafloor

In the graduate school, we use multibeam echo-sounder to create
maps of coastal seaﬂoor where no high-resolution maps have been
available. In a series of studies, we succeeded in surveying andvisualizing a historically important World War II naval battle site oﬀ
Okinawa Island, Japan using innovative methods. While countless
witnesses have provided vivid accounts of their WWII experiences,
documentation of the war through material evidence is increasing insigniﬁcance. The results of this research will provide an importantmessage for peace education to the world.

break the barriers between the humanities, social sciences,and natural sciences. Faculty from diﬀerent ﬁelds routinely
team-teach, creating a vibrant approach in knocking down
disciplinary barriers.
Graduate students in the English-language International
Programs can specialize in one of six courses:

Photograph © HIRONOBU KAN

1. Comprehensive Earth Sciences
2. Comprehensive Science of Biological Environment

The USS Emmons, a 106m-longbattleship that sank in 40m ofwater off Okinawa Island, Japandue to inability to navigate afterkamikaze attack in 1945.

5. Language, Media and Communication
6. Comprehensive East Asian and Japanese Studies
Among the subjects oﬀered in these courses are Geology,
Petrology, Mineralogy, Geophysics, Biological Diversity,Entomology, Molecular Evolution, Ecological Anthropology,Relations,

Here are some of the highlights of these research projects.

Integrated Interdisciplinary Water

2 Environment Research

Water is an essential resource for humans and life in general; it isalso used in various areas of society such as culture, livelihood,economy, and social organization. Moreover, pursuing ways to use
and manage water is an important issue faced globally and locally inthe context of climate and socioeconomic changes. Our Graduate
School has engaged in a project to examine the various issues related
to water from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Heavy rain and flood disaster-affected area
in northern Kyushu. Disaster prevention is
not only a river-water management issue,
but it also relates to various points of natureand society such as forest management
and the setting of evacuation routes.

Floodwater reaching rural
areas in Namibia. Moderate
flood volumes provide somebenefits for local residents.
(Right photo) Aerial phototaken by UAV (drone) to
calculate flooded area.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1095-9270.12301

4. Social Diversity and CoexistenceInternational

researches. It also carries out distinctive research in various ﬁelds.

A record of the site was made using an
innovative method incorporating precise
control points obtained from multibeam
bathymetry to generate considerablyhigh-resolution seafloor map with agrid size of 5cm (below) and 3D models
over a wide area of 120m × 30m using
structure-from-motion photogrammetry
while satellite positioning technology
cannot be directly used in the water.

3. International Cooperation, Security and Safety

Geography,

This graduate school encourages interdisciplinary education andPolitical

3 Using Big Data in Linguistics ResearchCollecting and analyzing large amounts of linguistic data provides
useful insights for linguistics. Integrated Sciences and Global Studies(ISGS) aims to accumulate linguistic data of various genres andconduct interdisciplinary research using the data provided.

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Thinking Historically about Public Health(Mizuki Kitada, D1)

Infectious diseases such as dengue fever, Ebola, SARS, and the current
corona-virus continue to spread and cause panic in the modern age ofscience and medicine. In this research, I focus on a very important
issue: how to control infectious diseases based on a historicalperspective.

Science,

History of Technology, Economic History, Business History,
Cultural Anthropology, Gender Studies, Japanese Modern
Literature, Chinese Literature, Communications Studies,
Applied

Linguistics,

Japanese

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Education,Archeology, Biological Anthropology, Japanese History,Japanese Studies, and Asian Regional Studies.

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