The University of Tsukuba’s Humanities and Social Sciences Department has established a research group at the end of 2023 to promote security studies that serve the goal of realising a sustainable society. From now on, the group will pursue research from interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives, including area studies, political science, international relations, sociology, law, linguistics and cultural anthropology, to explore the nature of security in contemporary society from theoretical, empirical and practical perspectives. For the first seminar, Tomohiko Taniguchi, a specially appointed professor at the University and a foreign policy speechwriter for the Prime Minister, will be invited as a lecturer to discuss Japan’s diplomacy and security.

This seminar is co-organised with the project “Formation of a Research Centre for Empirical Social Science Towards Policy Solutions to Disparities and Inequalities”, which was adopted in FY2021 by the Pre-Strategic Initiative.

All interested parties are welcome to attend.