学校法人城西大学 中欧研究所 Josai Institute for Central European Studies

International Center for the Promotion of Art and Science (JICPAS)

About Us

<Purpose of the Josai Institute for Central European Studies>

The institute is to be located at Tokyo Kioicho Campus and will be the academic center of Josai University Educational Corporation. Together with Josai University and Josai International University, it will function as a whole to advance international education and alliances with the countries within the Vesegrád Group (V4)—which includes Hungary (with whom Josai commenced its first academic exchange in 2007), the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia—in addition to other surrounding countries in Central Europe.
  As an institution of higher education and research, the institute will strive to advance academic exchanges and joint research studies between Central Europe and Japan, and to develop human resources which broadly support the international relationship between both countries.

<Specific Activities>

The primary activities of the institute are as follows:
  1. Planning and implementing measures in line with our targets
  2. Specifically promoting exchange programs and joint research studies with affiliated universities in the same region
  3. Collaborating with relevant institutions and embassies from each country
  4. Collaborating with groups and organizations which are interested in the same region, obtaining funding for research studies
  5. Hosting seminars, symposiums and lectures
  6. Issuing newsletters
  7. Issuing academic journals

<Founding of the Institute and its Exchanges with Central Europe>

Josai has proactively conducted educational and cultural exchanges with countries in Central Europe over the years. It also maintains various International Academic Exchange Agreements, including those with Eötvös Loránd University and eight other universities in Hungary, the University of Warsaw and three other universities in Poland, Charles University in Prague and two other universities in the Czech Republic, as well as the University of Presov in Slovakia. Josai has a proactive attitude towards language education. Over the course of the first and second semesters a total of more than 1,000 Japanese students study Hungarian, Czech and Polish at Josai each year.

List of Our Affiliated Universities in Central Europe
Name of School Country
Charles University in Prague Czech Republic
Masaryk University
Prague’s University of Economics
Budapest Business School Hungary
College of Nyíregyháza
Corvinus University of Budapest
Eötvös Loránd University
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church
Semmelweis University
Szent István University
University of Debrecen
University of Szeged
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology The Republic of Poland
University of Lodz
University of Warsaw
Warsaw School of Economics
University of Presov Slovakia

We also established the Noriko Mizuta Hungary, Poland and Czech Scholarships, which commemorate the visit of H.E. Mr. Sólyom László in December 2009 (then President of the Republic of Hungary). Then the president’s visit made a positive contribution to the development of human resources for both Hungary and Japan.
  The significance of Josai’s past contributions to education, studies, and human resource development, for both Hungary and Japan, have been recognized. In May 2011 the Chancellor (Dr. Mizuta) was presented with the Pro Cultura Hungarica (Order of Cultural Merit) by the Republic of Hungary. She was also awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of Hungary in November 2013 by H.E. Mr. Viktor Orbán.
  Josai has proactively held seminars, symposiums, and lectures related to Central Europe. These include speeches given at Josai by Anna Komorowska, First Lady of Poland in April 2012 and by Vladimír Tomšík, Vice-Governor of the Czech National Bank, in October 2012. Furthermore, in February 2013, the “Visegrad and Japan, together for Eastern Partnership Seminar” was held at Josai’s Tokyo Kioicho Campus. The seminar was co-hosted with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, and its performance was credited in the joint statement which followed the official summit of V4 Prime Ministers in June 2013. In November 2013, H.E. Mr. Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, visited Josai. During this visit a ceremony was held to confer the Prime Minister with an honorary doctoral degree from Josai. The Prime Minister performed a special lecture for us. It was at this time that the founding of the Josai Institute for Central European Studies was also announced.

<Members List>

Deputy Director

Nobuhiro Shiba(Professor of Josai International University)


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