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Integrated Area Studies Division (Satoru Kobayashi)
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A research division that develops information resources across regions and opens up new methods for area studies.

AboutAbout the lab
Crossing regions to open up area studies.
The Center for Southeast Asian Studies is a hub for area studies that conducts research emphasizing fieldwork, as well as research that integrates the humanities and social sciences with the natural sciences.
The Integrated Area Studies Division aims to advance the research approaches of area studies by developing information resources across regions and carrying out pioneering research.
Key terms
- Area studies
- Research that combines various disciplines to understand the nature, society, and culture of a particular region as a whole
- Information resources
- Materials and data usable for research, such as documents, maps, statistics, and photographs
- Fieldwork
- Research in which researchers go to a site and collect data through observation and interviews
ResearchResearch themes
Beyond basic research, the division also pursues collaboration with society and practice-oriented field research in a variety of forms.
*Illustrative imageCross-Regional Information Resources and Research Methods
By developing information resources across regions and carrying out pioneering research, the division advances the approaches of area studies themselves.
*Illustrative imagePractice-Oriented Area Studies Connected to Society
Through collaboration with society and practice-oriented field research, the division develops area studies as academic work that serves the public sphere.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorSatoru Kobayashi
- ProfessorFEENER R. Michael
- Associate ProfessorYoshimi Nishi
- Associate ProfessorHiroyuki Yamamoto
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Vietnam, Panorama of Chau Doc” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Cross-Regional Information Resources and Research Methods: “1801 Cary Map of the East Indies and Southeast Asia ( Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Philippines) - Geographicus - EastIndies-cary-1801” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Practice-Oriented Area Studies Connected to Society: “Floating market in khlong in Bangkok 1963 16” Don Christie / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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(甲山 治) ): “Riverbank area of Kapuas River” Achmad Rabin Taim from Jakarta, Indonesia / CC BY 2.0 (cropped) - Related lab (政治経済共生研究部門
(岡本 正明 (所 長)) ): “View of Jakarta skyline seen from Gambir Station” Sam Hidayat / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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