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About Us

About Us

The Institute was founded in 1984 as the Keio Center for Area Studies, as part of the project commemorating the 125th anniversary of the founding of Keio University. In 2003, it was renamed the Keio Institute of East Asian Studies. The Institute enthusiastically promotes exchanges and joint projects with other research institutes, researchers, businesspeople, journalists, etc., as an arena for conducting studies on various East Asian issues in an interdisciplinary and comprehensive way.