Our program is located on the new Kyushu University Ito Campus, situated on the beautiful Ito peninsula in greater Fukuoka city. Our building (East Zone, Section B) stands on top of the hill on the east side of campus. Our faculty offices and seminar room are on the fifth floor (E-B-501 to E-B-508).

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Ito Campus Address:
Motooka 744, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka
福岡市西区元岡 744

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Directions

Subway & Bus from Fukuoka Airport:
Kuko Line: Board a train bound for Nishi Karatsu or Chikuzen Maebaru→Kyudai-Gakkentoshi Station→Showa Bus→Ito Campus (bus stop: Kyudai East Zone/九大イーストゾーン). We are in the main building (Section B) in view from the bus stop.
Time: 50-60 minutes.

Bus from downtown (Hakata or Tenjin Station): Nishitetsu Bus→Ito Campus (bus stop: Big Orange). From the bus stop, walk down to the base of the hill, cross the main street dividing campus and walk up to the top of the hill.
Time from Tenjin: 50 minutes with smooth traffic.
Time from Hakata: 60 minutes with smooth traffic.

Campus Access by Car

Detailed Ito Campus Map

Kyushu University Access Page

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News & Upcoming Events

Professors Schweizer and Yang have been awarded a major grant from the Getty. Their project "Shared Coasts, Divided Historiographies Mobilizing People, Ideas, and Artifacts in the East Asian Mediterranean" will build a young academics' network in the East Asian Mediterranean.

Congratulations to IDOC student Arisha Satari on the publication of her chapter, "Politics of Heritage: Karatsu’s Takatori-tei as a Meiji Status Symbol, Monument of Modernity, and Symbol of Regional Identity” in the edited volume Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in the Asia Pacific, ed. Edward Boyle and Steven Ivings (Brill, 2023). The chapter is based on her ongoing dissertation research.

Congratulations to Noni Stephenson (IMAP 2019)! Noni will start her PhD research on the mortuary practices of the enslaved Africans of Jamaica under British colonial rule at Columbia University under the supervision of Dr. Zoe Crossland and Dr. Severin Fowles.

Congratulations to Prof. David Weiss on his Kaken grant proposal! The project, titled “Japanese Ethnogenesis: Oka Masao’s Theory of Cultural Strata as a Hybrid Outcome of Scholarly Exchange between Austria and Japan,” will run through the 2027 academic year.

Congratulations to IDOC student Jan Hausmann on the publication of his article 「新宗教とその宗祖：中山身語正宗を例に」 (On New Religions and their Founders: The Case of Nakayama Shingonshōshū) in the journal Shingoshō kenkyū! The article, released in April 2023, is based on his MA thesis research with IMAP.

Congratulations to Alexander Evans (IDOC) for his selection as a Special Joint Research Fellow at the National Museum of Japanese History! Over the next year, he will conduct research on changes in the social and political space of Dazaifu during the Bakumatsu period.