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International Center for Island Studies, Kagoshima University (formerly Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands, KURCPI, 1999-2014, Kagoshima University Research Center for the South Pacific, KURCSP, 1988-98) is a research institute which aims to promote interdisciplinary studies on islands and island-zones in Oceania and its surrounding regions.



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Research Seminar No. 243 new

Study on the Plasticity of Tree Formations Focusing on Annual Rings


YASUDA Yuko (Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Monday, 25 November 2024, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 242

Incorporation of the Concept of “Disability” in the Independent State of Samoa: From a “Lifelong Sciences” Perspective


KURATA Makoto (School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical University)

16:30 on Thursday, 24 October 2024, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 241

Preserving Pidgin English in Nauru During the Japanese Occupation


OKAMURA Toru (Faculty of Intercultural Studies, Komatsu University)

16:30 on Monday, 30 September 2024, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 240

Reproductive Strategies of Acropora Corals


KITANOBO Seiya (International Center for Island Studies, Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Monday, 22 July 2024, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 239

An Islander’s Experience of the Russo-Japanese War: Focusing on the “Seiro Nikki” by Ono Miyatsugu


HIRAI Kazuomi (Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities, Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Monday, 24 June 2024, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 238

Exploration of functional properties of indigenous citrus in the Southwestern Islands


SAKAO Kozue (Faculty of Agriculture, Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Monday, 22 April 2024, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 237

Did People Live Harmoniously with Island Environments? Prehistory of Amami and Okinawa Archipelagos


TAKAMIYA Hiroto (International Center for Island Studies, Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Monday, 18 March 2024, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 236

Historical Consciousness of Taiwan and Okinawa in cultural heritages


KAMIZURU Hisahiko (Research Organization of Regional Oriented Studies, Prefectural University of Hiroshima)

16:30 on Monday, 22 January 2024, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Special Seminar

Preliminary study for shoreline vulnerability of islands in the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park and Turtle Island Park, Sabah


Farrah Anis Fazliatul Adnan (Faculty of Science and Natural Resources, Universiti Malaysia Sabah)

16:30 on Thursday, 18 January 2024, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Special Seminar

Household Food Insecurity in Remote Upland Villages, Seram Island: A Case in Abio-Ahiolo Village, Western Seram District, Maluku, Indonesia


Isye Jean Liur (Faculty of Agriculture, Pattimura University, Indonesia)

16:30 on Wednesday, 20 December 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 235

Study about diversity and conservation of bats in the Japanese Archipelago


MAKI Takahiro (Amami Station, International Center for Island Studies, Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Monday, 18 December 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Special Seminar

Incredible life and livelihoods of fishers at Dublar Char Island, Bangladesh


Md. Sagir Ahmed, Md. Umar Faroque and Sujan Kumar Datta (Department of Zoology, University of Dhaka)

16:30 on Monday, 27 November 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University

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Research Seminar No. 234

A case study of outreach on "pumice drift and stranding" which has become a social problem, from the perspective of natural science


MARUYA Yu (Neco no Wakuwaku Nature School)

16:30 on Monday, 6 November 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 233

Save the island's specially tangerine — Eradication of the whitespotted longicorn beetles, Anoplophora spp. by an entomogenous fungus, Beauveria brongniartii in Kikaijima Island


TSUDA Katsuo (Professor Emeritus of Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Monday, 16 October 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 232

A study on hermit crabs and their associated symbionts in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, including the Amami Islands


YOSHIKAWA Akihiro (International Center for Island Studies, Amami Station, Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Monday, 25 September 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 231

The current progress of research on ISSHIKI Jiro


SUZUKI Yusaku (Center for Modern Kagoshima Studies, Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Tuesday, 18 July 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No. 230

The basic research of roast salt-making pot in Amami Islands


YOMINE Yukiya (Isen Town Board of Education)

16:30 on Monday, 10 June 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No.229

Dagaa industry in Zanzibar islands: Significance as a protein food supply for inland countries


FUJIMOTO Mariko (Faculty of Fisheries, Kagoshima University)

16:30 on Monday, 29 May 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No.228

The Religious Cultures and its Relation to Shrines in the Amami Islands


MACHI Taiki (Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Kagoshima College)

16:30 on Monday, 24 April 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Special Seminar

Under the Spot Light: Islands at the Centres of Our World


Godfrey Baldacchino (The University of Malta)

16:30 on Wednesday, 19 April 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Special Seminar

Well-being indicators for Malta

Marie Briguglio (The University of Malta)


Climate change impacts and climate-resilient pathways in the mediterranean region

Stefano Moncada (The University of Malta)

16:30 on Monday, 10 April 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No.227

Trends in Banana Cultivation and Utilization in the Japanese Islands


SATO Yasuaki (School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University)

16:30 on Monday, 6 February 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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Research Seminar No.226

Medicine and food - from Satsuma Kurozen to ninjin'yoeito research


INUI Akio (Pharmacological Department of Herbal Medicine, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical & Dental Sciences)

16:30 on Monday, 16 January 2023, 5th floor, the Interdivisional Education and Research Building, Korimoto Campus, Kagoshima University


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