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Faculty of Tourism

Masato Kurabayashi Masato Kurabayashi

Masato Kurabayashi

KURABAYASHI Masato

Professor

area of expertise: "Archeology", "Comparative Cultural Studies", "Environmental Studies"

job title

University President

Main subjects

"SDGs x College Students", "Culture and History of Boso", "Mankind and Manufacturing", "Comparative Cultural Research", "Comparative Cultural Research Guidance"

Research theme/keyword

"Empirical Research on the Formation of Hierarchical Society", "Research on Utilization of Regional Cultural Resources"

Final academic background/degree

The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Archeology / Master (withdrew from doctoral course)

Major achievements

“Archeology of Housing” (1997, Doseisha),” “Mimasaka’s Chief Burial Mounds: A Structural Study of Keyhole-shaped Mounds in the Mimasaka Region I (2000, Kibito Publishing Co., Ltd.),” “Kawato Kurumazuka Research on Kofun,” Structural Research on the Order of Keyhole-shaped Mounds in the Mimasaka Region II, co-edited (2004 Kibito Shuppan), co-authored “Nihon Gyokusaku Taikan” (2004, Yoshikawa Kobunkan), and “Sarcophagus and Ceramic Coffin” Single author (2005 Kibito Publishing)”

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message

When I was a student (including graduate school), I devoted myself to excavation surveys in various places. Perhaps it was because I was suited to think concretely and logically based on the “things” that emerged from the ground after many years. I also liked traveling to unfamiliar lands. On the other hand, excavation was not only fun, but also a place to learn patience, ingenuity and management. Through the harsh life experience of overseas research, I feel that people's thoughts and actions are inevitably influenced by the environment. Learning from the perspective of "sightseeing". I believe that this means to always visit the site, see it with your own eyes, think about diversity, and believe in what you perceive, and transform it into the power to move forward. Why don't you spend the four years burning through encounters with yourself that you haven't seen yet?