About Us
Nagasaki University declares its commitment to contribute to the realization of “planetary health” worldwide. To achieve this, it will create and draw upon knowledge from various disciplines to solve the diverse and interconnected problems facing humanity and the Earth. It promotes research and education that contributes to three fields of study: global health, global risk, and global ecology. The Research Center for Global Risk (CGR) was established on June 1, 2024 to conduct cutting-edge research in the field of global risk.

The Center will integrate the wisdom of the humanities and social sciences while leveraging the history of Nagasaki, which experienced the atomic bombing, and the strengths of Nagasaki University, including its unique and ongoing efforts in peace education and nuclear weapons abolition research to date, as well as its outstanding achievements in tropical medicine and infectious diseases, to promote interdisciplinary research on the risks surrounding nuclear weapons, global environmental destruction, and pandemics, among other modern global issues.
In addition, the Center will create a space for interdisciplinary research through international collaboration and joint research between the humanities and sciences, and will make various proposals to the international community, as well as nurture the next generation of researchers, experts with policy-making abilities, and leaders in the international community.
The Center is an interdepartmental organization within the university, made up of faculty members with interests in global risk. Categorizing global risks into six areas, the Center operates as a new collaborative research space, with researchers, practitioners, and citizens working together to analyze and address the complex and multi-layered risks that characterize our world today.
From the director of CGR
Greetings from Akihiro Iwashita, Director of the newly established Research Center for Global Risk (CGR). In truth, I have not developed my career in academia in terms of “global risk.” Rather, my research has always focused on the sorts of conflicts that frequently occur in various forms around the world, and which are often linked with one another. I began my research working in the fields of history, international law, politics and international relations, and subsequently expanded my interests through political geography, anthropology, and studies of culture, representation and tourism. Across these fields, my engagement with border studies encouraged me to develop a multi-disciplinary approach able to capture both the local and global scales, one which prioritized people’s lives first. All of these factors drive my determination to push the newly-emerging research horizon of global risk studies, which is now reshaping Nagasaki University.
Look at the world today, and it is easy to see that humanity is facing a crisis, perhaps of its survival. At the same time, the wars, disasters, and poverty that are visible daily through both mass and social media, the images of people dying or struggling to survive which we see every day though both mass and social media, frequently engender an attitude of indifference, as they do not necessarily impact on our daily life. The surfeit of information in today's world makes it difficult for us to get a handle on the crises which threaten all of us.
CGR will prepare students and researchers to respond to the crises which now confront us, not just in Japan but also in the world. From a global perspective, CGR will promote comprehensive research on the detection, management, prescription, and prevention of risks in diverse arenas, from climate change to nuclear and biological weapons, infectious diseases, military conflicts, information intelligence, and social fragmentation.
Nagasaki University possesses a number of leading institutions. These include the Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, the Graduate School of Economics, the Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, which among other topics focuses renewable energy, natural environment, and carbon neutrality, the Institute of Tropical Medicine, and the Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, which draws on Nagasaki’s experience and memory of the atomic bombing to create a “world without nuclear weapons.”
CGR will draw upon these resources of Nagasaki University in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences to build an international network of collaboration between the humanities and sciences. At the same time, we will collaborate with locals to learn how global risks affect the community and how these crises can and should be faced.
Our CGR studies risk by developing interdisciplinary networks which enable it to be analyzed. Nevertheless, while these networks will be global, ultimately it is people living in locales who bear the risk. We wish that CGR, here in Nagasaki, will always be there to aid and assist those living locally. We have only just begun, and we would like to ask for your guidance and encouragement as we set out on this vital journey.

Dr. Akihiro Iwashita
Structure
〇Principles of Global Risk Studies
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Compel Radomir
Unit Leader Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Associate ProfessorResearch AreaComparative Politics -
Gülbeyaz Abdurrahman
Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Associate ProfessorResearch AreaHuman Sciences, Semiotics, Sociology -
Kuniyuki Terada
Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Assistant ProfessorResearch Areasocial theory, sociology of globalization -
Taisuke Fujita
Graduate School of Economics Associate ProfessorResearch AreaInternational Relations -
Masayoshi Takahashi
Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology Associate ProfessorResearch Areastatistical science
〇Information and Technology
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Noboru Takamura
Unit Leader Atomic Bomb Disease Institute ProfessorResearch AreaRadiation Risk Sciences -
Koki Tamura
Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Assistant ProfessorResearch AreaEthics -
Ichi Kanaya
Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology ProfessorResearch AreaMedia art, Kansei informatics, Design science, Digital heritage, Cultural anthropology -
Sumi Yokoyama
Atomic Bomb Disease Institute ProfessorResearch AreaRadiation Biology and Protection -
Naomi Hayashida
Atomic Bomb Disease Institute ProfessorResearch AreaMedicine, Healthcare, Thyroid
〇Geopolitics and Economics
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Masayo Shikimi
Unit Leader Graduate School of Economics ProfessorResearch AreaBanking, Corporate Finance, Sustainable Finance -
Kazunori Hayanagi
Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences ProfessorResearch AreaArea Studies, Intercultural Studies -
Alayna Ynacay-Nye
Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Assistant ProfessorResearch AreaPolitcal Economy, Rural Sociology -
Hiroyuki Kuwahata
Graduate School of Economics Associate ProfessorResearch AreaEconomics, International trade -
Tomoko Kiyota
Office for Global Relations Associate ProfessorResearch AreaInternational Security, India
〇Society and Infectious Diseases
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Wataru Iijima
Unit Leader Institute of Tropical Medicine ProfessorResearch AreaSocial History of Medicine -
Yasuaki Sato
Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Associate ProfessorResearch AreaAnthropology, African Area Studies -
Makoto Minami
Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Associate ProfessorResearch AreaSOCIOLOGY -
Shigeta Minamimori
Graduate School of Economics Associate ProfessorResearch AreaJapanese Economic History,History of Japanese Economic Thought
〇Environment
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Kana Miwa
Unit Leader Graduate School of Economics ProfessorResearch AreaDevelopment Economics -
Arinori Kawamura
Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences Associate ProfessorResearch AreaCriminal Procedure Law, International Criminal Law -
Seiko Goto
Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology ProfessorResearch AreaLandscape Architecture -
Sunhee Suk
Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology Associate ProfessorResearch AreaEnvironmental economics -
Lina Madaniyazi
School of Tropical Medecine and Global Health Associate ProfessorResearch AreaEnvironmental Epidemiology, Health impact of climate change and air pollution
〇Nuclear and Biological
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Fumiko Kasuga
Unit Leader School of Tropical Medecine and Global Health ProfessorResearch AreaSustainability science, Food safety -
Michiru Nishida
Graduate School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences ProfessorResearch AreaInternational Security, Nuclear deterrence and arms control, Nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation -
Kazuko Hikawa
Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition ProfessorResearch AreaNulcear Disarmament and Non-proliferation
〇Principal faculty member
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Akihiro Iwashita
Research Center for Global Risk DirectorResearch AreaInternational Relations, Boder studies -
Yesbol Sartayev
Research Center for Global Risk Assistant ProfessorResearch AreaEnvironmental Radiation and Epidemiology, Nuclear disaster and preparedness, Banking, and Corporate Finance