Research Director: Tomoyuki Isoyama (Professor, Platform for Arts and Sciences)
Co-researcher: Ryohei Kageura (Associate Professor, Platform for Arts and Sciences)

1. Overview of research findings
I conducted research and surveys on Kato Hiroshi and Fukuzawa Yukichi. In the first year, I conducted literature research and visited Nakatsu, where Fukuzawa Yukichi spent his childhood, and conducted field surveys. In the second year, I continued my literature research and presented my research on Fukuzawa Yukichi at an international conference at the University of Economics in Bucharest. I also presented some of the results of my research on Fukuzawa Yukichi at an academic seminar held by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the University of Strasbourg. I was also able to present the results of these studies in the form of a paper.

2. Books, papers, academic presentations, etc.
[Paper (peer reviewed)]
Tomoyuki Isoyama and Ryohei Kageura, A Comparative Study of Yukichi Fukuzawa and Hiroshi Kato, International Association of Language and Culture Studies, Japanese Studies, No. 10, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 2025
Tomoyuki Isoyama, Ryohei Kageura, and Hiroshi Kato's Study on "Policy Management," International Association of Language and Culture Studies, Japanese Studies, No. 9, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, 2024
[Conference presentations, etc.]
Tomoyuki Isoyama, The Thought of Yukichi Fukuzawa and Hiroshi Kato's Comprehensive Policy Studies, Research Forum CUC Research Institute, 2025
Ryohei Kageura, A comparative study of Fukuzawa Yukichi and Kato Hiroshi, Cultural Studies Research Group of the International Association of Language and Culture, 2025
Kageura, Ryohei, La traduction de Joseph de Maistre et la naissance du nationalisme culturel au Japon, JSPS Strasbourg Office & MUFJ Academic Seminar, Université de Strasbourg, 2024
Kageura, Ryohei, Yukichi Fukuzawa as the First Advocate of Financial Capitalism in Japan, Japan: Pre-Modern, Modern, Contemporary, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, 2024