Promotion of international regional/social collaboration in humanities

In partnership with Kitami City in Hokkaido, the Graduate School of Humanities has been conducting archaeological research at the Tokoro Research Laboratory for the past sixty years. This project has accumulated a vast body of historical resources over this time, mainly from the Tokoro Historical Site.
This project aims to make more effective contributions to the local community and society as well as strengthen the educational function of Tokoro Research Laboratory through the implementation of international and regional educational programs on historical and cultural heritage, special exhibitions in collaboration with other museums, and the release of digital archives, while developmentally reevaluating those accumulated academic resources.

• Kitami City
• Kitami Board of Education
• The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, UK
• Yokohama Museum of EurAsian Cultures
• Osaka Pref. Chikatsuasuka Museum
• National Museum of Japanese History, National Institutes for the Humanities

• Yokohama Museum of EurAsian Cultures and Tokoro Research Laboratory of the University of Tokyo eds. (2021): Okhotsk Culture: Ancient History You Didn’t Know, Yokohama (In Japanese)
• Tokoro Research Laboratory of the University of Tokyo and National Museum of Japanese History of National Institutes for the Humanities eds. (2023): The Antiquity Raised by Japan’s North: The Okhotsk and Satsumon Cultures, Sakura City (In Japanese)