is one of Japan's leading institutions for research into the humanities and ethno-ecological studies. It has a distinctive school tradition, as heir to the philosophically-orientated Kyoto School

Kyoto School

The Kyoto School is the name given to the Japanese "philosophical movement centered at Kyoto University that assimilated western philosophy and religious ideas and used them to reformulate religious and moral insights unique to the East Asian cultural tradition." However, it is also used to...

, but differs from the latter in its broader cultural interests. Many of its leading scholars and graduates played a key creative role in the post-war reformulation of Japanese cultural identity.