History
(Academic Year)
- 1961
- The Science Council of Japan issued a recommendation to establish an inter-university research institution for the study of the languages and cultures of Asia and Africa.
- 1964
- ILCAA was established as an affiliate of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and as the first institution to be designated as an Inter-University Institution in the humanities and social sciences in Japan.
- 1967
- Start of Program for Extensive-Period Field Research started.
- 1974
- Intensive Language Course fully launched.
- 1978
- The introduction of mainframe computer.
- 1983
- The establishment of the office of the Overseas Scientific Research Coordination Team.
- 1991
- Sixteen small sections integrated into four major sections.
- 1992
- Participation in the doctoral program of the Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies, TUFS, by some staff.
- 1995
- Designated as one of the Centers of Excellence (COE) by the Japanese Ministry of Education.
- 1996
- Held the first international symposium, "Human Flow and Creation of New Cultures in Southeast Asia" as a COE.
- 1997
- Information Resources Center (IRC) set up.
- 2001
- Grant-in-Aid for COE Research, "Grammatological Informatics based on Corpora of Asian Scripts (GICAS)" started. (-2005)
- 2002
- Relocated from old Nishigahara campus to current Fuchu campus.
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas, "Distribution and Sharing of Resources in Symbolic and Ecological Systems: Integrative Model-building in Anthropology" started. (-2006) - 2004
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies was corporatized.
- 2005
- Research Project Division consisting of five Research Units set up.
Field Science Center (FSC) set up.
Islam and Middle Eastern Study Project (MEIS) started.
Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES) in Beirut, Lebanon, set up. - 2006
- The project, "Islam in Southeast Asia: Dynamics of Transnational Networks and Local Contexts (ISEA)" started within the framework of "Project to Promote Responding-to-Needs Type Global Area Studies" of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).
- 2007
- Kota Kinabalu Liaison Office in Sabah province, Malaysia, set up.
- 2008
- Linguistic Dynamics Science Project (LingDy) started.
- 2010
- Designated by MEXT as an “International Research Center for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa”.
Successive Directors
| 1964-1972 | Oka, Masao |
| 1972-1974 | Tokunaga, Yasumoto |
| 1974-1983 | Kitamura, Hajime |
| 1983-1989 | Umeda, Hiroyuki |
| 1989-1991 | Yamaguchi, Masao |
| 1991-1995 | Kamioka, Koji |
| 1995-1997 | Ikehata, Setsuho |
| 1997-2001 | Ishii, Hiroshi |
| 2001-2005 | MiyazakiI, Koji |
| 2005-2006 | Uchibori, Motomitsu |
| 2006-2009 | Otsuka, Kazuo |
| 2009-2013 | Kurihara, Hirohide |
| 2013- | Mio, Yuko |
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