Prof. Harald Fuess initiated the TIFO Visiting Professorship in Transcultural Japanese Studies at the Heidelberg Center of Transcultural Studies and the Center of East Asian Studies. The Toshiba International Foundation (TIFO) will fund this visiting professorship that enables a professor in the humanities and social sciences from one of the Heidelberg HeKKSaGOn partner universities to spend up to one semester in Heidelberg. The first appointee in the winter semester of 2017-18 will be Prof. Tatsuji Fujihara, an eminent environmental historian based at the Humanities Research Institute (HRI) of Kyoto University.
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