General Comparative Studies between Asia-Pacific War and Massive Violence Today

这一研究项目旨在促进日本亚太战争学术和当代世界大规模暴力案件的全球学术的发展，主要是通过交流学术双方在大规模暴力的起源、战后/暴力后社会的过渡司法、记忆、康复与和解问题上的成果。研究项目组织了几次国际学者会议，以学术交流为目的。它还强调鼓励该领域的本科生和博士后学者，从而形成了学术网络，有助于进一步发展关于当代世界大规模暴力的起因和后果的全球研究，这一问题在当今世界日益重要。

This research project aims at contributing to the development of both the Japanese scholarship on the Asia-Pacific War and the global scholarship on the cases of massive violence in the contemporary world primarily by exchanging the achievements of both sides of the scholarship on the genesis of massive violence, issues of transitional justice, memory, rehabilitation, and reconciliation in the postwar/post-violence society.The research project have organized several international meetings of scholars for the purpose of scholastic exchange. It also has put emphasis on encouraging graduate as well as post doctoral scholars on the field, thus accomplished the formation of scholastic network contributing to further development of the global research on the issue of genesis and aftermath of massive violence in the contemporary world, which is of increasing importance in the world today.