As part of the "Private University Branding Project", the Research Center for Edo-Tokyo Studies has been created at Hosei University. The inauguration of this Center holds great significance for Hosei University.

Our Center has held numerous symposiums and exhibitions to date, published books and presented papers, with all our members striving to make Edo-Tokyo Studies a new brand of Hosei University. And now, the Center is gradually becoming a base for a diverse range of people to connect, interact and create together.

On this occasion I am passed the baton of Center Director from Professor Jinnai Hidenobu. I too was once a student who was captured by Edo-Tokyo Studies. Without forgetting that beginner's feeling, I shall take on the resolution of our first Center Director, "To aim towards a research organization open to region, society, and the world."

This Research Center will bring to light both the hard and soft aspects of the basic structure from which the unique entity that is the city of Tokyo emerged, and investigate the possibility of a city fit for the 21st century that is not modelled on Western cities. We aim towards a research organization that is open to the world, society, and the local area. We greatly look forward to your participation and cooperation.