About Our Institute
Message from the Institute Director/ Principles
April 2025
Kaname Miura
Director, Institute for Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion, Kanazawa University
The Institute for Promotion of Diversity and Inclusion, established in April 2022, is now in its fourth year. In April 2024, the institute was reorganized, and since FY2024 it has been operating under a strengthened framework with four divisions: Division of Work-life Balance and Universal Accessibility (work style reform, environmental improvement), Division of Career Design (support for female researchers, development of the next generation), Division of Promoting Inclusivity (support for people with disabilities, international faculty and staff, international students, LGBTQ+ individuals), Division of Education and Research (promotion of diversity research, program proposals, and training), as well as the Division for the Takaramachi-Tsuruma Campus.
Based on the “Declaration of Diversity Promotion” issued in 2023, Kanazawa University aims to contribute both to the region and to the world. Each member, with diverse attributes and individuality, is encouraged to respect one another, to take pride in their uniqueness, and to fully demonstrate their abilities with high aspirations in study, research, and work, within an environment where fairness is ensured. We will continue to develop more effective measures and further promote a comprehensive diversity environment. We sincerely appreciate your continued understanding and cooperation as we advance these initiatives.
Kanazawa University Diversity Promotion Principles
Kanazawa University aims to realize an environment that allows all its members to make the most of their abilities in their study, research and work with high aspirations on an equitable basis, while respecting differences in age, nationality, disability, gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity and other characteristics. To attain this goal, we will improve our educational, research and working environments and promote activities to raise awareness in these areas.
Through the promotion of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and by operating on the principle of “becoming a research university dedicated to education, while opening its doors to both local and global society”, we will contribute to world peace and sustainable development and help realize an inclusive environment in which all members of the university can respect each other’s attributes and characteristics.
Here, the university establishes the “Kanazawa University Diversity Promotion Principles” and positions them as values shared by all members, who will act in accordance with them.