29/06/2023Four researchers from the Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) visited the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer and talked about the future academic exchange between the two institutes.
22/06/2023The Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfers was approved to continue as a Special Institute for Research Promotion (period: 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2028).
02/07/2016An international workshop entitled “Arms Transfer, Regional Conflicts and Refugee Crisis in the Balkans and Middle East (First Session: Arms Transfer and Regional Conflict, Second Session: Migrant Crisis and the Wars)” was held in Academy Common Bldg., Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
31/05/2016The third symposium of the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, entitled “Was the Second World War Inevitable? Revisiting the Interwar Disarmament Conferences”, was held in the Global Hall of the Global Front Building, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
19/01/2016The second symposium of the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, entitled “The Military and Civilian Use of Airplanes and Their International Transfer”, was held in the Global Hall of the Global Front Building, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
17/11/2015The launching symposium of the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, entitled “Arms Control and Military Alliance: Past and Present”, was held in the Global Hall of the Global Front Building, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
17/10/2015During the academic convention at Fukushima University of the Society for Political Economy and Economic History, members of the Meiji University research institute participated in a panel discussion entitled “Religion, Political Economy and the British World under the British Empire”.
30/05/2015In the 84th Annual Conference of the Society for Socio-Economic History at Waseda University, members of the Meiji University research institute participated in a panel discussion entitled “Global Revolutions in Airplane Production in the Interwar Period: From the Perspective of the Relations between Munitions and Private Demand”.
18/06/2015The Meiji University research project entitled “Comprehensive Historical Research on Disarmament, Arms Control, Arms Transfers and Technological Transfers” was selected as the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology’s 2015 ‘Project for the Support of Private Universities Building the Strategic Research Foundation’. Because of this project, the Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer was opened on the ninth floor of the Global Front Building, Meiji University, Surugadai Campus.
03/03/2015Our research project was promoted as one of the research clusters of Meiji University.
01/04/2014Our research project entitled “Historical Studies of Disarmament and Arms Transfer in the Global Perspective” was provided a grant-in-aid for scientific research (A) by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.