Primate Research Institute (1967~2022) now Inuyama Campus
The Primate research Institute (1967~2022) is now a collection of departments and research centers known as Kyoto University Inuyama Campus (Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior, Wildlife Research Center, Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University Museum), offers graduate programs leading to the M. Sc. and D. Sc. degrees in the field of primatological science through the Division of Biological Sciences of the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University.
Kyoto Univdersity's Inuyama Campus was established in 1967 and has for the past six decades been promoting basic research on primates, including humans. Japan is a special country in terms of the study of nonhuman primates. Unlike all other highly industrialized countries, it has an indigenous species of primate, called the Japanese monkey or Snow monkey. The birth of Primatology in Japan dates back to 1948. Click here to listen to former director Dr. Tetsuro Matsuzawa discuss the history of Japanese primatology and the origins of Inuyama Campus.
Inuyama Campus aims to understand the Order Primates from a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of ecology, sociology, behavior, cognition, brain sciences, physiology, genetics, genomics, biomedicine, morphology, paleontology, and other aspects of living and fossil species, to ultimately elucidate the origin and evolution of human nature. Inuyama Campus has been contributing to the education of graduate students under the Division of Biological Sciences in the Graduate School of Science.
In 2009, we founded a new center, CICASP, which aims to facilitate international collaboration and advanced studies in primatology and wildlife science.