The Young Researchers International Training Program ‘Multilateral Education and Research Program for a Symbiosis Society in East Asia’ is a project jointly proposed by the Graduate School of Humanities and the Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies at Kobe University. It was selected by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) as a project in its Young Researchers International Training Program (ITP) in 2008. This project will be supported by JSPS for five years.