In order for Kyushu University to become a truly international research and education center in this remote area of Japan, Fukuoka, we must have world-class research capabilities and a diversity education system with research backbone. Especially, we deeply need the human resources to achieve that. The mission of the Institute for Advanced Studies is to become an incubator that raises such human resources under the name of “Kyushu University Renaissance Project”, and to present the concept with high ideals in a long span for the research and education scenes that are likely to fall into a short-sighted perspective.

While I was performing my duties at the university headquarters, I continued to seek such a high-ranking ideal function from the Institute for Advanced Studies, but I did not expect myself to be a member of the Institute as a University Professor. I would like to approach the ideal function step by step while asking myself whether I am enough to be a member of the Institute for Advanced Study.