The National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) is a research center for ethnology and cultural anthropology.

Credit transfers based on student exchange agreements

The Departments of Regional and Comparative Studies have signed student exchange agreements with four graduate schools in the Kansai region. Under these agreements, credits for these courses can be transferred among the Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies at Kyoto University, the Graduate School of Human Sciences at Osaka University, the Graduate School of Human Sciences (divided in 2007 into the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies and the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment) at Kobe University, and the Graduate School of Anthropology at Kyoto Bunkyo University. This agreement allows graduate students from these institutions to receive credit for courses similar to those at their home institution taught at one of the other institutions.