The Center for Cultural Research and Studies (CCRS) offers abroad- based educational and research program, in the humanities, social sciences, physical education and education course. Through this program, the Center is working to achieve the university's goals of internationalization, human development, and the promotion of regional industry, education, and culture.

The Center is composed of scholar-teachers in the following disciplines: literature, jurisprudence, sociology,history of science, education, psychology and physical education. In addition to offering courses in their disciplines, Center members have invited students to participate in field work and have involved students in special research projects. Students are welcome to use a growing collection of books and videotapes that the Center is developing. Programs to investigate the use of computers in the humanities, the social science disciplines and physical education are now underway at the university and will welcome student participation.

Computer science, the basic field of study at the University of Aizu, cannot develop properly without proper attention to basic issues of ethics and human development. These issues are complex and are best explored through a variety of disciplines, several of which are represented at the Center. The Center blends these varieties to extend the frontiers of knowledge. Through the Center's program, the University of Aizu can prepare both researchers and students for work that benefits society as a whole, in Japan and internationally. This is a unique feature of this Center. The Center publishes its own “Annual Review”.

Each of the faculty members in this Center has his/her own discipline and subject for studying and teaching.

• Professor Koichi Ota has made a study of educational thought in western countries. He teaches subjects of education course such as introduction to education and so on. His research concerns the educational thought of J. A. Comenius.

• Professor Koji Gotoh has studied modern Japanese literature and lectures on literature. His present research subject is Kunikida Doppo and other authors of those days. In addition to that, he is now a course leader of “Japanese Writing”.

• Professor Noriyuki Kikuchi researches psychology for adolescents and teaches educational psychology and so on. His research theme is “Career choice in the adolescence”. An attitude survey on students' decision of career is underway.

• Professor Koichi Hasegawa studies Kendo history and teaches physical education and physical training. His research theme is “The systematization and construction of Kendo techniques”. He has been coaching Kendo in Germany and Italy in recent years.

• Professor Masaya Seino is interested in intellectual property rights. Before coming to this university he has been engaged in legislative work at the Secretariat of the House of Councillors since April, 1983. His main subjects are Law, the Constitution of Japan and Ethics in information society.

• Professor Ken Nakazawa researches exercise psychology and teaches physical education and physical training. His research theme is “Assessing the stages of change for exercise behavior among preadolescents, adolescents, middle-aged adults, and older adults in Aizuwakamatsu City”.

• Professor Shigeyuki Aoki who has joined in the University of Aizu from September 2009, researches the History of Science in Europe, especially in 18th England. His research theme is very attractive for the students who concentrate on the Computer Science. He has “Logic” class as well as “History of Science”.