The Université de Kagoshima is one of Japan's leading comprehensive universities, with 9 faculties and 9 colleges. It houses the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering.

Located in the south of Japan, in the centre of an area comprising twenty-three industrial sites listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites, Kagoshima University offers its expertise in environmental matters, its speciality being the management of industrial heritage in relation to the land, nature and natural disasters in a wide area of the archipelago ranging from temperate to subtropical zones.

Master's course theme: "Asset management in a glocal approach".