The Institute’s second mission is to promote the reception of both visiting scholars from abroad and exchange faculty members and to promote international research interchange through lectures and symposia. In December 2012 as the first attempt to implement this mission, the Institute invited 20 researchers from abroad to participate in the Fourth International Forum on the Humanities in East Asia “Crises and Regeneration: Globalism, Disasters and Tradition”. There were two keynote addresses and discussions in four separate sessions. The results of this research can be found in the web journal “WASEDA RILAS JOURNAL”.