We all live not only with diseases, aging and disabilities but with various differences. Through these experiences, we create the wisdom and techniques for living. Our Ars Vivendi collects various experiences of people and analyzes their relationships with society. It then envisions the way they may live in the future and presents ways for an ideal society and world.
立命館大学 生存学研究センター
We would like to express our hearty sympathy with people who have been visited by the great East Japan earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. We have been enriching its related page, "The Great East Japan Earthquake" within the website of arsvi.com.
- Bath / Public Bath in Japan and Public Bath Movement in the West
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It is often said that Japanese people like to take a bath and are therefore clean. When and how did this idea come from?
In the Edo period people often read health books teaching to manage body and human body's energy flow. In those books what was emphasized was the energy flow within their...
(published: 2012-05-01 KAWABATA Miki)
- Research Highlights
News & Events
The special issue of the Ars Vivendi Journal has been released as of March 27, 2012.
(published: 2012-03-27)
- Our student, Ms. Kashimi Yoshida received "The 9th Incentive Award of the Japanese Association for Philosophical and Ethical Researches in Medicine."
(published: 2012-01-13)
- We have updated "About Research Supports" for 2011.
(published: 2011-11-17)
- GyeongGi-Do Assistive Technology Research & Assistance Center, Seoul, Korea, in Cooperation
(published: 2011-11-16)
- Cooperation with Prof. Colin Barnes, Center for Disability Studies, University of Leeds, UK
(published: 2011-11-16)
November 9, 2011 The International Program of the Global COE Program Ars Vivendi (Fall 2011)
(published: 2011-11-02)
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GyeongGi-Do Assistive Technology Research & Assistance Center, Seoul, Korea, in CooperationThe Research Center for Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University is now preparing ...
Cooperation with Prof. Colin Barnes, Center for Disability Studies, University of Leeds, UKProf. Barnes and members of the Research Center for Ars Vivendi at Ritsu...
