Education has long played an important role in expanding people’s minds beyond the places and spaces into which they were born and raised. This includes from the home to the classroom, and from there to trips to local museums, places of interest and beyond. For many, this intellectual curiosity leads students, teachers and academics to travel, study and work abroad, and in doing so, they forge important personal and professional relationships between their home countries and those abroad.
However, as travelling beyond borders of discipline can have its risks, collaborating and colluding across cultural and international borders has its own, not least in times of global unrest. This interview with Japanese diplomat and legal scholar, Tomoaki Ishigaki, Minister at the Japanese embassy, will look at some of the challenges and opportunities faced in international education, research and innovation, drawing on his international experience and knowledge, with a particular focus on Japan and the United States.
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