The Shien or the journal of history is a journal that Association of History in Kyuhu University launched in 1929, and now it is published by School of Letters and Faculty of Humanities, Kyushu University once a year.
This aims to contribute to researches of history by utilizing the characteristics of Kyushu which is a gate of importing foreign cultures from ancient times, and is blessed with the opportunity for researching the contact and relation between western and eastern cultures.