A Ceramics Summer School was held July 6-14, 2008.

This short-term training program welcomes three members of the faculty and students involved in ceramics education from China (Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University and the China Academy of Art) and South Korea (Seoul National University and Daegu University). The goal is to strengthen cooperation with sister schools in China and South Korea, to achieve further innovations in arts education, and to help create new artistic culture in Asia, as part of a general Asian arts center concept being promoted by Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku as a center of arts education in Asia.

The University's Department of Ceramics also held a large-scale joint international exhibition in January 2008, welcoming faculty members from universities in China and South Korea as well as 12 arts schools in Japan. This summer school program featured a more in-depth exchange program achieved through a smaller format than the joint international exhibition, which enabled an intimate exchange of perspectives among participants on creative techniques and motifs.

In addition, participants gave presentations on the educational philosophies and policies at their own schools, providing an opportunity to promote new recognition and reconsideration of various issues, including the social conditions affecting ceramics in each nation. These presentations also gave a fresh look at arts education from an international perspective, in part through a comparative study of ceramics culture in East Asia, focusing on high-temperature firing techniques.