The increase in the internationalization of universities has been accompanied by an
increase in multiculturalism in classrooms. Due to this situation, with the objective
of knowing the conceptions of university professors around pluricultural
competence and attending to the connection with their positioning in relation to the
models of cosmopolitan citizenship; a mixed research is developed in the
Hispanic-Japanese context of higher education, focusing attention on education and
social sciences professors. In general, it is concluded that there are connections
between the positioning of multiculturalism and cosmopolitan citizenship. Thus, the
university professors of both countries highlight the advantages of cultural plurality
in educational environments and, despite the fact that there is governmental support
for academic internationalization, in the sample of Japanese professors, there is a
greater concern about the preservation of national identity in cultural plurality.