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• Newly-issued: ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2023: “Georgian” Textbook 2, Georgian-Japanese Small Dictionary. (KOJIMA, Yasuhiro. 31 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2023: “Georgian” Textbook 1, An Introduction to Georgian. (KOJIMA, Yasuhiro. 31 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2023: “Khakas” Textbook 4, Khakas-Japanese-Russian theme-based dictionary. (TAKASHIMA, Naoki 31 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2023: “Khakas” Textbook 3, Khakas-Japanese dictionary. (TAKASHIMA, Naoki. 31 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2023: “Khakas” Textbook 2, Khakas language textbook. (TAKASHIMA, Naoki. 31 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2023: “Khakas” Textbook 1, Khakas grammar. (TAKASHIMA, Naoki. 31 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2023: “Bemba” Textbook 2, Copperbelt Bemba: A collection of phonetic materials on nominal tone patterns. (SHINAGAWA, Daisuke, UENO, Ryota, TAKAHASHI, Tsubasa, TÔYAMA, Toshio, ISHIKAWA, Sakura, YAMAMOTO, Ayaka. 31 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2023: “Bemba” Textbook 1, Copperbelt Bemba: A sketch grammar. (SHINAGAWA, Daisuke. 31 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: Aspects of Turkic Languages II: Information Structure and Knowledge Management. (KOGURA, Norikazu, SATO, Kumiko (eds.) 25 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: Cutting-edge and Future Challenges in GPS and Bio-logging Researches in Zoology and Anthropology. (KAWAI, Kaori, MORIMITSU, Yoshiki (eds.) 15 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: [SCI-120] [MEIS-30] Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍl Allāh Hamadānī Jāmi‘ al-Tawārīkh Compendium of Chronicles Vol. 1 Tārīkh-i Mubārak-i Ghāzānī Dāstān-i Qūbīlai Qā’ān Dāstān-i Tīmūr Qā’ān. (Edited by Masatomo Kawamoto. Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: Thiqa Project News no.03. (Thiqa Project, Office of Organizer. Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: The 7th Open Symposium “Construction of the Face-Body Studies in Transcultural Conditions”. (TOKORO, Ikuya (ed.) 9 Feb 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: Contes créoles de l'océan indien: les Seychelles et la Réunion. (ODA, jun'ichi(ed., trans), ODA, Satoshi (ill.) 31 Dec 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra in Tangut Translation Volume 1.（SOLONIN, Kirill, ARAKAWA, Shintaro. 28 Mar 2024）
  
• Newly-issued: [B407-B523] Kachin Folktale. (KURABE, Keita (ed. & trans.) 31 Jan 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: NUSA: Linguistic studies of languages in and around Indonesia vol.75 (30 Sep 2023)
• Newly-issued: The Journal of Asian and African Studies, Supplement vol.3 (31 Mar 2024)
• Newly-issued: The Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol.107 (31 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology: Southeast Asia (MINOO, Akihiro, NIMOJIYA, Shu, and YOSHIDA, Yukako (eds.) 25 Mar 2024)
  
• Newly-issued: New Discourse on the Method: Epistemology and Methodology Towards the Evolution of Human Sociality (KAWAI, Kaori, TAKENOSHITA, Yuji, and OMURA, Keiichi (eds.) 5 Dec 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: TTibetan Literature and Filmmaking SERNYA: Extra Issue Featureing Tales of the Corpse. (Hoshi, Izumi, Ebihara Shiho, Iwata Keisuke, Okawa Kensaku, and Miura Junko (eds.) 1 Nov 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: [LSTCA-147] The Dingra Language. (SHINTANI, Tadahiko L.A. 10 Oct 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: The 6th Open Symposium “Construction of the Face-Body Studies in Transcultural Conditions”. (Tokoro, Ikuya (ed.) 15 Sep 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: [LSTCA-146] The Agu Language. (SHINTANI, Tadahiko L.A. 30 Jun 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: Kunshugō to Rekishi Sekai (Titles of Rulers and the Historical World) (Shigakukai series) (SAGAWA, Eiji (ed.) 30 Oct 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: Beyond Modernity: Critical Perspectives on Islam, Tradition and Power (MOUSSA, Mohammed and GOTO, Emi (eds.) 1 Nov 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: Public Lectures on Contemporary Islam (NAGASAWA, Eiji and GOTO, Emi (eds.) 25 Sep 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: Tales of the Corpse: Tibetan Folk Tales. (HOSHI, Izumi (ed. & trans.), KURANISHI (illustration) 15 Sep 2023)
• Newly-issued: Shelf Life: A record of loving, nurturing and suffering for Diwan, an innovative bookshop in Cairo. (Wassef, Nadia, GOTO, Emi (trans.) 18 Jul 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: ‘Akogare’ and the New Women: Gender and Emotions in Modern Asia (YAMAGUCHI, Midori, NAKANO, Yoshiko (eds.) GOTO, Emi, NONAKA, Yo, DELAP, Lucy, LEE, Misook, GAO, Yuan, UNO, Yoko, COX, Pamela. 30 Jun 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: A Companion to Issues and Discussions in Gender History (YAMAGUCHI, Midori, YUGE, Naoko, GOTO, Emi, OSA, Shizue, and ISHIKAWA, Teruko (eds.) 10 Jun 2023)
  
• Newly-issued: Okakura Kakuzo and India: Encounter with Swami Vivekananda and Formation of the View of 'Asian Art History' (TOGAWA, Masahiko, 25 Apr 2023)
  
• Report: “The Origin of "Sharing": Aspects of Coexistence in Humans and Nonhuman Primates” The 3rd meeting (9 Mar 2024)
• Report: “Overcoming divisions and searching for coexistence: Approaches of Islam and Gender Studies” The 1st meeting (6 Apr 2024)
• Report: “Exploration into the Mechanism of Language Change and Variation through the Dialogue between Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, and Quantitative Linguistics” The 16th meeting (29-30 Mar 2024)
• Report: “An Anthropological Study on Spatial Governance and Ethnic Relations: Focusing on Southeast Asia” The 3rd meeting (12 Feb 2024)
• Report: “Research on African Food Cultures: Approaching Their Changing Realities” The 3rd meeting (23-24 Mar 2024)
• Report: “The Mediterranean as a Connecting Sea” The 3rd meeting (16 Mar 2024)
• Report: “Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamism of Debt (2): Plurality, Conflict and Creativity around Human Economics” The 6th meeting (27 Feb 2024)
• Report: “Reconsideration on Death: Anthropological Explorations on the Actuality of life” The 11th meeting (24 feb 2024)
• Report: “Social Transformation and Multipolarization of Muslim Societies in South Asia: Toward an Integrated Understanding of Structural Change and Islamism in Bangladesh” The 10th meeting (6 feb 2024)
• Report: “A new perspective on descriptive linguistics in Africa based on the translingual ecology” The 7th meeting (11 Feb 2024)
• Report: “Construction of Method of Studies on Asian Scripts (3): Construction of the glossary of terms in the studies of script” The 3rd meeting (11 Feb 2024- 12 Feb 2024)
• Report: 「Anthropology of Embodiment (Anthropological Study of Things (4))」 The 4th meeting (10 Feb 2024)
• Report: “Multi-disciplinary Study on the Interactions between Islamism and Socio-cultural Factors in Southeast Asia: From Micro and Macro Perspectives” The 3rd meeting (21 Jan 2024)
• Report: ““Failure” in Field Linguistics” The 1st meeting (15 Oct 2023)
• Report: “Reconsideration of the tonal typology of Japonic languages” The 9th meeting (19 Aug 2023)
• Report: “The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel: Final Status and Emerging Challenges” The 5th meeting (8 Aug 2023)
• Report: “Phonetic typology from cross-linguistic perspectives” The 7th meeting (3 Jun 2023)
• Report: 「Archiving Fieldwork Materials of the Ainu Language: an Interdiciplinary Research (2)」 The 5th meeting (10 Jun 2023)
• Report: “An Interdisciplinary Study on Performing Arts in the Time of COVID-19” The 8th meeting (21 May 2023)
• Report: “A sociolinguistic study of heritage languages and ethnic identities of migrants” The 7th meeting (28 May 2023)
• Report: “Morphology and syntax of Narrative” The 3rd meeting (12 Feb 2023)
• Report: “The Visualization of the History and Historical Space of the Middle East: Sharing Knowledge in the Digital Age” The 4th meeting (22 Mar 2023)
• Report: “Studies in Asian and African Geolinguistics” The 6th meeting (25-26 Mar 2023)
• Report: “Constructing a Theory of Tibetan and Himalayan Pastoral Culture—Based on systematic comparisons of folk vocabulary—” The 10th meeting (26 Mar 2023)
• Report: “Multi-disciplinary Study on the Interactions between Islamism and Socio-cultural Factors in Southeast Asia-Transnational Networks and Local Responses” The 8th meeting (12 Feb 2023)