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The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) is a joint research center attached to the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. It conducts research activities in Asia and Africa under the following three missions.

  • Conducting collaborative research projects
  • Processing, editing, and disseminating data on the languages and cultures of Asia and Africa
  • Training junior scholars through joint research, workshops, and seminars

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Chicken Mohinga

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Call for Applications（Japanese）: 26th Middle East and Islamic Studies Seminar (AY2025)

Events

Symposium of the 3rd Division of the Council for Research Institutes and Centers of Japanese National Universities 2025 How to live in diversity? Realities of areas observed from multiple angles

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Message from Retiring ILCAA Staff : NISHII, Ryoko

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2025.09.24News

Apology for the falsification of our websites

2025.09.08News

Notice: Temporary Access Issues with Certain Linked Pages (aa-ken.jp)

2025.09.01Essays

Monthly Photos Sep 2025 : Chicken Mohinga

2025.08.27Media Appearances

Field activities of Taichi KURONUMA, Assistant Professor at ILCAA, were introduced on the X account of the OmanTV.

2025.08.01Essays

Monthly Photos Aug 2025 : Afternoon in Chapchal

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Events

  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/10/25(Sat) 14:00-18:00 Venue:304 : Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA

TCP (Tokyo Circle of Phonologists) October Meeting

  • Public Lectures
  • Joint Research Projects
  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/10/25(Sat) 15:30-18:00 Venue:Campus Plaza Kyoto

Public book review seminar “The Aid That Hurts: How Inequality Breeds Scams, Conspiracy, and the Struggle for Dignity” (by Yuka Tomomatsu, Iwanami Shoten, 2025)

  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/10/18(Sat) 15:00-17:00 Venue:405 : Commons Lab., ILCAA

Screening of "OUR CO-BLIND - An Ethnography of Care among Visually Impaired Communities in Baguio"

  • TUFiSCo
  • Exhibition

Date:2025/10/12(Sun) ~ 10/13(Mon) 12:00-19:00
2025/10/17(Fri) ~ 10/19(Sun) 12:00-19:00 Venue:101 : Exhibition Room, ILCAA

Doing Fieldwork through an Exhibition: A Case from Philippines 2025

  • Public Lectures
  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/10/04(Sat) 13:30-16:30 Venue:303 : Large Conference Room, ILCAA / Online meeting

Symposium of the 3rd Division of the Council for Research Institutes and Centers of Japanese National Universities 2025 How to live in diversity? Realities of areas observed from multiple angles

  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/10/04(Sat) 14:00-17:00
2025/10/05(Sun) 10:00-18:00 Venue:306 : Multimedia Seminar Room, ILCAA / Online meeting

International Workshop: Unique Scripts and Documents of Tibeto-Burman Languages

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Core Projects

言語学
Describing and documenting language dynamics in Asia and Africa: Toward a deeper understanding of the languages and cultures of people living in Asia and Africa
人類学
Anthropological Explorations into Sociality: Transcultural Situations and Mechanisms of Tolerance/Intolerance
歴史学・地域研究
Field Archiving of "Memory": Understanding the Dynamics of Symbiotic Societies Connected by Islam

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2025.03.31

Intensive Language Course 2024 “Xitsonga” Textbook 1: A grammatical sketch of Xitsonga (S53)Seunghun J. Lee, Madala Crous Hlungwani

2025.03.31

ILCAA Intensive Language Course 2024 “Xitsonga” Textbook 2: Selected vocabulary of Xitsonga (S53)Seunghun J. Lee, Madala Crous Hlungwani

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Research Projects

ILCAA Joint Research Projects, conducted by the staff members of the Institute and external researchers, constitute the core of research activities at ILCAA as an international research center.

Joint Research Group is a new framework launched in 2019 to foster incipient research projects based on new creative ideas.

In order to conduct research on the languages and cultures of Asia and Africa, the staff of ILCAA apply for various external funds, such as Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) and other research grants by private organizations.

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