About

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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Monthly Photos

Chicken Mohinga

Events

Book Launch: Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature

News

Introducing New Staff Vol.85 : Konomi MURAYAMA (in Japanese)

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Message from Retiring ILCAA Staff : NISHII, Ryoko

Latest News

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

2025.07.01Awarded Prizes

Junior Research Fellow Hitoshi ENDO (ILCAA) was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the 34th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies

2025.07.01Essays

Monthly Photos Jul 2025 : Confluence of the Mali and Nmai Rivers

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Events

  • Joint Research Projects

Date:2025/09/27(Sat) 13:00-17:30
2025/09/28(Sun) 10:00-16:30 Venue:303 : Large Conference Room, ILCAA / Online meeting

“Studies in Afro-Eurasian Geolinguistics”, the 2nd meeting AY2025

  • Public Lectures
  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/09/27(Sat) 13:30-16:15
 Venue:Unoki Hachiman Shrine Office

My/Our Connection to the Historical Experiences of War: Bodies that Fall for a Cause, Bodies that Pray for Life

  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/09/26(Fri) 15:30-17:00
 Venue:Hongo Satellite 3F Seminar Room / Online meeting

Lecture by Dr. Sacha Alsancakli, “Gender and Power in a Turco-Persianate Epic Romance: An Exploration of the Agency and Representation of Warrior Princess Characters in the Muḥammad Ḥanafiyya Cycle”

  • IRC
  • TUFiSCo
  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/09/24(Wed) 14:00-16:00
 Venue:304 : Multimedia Conference Room, ILCAA

Information Resources Center (IRC) Workshop; Field linguistics workshop: Technical workshop“Let’s use regular expressions!”

  • Public Lectures
  • Educational Traning

Date:2025/09/19(Fri) 13:10-14:10
 Venue:306 : Multimedia Seminar Room, ILCAA

Intensive Language Courses 2025 Tok Pisin lecture ④

  • Public Lectures
  • Educational Traning

Date:2025/09/17(Wed) 13:10-14:10
 Venue:306 : Multimedia Seminar Room, ILCAA

Intensive Language Courses 2025 Tok Pisin lecture ➂

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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

Pickup Publications

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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