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Boards and Committees

Administrative and research activities at ILCAA are conducted through and/or monitored by various special boards and committees. All the boards and committees include eminent scholars and specialists from outside the Institute, in order to reflect the opinions of the academic community and to maintain transparency in the operation of ILCAA.

The following are the two boards and six committees:

The role of each board and committee and its members in academic year 2024 are presented below.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board acts as an advisory body to the Director in all matters pertaining to the operations of ILCAA. The Board consists of ILCAA staff and eminent scholars and specialists from other institutions, thus representing the inter-university nature of the Institute.

  • INOSE, Kumie. Professor, Faculty of Letters, Konan University, Kobe
  • IWASHITA, Akihiro Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
  • KOBAYASHI, Masato. Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
  • YONEDA, Nobuko. Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Osaka
  • KITAMOTO, Asanobu. Director, Center for Open Data in the Humanities, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tachikawa
  • HAYAMI, Yoko. Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoko University, Kyoto
  • TANAHASHI, Satoshi. Professor, Division of Human Science, Faculty of Core Research, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo
  • NISHIO, Tetsuo. Professor Emeritus, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
  • YAMAGIWA, Juichi. Director, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto
  • KONDO, Nobuaki. ILCAA
  • SHIOHARA, Asako. ILCAA
  • WATANABE, Honoré. ILCAA
  • OTA, Nobuhiro. ILCAA
  • HOSHI, Izumi. ILCAA
  • KUROKI, Hidemitsu. ILCAA
  • TOKORO, Ikuya. ILCAA

Advisory Committee for Research Collaboration

The committee, composed of both ILCAA staff and outside members, functions to maintain a transparent research collaboration system at the Institute.

  • INOUE, Masaru. Professor, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo
  • KURASAWA, Aiko. Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo
  • SUGIYAMA, Yuko. Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki
  • TANAKA, Masakazu. Vice-president, Professional Institute of International Fashion, Tokyo
  • KATO, Atsuhiko. Professor, Institute of Cultural & Linguistic Studies. Keio University, Tokyo
  • KURODA, Takashi. Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai
  • TSUKAMOTO, Hideki. Professor, College of Foreign Studies, Kansai Gaidai University
  • KONDO, Nobuaki. ILCAA
  • SHIOHARA, Asako. ILCAA
  • WATANABE, Honoré. ILCAA
  • OTA, Nobuhiro. ILCAA
  • HOSHI, Izumi. ILCAA
  • KUROKI, Hidemitsu. ILCAA
  • TOKORO, Ikuya. ILCAA

Committee for Language Training

The committee is responsible for the language and linguistics training hosted by the Institute, such as Intensive Language Courses and Field Linguistics Workshops.

  • CHIDA, Syuntaro. Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto
  • KISHIDA, Fumitaka. Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Osaka
  • KOBAYASHI, Masato. Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
  • KOMORI, Junko. Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Osaka
  • SHINAGAWA, Daisuke. ILCAA
  • ADACHI, Mayumi. ILCAA
  • KAWAI, Kaori. ILCAA
  • KUREBITO, Tokusu. ILCAA
  • SHIINO, Wakana. ILCAA

Committee for Field Science Interdisciplinary Research

  • FUJITA, Koji. Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya
  • EBIHARA, Atsushi. Senior Curator, Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
  • NAGANO, Takanori. Associate Professor, Guraduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University
  • MINESAKI, Hiroko. Associate professor, Faculty of Humanities Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, Seikei University
  • MASUMOTO, Junya Professor, Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University
  • TOGAWA, Masahiko. ILCAA
  • KUREBITO, Tokusu. ILCAA
  • TOKORO, Ikuya. ILCAA
  • NODA, Jin. ILCAA
  • SHIINO, Wakana. ILCAA
  • OGURA, Satoshi. ILCAA
  • KAWAI, Aya. ILCAA

Editorial Committee

The editorial committee advises the director on matters relating to the policy and screening of publications of the Institute.

  • YODA, Sumikazu. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Osaka
  • MORIGUCHI, Tsunekazu. Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka
  • MASUDA, Ken. Associate Professor, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University
  • ISHIKAWA, Noboru. Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto
  • NAGAHARA, Yoko. Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto
  • MIURA, Toru. Professor Emeritus, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo
  • ARAKAWA, Shintaro. ILCAA
  • KAWAI, Kaori. ILCAA
  • NISHII, Ryoko. ILCAA
  • KUROKI, Hidemitsu. ILCAA
  • ISHIKAWA, Hiroki. ILCAA
  • KURABE, Keita. ILCAA
  • KANDA, Yui. ILCAA

Committee for Overseas Research Office

The committee is in charge of discussing important matters pertaining to the Overseas Research Offices.

  • HOSAKA, Shuji. Board Member, Director, JIME center, The Institute of Energy Economics,Japan, Tokyo
  • NAGASAWA, Eiji. Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo
  • OTOSHI, Tetsuya. Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo
  • SAKAI, Keiko. Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law,Politics and Economies, Chiba University, Chiba
  • SUZUKI, Nobutaka. Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
  • KUROKI, Hidemitsu. ILCAA
  • TOKORO, Ikuya. ILCAA
  • GOTO, Emi. ILCAA
  • KAWAI, Aya. ILCAA

International Advisory Committee for the Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES)

The committee is responsible for advising the director on matters pertaining to JaCMES from an international perspective.

  • AZAR, Pierre. Professor, Saint Joseph University
  • DAHER, Massoud. Ex-Professor, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Lebanese University
  • HANAFI, Sari. (Professor, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut)
  • KUROKI, Hidemitsu. ILCAA

International Advisory Board

The committee advises the director on matters relating to the research collaboration system of the Institute from an international perspective.

  • RAWIA, Altaweel. HumanitarianAffairs Manager, UNICEF in Lebanon
  • HUMAYUN, Kabir. Assistant Teaching Professor, Thompson Rivers University
  • YANTI. AssociateProfessor, Atma Jaya Catholic Unviersity of Indonesia
  • PETER, Atekyereza. Professor Makerere University
  • WATANABE, Honoré. ILCAA
  • OTA, Nobuhiro. ILCAA



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