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Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU (ILCAA) won the 19th International Institute for the Study of Religions Award from the International Institute for the Study of Religions.
Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU won the 19th International Institute for Religious Studies Award for her publication, Demons of the Gulf of Guinea: Ethnography of Affect and Possession in Christian New Religions (written in Japanese, the Japanese title is『ギニア湾の悪魔―キリスト教系新宗教をめぐる情動と憑依の民族誌』 published by Sekaishisosha in January 2023), received the 19th International Institute for Religious Studies Award. This prize is awarded to a publication or doctoral dissertation of outstanding “modernity,” “internationality,” and “substantiation,” with the aim of promoting the study of religion based on contemporary issues and contributing to the development of young scholars.
The award ceremony took place at the 70th Anniversary Symposium of the International Institute for Religious Studies, held at the University of Tokyo on February 17, 2024. For the reasons for the award, please see the website of International Institute for Religious Studies. (Only available in Japanese)
Research activities of Taichi KURONUMA, Assistant Professor at ILCAA, were introduced on the official X account of the Ministry of Heritage and Tourism, Sultanate of Oman.
Research activities of Yui KANDA, Project Assistant Professor at ILCAA, were introduced on the Persian websites in Iran.
Professor Shintaro ARAKAWA, Mr. Kaito OSAWA and Ms. Xicheng YANG won the award of New York Type Directors Club 69.
Under the direction of Professor Shintaro ARAKAWA, a Tangut font named AraTangut, designed by Kaito OSAWA, a typeface designer, and Xicheng YANG, PhD candidate at the University of Reading, UK, received an award at New York TDC 69 (Type Directors Club) on April 26th, 2023. This accolade is granted to creators who make significant contributions to Typography.
An interview with Associate Professor Yukako YOSHIDA was featured on NHK World Japan
NHK World Japan (radio) introduced the activities in Japan of Mr. Ciaaattt, a Balinese entertainer invited by Associate Professor Yukako Yoshida, in the Indonesian language program "Halo dari Tokyo". The article featured a workshop on kecak and voice gamelan as well as the performance & mini-lecture "Let's Enjoy Balinese Music and Musical Drama” held at TUFS. Interviews with Mr. Ciaaattt and with Dr. Yoshida are also included.
For details, please see here. You can listen to the program until around December 24, 2023.
Research Fellow Shiho Ebihara (ILCAA) was awarded the 2023 Hiratsuka Raiteu Prize.
Research Fellow Shiho EBIHARA (ILCAA) was awarded the 2023 Hiratsuka Raiteu Prize (Special), for her publication and introduction of Tibetan women's poetry and the study on its historical development. The award ceremony was held at Japan Women's University on December 9, 2023.
For details, please see here (only available in Japanese).
A video of Prof. Hidemitsu KUROKI’s lecture on the Ukraine War was released.
A video of the lecture given by Professor Hidemitsu KUROKI at the UBRJ/EES Seminar "The Ukraine War from the Perspective of the Middle East" hosted by the East Eurasian Studies at the Slavic Eurasian Research Centre, Hokkaido University on October 24th, 2023 is now available. The lecture of Prof. KUROKI is available via this link here (YouTube). (Sorry, this video is only available in Japanese)
Dr. Ryo MIZUKAMI (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 45th (2023) Award for Young Researchers from the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan
Dr. Ryo MIZUKAMI (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 45th (2023) Award for Young Researchers from the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan. This award aimed to encourage younger researchers and promote their research in the field of Oriental Studies in Japan. His article, published in Orient vol.58 (2023), “Interconfessional Dialogue on Faḍāʾil of the Twelve Imams: Rethinking the Confessional Boundary between Sunnism and Shiʿism in Medieval and Early Modern” was the reason for this award. The award ceremony was held on October 28, 2023, at Osaka University. For details, please see here. (Only available in Japanese)
Research Fellow Shiho Ebihara (ILCAA) was awarded the 2023 Special Translation Award from Japan Society of Translators (JST).
Dr. Shiho Ebihara (ILCAA Research Fellow) was awarded the 2023 Special Translation Award from the Japan Society of Translators (JST), for her publication, Tibetan Women’s Poetry Anthology (Edited and translated by Shiho Ebihara, Dandansha publisher, 2023) . The awarding ceremony will be held at GakushiKaikan on October 26th, 2023. For details, please see here (only available in Japanese text).
An ILCAA's publication has been featured on the website of an academic publisher in Iran.
The website of Miras-e Maktub, a prestigious academic publisher in Iran, introduces Mohammad Ja'far Jonabadi, Imperial Astronomical Calendar of Iran during the Safavid Era, edited by Mansur Sefatgol (Studia Culturae Islamicae 117), published by ILCAA in 2022.
The Islamic Encyclopedia Centre (October 2nd, 2023), Iran Book News website also introduce it in detail.
Ex-Director Setsuho IKEHATA passed away
Ex-Director Setsuho IKEHATA (Professor Emeritus, TUFS) passed away on September 20th, 2023. She was one of the pioneers of Southeast Asian history and Philippine studies in Japan. After her directorship (1995-1997), she served as the president of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies from 2001 to 2007. In recalling the deceased’s achievements, we express our deepest condolences.
Director of the ILCAA, Nobuaki KONDO
An article about the international workshop organized by Professor Ikuya TOKORO has been published in the Manila Shimbun.
An article regarding the international workshop co-organized by Professor Ikuya TOKORO in collaboration with the University of the Philippines' Asian Studies Center was published in the Manila Shimbun on September 14, 2023.
Assistant Professor Taichi KURONUMA was awarded with the 5th Kawamata Memorial Research Encouragement Award from the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology.
Assistant Professor Taichi KURONUMA was awarded the 5th Kawamata Memorial Research Encouragement Award from The Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology.
The purpose of this award is to award the research about the archaeology and relevant studies concerning the West Asia including Egypt and neighbouring regions. The award recipient is selected from the author of a paper in the Journal of West Asian Archaeology and/or of an oral or poster paper in the Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology in the fiscal year before the award granted. In this year, the paper titled ‘Regional Differences in Mortuary Practices during the Wādī Sūq Period in Southeast Arabia: Tomb Morphology and Geographical Conditions in the First Half of the Second Millennium BCE’ was awarded. The award ceremony was held at the 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for West Asian Archaeology on June 25, 2023, in Hakuho University.
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Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU won the 18th Encouragement Award of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology from the Japanese Society for Cultural Anthropology
Assistant Professor Ran MURATSU (ILCAA) won the 18th Encouragement Award of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology from the Japanese Society for Cultural Anthropology (JASCA) for her paper “Demons Listen Too: Imagination and Affect in Spirit Possessions at a Pentecostal-Charismatic Church in Southern Benin” published in Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology Vol.86(4), 2022.
The Encouragement Award of The Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology is given to outstanding research papers by young researchers from among the papers in Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology and/or Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology published during the previous fiscal year.
The award ceremony took place on June 4, 2023, at the 57th Annual Conference of JASCA held at the Prefectural University of Hiroshima.
For details, please see here. (Only available in Japanese)
Dr. Yohei KONDO (the former Research Associate at ILCAA/Associate Professor at the Fukuoka Women’s University) won the 9th Encouragement Award of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies.
Dr. Yohei KONDO (the former Research Associate at ILCAA/Associate Professor at the Fukuoka Women’s University) won the 9th Encouragement Award of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies for his paper “Survival Strategies of Religious Minority Groups in Oman” published in Yohei Kondo (ed.), Survival Strategies of Minorities in the Middle East: Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies (Fuchu: ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2021). This book is published as the result of the ILCAA Joint Research Project (held at JaCMES) “Studies on Religious and Politico-Social Minority Groups in Middle Eastern Societies (jrp000227).”
The award ceremony was held at the 39th Meeting of the Japan Association for Middle East Studies at Tsukuba University on May 13th, 2023.
Dr. Yuko URABE (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 2022 Best Paper Award from the Society for Japanese Linguistics.
Dr. Yuko URABE (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 2022 Best Paper Award from the Society for Japanese Linguistics for her paper “A Cross-Dialectal Study of Reduplicated Adjectives in the Ryukyuan Languages: Special Focus on Attributive and Predicative Functions” published in Studies in the Japanese Language Vol.18(1), 2022. The Best Paper Award of the Society for Japanese Linguistics is given to outstanding research papers by young researchers from among the papers in Studies in the Japanese Language published during the current fiscal year. For details, please see here. (Only available in Japanese)
An interview with Associate Professor Wakana SHIINO was published in the Asahi Shimbun.
An interview with Associate Professor Wakana SHIINO was published in the Asahi Shimbun Digital on April 3, 2023.
Asahi Shimbun (only available in Japanese text) (for paid members)
Dr. Emiko OGAWA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 16th SUMISEI Encouragement Award for Women Researchers
Dr. Emiko OGAWA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 16th SUMISEI Encouragement Award for Women Researchers. This award is given to female researchers who are making an effort to balance childcare with research activities in the humanities and social sciences. For details, please see here(only available in Japanese text).
A video of the 17th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture was released.
A video of online lectures of the 17th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture, where Associate Professor Keita KURABE gave a presentation, was released. This event, organized by the Union of four universities in Tokyo consisting of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Hitotsubashi University, was held on October 29th, 2022.
The lecture of Prof. KURABE is available via this link here.
Assistant Professor Mayumi ADACHI won the Shinmura Izuru Research Encouragement Prize FY2022
Assistant Professor Mayumi ADACHI (ILCAA) won the Shinmura Izuru Research Encouragement Prize FY 2022 for her research on spatial and discourse deixis in Vietnamese, and sociolinguistic study of the Vietnamese community in Japan.
This prize is awarded for promising research in general linguistics, Japanese linguistics, and related fields. The award ceremony is scheduled at Kyoto Garden Palace on November 23, 2022. For details, please see here (only available in Japanese text).
An interview with Associate Professor Keita KURABE was published in the Asahi Shimbun.
An interview with Associate Professor Keita KURABE was published in the Asahi Shimbun Digital on September 22, 2022. An article on the same subject was also published in the morning edition of Asahi Shimbun on September 22, 2022.
Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese)(for paid members)Guide to ILCAA 2022–2023 has been published.
Guide to ILCAA 2022–2023 has been published.
Click here for the PDF version.
The presentation by Prof. Izumi HOSHI and others was selected as one of the best presentations recommended by the chairperson at the 1st Digital Archive Forum of the Japan Society for Digital Archive.
The presentation by Prof., Ph.D. Izumi HOSHI (ILCAA) and others was selected as one of the best presentations recommended by the chairperson at the 1st Digital Archive Forum of the Japan Society for Digital Archive for their presentation “Constructing a Database for the Study of Tibeto-Himalayan Pastoral and Agricultural Resources”. The review appears in Volume 6, Issue 2 of the Journal of the Japan Society for Digital Archive.
Fieldnet's Website Has Been Renewed
Fieldnet is a network of researchers who conduct fieldwork in Japan and abroad within different disciplines. It provides opportunities to exchange knowledge and share research information. Young researchers are also part of this network, which can be used as a platform to obtain a variety of information on fieldwork and to find research colleagues.
For details, please see the following website:
https://fieldnet-aa.jp/
Associate Prof. Hiroki ISHIKAWA won the Best Presentation Award at the 31th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies.
Associate Prof., Ph.D. Hiroki ISHIKAWA (ILCAA) won the Best Presentation Award at the 31th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies for his presentation “Side Dishes in Northern Ethiopia during the 16th and 19th Centuries” with the other two presentations.
A video of a lecture by Assistant Professor Wakako KUMAKURA is now available on the 'SUGUWAKA Academia' developed by the Council of Joint Usage/Research Centers in National Universities
You got it! “What is “Waqf”?”, a video of a lecture by Assistant Professor Wakako KUMAKURA is now available on the 'SUGUWAKA Academia' developed by the Council of Joint Usage/Research Centers in National Universities. This programme brings the cutting edge of academia to the public and students, with each of the Joint-usage/ research Institutes located at national universities across Japan.
The lecture of Prof. KUMAKURA is available via this link here.
A video of the 16th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture was released.
A video of online lectures of the 16th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture, where Associate Professor Yukako YOSHIDA gave a presentation, was released. This event, organized by the Union of four universities in Tokyo consisting of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Hitotsubashi University, was held in November 6th, 2021.
The lecture of Prof. YOSHIDA is available via this link here.
Professor Norihiro Naganawa received the 18th Japan Academy Medal.
Professor Norihiro NAGANAWA (ILCAA, Slavic Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University) was awarded the 18th Japan Academy Medal.
The following research achievements were awarded:
Prof. NAGANAWA: Explorations in Entanglements of Russia's Empire and the Muslim World
The Japan Academy Medal was established in 2004 as the most prestigious academic award with the aim of honouring young researchers and encouraging their future research. Please see the link for the reasons for the Medal.
“Mirai Book – Gakumon-Daigaku Navi” has published a page introducing Associate Professor Hiroki ISHIKAWAʼs research.
A page introducing Associate Professor Hiroki ISHIKAWAʼs research has been published in the section “Letʼs Change the World through Research like This – A Visit to a Laboratory” of “Mirai Book – Gakumon-Daigaku Navi.” “Mirai Book” is a website developed by the Cabinet Office and Kawaijuku as part of a project of the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation. The site is designed to help the general public, including junior and senior high school students, understand what kind of research is being conducted in each academic field, how it is connected to society, and how it attempts to change society.
Assistant Professor Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA) and Professor Norihiro NAGANAWA (ILCAA, Slavic Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University) were awarded the 18th Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Prize.
The following research achievements were awarded:
Prof. KUMAKURA: Nile Irrigation and Land System in the Transition Period from Medieval to Early Modern Egypt
Prof. NAGANAWA: Explorations in Entanglements of Russia's Empire and the Muslim World
The JSPS Prize was established by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) with the aim of honouring young researchers with creativity and outstanding research ability from an early stage, motivating them to conduct research, and supporting the development of their research in order to develop the level of academic research in Japan at the top level of the world.
The award ceremony is scheduled to take place at the Japan Academy on Feb. 3, 2022.
An interview with Professor Izumi Hoshi appeared in the Asahi Shimbun.
An interview with Prof. Izumi HOSHI appeared in the Asahi Shimbun "Gogaku no Tobira (Door to Foreign Languages)" on December 5, 2021. The same article was also published in the morning edition of Asahi Shimbun on December 15, 2021.
Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese) (for paid members)Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese)
News about the cross-appointment agreement between ILCAA, TUFS and SRC, Hokkaido University was reported on STV.
ILCAA has concluded an agreement on cross-appointment with the Slavic Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University. Based on this agreement, Sapporo Television Broadcasting (STV) reported the appointment of Professor Hidemitsu KUROKI (ILCAA) to SRC.
Please click the link here to see the report. (Sorry, the news was reported only in Japanese)
Professor Emeritus Junzo KAWADA received the Order of Culture.
Ex-ILCAA staff Junzo KAWADA, professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies received the Order of Culture. The order is awarded for contributions to Japan's art, literature, science, technology, or anything related to culture in general.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude for the achievements of many years.
ILCAA signed an agreement on cross-appointment with Slavic Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, and Professor N. NAGANAWA became a stuff of ILCAA.
ILCAA has concluded an agreement on cross-appointment with the Slavic Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University. “Cross-appointment” is a system whereby a researcher or other person signs an employment contract with more than one organization, such as a university, and engages in research, education, or other work at each organization.
From October 1, 2021, Professor Hidemitsu KUROKI at ILCAA and Professor Nobuhiro NAGANAWA at SRC (Islam in the Former Soviet Union, Modern Russian History) have become cross-appointed faculty members and conduct education and research activities at both universities. Professor KUROKI will be a member of both universities.
Professor KUROKI specializes in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and is expected to contribute to Islamic studies in the Slavic Eurasian region and to analyze international politics by linking the Middle East and Russia from a new perspective. Professor NAGANAWA is also expected to contribute to the field of Islamic studies at ILCAA by adding knowledge on Slavic Eurasian studies.
For Professor NAGANAWA’s profile, please see the link here.
Associate Prof. Shintaro ARAKAWA appeared on the TV program by TOKYO MX.
Associate Professor Shintaro Arakawa appeared TOKYO MX TV program “Goji ni muchu!” broadcast on October 14, 2021. In the program (the section titled “Tsuiseki! (Research!)”), he talked about Tangut script with some flip boards on which he wrote samples by hand.
Flip used in the program.
It is a translation of “Goji ni muchu! (Title of the program)”.
Assistant Professor Wakako KUMAKURA won the Herend Prize of the Collegium Mediterranistarum in 2020.
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Wakako KUMAKURA (ILCAA) won the Herend Prize, the 2020AY Award from the Collegium Mediterranistarum for her publication, Nile Irrigation and the Land System in Medieval Egypt (written in Japanese, 2019, University of Tokyo Press). The Herend Prize is awarded for outstanding works and research on Mediterranean cultural studies.
Dr. Seitaro NAMBA (IDE-JETRO/ex-ILCAA Junior Research Fellow)’s doctoral dissertation was selected for the commendation of the 20th Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize).
Dr. Seitaro NAMBA (Researcher at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)/ex-ILCAA Junior Research Fellow)’s doctoral dissertation was selected for the commendation of the 20th Asia Pacific Research Prize (Iue Prize). His doctoral dissertation, “The Conflict between Socialism and Neutralism in Laos: The Liberated Zone's Plurality in the Most Peripheral Area of the Socialist Camp during the Détente Era (1945-1975)”, was submitted to the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in October 2020 (Prof. Hirohide KURIHARA at ILCAA was his supervisor). This prize rewards outstanding dissertations written in the field of humanities or social sciences about the Asia Pacific region.
Dr. Susumu SATO (ILCAA Research Associate) won the 2021 Best Paper Award of the Japan Society for Urbanology.
Dr. Susumu SATO (ILCAA Research Associate) won the 2021 Best Paper Award of the Japan Society for Urbanology by his paper “Spatial Structure of Completed Fertility in Metropolitan Suburb: A Case Study of Kawasaki City”. This award is presented to authors under the age of 39 who have made an outstanding contribution to the progress and development of urban research in the academic journals published by the Annual Report of the Japan Society for Urbanology and regional society for urbanology (Hokkaido Society for Urbanology, Tohoku Society for Urbanology, Kanto Society for Urbanology, Chubu Society for Urbanology Kinki Society for Urbanology, Chushikoku Society for Urbanology, Kyushu Society for Urbanology) in 2019. The awarding ceremony will be held on October 23, 2021 at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Urbanology (online).
The website “ILCAA Online Resources Catalogue” opened.
This site provides a database of online resources that are developed by Information Resource Center (IRC) Projects, Joint Research Projects, and KAKENHI projects. You can search resources by any keyword, region, type of resource, and so on.
ILCAA Intensive Language Course ONLINE
This is a web-based language learning material based on the textbooks used in the four of ILCAA Intensive Language Courses in the past: Akan, Jinghpaw, Balinese, and Mongolian. Sections of pronunciation, greetings, and conversations included in each section are displayed with the sound. (PDF files of the textbooks are also available on the website.)
ILCAA Intensive Language Course ONLINE
Dr. Reiko OTSUBO (ILCAA Research Fellow) and Professor Emeritus Jun’ichi ODA (ILCAA Research Fellow) won the JSAI Incentive Award of 2020AY.
Dr. Reiko OTSUBO (ILCAA Research Fellow) and Professor Emeritus Jun’ichi ODA (ILCAA Research Fellow) won the 2020AY Incentive Award of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence by their paper, “Ontology Construction for Khat (Catha edulis).” The awarding ceremony will be held on June 21st, 2021 at the Tokyo Waterfront, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).
Dr. Yui KANDA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 27th Grand Prize of the Kajima Foundation for the Arts
Dr. Yui KANDA (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA) won the 27th Grand Prize of the Kajima Foundation for the Arts by her paper, “A Newly-found Candlestick endowed to the Mausoleum of Imam Musa al-Kazim, Kazimayn. The prize is the most authoritative in the field of art studies in Japan. The awarding ceremony will be held on May 20, 2021.
Associate Prof. Hiroki ISHIKAWA won the Best Presentation Award at the 30th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies
Associate Prof., Ph.D. Hiroki ISHIKAWA (ILCAA) won the Best Presentation Award at the 30th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Nilo-Ethiopian Studies for his presentation “On the Change of Importance of Teff in Northern Ethiopia during the 16th and 18th Centuries.”
A video of the 15th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture was released.
A video of online lectures of the 15th Tokyo-4Univ. Lecture, where Prof. Yoichi TAKAMATSU gave a presentation, was released. This event, organized by the Union of four universities in Tokyo consisting of Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and Hitotsubashi University, was held in October 11, 2020.
The lecture of Prof. TAKAMATSU is available via this link here.
Prof. Izumi HOSHI appeared on the radio program by TBS.
Professor Izumi HOSHI remotely attended TBS radio program "After 6 Junction” （https://www.tbsradio.jp/a6j/） broadcast on March 2, 2021. In the program, she talked about the present of Tibetan literature, focusing on the book “White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings: A Tibetan Tale of Love and War” (Tsewang Yishey Pemba, Translated in Japanese by Izumi Hoshi, 2020, ILCAA/Shoshikankanbou), published as an outcome of ILCAA Core Research Project Linguistic Dynamics Science 3 (LingDy3).
The past programs can be heard on the application “TBS Radio Cloud”.
The book “White Crane, Lend Me Your Wings: A Tibetan Tale of Love and War” are is introduced through various media. Please check this linked page.
Publication of an article associated with our past exhibition “Mask Migrations” held in 2020
An article on mask cultures of Middle Eastern women associated with our exhibition “Mask Migrations: Untold Stories of Women in the Arabian-Persian Gulf” (held in September–October 2020) was published with the title of “‘Mustache-shaped’ mask is a sign of being a lady — world of Middle Eastern women covered with veil” as one of feature articles “The world changing with masks” in the February 2021 issue of “GLOBE+” of Asahi Shimbun. The published article includes the photographs of Manami GOTO (JSPS Research Fellow/ILCAA), who participated in the planning and management of the exhibition.
The feature articles in the February 2021 issue of “GLOBE+” of Asahi Shimbun are reedited and available via the following links:
Mustache-shaped mask means “I’m married, stay away from me” — interview with Middle Eastern women on “covering their faces”Women continue to put masks even though it is said to be “outdated” — the profound world of mask culture in the Middle East
A video of Associate Professor Hiroki ISHIKAWA introducing his research to high school students was released.
A video of the presentation “Thinking about the World in Terms of African History”, made by Associate Professor Hiroki ISHIKAWA at the request of Kawai-juku, is now showing. This presentation, made as one of the activities relating to our past Core Project “Pluralistic World Understanding based on African Studies” completed in 2015, was made for the event “For Learning about Attractive Features of Advanced Research — Super Presentation by Advanced Researchers” organized by Kawai-juku Mirai-Bu-Plus at Tama Senior High School, Kanagawa, on November 27th, 2018. The video is currently introduced as one of the video series “Make a Trip to the Academic World” , in the special project “Beyond Coronavirus — Emergency Cheering Project for Junior and Senior High School Students” produced by Mirai-Bu-Plus.
The presentation by Associate Prof. Ishikawa is available viathe following link.
Junior Research Fellow Shinya UEDA (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Southeast Asian Historical Studies in 2020
Junior Research Fellow Shinya UEDA (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Southeast Asian Historical Studies by the Japan Society for Southeast Asian Studies on December 19th, 2020 for his publication, Politics and society in late premodern Vietnam (written in Japanese, 2019, Osaka University Press)
JSPS Research Fellow Mami GOTO (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Poster Presentation Awards for young researchers by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Construction of the Face-Body studies in transcultural conditions”
JSPS Research Fellow Mami GOTO (ILCAA) was awarded the Prize of Poster Presentation Awards for young researchers by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Construction of the Face-Body studies in transcultural conditions” by her presentation, “Generational Changes in the Traditional Dress of Qatari Women”
JSPS Research Fellow Akiko YOKOYAMA (ILCAA) was awarded 2020 Seizen Nakasone Research Encouragement Award
JSPS Research Fellow Akiko YOKOYAMA (ILCAA) was awarded 2020 Seizen Nakasone Research Encouragement Award by the Okinawa Center of Language Study on October 3rd, 2020.
Prof. Nobuaki KONDO has been selected as the winner of the foreign section in the 11th Farabi International Award for Humanities and Islamic Studies
Prof. Nobuaki KONDO (ILCAA) has been selected as the winner of the foreign section in the 11th Farabi International Award for Humanities and Islamic Studies which is affiliated to the ministry of Science, Research and Technology in Iran. The main subject of the Award is to recognize and introduce top research works in the humanities and Islamic studies. The online ceremony has been held on Monday, August 17.
On October 13, the awarding ceremony for Prof. Nobuaki KONDO, a winner of the 11th Farabi International Award for Humanities and Islamic Studies was held at the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Japan. TUFS News (in Japanese)
Assistant Prof. Wakako Kumakura won the Toryusho, one of the 2020AY JCAS Awards.
Assistant Prof., Ph.D Wakako Kumakura (ILCAA) won the Toryusho, one of the 2020AY Awards from the Japan Consortium for Area Studies (JCAS Awards) for her publication, Nile Irrigation and the Land System in Medieval Egypt (written in Japanese, 2019, University of Tokyo Press).
JCAS Awards aims to recognize outstanding study in the area studies. The Toryusho, one of the JCAS Awards is awarded to young outstanding researchers.
Final Edition: Questionnaire Results on COVID-19 and KAKENHI (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research)
Refer to the site here (the Overseas Scientific Research Coordination Team (OSC)).Prof. Atsushi Yamada (ILCAA Joint Researcher) was awarded the 2019AY special award of Hokkaido Ethnological Society for the descriptive study of Parauk Wa, especially for Parauk Wa published from ILCAA.
Prof. Atsushi Yamada (ILCAA Joint Researcher, Japan Health Care College) was awarded the 2019AY special award of Hokkaido Ethnological Society for his descriptive study of Parauk Wa in the Yunnan Province (China) especially including Parauk Wa published in 2020. The book Parauk Wa is the second volume of the series “Descriptive Grammars”, published first from ILCAA, through the project LingDy3, and subsequently published commercially from Kurosio Publishers. He also published Parauk Wa Folktales in 2007 and Memories of Suganli: Oral Traditions of the Wa in Yunnan Province, China in 2009 from ILCAA. This award aims to recognize outstanding study in the ethnological studies such as anthropology, descriptive linguistics, archeology, etc.
Articles on the Public Exhibition “The World of Sibe Calligraphy: Collected Works of Getuken” was published in Japanese newspapers
Getuken, the featured Sibe Calligrapher in the public exhibition “The World of Sibe Calligraphy: Collected Works of Getuken” held at ILCAA, was interviewed by two newspapers (Yomiuri Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun) and articles on the exhibition were published in both papers. A video clip of his demonstration is also published on the website of the Asahi Shimbun.
Yomiuri Shimbun (in Japanese)Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese)
All posters introducing our research projects are now on display at the 1st floor of Research and Lecture Building, TUFS (until the middle of December, 2019).
All posters exhibited on “2019 Poster Session Institute-wide Research Program: Establishment of a New Cooperative Research System for Solving Contemporary Problems in Asia and Africa” (held on 23–24 November, 2019;) (please refer this link site) are now on display at Galleria (the 1st floor of Research and Lecture Building), TUFS, until the middle of December, 2019. This exhibition aims to introduce several on-going projects of ILCAA.
Dr. Keisuke IWATA (JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow/ILCAA) was awarded the Best Paper Award of the Society of Inner Asian Studies
Dr. Keisuke IWATA (JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow/ILCAA) was awarded the Best Paper Award of the Society of Inner Asian Studies for his paper "The Qing's Policy Concerning the League-Banner System for Qinghai Mongol: Based on Pasture Demarcation in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century" (Inner Asian Studies, vol.34: 73–94).
This award aims to recognize outstanding paper in the field of inner Asian history. The award ceremony was held at 2019 Annual meeting of the Society of Inner Asian Studies on November 9th, 2019 at Tohoku University.
Minami Ryukyu Miyako go Irabujima Hougen (The Irabu Dialect, a Southern Ryukyuan Language) was awarded the 47th Kindaichi Memorial Prize
Minami Ryukyu Miyako go Irabujima Hougen (The Irabu Dialect, a Southern Ryukyuan Language) by Michinori Shimoji (Kyushu University, ILCAA Joint Researcher, ex-Research Associate of LingDy) was awarded the 47th Kindaichi Memorial Prize.
It is the first volume of the series "Descriptive Grammars", published first from ILCAA, through the project LingDy, and subsequently published commercially from Kurosio Publishers.
Kindaichi Memorial Prize is awarded once a year to outstanding research and achievements in linguistics and related studies by the Kindaichi Memorial Prize Committee since 1973.
Professor Hidemitsu KUROKI was interviewed by Serbian TV news programs
Three interviews in TV news programs, relating to the workshop “Lebanese, Yugoslavian, and Syrian Civil Wars and their Aftermath” sponsored by a project “Syrian Civil War in Comparison with Lebanese and Yugoslavian Civil Wars” (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science). The workshop was held on September 12, 2019, at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade, Serbia, with cooperation of the institute.
Recorded: September 11, 2019 (On air: September 12, 2019) TANJUG (Serbian national news agency)
Predrag Markovic (Director of the Institute for Contemporary History), Tetsuya Sahara (Professor, Meiji University), Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA)
Studio Live: September 13, 2019. RTS1(Channel 1, Serbian national TV station)
Recorded program (youtube)
Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA), Tetsuya Sahara (Professor, Meiji University), Ali Kadri (Senior Fellow, National University of Singapore)
Studio Live: September 14, 2019. Novo Jutro (Serbian TV station)
Recorded program (youtube)
Predrag Markovic (Director of the Institute for Contemporary History), Hidemitsu Kuroki (ILCAA), Tetsuya Sahara (Professor, Meiji University)
Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe was awarded with the Best Paper Award of the Linguistic Society of Japan (2019)
Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe was awarded with the Best Paper Award of the Linguistic Society of Japan (2019) for his paper “Deaspiration and the Laryngeal Specification of Fricatives in Jinghpaw”.
(Please refer to the Linguistic Society of Japan's website)
The purpose of this award is to support outstanding papers. The award ceremony will be held at the 159th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan on November 17th, 2019, at Nagoya Gakuin University.
Ex-Director Hiroyuki UMEDA passed away
Ex-Director Hiroyuki UMEDA (Professor Emeritus, TUFS) passed away on July
1st, 2019. With recalling the achievements of the deceased, we would like
to express our deepest condolences.
Director of the ILCAA, Izumi HOSHI
Dr. Hermann Gundert Endowment Award for Japanese-Malayalam Dictionary
The Dr. Hermann Gundert Endowment Award 2018-2019 was presented to Dr. K.P.P. Nambiar for his work entitled Japanese-Malayalam Dictionary on June 20 2019 by the Dravidian Linguistic Association of India, at the occasion of the 47th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists (AICDL) held at the Central University of Karnataka, Gulbarga, India. This award is for the Best Dictionary in Dravidian Languages.
Japanese-Malayalam Dictionary authored by Dr. Nambiar and published by the State Institute of Languages (Government of Kerala) in March 2019 is a book
format version of the Electronic Japanese-Malayalam Dictionary developed by the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) under the direction of Professors Jun Takashima and Makoto Minegishi. This dictionary with more than 53,000 headwords containing modern vocabulay is the first full-fledged dictionary from Japanese to one of the major Dravidian languages, will be of great help for both Malayali and Japanese People to study each other’s language.
https://www.aa-ken.jp/edic/jmd/
Research Associate Hayato Aoi was awarded with the Best Presentation Award of the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan
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Research Associate Hayato Aoi received the Best Presentation Award of the 157th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan for his presentation, “Plosives in Okinawa-Ie Ryukyuan”.
The purpose of this award is to support outstanding presentations and poster sessions. The Linguistic Society of Japan held an award ceremony at the 158th meeting on June 23, 2019 in Hitotsubashi University.
Associate Professor Norikazu Kogura wins the 46th Kindaichi Memorial Prize
Associate Professor, Norikazu Kogura, has been awarded the 46th Kindaichi Memorial Prize for his book “A study on the modality system in Sibe”.
This award aims to recognize outstanding research and achievements in the fields of language and culture, and has been awarded once a year by the Kindaichi Memorial Prize Committee since 1973.
Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe was awarded with the Best Presentation Award of the 156th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan
Assistant Professor Keita Kurabe received the Best Presentation Award of the 156th Meeting of the Linguistic Society of Japan for his presentation, “The syllabicity of the word-initial nasal in Jinghpaw”.
The purpose of this award is to support outstanding presentations and poster sessions.
The Linguistic Society of Japan held an award ceremony at the 157th meeting on November 18, 2018 in Kyoto University.
Research Associate Hayato Aoi was awarded with Nakasone Seizen kenkyu shorei sho (Nakasone Seizen Research Encouragement Award) in the fiscal year 2018
Research Associate Hayato Aoi received Nakasone Seizen kenkyu shorei sho (Nakasone Seizen Research Encouragement Award) in the fiscal year 2018.
Okinawa Center of Language Study awards it with the purpose of training young Ryukyuan language researchers.
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