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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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Monthly Photos

Wadi al-Qumayra with water

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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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Introducing New Staff Vol.86 : Minori TAI

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2025.10.02Essays

Introducing New Staff Vol.86 : Minori TAI

2025.10.02News

Newly-issued: The Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol.110 (30 September 2025)

2025.10.01Essays

Monthly Photos Oct 2025 : Wadi al-Qumayra with water

2025.09.24News

Apology for the falsification of our websites

2025.09.08News

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

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Events

  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium
  • Educational Traning

Date:2025/11/10(Mon) 13:00-15:00 Venue:301 : Seminar Room, ILCAA

Workshop “Researching (Post) Conflict-Affected Settings in the Middle East”

  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/11/08(Sat) 15:00-17:00 Venue:Seminar Room 3, Hongo Satellite, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies / Online meeting

Seminar “After the Revolutions: Charting Women’s Activism in the Arab World”

  • Public Lectures
  • Workshop/ Seminar/ Symposium

Date:2025/10/26(Sun) 14:00-17:00 Venue:Waseda University Toyama Campus, Building 38, AV Room 1

Film Symposium: The Reformist – A Female Imam

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

TCP (Tokyo Circle of Phonologists) October Meeting

  • 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"

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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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