“Research Fellows (Visiting Researchers)” are non-salaried fixed-term research positions for senior researchers to engage in collaborative research at ILCAA with the research staff.
Kazakhstan
ABDILASHIM, Duisenali
A study on Manchu translations of Kazakh diplomatic documents addressed to the Qing dynasty
30 Sep 2024 – 31 Mar 2025; 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Aug 2025
Kyrgyz Republic
AKMATALIEVA, Jakshylyk
A contrastive study of Kyrgyz and Altai: Focusing on the usage of auxiliary verbs
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
AWAYA, Toshie
Rethinking South Asian studies from perspectives of “emotion”
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
France
BEAUDOUIN, Mathieu
Tangut language and culture within West Gyalrongic
1 Nov 2023 – 25 Sep 2025
Japan
HARIMOTO, Kengo
The influence of the interaction between early Indologists and the intellectuals of South Asia on the history of thoughts
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
Japan
HAYASI, Tooru
A study on the formation and social function of secret languages in Turkey
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
Japan
HOSODA, Kazue
“Cross-border” literature from the Middle East. Cultural transmission of minorities in majority culture
1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2029
Lebanon
HOURANI, Guita Georges
Relationship between Turkey and Lebanon: Kin-state policy, migration, and human smuggling
1 Jun 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
ITOH, Noriko
An interdisciplinary exploration of ecological ethnography
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
Japan
KAJI, Shigeki
A diachronic study of tone of west-Ugandan languages via field research
1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2027
Japan
KAMIHIRA, Takahito
Development of a design learning program for educators focusing on Design Attitude
1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
KAWAZOE, Tatsurou
Relationship between intensity of connected mind creation and biodiversity in southern Kyusyu
1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2025; 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
KUBO, Tomoyuki
Studies on the Sibe language
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2024; 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
KURITA, Hiroyuki
Anthropological studies on societies of the highland fringe of Papua New Guinea
1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023; 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
MINEGISHI, Makoto
A study of expression of time in mainland Southeast Asian isolating languages
1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
MIYAKE, Yoshimi
Linguistic landscape of Indonesia: The dynamism between national language and local languages
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
Japan
NAGAHARA, Yoko
“Race science” under colonialism
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2027
Japan
NAKAMURA, Mitsuo
Islamic social movements in contemporary Indonesia
1 Oct 2019 – 30 Sep 2022; 1 Oct 2022 – 30 Sep 2025
Japan
NISHII, Ryoko
Rethinking the anthropology of death: Exploring ‘reality’ through and anthropological approach based on affect theory
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
Japan
ODA, Jun’ichi
Transcription and Analysis of unpublished Carnets bequeathed by Joseph-Charles Mardrus in his own handwriting
1 Apr 2021 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
OHSAKI, Noriko
Grammatical description of Turkic languages and its historical elucidation: Focusing on Kyrgyz
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
Japan
OSHIMA, Hajime
Exploring the essence of plurality: The meaning and usage of ‘ra’ in Japanese dialects within a unified framework
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
Japan
OTSUBO, Reiko
Muslim migration to Asia countries
1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2027
Korea
PARK, Sangchul
Grammatical changes in Manchu from the perspective of areal linguistics
1 Sep 2024 – 31 Aug 2025
Myanmar
Sai Kyaw Tun
The compilation of a Shan-English dictionary and a preliminary study of Shan grammar
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2027
United Kingdom
SANDERSON, Alexis G. J. S.
The Tantrāloka of Abhinavagupta
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
SATO, Kumiko
The phonological properties of the Japanese r-sound: A contrastive study of Japanese dialects
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
Japan
SHINODA, Tomoaki
Research on the networks of correspondence between Morocco and Spain in the early modern period
1 Mar 2024 – 28 Feb 2027
China
SOLONIN, Kirill
2 Oct 2022 – 25 Mar 2023, 14 Feb 2025 – 13 Dec 2025
United States
SPRAGUE, David Shigeru
Human life history strategy under economic and social systems after the industrial revolution
1 Aug 2024 – 31 Jul 2027
Japan
TAKAKI, Keiko
A study of the challenges and solutions for Muslim communities in the context of contemporary pluralism and diversity
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
Japan
TAKAO, Kenichiro
Interreligious and interregional studies on secularization and public morality: The cases of monotheistic societies
1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
TAKASHIMA, Jun
Tantrism and Hinduism
1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023; 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
TOSA, Keiko
Democracy as practice: The potential of “networks of donation” in Myanmar
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
UCHIYAMADA, Yasushi
Anthropological research on nuclear waste and changing survival conditions in out-of-the-way lifeworlds
1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
WATANUKI, Tetsuro
The study of Han Chinese Eight Banners in Qing dynasty
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
YOSHIMURA, Taiki
Studies on interpersonal modality in Azerbaijani
1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023; 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
YAMAMOTO, Kumiko
Popular reception of the Shāhnāma: A comparative study of the Shāhnāma and its prose retelling by storytellers
HARIMOTO, Kengo [Japan] Encounters between Western Indologists and Indian intellectuals in colonial India and its long-term influence on views on the history of Indian thought
ISONO, Maho [Japan] An anthropological reconsideration on body and co-presence
KURIHARA, Hirohide [Japan] Research on the concept of “spiritual border stone” in Vietnam
KURODA, Keiko [Japan] Reconstruction of Southeast Asian History through Networked World and Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Malay Peninsula
NAGAHARA, Yoko [Japan] Reconsidering Africa global history
NAGASAWA, Eiji [Japan] The construction and development of Islam & gender studies
NAKAMURA, Kyoko [Japan] Kakiwari’s point of view through Japanese painting
OSHIMA, Hajime [Japan] Cross-linguistic research on Plurality of Hungarian
UCHIYAMADA, Yasushi [Japan] The interface between global nuclear development and lifeworld with reference to temporality
MYHILL, John Martin [Japan] Syntactic parallels between East African and Austronesian languages
Thuzar Hlaing [Myanmar] Research on Teaching Materials for Japanese learners of Burmese
YERZHAN ZEMFIRA, Melskyzy [Kazakhstan] Formation of national identity in the context of Westernization: the Case of Kazakhs and Japanese
2023
EBIHARA, Shiho [Japan] Database-based Comparison of Multilayered pastoral culture Across the Tibeto-Himalayan Region
LI, Linjing [Japan]
MIYAZAKI, Koji [Japan] Javanese Recognition of Time and Space -An Analysis of calendar and myth-.
OGATA, Shirabe [Japan] Anthropology of arts and lives: A comparative study of cities in Nigeria and Japan
OKAZAKI, Akira [Japan] A social anthropological study on the agency of “Ba (場)”
OTSUBO, Reiko [Japan]
SHIBANO, Kohji [Japan] Research and Development of a Japanese e-Learning system based on the studies of Spoken Japanese using large TV closed caption corpus and the studies of Deep Learning
ABDILASHIM, Duisenali [Kazakhstan] Research on Kazakh Documents in the Archives of Russia and China
BOCKHOLT, Philip [Germany] Textual Transmission in the Islamic Manuscript Age: On the Variance, Reception and Usage of Arabic and Persian Works in the Near and Middle East
HANDAYANI, Diah Syafitri [Indonesia] Usage of loanword in Japanese and a comparative study on English loanword usage in Japanese and Indonesian
ZHUANG, Sheng [China] A Study of Border Formation and Border Crossing Problems in 18th Century East Asia
2022
NAKAMI, Tatsuo [Japan] Research on the population in Inner Asia of 19-20th centuries.
OKUDA, Osami [Japan] Archiving Field Researcher’s Materials of Ainu Language and Descriptive Study of Ainu Language
SAEKI, Natsuko [Japan] The story of Japanese-Indonesian families
SHINTANI, Tadahiko L.A. [Japan] Language Encyclopedia of the Tay Cultural Area
BRICKELL, Timothy [Austraria] Pronominal systems and voice marking in the Minahasan languages
DE SCHRYVER, Gilles-Maurice [Bergium] Investigating the feasibility of a hub-and-spoke model to hold ILCAA's Bantu lexica into a single multipurpose online dictionary database
SOLONIN, Kirill [China]
ZHANG, Shuya [] Linguistic representation of space and motion in rGyalrongic.
ZHUANG, Sheng [China] Study on the Environment in Northeast Asia in Qing Dynasty
2021
HOSOYA, Sachiko [Japan] Studies on patient rights and disability rights in Islamic Republic of Iran
IKEDA, Akimitsu [Japan] Urban society in Lebanon: A spatial turn approach
KUROKI (MATSUI), Masako [Japan] A Preliminary Study on Ottoman ‘Ahdnames
SHIMIZU, Akitoshi [Japan] Historical development of Japanese anthropology observed through interaction with contemporary situations
SHINE, Toshihiko [Japan]
SYURYUN, Arzhaana [Russia] Language Documentation and Grammatical Study of Altaic languages: Focusing on Tuvan
2020
EBIHARA, Shiho [Japan] Diachronic study on Tibetan, through modern dialects and written texts
HAYASI, Tooru [Japan] Socio-cultural context in deictic expressions
OKAZAKI, Akira [Japan]
SATO, Kimihiko [Japan] Inner Mongolian’s nationalism in modern history and Japan: The life of Teh Wang and his autonomy movement in the Republic of China
SHIN, Jae-Eun [Japan] Genealogical Claims Nd Political Process in Pre-modern Northeast India
SHIRAI, Satoko [Japan] A descriptive study of endangered varieties of the nDrapa language
2019
FUKUSHIMA, Yasuhiro [Japan] Cross-regional and cross-industrial comparative studies on standardization of commodities and services based on Islam
KIMATA, Mikio [Japan] Comparative Study on religious environment and ecologism
KOYA, Nobuko [Japan] Anthropological study of social role and potential of folk medicine in Thailand
MIYAZAKI, Koji [Japan] Javanese recognition of time and space: an analysis of calendar and myth
SHINTANI, Tadahiko L.A. [Japan]
HELASVUO, Marja-Liisa [Finland] Units of grammar and interaction: Clauses and below
JIA, Yue [China] Comparative Research on study of Case System of Manchu-Tungusic Languages
MU, Yingying [China] Comparative study of morphosyntactic structure of Pela and Langwo, under-described Burmish languages
Qibuerhasi [China] A study on Dagur language and its change
2018
OKUDA, Osami [Japan] Preparation of Ainu language archives and descriptive study of Ainu language
UMEKAWA, Michihisa [Japan] Quantitative method for the social hierarchical analysis in Mainland Southeast Asia
BRICKELL, Timothy [Australia] A collaborative investigation of annotation methods for analyzing multimedia linguistic corpora
MARTEN, Lutz [Germany] Morphosyntactic microvariation in Bantu
SOLIMAN, Mohamed [Egypt] A Practical Approach to Conservation and Making Cultural Heritages for Historical Sites of Medieval Egypt
WITTAYAPANYANON (SAITO), Sunisa [Thailand] Developing teaching materials for Thai based on corpus data
2017
FUKUSHIMA, Yasuhiro [Japan] Islamic characteristics of Islamic finance in Malaysia
KAWAKAMI, Yasunori [Japan] Historical changes of political and social consciousness of Palestinian refugees in Beirut
KOYA, Nobuko [Japan] Anthropological study of social role and potential of folk medicine in Thailand
OSHIKAWA, Fumiko [Japan]
SATO, Kumiko [Japan] Research on the intonation systems in Turkish and Japanese dialects: Interface between phonology and syntax/semantics
ABUDULAXIMU, Dushannali [China] Socialism in the Age of Empire: The Japanese Left and the Russian Revolution (1905-1925)
2016
KATO, Hiroshi [Japan] Transformation of Egyptian society in modern times
KIMATA, Mikio [Japan] The origin and development process of millet cultural complex in Indian subcontinent
KURIBAYASHI, Hitoshi [Japan] A study of the method of digitized dictionaries of traditional Mongolian and Manchu
OSOEGAWA, Taku [Japan] Development of contemporary Lebanese-Syrian relations
SATO, Hirokazu [Japan] Research on dynamics of supra-segmental characteristics in Japanese and Southeast Asian languages
KANG, Youngsuk [Korea] Description and theoretical study of accent in Korean dialects
2015
KOYA, Nobuko [Japan] Changing position and practices of the folk healer in pluralistic medical system in Thailand
TAKAGI, Ryo [Japan] Anthropological Study of Interaction in Thailand
TAMURA, Suzuko [Japan] Contemporary issues in the field research and descriptive study of Ainu and other endangered languages
BOWDEN, John [Australia] Linguistics
DENG, Yingwen [China] Japan-Southeast Asia Relations in the Cold War Era
JUKES, Anthony [Australia] Linguistics
SORIENTE, Antonia [Italia] Linguistics
WU, Tien-Tai [Taiwan] Studies on Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan in the Contemporary Japan
Yanti [Indonesia] Linguistics
2014
KURIBAYASHI, Hitoshi [Japan] Mongolian philology
NAKATANI, Hideaki [Japan] Generalized Science of Humanity
SHINE, Toshihiko [Japan] International study
SUZUKI, Emi [Japan] Political history of modern and contemporary Egypt, Area studies (Middle East)
BAO, Lianqun [China] Linguistics
CHIUNG, Wivun [Taiwan] Migration and Indigenization: From Chinese Minh Huong People to Vietnamese Missionary Scripts and Romanization Movement in Vietnam and Taiwan
HANDAYANI, Diah Syafitri [Indonesia] Contrastive linguistics (Indonesian and Japanese)
2013
IWAKABE, Yoshimitsu [Japan] History
NAKATA, Ko [Japan] Islamic Studies
SUGAWARA, Jun [Japan]
TAKAKURA, Hiroki [Japan] Social Anthropology
ASILI, Susan [Iran] History of Qajar Iran
BECKWITH, Christopher I. [United States] Historical and linguistic Studies on Ancient East Asia and Central Eurasia
YILMAZ, Serdar [Turkey] Japanese Language Education
2012
BATSAIKHAN, Ookhnoi [Mongolia] Modern History of Mongolia and International Relations in Modern East
FILCHENKO, Andrey [Russia] Linguistics
POTANINA, Olga [Russia] Linguistics
2011
NAKAYAMA, Kazuyoshi [Japan] Social Anthropology
2010
MAMIYA, Kensaku [Japan] Linguistics
USUKI, Akira [Japan] Middle-Eastern Area Studies
BECKWITH, Christopher I. [United States] History, Languages and Cultures in Central Eurasia and East Asia
COELHO, Olga Ferreira [Brazil] Linguistics
JUKES, Anthony [United Kingdom] Linguistics
MATLANI, Baldev, B. [India] Sindhi Medieval Literature & Criticism
TASHIRO PEREZ, Eliza Atsuko [Brazil] Linguistics
TIRTOSUDARMO, Riwanto [Indonesia] Social Demography
Zhabu [China] Literature
図門吉日嘎拉 [China] Linguistics
2009
KAWATOKO, Mutsumi [Japan] Archeology
MAMIYA, Kenzou [Japan] Linguistics
NAKAYAMA, Kazutoshi [Japan] Anthropology
OSOEGAWA, Taku [Japan] Politics
SHIMIZU, Akitoshi [Japan] Anthropology
SHINE, Toshihiko [Japan] History
TANGIKU, Itsuji [Japan] Linguistics/Anthropology
COELHO, Olga Ferreira [Brazil] Linguistics
FERNANDES SALLES ALTMAN, Maria Cristina [Brazil] Linguistics