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Research Fellows (Visiting Researchers)

“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.

ABDILASHIM, Duisenali
  • 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
AKMATALIEVA, Jakshylyk
  • Kyrgyz Republic
  • AKMATALIEVA, Jakshylyk
  • A contrastive study of Kyrgyz and Altai: Focusing on the usage of auxiliary verbs
  • 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
AWAYA, Toshie
  • Japan
  • AWAYA, Toshie
  • Rethinking South Asian studies from perspectives of “emotion”
  • 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
BEAUDOUIN, Mathieu
  • France
  • BEAUDOUIN, Mathieu
  • Tangut language and culture within West Gyalrongic
  • 1 Nov 2023 – 25 Sep 2025
HARIMOTO, Kengo
  • 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
HAYASI, Tooru
  • Japan
  • HAYASI, Tooru
  • A study on the formation and social function of secret languages in Turkey
  • 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
HOSODA, Kazue
  • Japan
  • HOSODA, Kazue
  • “Cross-border” literature from the Middle East. Cultural transmission of minorities in majority culture
  • 1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2029
HOURANI, Guita Georges
  • Lebanon
  • HOURANI, Guita Georges
  • Relationship between Turkey and Lebanon: Kin-state policy, migration, and human smuggling
  • 1 Jun 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
ITOH, Noriko
  • Japan
  • ITOH, Noriko
  • An interdisciplinary exploration of ecological ethnography
  • 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
KAJI, Shigeki
  • Japan
  • KAJI, Shigeki
  • A diachronic study of tone of west-Ugandan languages via field research
  • 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2027
KAMIHIRA, Takahito
  • Japan
  • KAMIHIRA, Takahito
  • Development of a design learning program for educators focusing on Design Attitude
  • 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2026
KAWAZOE, Tatsurou
  • 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
KUBO, Tomoyuki
  • Japan
  • KUBO, Tomoyuki
  • Studies on the Sibe language
  • 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2024; 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2026
KURITA, Hiroyuki
  • 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
MINEGISHI, Makoto
  • Japan
  • MINEGISHI, Makoto
  • A study of expression of time in mainland Southeast Asian isolating languages
  • 1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2026
MIYAKE, Yoshimi
  • Japan
  • MIYAKE, Yoshimi
  • Linguistic landscape of Indonesia: The dynamism between national language and local languages
  • 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
NAGAHARA, Yoko
  • Japan
  • NAGAHARA, Yoko
  • “Race science” under colonialism
  • 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2027
NAKAMURA, Mitsuo
  • Japan
  • NAKAMURA, Mitsuo
  • Islamic social movements in contemporary Indonesia
  • 1 Oct 2019 – 30 Sep 2022; 1 Oct 2022 – 30 Sep 2025
NISHII, Ryoko
  • Japan
  • NISHII, Ryoko
  • Rethinking the anthropology of death: Exploring ‘reality’ through and anthropological approach based on affect theory
  • 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
ODA, Jun’ichi
  • 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
OHSAKI, Noriko
  • Japan
  • OHSAKI, Noriko
  • Grammatical description of Turkic languages and its historical elucidation: Focusing on Kyrgyz
  • 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
OSHIMA, Hajime
  • 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
OTSUBO, Reiko
  • Japan
  • OTSUBO, Reiko
  • Muslim migration to Asia countries
  • 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2027
PARK, Sangchul
  • Korea
  • PARK, Sangchul
  • Grammatical changes in Manchu from the perspective of areal linguistics
  • 1 Sep 2024 – 31 Aug 2025
Sai Kyaw Tun
  • Myanmar
  • Sai Kyaw Tun
  • The compilation of a Shan-English dictionary and a preliminary study of Shan grammar
  • 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2027
SANDERSON, Alexis G. J. S.
  • United Kingdom
  • SANDERSON, Alexis G. J. S.
  • The Tantrāloka of Abhinavagupta
  • 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
SATO, Kumiko
  • Japan
  • SATO, Kumiko
  • The phonological properties of the Japanese r-sound: A contrastive study of Japanese dialects
  • 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2028
SHINODA, Tomoaki
  • Japan
  • SHINODA, Tomoaki
  • Research on the networks of correspondence between Morocco and Spain in the early modern period
  • 1 Mar 2024 – 28 Feb 2027
SOLONIN, Kirill
  • China
  • SOLONIN, Kirill
  • 2 Oct 2022 – 25 Mar 2023, 14 Feb 2025 – 13 Dec 2025
SPRAGUE, David Shigeru
  • United States
  • SPRAGUE, David Shigeru
  • Human life history strategy under economic and social systems after the industrial revolution
  • 1 Aug 2024 – 31 Jul 2027
TAKAKI, Keiko
  • 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
TAKAO, Kenichiro
  • Japan
  • TAKAO, Kenichiro
  • Interreligious and interregional studies on secularization and public morality: The cases of monotheistic societies
  • 1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2026
TAKASHIMA, Jun
  • Japan
  • TAKASHIMA, Jun
  • Tantrism and Hinduism
  • 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023; 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
TOSA, Keiko
  • Japan
  • TOSA, Keiko
  • Democracy as practice: The potential of “networks of donation” in Myanmar
  • 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
UCHIYAMADA, Yasushi
  • Japan
  • UCHIYAMADA, Yasushi
  • Anthropological research on nuclear waste and changing survival conditions in out-of-the-way lifeworlds
  • 1 Apr 2025 – 31 Mar 2026
WATANUKI, Tetsuro
  • Japan
  • WATANUKI, Tetsuro
  • The study of Han Chinese Eight Banners in Qing dynasty
  • 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
YOSHIMURA, Taiki
  • Japan
  • YOSHIMURA, Taiki
  • Studies on interpersonal modality in Azerbaijani
  • 1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2023; 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
YAMAMOTO, Kumiko
  • Japan
  • YAMAMOTO, Kumiko
  • Popular reception of the Shāhnāma: A comparative study of the Shāhnāma and its prose retelling by storytellers
  • 15 Sep 2020 – 14 Sep 2023; 15 Sep 2023 – 31 Mar 2028
YIDEMUCAO, Dawa
  • China
  • YIDEMUCAO, Dawa
  • Analysis and database of Oirat Mongolian materials
  • 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2027
YOSHIDA, Yutaka
  • Japan
  • YOSHIDA, Yutaka
  • An anthropological study on corporeal co-vibrating: A case of deaf children in Kenya
  • 1 Apr 2019 – 31 Mar 2022; 1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2027
Zhou Tai Jia
  • China
  • Zhou Tai Jia
  • Collection, organization, and research of literature and materials on Chinese border studies in the Japanese academic community since modern times
  • 1 Oct 2024 – 30 Sep 2025

Ex. Research Fellows (Visiting Researchers)

2024

  • 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
  • MIZUSHIMA, Tsukasa [Japan] Constructing spatiotemporal database
  • 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
  • JOLLY, Jatinder Pal Singh [India] Literature
  • TASHIRO PEREZ, Eliza Atsuko [Brazil] Linguistics
  • ZWARTJES, Otto Jeroen [Netherlands] Linguistics
  • エルデムト [China] History
  • 図門吉日嘎拉 [China] Linguistics
  • 金 少萍 [China] Anthropology

2008

  • KAWATOKO, Mutsuo [Japan]
  • OKUNO, Katsumi [Japan]
  • SHIMIZU, Akitoshi [Japan]
  • SHINE, Toshihiko [Japan]
  • TANGIKU, Itsuji [Japan]
  • エルデムト [China]
  • 金 少萍 [China]

2007

  • ISHII, Hiroshi [Japan]
  • SHIMIZU, Akitoshi [Japan]
  • TAKAMATSU, Yoichi [Japan]
  • UCHIBORI, Motomitsu [Japan]
  • BECKWITH, Christopher I. [United States]
  • MIERSULITAN, Ayisima [China]

2006

  • KAWADA, Junzo [Japan]
  • SHIMIZU, Akitoshi [Japan]
  • MOSCA, Matthew William [United States]
  • Naw Si Blut [Myanmar]

2005

  • MIYAJI, Mieko [Japan]
  • Naw Si Blut [Myanmar]
  • ROBERTS-KOHNO, Rosalind Ruth [United States]

2004

  • BECKWITH, Christopher I. [United States]
  • DAHER, Massoud [Lebanon]
  • LA, Minh Hang [Vietnam]
  • MIKHAJLOVICH, Sangi Vladimir [Russia]
  • ROBERTS-KOHNO, Rosalind Ruth [United States]
  • WANG, Ju [China]

2003

  • HANJABAM, Surmangol Sharma [India]
  • JOYCE, Terry Andrew [United Kingdom]
  • KARI, Ehelbert Emmanuel [Nigeria]
  • OEHLER, Susan Elizabeth [United States]

2002

  • FANG, Su Mei [China]
  • KHADKA, Meena Singh [Nepal]
  • WUFELA YAEK'OLINGO, André [D.R. Congo]


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