“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.
Republic of Kazakhstan
ABDILASHIM, Duisenali
A stt1dy on Manchu ti·anslations of Kazakh diplomatic documents addressed to the Qing dynasty
1 Mar 2024 – 31 Mar 2024; 30 Sep 2024 – 31 Mar 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
Encounters between Western Indologists and Indian Intellectuals in Colonial India and Its Long-term Influence on Views on the History of Indian Thought
1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2025
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
ISONO, Maho
An anthropological reconsideration on body and co-presence
1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2025
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
Japan
KAMIHIRA, Takahito
Development of a design learning program for educators focusing on Design Attitude
1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
KAJI, Shigeki
A diachronic study of tone of west-Ugandan languages via field research
1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2027
Japan
KAWAZOE, Tatsurou
Relationship between intensity of connected mind creation and biodiversity in southern Kyusyu
1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2027
Japan
KUBO, Tomoyuki
Studies on the Sibe language
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2024; 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
KURIHARA, Hirohide
Research on the concept of “spiritual border stone” in Vietnam
1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2025
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 2024
Japan
KURODA, Keiko
Reconstruction of Southeast Asian History through Networked World and Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Malay Peninsula
1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2025
Israel, USA
Myhill John Martin
Syntactic parallels between East African and Austronesian languages
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2025
Japan
MINEGISHI, Makoto
Comprehensive study of Thai grammar
1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2025
Japan
MIZUSHIMA, Tsukasa
Constructing spatiotemporal database
1 Apr 2019 – 31 Mar 2022; 1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2025
Japan
NAGAHARA, Yoko
Reconsidering Africa Global History
1 Apr 2021 – 31 Mar 2024; 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2025
Japan
NAGASAWA, Eiji
The construction and development of Islam & gender studies
1 Apr 2019 – 31 Mar 2024 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2025
Japan
NAKAMURA, Kyoko
Kakiwari´ s point of view through Japanese painting
1 Oct 2018 – 30 Sep 2021; 1 Oct 2021 – 30 Sep 2024
Japan
NAKAMURA, Mitsuo
Islamic Social Movements in Contemporary Indonesia
1 Oct 2019 – 30 Sep 2022; 1 Oct 2022 – 30 Sep 2025
Japan
ODA, Jun’ichi
Analysis of unpublished Carnets bequeathed by Joseph-Charles Mardrus in his own handwriting
1 Apr 2021 – 31 Mar 2025
Japan
OSHIMA, Hajime
Cross-linguistic research on Plurarity of Hungarian
1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2025
Japan
OTSUBO, Reiko
Muslim Migration to Asia Countries
1 Apr 2020 – 31 Mar 2021; 1 Apr 2021 – 31 Mar 2023; 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2024; 1 Apr 2024 – 31 Mar 2027
Korea
PARK Sangchul
rammatical changes in Manchu from the perspective of areal linguistics
1 Sep 2024 – 31 Aug 2025
United Kingdom
Sanderson Alexis G. J. S.
The Tantrāloka of Abhinavagupta
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
SHINODA, Tomoaki
Research on the networks of correspondence between Morocco and Spain in the early modern period
1 Mar 2024 – 28 Feb 2027
America
Sprague David Shigeru
Human life history strategy under economic and social systems after the industrial revolution
1 Aug 2024 – 31 Jul 2027
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
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
THUZAR, Hlaing
Research on Teaching Materials for Japanese learners of Burmese
1 Apr 2022 – 31 Mar 2025
Japan
TOSA, Keiko
Democracy as Practice: The Potential of "Networks of Donation" in Myanmar
1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2026
Japan
UCHIYAMADA, Yasushi
The interface between global nuclear development and lifeworld with reference to temporality
1 Apr 2021 – 31 Mar 2024; 1 Apr 2023 – 31 Mar 2025
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
Narrative Functions of the Shahanama and Naqqli in the Transmission of the Hamzanama Across the Islamic World.
ABDILASHIM, Duisenali Research on Kazakh Documents in the Archives of Russia and China
EBIHARA, Shiho Database-based Comparison of Multilayered pastoral culture Across the Tibeto-Himalayan Region
OGATA, Shirabe Anthropology of arts and lives: A comparative study of cities in Nigeria and Japan
OKAZAKI, Akira A social anthropological study on the agency of “Ba (場)”
SHIBANO, Kohji 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
HANDAYANI SYAFITRI DIAH Usage of loanword in Japanese and a comparative study on English loanword usage in Japanese and Indonesian
BOCKHOLT Philip Textual Transmission in the Islamic Manuscript Age: On the Variance, Reception and Usage of Arabic and Persian Works in the Near and Middle East
MIYAZAKI, Koji Javanese Recognition of Time and Space -An Analysis of calendar and myth-.
LI, Linjing
ZHUANG, Sheng A Study of Border Formation and Border Crossing Problems in 18th Century East Asia
2022
De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice Investigating the feasibility of a hub-and-spoke model to hold ILCAA's Bantu lexica into a single multipurpose online dictionary database
OKUDA, Osami Archiving Field Researcher’s Materials of Ainu Language and Descriptive Study of Ainu Language
SAEKI, Natsuko The story of Japanese-Indonesian families
ZHUANG, Sheng Study on the Environment in Northeast Asia in Qing Dynasty
SHINTANI, Tadahiko L.A. Language Encyclopedia of the Tay Cultural Area
ZHANG, Shuya Linguistic representation of space and motion in rGyalrongic.
BRICKELL, Timothy Pronominal systems and voice marking in the Minahasan languages
NAKAMI, Tatsuo Research on the population in Inner Asia of 19-20th centuries.
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
SYURYUN, Arzhaana [Russian Federation] 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
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
HAYASI, Tooru [Japan] Socio-cultural context in deictic expressions
SHIN, Jae-Eun [Republic of India] Genealogical Claims Nd Political Process in Pre-modern Northeast India
SHIRAI, Satoko [Japan] A descriptive study of endangered varieties of the nDrapa language
2019
HELASVUO, Marja-Liisa [Finland] Units of grammar and interaction: Clauses and below
KOYA, Nobuko [Japan] Anthropological study of social role and potential of folk medicine in Thailand
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
MIYAZAKI, Koji [Japan] Javanese recognition of time and space ― an analysis of calendar and myth ―
Qibuerhasi [China] A study on Dagur language and its change
MU, Yingying [China] Comparative study of morphosyntactic structure of Pela and Langwo, under-described Burmish languages
JIA, Yue [China] Comparative Research on study of Case System of Manchu-Tungusic Languages
2018
OKUDA, Osami [Japan] Preparation of Ainu language archives and descriptive study of Ainu language
WITTAYAPANYANON (SAITO), Sunisa [Thailand] Developing teaching materials for Thai based on corpus data
BRICKELL, Timothy [Australia] A collaborative investigation of annotation methods for analyzing multimedia linguistic corpora
MARTEN, Lutz [Germany] Morphosyntactic microvariation in Bantu
UMEKAWA, Michihisa [Japan] Quantitative method for the social hierarchical analysis in Mainland Southeast Asia
SOLIMAN, Mohamed [Egypt] A Practical Approach to Conservation and Making Cultural Heritages for Historical Sites of Medieval Egypt
2017
OSHIKAWA, Fumiko [Japan] Preparation of Ainu language archives and descriptive study of Ainu language
KAWAKAMI, Yasunori [Japan] Historical changes of political and social consciousness of Palestinian refugees in Beirut
ABUDULAXIMU, Dushannali [China] Socialism in the Age of Empire: The Japanese Left and the Russian Revolution (1905-1925)
FUKUSHIMA, Yasuhiro [Japan] Islamic characteristics of Islamic finance in Malaysia
KOYA, Nobuko [Japan] Anthropological study of social role and potential of folk medicine in Thailand
SATO, Kumiko [Japan] Research on the intonation systems in Turkish and Japanese dialects: interface between phonology and syntax/semantics
2016
SATO, Hirokazu [Japan] Research on dynamics of supra-segmental characteristics in Japanese and Southeast Asian languages
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
KANG, Youngsuk [Korea] Description and theoretical study of accent in Korean dialects
2015
WU, Tien-Tai [Taiwan] Studies on Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan in the Contemporary Japan
Deng Yingwen [China] Japan-Southeast Asia Relations in the Cold War Era
KOYA, Nobuko [Japan] Changing position and practices of the folk healer in pluralistic medical system in Thailand
TAMURA, Suzuko [Japan] Contemporary issues in the field research and descriptive study of Ainu and other endangered languages
Anthony Jukes [Australia] Linguistics
Antonia Soriente [Italia] Linguistics
John Bowden [Australia] Linguistics
TAKAGI, Ryo [Japan] Anthropological Study of Interaction in Thailand
Yanti [Indonesia] Linguistics
2014
NAKATANI, Hideaki [Japan] Generalized Science of Humanity
BAO, Lianqun [China] Linguistics
KURIBAYASHI, Hitoshi [Japan] Mongolian philology
DIAH SYAFITRI HANDAYANI [Indonesia] Contrastive linguistics (Indonesian and Japanese)
CHIUNG, Wivun [Taiwan] Migration and Indigenization: From Chinese Minh Huong People to Vietnamese Missionary Scripts and Romanization Movement in Vietnam and Taiwan
SHINE, Toshihiko [Japan] International study
SUZUKI, Emi [Japan] Political history of modern and contemporary Egypt, Area studies (Middle East)
2013
NAKATA, Ko [Japan] Islamic Studies
IWAKABE, Yoshimitsu [Japan] History
SUGAWARA, Jun [Japan]
TAKAKURA Hiroki [Japan] Social Anthropology
YILMAZ, Serdar [Turkey] Japanese Language Education
Susan ASILI [Iran] History of Qajar Iran
Christopher I. Beckwith [America] Historical and linguistic Studies on Ancient East Asia and Central Eurasia
2012
Ookhnoi BATSAIKHAN [Mongol] Modern History of Mongolia and International Relations in Modern East
POTANINA, Olga [Russia] Linguistics
FILCHENKO, Andrey [Russia] Linguistics
2011
NAKAYAMA, Kazuyoshi [Japan] Social Anthropology
2010
Tirtosudarmo Riwanto [Indonesia] Social Demography
Anthony Jukes [British] Linguistics
MAMIYA, Kensaku [Japan] Linguistics
Baldev B. Matlani [India] Sindhi Medieval Literature & Criticism
図門吉日嘎拉 [China] Linguistics
USUKI, Akira [Japan] Middle-Eastern Area Studies
扎 布 [China] Literature
Christopher I. Beckwith [USA] History, Languages and Cultures in Central Eurasia and East Asia
Tashiro Perez, Eliza Atsuko [Brazil] Linguistics
Coelho, Olga Ferreira [Brazil] Linguistics
2009
SHINE, Toshihiko [Japan] History
金 少萍 [China] Anthropology
エルデムト [China] History
TANGIKU, Itsuji [Japan] Linguistics/Anthropology
NAKAYAMA, Kazutoshi [Japan] Anthropology
JATINDER PAL SINGH JOLLY [India] Literature
KAEADOKO, Mutsumi [Japan] Archeology
SHIMIZU, Akitoshi [Japan] Anthropology
OSOEGAWA, Taku [Japan] Politics
図門吉日嘎拉 [China] Linguistics
MAMIYA, Kenzou [Japan] Linguistics
Tashiro Perez, Eliza Atsuko [Brazil] Linguistics
Coelho, Olga Ferreira [Brazil] Linguistics
Zwartjes, Otto Jeroen [Holland] Linguistics
Fernandes Salles Altman, Maria Cristina [Brazil] Linguistics
2008
SHIMIZU, Akitoshi [Japan]
SHINE, Toshihiko [Japan]
KAWATOKO, Mutsuo [Japan]
OKUNO, Katsumi [Japan]
金 少萍 [China]
エルデムト [China]
TANGIKU, Itsuji [Japan]
2007
SHIMIZU, Akitoshi [Japan] Anthropology
ISHII, Hiroshi [Japan]
UCHIBORI, Motomitsu [Japan]
TAKAMATSU, Yoichi [Japan]
Ayisima Miersulitan [China]
Christopher Beckwith [Indiana University]
2006
SHIMIZU, Akitoshi [Japan] Anthropology
Naw Si Blut [Myanmar]
KAWADA, Junzo [Japan]
Matthew William Mosca [America]
2005
Roberts-Kohno Rosalind Ruth [America]
Naw Si Blut [Myanmar]
MIYAJI, Mieko [Japan]
2004
Christopher I Beckwith [America]
Sangi Vladimir Mikhajlovich [Russia]
Roberts-Kohno Rosalind Ruth [America]
Massoud Daher [Lebanon]
La Minh Hang [Vietnam]
王菊 [China]
2003
Ehelbert Emmanuel KARI [Nigeria]
HANJABAM Surmangol Sharma [India]
JOYCE Terry Andrew [United Kingdom]
OEHLER Susan Elizabeth [America]
2002
Wufela Yaek' olingo,Andre [Democratic Republic of the Congo]