22Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS)MEIS was established in 2010 as an autonomous academic institution to take over the 5-year large-scale project “Research and Educational Project for Middle East and Islamic Studies” (the former MEIS), which was carried out from 2005 through 2009 academic years.The former MEIS project was supported by special research fund of Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and was engaged in following activities.1. Setting up and managing two overseas satellite ofces: Japan Center for Middle East Studies (JaCMES) in Beirut, Lebanon and Kota Kinabaru Liaison Office in Saba, Malaysia;2. Joint research projects on the Middle East and/or Islam;3. Seminars on the Middle East and Islamic Studies for students of postgraduate and post-doctoral level.In addition to the above mentioned regular program activities, occasional seminars, symposia, and conferences were held on various topics, such as seminars on the Arabic, Ottoman, Persian and Javanese historical manuscripts. These activities contributed to advance and train the researchers of younger generation. MEIS is designed to continue its contribution to the developments of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at both national and international level, in conjunction with the newly born Core Research Program “Human Mobility and Formation of Plural Societies in the Middle East and the Muslim World”, and Field Science Center (FSC), which runs two overseas satellite ofces after 2010.http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/projects/meis/Grammatological Informatics based on Corpora of Asian Scripts (GICAS) GICAS is one of the “COE” (Centers of Excellence) academic institutions funded by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientic Research (Priority Areas Research) of the MEXT.GICAS was built in 5 years, from 2001 to 2005, with an approximate total budget of 500 million yen. “Grammatological Informatics” is a new academic branch, which concentrates on giving a well-founded scientic basis for the research of “scripts and characters” (quite rich and abundant, especially in Asia) of the human language through their re-evaluation as an infrastructure of the communication.GICAS builds the Corpora of Canons, royal manuscripts, as well as other linguistic sources, that is “Corpora of Asian Scripts” which reect the long academic tradition of thoughts and contemplations on “scripts and characters” in Asia and the history of their usage. Only through the verification through this Corpora implemented by the utmost advanced techniques of information processing, emerges the new academic sphere of “Grammatological Informatics” which is well-founded and promotes the practical applications of its outcomes.GICAS will be an internationally accessible reference center of scripts and characters, which enable Japan to continue to play a conducting role in the study of Asian scripts.GICAS became an autonomous COE institution since 2006 after a five-year grant-in-aid by MEXT. It undertakes the task of offering a new paradigm of grammatological informatics as well as upbuilding the result of the projects so far.http://www.aa.tufs.ac.jp/en/projects/gicas/Established Academic InstitutionsGICAS
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