OrganizationBoards and Committees

Administrative and research activities at ILCAA are conducted through and/or monitored by various special boards and committees. All the boards and committees include eminent scholars and specialists from outside the Institute, in order to reflect the opinions of the academic community and to maintain transparency in the operation of ILCAA.

The following are the two boards and six committees:

• Advisory Board
• Advisory Committee for Research Collaboration
• Committee for Language Training
• Committee for Field Science Interdisciplinary Research
• Editorial Committee
• Committee for Overseas Research Office
• International Advisory Committee for the Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES)
• International Advisory Board

The role of each board and committee and its members in academic year 2024 are presented below.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board acts as an advisory body to the Director in all matters pertaining to the operations of ILCAA. The Board consists of ILCAA staff and eminent scholars and specialists from other institutions, thus representing the inter-university nature of the Institute.

• HAYAMI, Yoko. Inspector General, JSPS
• INOSE, Kumie. Auditor, National Institutes for the Humanities
• IWASHITA, Akihiro. Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo
• KITAMOTO, Asanobu. Director, Center for Open Data in the Humanities, Joint Support-Center for Data Science Research, Research Organization of Information and Systems, Tachikawa
• KOBAYASHI, Masato. Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
• NISHIO, Tetsuo. Senior Professor/Professor Emeritus, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
• TANAHASHI, Satoshi. Emeritus Professor, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo
• YAMAGIWA, Juichi. Director, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto
• YONEDA, Nobuko. Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Osaka
• KONDO, Nobuaki. ILCAA
• NODA, Jin. ILCAA
• YAMAKOSHI, Yasuhiro. ILCAA
• SHIOHARA, Asako. ILCAA
• WATANABE, Honoré. ILCAA
• OTA, Nobuhiro. ILCAA
• TOKORO, Ikuya. ILCAA

Advisory Committee for Research Collaboration

The committee, composed of both ILCAA staff and outside members, functions to maintain a transparent research collaboration system at the Institute.

• INOUE, Masaru. Professor, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo
• KATO, Atsuhiko. Professor, Institute of Cultural & Linguistic Studies. Keio University, Tokyo
• KURASAWA, Aiko. Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo
• KURODA, Takashi. Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai
• SUGIYAMA, Yuko. Emeritus Professor, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki
• TANAKA, Masakazu. Vice-president, Professional Institute of International Fashion, Tokyo
• TSUKAMOTO, Hideki. Professor, College of Foreign Studies, Kansai Gaidai University
• KONDO, Nobuaki. ILCAA
• NODA, Jin. ILCAA
• YAMAKOSHI, Yasuhiro. ILCAA
• SHIOHARA, Asako. ILCAA
• WATANABE, Honoré. ILCAA
• OTA, Nobuhiro. ILCAA
• TOKORO, Ikuya. ILCAA

Committee for Language Training

The committee is responsible for the language and linguistics training hosted by the Institute, such as Intensive Language Courses and Field Linguistics Workshops.

• CHIDA, Syuntaro. Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto
• KISHIDA, Fumitaka. Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Osaka
• KOBAYASHI, Masato. Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo
• KOMORI, Junko. Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Osaka
• SHINAGAWA, Daisuke. ILCAA
• KOGURA, Norikazu. ILCAA
• KUREBITO, Tokusu. ILCAA
• SHIINO, Wakana. ILCAA
• UETA, Naoki. ILCAA

Committee for Field Science Interdisciplinary Research

• EBIHARA, Atsushi. Senior Curator, Department of Botany, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo
• FUJITA, Koji. Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya
• MASUMOTO, Junya. Professor, Proteo-Science Center, Ehime University
• MINESAKI, Hiroko. Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Seikei University
• NAGANO, Takanori. Associate Professor, Guraduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University
• ISHIKAWA, Hiroki. ILCAA
• KUREBITO, Tokusu. ILCAA
• NODA, Jin. ILCAA
• TOGAWA, Masahiko. ILCAA
• TOKORO, Ikuya. ILCAA

Editorial Committee

The editorial committee advises the director on matters relating to the policy and screening of publications of the Institute.

• ISHIKAWA, Noboru. Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto
• MASUDA, Ken. Professor, Medical School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University
• MIURA, Toru. Professor Emeritus, Ochanomizu University, Tokyo
• MORIGUCHI, Tsunekazu. Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka
• NAGAHARA, Yoko. Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto
• YODA, Sumikazu. Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University, Osaka
• ARAKAWA, Shintaro. ILCAA
• IIZUKA, Masato. ILCAA
• KANDA, Yui. ILCAA
• KAWAI, Kaori. ILCAA
• KURABE, Keita. ILCAA
• SHIOHARA, Asako. ILCAA
• TOKORO, Ikuya. ILCAA

Committee for Overseas Research Office

The committee is in charge of discussing important matters pertaining to the Overseas Research Offices.

• HOSAKA, Shuji. Senior Adviser for Research, JIME center, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan, Tokyo
• NAGASAWA, Eiji. Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo
• OTOSHI, Tetsuya. Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo
• SAKAI, Keiko. Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, Politics and Economies, Chiba University, Chiba
• SUZUKI, Nobutaka. Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba
• KUROKI, Hidemitsu. ILCAA
• GOTO, Emi. ILCAA
• KAWAI, Aya. ILCAA
• TOKORO, Ikuya. ILCAA

International Advisory Committee for the Japan Center for Middle Eastern Studies (JaCMES)

The committee is responsible for advising the director on matters pertaining to JaCMES from an international perspective.

• AZAR, Pierre. Director, Japan Academic Center, Saint Joseph University
• DAHER, Massoud. Former Professor, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences, Lebanese University
• HANAFI, Sari. Professor, Fuculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut

International Advisory Board

The committee advises the director on matters relating to the research collaboration system of the Institute from an international perspective.

• ABDILASHIM, Duisenali. Professor, Eurasian National University
• BANDYOPADHYAY, Sumahan. Professor, Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University
• KYOHEIRWE, Florence Muhanguzi. Professor, Makerere University
• MOAZ, Abdalrazzaq. Correspodant Member, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut-Berlin
• ÖLMEZ, Mehmet. Professor, Istanbul University
• OTA, Nobuhiro. ILCAA
• TOGAWA, Masahiko. ILCAA
• WATANABE, Honoré. ILCAA