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Externally Funded Research

In order to promote various research projects focusing on Asian and African languages and cultures, the Institute actively applies for and obtains research funding from Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and research grants from private foundations. In recent years, we have also launched research projects in collaboration with private institutions, contributing to more practical applications of our research findings.

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Projects

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Transformative (A)] Transformative face-body / Field practice of embodied transformation

Date: 2025.04.01～2030.03.31
Research Representative: TOKORO Ikuya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Transformative (A)] The body in death / The body in non-existence

Date: 2025.04.01～2030.03.31
Research Representative: KAWAI Aya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (A)] Creating Resources for Linguistic Research based on Descriptive: Materials: Exploring the Frontier of Data-driven Linguistic Investigation

Date: 2025.04.01～2030.03.31
Research Representative: KUREBITO Tokusu

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Ecological Ethnography: Perceiving Symbiotic Environments

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: KAWAI Kaori

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Ecological Coexistence and Nomadic Adaptation: A Comparative Analysis of Central Asian Pastoralism

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: NODA Jin

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Comparative study of Muslim communities on diversity and coexistence: Focusing on practice

Date: 2024.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: GOTO Emi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Reconstruction of Topic/Subject Prominence Typology Research Project

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Research Representative: KOGURA Norikazu

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] The Parameter-driven approach to cross-Bantu typology: Exploring the variation and universals in Bantu languages

Date: 2023.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: SHINAGAWA Daisuke

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Volcanic Dynamics of Sexualities, Marriage, and Singleness in Contemporary East African Societies

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: SHIINO Wakana

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

Rethinking South Asian Studies from the Perspective of "Emotions"

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: AWAYA Toshie

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Comprehensive Studies on Tibetan Muslims in Western Himalaya

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: OGURA Satoshi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Democracy as Practice: The Potential of "Networks of Giving" in Myanmar

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: TOSA Keiko

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Descriptive study on the definition of "sentence" Research Project

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: YAMAKOSHI Yasuhiro

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Religious and Regional Comparative Studies about Secularization and Public Morality: Focusing on the Monotheistic Society

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: TAKAO Kenichiro

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Rethinking the Anthropology of Death: An Anthropological Inquiry into "Actuality" through Affect Theory

Date: 2021.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: NISHII Ryoko

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Anthropology of Things Research Project

Date: 2020.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: TOKORO Ikuya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] An Anthropological study of nuclear waste and the changing conditions of survival in the life world

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: UCHIYAMADA Yasushi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Reconsidering arts in Africa: An anthropological study of institutions and ways of life

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: OGATA Shirabe

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Shi'tization of the Iranian Plateau reflected in Book Culture Research Project

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: KONDO Nobuaki

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] A Historical Study of Ethiopian Food Culture

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: ISHIKAWA Hiroki

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Construction of a Northern-Burmish lexical and morphemic database Research Project

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: SAWADA Hideo

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] A Lexicon and Descriptive Grammar of Sumbawa (Indonesia): Comparative and Contrastive Studies with Neighboring Languages

Date: 2025.04.01～2030.03.31
Research Representative: SHIOHARA Asako

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Popular Reception of the Shahnama: A Comparative Study of the Shahnama and its Prose Retellings by Storytellers

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: YAMAMOTO Kumiko

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Research on the Resource Development of Jingpo Oral Traditions

Date: 2024.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: YOSHIDA Yutaka

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Research on Texts in African Languages

Date: 2024.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: KAJI Shigeki

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Research on the Resource Development of Jingpo Oral Traditions

Date: 2024.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: KURABE Keita

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Activism in Literary Translation: Strategies for Integrating Arabic Literature in Israel

Date: 2024.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: HOSODA Kazue

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] A study on the formation and social function of secret languages in Turkey

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Research Representative: HAYASHI Tooru

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] The formation of the 18th century Ottoman library collections, especially in the reign of Mahmud I (1730-54)

Date: 2023.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: TAKAMATSU Yoichi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] A Study of Expressions of Time in Mainland Southeast Asian Isolating Languages

Date: 2023.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: MINEGISHI Makoto

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Verb-argument agreement observed in Malay varieties based on parallel corpus data

Date: 2020.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: SHIOHARA Asako

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Transcription and analysis of unpublished Carnets bequeathed by Joseph-Charles Mardrus in his own handwriting

Date: 2020.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: ODA Jun'ichi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Challenging (Exploratory)] Language documentation on the custom of distributing the Somin-shoorai amulet in Yookadoo, Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Research Representative: YAMAKOSHI Yasuhiro

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Challenging (Exploratory)] Development of Discourses about Tolerance and Coexistence in the Modern Muslim Society through the Case of Jews in the Persian Gulf

Date: 2023.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: TAKAO Kenichiro

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] Abstract Ideas and Their Influence on Creation: An Anthropological Study of Contemporary Restaurants in Peru and Japan

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: FUJITA Shu

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] "Pilgrimage Networks and Intellectual Exchange in the Western Indian Ocean World, 15th–17th Centuries

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: OTSUYA Kaori

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] Politics of Urban Rule and Interreligous Relations in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul

Date: 2025.04.01～2030.03.31
Research Representative: MORITA Madoka

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] Kinship-based Remittances and Economic Inequality in Non-oil Middle Eastern Countries: The Case of Jordan

Date: 2023.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: USUKI Haruka

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] A Study of Affectus in African Witchcraft: A Multimodal Approach

Date: 2023.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: MURATSU Ran

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] An Empirical Study of the Universal and Language-specific Properties of Prosodic Hierarchical Structures

Date: 2023.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: UETA Naoki

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] The Role of Perspective in Hawaiian: A Descriptive Study with a Focus on Spatial Expressions

Date: 2023.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: IWASAKI Kanae

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] Reception of Mirror for Princes in Early Modern Persianate World: Research on the Manuscript Tradition of Kalilah wa Dimnah

Date: 2023.04.01～2027.03.31
Research Representative: KANDA Yui

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] A Study on the Origin and History of Associations in Catalonia, Spain Research Project

Date: 2023.04.01～2027.03.31
Research Representative: IWASE Yuko

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] Relationship between biodiversity and intensity of related population creation in Southern Kyushu

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: KAWAZOE Tatsuro

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] Redefinition of the Vietnamese "community" in Japan: in terms of linguistic landscapes in their residential areas

Date: 2022.04.01～2027.03.31
Research Representative: ADACHI Mayumi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[JSPS Research Fellow] A Cultural Anthropological Study on Multilingual Practices and Modes of Coexistence among Deaf and Hearing Communities in Kenya

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: YOSHIDA Yutaka

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[JSPS Research Fellow] The Contemporary Transformation of the Gender Norm of Purdah in South Asia: A Cross-border Comparative Study of India and Pakistan

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: KAGAWA Erika

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[JSPS Research Fellow] Tangut as a Hub of Buddhism in East Eurasia

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: HAMANAKA Saya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[JSPS Research Fellow] The Making of Islamic Pantheism and Inter-religious Interactions in Premodern South Asia

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: HOMMA Ryusei

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[JSPS Research Fellow] Everyday Life and Memories of Mobility among Turkish Muslim Migrants: Focusing on Communities in Japan, Turkey, and the United States

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Research Representative: NUMATA Sayoko

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[JSPS Research Fellow] Tangut language and culture within West Gyalrongic Research Project

Date: 2023.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: ARAKAWA Shintaro

Other JSPS Projects

Externally Funded Research
Other JSPS Program

Overcoming social division and achieving diversity through embodiment

Date: 2023.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: TOKORO Ikuya