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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

The body in death / The body in non-existence

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: KAWAI, Aya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

Transformative face-body / Field practice of embodied transformation

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: TOKORO, Ikuya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

Creating Resources for Linguistic Research based on Descriptive: Materials: Exploring the Frontier of Data-driven Linguistic Investigation

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: KUREBITO, Tokusu

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Ecological Ethnography: Perceiving Symbiotic Environments

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.01
Research Representative: KAWAI, Kaori

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

Ecological Coexistence and Nomadic Adaptation: A Comparative Analysis of Central Asian Pastoralism

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: NODA, Jin

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Reconstruction of Topic/Subject Prominence Typology Research Project

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Research Representative: KOGURA, Norikazu

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Comprehensive Studies on Tibetan Muslims in Western Himalaya

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: OGURA, Satoshi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

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

Descriptive study on the definition of "sentence" Research Project

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: YAMAKOSHI, Yasuhiro

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Rethinking South Asian Studies from the Perspective of "Emotions" Research Project

Date: 2022.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: AWAYA, Toshie

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Anthropology of Things Research Project

Date: 2020.04.01～2026.03.31
Research Representative: TOKORO, Ikuya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

A Historical Study of Ethiopian Food Culture

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: ISHIKAWA, Hiroki

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

Construction of a Northern-Burmish lexical and morphemic database Research Project

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: SAWADA, Hideo

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

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

Reconsidering arts in Africa: An anthropological study of institutions and ways of life

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.01
Research Representative: OGATA, Shirabe

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Research on Texts in African Languages

Date: 2024.04.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: KAJI, Shigeki

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

Research on the Resource Development of Jingpo Oral Traditions

Date: 2024.04.01～2028.03.31
Research Representative: KURABE, Keita

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

A study on the formation and social function of secret languages in Turkey

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tangut as a Hub of Buddhism in East Eurasia

Date: 2025.04.01～2027.03.31
Research Representative: HAMANAKA, Saya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

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

Tangut language and culture within West Gyalrongic Research Project

Date: 2023.04.01～2026.03.24
Research Representative: ARAKAWA, Shintaro

Other JSPS Projects

Externally Funded Research
Other JSPS Program

Overcoming social division and achieving diversity through embodiment

Date: 2023.07.01～2029.03.31
Research Representative: TOKORO, Ikuya