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Externally Funded Research

To advance research on the languages and cultures of Asia and Africa, the Institute actively seeks external funding, including Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) as well as research grants from private foundations. In recent years, the Institute has also launched collaborative projects with private institutions, enabling the more practical application of its 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
Project Leader: TOKORO Ikuya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2025.04.01～2030.03.31
Project Leader: KAWAI Aya

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Connectivity of Migrants and Regional Division: Long-Distance Nationalism on Syria during the World War I Period

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: KUROKI Hidemitsu

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2025.04.01～2030.03.31
Project Leader: KUREBITO Tokusu

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Describing the geographical continuity of linguistic varieties and elucidating processes of cultural transmission using existing Mongolian-language materials

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: YAMAKOSHI Yasuhiro

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: GOTO Emi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: SHINAGAWA Daisuke

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (B)] Rethinking South Asian Studies from the Perspective of "Emotions"

Date: 2023.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: AWAYA Toshie

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Artistic Exchanges Between India and Japan: A Study of Okakura Kakuzo and Rabindranath Tagore

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: TOGAWA Masahiko

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] A Linguistic Description of Endangered Taoujout Berber in Southern Tunisia

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: KUMAKIRI Taku

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] A Critical Transcription and Study of the Manuscript 'Carnets'of Joseph-Charles Mardrus

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: ODA Jun'ichi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Sultan Mamud I's establishment of imperial libraries in Istanbul during the mid-18th century

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: TAKAMATSU Yoichi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] A Landscape Archaeological Study of the Interrelationship between the Formation of Prehistoric Oasis Systems and Iron Age Mortuary Practices in South-eastern Arabia

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: KURONUMA Taichi

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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: OGATA Shirabe

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: KONDO Nobuaki

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: ISHIKAWA Hiroki

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2025.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: YAMAMOTO Kumiko

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Is Resistance to State Violence Effective? : Study on Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) of Myanmar

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: NANG MYA KAY Khaing

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2024.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: YOSHIDA Yutaka

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2024.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: HAYASHI Tooru

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Grant-in-Aid (C)] Anthropological research on the making and utilization of objects (reproductions/artworks/commodities) in the “Jomon Renaissance”

Date: 2022.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: FURUYA Yoshiaki

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
Project Leader: YAMAKOSHI Yasuhiro

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[Early-Career] Study of Turkic-Russian bilingualism: An analysis of Sakha natural conversation

Date: 2026.04.01～2031.03.31
Project Leader: PROKOPEVA Mariia

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
Project Leader: OTSUYA Kaori

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

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

Date: 2023.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: UETA Naoki

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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: IWASE Yuko

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
Project Leader: ADACHI Mayumi

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[JSPS Research Fellow] Linguistic change in Xinjiang Manchu due to language contact

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: TAKATA Yuki

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[JSPS Research Fellow] The Influence of Women's Practices on the Operation and Maintenance of Water Supply Facilities in Rural Mozambique

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: KONDO Kanako

Externally Funded Research
KAKENHI

[JSPS Research Fellow] Religo-polotical authorities in the Early Modern Persianate World: Irano-Indian Kingship and Nuqtawī Order

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: SUMIDA Tetsuro

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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: 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
Project Leader: NUMATA Sayoko

Other JSPS Projects

Externally Funded Research
Other JSPS Program

Overcoming social division and achieving diversity through embodiment

Date: 2023.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: TOKORO Ikuya