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Joint Research Projects

ILCAA supports joint research projects that bring together researchers from Japan and abroad, making full use of the Institute’s facilities, resources, and expertise. Through these collaborations, specialists from diverse fields work collectively to generate new academic knowledge.

Each academic year, the Institute calls for proposals for new joint research initiatives and provides financial and material support to selected projects. The outcomes of these projects are widely disseminated through symposia, workshops, lectures, and publications, contributing to broader scholarly exchange.

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by Visiting Researchers
by Short-term Visitors
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General Type

Linguistics

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Description and Analysis of Various Phonetic Realizations in East Asian Languages

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: UETA Naoki

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Practical Approaches and Challenges of Creative Activities for the Next Generation in Minority Language Revitalization

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: YAMAKOSHI Yasuhiro

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Exploration into Dynamicity of Grammar (2): Multiplicity and subregularities in grammar

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: SADANOBU Toshiyuki

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Studies in Afro-Eurasian Geolinguistics

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: SHIRAI Satoko

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Diachronic Perspectives on Language Description and Typology in Bantu

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: FURUMOTO Makoto

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Archiving Fieldwork Materials of the Ainu Language: an Interdiciplinary Research (3)

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: OKUDA Osami

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

A study on the grammar of discourse in Eurasian languages

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: KOGURA Norikazu

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Clarification of the Actual Situation of Agro-pastoral Complex Frontier in the Trans-Himalayan Region: From the approach of vocabulary study−

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: HIRATA Masahiro

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Phonetic typology from cross-linguistic perspectives (phase 2)

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: LEE Seunghun

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Heritage languages and identities in a time of divisions and mobility

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: ADACHI Mayumi

Anthropology

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Maritime Southeast Asia as Contact Zones: Flow of People, Goods and Culture, and Social Transformation

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: TOMIZAWA Hisao

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Anthropology of Embodiment（2）:Dynamics of De-/Re-Embodiment

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: TOKORO Ikuya

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Comparative Ethnographical Study on the Dynamism of Debt(3) : Politics of Wealth Accumulation

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: MINOO Arihiro

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Taking on the challenges: An anthropological study of adventurous practices in contemporary Africa

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: OGATA Shirabe

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

The Anthropological Study of Hope in the Asia-Pacific Region：Future Prospects through New Bodily Practices

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: FUKAGAWA Hiroki

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Formation of a platform of anthropology and art rooted in the practice

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: MURATSU Ran

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Ethnography on Youth 'hustles' in Eastern Africa: their imagination and practice

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: SHIINO Wakana

History and Area Studies

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

A Study on the Islamic Material Culture: An Investigation of the Sakate Site

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: ENDO Hitoshi

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

A Study in the activities and works of Persian Literati in South Asia in the Late Persianate Age: as a Case Study of Ganesh Das

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: TSUYUGUCHI Tetsuya

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Spatial Structure Analysis of Historic Cairo and the Integrated Development of a Map- and Streetscape-Data Archive

Date: 2026.04.01～2029.03.31
Project Leader: KUMAKURA Wakako

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

The Evolving Conflict in Palestine/Israel (2): Hundredʼs Years Paradigm and Multilayered Reality

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: SUZUKI Hiroyuki

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Islamization of Southeast Asia in the Early Modern Period: South Asian Influences and Religious Traditions Prior to the Arrival of Islam

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: SUGAHARA Yumi

ILCAA Joint Research Project
JaCMES
General

Connectivity of migrants and refugees in multiethnic areas

Date: 2025.04.01～2028.03.31
Project Leader: KUROKI Hidemitsu

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Long-term cultural interrelation and transformation around the Gulf of Oman.

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: KURONUMA Taichi

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Overcoming divisions and searching for coexistence: Approaches of Islam and Gender Studies

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: GOTO Emi

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Adaptation and Reorientation of the Historical Texts and its Actors in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: KANDA Yui

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Intellectual encounters in Calcutta prior to and after the foundation of the Asiatic Society:From early modern traditions to colonial épistémè

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: OGURA Satoshi

ILCAA Joint Research Project
General

Everyday Forms of Ethnicity and Religiosity in Kurdistan: Comparative Inquiries into Social Organization of Cultural Difference and Crossborder Interaction in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey

Date: 2024.04.01～2027.03.31
Project Leader: MATSUNAGA Yasuyuki

by Visiting Researchers

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by Short-term Visitors

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Past Projects

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