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StaffResearch Fellow (Visiting Researcher)

In addition to conducting individual research as members of the Institute, they also provide information to the research community and serve as a link between researchers in Japan and overseas by organizing joint research projects in order to fully demonstrate the functions of the International Center for Inter-Use and Cooperative Research on Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa.

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Turco-Persianate Materialities and Subalternities in a Multilingual Space: The Epic Cycle of Muḥammad Ḥanafiyya and its Transregional Circulation

France

Alsancakli Sacha René Mehmet

2025.10.01～2026.09.30

A study on “ecology” of Northern ethnic minority languages in the written materials of the 19th and 20th centuries

Japan

FUJISHIRO Setsu

2026.04.01～2029.03.31

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

Japan

HAYASHI Tooru

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

An interdisciplinary exploration of ecological ethnography

Japan

ITO Noriko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Linguistic Research on Arabic Dialects and Berber Varieties in Tunisia/ A Linguistic Description of Tawjout Berber, an Endangered Language of Southern Tunisia

Japan

KUMAKIRI Taku

2026.04.01～2029.03.31

Reading Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the Wake of Ultra-nationalism in India and Contemporary Trends in Bangladesh-India Cultural-Political Relations

Bangladesh

MANAS KUMAR Chowdhury

2026.07.01～2029.03.31

Comprehensive research on Thai grammar

Japan

MINEGISHI Makoto

2022.04.01～2029.03.31

The Anthropology of Religion and Development Assistance in the Global Context: A Case Study of an Islamic New Religious Movement and an Face-based International NGO

Japan

MINESAKI Hiroko

2026.04.01～2027.03.31

Linguistic landscape of Indonesia: The dynamism between national language and local languages

Japan

MIYAKE Yoshimi

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Investigation of language contact phenomena in Northeast Siberia /An empirical study on the historical changes in Yukaghir grammar

Japan

NAGASAKI Iku

2026.04.01～2029.03.31

Rethinking the anthropology of death: Exploring ‘reality’ through and anthropological approach based on affect theory

Japan

NISHII Ryoko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Grammatical description of Turkic languages and its historical elucidation: Focusing on Kyrgyz

Japan

OHSAKI Noriko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Rabindranath Tagore and the oral culture of Bengal

Japan

ONISHI Masayuki

2026.04.01～2029.03.31

The Tantrāloka of Abhinavagupta

United Kingdom

Sanderson Alexis G. J. S.

2023.04.01～2029.03.31

The phonological properties of the Japanese r-sound: A contrastive study of Japanese dialects

Japan

SATO Kumiko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Human life history strategy under economic and social systems after the industrial revolution

United States

SPRAGUE David Shigeru

2024.08.01～2027.07.31

A study of the challenges and solutions for Muslim communities in the context of contemporary pluralism and diversity

Japan

TAKAKI Keiko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

The Compilation of a Shan-English dictionary and a preliminary study of Shan grammar

Myanmar

Tun Sai Kyaw

2025.04.01～2027.03.31

Anthropological research on nuclear waste and changing survival conditions in out-of-the-way lifeworlds

Japan

UCHIYAMADA Yasushi

2024.04.01～2028.03.31

The study of Han Chinese Eight Banners in Qing dynasty

Japan

WATANUKI Tetsuro

2023.04.01～2029.03.31