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

Myanmar
, Sai Kyaw Tun

2025.04.01～2027.03.31

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

The influence of the interaction between early Indologists and the intellectuals of South Asia on the history of thoughts

Japan
HARIMOTO, Kengo

2022.04.01～2028.03.31

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

Relationship between intensity of connected mind creation and biodiversity in southern Kyusyu

Japan
KAWAZOE, Tatsuro

2025.04.01～2026.03.31, 2024.04.01～2025.03.31

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

Japan
MIYAKE, Yoshimi

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Islamic social movements in contemporary Indonesia

Japan
NAGASAWA, Eiji

2024.04.01～2026.03.31

Islamic social movements in contemporary Indonesia

Japan
NAKAMURA, Mitsuo

2022.10.01～2025.09.30

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

Exploring the essence of plurality: The meaning and usage of ‘ra’ in Japanese dialects within a unified framework

Japan
OSHIMA, Hajime

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Muslim migration to Asia countries

Japan
OTSUBO, Reiko

2024.04.01～2027.03.31

Grammatical changes in Manchu from the perspective of areal linguistics

Korea
PARK, Sangchul

2024.09.01～2025.08.31

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

Japan
SATO, Kumiko

2025.04.01～2028.03.31

Research on Western Xia grammar and vocabulary based on Western Xia Buddhist scriptures

China
SOLONIN, Kirill

2025.02.14～2025.12.13, 2022.10.02～2023.03.25

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

Democracy as practice: The potential of “networks of donation” in Myanmar

Japan
TOSA, Keiko

2023.04.01～2026.03.31

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

Japan
UCHIYAMADA, Yasushi

2024.04.01～2028.03.31