Past Inter-University Research Projects

General Research

• Crossroads of Palestinian Nationalism and Zionism (2010-2015): SUGASE Akiko
• The Anthropology of Identification and Migration (2010-2015): CHEN Tien-Shi
• An Anthropological Study of NGO Activities: A New Perspective on Social Relationships in the Age of Global Assistance (2010-2015): NOBUTA Toshihiro
• The Anthropology of Materiality Focusing On Physicality, Sensuality and Ontology (2010-2015): FURUYA Yoshiaki
• An Anthropological Study of Street-Wisdom and the Generation of Locality (2010-2015): SEKINE Yasumasa
• A Comparative Ethnographic Study of the Discourse and Social Dynamics of ‘Inclusion’ in Nepal (2010-2015): NAWA Katsuo
• “An Anthropological Study of the Transformation of South Asian Performing Arts in the Age of Globalization” (2010-2015): MATSUKAWA Kyoko
• Exploring Methodolgies for Understanding ‘The Lives of Children’ in the Contemporary Fields of Health, Medicine and Social Welfare (2010-2015): MICHINOBU Ryoko
• The Modernity of Voices: The Comparative Study of Gramophone Records Distributed in Taiwan, Shanghai and Japan (2010-2015): LIOU Lin-Yu
• Local knowledge in disaster recovery: Rebuilding of intangible culture and the transmission of memories (2012-2015): HASHIMOTO Hiroyuki
• The Environmental History of 'Hunter-gatherers' in the Tropics: A Comparative Approach to People Living in Asia, Africa, and South America (2012-2015): IKEYA Kazunobu
• Rethinking Gift Theory: An Interdisciplinary Comparative Study of "Gift-giving", "Exchange", and "Sharing"(2012-2015): KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro
• A study of meat-eating (2012-2015): NOBAYASHI Atsushi
• An Anthropological Study of Tactile Culture: Exploring New Fields of "Manual Learning" based on Museums (2012-2015): HIROSE Koujirou
• Practices and Emotions: A New Perspective of Development Anthropology (2010-2014): SEKINE Hisao
• Mirabilia Mundi: “Wonders of the World” in Comparative Perspective, Focusing on the Middle East and Europe (2010-2013): YAMANAKA Yuriko
• New Approaches to Family Studies in Anthropology (2010-2014): KOIKE Makoto
• Immigrant Communities and Immigrant Languages in Japan (2010-2014): SHOJI Hiroshi
• Cross Cultural Studies of Handlooms and Textiles (2010-2014): YOSHIMOTO Shinobu
• A World without Borders: Researching the Middle Eastern System of Human Relations (2010-2014): HORIUCHI Masaki
• Reconsidering Japan's “Modernization” in Comparison with other Asian and African Societies (2010-2014): KAWADA Junzo
• A Comprehensive Analysis of Overseas Anthropological Studies of Japan (2010-2014): KUWAYAMA Takami
• Cataloguing Umesao Tadao's Archived Materials on Inner Mongolia for Academic Research(2010-2014): KONAGAYA Yuki
• Japanese Native Anthropology: Folkloristics among Cultural Movements from the 1930s to the 1960s (2010-2013): SHIGENOBU Yukihiko
• An Anthropological and Historical Study of Ethnic Cultural Resources and Politics in South China (2010-2013): TSUKADA Shigeyuki
• Shared Visual Anthropology: Sharing the Way of Filmmaking (2009-2013): MURAO Seiji
• The Anthropology of "Democracy" in Rural Societies of Asia and Africa (2009-2013): MASAKI Katsuhiko
• Plant Materials in Changing Value Judgments and Social Interactions (2009-2013): OCHIAI Yukino
• Anthropological Studies of Suffering and Care (2009-2013): UKIGAYA Sachiyo
• Comparative Ethnographic Studies on Conflicts in Post-independence Oceania (2009-2013): NIWA Norio
• Subgrouping Languages: Examining Genetic Relationships and Their Implications in Human History (2009-2013): KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
• A Basic Study of Folk Culture in North Korea (2009-2013): ASAKURA Toshio
• Anthropological Studies of Human Movement From an Evolutionary Viewpoint (2008-2012): INTOH Michiko
• A Comparative Study on Social Change under the Post “Post-Socialist” Regime (2008-2012): SASAKI Shiro
• An Anthropological Study of the Interface Between Minority and Music (2008-2012): TERADA Yoshitaka
• The Potential of Anthropological Approaches in the Study of Peace, Conflict and Violence (2008-2012): ODA Hiroshi
• Socio-cultural Reconstruction in China: Perspectives on Glocalization (2008-2012): HAN Min
• Anthropological Perspectives on Well-being and Life Design (2008-2012): SUZUKI Nanami
• Studies on the Thought and Practice of “Fair Trade” (2008-2012): SUZUKI Motoi
• Research and Development of a Program for Intercultural Understanding based on Creative Expressions at the National Museum of Ethnology: Designing Ways to Promote Awareness of Others (2008-2012): NISHI Hiroko
• An Anthropological Exploration in Risk, Uncertainty and Future (2008-2012): AZUMA Kentaro
• An Anthropological Study of the Complexity of Our Being in the “Fourth World” (2008-2012): ODA Makoto
• Anthropological Studies of “Work” with a Gender Perspective (2008-2012): NAKATANI Ayami
• A Multiplicity of Tsukurimono [cultural artifacts] for Folk-events (2008-2012): FUKUHARA Toshio
• Alternative Models of Reproduction and Family: A Cultural and Historical Study (2008-2012): MATSUOKA Etsuko
• The Anthropology of Nationality and Passports (2007-2010) : CHEN Tien-Shi
• A Study of the Practical Use of Local Social Networking Services and the Construction of Contemporary Local Communities (2007-2010) : SUGIMOTO Seiko
• An Anthropological Study of Christian Civilization and Nationalism (2007-2010) : SUGIMOTO Yoshio
• The Conservation of Ethnographic Collections (2007-2010) : HIDAKA Shingo
• A History of Anthropological Research in Japan (2007-2010) : YAMAJI Katsuhiko
• A Re-examination of How Aynu (Ainu) People and Culture are Displayed in Museums (2007-2010) : STEWART, Henry
• The Development of Indigenous Art and Intellectual Property Rights of Indigenous People in Canada: An Analysis of the National Museum of Ethnology’s Collection of Silkscreen Prints of Canadian Northwest Coast Indians and Prints of Canadian Inuits (2007-2010) : SAITO Reiko
• What is “Political Identity”? Indigenous Mobilization as Liberation Movement (2007-2010) : OTA Yoshinobu
• An Action Anthropology of Whaling Cultures (2008-2010) : KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro
• An Anthropological Study of the Administration of Sacred Spaces (2008-2010) : NAKAMAKI Hirochika
• Australian Multiculturalism and Its Past, Present and Future: Harmonious Diversity and Competitive Diversity (2008-2010) : SEKINE Masami
• Subsistence Activities and Production Systems in Socio-historical Perspective (2006-2009) : MATSUI Takeshi
• What it Means to be “Social”: A Study of the Anthropology of Europe (2006-2009) : MORI Akiko
• A Study of Cultural Diversity in Madagascar (2006-2009) : IIDA Taku
• An Anthropological Study of Cities in South Asia (2006-2009) : MIO Minoru
• The Political Anthropology of Communities in East and Southeast Asia (2006-2009) : HIRAI Kyonosuke
• Construction and Change of Ethnic Cultural Resources (2006-2009) : TAKEUCHI Fusaji
• The Structure of Sound Cultures in the Arab World (2006-2009) : HORIUCHI Masaki
• A History of Modernization under Socialism: A Narrative-based Reconstruction of Experience (2006-2009) : KONAGAYA Yuki
• Comparative Studies on Multicultural Public Spheres in Post-Colonial Oceania (2006-2009) : KARAKITA Yasuyuki
• A Study of the Transformation of Nepal through the Rise of the Maoist Movement (2006-2009) : MINAMI Makito
• A Study of the Theory and Practice of International Education in Primary Schools, Junior High Schools and High Schools in Japan (2006-2009) : AKUTSU Shozo
• A Study of Ryukyu Materials in the Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology (2007-2009) : SASAKI Toshikazu
• Understanding Magic: The Interrelationship between Knowledge and Practice (2007-2009) : SHIRAKAWA Chihiro
• A Basic Analysis of the Languages Spoken by Immigrants in Japan (2007-2009) : SHOJI Hiroshi
• An Analysis of the Audio Materials of Aynu (Ainu) and Other Northern Languages in the National Museum of Ethnology (2007-2009) : NAKAGAWA Hiroshi
• A Typological Study of Voice in the World’s Languages (2006-2008) : NAKAMURA Wataru
• A Reexamination of Anthropological Studies of Korean Society: Establishing a New Research Partnership between Japan and Korea (2006-2008) : ASAKURA Toshio
• Civic Engagement and Globalism in the Post-Modern Era: Japan and Asia (2006-2008) : DEGUCHI Masayuki
• Visual Documentation of Traditional Performing Arts: Challenges and Prospects (2005-2008) : FUKUOKA Shota
• A Cultural Anthropological Study of Isyu Retsuzo (2005-2008) : OHTSUKA Kazuyoshi
• Anthropology of Tourism on Custodians/Owners of Heritage and its Wise-use (2005-2008) : NISHIYAMA Noriaki
• The Anthropology of the Home: New Approaches to the Study of Kinship (2005-2008) : KOIKE Makoto
• An Anthropological Study of the Reconstruction of Global Environmental Histories (2005-2007) : IKEYA Kazunobu
• Development and Indigenous Peoples (2005-2007) : KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro
• Change of Coastal Societies: Conservation of Marine Environment and Participatory Development (2004-2006) : MATSUMOTO Hiroyuki
• Research on the Diversity and Politics of Display as a Style of Representation (2004-2007) : KAWAGUCHI Yukiya
• Integrated Conservation Management for the Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology: First Stage—Basic research for the construction of systems (2004-2007) : SONODA Naoko
• Who Are the Indigenous? Comparative Studies of the Sociohistorical Background of Minority/Indigenous Peoples (2004-2007) : KUBOTA Sachiko
• Ethnographic Knowledge under Post-Socialist Conditions, Redefined Positions and Effects: Unwinding the Multipolarity of the Anthropological Discipline as an Institution (2004-2007) : TAKAKURA Hiroki
• Sociocultural Dimensions in the Creation of Pluralistic Societies (2004-2007) : YOKOYAMA Hiroko
• Where Do Personal Memories Go?: Studies on Things and Homes in the Ubiquitous Society (2004-2007) : SATO Koji
• An Anthropological Evaluation of Development Assistance (2004-2007) : SUZUKI Motoi
• Anthropological Studies on Disaster (2004-2007) : HAYASHI Isao
• Toward the Creation of Textology (2004-2007) : SAITO Akira
• Toward a Reconstruction of Comparison as an Anthropological Method (2004-2007) : DEGUCHI Akira
• A Study of the Transformation of Health Systems under Globalization (2004-2007) : IKEDA Mitsuho
• An Applied Study of Medical Anthropology on Health, Medicine, Body and Reproduction (2004-2006) : NAMIHIRA Emiko
• An Anthropology of the Street (2004-2006) : SEKINE Yasumasa
• Anthropology of the Management of Corporate Mythology (2005-2006) : HIOKI Koichiro
• Anthropological Studies in Textile Globalization of Batik (2005-2006) : YOSHIMOTO Shinobu
• Reconsideration of Knowledge on Education of Cultural Anthropology in Japan (2004-2006) : OKADA Hiroki
• An Ethnological Study of Domestication (2004-2006) : YAMAMOTO Norio
• Social Change and Reconstruction in China: Practice and Representation of Revolution (2004-2006) : HAN Min
• Rethinking the Inca Empire: The Concept of Empire and the Receipt Process of Imperial Image (2004-2006) : SEKI Yuji
• Reconstructing Knowledge of Social Movements (2004-2006) : UDAGAWA Taeko
• A Study of the Incorporation of Modernization in Indonesia (2004-2006) : KAGAMI Haruya
• Anthropology of Korean Society: New Aspects in the Process of Globalization (2003-2005) : ASAKURA Toshio
• The Politics of Ethnic Representation in China: An Anthropological and Historical Study of Mainland South China (2003-2005) : TSUKADA Shigeyuki
• Ethno-Aesthetic Studies of Music and Body (2003-2005) : YAMADA Yoichi
• Towards Planning a Sustainable Economy in the Mongolian Plateau (2003-2005) : KONAYAGA Yuki
• Orality and Literacy—The Transmission of Folk Knowledge in Japan (2003-2005) : SASAHARA Ryoji
• Education in Intercultural Understanding: A Development Program Making Use of the National Museum of Ethnology (2003-2005) : MORIMO Takeo
• Anthropological Study of Circum-Japan Sea Culture Focusing on the Environment, Resources and Trade (2003-2004) : OHTSUKA Kazuyoshi
• An Anthropological Study of Administration in Company as Religious Cultures (2003-2004) : NAKAMAKI Hirochika
• Discographic Research on Japan Columbia’s Recordings of Japan’s Imperial Colonies (2003-2004) : HOSOKAWA Shuhei
• The Transition of Japan to a Multiethnic Society (2003-2004) : SHOJI Hiroshi
• Living Strategies of Resource-limited Islanders in the Western Pacific: Resource Exploitation and Interactions with Other Islands (2002-2004) : INTOH Michiko
• Postcolonial Africa: Dynamics and Problems (2002-2004) : TAKEZAWA Shoichiro
• Culture Heritage Management and Tourism (2002-2004) : NISHIYAMA Noriaki
• Global Structuring of the White Race (2002-2004) : FUJIKAWA Takao
• Life Culture through Daily-use Articles: Omura Shige’s Collection at the National Museum of Ethnology (2002-2004) : YOKOGAWA Kimiko
• The Jesup North Pacific Expedition Revisited (1902-2002) (2002-2004) : TANIMOTO Kazuyuki
• Practices of Anthropological Knowledge in the Medical, Development and Educational Fields (2002-2004) : TAMURA Katsumi
• Research on Various Concepts Concerning Analysis of Religious Behavior (2003) : TACHIKAWA Musashi
• Conservation Strategy for the Collections of the National Museum of Ethnology (2002-2003) : SONODA Naoko
• Indigenous Sharing and Commercial Distribution of Marine Resources (2002-2003) : KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro
• Studies of Sound Culture and Performing Arts in the Islamic World through Inter-arts (2002) : MIZUNO Nobuo
• Comparative Study of Framework of Time and Society: Towards a New Model of Peoples in Symbiosis (2001-2003) : YOKOYAMA Hiroko
• The Arabian Nights and Orientalism in Resonance (2001-2003) : NISHIO Tatsuo
• Engendering the Representation of “Tradition” (2001-2003) : IKEDA Shinobu
• An Anthropological Study of Christianity and Civilization (2001-2003) : SUGIMOTO Yoshio
• The Study of Formational Process of the Collection produced by Attic Museum (2001-2003) : KONDO Masaki
• Gender/Sexuality and Pluralism/Multiculturalism (2001-2003) : UDAGAWA Taeko
• Folktale and Family (2001-2003) : EGUCHI Paul Kazuhisa
• Anthropological Study on Globalization of Corporate Culture (2001-2002) : NAKAMAKI Hirochika
• The Structure and Function of Mandala (2001-2002) : TACHIKAWA Musashi
• Specification of Sustainability Mechanism in Mongolian Pastoral System (2001-2002) : KONAGAYA Yuki
• Studies on Yanagi Sosetsu and the Folk Craft Movement in Japan (2001-2002) : KUMAKURA Isao
• Rethinking Latin American Social and Cultural Systems (2001-2002) : KIMURA Hideo
• Basic Studies of Modern Life and Culture in Korea (2001-2002) : ASAKURA Toshio
• An Anthropological and Historical Analysis of Ethnic Presentation in China — Classification and Analysis Centered on Southern Regions— (2000-2002) : HASEGAWA Kiyoshi
• Cultural Resources and Symbiosis in the Levant (2000-2002) : NOMURA Masaichi
• Anthropological Application to Local Identity in Post-New Order Indonesia (2000-2002) : NAKAMURA Kiyoshi
• Design for a Digital Museum (2000-2002) : SUGITA Shigeharu
• Ethnicity and Identity in Circumpolar Regions (2000-2002) : IRIMOTO Takashi
• Anthropological Study of the Environmental Conservation and Biological History in Asia (2000-2002) : IKEYA Kazunobu
• Methodology in Studying Performing Arts of South Asia (2000-2001) : TERADA Yoshitaka
• Study on the Multilingualization of Japan (2000-2001) : SHOJI Hiroshi
• “My-home” Perspectives: Towards a New Spatial Commonality (2000-2001) : SATOH Koji
• Dynamic Relationship of Australian Aboriginal Society with Governmental Policies (2000-2001) : KUBO Masatoshi
• Politicization and Militarization of Conflicts (1999-2001) : MATSUDA Motoji
• Indigenous Use and Management of Marine Resources (1999-2001) : KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro
• Economic Systems and Historical Transformation of Indigenous People in the North Pacific Rim (1999-2001) : OHTSUKA Kazuyoshi
• Advanced Studies of Autonomous Tourism (1999-2001) : ISHIMORI Shuzo
• Applied Anthropology of the Global-Environmental Problems (1999-2001) : IKEYA Kazunobu