Research Institute
2007 Visiting Researchers
last modified: February 6, 2008
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
FUKUI Eijiro (Japan) (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2009)
Anthropological Studies on Dignity and the Social Position of the Aged

FUNAKAWA (KANETANI) Miwa (Japan) (January 17, 2007 - December 31, 2008)
Material Culture in a Disaster Area: A Case Study of Kachchh, India after the Gujarat Earthquake

ISHIDA Shin-ichiro (Japan) (April 1, 2005 - October 15, 2007)
Anthropological Research on Judicial Reform and Alternative Dispute Resolution in Kenya

BRUMANN, Christoph Walter (Germany) (March 20, 2007 - April 24, 2007)
Town Scape Conflicts and the Public Tradition of Kyoto: New Developments in the Mid-2000s [Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Visiting Researcher (Short Term)]

KODAMA Kanako (Japan) (April 1, 2006 - July 31, 2007)
Sedentarisation and Agro-pastoralism of Mongolian Pastoralists under the Chinese Market Economy and Land-privatization

MATSUO Mizuho (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
New Reproductive Medicine and Medical Pluralism on Infertility in Rural India

Naqin (China) (October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008)
Ecological Signficance of Pastoral Nomadism in the Sustainabiility of Mongolian Grasslands

SUZUKI Hiroyuki (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2010)
Dialectological Study of the Tibetan Minority Languages in the Tibetan Cultural Area in West Sichuan

2007 Visiting Researchers
AKUTSU Shozo (Japan) (October 1, 2006 - March 31, 2009)
A Study of the Theory and Practice of International Education in the Primary Schools, Junior High Schools and High Schools in Japan

ARATA Mariko (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) (April 1, 2005 - March 31, 2007)
Sundanese Foodways: A Linguistic Anthropological Approach

BJÖRKLUND, Johan Krister (Finland) (May 1, 2007 - June 31, 2007)
A Comparative Study of Returnee Migrants in Finland and Japan

DOI Masaki (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) (April 1, 2005 - March 31, 2007)
A study of Social Dynamics in the Pre-Hispanic Period of Peru: The Case of the Wari Society

DURAND, Olivier Emile Leon (France) (April 1, 2007 - June 8, 2007) (November 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)
Organic Agriculture and Teikei Movement in Japan

HAYASHI Koji (Japan)(April 11, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
An Anthropological Study of Sedentary Lifestyles and Relationships among Baka Hunter-Gatherers in Camroom

HIOKI Koichiro (Japan) (May 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Anthropology of the Management of Corporate Mythology

HORIUCHI Masaki (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2009)
The Structure of Sound Cultures in the Arab World

IIKUNI Yukako (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
An Anthropological Research on Religion and Gender in Burma

IKEZUKI Wataru (Japan) (June 13, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Anthropological Analysis of Bilingual / Intercultural Education by Ecuadorian Indigenous People

KANNO Misako (Japan) (October 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Local Politics and Gender: A Case Study of Rural North India

KASEZAWA Masato (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)
The Transformation of Ethnomedicine in Contemporary India

KIM Mi-Seon (Korea)
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Overseas Researchers 2007 (October 1, 2005 - September 30, 2007)
A Sociolinguistic Study of the Language of Korean Immigrants in the Multilingualization of Japan
Visiting Researcher (October 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
A Socioliguistic Study on Korean as a Community Language from a Comparative Perspective

KIMURA Hiroki (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)
A Study of Wood Turning Technology in Japan

KOIKE Makoto (Japan) (October 1, 2005 - March 31, 2008)
The Anthropology of the House: New approaches to the Study of Kinship

KOO Ji Yonng (Korea) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Migration and Ethnicity of Koreans and Korean-Chinese in the Global Age

KOU Gum Hee (Korea) (October 1, 2006 - July 31, 2007)
Korea-Japan Comparative Studies to Review the Influences of Local Festivities on Culture and Tourism in the Region

MAEKAWA Ai (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
An Analysis of Produce and Consumption of Master Narratives about the Construction of Ulaanbaatar, the Capital City of Mongolia

MASUNO Takashi (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Agricultural Changes in a Mien (Yao) Hillside Village, Northern Thailand: Factors that Influence Change and Responses to Change by Villagers

MURAO Seiji (Japan) (April 11, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Applying Visual Theory to Cultural Anthropology and Theorizing Visual Anthropology.

MURATA Akiko (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) (October 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)
The Characteristics of Culture and Society of a Plural Society, Fiji

NAGATANI Chiyoko (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) (April 1, 2003 - March 31, 2007)
On the Daily Practices of an Ethnic Minority in the Light of the Process of Nation Building in China

NAKAMURA Taira (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Memories of Violence in the Contact Zone: Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples and Gaoshanzu in the Peoples Republic of China

NAKAMURA Wataru (Japan) (October 1, 2006 - March 31, 2009)
A Typological Study of Voice in the World's Languages

NISHIKIDA Aiko (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
The Representation of the Middle East Area in Audio-Visual Media

NISHIYAMA Noriaki (Japan) (October 1, 2005 - March 31, 2008)
The Anthropology of Tourism on Custodians/Owners of Heritage and its Wise-use

OHATA Satoshi (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Tax Analysis from a Comprehensive Point-of-View

OHTSUKA Kazuyoshi (Japan) (October 1, 2005 - March 31, 2008)
A Cultural Anthropolpgical Study of Isyu Retsezo

OKADA Chitose (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2009) (April 10, 2005 - March 31, 2007)
A Study of the Oral Epic "King Kesar" in Baltistan, Northern Pakistan

ONO Rintaro (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - February 25, 2008) (April 1, 2003 - March 31, 2007)
Subsistence History and Resource Exploitation in Oceania and Island Southeast Asia

OTA Yoshinobu (Japan) (October 1, 2007 - March 31, 2010)
What is “Political Identity”?: Indigenous Mobilization as a Liberation Movement

SAITO Reiko (Japan) (October 1, 2007 - March 31, 2010)
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 Silk-screen Prints of Canadian Northwest Coast Indian and Prints of Canadian Inuit

SAWAE Fumiko (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - July 31, 2007) (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)
A Comparative Study of Civil Societies in the Contemporary Middle East

SETISARN, Chomnard (Thailand) (October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008)
Folklore and Beliefs about Domestic Animals in Japan

STEWART, Henry (Japan) (October 1, 2007 - March 31, 2010)
A Re-examination of Museum Displays of the Ainu

SUGIMOTO Seiko (Japan) (October 1, 2007 - March 31, 2010)
A Study of the Practical Use of Local Social Network Servises and the Construction of Contemporary Local Communties

TAKEUCGI Fusaji (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2009)
Japan (March 13, 2006 - February 28, 2007)
Construction and Change of Ethnic Cultural Resources

TANAKA (FUJIWARA) Junko (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2007)
Research on the Convivial Society Using a Narrative Approach

TODORIKI, Masahiko (Japan) (July 11, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
The Recent History of Tuvan Folk Music and its Transition

TSUJI Takashi (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
An Anthropological Study of Resource Utilization and Ethnic Relationships of Periodic Markets in Insular Southeast Asia

YAMADA Kaori (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) (April 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)
An Ethnographic Study of Club Life in Germany

YAMAMOTO Tadashi (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) (November 1, 2006 - March 31, 2007)
A Study of the Conceptual World and the Origin of Civilization

Yong Hua (China) (September 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008)
Research on the Change of Mongolian Folk Songs related to Social Change

YOSHIMOTO Yasuko (Japan) (April 1, 2007 - March 31, 2008) (April 26, 2006 - March 31, 2007)
Minority Peoples and Cultural Identity in Vietnam: Tradition, Religion and Belief of the Cham.