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Asia

China

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GONG, Qian	Peking University	Doctoral Candidate	Japan-Taiwan relationship (1972-2000)
GUO, Wanping	Nanjing University	Doctoral Candidate	Japan priests in China in So Period
HU, Lian Cheng	Peking University	Doctoral Candidate	The comparative study of studying abroad in the west in modern Japan and China
HUANG, Da Hui	Renmin University of China	Associate Professor,Director	The role of the mass media in the Japan-China relationship
LI, Hui Yang	Graduate School,The Chinese Academy of Social Science	Doctoral Candidate	Theory and practice of the commercial registration legal system in Japan
LI, Zhonglin	College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Yanbian University	Associate Professor	Analysis and verification of sections such as energy,circulation correspondence infrastructure, industrial structure,etc. of the Duman Gang area
LIN, Guoping	Department of History,Fujian Normal University	Professor	Comparative Study of Folk Religion in Fujian. China and Okinawa
LIU, Hui Juan	Chang Chun Library	Deputy Director	A Survey and Comparative Research on the Study of Manchurian Literature
MAO, Hai Jian	Dept.of History, Peking University	Professor	The Japan-China relationship under non-wartime(1896-1903)
MENG, Xiang Pei	Xuhuai ward court	lawyer	Comparison of modernization of Civil Code of China and Japan
SUN, Jing	Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison	Lecturer	Tipping the Balance: Japanese Media Portrayals of China and of Japanese-Chinese Relations, 1972-2002
ZHANG, Shuangfu	Institute of History, The Academy of the Inner Mongolia Social Sciences	Fesearcher(professor)	Studies on the Mongolian Documents in the Mongol Empire

India

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BHARUCHA, Rustom Homi	Independent Writer/Cultural Critic/Dramaturge	Writer/Critic	Another Asia: Tagore and Okakura
SETHI, Sunil	New Delhi Television	Journalist & TV Anchor	Eastern Interiors: Photographic book on domestic architecture in southeast Asia and Japan

Indonesia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SAEDIMAN,	Faculty of Agriculture, Haluoleo University	Head of Dept.	Participatory Democracy in Japan's Consumer Cooperatives -A Study in Kyoritsusha Tsuruoka Seikyo in Yamagata Prefecture
SEMEDI, Pujo	Dept.of Anthropology,Fac.of Culture Sciences,Gadjah Mada University	Lecturer	Tea Plantation in Indonesia During the Japanese Occupation (1942-1945)

Korea

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CHEY, Hyoung-kyu	Department of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science	Doctoral Candidate	Implementation of the Basle Capital Accord in Japan, Korea and Taiwan
CHO, Myung-chul	Korea Institute for International Economic Policy	Research Fellow	The Impact of Economic Relations in the Korea Peninsula on Northeast Asian Countries
KIM, Ji-Yong	Freelance	Cultural Reviewer	Influence of Japanese culture on youths of South Korea
KIM, Hyojin	Ph.D. Program in Department of Anthropology, Harvard University	Doctoral Candidate	Research on the Topic of Kyoto's Machiya, their Preservation and their Role in Sustaining New Images of Kyoto and its Historical Traditions as Sites for Tourism
LEE, Dong-jun	The Hankook Ilbo (The Korea Times)	Staff Reporter, Political News	A Study on the Decisive Elements in Japanese Foreign Policy - With an Emphasis on Japan/North Korea Ties After Cold War
PARK, Young-goo	Pusan University of Foreign Studies	Associate Professor	Heavy-chemical Industrialization in Japan and Its Impacts on Korean Heavy-chemical Industry
YUN, Dae-seok	Department of Korean Language and Literature, Seoul National University	Part-time lecturer	A Study on the Aspect of Literature I n Chosun Peninsula under Pacific War Sub Title: Between the National Literature and the Pro-Japanese Literature

Mongolia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CHILKHAAJAV, Dagvadorj	Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor of Mongolia	Director of SPD	Comparative Studies of Mongolian and Japanese Social Welfare System

Pakistan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
AHMAD, Maqsood	Department of Archaeology & Museums, Govt. of Pakistan	Senior Architect	Compatible use of traditional methods and modern techniques for the preservation of cultural property

Philippines

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BATALLA, Eric Vincent Celestial	De La Salle University Political Science Department	Associate Professor	Politics and Economic Performance in Japan and the Philippines
ESPINAS, Milagros Ragos	Asian Center, University of the Philippines	Professor	The Japanese peacekeepers in the Cambodian peace process: Shaping of Japanese policy in Indochina

Singapore

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HU, Tze Yue Gigi	National University of Singapore, Japanese Studies Dept.	Part-time Tutor	The Frames of Anime-Understanding its Roles and Practices (from Cultural, Socio-Economic and Philosophical Perspectives)

Sri Lanka

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KEERAWELLA, Gamini	University of Peradeniya	Associate Professor	Japan and South Asia in the Context of New Discourse on Peace and Security

Thailand

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SURIYAWONGPAISAL, Saowalak	Japanese Section, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University	Chairperson	A Re-reading of Parent-Child Noh Plays

Viet Nam

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LE, Giang	Social Sciences and Humanities University, National University at HCM	Lecturer	Researching on Ueda Akinari's Romances. Comparing to Records of Romances and Legends ("`?i???^) by Nguyen Du (e??×)
PHAM, Thanh Nghi	Institute of Human Studies, National Center for Social Sciences and Humanities	Deputy Director	Promoting Human Factors in Japanese Miracle and Lessons for Vietnam

Pacific

Australia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ECKERSALL, Peter Alexander	University of Melbourne	Senior Lecture	Rethinking Theatre Culture in an Age of Globalisation: History, Praxis, and the Meanings of Modern Theatre in Japan
MARGERISON, Jill Eleanor	University of Queensland	Tutor	Identity and Security:Japan's Foreign Policy Coping with Change
MOORE, Katrina Louise	Department of Social Anthropology, Harvard University	Doctoral Candidate	The Medicalization of Male Sexual Dysfunction: Perceptions and Experiences of Sexuality among Middle-Aged and Older Persons in Contemporary Japan

New Zealand

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GUO, Nanyan	University of Otago	Senior Lecturer	Tsugaru: the New Direction of Japanese Modern Literature

Middle East

Israel

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GOLDSTEIN-GIDONI, Ofra	Tel Aviv University	Assistant Professor	Changing Gender Roles in Contemporary Japan: Home, Motherhood and Work
SHAOUL, Raquel	Tel-Aviv University	Lecturer	Japanese Foreign Policy toward Middle Eastern crises; A Comparative Analysis between 1991 and 2002

Turkey

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
OZTURK, Ibrahim	Department of Economics, Marmara University	Associate Professor	Globalization and the Reconsideration of the Possibilitier and Limitation of a Japanese Style Developmentalism in Transition Countries of the Central Asia

Africa

Chad

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
TIEBEY-DALOU, Abdoul Simon Bessingue	Europe-Africa Institute(I.E.A.)	Secretary General	Fukuzawa Yukichi's Educational Philosophy in the Meiji era. Its Scientific and Economic Importance for Chad.

Egypt

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
EL-SHAZLY, Alaa Essam	Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University	Assistant Professor	Asian Historical Statistics Project
KHALIL, Karam Saiem	Department of Japanese, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University	Associate Professor	Changes of the suicide view in Japanese modern literature from a Muslim's viewpoint

Ghana

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
TIBBOH, Vivian Ago	Public Records and Activities Administration Department	Senior Staff	Preservation and Restoration of Archival Materials

Nigeria

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MADUAGWU, Samuel Nwankwo	University of Port Harcourt	Lecturer	Proliferation of Private Primary and Secondary Schools in Japan and Nigeria

Uganda

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MULIRA, James	Department of History, Makerere University	Head of Department	A Comparative Study of Japanese and East African Universities' Working Environment-for Capacity Building in Higher Education

Americas

Brazil

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ROSALEN, Rachel	Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Saopaulo	Researcher	OpricalDesires-EroptcalPassing. An Interactive Interpretation of Japanese Icons and Urbanscape

Canada

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CARTER, Robert Edger	Department of Philosophy, Trent University	Professor	The Practice of Ethics/The Ethics of Practice
DRISCOLL, Mark William	University of Alberta, Department of East Asian Studies	Assistant Professor	Japanese Modernism as Global Modernism: Re-situating the Erotic-Grotesque-Nonsense
PERRON, Joel Gilles	University of Toronto	Doctoral Candidate	Okakura Kakuzo and Irreconcilable Japonismes
TAFARODI, Romin William	University of Toronto	Associate Professor	Self-esteem in Japan and Canada: A structural analysis

Chile

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
DIAZ, Luis Alfonso	University of Santiago	Professor	Research on Japanese Buddhism

Mexico

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GARCIA RODRIGUEZ, Amaury Alejandro	Center for Asian and African Studies,El Colegio de Mexico	Doctoral Candidate	The Control of Makura-e prints in Edo period

U.S.A.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BERGSTROM, Brian	University of Chicago	Doctoral Candidate	Youth, Violence and Representation: Cultural Representations of Delinquency in Contemporary Japan
BERNARDI, Joanne R.	University of Rochester	Associate Professor	Tourist Japan: Japan as a Tourist Destination 1890-1950
BIALOCK, David T.	University of Southern California	Assistant Professor	Geographies of Sound: Music, Narrative, and Ritual in Medieval Japan
BRANDON,James R.	Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Hawaii at Monoa	Emeritus Professor	Kabuki vs. the United States of America: A Feudal Art in Democratic Japan, 1945-1949
BRYAN, Steven	Columbia University, Department of History	Doctoral Candidate	Civilization and Gold: The Gold Standard in Japan and Argentina, 1867-1932
EDELSON, Loren	The Graduate Center, City University of New York	Doctoral Candidate	Women on the Kabuki Stage, 1893 to the Present
ESKILDSEN, Robert Alan	Smith College	Assistant Professor	The Taiwan Expedition: National History, International Politics and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism
KIM, Soo	University of California Berkeley	Doctoral Candidate	Materializing the Past: Sen no Rikyu's Tea Utensils, Portraits, and Calligraphy
LEUCHTENBERGER, Jan	University of Michigan/Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies	Doctoral Candidate	Images of the West in Early Modern Japanese Kirishitan Kanazoshi
MARCEAU, Lawrence Edward	University of Delaware	Associate Professor	Currents of Literary Thought in Early Modern Japan: Studies and Translations
MARR, Matthew	University of California Los Angels	Doctoral Candidate	Transitioning Out of Homelessness in Two Global Cities: Tokyo and Los Angeles
McRAE, John R.	Indiana University	Associate Professor	A Conceptual Map of East Asian Buddhism: The 'Prince Shotoku' Lotus Sutra Commentary in Transcultural Perspective
MEREWETHER, Charles E.	Getty Research Institute, Getty Center	Curator	Japanese Post-War Avant-garde: Experimentation in the public sphere, - 1955-1975
NELSON, Patricia Ann	University of Edinburgh Management School	Assistant Professor	The Evolution of the Japanese Photography Industry
NORNES, Mark	University of Michigan, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures & Program in Film and Video Studi	Associate Professor	The Translator's Cinema
OPPENHEIMER, Sarah Ruth	Yale University, School of Art	Lecturer-Part-Time	The Understanding of Design's Impact on Human Behavior
OTA, Pauline Ayumi	Stanford University	Doctoral Candidate	People at Play: Edo Period Cityscapes
PASTREICH, Emanuel	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	Assistant Professor	The Alien Vernacular; the Reevaluation of Vernacular Writing in the Edo Period and its links to Chinese Fiction
REYNOLDS, Jonathan M.	University of Southern California	Associate Professor	Constructing 'Tradition:' Modern Japanese Architecture and the Formation of a Viable Past
REYNOLDS, Katsue A.	University of Hawaii	Professor	A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Debate Discourse in the Japanese Diet
RUPPERT, Brian	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Associate Professor	Premilinary Study of Daigoji Scriptural Treasuries as Catalogued in Daigoji Monjo, Boxes 101-120
SHAMOON, Deborah	University of California, Berkeley	Doctoral Candidate	A Cultural History of the Shojo in Modern Japanese Literature and Film
SHERIF, Ann	Oberlin College	Associate Professor	Cold War Thriller: Literature, Media and the Law in Postwar Japan (1952-1970)
SPAFFORD, David	University of California, Berkeley	Doctoral Candidate	Over the Hills and Far Away: Authority and Place in Medieval Japan
THIEL, Tamiko		Free-lance artist	3D Virtual Reality Project Construction of Western World (tentative)

Europe

Belgium

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
JANSEN, Sara	Department of Performance Studies, New York University	Doctoral Candidate	The Other Side of History:Time, Space and Movement in Postwar Japan (1950-1980)

Bulgaria

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
TSONKOVA, Stanka	Bulgarian Photographic Association	Photographer	Embrace- Stone Garden
PETKOVA, Galia Todorova	Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia	Doctoral Candidate	Construction of Gender, Sexuality and the Body in the Japanese Theatre

Czech Republic

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KLIMA, Tomas	Centre of the Far East, Palacky University Olomouc	Lecturer	Research concerning Classical Japanese -Textbook for Czech University Students

France

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LECLER, Yveline	Institute of East Asian Studies, Institute of Political Sciences, University of Lyon	Associate Professor	Japanese Firms: Partners or Competitors?
NEGRO, Marylene		Artist	Neither Seen Nor Known In Japan
WIJEYARATNA, Mohan	Institute d'Etudes Indiennes,College de France	Researcher	A Book on Religiosity

Germany

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
NABOR, Andreas	Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)	Academic Research Staff	The Attractiveness of the Japanese Capital Market for International Cross-listing
SHIM, Kunsu	Freelance	Composer	A multimedia cohposition for Sho, 4 percussionists, sounde and visual images

Hungary

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LENCZ, Balazs	Hungarian National Museum	Senior Conservator	Research on the Production and Conservation of Shikki

Italy

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ORTOLANI, Andrea	University of Trento	Doctoral Candidate	Law,language and translation in the legal system
OZUMI, Asuka	Oriental Napoli University	Doctoral Candidate	Japanese-Italian Bilinguals:Italy resident Japanese speaking children and Japan resident Italian speaking children
TOLLINI, Aldo	Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of VeniceCa Foscari	Associate Professor	The Writing Systems and the Chinese Characters in Ancient Japan

Kyrgyz

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ASHYRALIEV, Kubanychbek Toktogulovich	Prosecutors Office od Okdyabrsky district, Bishkek	Prosecutor	A Legal Defense of the International Business. Japanese model of development

Netherlands

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
THEUNISSEN, Antonia Regina	Department of Japanese & Korean Studies, Leiden University	Doctoral Candidate	Fujitani Nariakira and the study of syntax in late Edo Japan

Poland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HUSZCZA, Romuald	Dept. of Japanese and Korean Studies, Warsaw University	Professor	Emotive Phraseologisms in Japanese and their Polish Counterparts
MERKLEJN, Iwona Regina	Instytut Orientalistycznyv, Uniwersytet Warszawski	Lecturer	The Media System of Postwar Japan

Russia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KOVALENIN, Dmitry Viktorovich	NewspaperKnizhnoe Obozrenie(Book Review)	Member of Editorial Board	The Analysis of Haruki Murakami's International Breakthrough and his Influence in Russia
PANTELEEVA, Marina Vasilievna	Oriental Institute, Far Eastern State Technical University	Acting Chief Teacher	The Experience of Parliamentarianism in Development of Modern Civilization: Analysis of Social and Political Situation in Japan
SHUBIN, Valery	Sakhalin Regional Museum	Deputy director	Study of Archaeological Monuments of Okhotsk and Jomon Culture Research Methodic
TIKHOTSKAYA, Irina Sergeevna	Faculty of Geography, Lomonosov Moscow State University	Associate Professor	The Changing Social and Economical Geography of Japan: Challenges and Transformation

Spain

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CABEZA-LAINEZ, Jose-Maria	University of Seville	Professor	Urban Form and Plannning in the Japanese Asia from Nanban Momoyama to the Showa era

Switzerland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CREVOISIER, Alain	Trapic Audio Vision Lim.Corp.	Engineer	Soun'dance-Buto Dancing with Sound Sculptures and Interactive Systems

U.K.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
FERGUSON, Harvie	University of Glasgow	Professor	Identity and the Experience of War: East and West
HAYTER, Irena Eneva	School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London	Doctoral Candidate	Modernism and Reflexivity in 1930's Japanese Fiction

Uzbekistan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MAKHMUDOVA, Gulnora Gulomnazarovna	Business Women's Association(BWA) of Uzbekistan	Deputy Chairperson	Microfinance Strategy Development and Finance Access for the Low-income Households and Microenterprises