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Asia

Bangladesh

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HASANUZZAMAN, Al Masud	Jahangirnagar University	Professor	Parliamentary Democracy and Political Development in Japan: Lessons for Bangladesh

China

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BAO, Zhiming	Central University for Nationalities	Professor	A Research on Ecological Migration in Inner Mongolia as a Remedy to Desertification
DU, Chuang Guo	The School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shanxi University	Associate Professor	A Comparative Study on the Reform of Special Administrative Corporation in Japan and Public Institution in China
MAIMAITIAILI, Wubuli	Cultural Heritage Bureau of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region	Deputy Director of Cultural Heritage Protection	Study on Interaction and Comparison of Central Asia Silk Road Heritages and Japanese Heritages
NG, Kwok Wai	The University of Sydney		Transformation of Togaku (Tang music) Modes from Tang-period China(618-907) to Modern Japan: Concentrating on the Modal Groups of Hyojo, Oshikicho and Banshikicho
PANG, Deliang	Center of Northeast Asian Studies, Jilin University	Professor, Manager
PIAO, Jianyi	Institutue of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Assistant of Chief
QIN, Na	Editorial Department, Journal of Shanghai University	Editor	A Comparative Study on Lifelong Education between Shanghai and Osaka
SHEN, Xiao Min	Institute of International and Comparative Education, East China Normal University	Associate Professor
WEI, Yulin	Guangdong University of Foregin Studies	Professor
YI, Qing	Nanjing University	Department of History
YU, Suqiu	Renmin University of China	Dean of Japanese Langage
ZHAO, Xiu Juan	Dept. of Japanese Language and Culture, College of Foreign Language and Culture, Peking University	Doctoral Course	The Enpression Space of Inoue Yasusi Literature-Focus on His Historical Novels about China
ZHENG, Jing	Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Associate Professor

India

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ANANTH, Priya	Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, The Ohio State University	Doctoral Course	Development of time expressions in Japanese Second Language Acquisition - Interaction of tense-aspect in toki 'when' clauses
CHAWLA, Ashok Kumar	National Institute of Science Communication & Information Resources (NISCAIR)	Technical Official	Comparative Study of Japanese-Hindi Compound Word in the field of Management & Relationship between their Constintuting Elements
JAIN, Sushama	School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University (J.N.U)	Professor	Concept of Reincarnation in Writings of Mishima: an Interpretation from a Popular Indian Perspective
MISRA, Sib Ranjan	Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-bharati University	Professor & Head	Employment Adjustment Mechanism Through Economic Restructuring - Lessons for India from Japanese Experience.
MUNGILA HILLEMANE, Bala Subrahmanya	Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science	Associate Professor	Inter Firm Linkages between SME, and Large Firms in the Manufacturing Sector of Japan: Its Role in the Promotion of Technological Innovations and Economic Performance.
SHEEL, Ranjana	BJK Institute of Buddhist & Asian Studies	Senior Fellow	Political Empowerment of Women in Japan and India
VARMA, Lalima	Center for East Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharulal Nehru University	Chair person, Associate Professor	Japan's Eco-Strategic Aid to South Asia: Objectives, Limits and Gains

Indonesia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HUJATNIKA, Agung	Selasar Sunaryo Art Space	Curator	Understanding Japanese Contemporary Art
WIRYOPRANOTO, Suhartono	History Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah Mada University	Professor	Kaigun Bukanfu: Support to Indonesian Independence

Japan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
AZUMA, Shoji	Language and Literature, University of Utah	Associate Professor	A Study of Emerging Political Discourse in Post-war Japan
KATADA, Saori	School of International Relations, University of Southern California	Associate Professor	Japan's Turn to Regionalism: Driven by Domestic-International Political Nexus
NAGASHIMA, Yoichi	Department of Asian Studies, University of Copenhagen	Director	Mori Ogai's Translation of Norwegian Plays into Japanese - Works by Ibsen and Bjorn son
OHASHI, Jun	University of Melbourne	Lecturer	Comparative Pragmatic Study of Japanese and Australian Speech Act of Thanking
TAKEYAMA, Akiko	Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Research Assistant	Catering to Desires: Commodified Intimacy in Tokyo Host and Hostess Clubs
TAMURA, Keiko	Australian War Memorial	Australia Japan Research Project	A Study of Organization and Changes in Western and Asian Foreigners' Communities in Kobe in the First Half of the 20th Century
TANAKA, Michiko	Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico		Politics and Political Thoughts in Japan, 1983-2003 (preliminary research)

Korea

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CHOI, Hyokyung	Department of EALC, Indiana University-Bloomington	Doctoral Course	Cross-Cultural Construction of Japanese and Korean Identities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
CHOI, Soon Ja	Kookmin University Graduate School, Education	Doctoral Course
JANG, Wonho	Department of Urban Sociology, College of Urban Sciences, The University of Seoul	Associate Professor	Transformation of the Political Culture in Japan
KIM, Young Rae	Department of Political Science, Ajou University	Professor	Comparative Study on Political Participation of Citizen's Group in Japan and Korea
OH, Dong Ryong		Journalist
OH, Seong Cheol	Department of Primary Education, Cheongju National University of Education	Associate professor	A Comparative Study on Colonial Primary Education in Korea and Taiwan under the Japanese Rule, 1895-1945
PAI, Hyung Il	East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California	Associate Professor	Collecting Japan's Antiquity: Archaeology, Ethnography, and Heritage Management in the Korean Peninsula (1900-1943)
PARK, Seo Hyun	Department of Government, Cornell University	Doctoral Course	The Issue of Sovereignty and International Relations in Asia: The Case of Japan and Korea
SEO, Jaekil	Seoul National University, Korea	Doctoral Course	A Study of the Broadcast Literature of the Chosun Broadcast Association (JODK)
SON, Dong Ju	Pukyong National University	Professor

Malaysia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GOH, Pek Chen	Multimedia University	Faculty of Business and Law	Intellectual Capital and Japanese Economic Development
MUSTAFA, Rujhan, Bin	Universiti Malaysia Sarawak	Faculty of Economics and Business	The Political Economy of East Asian Economic Integration

Mongolia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BATSAIKHAN, Ookhnoi	Institute of International Studies, Mongolian Academy of Sciences	Head and Research Fellow	The Influence of Japan in the Settlement of Mongolian Independence since in the 20th Century

Pakistan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HUSAIN, Sabah	Lahore Arts Foundation Trust	Director, Associate Professor	Creative Print and Papermaking.

Philippines

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
TAN, Rosalina, Palanca	Japanese Studies Program and Economics Department, Ateneo de Manila University	Associate Professor, Director	Japan-Philippines Partnership to Address Climate Change: Opportunities in the Clean Development Mechanism

Singapore

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LOO, Tze May	Faculty of History, Cornell University	Graduate Student	Treasuring Okinawa: Shuri Castle and the Practice of Valuation in the Making of Modern Japan

Sri Lanka

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
PERERA,Vitiyala Ilesinghage Don Jothi	Institute of Workers' Education, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.	Senior Lecturer	Impact of Mechanization on Industrial Relations in the Port of Colombo, the Port of Kashima, Japan and the Port of Felixstowe, United Kingdom

Thailand

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CHIRASOMBUTTI, Voravudhi	Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University	Assistant Professor, Eastern Languages	The investigation of methodology in Japanese sociolinguistics
SMANCHAT, Sitthichai	Chulalongkorn University	Guest Lecturer	Shamuro-Zone Siam Textile Designs in Japan 16-18 AD.
WUWONGSE, Warintorn	Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University	Professor	How Have the Japanese Children Changed-The Present School Education and Socialization in Japan

Viet Nam

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LUU, Trinh Ngoc	Institute of World Economy (IWE), World Economic Problems Review	Vice Editor-in-Chief	Educational Reforms for Improving the Quality of the Human Resource in Japan and Vietnam in the Recent Years: A Comparative Study
TRAN, Nhung Thi	Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Social Sciences and Humanities	Researcher	Social Security Issues in Japanese Market Economy

Pacific

Australia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BOTSMAN, Daniel Vernon	History, Harvard University	Associate Professor	The Idea and Practice of Freedom in Meiji Japan
DE MATOS, Christine Mae	University of Western Sydney	Humanities	The British Commonwealth Occupation Forces and labour reform in the Allied Occupation of Japan
LETTEN, Linda Kay	La Trobe University	Asian Studies	Medieval Representations of Yokobue: Tracing Interpretations of the Feminine Ideal

Middle East

Israel

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KOWNER, Rotem	Department of Asian Studies, The University of Haifa	Head of Department	Modernizing Bodies: Japanese Reactions to Western Racial Discourse during Meiji Era(1868-1912)

Jordan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MAJDOUBEH, Ahmad Yacoub	Department of English, University of Jordan	Professor, Director of LC & OIRP	Japanese Literature in English: Primary Texts and Criticism

Turkey

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
AKBAY, Okan Haluk	Dept. of Japanese Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Erciyes University	Department Head	A Contrastive Study on the Argument Structure and Thematic Relation

Africa

Egypt

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HAMZA, Isam Mohamed Reyad	Japanese Department, Faculty of Arts, Cairo University	Associate Professor	The Oriental View toward Other Cultures - a Comparative Study between Japan and Egypt-

Kenya

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MWENI, Ashina Kibibi		Free-lance	Culture Dynamics and their Role and Impact on Television Soap Operas

Americas

Brazil

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
NAGIB, Lucia	Multimedia Dept., Institute of Arts, State University of Campinas	Associate Professor	The Japanese Nouvelle Vague and Corporeal Realism

Canada

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
EDGINGTON, David William	Centre for Japanese Research, University of British Columbia	Director	Multicultural Planning in Japanese Cities
GRIFFITHS, Caitilin, Judith	University of Toronto	Doctoral Course	Itinerant Nuns and Monks of Medieval Japan
HUR, Nam Lin	Department of Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia	Associate Professor	Zen Monks and the Japanese Invasion of Chosen Korea, 1592-1598: The Case of Seisho Jotai
MONNET, Livia Rodica	Department of Comparative Literature, University of Montreal	Professor	Women's Cinema and New Media Art in Contemporary Japan: History, Theory, Criticism, and a Digital Archive

U.S.A.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
AMYX, Jennifer Ann	University of Pennsylvania	Associate Professor	Institutional Legacies and System Transition in the Japanese Political Economy
ATKINS, E. Taylor	Northern Illinois University	Associate Professor	The Dual Career of Arirang: Korean Resistance Anthem, Japanese Pop Hit
CANNELL, David Richard	University of California, Irvine	Doctoral Course	Haikai Poetry in Genroku Japan: Social Practices and Institutions
EASON, David Anthony	Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles	Graduate student	The Culture of Disputes in Early Modern Japan, 1550-1700
FARRIER, Anna-Marie	Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University	Graduate Student	Circulating Fictions: The Novels of Natsume Soseki and the Gothic
FIELD, Norma	E. Asian Languages & Civilization, University of Chicago	Professor	The Living Legacy of Japanese Proletarian Literature: One Hundred Years of Kobayashi Takiji
FREEMAN, Laurie Anne	University of California, Santa Barbara	Assistant Professor	Information Technology and Democracy: A Comparative Study of Japan and the United States
FREIRE, Charles Patrick	Department of History, University of California, Berkeley	Graduate Student	Religion and Civil Society in Modern Japan, 1938-1955
IKEDA, Satoshi	Department of Sociology, University of Alberta	Associate Professor	Japan's Failed Modernization and the Crisis of Ideology: East Asian Regional and World System Analyses of Seclusionism, Emperorism, and Corporocentrism
KASULIS, Thomas Patrick	Comparative Cultural Studies, The Ohio State University	Professor	Japanese Philosophy: A History and Sourcebook
KAWASHIMA, Ken	Department of Asian Studies, University of Toronto	Assistant Professor	Colonialism, Culture and Korean Labor Power in Japan (1917-1937)
MARRA, Michael Ferruccio	East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California (UCLA)	Professor	Philosophers and Poetry: The Aesthetics of the Kyoto School
MCCORKLE, Corey, J		Free-lance	For Greater Velocity Grace
MCDONALD, Keiko	East Asian Languages and Literature Dept., University of Pittsburgh	Professor	Women Making Films: Japanese Female Directors
MCKNIGHT, Anne	East Asian Studies, McGill University	Assistant Professor	Nakagami Kenji and Postwar Minoritarian Literature
MUELLER, Laura Jean	Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison		Entertaining Virtue: The Naturalization of Confucianism in Edo Print Culture
PINCUS, Leslie Beth	Department of History, University of Michigan	Associate Professor	On the Critical Edge: A Genealogy of Alternative and Oppositional Initiatives in Japan's Twentieth Century
ROSENBERGER, Nancy, Ross	Department of Anthropology, Oregon State University	Professor	Japanese Women Negociating Changes across the Life Course
SCARANGELLO, Dominick John	Religious Studies, University of Virginia		Collaboration, Contestation, and the Inventions of Tradition at a Japanese Sacred Mountain
SHAPIRO, Michael Isaac	History, University of California at Berkeley		Taisho Democracy, Korean Nationalism, and Cultural Rule
STANLEY, Amy Beth	East Asian Language and Civilization, Harvard University	Doctoral Course	The Countryside and the Pleasure Quarters: Urban and Rural Exchange in Tokugawa Japan
THOMAS, Julia Adeney	Department of History, University of Notre Dame	Associate Professor	Photography and Democracy: between History and Sex in Occupied Japan
UNGER, J. Marshall	Dept. of East Asian Languages & Literatures, The Ohio State University	Professor, Chair	Language Contact in Early Japanese History
UYEDA, Tanya Tomoko	Asian Conservation Studio, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	Assistant Conservator	Mounting Styles of Nikuhitsu Ukiyo-e Hanging Scrolls
ZWICKER, Jonathan Elias	Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan	Assistant Professor	Tears of Blood: Melodrama, the Novel, and the National Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Europe

Austria

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
OFFENHUBER, Dietmar	Ars Electronica Futurelab	Key Researcher	Loop City - an interactive description of the city as set of repeated actions

Belgium

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ROBBEETS, Martine Irma	Department of Comparative Linguistics, Leiden University		Is Japanese Related to Korean and the Altaic Languages?

Croatia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
DOBOROVIC, Zvonimir	Queer Zagreb	Artistic Director	Queer Art and Deconstruction of Heteronormativity in Contemporary Japanese Performing and Visual Art

Czech Republic

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LABUS, David	The Institute of East Asian Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University	Special Assistant	Yokoi Shonan and the Process of Transformation of Sense of Identity
SALOVA, Dita	Centre of Comparative Studies, Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University	Lecturer	Health and Illness in Ancient Japanese Culture (Chapters of Yasuyori Tamba's Shimbo)

Estonia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
NUKKE, Maret	Estonian Institute of Humanities	Lecturer	No Theatre in Contemporary World

Finland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HORELI, Laura			BROADCAST! Project

France

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
AVELINE, Natacha	National Center for Scientific Research / Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Lyon II	Assistant Professor	Optimization of Land Holding and Diversification of the JR Companies
GOSSOT,Anne	Department of Japanese Studies, Bordeaux 3 University	Teacher, Dept. Director	The Birth of Japanese Modern Design Theory

Germany

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MATTEN, Marc Andre	Department of Chinese and Japanese Studies, University of Bonn	Doctoral Course	The Construction of Nationalism among Chinese Students in Japan (1895-1911) and the Problem of National Identity
SCHAEFER, Fabian	Institute of East Asian Studies, Leipzig University	Doctoral Course	'Media-Theory' in Pre-War Japan: The Discursive Space of Newspaper Studies and Sociology in Germany and Japan
SCHOLZ, Stanca Emilia	University of Trier	Professor	Noh and Kyogen as Contemporary Theatre

Greece

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KLONOS, Georgios	Stanford University		Shugendo: Ominesan during the Tokugawa Period

Hungary

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KRASZNAHORKAI, Laszlo	Gate of Dharma Buddhist University	Chairman	The Metaphysical Values of Japanese Gadening Reflected in Modern Japanese Aesthetics

Italy

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
DE PALMA, Daniela	Faculty of Oriental Studies, University La Sapienza	Lecturer	Japanese People's Attitude toward Imperial Institution in the late Showa and Heisei Periods
NETTI, Giorgio		Composer	Complex Sound in Japanese and European Cultures: One Mouth, Two Voices
NOVIELLI, Maria	Department of East Asian Studies, Ca' Foscari University	Researcher	Hypermedia and Japanese Cinema in 1990s
PATALANO, Alessio	University of Paris, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes - Sorbonne	Doctoral Course	The Importance of Intelligence Resources in the Evolution of the Japanese Contemporary Approach to Seapower

Kyrgyz

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KOUBANYTCHBEKOVA, Baktygoul	Osh State University	Doctoral Course	Administrative Law Development and Government Regulation

Netherlands

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
TEEUWEN, Mark	Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo		Ritualizing Text: Shinto-Ryu in Medieval Japan

Poland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
JABLONSKI, Arkadiusz Marek	Department of Japanese Studies, Chair of Oriental Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University	Assistant Professor	Semiotics and Pragmatics of Contemporary Japanese Honorifics
MEYER, Stanislaw	University of Hong Kong	Doctoral Course	Social and Cultural Changes in Modern Okinawa and the Policy of Assimilation

Russia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ANARINA, Nina Grigorievna	Russian Academy of Theatre Art	Professor	History of the Japanese Theatre: a Comprehensive Study
ISHCHENKO, Marina	Sakhalin State University	Associate Professor	The Japanese in Sakhalin: Ethnological Aspects of Problem
KOROBTSEVA, Ekaterina Sergeevna	Department of Sociology, University of Oxford	Doctoral Course	The Puzzle of the Relationship between Marriage and Childbearing in Contemporary Japan
ZHURAVSKAYA, Tatiana Mikhailovna	Saint Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design	Professor	Japanese Craft and Design-Tradition and Innovation

Serbia and Montenegro

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SEKULOVIC, Ana	Geo-Economic Dept, Megatrend University of Applied Science	Associate Professor	Regional Development under Economic Globalization

Switzerland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CALCIO-GANDINO, Flavio, Andrea	Japanology, University of Zurich	Doctoral Course	The Edo Period Townhouse and its Preservation in Ensembles: The Preservation District for an Important Group of Historic Buildings of Imai

U.K.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CROSS, Barbara	School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London	Doctoral Course	Pre-Modern Japanese Popular Fiction and its Relationship with Performance
DODD, Stephen	Department of Japan and Korea, SOAS, University of London	Head of Department	Visions of Modernity in the Works of Kajii Motojiro
MACDONALD, Alastair	Glasgow School of Art	Professor, Head of Department	Inclusive Design: Creating Accessible Products, Environments and Services for a Dynamically Ageing Population
MARTIN, Phillip Neil		Composer	Disseminating Gagaku

Uzbekistan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
PYANOVA, Elena Viktorovna	History Department, Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies	Senior Lecturer	Japan in International Community after the World War II- Japanese Community in Uzbekistan before and after Independence