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Asia

Bhutan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GALAY, Karma	Centre for Bhutan Studies	Senior Researcher	Develop a set of Indicators for gross national happiness

China

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CHAN, Ka Sik	Sun Yat-Sen University	School of Business	Competitiveness of Food Industries: Case Study on Soy Sauce Manufacturers in a Globalising Market
CHEN, Duan Duan	Xiamen University	Professor	Conscious and expression
DIAO, Xiaolong	Tsinghua University, Department of History	Doctoral Candidate	Tradition of Chinese Courtesy in Japan
DONG, Bing yue	Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Professor	The Japanese Russor war in Literatures and Thoughts: Based on Overseas Students in Early Qing Dinasty and Japanese Modern Writers in the Same Period
FENG, Tong	Central University for Nationalities	Doctoral Candidate	Cultural Heritage Protection Policy and System in Japan and its Suggestion to China
GONG, Yingchun	International Law Department, China Foreign Affairs Universtity	Lecturer	Sino-Japan Comparative Study of Marine Policies
HUANG, Ying	College of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China	Associate Professor	Representation and Structure of Utopia in the Literature of Kenji Miyazawa
JIN, Ming Quan	College of Literature & Journalism, Chongqing Normal University	Professor	A Study on Overseas Education in Japan for Chinese Economic People in the Early 20th Century
LIN, Xiao Guang	The Institute of International Strategic the Party School of C.P.C	Professor	Northeast Asia area safe research: Discusses from the six directions to the Local multilateral safety mechanism concurrently discusses Chinese and Japanese both countries the function
LING, Wei Ci	Zhejiang University	Doctoral Candidate	A Study on the Frame of Social Right of Housing Security in China: Comparing with Japan
SUN, Min	Dept. of Japanese Language and Culture, College of Foreign Language and Culture, Peking University	Doctoral Candidate	Japanese Theory of Kunio Yanagida
WANG, Jun	Institute of Education of Central University for Nationalities	Professor	Comparative study on International Understanding and Cross-cultural Education between China and Japan
WANG, Ye Yang	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Researcher, Professor	Roots of Cultural Ideas of Historical Values Difference between Japan and China
WEI, Dahai	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Reseacher	Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Chinese Culture
WU, Songmei	School of Foreign Languages and Literature, Shandong University	Lecturer	Picture of the Women in The Tale of Genji
ZHAO, Zi Xiang	Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences	Professor	Comparative Study on Cultural Difference and Conflict Between China and Japan
ZHOU, Nian li	East China Normal University, College of Preschool & Special Education	Associate Professor	Research for Inclusive Care & Educational Theory and Practice in Japan

India

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BHATTACHARYA, Swapan Kumar	Indian Institute of Public Administration	Associate Professor	Exploring Bimstec-Japan free trade option towards Asian Economic Community
MUSTAFA, Huda Hudita Nura	Emory University	Assistant Professor,Anthropology	Africa and Japan: New Cultural Exchanges in Tokyo Cultural Institutions
SHARMA, Ashish	Jawaharlal Nehru University	School of International Studies	Japanese Policy Towards South East Asia: A Study of Indonesia and Vietnam(1991-2005)
VYAS, Susmita	University of Delhi	Department of Buddhist Studies	Interaction between Buddhism and Hinduism in Perspective of Pureland School and Vaisnavism

Indonesia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ANWAR, Etty Nurhayati	Japanese Studies Program, Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia	Lecturer	Structure of Buddha's Faith in Kamakura Period-Characteristic and Development of Religion Culture in Japan
DWIANTO, Raphaella Dewantari	Atma Jaya Catholic University	Lecturer,Business Administration	Social Planning of urban Communities for sustainable cities of Asia-an empirical study on local cities in Japan through comparative sociological point of view

Korea

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BAIK, Chang Jae	Seoul National University	Department of Political Science	Bandwagoning and Proactivity in Japan's Policy toward U.S.-Japan Alliance
CHO, Sung Youn	Department of Sociology, Cheju National University	Professor	The Role and Identity of the Japanese Koreans in the Japanese New Religion
CHOI, Young Ho	Youngsan University	Associate Professor	A study on organizing process and activities of 'Korean Association in Japan (CHOREN)' in Fukuoka and Yamaguchi right after the end of the war
CHUNG, Yong hwa	Institute of Korean Studies, Yonsei University	Research Professor	Modern Transformation of Sino-centrism: Comparative study of Japan, China and Korea
KANG, Hyoung Kee	Department of Public administration, Chungbuk National University	Professor	A comparative study on the Policies of the cultural industries between Kyoto and Kanazawa in Japan
KIM, Chul Soo	Euha Womans University Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation	Lecturer	(1)A change of a Japanese political party system (2)Recognition for Korea in Japan
LEE, Ji Hyun	Hankuk University of Foreign Studies	Lecturer	A study on Japanese culture focused on Romanticism -Through Mishima Yukio
LEE, Sung Whoan	Japanese Studies Dept., Keimyung University	Professor	A Study of Kando (Chientao) Problem under Manchukuo
PARK, Jung-Wei	Department of Education, Wonkwang University	Professor	Comparative Study on View of The World Showing in History Textbook between Japan and Korea
POE, Baek	Kyung Hee University, the College of Hotel and Tan'sm Management	Associate Professor	A Research and Study on Correlativity between Reality of Coverage on Korea by Japanese Media and Change of Awareness toward Korea
SON, Kisup	Seoul National University	Senior Researcher	Japan's Foreign Aid Diplomacy in the 21 Century: International & Internal Structural Change and Grope for New Vision
YOON, Jae seon	Institute of Japanese Studies, Hallym University	Professor	Comparative Study on Regional Development Promotion between Japan and Korea
YOU, Inchon	Chung-ang University	Associate Professor	A study on the character creations and the Artistic presentation in the dramatic performance between Korea &Japan

Malaysia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HASHIM, Rosnani	International Islamic University Malaysia	Professor	Englishization of education as a strategy for meeting the challenge of globalization: A comparative study of Malaysia and Japan's response

Myanmar

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
Thida Kyu	Yangon Institute of Economics	Lecturer, Department of Economics	The Role of Infrastructure in Economic Development of Myanmar(1988-2005): A Comparison of Prewar Japan

Philippines

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ROMA-SIANTURI, Dinah Tapia	De La Salle University	Assistant Professor, Literature	Reconstructing 'Vanishing' Japan in Contemporary Travel Narratives: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
TIGNO, Jorge Villamor	College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines	Associate Professor, Political Sciences	Japan Through Gaijin Eyes: The Perspectives of Filipinos in Osaka in the Context of Evolving Transnationalism

Singapore

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LAM, Peng Er	East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore	Senior Research Fellow	Japan's Conflict Prevention and Peace-Building in Asia: Searching for an Active Role

Sri Lanka

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KANAGASABAI, Kajendra	Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo	Senior Lecturer/Coordinator for MBA	Market Orientation and Organisational performance: A Comparative study between Srilanka and Japan

Thailand

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
METHASATE, Namthip	Japanese Section, Department of Eastern languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University	Lecturer	'Thai' in Japanese Fiction

Viet Nam

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
NGUYEN THI, ThanhTam	HaNoi Foreign Trade University, VietNam-Japan Human Resources Center	Japanese Course Manager	Promotion of human resource development in Vietnamese market economy: a lesson from Japanese corporate growth
TRAN, Han Giang	Institute for Family and Gender Studies-Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences	Director, Department Gender & Society Culture

Pacific

Australia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
FILUS,Dorothea Magdalena	Monash University Japanese Studies Centre	Research Fellow	Religious Education in Japan
HARTLEY, Barbara Toni	Queensland University	Lecturer	The Literature of Takeda Taijun: Self, Other and Nation in Twentieth Century Japan
JOHNS, Adam Lucas	Australian National University	Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government	The Development and Promotion of Content Industries in Asia Pacific

Middle East

Iran

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
AKBARZADEH, Daryoosh	National Museum of Iran	Head of Research	The Cultural Relationship between Japan and Iran in Ancient Times: Reconsidering Iranian Culture Found in Japan on the Material and Textual Sources

Jordan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
EIEDAT, Mohammad Khair Suleiman	The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of Jordan	Assistant Professor	Cultural Identity and Political Reform

Lebanon

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
DAHER, Massoud Abdallah	Lebanese University	Professor	Japan's Modern History 1853-1945

Africa

Egypt

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SOLIMAN, Alaaeldin Elhassan	Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Japanese Language and Literature	Assistant Leturer	Possessive constructions-Egyptian Arabic and Japanese Language Contrastive Study

Americas

Brazil

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
COSTA, Adriana Lisboa Fabregas da	Faculty of Letters, University of the State of Rio de Janeiro	PhD Candidate	The Traveler (a novel): Accompanying Basho on his Narrow Road to Oku(Oku no Hosomichi)
GARCIA DOS SANTOS, Yumi	Faculty of Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences, University of Sao Paulo	PhD Candidate	Between autonomy and dependence: Single mothers of Brazil, Japan and France
YOSHIDA, Luiza Nana	Center for Japanese Studies, University of Sao Paulo	Professor	The Space in Hojoki

Canada

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LINLEY, Matthew	Australian National University	Doctoral Candidate	Can Public Diplomacy Affect Foreign Policy Attitude? A Comparison of Japanese Public Diplomacy in China and South Korea
MUTAFCHIEVA, Rositsa	McGill University	PhD Candidate	The Construction of Buraku Vernacular in Contemporary Japan
OMORI, Hisako	McMaster University	PhD Candidate	Modernity, Globalization, and Negotiated Identity: An Ethnographic Study of Roman Catholicism in Contemporary Japan
YAMADE, Yuko	Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Montreal	Lecturer	Japanese Women Translators in Meiji Japan: Origin of Women's Writings and Cultural Translation

Colombia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CARO RESTREPO, Esperanza	National University of Colombia	Assistant Professor	Sustainable Architecture Tool for the Colombian Humid

Cuba

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CORTINA, Castellanos Monica	Center for Studies on Asia and Oceania	Researcher	Japan's Role in the Development of Southeast Asia

Mexico

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MEZA, Virginia	Department of Asian African Studies, El Colegio De Mexico	Professor	One Century of Japanese Language Teaching in Japanese Elementary School

U.S.A.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BLEED, Peter	University of Nebraska, Lincoln	Professor	New and Emigrant Trends in Japanese Paleolithic Research
BOGEL, Cynthea Jean	University of Washington	Associate Professor	The Cultural Life of Imported Buddhist Objects: Shoraimokuroku and Their Artistic Legacy in Japan
BOGNAR, Botond	University of Illinois	Professor	Recent Changes in Japanese Society and The New Urban Architecture in Japan
BOROVOY, Amy Beth	Princeton University	Professor	Japan Studies and the Anthropology of the Self
BUTLER, Lee	Brigham Young University	Adjunct Associate Professor	The Hineno Community: Life, Work, and Contestation on a Sixteenth-Century Japanese Estate
ENDO, Mika	University of Chicago	PhD Candidate	Children Writing Life: the Rise of Seikatsu Tsuzurikata in the 1920s and 1930s
FLUECKIGER, Peter Andrew	Pomona College	Assistant Professor	Poetry and Empathy in Eighteen-Century Japanese Literary Thought
GAINTY, Denis	University of Pennsylvania	PhD Candidate	Martialing the National Body: Rethinking Nationalism, Power, and Agency in Modern Japan 1895-1945
GUNDRY, David James	Stanford University	PhD Candidate	Saikaku's Century: Morality, Social Class and Style in Japanese Literature of the Early Edo Period
KALAFSKY, Ronald Vincent	University of North Carolina, Charlotte	Assistant Professor	Innovation, Firm-level Dynamics, and Location-based Factors within Japan's Machine Tool Sector
KUBOTA, Ryuko	The University of North Carolina	Associate Professor	Forming Identities in an Imagined World: Women and the Business of Learning Eikaiwa in Japan
LIM, Sungyun	University of California, Berkeley	PhD Candidate	Family, Law, and Household Registration in Colonial Korea
LINCICOME, Mark Elwood	College of the Holy Cross	Associate Professor and Chair	Peripheral Visions: Imagining Asia in Japan and Australia, 1853-1933
LOFTUS, Ronald P	Willamette University	Professor	Addressing the Postwar: Reading Japanese Women's Autobiographies and Memoirs
McCLURE, William Tsuyoshi	City University of New York Graduate Center	Associate Professor	Transfer in the acquisition of the English progressive
McMORRAN, Christopher Michael	University of Colorado, Boulder	PhD Candidate	Migration and Gendered Construction of Identity: Reproducing the Home for Tourists in Rural Japan
MEHRA, Salil	Temple University School of Law	Associate Professor	Prosecutors vs. Otaku: The Internet, Intellectual Property Rights and Criminalization
NELSON, John Kenneth	University of San Francisco	Associate Professor	Buddhist Altars: Refuge and Renewal for Contemporary Times
OKURA, Nana	Yale University	PhD Candidate	White Collars, Gray Hairs: Recontextualizing Salaryman Identities in Metropolitan Japan
ORTABASI, Melek Su	Hamilton College	Assistant Professor	Disseminating Modernity: Language and Doubt in Yanagida Kunio's Native Ethnology
SCHNELL, Scott Randall	The University of Iowa	Associate Professor	Mountain Ascetic as Environmentalist Exemplar: The Rediscovery and Popularization of Banryu Shonin
SURAK, Kristin	University of California, Los Angeles	PhD Candidate	Tea Ceremony and Gender in Modern Japan
UEDA, Atsuko	Princeton University	Assistant Professor	The Literature of Literary History: Bungei hihyo in Post-World War‡UJapan
WILKINS, Gretchen Lee	University of Michigan	Professor	Urban Flicker: Projects on the City
YAMAMOTO, Miyabi	University of California, Berkeley	PhD Candidate	Japanese Images of Colonial Korea

Venezuela

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
QUINTERO, Ednodio Jose	University of Los Andes	Professor	Junichiro Tanizaki as a Paradigm of the Modern Japanese Novel

Europe

Belgium

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
VAN GOETHEM, Ellen E.M.A.	Dept. of Languages & Culture of South and East Asia, Ghent University	Assistant Professor	The Influence of Religious Thought on the Transfer to and from the Nagaoka Capital

Bulgaria

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
TODOROVA, Stela Atanasova	Dept. of Economics, University of Agriculture	Associate Professor	Agricultural Policy of Japan and Bulgaria during the Period 1950-2005/Comparative Analysis

France

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BARBARO, Paolo	Centre for the Studies of Japanese Religion	PhD researcher	Japanese Pilgrimages: a Regional Survey of the Kii Peninsula
YATABE, Kazuhiko	Universite Paris 7	Assistant Professor	Contemporary Japanese society and the second modernity - experimental study on the aspects of Individualization processes in Japan

Germany

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HEINDORF, Viktoria	Munich University, Japan Centre	Research Assistant	Skill Formation and Human Resource Development in Response to the IT Revolution. The Case of Japan
HUMPERT, Rafael Piotr	Geschwister-Scholl- Institute, University of Munich	PhD Candidate	The Japanese-Chinese Relations under the Sign of the Nexon-Shock(1971-197)
JAHN, Gisela	Department of East Asia, Institute of Art History Freie University Berlin	Visiting Lecturer	Traditional Japanese Ceramics, 1900-1989-Tradition and Inovation
GRAJDIAN, Maria-Mihaela	University of Cologne, Japanology	PhD Candidate	The Floating World of Japanese Love-Anime, Identity, and Japan
PAUER, Erich	Marburg University, Center for Japanese Studies	Professor	The College of Engineering in early Meiji-period(M3-18)- Establishment, organization and graduates anf their contribution to modernization
SCHMIDT, Carmen, Elisabeth	University of Osnabrueck	Department of Social Science, Senior Lecturer	University Reform in Japan

Hungary

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BINCSIK, Monika	Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts, affiliated with the Museum of Applied Arts	Curator of Japanese Art Collection	Japanese Art Trade in the Meiji Period - collecting Japanese Applied Arts, especially Lacquer artworks in Europe, focusing on Hungary

Italy

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CARIOTI, Patrizia	Oriental University of Naples	Associate Professor	The Overseas Chinese in Nagasaki between the 16th and the 17th Centuries: A Preliminary Investigation
COCI, Gianluca	University degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale	Part-time lecturer	Innovative geniuses of modern Japanese literature, Kobo Abe, Kenzaburo Oe and their successor
GOTTARDO, Marco	Columbia University	PhD Candidate	Mapping popular religion in Tokugawa Japan: Birth, Death, and Re-birth on Mt.Fuji
LOBETTI, Tullio, Federico	School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS), University of London	PhD Student	Faith in the Flesh: Body and ascetic practices in contemporary Japanese religious context
SAMARANI, Guido	Ca'Foscari University, Department of East Asian Studies	Professor	The Italy-Germany-Japan Alliance and the Sino-Jaoanese War: the 1940.1945 period

Netherlands

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GODART, Gerard, Rainier, Clinton	University of Chicago	History	Origins of Modern Japanese Philosophy: Problems of Translation and Demarcation in the Meiji Period

Poland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
JAZWINSKA, Maria	Polish Academy of Sciences	Postgraduate student	Collection and Interpretation of Iconography of Japanese Textiles
ZULAWSKA-UMEDA, Agnieszka	Institute of Oriental Studies, Warsaw University	Associate Professor	Studies on Tsukeai in Japanese Haikai Poetry and Prose

Romania

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
FRENT, Rodica Monica	Faculty of Letters, Babes-Bolyai University	Assistant Professor	Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Haruki Murakami - the Poetic Mechanism of the their Literary Success Abroad

Russia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KHISAMUTDINOV, Amir Aleksandrovich	Far-Eastern State Technical University	Professor	The Influence of Japanese Culture on the Russian Far East: Historical and Anthropological
LIM, Sofya Chununovna	Sakhalin State University	Professor	The Role of Education in Contemporary Social Adaptation of Indigenous Peoples in Russia (Sakhalin), Japan (Hokkaido), and North America (Canadian Arctic and Alaska)
PALKIN, Alexei Dmitrievich	Moscow Institute of Economics and Linguistics	Associate Professor	Linguistic Consciousness of the Japanese and Russians in Comparison
SANINA, Ksenia Gennadievna	Far Eastern National University, Institute of Oriental Studies	Associate Professor	The Genesis and Development of Modern Japanese Literature during Meiji Era: Traditions and Modernity
SNITKO, Tatiana Nikolayevna	Rostov State Economics University	Professor	Attitude toward the WORD in the Japanese and the Russian Cultures
VOYTISHEK, Elena Edmundovna	Novosibirsk State University, Institute of Archaelogy and Ethnography	Head of Faculty of Oriental Studies	Game Traditions in the Intellectual Culture of Japan

Spain

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CRESPIN PERALES, Montserrat	Faculty of Philosophy, Barcerona University	Fellowship Researcher	The Kyoto School of Philisophy in the History of Contemporary Philosophy
TAKAGI, Kayoko	Madrid Autonomous University	Associate Professor	Collecting bibliobraphy and documents for the translation of Genji Monogatari into Spanish

Sweden

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CARLQVIST, Anders	Institution of Japanese Goteborg University	Dept of Oriental and African Languages	Ancient Izumo in the Process of the first Japanese National Building.

U.K.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
COOK, Emma, Elizabeth	SOAS:School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)	PhD Student	Freeters in contemporary Japan: An Ethnography of challenged masculinities
DAY, Kikutsubo G.M.M	School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London	PhD Student	Remenbrance of things past : The ancient Shakuhachi in comtemporary contexts
FUKUKAWA, Kyoko	Bradford University School of Management	Lecturer	The communication and practice of Japanese coporate social responsibilities
TAKAGI, Siu mei	University of Cambridge	PhD Student	Woman, literacy and reading in early Edo period

Uzbekistan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GAFUROVA, Hakima	University of World Economy and Diplomacy	Japanese Teacher	Suiside in Japan through Japanese Literature and Society
KHALMURZAEVA, Nadira	Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies	Japanese Teacher	Study of Japanese Language
NARKHODJAEVA, Nigora Faizullaevna	Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies	Teacher	The Conception of Personality in Akutagawa Creation