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Asia

China

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CAVE, Peter	University of Hong Kong	Assistant Professor	Education and Individuality in Japan: The Impact of Lower Secondary Educational Reform
CHEN, Yuping	Intitute for International Labor Studies, Ministry of Labor and Social Security	Deputy Division Chief	Study on Labor Dispute Resolution System in Japan
DU, Yang	Beijing University	Doctoral Candidate	Study of Thought of Akinari Ueda
GU, Hongyan	University of Sydney	Doctoral Candidate	Towards A Sustained Environmental Advocacy Coalition -a comparative study of Governmental NGOs relations in China and Japan
LIU, Fang Liang	Shandong University	Doctoral Candiate	Reception and Transformation-Relation between Chinese Poem in Edo Period and Poetics in The Ming
LIU, Haibo	East China Normal University	Department of Educational Administration	Comparative Study on the Education Administration System and Reform between China and Japan
LIU, Ping	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Professor	Influence of Japanese Modern Theater and Cultural Exchange between Japan and China
LU, Yanbin	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)	Assistant Professor, Vice - Director	Civil Disputes Resolution by Administrative Bodies
MEI, Linhai	Jinan University	Professor	Chinese and Japan Trade Valuation in Sustainable Development and Early Warning Systems
SONG, Zaixin	Sichuan University	Professor	Study of Formation of Characteristic of Japanese Ancien Culture: Focusing on Four Seasons and Love in Ancient Poems
WANG, Qiuju	Northeastern University	Professor	Comparative Study of Science Technology and Culture between Japan and China
WU, Haihang	Beijing Normal University	Associate Professor	Comparative Study of Preventive Measures against Juvenile Crime in Tokyo and Beijing
XU, Jinlong	Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Professor	Critical Biography of Kenzaburo Ohe
ZHU, Mang	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	Professor	On Basic Structure of City Planning Legal Procedure and System in Japan With the Comparison of China
ZHUANG, Na	Beijing University	Doctoral Candiate	Study of Japanese National Policy

India

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BILIMALE, Purushothama	American Institute of Indian Studies	Director	Research and Study of Japanese Culture and Performing Arts
FULORIA, Deepika	Jawaharlal Nehru University	Researcher	Developments in Northeast Asia: Changing Dynamics of Japan-China Relations, 1990-2005

Indonesia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HANDAYANI, Christina, Siwi	University of Sanata Dharma	Lecturer	Self's Being Through Consumption: Dialogical Approach in The Analysis of Self Narration of The Young People in Eastern Culture-Japan (Kyoto) and Indonesia (yogyakarta)

Korea

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CHO, Yong Rea	The Kukmin Daily	Editorial Writer	The Comparative Study on Utilizing Policy for Aged People in Japan and Korea: Application of Japanese Experiences to Korea
CHOI, Wan Kyu	University of North Korean Studies	Dean/ Professor	Major Issues in the Regime Transformation of North Korea in South Korea and Japan: Comparative Approach
HA, Jong-Moon	Hanshin University	Professor	Trend of Labor Power Policy Immediately After The Lost War
JANG, In-Sung	Seoul National University	Professor	Considering the University and Specialty in the Post-War Japanese Intellectuals' Notion of World Politics: Focusing on the Debate of Idealism Versus Realism
JEON, Jinho	Kwangwoon University	Professor	US-Japan Alliance and US-Korea Alliancein the 21st Century
KANG, Jung-Woon	Changwon National University	Professor	The State and Lessons of the University Public Policy Education in Japan
KONG, Young Tae	Chinju National University of Education	Assistant Professor	A Study on the Status and Educational Background of Science Creativity Education at Japanese School System
KWON, Soon-Mee	Korea University	Lecturer	The Politics of Social Pacts in the Era of Globalization: A Comparison of Japan and Korea
LEE, Geun	Seoul National University	Professor	Theorizing Soft Power: the Case of Japan
PARK, Doyoung	University of Illinois	History/ Doctoral Student	Confucian Conversion: Zen Apostates and Confucian Profession in Early Tokugawa Japan
YOON, Jee-Young	Yonsei University	Graduate Student (the Doctour's Course)	The Cognition of <Nation> in Modern Japan 1868 - 1945

Malaysia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LIM, Kim Hui	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	Research Fellow	A Comparison of Discourses on Cultural Ethos in Japan and Malaysia: Nihonjinron and Malay Budi
PHAR, Kim Beng	Damansara Utama College (resigned in the end of December 2006)	Senior Lecturer	Analytical Understanding of the Forms and Sources of Soft Power in Japan Viz China's
YAP, Yuet Ngor	?	Freelance Translator	The Research Regarding the Acceptance of Murakami Haruki Literature in Malaysia and Singapore

Myanmar

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KYAW, Mie Mie	SEAMEO-CHAT	Research Fellow	Japan-Myanmar Relation During the Second World War (Through Japanese Documents)

Pakistan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MEHDI, Syed Sikander	University of Karachi	Professor	Building Peace Museums in Pakistan: Relevance of Japanese Peace Museums

Philippines

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
TEEHANKEE, Julio Cabral	De la Salle University	Chair of Political Science Department	Constitutional Continuity and Change in the Philippines and Japan

Singapore

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HO, Chiew Hui	Stanford University	PhD Candidate	ANNEN: the Systematization of Tendai Esotericism

Thailand

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SETISARN, Chomnard	Chulalongkorm University	Assistant Professor	The Folklores and Beliefs about Domestic Animals in Japan

Viet Nam

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
NGUYEN, Minh, Van	Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences	Head of Department	The Changes from Traditional Religious Belief to Christianity and New Religions and Its Influence on Socio-Cultural Life: A Comparison Study Between Japan and Vietnam During 1945-2006 Period
PHAN, Hai Linh	Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities	Lecture Head of Department	Situation of Japan Studies and Education on Japan Studies at Universities in Japan

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Pacific

Australia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ARMSTRONG, Shiro Patrick	Australian National University	PhD	Japan, China anc the Structure of East Asian Trade
DALTON, Emma Louise	University of Wollongong	Doctoral Candidate	A Consideration of the Conservative Female Politician in the Context of the Under-Representation of Women in Japanese Parliamentary Politics
HARTLEY, Barbara Toni	University of Tasmania	School of Asian Languages and Studies	The Literature of Takeda Taijun: Self, Other and Nation in Twentieth Century Japan
OKAYAMA, Emiko	University of Sydney	?	Text-Image Relationship in Art, Literature and E-media in Japan
WARD, Rowena Gai	University of Technology Sydney	Casual Lecturer	The Experience of the Civilian Japanese Living in Manchuria in August 1945

New Zealand

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
RYU, Yongwook	Harvard University	PhD	State Identity and the Intensity of Territorial Disputes: How Japan's Evolving Identity Affects Terrotorial Disputes in Northeast Asia

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Middle East

Israel

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SHAOUL, Raquel	Dept. of East Asian Studies, Tel-Aviv University	Lecturer	Japan's evolving energy policy: Trends and Prospects vis-à-vis security of energy supply from Persian Gulf

Iran

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ZARVANI, Mojtaba	University of Tehran	Faculty member	Comparative Study Between Buddhism and Shi'a (Regarding Concept of Trikaya and Station of Imam)

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Africa

Egypt

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
EL-AMIR, Nilly, Kamal	Cairo University	Researcher	Japanese and American Perspectives in Environmental Security: A Comparative Study

Tanzania

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MWAIGOMOLE, Emmanuel Asukenye	University of DAR-ES-SALAAM	Institute of Development Studies	the Public and Private Sectors' Partnership for Economic Growth

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Americas

Argentina

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MENDEZ VAZQUEZ, Marcela Ines	El Colegio de Mexico, A. C./Centro de Estudios de Asia y Africa	Center for Asian and African Studies/Doctoral Cand	Accommodating Diversity: Latin American Nikkei and The Political Imaginary in Contemporary Japan

Brazil

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ABI-SAMARA, Raquel	National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)	Researcher	Urban Landscape and Contemporary Japanese Poetry
BIJOS, Leila Maria Da'Juda	Universidade Catolica de Brasilia	Professor	Poverty, Social Exclusion and Ethnic-Racial Discrimination: A Comparative Study of the Difficulties Faced by Brazilian Dekassegui Women in Japan
OTA, Junko	University of Sao Paulo	Director	The Cultural, Social and Historical Background of Japanese Language Change toward Edo and Meiji Periods
SHOJI, Rafael	Pontifical Catholic University of Sao Paulo	Researcher	Christianity among Japanese Brazilians: International Networks and their Social Integration in Japan

Canada

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HOFER, Franz D.	Cornell University	Ph. D Candidate	Making History (into) Matter: Visual Representations of Traumatic Pasts in Postwar Japan and Germany
KUNIMOTO, Thalia Namiko Athena	University of California, Berkeley	Ph. D. Candidate History of Art	Portraits of the Sun: Violence and Nationhood in the Art of the Gutai Group
McLAUGHLIN, Levi	Princeton University	Graduate Student, Religion	Soka Gakkai from the Ground Up: A History and Ethnography of Soka Gakkai
NANTAIS, Simon Michel	University of Victoria	PhD. Candidate	Koreans Under the American Occupation of Japan, 1945-1952
O'DAY, Robin	University of British Columbia	Ph. D Candidate	Japan (Re) Structured: Underemployed Youth and Emerging Social Justice Movements
SPIES, Alwyn	University of British Columbia - Okanagan	Assistant Professor	Global Grannies: a cross-cultural comparison of older women's reactions and responses to Winter Sonata
YANG, X. Jie	University of Calgary	Professor	A Study on Narration of Medieval Picture Scrolls

Cuba

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
FERNANDEZ TABIO, Luis Rene	University of Havana	Deputy Director	US Economic Sanctions on Cuba: The Impact for Japan-Cuba Relations
PITA CESPEDES, Gustavo	El Colegio de Mexico	Doctor's degree student	Influence of the Japanese Warrior Culture in the Development of the Japanese Society from Maiji to Showa.

Mexico

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
PORTILLO RODRIGUEZ, Manuel	Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City Campus	Professor	Participation of Civil Society in Japanese Urban Development.

Peru

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SANTANA, Martin	ESAN University	Full Professor	On the road-to e-government: Improving governance and public management in Peru

U. S. A.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BECKWITH, Christopher Irving	Indiana University	Professor	Early Old Chinese Loanwords in Proto-Japanese
BLACK, Matthew Douglas	Columbia University	PhD Candidate	Illuminating Article 9: A Japanese Social Movement
COGAN, Gina	Boston University	Assistant Professor	Buddhism and the Family in Nineteenth Century Japan
DAVIS-GARDENER, Angela Mackie	North Carolina State University	Professor	Butterfly's Child, A Novel
HAVENS, Thomas Robert Hamilton	Northeastern University	Professor	Remaking Nature as Public Space: Urban, National, and Natural Parks in Japan, 1873-Present
HELLYER, Robert, Ingels	Wake Forest University	Assistant Professor	Green Tea and the Path to an Industrial, International Japan
HILL, Christopher Laing	Yale University	Assistant Professor	Naturalist Literature, the Unbound Woman, and Neurasthenia
ITO, Kinko	University of Arkansas at Little Rock	Professor	Recent Trends in Japanese Ladies' Comics - A Case of social Construction of Reality
JACKSON, David Neil	Rresearcher		The Kaidan-dansu, a stairway in historical shadow
KINGSBERG, Miriam Lynn	University of California at Berkeley	PhD Candidate	'Opium Modernity' in Early Twentieth-Century Dairen
LIFE JR. , Theodore, Reginald	Global Film Network Inc.	Executive Director	Cocktail Party: adaptation of the Japanese novella to a English and Japanese screenplay
LIPPIT, Miya Elise Mizuta	University of Southern California	Lecturer	From Shadow to Illumination: Art, Literature and Electric Light in Modern Japan
MILLER, Laura	Loyola University Chicago	Professor	Subversive script and novel graphs in Japanese girls' culture
PALMER, Jesse D.	University of California Irvine	PhD Candidate	Ennin: a study of the role of Japanese Buddhist monks in Heian appropriation of Tang culture
SAGERS, John Hampton	Linfield College	Assistant Professor	Pursuing Profit and Virtue in Meiji Japan: Shibusawa Eiichi's Entrepreneurial Ethics
SATO, Atsuko	California State University, Los Angeles	Lecturer	Status of Sustainability Governance in Hokkaido: A comprehensive survey of sustainability programs and practices initiated by public, private and non-profit sectors
SHIMIZU, Sayuri Guthrie	Michigan State University	Associate Professor	Transpacific Field of Dreams; Baseball in US-Japanese Encounters, 1872-1952
THORNBER, Karen, Laura	Harvard University	Associate	Cultures and Texts in Motion: Reconfiguring Japanese Literature in Colonial and Semicolonial East Asian Contact Zones
TRAGANOU, Georgia	Parsons The New School for Design (The New School University)	Visiting Assistant Professor	National Representation of War and postwar Japan through the graphic design campaigns for the 1940, 1964 and 1972 Olympics Games
TSUJIMURA, Natsuko	Indiana University	Professor	Language change in Japanese through computer mediated communication
TUCKER, John Allen	East Carolina University	Professor	Japanese Confucianism in the Nanzan Sourcebook in Japanese Philosophy
WALLEY, Akiko	Harvard University	PhD Candidate	The Horyuji Temple in Light of Religious Practices in Seventh to Eighth Century Japan
WHITE, Merry Isaacs	Boston University	Professor	Social Spaces and Changing Urbanity: Café Society in Japan
YOSHITAKE, Mika, Monique	University of California, Los Angeles	PhD Candidate	Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha and Bikyoto in Postwar Japan (1968-1974)

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Europe

Austria

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
DOMENIG, Roland	Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna	Lecturer	Japanese screen practice, 1800-1920
KOZIOL, Gabriele	Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law	Ph. D Candidate	Using Intellectual Property Licences as Security

Bulgaria

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
PETKOVA, Gergana Rumenova	Sofia University	Lecturer	Japanese Ethnography Textbook: Introductory Texts on Japanese Culture, Folklore, Philosophy and Way of Life for Students
RANGUELOVA, Silvia Atanassova	University of Oxford	Student, Faculty of Oriental Studies	The Human Rights Dimension of Japan's Foreign Policy

Germany

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
EHLERS, Maren Annika	East Asian Studies, Princeton University	East Asian Studies	Poor Relief in Tokugawa Japan: The Case of Ono domain
HEINRICH, Patrick	Institute for East Asian Studies, University Duisburg - Essen	Acting Chairman	Language Shifts in the Ryukyu Archipelago
KEVENHOERSTER, Paul Johannes	University of Muenster, Institute of Political Science	Univ.-Professor	Evaluation of Development Policy and Official Development Assistance (ODA) in Japan
ZACHMANN, Urs Matthias	Japan Center, Department of Asian Studies, Munich University (LMU)	Assistant Professor	The Formation and Development of Legal Thought on International Law in Modern and Postwar Japan, 1919-1951

Denmark

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
OKSBJERG, Ellen Jane	School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London	PhD-Student at Department of Art and Archaeology	Intensive Supervision and Updating on Yayoi Archaeology at Kyushu University Plus Access to Artifacts in Japan During the Final Term of Writing PhD-Dissertation on Pictorial Engraving on Pottery in Western Japan from the Yayoi Period.

France

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ATLAN, Corinne	?	Tranlater/Writer	Evolution and trends of contemporary Japanese literature from the viewpoint of a translator
KOUAME, Nathalie	INALCO	Associate Professor	Christians in Nagasaki, Shimabara and Amakusa: from the end of the middle ages to the beginning of modern ages
LAURENT, Stephane	Universite de Paris Pantheon - Sorbonne/ Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art	History of Art/Associate Professor	Culture, Style and Globalism: The Reception of Ornament in Japan

Hungary

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MATE, Zoltan	Japanese Department, Faculty of Letters, Karoli Gaspar University	Assistant Professor	Aspects of the Japanese Writing System (Trends and Changes)

Ireland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
HOEY, Fintan Andrew	Graduate School of Arts and Celtic Studies, University College Dublin	School of History and Activities PhD Candidate	The Foreign Policy of Sato Eisaku, 1964-72

Italy

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BIENATI, Luisa	University of Venice	Associate Professor	Urban Space and Narrative Texture: Tokyo as a Source of Inspiration in Tanizaki Junichiro's aesthetic vision in the First Two Decades of the 20th Century.
PIERCONTI, Jong Kuk Mauro	University of Architecture of Venice IUAV	Department of History	Shirai Seichi and the Modern Architecture in Japan (1905-1983)

Poland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KARPOLUK, Jakub Aleksander	Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies Warsaw University	Institute of Art/Ph. D. Candidate	The Influence of Traditional Japanese Performing Arts and Eiga Setsumei Vocal Narration on the Forming Process and Later Development of Japanese Cinema.
WOLSKA - LENARCZYK, Joanna Kamila	Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philology, Institute of Oriental Philology	Dpt of Japanology and Sinology/ PhD Candidate	The Aesthetic and Ethical Canon in Mishima Yukio's The Sea of Fertility (Hojo no Umi)

Romania

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CIUBANCAN, Magdalena	Babes-Bolyai University	Linguistics/ Teaching Assistant	Expressions of Causativity in Japanese Media

Russia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KOZHEVNIKOV, Vladimir Vasilyevich	Far Eastern State University, Oriental Studies Institute, Japanese Faculty	Professor	The <onryo> Idea in Japanese History
LARIN, Victor	Russian Academy of Sciences	Director	The China Issue in Northeast Asia Security Environment: Influence on Russia-Japan Relations in the Beginning of XXI Century
ZHILINA, Larisa Vladimirovna	Omsk State University	Senior Instructor	Forming of Public Opinion of Japanese People about Russia and Russian People at the Beginning of 21 century (in Japanese Publications in Press of Present Time) Comparative Studies

Sweden

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
MADSEN, Yasuko	Dept. of Oriental & African Languages, Goteborg University	Professor	Intonation Structure in the Ryukyu Dialect of Japanese

Ukraine

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GRYKUN, Yuliya	Kyiv National Linguistic University	Philosophy Department, Graduate student	A Ukraine-Japan comparative study of intercultural communication in globalized society: How are traditionalism and ethnic consciousness maintained in the internationalized modern world?
SHEVTSOVA, Galyna Viktorovna	Kiev National University of Building and Architecture	Architecture/ Docent	Investigation of Analogies in Initial Formation Processes of Wooden Architecture in Japan and Ukraine

U. K.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BREEN, John Lawrence	SOAS University of London	Chair, Japan Research Centre	Hie Taisha: Interrogating Shrines and Shinto in Early Modern and Modern Japan
JAGER, Heide	Manchester Metropolitan University, MIRIAD	Faculty of Art and Design	Resonance of the Roji: Walking Urban Backstreets as Everyday Practice, A Study of Street Space in Japan
KOMORI, Naoko	Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester	Accounting and Finance/ Research Fellow	Towards Convergence; The Impact of Global Accounting on Corporate Governance, and the Growing Significance of Financial Literacy in Japan
SAUNDERS, Rachel, Mary	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Dept of Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa	Research Assistant	Beauty and the Beasts: The Fantastical Realm of the Otogizoshi, from Hand scrolls to Printed Books
TOMPKINS, Juliet, Margaret	Balliol College, University of Oxford	Dphil Candidate, International Relations	Dphil Thesis Title: Understanding the Evolution of the United States-Japan Alliance, 1978-2004

Uzbekistan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
RASULOV, Abdujabar	The University of World Economy and Diplomacy	Quantitative Methods in Economy/ Professor	Application of Quantitative Methods to Empirical Economic sudies for Central Asia