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Asia

Bangladesh

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
RAHMAN, Ataur Md	University of Dhaka	Professor	The Election System and Political Reform: A Japanese Perspective for Bangladesh

China

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BAI, Ruchun	Institute of Japanese Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Assistant Research Fellow	A Study on Japan's East Asia Cooperation Policy: from the Comparative View of the Policies between Japan and China and Japan-China Relations
CHEN, Shuangli	The University of Hong Kong	Ph.D Candidate	Constructing Womanhood, Reinventing Modernity: Christian Girls' School and the Discourse of Girls' Education in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)
CHEN, Xiru	China Writer Association	Professor	Study on Noma Hiroshi
CHUNG, Chien-Peng	Lingnan University	Associate Professor	The Role of Japan in "China-led" Asian pacific regional organizations
CHUNYU, Miaoling	Southwest University of Political Science & Law	Professor	The Research on Japanese Reformation of Public Service and its Hints for China
Ge, Jianhua	Business School of China University of Political Science & Law	Professor	Research and Investigation on environmental operations in the distributional field ---from the perspective of recycling economy
GUAN, Quan	Economics School of Renmin University of China	Professor	Correcting Chinese misunderstanding of Japanese economy
GUO, Dongmei	Institute for Japanese Studies, Northeast Normal University	Assistant Professor	Albert Mosse's view of local autonomy in Japan
LAM, Wing Keung	Center for Religious and Spirituality Education, The Hong Kong Institute of Education	Assistant Professor	Rethinking History: Nishida Kitaro and Contemporary Neo-Confucianism
LI, Han	Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Ph.D Candidate	On the Track of Pacifism in Modern Japan
LI, Yuling	Japanese Department, School of Foreign Language, Tongji University, China	Associate Professor	The Reception and Transformation of Tang Court Culture in the Formation of Ancient Japanese Culture
LIANG, Baowei	Fudan University, School of International Relations and Public Affairs	Ph.D Candidate	Civilian controlof postwar Japan
LIANG, Mingxia	Peking University	Ph.D Candidate	A Study of the Pre-WWII Process of Modern Buddhism in Japan
LIU, Jun	Peking University	Associate Professor	Civil Society Construction, national-state Shaping in Japan and Its Inspirations to China - A Comparative Study from the Perspectives of Globalization and Regional Cooperation in East Asia
REN, Ping	Zhejiang Shuren University	Teacher	Chushin Zekkai and the Cultural Exchange in the Early Ming Dynasty
TIAN, Xuemei	Fudan University, School of International Relations and Public Affairs	Ph.D Candidate	Modeling"the people" in modern and contemporary Japan -from the Meiji Restoration to World War II-
WANG, Ping	Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Ph.D Candidate	The research of Japan's ODA policy after the Cold War
WEI, Zhijiang	School of Asia-Pacific Studies, SUN YAT-SEN University	Associate Professor	China -Japan-Korea Security Strategic Cooperation and the Construction no Northeastern Asian Security Mechanism
WU, Xiangping	Jilin Social Science Academy	Ph.D Candidate	Research on Japan-China Manchuria Railways Studies
XU, Peng	Jilin University School of Law	Ph.D Candidate	Research on Japanese Civil Code System
YU, Fang	South China Normal University	Japanese Lecturer	The Effect of Yanagida's folklore to Chinese folklore
ZHANG, Dongdong	Institute of Japanese Studies Nankai University	Ph.D Candidate	The Japanese Social System for Woman
ZHAO, Jinghua	Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences	Professor	Japan: 1968s Revolution
ZHI, Feina	Beijing Film Academy	Lecturer	Fission and Pluralism of the new century--A Comparative study on the societal pursuits reflected in the movies by young Chinese and Japanese directors
ZHONG, Fang	Institute for Japanese Studies, Northeast Normal University	Researcher	The Comparative Studies Between JapaneseEmpire Constitution and Draft Constitution by Qing Dynasty

India

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
DAS, Siddhartha	Self Employed	Design Consultant	Relevance of Museums & Art / Cultural Centers as Urban Cultural Spaces: a Photographic Research Project
FAISAL, Mohd	Jawaharlal Nehru University	Ph.D Candidate	Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in China: A Case Study of Manufacturing Sector; 1991-2006
MISRA, Sib Ranjan	Department of Economics, Visva Bharati	Professor	Toward Understanding Japan's Social Serucity Measures Lessons for Strengthening India's Strategy
TANKHA, Brij Mohan	Departmnent of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi	Professor	Religion and the Challenge of the Modern in Meiji Japan

Indonesia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
PURWANINGSIH, Sri Sunarti	Research Centeｒ for Population, Indonesian Institute of Sciences	Mid-Senior Researcher	Reproductive Health in Border Areas in Japan

Korea

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CHOI, Woo Yong	Dong-A University	Associate Professor	A study on the citizen suit under the developments of decentralization
JEON, Young Soo	Graduate School of International Studies, Hanyang University	Research Professor	A Study on estension of retirement and senior welfare (focusing on income of the elderly)
JUNG, Joon-Pyo	Yeungnam University	Professor	Socioeconomic Status and Voting: Acomparison Between Korea and Japan
KIM, Do Hyung	Sung Kyun Kwan University	Ph.D Candidate	Adaption and Transformation of Japan's Enlightment Tought during Korea's Modern Enlightment Age
KIM, Sang Jo	Jeju National University	Professor	A Comparative Research on Mutual Under standing between chosun Diplomatic Delegates (chosun Tongshinsa) and Japanese Delegates
KIM, Youen	Hanyang University	Associate Professor	South Korea-Japan Cooperation towards Building a Multilateral Security Institution in Northeast Asia
LEE, Myung Hee	Silla University	Professor	A Study on Teaching Methods of Level - based Japanese Language Reading Skills
MIN, Byung-Geol	Seoul Women's University	Assistant Professor	Research in the Ukiyoe legacy and Japanese Graphic Design
PARK, Cheol Hee	Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University	Associate Professor	Contentious Politics of Ideas and Japan's Instiative toward Asia in the Post-Cold War Setting
PARK, SooJung	Local Educational Political Research Institute	Researcher	A Comparative Study of the Post-WWII Process of Educational Autonomy in Korea and Japan
PARK, Taeho	Seoul National University of Technology	Assistant Professor	A Comparative Study in the Organizational Methods of Non-regularWorkers in Korea and Japan
SONG, Kyung Sook	Sungkyunkwan University	Ph.D Candidate	Changes in the Class Relation and the State Form in Japan since 1980's -Focused on Politics of Labor Deregulation

Malaysia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LIE, Pek Hung	Universiti Sains Malaysia	Lecturer	Takemitsu Film Music:an Analytical study of Musical Aesthetics in Relation to Art Film
TAN, Swee Ean	University Science of Malaysia	Teaching Assistant	Japanese Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) in Electronic and Electric(E&E) Manufacturing Sector in Malaysia(1996-2005)

Mongolia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
DASHDULAM, Dashdeleg	National University of Mongolia	Lecturer	Mongolia in the Japan-Russia Relations in 1930-1945

Myanmar

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
NU NU LWIN,	Yangon Institute of Economics	Senior Lecturer	Economic Cooperation between Asean and Japan under the framework of Asean-japan Comprehensive Economic partnership(Ajcep) and itsimpact on Myanmar

Nepal

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
POKHAREL, Madhav Prasad Sharma	Tribhuvan University	Professor	Congnitive Similarities in the conceptralization of Objects through Classifies in Nepali and Japanese

 

Pakistan

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SHAIKH, Khalil -U- Rahman	Sciencies General Administration & coordination Dept	Deputy secretary	Pakistan-Japan political and economic relations in post cold war vperiod: chalenges and responses

Philippines

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
TIONGSON, Nicanor, G.	U.P. Film Institute, University of the Philippines	Professor	Cultural Engineering as an Integral part of Nation-building

Sri Lanka

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
DASSANAYAKE, Mudiyanselage Saman	University of Colombo	Senior Lecturer	Human Resource Development Systems of Business Process Outsourcing Companies: A Comparative Analysis of Sri Lanka and Japan

Thailand

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LEAOKITTIKUL, Rungruedee	Department of Modern Eastern Languages, Faculty of Art, Silpakorn University	Lecturer	Relationship in Terms of Meaning between Single Verb and First Verb in Japanese Compound Verbs
SUWANRADA, Attaya	Japanese Section, Department of Eastern Languages,Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University	Lecturer	Symbolic Function of Five Elements in Heian Period's Literature
WAJJWALKU, Siriporn	Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University	Associate Professor	The Dynamics of Japanese Foreign Aid after the Cold War, Policies, Institutions and Activities

Viet Nam

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
NGUYEN, Van Binh	Vietnam General Confederation of Labor	Legal Specialist	Legal Framework for Social Dialogue in Promoting Harmonious Industrial Relations: A Cpmparative Study Between Vietnamese Law and Japanese Law
PHAM, Mai ThiXuan	Vietnam Academy for Social Sciences	Senior Researcher	Major Changes in Japan’s Agriculture Structure since 1960, Lessons for Vietnam

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Pacific

Australia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CHAPMAN, David Richard	University of South Australia	Senior Lecturer	Bare Life and Inventedn Citizens: Life and History of the 'Naturalized Foreigner' Inhabitants of the Ogasawara Islands
HAYES, Carol	Australian National University	University Academic	Writing a literary biography of Hagiwara Sakutaro: Howling at the Moon-The Life and Work of Hagiwara Sakutaro
KING, Emerald Louise	University of Tasmania	Ph.D Candidate	Under the Guise of Hunting Toddlers: A Genealogy of Hedonistic Motifs in Japanese Women's Writing from Kono Taeko to \watanabe Yayoi
Morris-Suzuki, Teresa Irene Jessica	Australian National University	Professor	Grassroots Initiatives for Regional Integration: How local Social Networks build links between Japan and its Asian Neighbours
SONE, Yuji	Macquarie University	Lecturer	Study of the Japanese engagement with entertainment robots and competition robots

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Middle East

Israel

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
DOTAN, Oshrat	Tel Aviv University	Ph.D Candidate	Seeing the Unseen: Vision and Perception in the Art of Mono-ha, 1968-1971
FRUMER, Yulia	Princeton University	Ph.d Candidate	The shape of Time: The historical perception of mechanical clocks in Edo Japan
ZWIGENBERG, Ran	The Graduate Center of the City University of New York	Ph.D Candidate	Mute Memories: Mnemonic Site of Hiroshima: 1945-1970

Turkey

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ATAY, Aysegul	Ankara University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Japanese Language and Literature	Research Assistant	Japanese-ta Form and Turkish Past Form

 

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Africa

Egypt

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
EBEID, Ehab Ahmed	Cairo University	Assistant Lecturer	Spatial in Japanese and Arabic
ELNOBY, Mohamed Hassan Mohamed	Academy of Arts, Higher institute of theatrical Arts	Lecturer	Comparative study between Japanese and Egyptian theater during sixties of twentieth century-Applying on the works of Betsuyaku Minoru and Alfred Farag

Nigeria

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
IKWUEMESI, Chukwuezugo Krydz	University of Nigeria	Senior Lecturer	Igbo and Ainu Arts and Cosmos: A Comparative Study

Tunisia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
JOUILI, Mohamed	University of Tunis	Assistant Professor	Japanese O.V.O.P.(isson ippin) and Tunisian ADG experiences; A comnparative study based on Moral Economy approach

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Americas

Brazil

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
NAGAE, Neide Hissae	Sao Paulo State University	Professor
WATZKA, Anne,  Stefanie	Yale University	PhD. Candidate	Japanese professional women in the neoliberal order: Through the labyrinth of their working lives

Canada

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BERTHIN, Michael Edwin	London School  of Economics and Political Science	Ph.D Candidate	An Ethnographic Examination of Social Robots in Japan
CALLAGHAN, Sean,  Koji	University of Toronto, Department of East Asian Studies	Ph.D Candidate	Collectivities in Conflict: Life, Nation, and Affect in Prewar Japan
CAZDYN, Eric	University of Toronto	Associate Professor	Japanese Film Without Japan
CRAIG, Christopher Robin Jamie	Columbia University	Ph.D Candidate	The Middlemen of Modernity: Local Notables and Rural Development, 1890-1930
LEUNG, Aegean Oi Kam	University of Victoria	Assistant Professor	Entrepreneurship as a career path of highly educated Japanese women
MCLEOD, Ken,  A.	University of Toronto	Assistant Professor	Narrating a Narration: Visual Kei and Japanese Identity
SERVICE, Jonathan Keith Ranta	Harvard University	Ph.D Candidate	Modernizing Music in Meiji Japan

Chile

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
PERELLO ENRICH, Juan Luis	University of Santiago	Lecturer

Cuba

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
PEREZ VILLANUEVA, Omar Everleny	Center for Study of the Cuban Economy, University of Habana	Professor	Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Applying the Asian Experience to Cuba

Mexico

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BARRON SOTO, Maria Cristina Esperanza	Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de Mexico	Full Time Professor	Mexico, the Philippines, and Japan In the Transpacific Trade of the Spanish Empire: The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

El Salvador

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CASTELLANOS MOYA, Horacio	City of Asylum Pittsburgh	Writer in Exile	Violence and healing in the novels by Kobo Abe and Kenzaburo Oe Lecture Desmonoramiento: La convulsa realidad centroamericana en la ficción (Dec. 16) (PDF/470KB)

U. S. A.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
ALEXY, Allison Megan	Lafayette College	Assistant Professor	Later-life Divorce in Contemporary Japan
ARNOLD, Michael,  John	University of Michigan	Ph.D Candidate	Sex Every Afternoon: The Body of Japanese Pink Film and the Absence of Cinematic Realism
ATHERTON, David Carl	Columbia University	Ph.D Candidate	When the Gods  Were Human: Family, Transformative Suffering, and Other Worlds in Late Medieval Popular Religious Narratives
BARON, Robert	New York State Council on the Arts	Folk Arts Program Director	Safeguarding Folk Culture in Japan
DENECKE, Wiebke	Barnard College, Columbia University	Assistant Professor	"In the Footprints of Others: Japanese and Latin Writers and their own Literature"
DEPIES, Gregory John	University of California, San Diego	Ph.D Candidate	The International Red Cross in Japan
DES JARDIN, Molly Catherine	University of Michigan	Ph.D Candidate	Editing Identity: Literary Anthologies and the Author in Late Meiji Japan
ERDMANN, Mark Karl	Harvard University	Ph.D Candidate	Understanding Azuchi: Oda Nobunaga's Castle, Capital and Image
FOWLER, Sherry Dianne	University of Kansas	Associate Professor	Accounts and Images of the Six Kannon Cult in Japan
FRIEDMAN, Lindsey Gayle	University of Cambridge	Ph.D Candidate	Jomon - Yayoi Transition: Isotopic Investigations into the Introduction of Wet-Rice Agriculture to Japan
GAGNE, Isaac Thomas	Yale University	Ph.D Candidate	"No Gods, No Heroes?: New Religious Movements in a Drifting Japan"
GLASSMAN, Henry	Haverford College	Associate Professor	Salvation Hewn from Stone: a study on the origin, meaning, and dissemination of the "gorin no to"
HAAG, Andre Robert	Stanford University	Ph.D Candidate	Representing the Resistance: Narratives of Rebellious Koreans in Taisho Japan
HESSELINK, Reinier Herman	The University of Northern Iowa	Professor	The Rise and Fall of Christian Nagasaki (1560-1640)
HEWITT, Robert Shannon	Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences	Ph.D Candidate	Didacticism and Censorship in Late Edo Fiction: Kyoden, Bakin, and the Historical Novel
KIMBROUGH, Randle Keller	University of Colorado, Boulder	Assistant Professor	"Wondrous Brutai Fictions: Buddhist Sermon Ballads and Miracle Plays of Seventeenth-Century Japan"
McCLIMON, Sarah Jane	University of Hawaii, Manoa	Graduate Assistant	Gunka in War and Peace: Music, Politics, and Memory, 1930-Present
MILHAUPT, Terry Satsuki	Independent Researcher		Modern Kimono-A Kaleidoscopic View
MITCHELL, Arthur Moncrieffe	Yale University	Ph.D Candidate	Subverting Language: Japanese Modernism, Modernity, and Linguistic Critique
NAKAGAWA, Ikuyo	Graduate Center, the City University of New York	Ph.D Candidate	The Becoming of an Artist of the World: Nationalism and Internationalism in the Art and Life of Tsuguharu Fujita (1886-1968)
NEWHARD, Jamie Lynn	Washington University in St Louis	Assistant Professor	A Market of Their Own: Books for Women in Early Modern Japan
NOONAN, Patrick James	University of California, Berkeley	Ph.D Candidate	Creating Counterpublics: The Aesthetics and Politics of Opposition in 1960s Japan
REITAN, Richard	Franklin and Marshall College	Assistant Professor	From Geist to Seishin: A Genealogy of Spirit in Meiji Japan
SABATINO, Michelangelo	University of Houston	Assistant Professor	Arthur Erickson and the Discovery of Japanese Architecture
SELINGER, Vyjayanthi Ratnam	Bowdoin College	Assistant Professor	Imagining the Shogun in Fourteenth-Century Japan
SHAMOON, Deborah Michelle	University of Nortre Dame	Assistant Professor	Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls' Culture in Japan
SKABELUND, Aaron Herald	Brigham Young University	Assistant Professor	"Invisible Men: The Postwar Japanese Military, 1945-2005
TSUJIMURA, Natsuko	Indiana University	Professor	Sociolinguistic Investigation of Language Change in Japanese: the case of the -te aru intransitivizing construction
WALKER, Gavin	Cornell University	Ph.D Candidate	Economies of Dislocation: Area, Time, and the Crisis of Marxism in Japan, 1922-1973
WEISS, Allen S.	New York University	Associate Teacher	"Metaphor and Metaphysics in Japanese Garden Aesthetics"
YANG, Timothy Ming-Chih	Columbia University	Ph.D Candidate	Sciences of Modernity: Taiwan in Colonial and Postcolonial Times

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Europe

Austria

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SEIDL, Bernhard	Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna	Junior lecturer	The Return of Japanese: Japanese Pop-music Lyrics and the linguistic Other

Belgium

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
PEETERS, Bruno Henri Albert	WENK, St.-Lucas Department of Architecture & Urban Planning	Professor	Potentials, Transferability & Re-Assessment of Japanese Planning Tools in a Context of Ageing and Shrinking Societies

Croatia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
KAVEDZIJA, Iza	University of Zagreb	Research Assistant	Good life and ideal homes: Changing ideas of 'the good life' in contemporary Japan

Finland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
GAENS, Bart Jozef	University of Helsinki, Network for European Studies	Senior Researcher	The Visualization of Corporate Japan in Salaryman Manga-Hirokane Kenshi's "Shima Kosaku" as a Case Study

France

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LEVY, Christine	Michel De Montaigne Bordeaux University	Associate Professor	Feminist History and Gender Studies in Japan today
HOUDART, Sophie	Laboratory of Anthropology and Comparative Sociology	Researcher	Seeing The world Through Pixels. Digital Innovations in Japan
STIEFEL, Erhard	artist		Study on No Mask

Germany

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
FERSTL, Katja	Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich	Ph.D. Candidate	The Role of Private Photography in Comtemporary Japanese Consumer Behavier: A Age-and Gender specific Comparison
KALINOWSKI, Thomas	GSIS, Ewha Womans University	Assistant Professor	Japan and the Global Governance of Finance:
LARSEN, Per Bojesen	Chair of Japanese Economy, Frankfurt University	Research Assistant	Creation of Knowledge: An Evaluation of Cluster Policies in Germany and Japan
NEIBERGER, Cordula	Philipps Universitat	Assistant Professor	Internationalisation and Embedenes in Networks
SCHMIDT, Jan	Ruhr University Bochum	lecturer	The "Great European War"-Perception and Interpretation of World War One and of the Wartime Mobilization of the Western Powers in Japan (1914-1938)

Hungary

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
VASZKUN, Balazs	Corvinus University of Budapest	Ph.D Candidate	Structure and characteristics of a network economy; limits and benefits

Italy

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
CENTONZE, Katja	Calabria University	Lecturer	Body-Theories and Techniques:From Japanese Performing Arts to Hijikata Tatsumi's Butoh. Perspectives on body and Media in Performance and Text.
ORSI, Maria Teresa	Roma University "La Sapienza"	Professor	Completion of the translation into Italian language, of Genji monogatari

Poland

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LESNICZAK, Marcelina	Adam Mickiewicz University	Ph.D Candidate	Tanizaki Junichiro's Dramatic Works and Motifs of Japanese Traditional Theater observed in his literature
NOWAK, Wojciech Jerzy	Adam Mickiewicz University	Ph.D Candidate	Word and image in the Japanese literature of Edo period
RUTKOWSKA, Iga	Warsaw Univeristy Faculty of Oriental Studies	Ph.D Candidate	Local and Central Kabuki Comparative Studies. The Merchant Performance in Village Environment
SONNENBERG, Katarzyna Anna	Jagiellonian University	Ph.D Candidate	The Image of Women as Presented in the Works of Higuchi Ichiyo
STARECKA, Katarzyna Violetta	Warsaw University	Assistant Professor	Problem of patriotic education in modern and contemporary Japan

Romania

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
RUSU, Renata Maria	Babes-Bolyai University	Ph.d Candidate	Axis Mundi in Japanese Myths and Festivals

Russia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
EGOROVA, Anna	The State Hermitage Museum, Education Department	Researcher	Edo Period Karatsu and Mino-seto ceramics (to the study of The state hermitage Collection)
KOVALCHUK, Marina Konstantinovna	Far East National University, Oriental Institute	Assistant Professor	The Image of russia and Britain in Japanese Newspapers of the Period of Sino-Japanese war. The Comparing Research of "Kokumin Shimbun" and "Jijishimpo" Views
MOLODYAKOVA, Elgena	Center for Japanese Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences	Head of Center	Recent Trends in Japanese Society: Informatization and Social Tolerance
PETROV, Alexander Ivanovich	Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch	Senior Researcher	The Japanese in the context demographic, social and economical development of the Russian Far East: 1855-1991
SHUBIN, Valery	Sakhalin Regional Museum	Manager of Archaeological Laboratory	Study of archaeological momuments of Jomon culture research methodic
STRELTSOV, Dmitry Viktorovich	Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University)	Professor	Formation of the Image of Russia in Japan and its Role for the Political Strategy of Japan Towards Russia
TYZHINOVA, Natalia Alexandrovna	Baikal National University of Economics and Law	Ph.D Candidate	Life Insurance in Japan

Serbia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
SEKULOVIC, Ana	Megatrend University	Assistant Professor	The Modern Economy of Japan

Slovenia

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BEKES, Andrej	Univesity of Ljubljana Faculty of Arts	Full Professor	Minami Fujio's layered sentence structure model as a probabilistic model of speaker's and hearer's competence: a corpus based study of synatatic co-occurrences in spoken and written Japanese

Spain

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LOPEZ-VIDAL, Lluc	Pompeu Fabra University	Lecturer in Political Science	Japan's Security Policy with China after the Cold War. Toward a hedging strategy
RODRIGUEZ NAVARRO, Maria Teresa	Department of Translation and Interpreting, University Autonoma of Barcellona	Ph.D Researcher	Interculturality in the Meiji Era: Japanese authors and translators and their role as cultural mediators.

Sweden

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
LARM, Lars Ingemar	Lund University	Senior Lecturer in Japanese	The Concept of Chinjutu within Japanese Traditional Grammar
GUSTAFSSON, Karl Anders	Stockholm University & Stockholm School of Economics	Ph.D Candidate	Remembrance and identity in Sino-Japanese Relations: The Case of Peace and War Museums

U.K.

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BRUCE, David Simon	London Metropolitan University	Senior Lecturer	Completion of proposed book, Globalisation and the Japanese Economy based on PHD. Article dealing with Japan's experience during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
DANIELS, Inge Maria	University of Oxford	Lecturer	Feeling at Home Urban Japan-An Exhibition
GARDINER, Michael	University of Warwick	Assistant Professor	Japanese Modernism 1920-1970 and Euro-American Theories of 'World Literature'
GERSTLE, C. Andrew	University of London	Professor	'Erotic Parodies of 18th-Century Japanese womens conduct books'
HANSEN, Paul Simon	University of London	Researcher	Domestic Animals and Family Ties in Urban Japan: Changing Kinship and 'Skinship' Across Species Bounds

Ukraine

Name	Institution	Title	Project Title
BRIUKHOVETSKA, Olga	National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy	Associate Professor	Visualisation of Nuclear Trauma in Japanese Cinema