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Researcher Interviews

Interviews with our fellows provide a look at their research and lifestyle while living in
Japan through the Japanese Fellowship program.

A new challenge toward building a forensic method for author recognition in Japanese to determine “did a suspect write the incriminating statement?”

Shunichi Ishihara
［15th Japanese Research Fellowship Invitee］

Exploring Japanese identity by examining citizen-to-citizen relationships between Japan and Asia in the post-war period

Simon Andrew Avenell
［14th Japanese Research Fellowship Invitee］

Special Edition: 14th Japanese Research Fellowship invitees How we spent the New Year holidays

Dialogue: Tracing transitions in Japanese society and the history of books in Asia from Middle Ages Sinology

Brian Robert Steininger
［13th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

Ukraine and Japan have surprising similarities in both their wooden architecture and culture. I want to make use of my experience learning about the redevelopment of Japanese towns in my home country.

Galyna Shevtsova
［13th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

In pursuit of true intercultural understanding including the culture and society of Japan, starting with Japanese language education for Bangladeshis

Mohammed Ansarul Alam
［13th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

“I intend to learn the differences between Japanese and Turkish so as to develop educational methods that lead to more practical Japanese conversation skills”

Aydin Ozbek
［13th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

The Unknown and Unexpected History Behind Japanese Tea Exports and the Story of the People who Supported it

Robert Ingels Hellyer
［12th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

The World of Japanese-Chinese Poetry that Developed in Line with a Japanese Aesthetic Sense from the Imitation of Chinese poetry

Liang Qing
［12th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

“Showing the Unseen” Japanese Traditional Arts and Stories about the Spirit World

Haruo Shirane
［12th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

The International Speech Contest in Japanese as a “Third Space” Intersection of Japanese and Non-Japanese Cultures

Mari Noda
［12th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

Shedding Light on the History of Independent Film, a Mostly Ignored Part of Japanese Film History

Alexander Nicholas Zahlten
［12th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

Pursuing Research on “Japanese Pedagogical Grammar” by Foreigners, for Foreigners, Amid Changing Language Education

Wang Shihho
［12th Hakuho Japanese Fellowship Invitee］

Receiving Organizations

All researchers conduct their research with the cooperation of one of the following organizations.
Here we feature interviews with the staff responsible for them at each organization.

National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

A mission to provide the world with corpora and other precision language resources

Waseda University

As Asia’s leading university, Waseda provides greater mobility for international researchers

Kyoto University

Bringing together dedicated researchers from all around the world under the motto “Freedom of academic culture”

Ritsumeikan University

From the Classics to Cutting-edge, a Diverse and Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Japanese Culture

The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa

A Core Facility for Global Japanese Education and Spreading the Japanese Language

Ochanomizu University

Changing Walls into Gateways, An Innovative Learning Environment

International Research Center for Japanese Studies

A Mecca for Japanese Studies Connecting Local and International Japan Researchers

Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

An Energetic Response to the World’s Diverse Styles of Japanese Education Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Research Report Meetings

Here we outline the research report meetings held to discuss intermediate and final research results,
as well as the round-table discussions and social gatherings conducted immediately after the researchers arrive in Japan.