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This newsletter conveys the appeal of doing research in Japan by introducing activities conducted by invitees during their stays in Japan and the qualities of their receiving organizations, as well as interviews with Japan researchers overseas (including past invitees).

Vol. 5, June 2018 Edition

● Research in Japan as told by invitees

  • GERLINI Edoardo (University of Florence/Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy) “Is literature useless, or is it an ‘imperishable glory?’ The social role of ‘writings’ in the early Heian period and their position in world literature”
  • Yurong (Inner Mongolia University, China) “Corpus-based comparative study of prosodic features in Japanese and Mongolian”
  • SHI Lishan (Shanghai Normal University, China) “Comprehensive study of Japan’s collection of abridged Chinese classics”
  • COOK Ryan Marshall (Emory University, USA) “Rethinking the 1960s through Japanese Film: The Showa 30s as Image and Memory”

● Recent invitees

● Japanese language education and Japanese research overseas (Portugal and Spain)

● Receiving institutions for this fellowship

Vol. 4, June 2017 Edition

● Research in Japan as told by invitees

  • LANGTON Nina Jean (University of British Columbia, Canada) “Investigation of best practices for the development of learning objects for use in an online beginning Japanese language class”
  • FREDERICK Sarah Anne (Boston University, USA) “Mapping Kyoto: Digital Visualization of Natsume Soseki’s ‘Arriving in Kyoto One Evening’” (Title changed during the Fellowship Program)
  • LALY Cecile (Paris Sorbonne University, France) “Flying octopus stories”
  • GE Qian (Fuzhou University, China) “A study on the cultural identity of Chinese learners of Japanese”

● Recent invitees

● Japanese language education and Japanese research overseas (Indonesia and Vietnam)

● Receiving institutions for this fellowship

Vol. 3, June 2016 Edition

●Research in Japan as told by invitees

  • BRU TURULL Ricard (Barcelona University, Spain) “The artistic relationship between Japan and Spain in the 20th century”
  • NISHINA Yoko (University of Erfurt, Germany) “Japanese linguistics abroad: Textbook of theory and application”
  • GROSSMANN Eike Ursula (Hamburg University, Germany) “Concepts of Children and Childhood in pre-modern Japanese Literature” (Title changed during the fellowship program)
  • KAEWKITSADANG Patcharaporn (Thammasat University, Thailand) “An Investigative Study of Communicative Can-do Based Japanese Language Education and Japanese Language Textbooks: Feasibility for Application to Create Japanese Language Textbooks for Undergraduate Students in Thailand”

● Hakuho Foundation, providing a place for cultural exchange

● Japanese language education and Japanese research overseas (China), Professor Xu Yiping (Director of the Beijing Center for Japanese Studies)

● Receiving institutions for this fellowship

Vol. 2, June 2015 Edition

●Research in Japan as told by invitees

  • DEDI Sutedi (Indonesia University of Education, Indonesia) “Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and Indonesian Passive Sentences”
  • HORIUCHI Annick Mito (Paris Diderot University, France) “Western Knowledge of World Geography and World History: Its Political and Intellectual Impact on Early 19th Century Japan”
  • AZUMA Shoji (University of Utah, USA) “Is globalization changing the Japanese of communication? An analysis of speech styles among political and business leaders in Japan”
  • FRENT Rodica Monica (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) “Idomatic expressions as vehicles of cultural meaning: a comparative study in Japanese and Romanian”

● Japanese culture research overseas (Australia)

  • Sydney Japanese Language Education International Research Colloquium Report: Collaboration on Japanese Research and Japanese Language Education in Australia

● Hakuho Foundation Research Report Meeting Report (2014)

  • 8th and 9th Fellowship Research

● Receiving institutions for this fellowship

Vol. 1, June 2014 Edition

● Research in Japan as told by invitees

  • SZATROWSKI Polly (University of Minnesota, USA) “Modality/evidentiality in Japanese and English conversation about food”
  • TSULBAATAR Onon (National University of Mongolia, Mongolia) Utilizing Japanese idioms experienced in Japan in Japanese language education in Mongolia
  • VOROBEVA Galina (Kyrgyz National University, Kyrgyzstan) An innovative method for studying kanji made possible by a non-kanji culture
  • TRAN Thi Chung Toan (Hanoi University, Vietnam) Promoting Japanese language education in Vietnam from the perspective of Japanese linguistics

● The present state of Japanese culture research overseas (USA)

● Receiving institutions for this fellowship