Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research
Responding to Real Society
FY2018 Project period：3 years（October 2018 to September 2021）
Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.
*1 Core-Researcher and affiliation replaced on October 24, 2019
*2 Extend the research period until March 31, 2022
Openly recruited research（67 applications, 8 adopted）
Research Area A：Empirical research for designing policies that take ethical perspectives (such as intergenerational equity, sustainability, and social safety) into consideration
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| Interfamilial Succession or M&A? A Survey of Family Firms in Okinawa |
UCHIDA Ichihiro |
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Aichi University |
Progress Report（PDF/287KB） |
| Creating fundamental concepts of society and value based Techonology and Brain science *2 |
MATSUURA Kazuya *1 |
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Toyo University |
Progress Report（PDF/345KB） |
Research Area B：Study on Achieving Social Diversity for LGBT and Sexual Minorities
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| Building the support system to make a family of LGBT parties by the assisted reproductive technology and the adoption *2 |
NINOMIYA Shuhei |
Professor, College of law, Ritsumeikan University |
Progress Report（PDF/184KB） |
Research Area C：Reconstructing multicultural communities in a depopulating society
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| Shrinking Strategy with Dignity for Rehabilitation and Revitalization of Community *2 |
ATSUMI Tomohide |
Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University |
Progress Report（PDF/220KB） |
| Heritage and Diversity in Local Communities: Perspectives from the Frontier of Demographic Change *2 |
KUMAGAI Yoshitaka |
Director, Institute for Asian Studies and Regional Collaboration, Akita International University |
Progress Report（PDF/191KB） |
| Unveiling the charm of Japanese mountainous towns that attract and support population inflow: A transdisciplinary action research in Yamanashi prefecture *2 |
TAKAHASHI Yasuo |
Researcher, Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services Area, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies |
Progress Report（PDF/222KB） |
| Multiculturalism through the dynamics of practices and policy: Osaka's model of participation of migrants and its policy proposal *2 |
TAKAYA Sachi |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University |
Progress Report（PDF/132KB） |
Research Area D：Interdisciplinary research on forgetting with construction of social corresponding base
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| Cognitive / economical evaluations on web-systems including human memory characteristics *2 |
MORITA Junya |
Associate Professor, Faculty of Informatics, Shizuoka University |
Progress Report（PDF/822KB） |
FY2015 Project period：3 years（October 2015 to September 2018）
Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.
*1 Extend the research period until March 31, 2019
*2 Extend the research period until December 31, 2018
Research Area：Interrelationship between institutions, culture, public spirit, and socioeconomic systems
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| The Effects of Institutions and Culture on Social Norms and Public Morality: Laboratory and Field Experiments *1 |
SASAKI Masaru |
Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University |
Progress Report（PDF/509KB） |
Research Area：Formation of an “illness culture” and analysis of its present-day significance—Considering the history of societal development
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| History of Medicine and the Present Society: Contextualization of the Past Measures against Infectious Diseases and Construction of Dialogues between Medical Historians and the Contemporary Agencies |
SUZUKI Akihito |
Professor of History, School of Economics, Keio University |
Progress Report（PDF/276KB） |
Openly recruited research（57 applications, 9 adopted）
Research Area A：Interrelationship between institutions, culture, public spirit, and socioeconomic systems
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| Process design for public decision making in complex situations involving conflicts between individual profit and public benefit *1 |
OHNUMA Susumu |
Associate Professor, Department of Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University |
Progress Report（PDF/792KB） |
| Modeling and Implementation Study of Effective and Sustainable Disaster Tradition |
SATO Shosuke |
Assistant professor, International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University |
Progress Report（PDF/689KB） |
| Project on the Impact and Effectiveness of Poverty Reduction Programs for Children and Adolescents |
ABE Aya |
Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Progress Report（PDF/120KB） |
| A Study of Interconnectedness between Konbu Culture in Japan and Economic Connections of the Places for Producing Konbu in Hokkaido *2 |
SAITO Takayuki |
Lecturer, The Faculty of Rehabilitation and Care, Seijoh University |
Progress Report（PDF/215KB） |
| Research on the Society with Empathy and Creation of New Industry by Social Business |
YAGI Tadashi |
Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Doshisha University |
Progress Report（PDF/253KB） |
Research Area B：Building an anxiety-free care system in a shrinking society; Establishing a lifeline infrastructure
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| Standard Evaluating Comprehensive Plan for Medical Care and Long-Term Care --- from two viewpoints of utilizing home *1 |
KATO Tomoyuki |
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University |
Progress Report（PDF/476KB） |
| Development of indicators for sustainable livelihood in regional communities |
OHNISHI Takaaki |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo |
Progress Report（PDF/481KB） |
| Development of the safe and trusted care system and life infrastructure in local communities under the depopulation *1 |
SAMUTA Hikaru |
Professor, Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Kanazawa University |
Progress Report（PDF/380KB） |
| Research for Developing and Socially Implementing Livelihood Support through a Multigenerational Collaboration Model |
FUJIWARA Yoshinori |
Research Team Director, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology |
Progress Report（PDF/755KB） |
FY2013 Project period：2 years（October 2013 to September 2015）
Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.
*1 Extend the research period until March 31, 2016
*2 Extend the research period until March 31, 2019
Research Area：Structure of Japanese Society Based on Dynamic Trends of a Population
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| A Policy Evaluation and Recommendation for the Measures for Declining Birth Rate in Japan *1 |
ABE Masahiro |
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Chuo University |
Progress Report（PDF/79KB） |
Research Area：The Ideal Method of Social System Enabling Appropriate Correspondence for an Emergency
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| A Social Scientific Research on Effective and Prompt Measures for a National Emergency *1 |
SAITO Makoto |
Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University |
Progress Report（PDF/138KB） |
Openly recruited research（58 applications, 11 adopted）
Research Area A：Creation of the Regional Potential by the Enhancement of Humanities and Social Science for Tourism
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| Border Tourism: Local Initiatives and the Making of a Region *1 |
IWASHITA Akihiro |
Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University |
Progress Report（PDF/106KB） |
| A Demonstrative Research of the Establishment of Academic Tourism by Utilizing and Circulating Private Cultural Assets *1 |
ANDO Mina |
Researcher, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts |
Progress Report（PDF/67KB） |
| A Study of Academic Regional Tourism Based on Academic Resources and Knowledge *1 |
HORII Hiroshi |
CEO, Academic Research Unit, AMANE.LLC |
Progress Report（PDF/242KB） |
Research Area B：Evaluation Analysis on a Regulatory Reform
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| Current Status and Issues regarding Regulatory Reforms toward Expanding Employment Opportunities in Bankruptcy Law and Labor Law |
IKEDA Hisashi |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University |
Progress Report（PDF/67KB） |
| The future of the public-private mixed provision of health care in the context of pressures of the deregulation reform |
KATO Tomoyuki |
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University |
Progress Report（PDF/103KB） |
| Benefit Analysis on Regulatory Reform of Property Market by Abolishing the Protection Rule of Short Time Tenancy *2 |
FUKUI Hideo |
Professor, Graduate School of Policy Studies, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
Progress Report（PDF/190KB） |
Research Area C：Evaluation on the Social and Economic Effects of Education Policy
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| An Empirical Study of the Effects of Educational Investment and Cognitive Development of Children on their Outcomes as Young Adults Including Motivation to Learn, Employment, and Earnings *1 |
AKABAYASHI Hideo |
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University |
Progress Report（PDF/107KB） |
Research Area D：Scientific Practice on an Enforcing the Endogenous Activity of the Community and Specialist towards Realization of Convivial Society
| Research Themes |
Core-Researcher |
Affiliation |
Progress Report |
| A Barrier-Free Mental Health Care by Development of Internet-Based Cognitive Behavior Therapy and a Support Network *1 |
SHIMOYAMA Haruhiko |
Professor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo |
Progress Report（PDF/46KB） |
| Urban Planning Centered Around Hospitals *1 |
ITO Yukiko |
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Tokyo Gakugei University |
Progress Report（PDF/114KB） |
| Developing a Culture of Care in a Mutually Supporting Local Community: A Clinical Philosophy Project *1 |
HAMAUZU Shinji |
Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University |
Progress Report（PDF/131KB） |
| A Study on Roles as Disaster Prevention Revival Resources of the Social Welfare for the Elderly-People Facilities in the Stricken Areas *1 |
OTSUKA Takehiko |
Professor, Department of Architecture, Akashi National College of Technology |
Progress Report（PDF/144KB） |
