Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research
Area Cultivation
FY2020 Project period:3 years(October 2020 to September 2023)
Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.
Openly recruited research(75 applications, 11 adopted)
Research Area A:Exploring new methodologies for research in the humanities and social sciences
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Progress Report |
Reexamination of qualitative approach through interdisciplinary comparison |
IGASHIRA Masahiko |
Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University |
Progress Report(PDF/357KB) |
Regional Science for Small Islands based on Creation of New ‘Island Wisdom’ by means of Communicative Archives |
HATANO So |
Professor, Research Institute for Islands and Sustainability, University of the Ryukyus |
Progress Report(PDF/742KB) |
Research Area B:Issues of rules and publicness in AI-enhanced IT society
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Rules and regulations of using AI as an alternative to the administration of long-term care insurance -from the viewpoint of community management and social capital |
KAWASHIMA Noriko |
Professor, School of community management, department of health & welfare, The University of Fukuchiyama |
Progress Report(PDF/283KB) |
Research Area C:Cross-disciplinary investigation of disparity and equal opportunity in globalizing society
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An empirical study on the origin of the literacy gap, the impact of the gap on decision-making, and how to narrow it |
OGAWA Kazuhito |
Professor, Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies(RISS)/ Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University |
Progress Report(PDF/129KB) |
Research Area D:Research on the relationship between science & technology and “humans”
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Theory and Practice of Creating “Myself” as Natural Born Intelligence |
GUNJI Yukio |
Professor, School of Fundamental Sciencs and Engineering, Waseda University |
Progress Report(PDF/1167KB) |
Research Area E:Society’s responses and challenges with regard to global disasters such as pandemics
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Designing Legal Institutions to Deal with the Coronavirus Pandemic |
YOSHIDA Kunihiko |
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University |
Progress Report(PDF/252KB) |
Phenomenological analysis of corpus of subjective reports about COVID-19 pandemic based on natural language processing |
FROESE Tom |
Assistant Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University |
Progress Report(PDF/366KB) |
New Socio-Environmental Theories for the Post-Pandemic World: Learning from the History of Pandemics |
FUJIHARA Tatsushi |
Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University |
Progress Report(PDF/145KB) |
Examinations of counter-disaster policies based on large scale simulations on exhaustive trade network data |
INOUE Hiroyasu |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Simulation Studies, University of Hyogo |
Progress Report(PDF/302KB) |
Comprehensive research on communication after a nuclear disaster from a global perspective |
SEKIYA Naoya |
Associate Professor, The Center for Integrated Disaster Information Research, the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo |
Progress Report(PDF/541KB) |
Evidence-based Economic and epidemiological analysis of the spread of infectious diseases and its policy applications |
NISHIYAMA Yoshihiko |
Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University |
Progress Report(PDF/143KB) |
FY2017 Project period:3 years(October 2017 to September 2020)
Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.
*1 Extend the research period until March 31, 2021
*2 Extend the research period until March 31, 2023
Openly recruited research(44 applications, 12 adopted)
Research Area A:"Cognitive turn" and the transformation of identities
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Internally superimposed selves: Developing a new research in collaboration between philosophy and empirical science *1 |
TAKEZAWA Masanori |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University |
Progress Report(PDF/261KB) |
Exploration of "humanities and social science for symbiotic society" driven by neuropsychology of hyper brain functions *1 |
KOYAMA Shinichi |
Professor, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba |
Progress Report(PDF/395KB) |
Understanding of individual mental identity using the multidimensional and multidisciplinary cognitive behavior analysis *1 |
ICHIKAWA Makoto |
Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Chiba University |
Progress Report(PDF/344KB) |
Emergence and sharing of mentality based on principle of predictive coding: An integrated study of cognitive science, humanities, and informatics *2 |
OHIRA Hideki |
Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University |
Progress Report(PDF/663KB) |
Wisdom of crowds as emergent intelligence: Social and personal innovation by group decision making |
SAIKI Jun |
Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University |
Progress Report(PDF/327KB) |
Research Area B:The concept of the 'responsible research and inovation', and theoritical and practical deepning of 'science for society'
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Advanced and integrated research about social implementation of bio and environmental technologies―the vision and trial for the participation in 21th century *1 |
MATSUDA Tsuyoshi |
Professor, Graduate school of Humanities, Kobe University |
Progress Report(PDF/377KB) |
Theoretical and Practical Study for new RRI Framework: a study series of education, evaluation, and politics |
SHINEHA Ryuma |
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts and Literatures, Seijo University |
Progress Report(PDF/594KB) |
Research Area C:Technological innovation based on Japanese aesthetics and sensibilities
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Interdisciplinary Research on the Collaborative Constructions between Arts and Audiences: Analyzing Resonance of Light, Sound, and Embodiment in Sociology, Aesthetics, and Engineering *1 |
YAMAZAKI Keiichi |
Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University |
Progress Report(PDF/242KB) |
Resonating space, appearing aesthetics |
FURUKAWA Kiyoshi |
Professor, Fine-Art Department Inter-Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts |
Progress Report(PDF/104KB) |
The Study of UX Design for Advanced Robotics by using Methods and Contents of Japanese Traditional Performing Arts *1 |
NAKAGAWA Shinobu |
Professor, Osaka University of Arts |
Progress Report(PDF/391KB) |
Research Area D:The cultural and social role of SHIKOHIN
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Should we question today the last eating and drinking culture *1 |
ITO Nobuhiro |
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University |
Progress Report(PDF/294KB) |
What is Shikouhin? An interdiciplinal research and development of literature database on Shikouhin *1 |
MATSUBARA Toyohiko |
Professor, College of Economics, Ritsumeikan University |
Progress Report(PDF/108KB) |
FY2014 Project period:3 years(October 2014 to September 2017)
Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.
*1 Extend the research period until March 31, 2018
*2 Extend the research period until March 31, 2021
Research Area:New advances in humanities and social sciences using analytical methods incorporating praxeology, cognitive science, and neural science
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Exploring cognitive and neural foundations of normative and ethical judgments about social values |
KAMEDA Tatsuya |
Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo |
Progress Report(PDF/206KB) |
Research Area:Shifts in social capital accompanying media advances
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Development of Media and the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in the Risk Society: Theory Construction, Empirical Research and Simulation Analysis based on Comparative Ethology of Network Model *1 |
ENDO Kaoru |
Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University |
Progress Report(PDF/494KB) |
Openly recruited research(63 applications, 10 adopted)
Research Area A:Dialogue between narrative theory and empirical analysis
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Legal Pragmatics as Normative Theory: On Nullification of Hate Speech *1 |
OZAKI Ichiro |
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University |
Progress Report(PDF/366KB) |
Constraction of Sustainability Studies through the devepoment of Community Power *1 |
NISHIKIDO Makoto |
Professor, Department of Humanity and Environment, Hosei University |
Progress Report(PDF/375KB) |
Research Area B:New regional research spurred by information media advances
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Chinese Studies under the New Chinese-language Information Environment: A Suggestion for the Next-generation Regional Research *1 |
SUZUKI Ken |
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hokkaido University |
Progress Report(PDF/215KB) |
Comparative Energy Policy and Discourse in Japan and Germany *1 |
TKACH-KAWASAKI Leslie |
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba |
Progress Report(PDF/896KB) |
Strengthening Disaster Resilience of Local Communities through Interactive Real-Time Area Studies over SNS and Cloud GIS |
FURUSAWA Takuro |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University |
Progress Report(PDF/855KB) |
Research Area C:Humanities and social science research on relationship between academic research changes and misconduct
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Organizations and Society for Responsible Research and Innovation |
YOSHIZAWA Go |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University |
Progress Report(PDF/221KB) |
Research Area D:New advances in humanities and social sciences using analytical methods incorporating praxeology, cognitive science, and neural science
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Cognitive-neuroscience approach to power to live and creation of its educational-application research |
SUGIURA Motoaki |
Associate Professor, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University |
Progress Report(PDF/328KB) |
Reflective Learning for the seniors through database creation and visualization of their life activities *1 |
MIZOUE Chieko |
Professor, Faculty of Library, Information and Media Science, University of Tsukuba |
Progress Report(PDF/539KB) |
Synthesizing historical sciences: New perspectives to cultural evolutionary studies |
IHARA Yasuo |
Lecturer, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo |
Progress Report(PDF/316KB) |
Understanding the genetic foundations of cultural variation in cooperation with evidence from social psychology, neuroscience, and endocrinology *2 |
ISHII Keiko |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University |
Progress Report(PDF/522KB) |