Selected Projects

     FY2019 Project FY2016 Project FY2013 Project 

FY2019 Project period：2 and a half years

Openly recruited research

Research Area A ：Conducting research on societal analyses conducted within the context of a globalized world

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
International Comparison on Neighborhood Effects of Urban Fragmentation and Social Ties in Globalization	KAWANO  Eiji	Professor,Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences,Osaka City

Research Area B ：Developing new genres of humanities and social sciences that address head-on technological innovation such as rapid IT and AI advances and environmental issues

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
Private international law in the AI era	SATOH  Ken	Professor,Principles of Informatics Research Division,National institute of informatics
Have innovation and environmental chemicals increased infertility?	KONISHI  Shoko	Associate professor,Graduate school of medicine,The University of Tokyo

Research Area D ：Advancing international joint research on the preservation of humanity’s cultural inheritances

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
Japan-Euro-Asian Cooperation for Preservation,Restoration,and Application of Information about the Cultural Heritages on the Verge of Being Lost	INABA  Minoru	Professor,Institute for Research in Humanities,Kyoto University
Creating New Values with Cultural Heritage through Engaging Users and Community Development	KAWASHIMA  Nobuko	Professor,Faculty of Economics,Doshisha University
International research project to develop methodologies to develop integrated governance policies to protect cultural heritage	KONO  Toshiyuki	Professor,Faculty of Law,Kyushu University

     Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.

FY2016 Project period：3 years

Topic-Setting research

Research Area：Interdisciplinary research　on the exclusivism and democracy in the globalized society

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
Interdisciplinary research on the function of national histories and collective memories for the democrarcy in the globalized society ※1	HASHIMOTO  Nobuya	Professor, School of Humanities, Kwansei Gakuin University

Openly recruited research

Research Area A ：Interdisciplinary research　on the exclusivism and democracy in the globalized society

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
Designing Social Infrastructure for Multicultural Democracy: International Joint Research for Institutions, Structures, and Norms ※2	OGA  Toru	Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University
Can democratic states adequately respond to the challenges of racism in the age of refugee crisis?: A comparative research ※2	IIDA  Fumio	Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University

Research Area B ：Comparative Studies of Humanities and Social Sciences Education Corresponding to Globalization

Comparative Research on the Innovation of Humanities and Social Sciences Education in the Era of Globalization ※2	SATO  Manabu	Professor, Faculty of Letters, Gakushuin University
International Comparative Research on How to Adapt Nation-State Oriented University History Education to the Era of Globalization	TSUTSUMI  Kazuaki	Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University

Research Area C ：Global Humanities: Exploring the Universality of Japanese Literature, Art, and Thought

The Universal Values of E-monogatari（Illustrated Tales）Media Designated as Cultural Heritage：from the perspective of International Research	ABE  Yasuro	Chair,Professor, Research Center for Cultural Heritage＆Texts, Nagoya University
The Cosmos of Dōgen: From Perspectives of Analytic Asian Philosophy	DEGUCHI  Yasuo	Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University

     Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.
     ※1　Extend the research period until December 31,2019
     ※2　Extend the research period until March 31,2020

FY2013 Project period：3 years

Topic-Setting research

Research Area：Global Humanities

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
GIS-based Global History from Asian Perspectives ※1	MIZUSHIMA  Tsukasa	Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

Research Area：Empirical Studies on International Publicity and Transmission in Japan

Collaborative Research On Political Information Transmission (CROP-IT) ※1

TAGO  Atsushi

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University

Openly recruited research

Research Area A：Relevant Development on Scientific Communication and Decision- Making

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
Policy decision-making and public participation on energy, chemicals and water issues: an international comparative study ※1	OKUBO  Noriko	Professor, Graduate School of Law, Osaka University

Research Area B：International Comparison on the Family System and Gender Equality

Multi-Dimensional Dynamic Analysis of Gender Equality and the Role of the Family in Internationally Comparable Data ※1

HIGUCHI  Yoshio

Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University

Research Area C：Global Transmission on Corporate Governance of Japanese Companies

Empirical Comparative Analysis of Corporate Governance in Japan: Ownership, Strategic Choice and Performance ※1

MIYAJIMA  Hideaki

Professor, Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University Director, Institute for Advanced Studｙ, Waseda University

     Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.
     ※1 Extend the research period until March 31,2017