Area Cultivation

FY2020 Project period：3 years（October 2020 to March 2023）

Affiliation is information at the time of the selection.

Topic-Setting research

No Projects

Openly recruited research（75 applications, 11 adopted）

Research Area A：Exploring new methodologies for research in the humanities and social sciences

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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”

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Topic-Setting research

No Projects

Openly recruited research（44 applications, 12 adopted）

Research Area A："Cognitive turn" and the transformation of identities

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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'

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Topic-Setting research

Research Area：New advances in humanities and social sciences using analytical methods incorporating praxeology, cognitive science, and neural science

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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

Research Themes	Core-Researcher	Affiliation	Progress Report
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）