Nichibunken Evening Seminar

Past Lectures and Research Meetings

	Topic	Speaker	Date
1	Comprehensive Urban Development and Community Participation-Priorities and Needs(Experience of Japan for Asian Cities)	Bijay Anand MISRA Prof. and Head, Urbanplanning Division, School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi, India / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1995.7.6
2	Expanding the Canon: The Life and Works of Koami Nagashige ( 1599-1651)	William H. SAMONIDES Assoc. Pro., Kansas Univ. / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1995.9.7
3	Psychological Dimensions of Japanese Negotiating Behavior	Peter BERTON Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Southern California / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1995.11.2
4	Sushi and Samosas: Japan's Relations with India	Dr. Satu P. LIMAYE Research Fellow and Head, Program on South Asia, the Japan Institute of International Affairs / Visiting Prof., Sofia Univ.	1995.12.14
5	High School Graduates' Transition to Work in the Age of "Hollosing out": A Comparative Study	Dr. Mary C. BRINTON Assoc. Prof. of Sociology, Univ. of Chicago	1996.1.11
6	The Internet, NTT Reform, and the Netwaork Era	Dr. Stephen J. ANDERSON Assoc. Prof., GLOCOM International Univ. of Japan	1996.2.8
7	Ruth Benedict's Research on Enemy Japan	Pauline KENT Research Assoc., IRCJS	1996.3.14
8	The World's First Truly Superficial Study of No	Jay RUBIN Prof., Harvard Univ. / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1996.4.18
9	Interpriting the Japanese Complaint of Katakori('Stiff Shoulders')	KURIYAMA Shigehisa Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1996.5.9
10	Health Care Policy in the UK and Japan:Comparative Studies	William E. STESLICKE Prof., Kwansei Gakuin Univ.	1996.6.6
11	The Year of the Two Helens:1995 and Debate over "Fictionarity" in Australian Writing	Lieth D. MORTON Prof., Univ. of Newcastle, Australia / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1996.7.4
12	The Fear of Evil Spirits in Literature and the Arts	Herbert E. PLUTSCHOW Prof., Univ. of California at Los Angeles / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1996.9.5
13	The Field of Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Few Hermeneutical Strategies	Michele F. MARRA Assoc. Prof., Univ. of California at Los Angeles / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1996.10.3
14	Looking at the Japanese Labour Market from a Scandinavian Point of View	Carl LE GRAND Prof., Univ. of Stockholm / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1996.11.4
15	Kyoto, Dae-Dae () Cultural Grammar and Buddhist Anthropology	KANG, Shin-pyo Prof., Inje Univ., Korea / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1996.12.5
16	Reading Romance in Heian Period Literary Prose	John R. WALLACE Assist. Prof., Univ. of Wisconsin / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1997.1.9
17	Conceiving Reality in Pure Land Buddhist Thought	Dennis HIROTA Prof., Institute of Buddhist Studies, Berkeley / Head Translator, Shin Buddhism Translation Series, Kyoto / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1997.2.6
18	Reading and Translating Genji monogatari	Royall TYLER Prof., Japan Centre, The Australian National Univ. / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1997.3.6
19	Notion of market in Tokugawa intellecutual milieu	Jan SYKORA Assist Prof., Institute of East Asian Studies, Charles Univ., Prague/Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1997.4.3
20	"Mukoyoshi": Adoption and Marriage among Peasants in Pre-industrial Japan	KUROSU Satomi Research Associate, IRCJS	1997.5.8
21	Miyazawa Kenji : Rebel With a Cause	Roger PULVERS Prof., Kyoto Univ. of Art and Design	1997.6.12
22	Huang Zunxian (1848-1905) and his Association with Meiji Era Bunjin -Centering on "This Culture of Ours"-	Richard John LYNN Prof., Univ. of Alberta / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1997.7.10
23	Sartre, Beauvior and the Japanese Intellectual Field	Mark MORRIS Lecturer, Univ. of Cambridge / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1997.7.23
24	Life as Chaos-Akutagawa Ryuunosuke and His Three Mothers	TSURUTA Kinya Prof., Univ. of British Columbia / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1997.9.11
25	V.S.Naipaul and His Writings	Vidiadhar Surajprasad NAIPAUL Writer, Winner Sumerset Mauqham Award (1959) YAMAMOTO Shin Assoc. Prof., Yokkaichi Junior College	1997.10.9
26	The Hero's Journey in Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing and Murakami Haruki's The Hard- Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World	Theodore William GOOSSEN Assoc. Prof., York Univ. / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1997.11.13
27	Osaka and Tokyo	Carl Anthony MOSK Prof., Univ. of Victoria / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1997.12.11
28	Powerful Concubines and Authoritative Virgins: Women in Edo Culture	Sumie A. JONES Prof., Indiana Univ. / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1998.1.8
29	Three Beginnings and Poetics of Decreation: Random Reflections on Asian Aesthetics	KIM Uchang Prof., Korea Univ. / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1998.2.5
30	Tokugawa Japan and Early-Modern England : Reflection on Population, Economy and Society	Chris WILSON Fellow., Australian National Univ. / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1998.3.5
31	Nervousness and the Assimilation of Nerves into Japanese and Chinese Medicine	Hugh SHAPIRO Assist Prof., Univ. of Nevada, Reno/Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1998.4.2
32	To Be or Not to Be: the Samurai Tradition in Korea and Japan	Edward J. SHULTZ Prof., Univ. of Hawaii / Visitng Prof., IRCJS	1998.5.7
33	Japanese from Jomon too? Meiji Times: Biological Relationships and Oriigins Based on Multivariate Studies of Skulls	Michael PIETRUSEWSKY Prof., Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1998.6.4
34	A Comparison of Three World Views: Natural Science, Husserlian Phenomenology and Tibetan Dzog Chen	Piet HUT Prof., Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1998.7.2
35	Virginia Woolf and Kamiya Miyeko: Narrative, Illusion, and Identity	Madeline R. MOORE Visiting Prof., Mills College / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1998.9.3
36	Translation Cultures in Modern China and Japan: A Comparative Understanding	WANG Ke Fei Prof., Beijing Foreign Studies Univ. / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1998.11.5
37	Two Japanese Psychotherapies and an American Offspring	Bruno RHYNER Lecturer, Univ. of Zurich / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1998.12.17
38	Can Social Theory Account for the Risks of World Society?	Helmar KRUPP Former Direcotr, Fraunhofer Society Institute of Systems and Innovation Research / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1999.2.4
39	Indus Civilisation: its Global Legacy	Dharma AGRAWAL Prof., Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad India / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	1999.3.25
40	The Early Monsoon Trade in the Indian Ocean : A Review of Archaeological Evidence, 3000B.C.-A.D.300	Sunil GUPTA JSPS Research Fellow / Visiting Research Fellow, IRCJS	1999.4.22
41	Japanese Management as Seen from Britain	HASEGAWA Harukiyo Prof. and Director, Centre for Japanese Studies, The Univ. of Sheffield / Visiting Prof., Kwansei Gakuin Univ.	1999.9.9
42	Recent and Current Studies of Japan in the United States: Reflections of a Rip Van Winkle	James C. BAXTER Prof., IRCJS	1999.10.7
43	From Japanology to Japanese Studies and Beyond: Trends in German Scholarship	Timothy KERN Assoc. Prof., IRCJS Anna Maria THRANHARDT Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	1999.11.11
44	Japanese Studies in Current Russia:Inheritance and Inheritors	Alexandre N. MECHTCHERIAKOV Prof., Institute of Oriental Studies, Russiana Academy of Sciences / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	1999.12.2
45	Etat present des etudes japonaises en France	Jean-Noel Alexandre ROBERT Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes / Visiting Prof., IRCJS INAGA Shigemi Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	2000.1.13
46	Changing Chinese Attitudes toward the Study of Japan: A Historical Perspective	De-Min TAO, Prof., Kansai Univ. Xiao-Jie YANG, Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Calgary, Canada / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	2000.2.10
47	Japanese Studies in Ireland	L. M. CULLEN Prof. of History, Trinity College, Dublin	2000.3.24
48	Japanese Studies in Finland, Bulgaria, and Belgium	Pekka KORHONEN Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS Lyudmila HOLODOVICH Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS Bart GAENS Lecturer, IRCJS	2000.4.13
49	Japanese Studies in Australia, Canada, and Egypt	Royall TYLER Visiting Research Fellow, IRCJS Timothy D. KERN Assoc. Prof., IRCJS SUZUKI Sadami Prof., IRCJS	2000.5.11
50	Prospects for the Japan American Security Alliance in the 21st Century	Daniel I. OKIMOTO Prof., Stanford Univ. / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	2000.6.15
51	Medieval Guilds and New Religious Movement: A Comparison between Europe and Japan	Knut SCHULZ Prof., Free Univ. Berlin / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	2000.7.13
52	Who can't read and write? Illiteracy in Meiji Japan	Richard RUBINGER Prof., Indiana Univ. / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	2000.9.14
53	Invisible and Insane: Literal Translation from the Japanese	Jay RUBIN Prof., Harvard Univ. / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	2000.10.5
54	Heian Buddhism with Indian Perspective	Kalpakam SANKARNARAYAN Director, K.J. Somaiya Centre of Buddhist Studies / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	2000.11.2
55	Understanding Human Behavior Using Evolutionary Theory	David WAYNFORTH Assoc. Prof., Univ. of New Mexico / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	2000.12.7
56	When and How North-Eastern Asia Was Populated by Modern Humans?	Pavel M. DOLUKHANOV Reader in East European Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Univ. of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	2001.1.11
57	Reflections on the Role of Buddhist Precepts in Medieval Japan	Paul GRONER Prof. of Religious Studies, Univ. of Virginia / Visiting Pro., IRCJS	2001.2.8
58	Autobiography in the Edo-Period - Forms and Functions	Wolfgang SCHAMONI Prof. of Japanese Studies, Heidelberg Univ. / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	2001.3.1
59	Collecting Japan's Treasures and Monuments- Colonialism, Nationalism and the History of Cultural Properties Management in the Korean Peninsula (1911-1943)	Hyung Il PAI Assoc. Prof., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	2001.4.5
60	Exploring the Kanshi Tanzaku : The Chinese Poetry Tradition and Japanese Life in 19th Century Kyoto	Judith RABINOVITCH Prof., Japanese Language and Culture, Univ. of Montana, USA / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	2001.5.10
61	The Role of Institutions in the Making of Economic Society: Lessons from Early Modern Japan	Jan SYKORA Institute of East Asian Studies, Charles Univ., Prague / Visiting Researh Fellow of the Japan Foundation at the Seinan Gakuin Univ.	2001.6.7
62	Do Birds Sit on Torii?	Alexander VOVIN Assoc. Prof. of Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	2001.7.5
63	Terrorism in the Art and Lives of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo	Chigusa KIMURA-STEVEN Assoc. Prof, Department of Asian Languages Department, Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2001.9.6
64	Toward a New Understanding of Haiku in the West	Ekkehard MAY Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Frankfurt am Main, Germany / Visiting Prof., IRCJS	2001.10.4
65	The Recurring Problem of the 47th Ronin: a New Look at the Ako Incident and Its Historiography	Henry SMITH Prof. of Japanese History, Columbia Univ., New York / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2001.11.1
66	Zen and Clinical Psychology: The Buddhist Roots of Sandplay (Hakoniwa) Therapy	Barbara MIRIELLO Psychotherapist; President, Center for Inner Work, San Diego, CA / Visiting Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	2001.12.6
67	Art by Nuns at Imperial Buddhist Convents in Japan	Patricia FISTER Assoc. Prof., IRCJ	2002.2.7
68	Academic Debate, Political Activism, and Student Oratory: Three Aspects of Public Speaking in Meiji and Taisho Japan	Massimiliano TOMASI Assoc. Prof., Western Washington Univ. / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2002.3.7
69	Is the Kibi Pond Site Kudara Odera? Problems in the Royal Patronage of Buddhism in Seventh-Century Japan	Donald F. MCCALLUM Prof. of Art History, Univ. of California at Los Angeles / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2002.4.11
70	Rakuchu rakugai zu: The State of Research and Recent Discoveries	Matthew Philip McKELWAY Assist Prof., New York Univ./Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2002.5.2
71	The Silk Weavers of Nishijin: Family and Work in a Changing Traditional Industry	Tamara Kern HAREVEN Unidel Prof. of History and Family Studies, Univ. of Delaware / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2002.6.6
72	The 'I' and the'Thou': Comparing Mikhail Bakhtin and Nishida Kitaro	Thorsten BOTZ Assoc. Researcher, Ecole des hautes etudes en science sociales(EHESS), Paris / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2002.7.4
73	Compromise and Eclecticism: Modern Illusions in Meiji Tokyo Architecture	Alexia BORO Assist., Ca' Foscari, Univ. of Venice(Italy)/Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2002.9.5
74	Illness as Identity: 'Leprosy Literature' and the Hygienic Nation	Susan Lynn BURNS Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Chicago / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2002.10.3
75	Modernity at Work: Making Theory Concrete in Colonial Manchuria	William S. SEWELL Assist. Prof. of History, Saint Mary's Univ. (Canada)/Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2002.11.7
76	The Changing Culture of Teaching in Japan	WONG, Suk-Ying Assoc. Prof., The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2002.12.5
77	Chasing Bad Guys in Late Tokugawa Japan	David HOWELL Assoc. Prof., The Princeton Univ. / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJo?S	2003.2.6
78	Bureaucratic Evolution, Paperwork, and Record-keeping under Gaiatsu, 1808-1858	Louis CULLEN Prof., Trinity College, Univ. of Dublin (Ireland)/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2003.3.6
79	Ex-posing the Mimetic Phallacy: Yi Yang-Ji's ¿Yu Heeî	Richard H. OKADA Assoc. Prof. of East Asian Studies, Princeton Univ. (U.S.A.) / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2003.4.10
80	The Search for F.J. Norman: Western Kendo Pioneer	Alexander BENNETT Research Associate, IRCJS	2003.5.8
81	Engimono: Luck, Agency, and the Interdependence of People and Things in Japan	Inge Maria DANIELS Visiting Lecturer, The Royal College of Art/The JSPS Research Fellow, IRCJS	2003.6.5
82	The Way of Walking in Meditation: The Creation of an Ancient Tradition of Sôtô Zen	David RIGGS Lecturer, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara/JSPS Research Fellow, IRCJS	2003.7.3
83	Globalization of Information: Its Impact on Japanese Studies	Maureen DONOVAN Assoc. Prof., Ohio State Univ. / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2003.9.4
84	The Core Problem of Bioethics: Why both Hans Jonas and Japanese Views Deserve International Attention	William Roger LAFLEUR Prof., Univ. of Pennsylvania / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2003.10.2
85	Reinterpreting Japan: The Search for a New Cultural Identity	Rien T. SEGERS Prof. and Director, Center for Japanese Studies, Univ. of Groningen, The Netherlands / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2003.11.6
86	Then China, Now Japan: Reading ’Women's Medicineë of Ishinpô in Different Contexts	LEE Jender Assoc. Rsearch Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2003.12.11
87	The Changing Notion of Community and Participatory Urban Development in Japan	Bijay Anand MISRA Prof. Emeritus, School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi (India) / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2004.4.7
88	Rethinking Edo Culture: Alternate Attendance and Tokugawa Japan	Constantine Nomikos VAPORIS Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Country / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2004.5.6
89	Early Cultural Contacts between Japan and Australia	Hugh CLARKE Prof. of Japanese Studies, Univ. of Sydney / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2004.6.10
90	Japan and the Nobel Science Prizes: The First Half-Century, 1901-1949	James R. BARTHOLOMEW Prof. of History, Ohio State Univ. / Visiting Research Fellow, IRCJS	2004.7.8
91	Hand-sewn Buddhist Robes in Contemporary Japan and the Rhetoric of Authenticity	Diane RIGGS Ph. D. candidate, Univ. of California at Los Angeles and former Research Student, Department of Japanese Studies[Nichibunken], School of Cultural and Social Studies, Graduate Univ. for Advanced Studies	2004.9.2
92	The Nervous System as Apprehended by Japanese Scholars of Western Medicine in the Edo Period	Frederik CRYNS Research Associate, IRCJS	2004.10.7
93	The Use of Legendary Material in Medieval Noh Hidensho	Noel John PINNINGTON Assist. Prof., Univ. of Arizona (U.S.A.)/Visitng Research Scholar, IRCJS	2004.11.4
94	Lafcadio Hearn as Japanese Nationalist	Roy Anthony STARRS Senior Lecturer, Univ. of Otago (New Zealand) / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2004.12.2
95	A Good Rate of Exchange: International Influences on the Iconography of the Yen	Jacques E.C. HYMANS Assist. Prof., Department of Government, Smith College (U.S.A.)	2005.1.13
96	Nishida Kitaro and Zen	Agnieszka Helena KOZYRA Assoc. Prof., Warsaw Univ. / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2005.2.3
97	Strindberg & Akutagawa - Suitable Cases for Treatment?	Mats Arne KARLSSON Assist. Prof., Stockholm Univ./Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2005.3.3
98	The Worship of Confucius in Tokugawa Japan	Ian James MCMULLEN Tutorial Fellow in Japanese, Pembroke College, Oxford Univ. / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2005.4.7
99	Environmental Archaeology in Southern Scandinavia: Interdisciplinary Research during the 20th Century	Bjorn E. BERGLUND Prof. Emeritus, Lund Univ. / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2005.5.11
100	Buddhist Affects in Contemporary Music	Luciana GALLIANO Assist. Prof., Venice Univ. "Ca' Foscari"/Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2005.6.9
101	The Care of the Elderly in Japan: Lives of Residents in Kotobuki Home	WU Yongmei Lecturer, Beijing Center for Japanese Studies/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2005.7.7
102	Production Processes and Materials in the Textile Cultures of Japan and the Philippines	Norma Absing RESPICIO Prof., Univ. of the Pilippines / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2005.9.8
103	Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Temples, Timber and Truculence in Early Modern Japan	Alexander Marshall VESEY Assist., Prof. of History, Stonehill College/JSPS Research Fellow, IRCJS	2005.10.6
104	The Diffusion of the High Modern State: From Manchunkuo to South Korea	HAN Suk Jung Prof., Department of Sociology, Dong-A Univ. (Korea) / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2005.11.10
105	Remarks on the Concept of Epistolary Etiquette(shosatsurei) in Premodern Japan	Markus RUETTERMANN Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	2005.12.8
106	A Latin American View of Japanese Performing Arts: towards a Web-Encyclopedia of Japanese Performing Arts in Spanish	Mauricio MARTINEZ Prof., Asian Studies, Los Andes Univ. and Externado Univ./JF Research Fellow, IRCJS	2006.2.9
107	Down and Out in Negishi: Secular Reclusion as Civil Society in Edo	William Puck BRECHER Assist. Lecturer, Univ. of Southern California/JSPS Research Fellow, IRCJS	2006.3.9
108	Representing the ‘Female’ Body in Kabuki	Andrew GERSTLE Prof., School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2006.4.6
109	Figurality and the Development of Modern Consciousness	Charles Shiro INOUYE Professor, Tufts Univ. (U.S.A.) / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2006.5.11
110	Women in the History of Chanoyu	Rebecca CORBETT Ph.D. Candidate, The Univ. of Sydney Research Student, Department of Japanese Studies [Nichibunken], School of Cultural and Social Studies, Graduate Univ. of Advanced Studies	2006.6.8
111	Recent Trends in Scholarship on Japan in the United States of America	James C. BAXTER Prof., IRCJS	2006.7.6
112	What Language Do You Expect from the Stage in Japan? Kinoshita Junji's Shigosen no matsuri -- Requiem on the Great Meridian (with video clips)	Brian POWELL Emeritus Fellow, Keble College, Univ. of Oxford (U.K.) / Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2006.9.7
113	Arts and Crafts in Modern Kyoto: Facing the West	INGA Shigemi Professor, IRCJS	200610.5
114	Eloquent Bones: On Maruyama Ôkyo’s ‘Skeleton Sitting in Mediation over the Sea’	Josef A. KYBURZ Prof., Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Visiting Research Scholar, International Research Center for Japanese Studies	2006.11.2
115	The Last Samurai: The Mythical Suicide of Saigo Takamori	Mark RAVINA Assoc. Prof., Department of History, Emory University/Visiting Research Fellow, IRCJS	2006.12.7
116	Shin Buddhism and Economic Growth in Premodern Japanese History: Can the Relationship be 'Religiously' Interpreted ?	Galen AMSTUTZ Prof. Ryukoku Univ.	2007.2.8
117	The Art of the Bluff Among Japanese Migrants: Popular Literary Modernism in the 1920s	ÔMORI Kyoko Assist. Prof., East Asian Languages and Literatures, Hamilton College / Visiting Research Fellow, IRCJS	2007.3.1
118	Celebrating Work in Pictures: A New Subject for Edo Society	Mary Elizabeth BERRY Prof., Univ. of California, Berkeley / Visiting Research Fellow, IRCJS	2007.4.5
119	On geidan: an anthropological approach	IGUCHI Kawori Project Research Fellow, IRCJS	2007.5.10
120	Shells in Prehistoric Societies from West to East: A Preliminary Approach	Ioulia KARALI GIANNAKOPOULOU Prof., Univ. of Athens (Greece) Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2007.6.7
121	Hinduism and Shintoism: A Comparative Study	Rajendra TOMAR Prof., Jawaharlal Nehru Univ. Visiting Researh Scholar, IRCJS	2007.6.21
122	石干見 (Ishihimi) - Studies on the Relics of Maritime Civilizations in the Visayas, Piscadores, and the Ryukyus	Cynthia Neri ZAYAS Assoc. Prof., Center for International Studies, University of the Philippines/Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2007.9.6
123	The Science of Karma: The Congruence of Buddhism and 19th Century Evolutionary Thought in the Writings of Lafcadio Hearn	James BASKIND Project Research Fellow, IRCJS	2007.10.4
124	Music on the Periphery of Modern Life: Traces of Music-making among the Okinawan and Korean Communities of Interwar Osaka	Hugh DE FERRANTI Assoc. Prof., Univ. of England Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2007.12.6
125	Visualizing an Ancient Land Near, Yet Far: Imperialist Nostalgia and the Production of Tourist Images in Colonial Korea	PAI Hyung Il Assoc. Prof., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2008.2.7
126	Archives of Western Social Scientists in Japanese Collections, with Special Reference to the Kansai Area	Gilles Jean-Pierre CAMPAGNOLO Chargé de recherches, CNRS/CEPERC, Université de Provence (France)/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2008.3.6
127	An Arctic Passage to the Far East: The Visit of the Swedish Vega Expedition to Japan in 1879	Gunilla LINDBERG-WADA Chair Prof., Dept. of Japanese Studies/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2008.4.3
128	Rereading those Lines: Rethinking Japanese Buddhism through Examining Bunin (Appointments Works)	Brian O. RUPPERT Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2008.5.8
129	The Ticklish Triangle: Reflections on Nationalisms in Japan, China and Taiwan since the 1990s	WANG Horng-luen Assoc. Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica (Taiwan)/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2008.6.5
130	Bad Boy of the Gods: Readings from a Translation-in-Progress of Aratama, Ishikawa Jun's Novel of 1964	William TYLER Assoc. Prof., Ohio State Univ. (U.S.A.)/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2008.7.3
131	The Method of Tsugaru Shamans in Osabe Hideo's Literature: Towards a New Relation between Japan and Asia	Nanyan GUO Assoc. Prof., IRCJS	2008.10.2
132	The Heart's Home Town: Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan	David HUGHES Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, Univ.of London/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2008.11.6
133	The Adaptation of Western Genres in Japanese Popular Music: Evolution of Musical Style and Text Setting in Children's Songs and Hip-Hop	Noriko MANABE Adjunct Lecturer, City Univ. of New York/ JSPS Research Fellow, IRCJS	2008.12.4
134	The Theatre of Species: Race and Animals in Wartime Animation	Thomas LAMARRE Prof., Department of East Asian Studies, McGill Univ., Canada	2009.1.15
135	Shamanism in Context: Itako (Northern Japan) and Mikishi (Democratic Republic of Congo)	Felix KAPUTU Prof., Univ. of Lubumbashi/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2009.2.5
136	Past and Present: Stone Bead Making in India	Kuldeep Kumar BHAN Prof., The Maharaja Sayajirao Univ. of Baroda/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2009.3.12
137	Cramming the Canon: Contemporary Gakushū Manga and the Possibilities of Edutainment	KAWANA Sari Assist. Prof., Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2009.4.2
138	What is Japanese Performing Arts? The Process of Constructing an Image	Mauricio MARTINEZ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2009.5.14
139	Sakabe Megumi, A Scenic Philosophy	Michel DALISSIER Assoc. Post-doctoral Researcher, Center for Research on Chinese, Japanese, and Tibetan Civilization/ Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2009.6.4
140	Soldiers and Society in Japan: Exploring the Issues	Theodore F. COOK Prof. of History, Director of Asian Studies, William Paterson Univ. of New Jersey/Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2009.7.2
141	Multiproxy Evidence of Tropical Holocene Climate Variability and Anthropogenic Interference from a Lake Record in Bali	Xun LI JSPS Research Fellow, IRCJS	2009.9.3
142	Monsters and Micronesia: Japanese Conceptualizations of the South Seas as a Supernatural Space	Mark OMBRELLO Lecturer, Dept. of English Language and Literature, Kyoto Notre Dame Univ. Ph.D. Candidate in History, Univ. of Hawaii Research Student, Dept. of Japanese Studies[Nichibunken], School of Cultural and Social Studies, Graduate Univ. of Advanced Studies	2009.10.1
143	Architecture & Photography: Longing for the Past and Reconstructing the Future	Murielle HLADIK Assoc. Prof., the School of Architecture of Saint-Etienne/Researcher, the Research Center for Contemporary Logic of Philosophy, Univ. of Paris 8/Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2009.11.5
144	Kume Kunitake and Kume Keiichiro: Father and Son, Advocators of Western Science and Art	Yona SIDERER Senior Lecturer, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem/Visiting Research Scholar, IRCJS	2009.12.3
145	Ideals of Feminin Beauty: Portrayal in Ukiyo-e and Indian Miniature Painting	Anu JINDAL Visitng Research Scholar, IRCJS	2010.2.4