Team Research

Nichibunken places primary emphasis on studies of Japanese culture in the form of team research. Team projects promote the solid integration of research of related but separate fields. At the same time, they provide forums in which researchers can transcend the framework of their specialized fields and expand their knowledge by working together. The Center believes that such forums contribute greatly to a deeper understanding of Japanese culture and thus places a great deal of weight on interdisciplinary team research.
Exchange with researchers from non-Japanese intellectual traditions are also considered to be an essential part of team research at Nichibunken. Perspectives that are rooted in different cultures provide new outlooks and different research findings, bringing a positive relativism to scholarly activities. Furthermore, as we enter an era of greater internationalization, such interaction helps the field of Japanese studies to better respond to the needs of the times.
The team research carried out at the Center is not confined merely to the exchange of research findings. The essence of what the Center is trying to achieve is creativity, which is generated through the cooperative research of scholars from diverse intellectual traditions.

Current Team Research Projects

Project Title	Organizer
Civilization and the Body	USHIMURA Kei Professor
Buddhist Perspectives on the Modern and Pre-modern	SUEKI Fumihiko Professor
Tradition and Creation of Yokai Culture Moving Towards Expanding the Parameters of the Field	KOMATSU Kazuhiko Professor
Creating the Age of Life Civilization	YASUDA Yoshinori Professor
Dreams and the Representation: Media, History and Culture	ARAKI Hiroshi Professor
Research on Classical Japanese Visual Materials in the Digital Era	X. Jie YANG Visiting Research Scholar
Devices and Notions of Japanese and French spacialities and temporalities	Philippe BONNIN Visiting Research Scholar
The Images and Visions of Leaders in Modern Japan	TOBE Ryoichi Professor
Tokugawa Society and Japanese Modernization -The cultural blooming of Japanese society and the international influence during the period from the 17th to the 19th century	KASAYA Kazuhiko Professor
Questioning Oriental Aesthetics and Thinking: Crisis in Self-Recognition and Task for the Future	INAGA Shigemi Professor
Empire and the Higher Education in East Asia	SAKAI Tetsuya Visiting Professor
Fusion of Religion and Folklore in Literature: A Reinterpretation of Miyazawa Kenji’s World View	Pullattu Abraham GEORGE Visiting Research Scholar
Reconsidering the Traditional Terminology of East Asia: A New Perspective on the Philosophical Investigation of Mind, Body, and Environment	ITO Takayuki Professor
Intellectual Exchanges in East Asia Modern and Contemporary; Focusing on Conceptual Systems	SUZUKI Sadami Professor
History and Culture of Japanese Immigration in the New Continent	HOSOKAWA Shuhei Professor
The Synthetic Researches of Japanese Diaries	KURAMOTO Kazuhiro Professor