Yutaka ROKUTADA Project Leader & Concurrent Professor (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology)
Japanese Research Interests CV Books & Articles
Satoshi UNNO Deputy Project Leader & Concurrent Associate Professor (Graduate School of Engineering)
specializes in Japanese architectural history, East Asian architectural history and conservation of cultural properties.
Kyuichi UEHARADeputy Project Leader & Concurrent Associate Professor (Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia)
specializes in Chinese classical literature and bibliography.
Miho TAKAHASHI Concurrent Professor (Graduate School of Education)
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Hidenori WATANAVE Concurrent Professor (Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies)
Hidenori WATANAVE specializes in information design and digital archives. In recent years, his research has extended to exploring methods for “fluidizing” data being “stocked up” in society and information design methods for real-time response to disasters using advanced technologies such as digital twin, VR, and AI.
Ikki OHMUKAI Concurrent Associate Professor (Graduate school of Humanities and Sociology)
Ikki Ohmukai is Involved in research and development in the fields of digital humanities, web informatics, and scholarly communication.
Daigo ISSHIKI Deputy Project Leader & Project Associate Professor
ISSHIKI’s research focuses on the transmission and inheritance of Buddhist scholarship in Asia. In recent years, he has been investigating the modernization of Buddhist scholarship in Japan with a view to the changes in the university system. On the basis of his findings, he examines the potential of Buddhist thought for the study of the fusion of humanities and science.
Erina OTA-TSUKADA Project Assistant Professor
OTA’s research focuses on people’s “ecology” in medieval Arab urban society and aims to deepen our understanding of survival knowledge by elucidating interconnections with the help of both digital humanities and close reading of historical sources. In recent years, she has been working on data mining the networks of scholars, administrators, and other civilian elites in the 15th century through structuring digitized historical documents and employing Resource Description Framework (RDF).
Tatsuo ARAKI Project Research Fellow
Tatsuo ARAKI is having a great interest in Shuihuzhuan as well as folklore and popular literature of the Ming and Qing dynasties, so far, he has been conducting research on such topics as: various editions of Shuihuzhuan, the spread of Shuihuzhuan-related stories in Taiwan, and mentioning of pandas in Chinese literature.