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the networks of scholars, administrators, and other civilian elites in the 15th century through structuring digitized historical documents and employing Resource Description Framework (RDF).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.

Jakshylyk  AKMATALIEVA Project Research Fellow

Jakshylyk AKMATALIEVA specializes in linguistics. Her research focuses on the linguistics of Turkic languages. She aims to clarify the synchronic similarities and historical relationships between the northwestern group of Turkic languages (Kyrgyz languages of the Kyrgyz Republic) and the northeastern group of Turkic languages (Siberian minority languages such as Altay and Shor). 

Aki TANAKA Project Research Fellow

Aki TANAKA is specializing in Vietnamese language literature, I study the modern and contemporary history of Vietnam greatly predetermined by colonialism and war using literature as a looking glass to add new perspectives. Past research has focused on the life and works of Khái Hưng, a Vietnamese novelist of the French colonial period and founding member of the Self-Reliant Literary Group, who used to receive little academic attention due to Vietnam’s complicated history. Current research has been devoted to war literature from the defeated side and I also have a deep interest in refugee literature.

Yuto NAKAI Project Research Fellow

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