Japanese Research
Fellowship

A total of 13 researchers from 11 countries were invited to participate in the 10th Hakuho Foundation Japanese Research Fellowship: 7 in the Japanese language and Japanese language education research category and 6 in the Japanese literature and Japanese culture research category.

Research fields: Japanese language and Japanese language education research

Invitee	HORN Stephen Wright (UK) Department Lecturer, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Research Subject	Grammatical Analysis for a Diachronic Corpus of Pre-modern Japanese with an Orientation to Linguistic Research
Duration	Long-Term Sep 1, 2015–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Invitee	KAEWKITSADANG Patcharaporn (Thailand) Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University
Research Subject	An Investigative Study of Communicative Can-do Based Japanese Language Education and Japanese Language Textbooks: A Feasibility for Application to Create Japanese Language Textbooks for Undergraduate Students in Thailand
Duration	Long-Term Sep 1, 2015–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Invitee	KANASUGI Petra (Czech Republic) Assistant Professor, Japanese Studies, Department of East Asian Studies, Philosophic Faculty, Charles University in Prague
Research Subject	Determinative attribute – comparison of means and conceptualizations in Czech and Japanese
Duration	Long-Term Sep 1, 2015–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	Ochanomizu University

Invitee	NGUYEN Bich Ha Thi (Vietnam) Head of Linguistic Department, Japanese Faculty, Foreign Trade University
Research Subject	Japanese-Language Education for Writing Academic Papers: Cultural Characteristics of the Vietnamese for choosing Sentence Style and Vocabulary
Duration	Short-Term Round 2 Mar 1, 2016–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Invitee	TOMITA Naoko (Germany) Contract Lecturer, Institute of German as a Foreign Language Philology, Heidelberg University
Research Subject	A Japanese-German Contrastive study of information structure in discourse – a psycholinguistic proposal for teaching conversation to advanced learners
Duration	Short-Term Round 1 Sep 1, 2015–Feb 29, 2016
Receiving Organization	Ochanomizu University

Invitee	TSURUTANI Chiharu (Australia) Senior Lecturer, Griffith University
Research Subject	Prosodic characteristics in polite utterances by native and non-native speakers of Japanese
Duration	Short-Term Round 1 Sep 1, 2015–Feb 18, 2016
Receiving Organization	National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Invitee	VASSILEVA Magdalena Nikolova (Bulgaria) Senior Assistant Professor, "St. Cyril and St. Methodius", University of Veliko Tarnovo
Research Subject	A Survey on Holistic Japanese Language And Culture Education With Regard To Methodology and Practice - A Manual for Bulgarian Japanese Language Instructors
Duration	Short-Term Round 2 Mar 1, 2016–Aug 31, 2016        *Withdrew partway through for personal reasons (departed Japan April 22)
Receiving Organization	Waseda University

Research fields: Japanese literature and Japanese culture research

Invitee	FREDERICK Sarah Anne (USA) Assistant Professor, Boston University
Research Subject	Mapping Kyoto: Digital Visualization of Natsume Soseki's "Arriving in Kyoto One Evening"　　(Title changed during the Fellowship Program)
Duration	Short-Term Round 2 Mar 1, 2016–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	Ritsumeikan University

Invitee	GROSSMANN Eike Ursula (Germany) Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Language and Culture, Asia-Africa-Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Hamburg University
Research Subject	Concepts of Children and Childhood in pre-moder Japanese Literature　　(Title changed during the Fellowship Program)
Duration	Long-Term Sep 1, 2015–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	Waseda University

Invitee	HOLMBERG Ryan Eric (UK) Academic Associate, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Research Subject	Gekiga Pops: The Interaction of Art and Mass Culture in Postwar Japanese Comics
Duration	Long-Term Sep 1, 2015–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	Waseda University

Invitee	LALY Cecile (France) Post-Doctor, CREOPS, Paris Sorbonne University
Research Subject	Flying octopus stories
Duration	Long-Term Sep 1, 2015–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Invitee	NGUYEN Lan Anh Thi (Vietnam) Vice-Dean, Japanese Literature and Cultural Section, Department of Japanese Studies, Hanoi University
Research Subject	Japanese Culture and Society Studies for Vietnamese Students
Duration	Short-Term Round 2 Mar 1, 2016–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Invitee	REDDY Sreedevi (India) Associate Professor Adjunct Faculty, CMR Group of Institutions and CMR University
Research Subject	Modernity,Pacifism,and War Cooperation In Hasegawa Shigure
Duration	Long-Term Sep 1, 2015–Aug 31, 2016
Receiving Organization	Kyoto University

*Invitee titles current at time of selection of Fellows.

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