Former Research Projects

The research activities conducted by the center in the past are as follows.

Joint Research Projects; TERM5 (FY2020-FY2022)

1. Joint Research and Compilation Project on "Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan"
2. Research on People’s Lives and Customs in Early Modern and Modern China
3. 20th-Century European Popular Culture as Seen through the Media and the Body
4. Research on the Development of Cities and Architecture in the Open Ports (International Settlements and Foreign Concessions) of East Asia
5. The Reorganization of Religious Services and the Establishment of Japanese Shrines in the Border Areas of Imperial Japan
6. Research on Basic Technologies that Apply Machine Learning and Block Chain Designed to Address the Challenges of Distributing Nonwritten Cultural Materials
7. Research on Wartime Japan’s Propaganda Kamishibai

Preparatory joint research projects for the Term 6

• A　Research on Sea and Port Canals—Canals in Yokohama and Asia
• B　Systematic Research on Lodgings in Modern Japan
• C　Basic Research on Voice and Body in Artistic Expression—Performing Art, Classical Entertainment, and Contemporary Art

Joint Research Projects ; TERM4(FY2017-FY2019)

1. Joint Research and Compilation Project on "Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan"
2. City Life in 19th Century Europe as Seen in Paintings, Prints and Photographs
3. Groundwork for the Second Phase Compilation of the “Pictopedia of Everyday Life in East Asia(Compiled on South of the Yangzi River, China)”
4. Joint Research and Compilation Project on “Pictopedia of Everyday life in Early Modern Japan Focusing on the Ryukyuan Embassy Processions in the city of Edo”
5. Various Activities and Industries of the Japanese People at Open Ports (International Settlements and Foreign Concessions) in East Asia
6. The Reorganization of Religious Services and Shrines in Modern Okinawa
7. An Experiment in Medieval Landscape Restoration- Somuta Village in Wakamatsu-Ku, Kitakyushu City as a Case Study
8. Research on Efficient Searching and Safe and Secure Distribution of Information and Services in the Nonwritten Cultural Materials Research Community
9. Research on Popular Media in Wartime Japan(1937-45)

Joint Research Projects ; TERM3(FY2014-FY2016)

1. Joint Research and Compilation Project on "Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan"
2. Research Project on Pictopedias of Everyday Life in Europe during the First Half of the 19th Century
3. Former Japanese Concessions in China and Korea
4. Follow-up Research on the Historical Sites of Overseas Japanese Shrines
5. Environmental History of Life in Brackish Water Areas
6. Research on How Houseboat People Lived and How Their Lives Changed
7. Research on Basic Technologies, Including Data Mining and a User Interface, for the Internet Eco-Museum
8. Research on Popular Media in Wartime Japan

Joint Research Projects ; TERM2(FY2011-FY2013)

1. Joint Research and Compilation Project on Pictopedias of Everyday Life
   • 1A. Joint Research and Compilation Project on Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan
   • 1B. Joint Research and Compilation Project on Pictopedias of Everyday Life in Early Modern Japan Focusing on Amami and Okinawa
   • 1C. Joint Research and Compilation Project on Pictopedias of Everyday Life in Modern Europe
2. Joint Research on Concessions and Media Space in East Asia
3. Joint Research on Continuity and Transformation of Scenery as Seen from Japanese Shrines Site
4. Joint Research on Environmental History of Waterfront Life
5. Joint Research on Effective Retrieval and Secure Distribution of Nonwritten Cultural Materials

Joint Research Projects ; TERM1(FY2008-FY2010)

A Core Joint Research Projects

As an organization that inherits the 21st Century COE Program and aspires to be a global training and research center, the Center shall build and preserve research networks, while researching and developing information dissemination systems.

1. It will investigate, gather information and research on methods related to the formation of a global research network (hereafter referred to as“Studies on Network Formation for Research on Nonwritten Cultural Materials”)
2. It will promote studies on system development related to the collection, organization, preservation, and disclosure / dissemination of nonwritten cultural materials (hereafter referred to as “Studies on System Development for the Dissemination of Nonwritten Cultural Materials”)

B Specific Joint Research Projects

Based on the accumulated research know-how from the 21st Century COE Program, the Center shall set new research issues and conduct joint research projects.

1. Compilation and Joint Research on the Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan
2. The Process of Urban Reconstruction Following the Great Kanto Earthquake, Creation of Database and Collection of Materials
3. Former Japanese Concessions in China and Korea
4. Studies on the Realities of Continuity and Transformation - the Case of 60 Years of Study in Tsushima