Former Researchers

TERM 4(FY2017-2019)

KOMABASHIRI Shoji

Joint research projects 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”
Discipline Japanese Linguistics

KON Masaaki

Joint research projects An Experiment in Medieval Landscape Restoration- Somuta Village in Wakamatsu-Ku, Kitakyushu City as a Case Study
Discipline Cultural Anthropology

MIKASA Tomohiro

Joint research projects An Experiment in Medieval Landscape Restoration- Somuta Village in Wakamatsu-Ku, Kitakyushu City as a Case Study
Discipline City Planning

TAGAMI Shigeru

Joint research projects An Experiment in Medieval Landscape Restoration- Somuta Village in Wakamatsu-Ku, Kitakyushu City as a Case Study
Discipline Modern History of Japanese Economics

TORIGOE Teruaki

Joint Research Projects City Life in 19th Century Europe as Seen in Paintings, Prints, and Photographs
Discipline Comparative Literature, Comparative Cultural History

WATANABE Miki

Joint research projects 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”
Discipline History of East Asian International Relations with a Focus on Modern Ryukyu

TERM 3(FY2014-2016)

KIM Young Bum

Joint research projects Former Japanese Concessions in China and Korea
Discipline Architectural Planning, Theory of History and Residence

MORI Takemaro

Joint research projects Research on How Houseboat People Lived and How Their Lives Changed,
Research on Popular Media in Wartime Japan
Title Professor emeritus, Kanagawa University
Discipline Modern Japanese History,Oral History

RATCLIFF Christian

Joint research projects Joint Research and Compilation Project on the Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan
Discipline Medieval Japanese Literature, History of Medieval Culture

YASUMURO Satoru

Joint research projects Environmental History of Life in Brackish Water Areas
Discipline Folklore, Material Culture

TERM 2 (FY2011-2013)

MATSUZAWA Kazumitsu

Joint research projects Joint Research on Effective Retrieval and Secure Distribution of Nonwritten Cultural Materials
Discipline Communication Engineering

SENSUI Hidekazu

Joint research projects Joint Research on Continuity and Transformation of Scenery as Seen from Japanese Shrines Site
Discipline Cultural anthropology

TERM 1 (FY2008-2010)

FUKUTA Ajio

Position Director
Joint research projects Core Joint Research Projects-Studies on Network Formation for Research on Nonwritten Cultural Materials, Specific Joint Research Projects- Compilation and Joint Research on the Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan
Discipline Folklore

KIM Jeong Ah

Position Senior Researcher
Joint research projects Core Joint Research Projects-Studies on Network Formation for Research on Nonwritten Cultural Materials, Specific Joint Research Projects- Compilation and Joint Research on the Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan
Discipline Art History

KITAHARA Itoko

Joint research projects Specific Joint Research Projects-The Process of Urban Reconstruction Following the Great Kanto Earthquake, Creation of Database and Collection of Materials
Discipline Disaster Information Theory

KITSUKAWA Toshitada

Joint research projects Core Joint Research Projects- Studies on System Development for the Dissemination of Nonwritten Cultural Materials, Specific Joint Research Projects- Studies on the Realities of Continuity and Transformation - the Case of 60 Years of Study in Tsushima
Discipline Political Science

MATOBA Akihiro

Joint research projects Core Joint Research Projects-Studies on Network Formation for Research on Nonwritten Cultural Materials
Discipline History of Social Thought