RESEARCH
研究
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The Academic Significance of the Tōma Seita Collection
GOZA Yūichi（Associate Professor）January 05, 2026 -
“Japanese” Style
TAKII Kazuhiro（Professor）November 15, 2023 -
As seen from the Periphery and from Below: What I Have Learned from the Japanese Popular Culture Research Project
LIU Jianhui (Professor)June 15, 2023 -
“Japan" as Portrayed in Western Music
MITSUHIRA Yūki (Liberal arts communicator, Center for Information and Public Relations (CIP), National Institu...November 15, 2022
COMMUNICATIONS
交流ひろば
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Regular FeatureGreetings from the Outskirts of Kyoto vol.59
INOUE Shōichi (Director-General)December 26, 2025 -
EssaysOur Desired Modernity is so Near and yet so Far
Hassan Kamal HARB （Visiting Research Scholar）December 09, 2025 -
Essays
From Small Things to Big History: What Kelp Reveals about Early Modern Japan’s Globalization
SHIMIZU Akira （Visiting Research Scholar）November 07, 2025
TEAM RESEARCH REPORTS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
共同研究報告書等
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Consortium for Global Japanese Studies,ed.“Kokusai Nihon kenkyū” no genzaichi/chi: Yōroppa hokubei Ajia niokeru genjyō to kadai (Current Positions and Future Prospects: Global Japanese Studies in Europe, America and Asia)
International Research Center for Japanese Studies, March, 2024. -
KARUBE Tadashi, TAKII Kazuhiro, UMEDA Yurika, eds.
Shūkyō, kōsō, seiji: shuken kokka no shigen to genzai (Religion, contestation, and politics: the past and present of the sovereign state)
Chikura shobō, December 2023. -
ŌTSUKA Eiji, HOSHINO Yukiyo, eds.Rōdō to shintai no taishū bunka (The Popular Culture of Labor and the Human Body)
SUISEISHA, December 2023. -
YAMADA Shoji,ed.
Shukushō shakai no bunka sōzō：Fu：“shukushō shakai no ebidensu to messēji”ten no kiroku (Cultural Creativity in a Shrinking Society (with A Record of the Exhibition “Evidence of, and Messages from, a Shrinking Society))
Shibunkaku Shuppan, August 2023. -
TAKII Kazuhiro, Alistair SWALE, eds.
Meiji ishin to taishū bunka (The Meiji Restoration and Popular Culture)
Shibunkaku Shuppan, March 2023. -
INOUE Shōichi, SAITŌ Hikaru eds.,
Nūdo no Higashi Ajia: Fūzoku no kindaishi (East Asia in the Nude: A Modern History of Customs)
TANKOSHA, March 2023.
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