"Exploring Knowledge to Build a Better Future," the program provides support for Joint Research Grant program (Category A), under the framework of “Research that Aims to Explore New Social Values” (A1) and “Research that Addresses Social Issues” (A2). We also welcome proposals for Individual Research Grant program (Category B), targeting younger researchers who are eager to contribute to society through research activities that can be expected to address social issues or explore new values for society.
| TYTID |
Project Title |
Project Leader |
Position, Organization |
Grant Amount (Yen) |
| Joint Research Catergory A1 |
| D13-R-0053 |
Institutional Design for Sustainable Conservation of Natural Resources: Institutional Design for Enacting a Soil Conservation Act |
Tomoyoshi Murata |
Senior Researcher, National Institute for Environmental Studies |
5,700,000 |
| D13-R-0401 |
International Joint Research on the Concept of the “Elastic Public Sphere” in Cambodia |
Fuyuki Makino |
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University |
5,500,000 |
| D13-R-0413 |
How Can We Maintain “Richness” of Agriculture? : Focusing on Utilization and Protection of Heirloom Crops |
Ryoto Tomita |
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Shizuoka University |
4,000,000 |
| D13-R-0577 |
Localizing Biodiversity: Introduction of an Environmental Education System to Support Spontaneous Conservation Efforts by the Local Community in Western Tanzania |
Michio Nakamura |
Associate Professor, Wildlife Research Center, Kyoto University |
8,000,000 |
| D13-R-0669 |
A New Concept on Water Culture Utilizing the Multi-function of Urban Lakes in Jakarta Metropolitan Area |
Ami Aminah Meutia |
Project Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature |
5,100,000 |
| D13-R-0762 |
From Fukushima to the World from Past to Future: An Interdisciplinary, Practice-Oriented Project to Build a Global Network of Hibakusha and Archive their Narratives |
Hiroko Aihara |
Representative Director, Japan Perspective News, Inc. |
7,100,000 |
| Joint Research Category A2 |
| D13-R-0011 |
Development of Warm-hearted School-community Environment through Mutual Support of Children: Education of Students to Make Them Able and Willing to Help Peers Suffering from Bullying and Mental Difficulties |
Tsukasa Sasaki |
Professor, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo |
6,000,000 |
| D13-R-0015 |
Using Life Reviews to Preserve the Narratives of Hansen’s Disease Survivors and Improve Nurses’ End-of-life Care Skills |
Makiko Kondo |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Okayama University |
3,400,000 |
| D13-R-0055 |
“Product-based Ethnography” of a Ladakhi Village in Northern India: Challenges of Alternative Approaches to Research Aimed at Contributing to Local Societies |
Takayoshi Yamaguchi |
Research Fellow, National Institute for Agro-Environment Science |
3,500,000 |
| D13-R-0088 |
Development of a Continuing Care Model for Older Adults With Stroke in Cantho City, Vietnam |
Tran Thi Hanh |
Head of Office, Office for Scientific Research and International Relations, Cantho Medical College |
4,500,000 |
| D13-R-0113 |
Towards the Farmland Development along Senegal River in Mauritania: Flood Control and Traditional Custom of Water Resource Management |
Mitsuteru Irie |
Associate Professor, Alliance for Research on North Africa, University of Tsukuba |
7,600,000 |
| D13-R-0144 |
Post-Catastrophe Cultural Psychotherapy: Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima |
Osamu Ieda |
Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University |
7,000,000 |
| D13-R-0151 |
The Socio-Economic Transformation and the Crisis of the Family in Asia |
Margarita Estevez-Abe |
Associate Professor, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University |
6,000,000 |
| D13-R-0843 |
Towards a Proposal to Improve the Legal System for the Continual Use of Historical Buildings |
Toru Ajisaka |
Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Kagoshima University |
3,100,000 |
| Individual Research Category B |
| D13-R-0016 |
Picturing What War Has Brought to Soldiers’ Mind and Body: Focusing on “War-Neurosis” in Japanese Imperial Army |
Eri Nakamura |
Graduate Student, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University |
800,000 |
| D13-R-0102 |
Dynamics of the Diffusion Process of Afforestation Technique in the Village of East Africa |
Ryugo Kurosaki |
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Fukuoka University of Education |
500,000 |
| D13-R-0121 |
Changes of Reproductive Ability and Genetic Structure in Bryophyte Species Affected by the Fukushima Nuclear Accident |
Emiko Oguri |
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Science, Hiroshima University |
1,600,000 |
| D13-R-0142 |
Medical Anthropology of “Savage Healers”: The Hybridized Healing Cultures in Okinawa Island and Psychotherapy |
Kaito Towhata |
Clinical Psychologist, Nakama Clinic |
950,000 |
| D13-R-0175 |
Sexual Violence against Children in Aceh: Researching Backgrounds and Exploring Local Value to Reconstruct ‘New’ Socio- Cultural Mechanisms of Child Protection |
Eka Srimulyani |
Lecturer, Islamic University of Ar-Raniry |
350,000 |
| D13-R-0196 |
Why They Do Not Utilize Disinfection Technology: A Perspective from a Least Developed Country-Myanmar |
Hiroshi Sakai |
Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo |
1,500,000 |
| D13-R-0200 |
Establishing a Community-participating Method of Heritage Preservation at the Gansu Site of Stone Caves, China: In Search for the Local Identity as “The East End of the Silk Road” |
Mei Li |
Graduate Student, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba |
1,500,000 |
| D13-R-0212 |
Utilizing Activities of Non-experts for Urban Development: Civil Participation and Self-Help Groups in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |
Ryo Takiguchi |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University |
1,500,000 |
| D13-R-0292 |
The New Ideas and Practices on Fund Supplying: Focusing on the GLS Bank |
Kiminori Hayashi |
Part-time Lecturer, Tsuru University |
1,500,000 |
| D13-R-0379 |
Changing Identity and Lifestyle of Myanmar Refugees in a Refugee Camp near the Thai-Myanmar Border: Observation through Documentary Film Making |
Riyo Naoi |
Graduate Student, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University |
1,500,000 |
| D13-R-0408 |
The Damages from Natural Disasters in Early Modern Japan: Mortality Patterns and its Formation Factor |
Hiroyuki Ikemoto |
Research Associate, Kyoto University |
1,200,000 |
| D13-R-0420 |
Photovoice for Vulnerability: Disaster Adaptation in Central Philippines |
Yanjun Cai |
Graduate Student, Deptartment of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
1,500,000 |
| D13-R-0431 |
The Present and Future of Small- and Medium-sized Companies: A Case Study in the Areas around the Fukushima-1 Plant |
Kohei Yoshida |
Visiting Scholar, Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
1,600,000 |
| D13-R-0465 |
Big Data, Big Visions: Challenges and Opportunities for British Civil Society Engagement with Data-Driven Research |
William Allen |
Research Officer, ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society, University of Oxford |
1,400,000 |
| D13-R-0555 |
Practical Effectiveness of Education Policy to “Quasi-child Labour” in India: Defining a New Framework of the Child Labour Called “Quasi-child Labour” |
Aika Karatani |
Graduate Student, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University |
1,600,000 |
| D13-R-0562 |
Study on Behavior Change Support to Prevent Criminal Act and Reoffending: Focusing on Cognition of Thought and Behavior, and Interaction among Inmates |
Hiromi Tanabe |
Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University |
700,000 |
| D13-R-0612 |
Discovery and Transmission of New Values of Cultural Heritages in Local Communities: Aiming to Establish a Basis for Utilization of the Cultural Heritages by Public Participation in Kharakhorin District, Mongolia |
Natsuki Shimizu |
Lecturer, Faculty of Letters, Nara University |
800,000 |
| D13-R-0685 |
An Anthropological Study on the Reorganization of Youth Associations and Their Cooperative Roles in Post-independent South Sudan: Toward the Reconstruction of Local Communities through Fulfilling the Vision of Youth |
Eri Hashimoto |
Graduate Student, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University |
1,600,000 |
| D13-R-0869 |
Practical Consideration for Participatory Design in the Public Policy: Focusing on the Efforts of International Organization on Participatory Democracy (IODP) |
Yuki Yoshida |
Graduate Student, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
1,400,000 |
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