Multidisciplinary Collaborative Projects
Change of Local Communities and Reconstruction of Community Cultures after Disasters in Japanese Archipelago
Changes in local communities and disasters threaten the diversity of community cultures in the Japanese Archipelago. This project examines the impact of such challenges through multiple viewpoints including language, resource preservation, symbolic representational system and environmental protection. By engaging in practical discussions with members of local communities, insights on their perspectives can be gained and collected, and then integrated into efforts that assist communities in reconstructing their cultures.
| Units | Institutions | Representatives |
| Development of Cross-Cultural Research Bases for Studies of History and Culture (Japanese) | Rekihaku 〔lead institution〕 |
Junichi Koike |
| Reformation of Local Community through Recordings and Researches of Dialects | NINJAL 〔lead institution〕 |
Nobuko Kibe |
| Rediscovering Local Cultures and Constructing a System of Representation in the Japanese Archipelago (Japanese) | Minpaku | Shingo Hidaka |
| Archives and Human Life :Interactive Study among Past, Present and Future | NIJL | Koichi Watanabe |
| Toward Sustainable Communities Resilient to Natural Disasters | RIHN | Tohru Nakashizuka |
Rethinking Eco-health in Asia
Currently our ideas about health focus mainly on biomedical interventions rooted in research on disease rather than on positive health concepts. "Ecohealth" is an emerging research field that explores health concepts in daily life as they relate to ecology, lifestyles, livelihoods, and food culture, against a backdrop of rapid social and environmental change in Asia. This project combines interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to incorporate humanities and human culture to help us understand evolving approaches to health. We examine historical concepts of health and contemporary case studies of social and environmental changes in East and Southeast Asia. One of our objectives is to establish a research
Development of a Field of Comprehensive Bibliographical Studies from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Currently our ideas about health focus mainly on biomedical interventions rooted in research on disease rather than on positive health concepts. "Ecohealth" is an emerging research field that explores health concepts in daily life as they relate to ecology, lifestyles, livelihoods, and food culture, against a backdrop of rapid social and environmental change in Asia. This project combines interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to incorporate humanities and human culture to help us understand evolving approaches to health. We examine historical concepts of health and contemporary case studies of social and environmental changes in East and Southeast Asia. One of our objectives is to establish a research
| Units | Institutions | Representatives |
| Multidisciplinary research on the Engi-shiki: Japan's ancient encyclopedia | Rekihaku | Shigeji Ogura |
| Refining the corpus of historical Japanese with information on notation and bibliographical form | NINJAL | Tomokazu Takada |
| Visual Images as the Intersection of Culture and Information | Nichibunken | Shoji Yamada |