Current Year Recipients

Grant Recipients of Academic Year 2025

Mika Nakata
MA Student, Graduate Program in International Relations
Research Topic: ポスト民主化期の台湾社会における台湾アイデンティティー新住民の政治参加から一 (68,000 JPY)

Katsumi Nakamura
MA Student, Graduate Program in Area Studies
Research Topic: トーゴ共和国のリン鉱石開発が農業に及ぼす位置付けと課題:リン鉱石採掘・精製地と農村地の現地調査より (175,000 JPY)

Rui Taniyama
MA Student, Graduate Program in Area Studies
Research Topic: トルコにおけるアレヴィーの同化政策の持つ他者化機能：ハジュ・ベクタシュ・ヴェリ記念祭を事例として (175,000 JPY)

Yotam Gazit
MA Student, Graduate Program in Global Studies
Research Topic: The historical narrative(s) of the Minamata Disease Disaster as seen through museums (61,000 JPY)

Whitney Elaine Estes
MA Student, Graduate Program in Global Studies
Research Topic: Digital Transformation in International Fine Art Exhibitions (50,000 JPY)

Erin Grace Murphy
MA Student, Graduate Program in Global Studies
Research Topic: Furthering current thesis research on the development of Yokai folklore in the 20th century, based around the research of Kazuhiko Komatsu and Yasui Manami at the Nichubunken archives in Kyoto (50,000 JPY)

Aselya, Nadyrbekova
MA Student, Graduate Program in Global Studies
Research Topic: The Legality of Repression in Kyrgyzstan: Laws Used to Detain Individuals for Voicing Dissent and Their Chilling Effect on Society, from 2020 to Present (153,000 JPY)

Miyabi Miyazaki
MA Student, Graduate Program in International Cooperation Studies
Research Topic: カンボジアにおけおる保護者の教育選択の論理―コンポンスプー州の影の教育「Peace Community School」に着目して― (175,000 JPY)

Yugo Hisanaga
Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in International Relations
Research Topic: 権威主義体制における司法の抵抗条件：制度的基盤と判決の戦略性からの比較分析 (50,000 JPY)

Makiko Arai
Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Area Studies
Research Topic: 暮らしの中の「法」を捉える: 労働の現場に見るミャンマーの人びとの法意識に関する法社会学的研究 (121,000 JPY)

Miguel Niccolo Veneracion Rallonza
Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Global Studies
Research Topic: Exploring Value and Values in Capitalist Motion Through the Making of Taste, Traceability, and Expertise: The Case of Philippine Specialty Coffee (150,000 JPY)

Klaus Wilhelm Nettmann
Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Global Studies
Research Topic: The Pan-Asianism of the 1930s: The Dai Ajia kyōkai as seen in their magazine Dai Ajia shugi (43,000 JPY)

Vinay Maria Alejandra Dorado
Doctoral Student, Graduate Program in Global Studies
Research Topic: Japan as a case of foreign food without foreigners, and Mexican cuisine as global food without Mexican migrants: a national survey mapping the staffing and clientele composition of Mexican restaurants in Japan (as the first phase of my doctoral dissertation). (138,000 JPY)