Name	SAKAEHARA Towao

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Ancient Japanese History
Contents of Research	Shousouin documents, Ancient Japanese History of Distribution Economics, Historic Statictics. Creation of Shousouin document database for its collection, seeking the analysis method of numerical data in historical documents
Main Academic Works
Books	Sakaehara, T. (2004,). Research of Kii ancient history. Kyoto, Japan: Shibunkaku. Sakaehara, T. (2003). Research of the history of Shakyo in Nara Period. Tokyo, Japan: Haniwa Publishing. Sakaehara, T. (2003). Shakyo and Imperial Palace in Nara Period. Tokyo, Japan: Haniwa Publishing.
Articles	Sakaehara, T. (2004, May). Buddhist environment surrounding the Anthology of Myriad Leaves -Shosoin documents and a collection of the Anthology of Myriad Leaves. Manyou, 187, 1-21. Sakaehara, T. (2004, March). Coinage seen in Engishiki. Shutsudo Senka, 187, 40-59. Shutsudo Senka. Sakaehara, T. (2004, October). Coinage management system seen in Engishiki. Aspects of Nihongi PartⅡ-The 50th anniversary of foundation, 159-171. Sakaehara, T. (2004, December). Creation of Shikouraku Buddha and the royal visit by Emperor Shomu. Article Collection 'before and after the construction of Todaiji temple-The Great Buddha symposium Vol. 2,' 2, 7-13. Sakaehara, T. (2005, March). The financial affairs on the reconstruction of Ishiyama-Ji Temple. Finance Research, 24(1): 71-122.
Academic Presentations	Sakaehara, T. (2004, July). The treasure in Shousoin and Nanba Port [Public workshop]. Osaka, Japan: Prefectural Central Library. Sakaehara, T. (2004, September). An ancient port city Nanba [Japan-German joint symposium-Hamburg and Osaka, city and citizen, culture and university]. Hamburg, Germany: Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg. Sakaehara, T. (2004, November). The Port of Osaka: from ancient times to today [Workshop of port cities and city-states in Asia and Europe]. Hamburg, Germany: Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg. Sakaehara, T. (2004, November). A royal visit to the east country by Emperor Shomu and Shikouraku palace. Mie, Japan: Suzuka Municipal Museum of Archeology. Sakaehara, T. (2004, November). The ancient city Nanba and its economy. Osaka, Japan: Osaka Museum of History.
Miscellaneous	Sakaehara, T.,(2004, March). Japanese ancient capitals-with a central focus on Shikouraku. In K. Nakamura & T. Kou (Ed.), Research for ancient castle cities in Japan and in China, 84-106. Sakaehara, T., Koyama, Y., Takeuchi, M., Yakura, H., Sagara, M.,& Takashima,M. (2004, June). Chapter 1-3 'Kii and right of king,' Chapter 2 'The legal codes of the Nara and Heian eras in Kii,' Chapter 3 'Preceding period of Heian era in Kii.' History of Wakayama, 29-78. Sakaehara, T.,(2005, February). Ancient chronology-Nara era and Heian era(pp22-84), additional volume(3-9)(pp709-738). History of Himeji City, 8.

Name	TSUKADA Takashi

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Early Modern Japanese History
Contents of Research	Urban Social History of Early Modern Osaka Regional History of Early Modern Temple Society Early Modern Social Ranking and Rank Marginality Understanding the the totality of the core and margins of early modern Osaka from the perspective of law and social realities. Understanding temple society in the Izumi region with attention to urbanism in the local society. A comprehensive grasp of the social ranking system and its margins.
Main Academic Works
Books	Research on the Social Rank System of Early Modern Japan, Hyōgo Buraku Mondai Kenkyūjō, 1987. Social Rank Society and Civic Society, Kashiwa Shobō, 1992. The Social Rank System and Marginal Society, Tokyo Univ. Press, 1997.
Articles	"Urban Osaka's Development and Town Dwellers in the 17th Century," in Tsukada Takashi ed., Urban Development and Structure in Osaka, Yamakawa Shuppan, 2004. "Kimura Kenkad? and Kita Horie 5-ch?me- their relationship to urban social structure in early modern Osaka," Ibid. "Concerning Historical Methods- a reaction to Nagahara Keiji's Historical Studies of 20th Century Japan," in Rekishi Kagaku, 175, November, 2004. "Social Rank Marginality- pooling of temple solicitations as a clue," in Rekishi Kenky?kai and Nihonshi Kenky?kai eds., Japanese History Course 6: Early Modern Society, Tokyo Univ. Press, 2005. "Livelihood of the Urban Lower Classes in Late Early Modern Osaka," in Inoue T. and Tsukuda T. eds., Social Bonding in Early Modern East Asian Cities- surviving forms of social rank and class, Seibund?, 2005. And many others.

Name	NIKI Hiroshi

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Medieval History of Japan
Contents of Research	The elucidation of the space and social structure of medieval cities The investigation of the change of city structure for the harbor cities, the post towns, the cities in temples or front-of-the-gate of temples, the castle towns, etc which existed in the medieval Osaka plain
Main Academic Works
Books	The Restructuring of Cities in Pre-Modern Japan －Space,Common Good and Community The History of SAKAI －The origin of city self-government City －Perspectives on the Pre-Modern City
Articles	The historical position of Osaka castle town in Toyotomi term, The Historical Journal of Japan by Osaka City University vol4 2001 The position of Osaka temple town in Osaka plain, Historical Sciences Review vol547 1995 The originality of the cities in Osaka plain in the age of civil wars, Historia vol.186 2003
Academic Presentations	2003. 7. 23. "Urban Osaka's Development and Town Dwellers in the 17th Century," Symposium on 'Society=Spatial Structure and Various Forms of Traditional Cities,' Cambridge University. 2004. 3. 20. "Livelihood of the Urban Lower Classes in Late Early Modern Osaka," Osaka City University COE Symposium on 'Social Bonding in Early Modern East Asian Cities– surviving forms of social rank and class.' 2004. 7. 22. "Commodity Trade under the Bakuhan System and Urban Osaka," Japan-Italy Urban History Symposium on 'River Basin Cities– Waterfront Cities,' Cortona, Italy. 2004. 7. 23. "Leather Trade in Early Modern Osaka," Ibid. 2005. 1. 7. "Social Rank in Early Modern Japan Seen Through the Census Registry and Regulations," Korean Classics Association Symposium on 'Early Modern Society in East Asia Seen Through the Classics,' Seoul National University.
Other Publications:	Early Modern Urban Social History, Aoki Shoten, 1996. Examining History Through Social Ranks, Kōsō Shobō, 2000. Urban Osaka and Outcasts, Yamakawa Shuppan, 2001. Osaka in History, Iwanami Shoten, 2002.

Name	YAMANO, Masahiko

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Cultural Geography
Contents of Research	Thai Temple Murals and Cosmology Ground Survey and Database Construction on Thai Temple Architecture and Murals. Examining the relationship between cosmology and mural subject matter. Examining the significance and value of Thai temple architecture and murals as cultural resources and promoting them in tourism.
Main Academic Works
Books	Formation of German Landscape Ideas– centered on Humboldt, Kokin Shoin, 1998. (editor), Aspects of Cultural Representation in Southeast Asia, 2004.
Articles	"The Possibilities for Asian Urban Cultural Studies," in Osaka City Univ. Asian Urban Cultural Studies Dept. ed., The Possibilities for Asian Urban Cultural Studies, Seibundō, 2003. "Thoughts on Landscape Possibilities– the relation to a 'cultural transition'," in Jinbun Kenkyū, Vol. 53, no. 3, December, 2001. "Expeditions and Geopolitics– the aims of Imanishi Kinji and Komaki Sanatoshi in Wartime," in Jinbun Kenkyū, Vol. 51, no. 9, December, 1999. "Landscape, Physiognomy, and Gestalt– development of landscape ideas in German geography of the 1920s and 30s," in Jinbun Chiri, Vol. 42, no. 2, April, 1990.
Academic Presentations	"Landscape at Present– its relation to a 'cultural transition'," Human Geography Association Meeting, Kobe Univ., November, 2001. "The Traiphum Cosmology Seen in Thai Temple Murals," Human Geography Association Meeting, Bukkyō Univ., November, 2004. "The Traiphum Cosmology in Thai Mural Paintings and Cultural Tourism," UCRC 3rd International Academic Forum, Chulalongkorn Univ., Bangkok, December, 2004.

Name	TANI Tomio

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Sociology
Contents of Research	Urban Sociological Research on Inter-ethnic Relationships in Japanese Cities
Main Academic Works
Books	Tomio Tani(ed.), 2002, Association and Dissociation in Inter-ethnic Relationships, Kyoto:Minerva Shobo.
Articles	Tomio Tani,2002," Cultural Transformation and the Creativity of Foreign Residents", Takashi Miyajima et al.(eds),Transformation of Japanese Society and Culture, Tokyo:Tokyo Univ. Press, Pp.201-228. Tomio Tani, 2003, "The Problems of Inter-ethnic Relationships in the Osaka Metropolis", Nobuhiko Iwasaki et al.(eds), The Japanese Overseas, Immigrants in Japan, Kyoto:Syowado,Pp.116-130. Tomio Tani, 2004,"Toward a Social Theory of Ethnicity and Inter-ethnic Relationships, Studies in the Humanities,Vol.55,No.3,Pp.17-36． Tomio Tani,2004,"Old Korean Residents in Japan and their Religious Culture and Social Structure", Urban Culture Research, Vo.2,Pp.77-97. Tomio Tani, 2005,"Qualitative Methods in Sociological Education", The Journal of the Sociological Society of Western Japan, Vol.3，Pp.15-27.
Academic Presentations	Tomio Tani, 2001,"Association and Dissociation in Inter-ethnic Relationships: Ethnic Korean Society and Japanese Society in the Urban Osaka Setting, Japan", Oxford Kobe Seminars: Symposium on Immigration Policy in Japan, EU and North America, St.Catherine's College, University of Oxford, Kobe Institute, Japan. Tomio Tani, 2001,"Ethnicity and Social Research", Symposium on Diversity and Possibilities in Social Research, The 52th Annual Meeting of the Kansai Sociological Association. Tomio Tani, 2004,"Old Korean Residents in Japan and their Religious Culture and Social Structure", International Academic Forum: Urban Culture in the Multicultural City, The University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia． Tomio Tani, 2004, "Diversity of Qualitative Research and Sociological Education", Symposium on Professionalism in Social Research and Sociological Theory, The 62th Annual Meeting of the Sociological Society of West Japan. Tomio Tani, 2005, "International Comparison of Civil Consciousness to Foreign Laborers: Japan, Korea, and Taiwan", The 78th Annual Meeting of the Japan Sociological Society.
Miscellaneous	Tomio Tani, 2002, "The Present and the Possibilities for an Urban Community of Osaka", Shisei Kenkyu, Vol.134, Pp.124-131. Tomio Tani, 2003, "Toward the Horizon and the Focus of Ethnic Studies in Urban Sociology", The Annals of Japan Association for Urban Sociology,Vol.21,Pp.199-204. Tomio Tani,2005,"Reading the Metropolis of Osaka from the Viewpoint of the 'Inner-ring' Area", The Annals of Japan Association for Urban Sociology,Vol.23,Pp.1-4．

Name	OOGURO Shunji

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Western History
Contents of Research	Economic thought and exhortation in mediaeval Italy The contents of research: To analyze the process of the alternation of the merchants' negative view into the positive one by the research of scholasticism and moralism
Main Academic Works
Articles	Ooguro, S. (2004). Environmental history and education of history-investigation, contribution, and boredom. History Reviewal. 650, 2-9. Ooguro, S. (2003). Women, children, and money-Italy in the Middle Ages. Annual report of the city history, 11, 2-13. Ooguro, S. (2003). Venezia and Latin Empire-Rise and fall of colonial empire. In the Historical Science Society of Japan (Ed.), Development of the pluralistic world, 136-169. Ooguro, S. (2003). Shadow of voice-historical sources of exhortation in medieval Europe. Humanity research, 54, 55-86. Ooguro, S. (2002). Provoked, frayed, and `inscribed society. In A. Mori (Ed.), Current depiction of history, 285-298. Ooguro, S. (2002). Foundation of Bernardino and Monte di Piet?-at Pavia. Journal of Italy, 51, 76-98.
Academic Presentations	Ooguro, S. (2004, November). The financial situation of Abrahamidae in medieval and modern ages-beyond antagonism and coexistence [Presentation at society for western history of Kansei Gakuin University, 2004]. Hyogo, Japan: Kansei Gakuin University. Ooguro, S. (2002, November). Women, children, and money-the situation of Italy in the Middle Ages [presentation at society for the city history]. Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo. Ooguro, S. (2001, November). Overview 'provoked, frayed, and `inscribed society' [international symposium-Current depiction of history]. Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Ethnology. Ooguro, S. (2000, June). The regional history and the autonomous history in the western world [presentation at Association of Historical Sciences of Osaka]. Osaka, Japan: Kansai University Ooguro, S. (2000, May). The transformation of imposition into pay back the interest-Bernardino and Monte di Piet? [Presentation at Society for Western History of Japan, 50th anniversary]. Osaka, Japan: Osaka University of Foreign Studies.
Miscellaneous	Ooguro, S. (2005). Over the identity of the city and its citizen. In T. Inoue & T. Tsukada (Ed.), The social connection in modern cities in East Asia-the existence form of each social position (pp.285-298). Osaka, Japan: Seibundo. Ooguro, S. (2005). The financial situation of Abrahamidae in medieval and modern ages-beyond antagonism and coexistence. Research for western history of Kansei Gakuin University, 19-24.

Name	TSUCHIYA Reiko

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Historical Sociology, Media Studies
Contents of Research	Media and Culture of Modern Osaka The process of how popular culture based on popular newspapers has developed from Osaka.
Main Academic Works
Books	TSUCHIYA Reiko, 2002, The Origin of Popular Newspapers in Japan ? “Small Newspapers" in Early Meiji, Sekaisishousha, Kyoto TSUCHIYA Reiko and Pak Sunhe ed., 2002, Japanese Popular Culture and the Korea-Japan Relationship ? based on research on the consciousness of Korean young people toward Japan, Sangensha Publishing Inc., Tokyo TSUCHIYA Reiko, 1995, Nishikie-Shinbun (Pictorial News-sheet) of Osaka, Sangensha Publishing Inc., Tokyo
Articles	TSUCHIYA Reiko, Mar. 2006 (in print), “Journalism Studies of ‘Imperial’ Japan", YAMAMOTO Taketoshi ed., ‘Imperial Japan’ in the Media, Iwanami Kouza Series Knowledge and Science of ‘Imperial’ Japan, Vol.4, Iwanami Shoten TSUCHIYA Reiko, Aug. 2005, “War Report on the Formosa Expedition in 1874 ? articles of the newspaper, Tokyo Nichi-nichi Shinbun ?“ , Society for Historical Studies of the Meiji Restoration, Meiji Restoration and Culture, Yoshikawa Kobunkan, Tokyo TSUCHIYA Reiko, Mar. 2005, “Psychological Warfare and Propaganda Leaflets Against Japan in the Battle of Okinawa", Jinbun Kenkyu: Studies in the Humanities, Bulletin of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, Vol.56, Osaka TSUCHIYA Reiko, Jan. 2005, “An Introduction to the Study of Propaganda Leaflets Against Japan by the Allied Powers during World War Two", Intelligence, No.5, the Institute of 20th Century Media, Kinokuniya, Tokyo TSUCHIYA Reiko, Mar. 2002, “Baseball Events and Sports Newspapers after World War Two", TSUGANEZAWA Toshihiro ed., Media Events of Post-War Japan from 1945-1960, Sekaishisousha, Kyoto
Academic Presentations	TSUCHIYA Reiko, Jul. 2005, “Research on Propaganda Leaflets Against Japanese during World War Two", at Workshop of Media and War Study, Tokyo University TSUCHIYA Reiko, Mar.2005, “MURASHIMA Yoriyuki and Osaka Journalism", 20th Media Institute, at Waseda University TSUCHIYA Reiko, Sep. 2004, “Organization of Women Readers and Newspapers in Osaka", COE Symposium ‘Urban Culture of Modern Osaka’ at Osaka City University TSUCHIYA Reiko, Aug. 2004, “Propaganda Leaflets Against Japanese during World War Two", at the Seminar of the Asia Pacific Institute, Australia National University TSUCHIYA Reiko, Nov. 2003, “Propaganda Leaflets Against Japan by the United Nations during World War Two", Media History Section, Society of Japan Mass Communication Study, at Kansai University
Miscellaneous	TSUGANESAWA Toshihiro and TSUCHIYA Reiko ed., Oct. 2004, Critique of Popular Culture and Social Problems in Taisho and Showa ? Selected Collections of Writings by MURASHIMA Yoriyuki, Kashiwa Shobo, Tokyo TSUCHIYA Reiko, Jun. 2003, “Asahi and Mainichi, Born and Grown Up in Osaka - Newspaper Companies beyond Newpapers", CEL vol.65, Osaka TSUCHIYA Reiko, Oct. 2000, CD-ROM: Japan Collection of Nishikie-Shinbun, Bunsei Shoin, Tokyo (This CO-ROM publishing won the second Digital Archive Award from the Digital Frontier Kyoto Committee)

Name	KOBAYASHI Naoki

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Japanese Literature
Contents of Research	Study of Medieval Japanese Literature Study of Medieval Japanese Tale Literature (setsuwa)
Main Academic Works
Books	Study of Medieval Japanese Tale Literature and its Context, 2004 by Izumi Shoin

Name	KANAMITSU Keiko

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Japanese Literature
Contents of Research	Narratives of Heian and Kamakura Era I study the variety of narratives made around the Court of Kyoto after the Tale of Genji.
Main Academic Works
Articles	Political Character of "Fuyo Waka-shu", Kokugo Kokubun, Vol.67-9/10, 1998 The Empress of "Wagami-ni-tadoru-himegimi", Kokugo Kokubun, Vol.68-8, 1999 The History Written in "Wagami-ni-tadoru-himegimi", Kokugo Kokubun, Vol.69-9/10, 2000
Academic Presentations	The Ideal Government Depicted in "Wagami-ni-tadoru-himegimi", Kokugo Kokubun, Vol.70-4, 2001 A Characteristic of "Wagami-ni-tadoru-himegimi" as Compared with the Former, Works, Studies in the Humanities, Vol.54-4, 2003

Name	SUGII Masashi

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	Shakespearean Comedies
Contents of Research	The relation between Shakespearean comedies and religion Currently I am studying the influences of Elizabethan and Jacobean religious politics that are implied in the metaphors in Shakespearean comedies, thus considering the part played by Elizabethan and Jacobean theatres.
Main Academic Works
Books	Metaphoric Messages in Shakespearean Early Comedies(Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 2000) The Techniques and Meanings in Shakespearean Comedies(Osaka: Osaka Kyoiku Tosho, 2004)
Articles	“The Comedy of Errors: Errors and the Redemption" Studies in the Humanities vol.50, No.3 “Considering Birth: On Monstrosity in A Midsummer Night's Dream"Studies in the Humanities vol.53, No.5
Academic Presentations	“Shakespeare and London"Osaka City University COE International Symposium on The City and Fiction (Sep. 30. 2003) at the Media Center in Osaka City University. “Love's Labour's Lost and the life energy―wit and labour"The 42nd annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of Japan. (Oct. 11. 2005) at Kanazawa University.
Miscellaneous	“The Culture of Play: Kabuki and the Production of Texts"(Japanese interpretation) City and Cross-Cultural Exchange Between Osaka and the World (Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Series 2) (Mar. 2004 )

Name	MIZUUCHI Toshio

Project	China Project, Archives Project
Specialty	Urban Socio-political Geography
Contents of Research	Contemporary urban issues, especially on the urban poor. Historical analysis of urban development and planning; critical studies on the development of public works in Japan, Historical critical inquiries about geopolitics and geographical thought in Japan, Advisory activity to urban rejuvenation projects, Development of Assisting Program for Self-Independent of the Ex-Rough Sleepers, Comparative survey of urban housing poor, homeless people (rough sleepers) and its counter-measures in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai.
Main Academic Works
Books	Geographical Viewpoints in the Middle Eastern Cities IV, Migration and Ankara Part 2 (co-editor, Ryugasaki, Japan: Ryutsu Keizai University, 1999, 135p.) Nation, Region, and the Politics of Geography in East Asia (editor, Osaka, Japan: Osaka City University, 1999, 88p.) Representing Local Places and Raising Voices from Below (editor, Osaka, Japan: Osaka City University, 2003, 142p.) Critical and Radical Geographies of the Social, the Spatial and the Political (editor, Osaka, Japan: Osaka City University, 2006, ***p.)
Articles	Patterns in Public Service Provisions and Urban Development in Prewar Japan before 1945, Geographical Review of Japan, Series B 64-1 (1991), 293-312, Development Policies and Spatial Integration in Japan from 1868 to 1941. In T. Mizuuchi ed., Nation, Region, and the Politics of Geography in East Asia, Osaka City University, 30-42, 1999. Chap.VI, Aspects of Urban Problems in Ankara with Relation to Residential Structure, Chap VII, Preference of Residential Districts and the Urban Spatial Structure in Ankara. In Akinobu Terasaka and Toshio Mizuuchi eds., Geographical Viewpoints in the Middle Eastern Cities IV, Immigration and Ankara, Ryutsu Keizai University, 88-98, 99-108, 1999, The Historical Transformation of Poverty, Discrimination, and Urban Policy in the Japanese City: The Case of Osaka In T. Mizuuchi ed., Representing Local Places and Raising Voices from Below, Osaka City University, 12-30, 2003. Growth of Rough Sleepers in Osaka and the Recent Evolution of Actions of Government, NPO and Volunteer Organizations In Shin Nakagawa & Bussakorn Sumrongthong eds., What?fs Happening on the Street?, UCRC Bangkok Office, Bangkok, pp.32-60, 2003. The Critical Heritage of Japanese Geography: its tortured trajectory for eight decades, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 23(2005), pp.453-473. Postwar Transformation of Space and Urban Politics in the Inner-ring of Osaka In T. Mizuuchi ed., Critical and Radical Geographies of the Social, the Spatial and the Political, Osaka City University, **-**, 2006.
Academic Presentations	Urban Planning and Urban Development in Prewar Japan, Japan-German Geographers Conference. Heidelberg University, German, August, 1992 International Tourism and Urban Development in Antalya, Turkey, International Geographical Union Conference, the Hague, Netherlands, August, 1996. Struggle for a Better Life: some evidences from the urban social movement and urban politics in Osaka city, European Conference of Japanese Studies, Budapest, Hungary, August, 1997. Private Struggles, Public Supports: Rehabilitating the Japanese Minority Ghetto, Buraku, Japan-German Geographers Conference, Hachioji, Japan, March, 1998. The Geographical Agenda of Urban and Regional Development: A Case of Japan from the Meiji Restoration to the Second World War, East Asian Regional Conference of Alternative Geography, Kyongju, Korea, January, 1999. Development Policies and Spatial Integration in Japan from 1868 to 1941, Workshop for the Frontier of Asian Geographers, Osaka City University, Japan, August, 1999. Visible Homeless and New Urban Governance of the Underprivileged: A Case of Osaka City, Conference for the Asia-Pacific Economy in1997 and into the 21th century, Hitotsubashi University, Japan, December, 1999. Changing Urban Governance for Socially Discriminated People: A Case of Osaka City, Japan, Conference for International Critical Geographers, Taegu University, August, 2000. Geographers of Geopolitical Commitments for Field Survey and Regional Geography in War-time, International Symposium: Asian Modernization in Maps and Geographical Knowledge, International Japanese Culture Research Center, Kyoto, Japan, March, 2001. Why are Japanese Geographers so Uncritical?: Recent trends of Critical Human Geography in Japan, The Second East Asian Regional Conference of Alternative Geography, Hong Kong, China, December, 2001 Developing an Activity Uniting Homeless Support and Grass-rooted Community Organizations. The Third International Conference for Critical Geographers, Bekescsaba, Hungary, June, 2002. The Growth in the Number of People Sleeping Rough in the City of Osaka, Japan, The First International Forum between Chulalongkorn Univ. and Osaka City Univ. under the COE project of Osaka City University. Forum on What's Happening on the Street?, Bangkok, Thailand, April 2003. A New Stage in the Policies and NGO Activities for Rough Sleepers in Osaka, The Third East Asian Regional Conference of Alternative Geography, Tokyo, Japan, August, 2003 Present Conditions of Airin Districts and Actual Supportive Actions,The Third East Asian Regional Conference of Alternative Geography, Osaka, Japan, August, 2003 Evolution of Urban Redevelopment and Slum Clearance in the Japanese Metropolis, Round Table on the Joint Project for the Survey with the Institute of Social Sciences, UCRC Shanghai Office, East China Normal University, China, Oct.2003. Transformation of recent homelessness issues and policies for them in capitalist metropolises of the East Asia, International Conference on Urban Changes in the 21st Century, East China Normal Univ. Shanghai, June 2004. The Reality of Policy and Social Movement for Housing Poor and Homeless People in the East Asian Metropolises; The Case of Hong Kong, Seoul, Osaka and Taipei The 9th Japanese-German Geographical Conference; Shaping the Future of Metropolitan Regions in Japan and Germany:; Governance, Institutions and Place in New Context, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, August 2004. Post-war Japanese Urban Policy for the Socially Excluded and Concealed, Joint Workshop on Urbanity, Urban Change and Governance in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Osaka?COsaka City University, August, 2005 Action and Policy for Urban Housing Poor and Homeless People in the East Asian Metropolises, APNHR Conference 2005, Housing and Globalization, Kobe University, Japan, September, 2005 Society and Space of the Minority in Post-war Osaka, Symposium: Transnational Urban History: The Local-Global Nexus?h, Los Angeles-Osaka Comparative Urban Studies Project, University of Southern California, USA, October, 2005

Name	KIHARA Toshiyuki

Project	China
Specialty	Educational Methodology, Educational Technology
Contents of Research	Researches on Teacher Development for Curriculum Development Case Studies on Coordination Strategies for Curriculum Development, Development of Teacher Training Programs for Curriculum Coordination
Main Academic Works
Books	Toshiyuki Mizukoshi & Toshiyuki Kihara(1999)Renewal of Integrated Curriculum, Meijitosho, Tokyo Soji Katagami & Toshiyuki Kihara (Eds.)(2001)Improvement of Teaching for Integrated Curriculum, Minervashobou, Kyoto Toshiyuki Kihara(2004)Teacher Development Based on Classroom and Action Researches, Nihonbunkyoshuppan, Osaka
Articles	Toshiyuki Kihara(2000)Descriptive Study of Instructional Evaluation of Information Technology Education. Jinbun Kenkyu, Vol.52, No.7, 95-105 Toshiyuki Kihara(2001)Development of Teachers’ Capability to Teach Through Collaborative Decision-making in Curriculum Development. Jinbun Kenkyu, Vol.53, No.3, 105-114 Toshiyuki Kihara, Tatsuya Horita, Yuhei Yamauchi, Wakio Oyanagi & Kikuko Miyake(2002)Study on Useful Teaching Strategies for Experienced Teachers in the Practice of IT Education: Case Study of an Elementary School Teacher, Japanese Journal of Educational Technology, Vol. 26, 155-168 Toshiyuki Kihara(2003)Consideration of the Teacher Training System in Japanese Broadcasting Education. Japanese Journal of Educational Media Research, Vol.9, No.2, 18-24
Academic Presentations	Toshiyuki Kihara et al.(2003a)Teachers’ Strategies to Develop Their Practices in Media Literacy Education: Comparative Study of Two Teachers’ Life Stories. The 10th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Educational Media Study, Edogawa University Toshiyuki Kihara(2003b)Descriptive Study of the Dilemma of Curriculum Coordinators: Case Study of a Special Teacher for a "Period for Integrated Studies" in an Elementary School. The 19th Annual Conference of JET, Iwate Prefectural University Toshiyuki Kihara(2004a)Models of Coordination Strategy Applied to Curriculum Development. The 20th Annual Conference of JET, Tokyo Institute of Technology Toshiyuki Kihara et al.(2004b)Comparative Study between Japan and Taiwan of Life Stories of Teachers in Media Literacy Education. The 11th Annual Conference of the Japan Association for Educational Media Study, Kansai University

Name	SOEDA Haruo

Project	China
Specialty	Comparative Education
Contents of Research	comparative study of educational cultures and support systems in relation to curriculum development comparative study of educational culture on which curriculum development is based, and comparative study of systems and roles of parents, community members, and NPO's in support of teachers for the development of curricula in urban schools
Main Academic Works
Books	Chyengxian Du, Haruo Soeda ed., Practices and Challenges of Curriculum Development at Elementary and Junior High Schools in Urban Cities: A Comparison between China and Japan, March 2005, East China Normal University Press (in Chinese). Chyengxian Du, Haruo Soeda ed., Practices and Challenges of Curriculum Development at Elementary and Junior High Schools in Urban Cities: A Comparison between China and Japan, March 2005, UCRC, Osaka City University (in Japanese).
Articles	"A Comparative Examination of 'Inquiry Learning' in China and 'Periods for Integrated Learning' in Japan," in Chyengxian Du, Haruo Soeda ed., Practices and Challenges of Curriculum Development at Elementary and Junior High Schools in Urban Cities: Comparison between China and Japan, March 2005, East China Normal University Press. "A School-Based Curriculum Development Supported by Business People, Parents and NPO Volunteers," in Chyengxian Du, Haruo Soeda ed., Practices and Challenges of Curriculum Development at Elementary and Junior High Schools in Urban Cities: Comparison between China and Japan, March 2005, East China Normal University Press. "School-Culture Development as Practical Strategies for Distinctive Unique Education: Cases of Charter Schools in Georgia, U.S.A.," in Kengo Mochida ed., International Comparative Studies on Educational Policy for Distinctive Unique Secondary Schools (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)(1)2001-2003), Kyushu University, March 2004 "The Common and the Uncommon in the Faculty Development Culture of Teachers," in Hirotoshi Yano ed., Comparative Cultural Study on the Common and the Uncommon in Japanese Education (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(A)(1)2001-2002), Osaka City University, March 2003
Academic Presentations	"A School-Based Curriculum Development Supported by Business People, Parents and NPO Volunteers," at International Symposium on School-Based Curriculum Development in Urban Schools, at East China Normal University, October 13, 2004

Name	NAKAO Katsumi

Project	China
Specialty	Social Anthropology
Contents of Research	Urban problem in Shanghai, City-social relations in China Social Structure and Social History in East Asia
Main Academic Works
Books	Katsumi Nakao, Political Structure and Social Change in Rural China, Tokyo: Asia Policy and Economy Association, 1990 Katsumi Nakao, Introduction to Cantonese Conversation, Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau Publish,1992 Katsumi Nakao, ed. Perspectives on Colonial Anthropology, Tokyo: Fukyosya,2000
Articles	Katsumi Nakao, " Familly Politics in Japanese Colonies" , in Masako Takana ed. Nation, State and Family Individuals, Waseda Univesity Press, Nov. 2005 Katsumi Nakao, "GHQ and Anthropology, Folklore", in Kanagawa University Jomin Bunke Institute ed. History and Folklore, Vol. 21, May 2005 Katsumi Nakao, "Anthropology and Colonial Studies" in Shiso Vol.957, Iwanami Bookshop, Jan 2004 Katsumi Nakao, "Anthropology and Colony in Japan" East Asian Anthropology and Japanese Colonialism (3rd forum), Seoul University, Nov 2004 Katsumi Nakao, "Mabuchi T?ichi in Maccasar", Akitoshi Shimizu and Jan van Bremen eds., Wartime Japanese Anthropology in Asia and the Pacific, Senri Ethnological Studies, no. 65, Osaka, National Museum of Ethnology, pp239-272.Feb 2003
Academic Presentations	Katsumi Nakao, "Anthropologists in GHQ", Colonial Studies and Social Sciences in East Asia : East Asian Anthropology and Colonialism, 19 Dec 2005 Katsumi Nakao, "Intelligent Organization of Internationals and Intellectuals at Shanghai in the 1930s", International Symposium of COE program in East China Normal University, 29 Oct 2005 Katsumi Nakao, "Anthropology and Colonies in Japan: The comparative view from Europe", East Asian Anthropology and Japanese Colonialism(3rd forum)13 Nov 2004

Name	NAKAMURA Keiji

Project	China
Specialty	Chinese Ancient History
Contents of Research	Chinese ancient city history Mutual relationships among regions by external and geographical characteristics in cities in 3 to 7 century (mainly capital cities); analysis of the city development as a sign of the times
Main Academic Works
Articles	Nakamura, K. (2004, March). Historical analysis of castle cities in Nanbeichao. China-Japan ancient castle city research. Beijing, China:. Nakamura, K. (2005, March). Depiction of capital cities. The methods and the historical sources of Chinese city research. Osaka, Japan: Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, Japan. Nakamura, K. (2005, March). Tradition and innovation in health issues. Report of Oriental history at Osaka City University, additional volume. Osaka, Japan: Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, Academic presentation

Name	HIRATA Shigeki

Project	China
Specialty	Pre-modern Chinese history
Contents of Research	Political history in Song dynasty I examine the process of politics in Song China with focus on the analyze of “Who gets what, when, how"
Main Academic Works
Books	“Standards and customs in the Song"edited by several scholars and me. Kyuko Shoin,1995 “Networks in the Song Society" edited by several scholars and me. Kyuko Shoin, 1998 “Examinations and Bureaucracy"Yamakawa shuppan,1997
Articles	A consideration of one private diary“Wang An-shi ri-lu": Employing “Si-ming Zun-yao ji" Ocu Asian History 12, pp.13-28, March 2002 Urban studies in Song China: with focus on the analyze of political space Studies in the Ancient Cities, China and Japan Chinese Academy of social studies press. March 2004 The network of Liu Zhi Dang : with focus on Epitaphs of Zhong Su Ji written by Liu Zhi Soochow Jornal of History June 2004 Japanese political studies in Song China The Retrospective studies of Institutional history in Song China(1900-2000) The Commercial press, July 2004 A study on the political structure in early southern song, employing two diaries ("Silingle" and "Fengzhaolu") written by Zhou Bida, Studies in the Humanities 55-2, pp.1-26, March. 2004
Academic Presentations	A consideration of one private diary“Wang An-shi ri-lu"，The tenth International Conference of Song History, Lanzhou, China, August 2002 The political structure in Song China, employing with political diaries, The Conference of Kyushu society of Historical Research, December 2002 The Network of Liu-zhi Dang With a focus on Epitaphs of Zhong-su ji, The Conference of the Textual Analysis of Sung Mu-Chih and its Application as Historical Evidence. Soochow University, Taiwan, Oct. 2003 The Study of Ｓｏｎｇ Cities from the Perspective of Political Materials, International Meeting on "Historical Materials and Methods for Chinese Urban Studies", COE Project, Osaka City Univ., Mar. 2004 The political sphere in the Southern Song－“temporary capital of Hang-zhou" :　An analysis of diaries written by Zhou Bida, The 18th Conference of the International Association of the Historians of Asia, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, December 2004 The political structure in Song China, employing with political diaries, The conference of Space in Daily-life of Traditional China, Tokyo University, January 2005
Miscellaneous	The political structure in Song China, employing with political diaries and administrative affairs, Research Project, Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (c) (2000-2002)

Name	YAMAGUCHI Hisakazu

Project	China
Specialty	Chinese Intellectual History
Contents of Research	Ethos and ideology of urban intellectuals in the mid Qing era. It is no exaggeration to say that Chinese modern history has been lead by literati, namely urban intellectuals. But as Confucian scholars they have an ambivalence to modernization. The complexity and difficulty of Chinese modernization has been attributable to their unique ethos and acts above all. From this perspective, the research examines the thoughts and acts of several eminent urban intellectuals in the mid Qing era
Main Academic Works
Books	Hisakazu Yamaguchi co-edited with Gao Ruiquan, 2004. China's Modernity and Urban Intellectuals, Shanghai, Shanghai Guji Publishing. Hisakazu Yamaguchi co-edited with Gao Ruiquan, 2005.; Urban Intellectuals' Dual World: A Historical Vision of China's Modernity, Shanghai, Shanghai Guji Publishing.
Articles	Hisakazu Yamaguchi, 2000, "An Anatomy of Sinology No.4", JINBUN KENKYU Vol.52, Osaka City University. Hisakazu Yamaguchi, 2004, "A Quest for the Germ of Modern Scholarship in Late Imperial China", JOURNAL OF EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY、2004-1 Hisakazu Yamaguchi, 2004, "An Anatomy of Sinology No.5", JINBUN KENKYU Vol.55, Osaka City University. Hisakazu Yamaguchi, 2005, "Physicalization of Text: Rough Sketch of Chinese Reading Acts " Body, Nature and Belief in Chinese Intellectual History, Tokyo:Touhou Shoten. Hisakazu Yamaguchi, 2005, "Omens and Setbacks of Modern Times: An Intellectual's Thoughts and Actions during the Middle Qing Dynasty" Urban Intellectuals' Dual World: A Historical Vision of China's Modernity, Shanghai, Shanghai Guji Publishing.
Academic Presentations	Hisakazu Yamaguchi, 2003, "Transfiguration of Chinese Intellectuals in the Middle Qing Dynasty", Annual Symposium of Chinese Modernization, East China Normal University. Hisakazu Yamaguchi, 2004, "Omens and Setbacks of Modern Times: An Intellectual's Thoughts and Actions during the Middle Qing Dynasty", Annual Symposium of Chinese Modernization, Osaka City University. Hisakazu Yamaguchi, 2005, "Historicism of Zhang Xuecheng―beyond positivism", Session on Methodology of Sinology, East China Normal University. Hisakazu Yamaguchi, 2005, "Discourses about the City and the Urbanity of Chinese Pre-modern Intellectuals", Annual Symposium of Chinese Modernization, East China Normal University.

Name

山野正彦

Project	Southeast Asia
Specialty	文化地理学
Contents of Research	タイ仏教寺院壁画と宇宙論
研究内容	タイの仏教寺院の建築と壁画についての実地調査を行い, Databaseを作成する。壁画の内容と宇宙論との関係について考察する。仏教寺院建築や壁画の文化資源としての意義 価値について考え, ツーリズムへの援用を目指す。
Main Academic Works
Books	ドイツ景観論の生成―フンボルトを中心に― 単著 1998年2月 古今書院，全300頁 (編著)Southeast Asiaにおける文化表象の諸相 143p 2004
Articles	アジア都市文化学の可能性　単著　2003年3月　Osaka市立大学アジア都市文化学教室編　 『アジア都市文化学の可能性』　清文堂，pp.3-15 景観論の可能性についての覚書 ―「文化的転回」との関連で― 単著 2001年12月 人文研究， 第53巻第3分冊，pp.129-150 探検と地政学 ―大戦期における今西錦司と小牧実繁の志向― 単著 1999年12月 人文研究， 第51巻第9分冊，pp.1-32 Osaka平野東部の水田漁業文化景観 ―モンス－ンアジア稲作文化との関連において― 単著 1996年5月 Osaka市立大学地理学教室編， 『アジアとOsaka』， 古今書院，pp.297-319　 景観の相貌とゲシュタルト ―1920･30年代ドイツ地理学における景観概念の展開― 単著 1990年4月 人文地理， 第42巻第2号，pp.50-71
Academic Presentations	景観論の現在 ―「文化的転回」との関連で― 単独 2001年11月 人文地理学会大会， 神戸大学 タイの仏教寺院壁画に見るトライプーム宇宙観― 単独 2004年11月　人文地理学会，仏教大学 The Traiphum Cosmology in Thai Mural Paintings and Cultural tourisum, UCRC 3rd International Academic Forum Bangkok, December. 2004, Chulalonkorn University

Name	NAKAGAWA Shin

Project	Southeast Asia Project
Specialty	Musicology (ethnic music in Southeast Asia, soundscape), essays on contemporary art
Contents of Research	soundscape in Southeast Asia, development of Gamelan music today, music aesthetics the documentation of soundscape, the construction of sound archive
Main Academic Works
Books	Nakagawa, S. (2003). Heiankyo-Sonant universe (2nd ed.). Tokyo, Japan: Heibonsha Press. Nakagawa, S. (2000). Introduction to ethnic musicology. Jakarta, Indonesia: Obor. Nakagawa, S. (2000). Sound of cosmos. Berlin, German: Merve Verlag.
Articles	Nakagawa, S. (2002). Study on Javanese dance 1: Relationship between music and dance in Golek ayun-ayun. In Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University, Japan (Ed.), Humanity research, 53, 25-46. Nakagawa, S. (2002). Masalah Pendidikan Musik di Perguruan Tinggi. In Masyarakat Etnomusikologi Indonesia (Ed.), Jurnal Etnomusikologi Indonesia-Selonding, 1(2):50-56. Nakagawa, S. (2003). Soundscape theory. In K. Negishi & S. Miura (Ed.), For those who learn music, 250-263. Nakagawa, S. (2003). Arts and cultural policy; a case study of Osaka City. Urban Culture Research, 1, 39-50. Nakagawa, S. (2003). Music performance on the streets of Osaka City. What's Happening on the Street?, 82-91.
Academic Presentations	Nakagawa, S. (2002, November). Musik and Body: Investigating Acoustic Universe [International congress of the Musicological Society of Japan]. Shizuoka, Japan: Granship Shizuoka Convention Arts Center. Nakagawa, S. (2003, March). Arts and cultural policy; a case study of Osaka City [International Academic Forum]. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Gadjah Mada University. Nakagawa, S. (2003, April). Divergent Research Activities in the Field of Soundscape. [International Academic Forum]. Bangkok, Thailand: Gadjah Mada University. Nakagawa, S. (2004, April). What is change of soundscape? [Symposium of Japanese Association for Sound Ecology-Divergent research activities in the field of soundscape]. Kyoto, Japan: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University. Nakagawa, S. (2004, November). Tourism and Education [The third academic forum in Yogyakarta]. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: UCRC Yogyakarta Subcenter Yogyakarta, Gadjah Mada University.
Academic Presentations	Nakagawa, S. (2003). Sawa Sawa. Tokyo, Japan: Kyuryudo art publishing. Nakagawa, S. (Director). (2005, April). Come on, Tomas ! [Able art-on stage]. Kobe, Japan: Chikko port. Nakagawa, S. (2003). Gamelan today Vol. 1 [CD]. (THCD-1077).

Name	HASHIZUME Shinya

Project	Southeast Asia Project
Specialty	City Planning,Tourism Studies
Contents of Research	Modern History of Japanese Cities Cultural studies on the commercialization and urbanization of modern Japanese cities; especially Tokyo and Osaka. The research examines how the life style in relation to time was changed in the process; and what kind of impact urban- tourism has made.
Main Academic Works
Books	Shinya Hashizume,1990,"Kurabu to Nihon-jin" ("What is a Club to Japanese; A Cultural History of Spaces for Meeting People"), Kyoto;Gakugei-syuppansya. Shinya Hashizume,1992,"Kaiyu-toshi" ("A Modern History of Beach Resorts in Japan"), Kyoto;Hkujisya. Shinya Hashizumem,1996,"Osaka Modern" ("A History of an Amusement Square in Osaka"), Tokyo :NTT-syuppan. Shinya Hashizume,1998,"Shukusai no Teikoku" ("Decoration and Illumination of the Empire at Festivals"), Tokyo :Kodansya. Shinya Hashizume,2000,"Nippon no Yuenchi"　("A History of Amusement Parks in Japan"), Tokyo :Kodansya. Shinya Hashizume,2001,"Jinsei ha Hakuran-kai; Nihon Rankai-ya Retsuden" ("The Lives of Japanese Producers or Coordinators of Expositions"), Tokyo :Syobundo. Shinya Hashizume,2003,"Hikouki to Souzouryoku:Tubasa heno Passion" ("Airplanes and Imagination: Passions for Wings"), Tokyo :Seidosya. Edited by Shinya Hashizume,2005,"Nipponn Denkashi" ("Electricify Japan"), Tokyo :Nihon Denki-Kyoukai Shinbun-bu.

Name	ISHITA Saeko

Project	Archives Project
Specialty	Contemporary Cultural Studies, Television Studies, Sociology of Knowledge
Contents of Research	Comparative sociology of visual communication Social construction of Realities via Visual media, Methodological inquiry and Contents Analysis of Television Culture in the age of globalization.
Main Academic Works
Books	Saeko Ishita, 1998, Yomeisei to iu Bunka Souchi (Celebrity as Cultural Apparatus), Tokyo: Keiso Sobo. Saeko Ishita co-edited with H. Ogawa, 2003, Quiz Bunka no Syakaigaku (Sociology in Quiz Culture), Sekai Shiso Sya. Trans by Saeko Ishita, 2002, Yomeijin to Kenryoku (translation of P. D. Marshall's Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture, University of Minnesota Press, 1997 into Japanese), Tokyo: Keiso syobo.
Articles	Saeko Ishita, 2000, 'Media bunka kenkyu ni okeru gender (Gender in media cultural studies)' in Yoshimi (ed) Media Sutadizu (Media Studies): Tokyo: Serika syobo, 113-127. Saeko Ishita, 2000, 'Television Genre and Audience: Quiz Shows in Japanese Television' in Studies in the Humanities vol.52, Osaka City University, Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences. Saeko Ishita, 2002, 'Media and Cultural Studies in Japanese Sociology' in International Journal of Japanese Sociology, vol.11, Special Issue on Media and Culture. Saeko Ishita, 2003, '"Sacred"" Families in Japanese Tabloid Television' in Urban Culture: Traditional and Contemporary, University of Gadjah Mada & Osaka City University, Urban Culture research Center. Saeko Ishita, 2003, ''Two Aspects of Globalization of the TV Culture: The Quiz Show genre study' in Shiso [Thought], vol. 956, DEC 2003.
Academic Presentations	Saeko Ishita, 2002, 'The Production of the "National" Celebrity: Wide-show in Japanese television' Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, Queensland University of Technology. Saeko Ishita, 2003, 'Image of Women in Asian Films: from a Cultural Studies Perspective' Asian Film Forum 2003, University of the Philippines. Saeko Ishita, 2003, 'Social Construction of Realities and Television Studies' The Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, a symposium "50 years of Televion research. Saeko Ishita, 2004,'The Global Television Culture, or Not?' World congress International Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Saeko Ishita, 2004, 'Relocating Popular Images of Cultural Difference' Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, Seoul National University.
Miscellaneous	Book review: 'D. Strinati, Popular Bunka Ron wo manabu hito no tameni (An introduction to theories of popular culture)', in Tosyo Shinbun, 2004.1.1 Book review: 'M. Ito(ed), Bunka no Jissen, Bunka no Kenkyu (Cultural practice, Cultural studies)' in Syukan Dokusyojin, 2004.7.30 Yogyakarta Video Project 2004 'Street Cultures in Yogyakarta' DVD with Japanese subtitle, UCRC, Osaka City University.

Name	INOUE Koichi

Project	Archives
Specialty	Western History
Contents of Research	Constantinople; Byzantine Empire History and Society of the Byzantine Empire: Emperors, Aristocrats, Citizens and Peasants
Main Academic Works
Books	The Byzantine Empire, Tokyo, Iwanami-syoten, 1982 Eight Biographies of the Byzantine Empresses, Tokyo, Chikuma-syobo, 1996 Byzantium and the Slavs (World History 11), Tokyo, Chuokoron-shinsha, 1998
Articles	"A Provincial Aristocratic Oikos in Eleventh-Century Byzantium," Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 30-4. 1990, pp.545-569 "The Rebellion of Isaakios Komnenos and Provincial Aristocratic Oikoi," Byzantinoslavica, 54-2, 1993, pp.268-278. "Notary System in 10th and 11th Century Constantinople," Kazuya Maekawa (ed.), Status and Professions, Kyoto, Minerva-shobo, 1997, pp.218-241. "Constantinople," Iwanami World History, vol. 7, Tokyo, Iwanami-shoten, 1998, pp.109-130. "Chapter 4: the Byzantine Era," Mariko Sakurai (ed.), A History of Greece, Tokyo, Yamakawa-syuppansha, 2005, pp.143-214.
Academic Presentations	"The Rebellion of Isaakios Komnenos and Provincial Aristocratic Oikoi," the 59th Annual Meeting of the Western History Society, Kyoto University, 1991. "The Silk Road in the Eastern Mediterranean," International Symposium: The Silk Road beyond the Euphrates, Nara Prefectoral Hall, 1996. "The Transformation of the Byzantine Empire in the Eleventh Century," the 69th Annual Meeting of the Western History Society, Kyoto University, 2001. "Anna Komnene: A Woman Historian of Byzantium," Public Lecture at the Society of Historical Research, Kyoto University, 2002. "From the Roman Emperors to the Byzantine Emperors," International Symposium22: Courtiers and Warriors, International Reseach Center for Japanese Studies, 2003.
Miscellaneous	Kadokawa Encyclopedia of World History, 78 Articles, Kadokawa-shoten, 2001. "Constantinople and the Comparative Urban History," Studies in Urban Cultures, vol. 1, pp.145-147. "Byzantine Historical Heritages in Istanbul," Historical Heritages and Creativity of Urban Culture I, Urban-Culture Research Center(ed.), Osaka City University, 2003, pp.23-43.

Name	INOUE Toru

Project	Archives Project, China Project
Specialty	Chinese History
Contents of Research	City-social relations in China Commercialization and urbanization developed quickly and a market network centering on a city spread around all over Chinese society after the 16th century. The research examines what kind of city culture was built in the process from the view of lineage, religion, and race.
Main Academic Works
Books	Tooru Inoue, 2000, The lineage and the greeting system in late imperial China: Analysis from the viewpoint of a zongfa 宗法 principle, Tokyo : Kenbun Syuppan. Edited by Tooru Inoue ,2004, A zupu族譜: family line and tradition(Asia yuugaku vol.67), Tokyo :Benseisya. Tooru Inoue co-edited with Tsukada Tkakashi, 2005., The social bond in the modern city in East Asia : Many status and many classes' form of existence, Osaka:Seibundou Press.
Articles	Tooru Inoue , 2000,"Tradition of lineage in China"　Reconstruction of a <blood relative> :The paternal family line and the same surname combination in East Asia, Tokyo :Huukyousya. Tooru Inoue ,2002, "A memo about the community in China in modern times" History science、Osaka Rekishi Kagaku Kyoogikai. Tooru Inoue ,2002, "Genealogies in late imperial China", Genealogies in History, Tokyo: Aoki Shoten. Tooru Inoue ,2004, "The destruction of illegal temples that Weixiao carried out." The mutual flow and social changes between a state, a district, and the public, Beijing : Shangwuyinshuguan press. Tooru Inoue ,2004, "The Zongfa system made by Huo Tao：The lineage associations in Confucian culture under the influence of commercialization and urbanization"Studies in Urban cultures vol.3,Osaka City University.
Academic Presentations	Tooru Inoue ,2003, "The Genealogies and real image of lineages in late imperial China", Overview of Oriental Studies Lecture Series; Spring Heisei Fifteen (2003), Toyo Bunko, Tooru Inoue ,2003,"Lineages in Guangzhou area in the late Ming dynasty: Study of Yan -junyan ',Mengshuizhai-Cundu ", International symposium of Chinese history, The Society for Chinese Historical Researches , Kyung Hee University. Tooru Inoue ,2003, "Confucianization of the Guangdong society and the rising of the Huo family", Annual symposium of the South China Research Institution, Sun Yat-sen University. Tooru Inoue , 2004 ,"The relations concerning Gentry and the real image of lineage in the Guangzhou Area in the Late Ming Dynasty, " , "Sociabilite" in the Early Modern Cities in East Asia, Osaka City University. Tooru Inoue , 2004 , "Lineage Associations in Guangzhou in the Late Ming dynasty: A real picture found in Mengshuizhai-cundu (1632) ", International Congress of Asian and North African Studies 37, RASS. Tooru Inoue , 2004 , " Relations between the formation of Zhujixiang's tradition and Huoshi", Lecture meeting for the department History of Nankai University,
Miscellaneous	Tooru Inoue ,2003,"Yizhuang""Zongzu"etc, Encyclopedia of Historiography no.10, Koubundou. Tooru Inoue ,2003, "The Genealogies and real image of lineages in late imperial China",The journal of the research department of the Toyo Bunko vol.85,no2. Tooru Inoue ,2003, "Introduction of research of Dr. Fan Jinmin : On the structure of urbanization of the late imperial China ", Studies in Urban Cultures vol.1,Osaka City University.

Name	SASAKI Masayuki

Project	Archives
Specialty	Research of Creative Cities
Contents of Research	cross-country comparison of creative cities and creative industry to research on the city politics for the realization of creative cites from the point of view of the international comparison
Main Academic Works
Books	Sasaki, M. (2001). Challenge for a creative city. Tokyo, Japan: Iwanami Shoten Publishing. Sasaki, M. (2001). Economics in a creative city. Tokyo, Japan: Keiso Shobo Press. Sasaki, M. (2001). Endogenous development in rural area and cities. Tokyo, Japan: Jichitai Kenkyusha.
Articles	Sasaki, M. (2003). Architectural design as creative industry. Architecture magazine, 118(1499): 32-33. Sasaki, M. (2003, January). Kanazawa: a creative and sustainable sity. Political Science, 10(2):. Sasaki, M. (2002, June). Application of cultural sources and a creative city. JOYO ARC, 34(392): 10-17. Sasaki, M. (2002, January). Redevelopment of urban area and space of cultural creation. Community development, 448,40-44. Sasaki, M. (2001). Tokyo and Kanazawa: Culture and economy of contemporary Japanese cities. In W. B. Kim (Ed.), The culture and economy of cities in pacific Asia (pp.111-140). Kyonggi-do, South Korea: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement.
Academic Presentations	Sasaki, M. (Moderator). (2002, December).An approach to the redevelopment of creative cities [International symposium]. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Foundation. Sasaki, M. (2002, March).Cultural politics in a new century-in globalization [International symposium]. Tokyo, Japan: Foundation, the International House of Japan Home, & Japan Association for Culturel Economics (joint hosting). Sasaki, M. (Guest presenter). (2001, October). Culture and Economy of Cities [international symposium]. Seoul, Korea: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement. Sasaki, M. (Guest presenter). (2001, October). The roles of the culture in sustainedly developing cities [International symposium]. Cheongju, Korea: United Nations University. Sasaki, M. (Moderator). (2002, December).An approach to the redevelopment of creative cities [International symposium]. Tokyo, Japan: Japan Foundation. Sasaki, M. (2002, March).Cultural politics in a new century-in globalization [International symposium]. Tokyo, Japan: Foundation, the International House of Japan Home, & Japan Association for Culturel Economics (joint hosting). Sasaki, M. (Guest presenter). (2001, October). Culture and Economy of Cities [international symposium]. Seoul, Korea: Korea Research Institute for Human Settlement. Sasaki, M. (Guest presenter). (2001, October). The roles of the culture in sustainedly developing cities [International symposium]. Cheongju, Korea: United Nations University.

Name	Ian Richards

Project	Archives Project
Contents of Research	Modern Literature, especially Post-colonial and New Zealand Literature
Main Academic Works
Books	To Bed at Noon: The Life and Art of Maurice Duggan, Auckland University Press, Auckland, 1997. A Reader's Guide to the Stories of Maurice Duggan, Lonely Arts Publishing, Palmerston North, 1998. A Voice for the Minotaur: Selected Poems by Maurice Duggan, The Holloway Press, Auckland, 2001. Dark Sneaks In: Essays on the Short Fiction of Janet Frame, Lonely Arts Publishing, Auckland, 2004.
Articles	"The Last Fifteen Minutes of the English Lesson: Some Games for Learning Reinforcement", Memoirs of Tottori Women's College, no.34, Dec. 1996:57-61. "Giacomo Joyce: Novel or Notebook?", Memoirs of Tottori Women's College, no.35, Jun. 1997: 9-17. "Transparency in Ian Cross's The God Boy as an Attack on the Church", Tottori University Journal of The Faculty of Education and Regional Sciences, vol. 1, no. 2: 37-42. "The Origins of 'Along Rideout Road that Summer'", The Journal of New Zealand Literature, no. 17 1999: 110-124. "'Dark Sneaks in': Janet Frame's 'Swans'", Jinbun Kenkyu: Studies in the Humanities, Bulletin of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Osaka City University, vol. 53, no. 5: 93-104. "The Facts of Life: Janet Frame's 'The Bath'", The Journal of New Zealand Literature, no 18/19 2000/1: 173-181. "Language, Knowledge, Power: Janet Frame's 'The Reservoir'"(1), Jinbun Kenkyu: Studies in the Humanities, Bulletin of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Osaka City University, vol. 54, no. 5: 41-53. "Language, Knowledge, Power: Janet Frame's 'The Reservoir'"(2), Jinbun Kenkyu: Studies in the Humanities, Bulletin of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Osaka City University, vol. 55, no. 5: 33-44. "The City and the Growth of New Zealand Fiction Janet Frame's 'Miss Gibson and the Lumber Room'", Toshi to Fikushyon Bungakukenkyuuka COE Kokusai Symposium (ed. Shibata and Tabata) Osaka City University Bungakuin,Osaka, 55-82. "On Being a Provincial", Toshi to Fikushyon Genjitsu: Bungakukenkyuuka COE Kokusai Symposium (ed. Shibata and Tabata) Osaka City University Bungakuin, Osaka, 153-158.
Academic Presentations	“The Origins of Along Rideout Road that Summer" at Triennial Inter-Universities Conference at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 1994. “The Origins of Along Rideout Road that Summer" at Inauguration of English Department, Massey University Albany Campus, Auckland, New Zealand, 1996. “An Introduction to the Life and Work of Maurice Duggan" at the annual conference of The English Literary Society of Japan: The Regional Branch of the Chugoku and Shikoku District, 2000. “The City and the Growth of New Zealand Fiction: Janet Frame’s ‘Miss Gibson and the Lumber Room’" at Bungakukenkyuuka COE Kokusai Symposium, Osaka City University, 2003. “On Being a Provincial" at Bungakukenkyuuka COE Kokusai Symposium, Osaka City University, 2004.

Name	KISHIMOTO Naofumi

Project	China Project
Specialty	Japanese archaeology
Contents of Research	Research on the national formation process of Japan through the keyhole-shaped mound From form comparison of a keyhole-shaped mound, the relation between Japanese sovereignty and local power is pursued, and the political process in the period of ancient burial mounds is clarified.
Main Academic Works
Articles	Naofumi Kishimoto 1989, "The worker group of trihedron-edged-mirror-with-the-relief-of-a-sacred-animal-on-the-back manufacture", Sirin Vol.72 No.5, Society of Historical Research, Kyoto. Naofumi Kishimoto 1992, "The series of a keyhole-shaped mound construction standard", Quarterly of Archaeological Studies Vol.39 No.2, Society of Archaeological Studies, Okayama. Naofumi Kishimoto 1995, "The present condition of "Imperial mausoleum" ancient tomb research", Japanese history seen from the "Imperial mausoleum", Tokyo:Aoki-Syoten. Naofumi Kishimoto 2004, "The tumulus scale of a keyhole-shaped mound", Jinbun Kenkyu: Bulletin of the Graduate school of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University Vol.54 No.2, Osaka. Naofumi Kishimoto 2005, "The rise and fall of a ball Teyama ancient tomb group, and a political power shift", Research of a ball Teyama ancient tomb group Ⅴ Generalization Section, Kashiwara Board of Education, Osaka.
Academic Presentations	Naofumi Kishimoto 1992, "The series of a keyhole-shaped mound construction standard", The 38th General Meeting of the Society of Archaeological Studies, Okayama University. Naofumi Kishimoto 1994, "Chronology of a trihedron-edged mirror with the relief of a sacred animal on the back and an ancient tomb", The 36th Buried Cultural Property Research Meeting, Chikatu-Asuka Museum, Osaka pref. Naofumi Kishimoto 2001, "The subject of keyhole-shaped mound research," The 4th Convention of The Japanese Historical Society of Osaka City University, Osaka City University. Naofumi Kishimoto 2002, "The future of burying cultural property protection administration", Kansai Regular Meeting of Society of Archaeological Studies, Osaka Historical Museum. Naofumi Kishimoto 2005, "City formation in the period of ancient burial mounds", Osaka City University COE Project 'Historical Development of the City in Osaka and Japan', Osaka City University.
Miscellaneous	Naofumi Kishimoto 1992, "The series of a keyhole-shaped mound construction standard", The 38th General Meeting of the Society of Archaeological Studies, Okayama University. Naofumi Kishimoto 1994, "Chronology of a trihedron-edged mirror with the relief of a sacred animal on the back and an ancient tomb", The 36th Buried Cultural Property Research Meeting, Chikatu-Asuka Museum, Osaka pref. Naofumi Kishimoto 2001, "The subject of keyhole-shaped mound research," The 4th Convention of The Japanese Historical Society of Osaka City University, Osaka City University. Naofumi Kishimoto 2002, "The future of burying cultural property protection administration", Kansai Regular Meeting of Society of Archaeological Studies, Osaka Historical Museum. Naofumi Kishimoto 2005, "City formation in the period of ancient burial mounds", Osaka City University COE Project 'Historical Development of the City in Osaka and Japan', Osaka City University.

Name	YKAWA Ryozo

Project	Southeast Asia Project
Specialty	Developmental Psychology
Contents of Research	Cross-cultural study of cognitive development Experimental study of life-span development of cognition, with particular emphasis on representation and memory, from a cross-cultural perspective.
Main Academic Works
Articles	Yukawa, R. (2005). "Culture and development," in S. Kaneko & M. Yuki (Eds.), Social Psychology of Cultural Behavior (pp. 52-63). Kyoto: Kitaoji-shobo. Yukawa, R. (2003). "Effects of instructions on categorization choices in preschool children." Jinbun Kenkyu (Studies in the Humanities), 54(3), 111-127. Yukawa, R. (2002). "Infant concepts of categories," in M. Ochiai & M. Doi (Eds.), Developmental Psychology of Cognition (pp. 129-151). Tokyo: Baifukan. Yukawa, R. (2000). "Context-dependency of preschoolers' categorization." Jinbun Kenkyu (Studies in the Humanities), 52(6), 41-54. Yukawa, R. (1999). "Perceptual categories in infancy: A research note." Jinbun Kenkyu (Studies in the Humanities), 51(10), 51-65.
Academic Presentations	Yukawa, R. (2005) "Flexible switching of conceptual responses in preschool children." 2005 SRCD Biennial Meeting. Yukawa, R., & Kuroda, T. (2004) "Flexibility of concept utilization in preschool children." XLVIth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology. Yukawa, R. (2003) "Flexibility of preschoolers' categorization III." XLVth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology. Yukawa, R. (2002) "Flexible switching of categorical responses in preschool children." XLIVth Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Educational Psychology. Yukawa, R. (2002) "Flexibility in preschoolers' utilization of thematic and taxonomic knowledge." XVIIth Biennial Meetings of ISSBD.

Name	NAKANO Kotaro

Project	Osaka Project
Specialty	American History
Contents of Research	Nation-Making in Twentieth-Century America Analyzing the Americanization of Eastern European Immigrants in terms of American Nativism, Homeland Nationalism and Construction of Whiteness.
Main Academic Works
Articles	Kotaro NAKANO, 2000, "Bilingual Education for Immigrants in Public Schools in Early Twentieth Century Chicago," Americkashi-Kenkyu (Studies of American History), Vol.23 Kotaro NAKANO, 2001, "Preserving Distinctiveness: Language Loyalty and Americanization in Early-Twentieth-Century Chicago," The Report of the Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar 2000 Kotaro NAKANO, 2003, "Beginning of Civil Rights Reform: The Cold War and the Race Problem," in Eisaku Kihira ed., Empire and Citizens: American Democracy in Agony :Tokyo, Yamakawa Co. Kotaro NAKANO, 2005, "New Immigrants and Whiteness: 'Race' and 'Color' in the Early Twentieth Century," in Masaki Kawashima ed., Americanism and 'Race' : Nagoya, University of Nagoya Press Kotaro NAKANO, 2006, "Homeland Nationalism and American Patriotism: Chicago Polonia in the Great War," in Hayumi Higuchi and Ken Chujo ed., American Histories: Narrating the Routes to Nationhood: Tokyo, Sairyu-sha.
Academic Presentations	Kotaro NAKANO, "Americanization from Bottom-up viewed in Foreign Language Newspapers: Americanism of Immigrants, Bilingual Education and War." The 37th Annual Convention of the Society of American History in Kansai (Kyoto, November 1999). Kotaro NAKANO, "Preserving Distinctiveness: Language Loyalty and Americanization," Kyoto American Studies Summer Seminar, 2000 (Kyoto, 2000) section paper with David R. Roediger. Kotaro NAKANO, "Toward Popular Nationalism: The Last Chapter of Wiebe's History," Memorial Symposium: Position of Robert H. Wiebe's Historiographies, The 39th Annual Convention of the Society of American History in Kansai (Kyoto, November 2001). Kotaro NAKANO, "Immigrant's War: Nationalisms and Americanization, 1904-1918," The 11th Annual Convention of the Association of Contemporary History (Kyoto, July 2003) Kotaro NAKANO, "New Immigrants and Whiteness: 'Race' and 'Color' in the Early Twentieth Century," Symposium: Significance of 'Race' in American History, The 28th Summer Seminar for Scholars on American History (Nagoya, September 2003).
Miscellaneous	Kotaro NAKANO, 1999, Review Article on John T. McGreevy, Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in Early Twentieth-Century Urban North, American History Review, No. 17. Kotaro NAKANO, 2000, Review Article on Joseph A. McCartin, Labor's Great War: The Struggle for Industrial Democracy and the Origin of Modern American Labor Relations, 1912-1921, Journal of History, Vol. 83, No. 4. Kotaro NAKANO, 2003, Cultural Heritages in the Multicultural City: 'Asia' in Vancouver, Historical Heritages and Creation of City Culture, Vol. 1.

Name	OOIWAMOTO Koji

Project	Magazine Journalism Committee
Specialty	Chinese Linguistics
Contents of Research	Historical Phonology of Chinese History of the Chinese Dictionary
Main Academic Works
Articles	A Study on Wang Wenyu’s “Xin-kan Yun-lue" Rhyme Dictionary Published in the Jin Dynasty(“Bulletin of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Osaka City University" Vol.53, 2005) On the Dictionaries and Rhyme Books Contained in Qun-ji yu-pian.(Tyugoku Gakushi―Journal of Chinese Studies―Vol.20 ) On the Dictionaries and Rhyme Books Contained in Qun-ji yu-pian.(Tyugoku Gakushi―Journal of Chinese Studies―Vol.20 )
Miscellaneous	Tooru Inoue ,2003,"Yizhuang""Zongzu"etc, Encyclopedia of Historiography no.10, Koubundou. Tooru Inoue ,2003, "The Genealogies and real image of lineages in late imperial China",The journal of the research department of the Toyo Bunko vol.85,no2. Tooru Inoue ,2003, "Introduction of research of Dr. Fan Jinmin : On the structure of urbanization of the late imperial China ", Studies in Urban Cultures vol.1,Osaka City University.

Name	TAWADA Hiroshi

Project	Magazine Journalism Committee
Specialty	Cultural Anthropology
Contents of Research	Islam and civil society in contemporary Malaysia A study of the institutionalization of Islamic values in modern civil society based on anthropological fieldwork in Malaysia
Main Academic Works
Books	2005 Anthropological Study of Malay Islam, Kyoto: Nakanishiya Shuppan (in Japanese).
Articles	1998 "Reconsidering Malay Islam as a System of Meaning in Social Reality", Shamsul A. B. and T. Uesugi (eds.) Japanese Anthropologists and Malaysian Society: Contributions to Malaysian Ethnography, Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, pp.53-70. 2001 "Overview of the Islamic Administration in Malaysia", Minpaku-Tsushin, National Museum of Ethnology, no.94, pp.90-99 (in Japanese). 2001 "Islamic Authority in Malay Village Society -- An Anthropological Approach to Practical Islam", Jinbun-Kenkyu (Bulletin of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences), Osaka City University, vol.53, no.8, pp.61-74 (in Japanese). 2003 "Religious Co-existence in Contemporary Malaysia -- with Special Reference to her Legal and Institutional Aspects", Jinbun-Kenkyu (Bulletin of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences), Osaka City University, vol.54, no.8, pp.27-41 (in Japanese). 2004 "Coexistence of Religions in Contemporary Malaysia: Some Critical Issues from the Minority's Point of View", paper presented for the Second International Academic Forum in Yogyakarta on Coexistence in the Multicultural City, The University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Academic Presentations	2001 "Practical Islam in Malay Village Society", at the Seminar on Islam and Politics in Southeast Asia organized by the Islamic Area Studies Project, at Sophia University, Tokyo (in Japanese). 2003 "Institutionalization of Islam in Malaysia", in Islands Forum Symposium on Islam in Southeast Asia at the Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands, Kagoshima (in Japanese). 2004 "Coexistence of Religions in Contemporary Malaysia: Some Critical Issues from the Minority's Point of View", in The Second International Academic Forum on Coexistence in the Multicultural City at The University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. 2004 "Cultural Creation and the Conflicts of Cultures in the Multi-cultural City Kuala Lumpur", in COE Team-A Symposium on Historical Heritage and Urban-Cultural Creativity II: Asian Cities at Osaka City University, Osaka (in Japanese).

Name	KAWABE Kouichi

Project	Magazine Journalism Committee
Specialty	Physiological Psychology
Contents of Research	Brain mechanisms of learning and memory in rats. Roles of the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex in learning and memory, especially working memory, of rats.
Main Academic Works
Articles	Kawabe, K., Ichitani, Y. & Iwasaki, T. (1998) "Effects of intrahippocampal AP5 treatment on radial-arm maze performance in rats." Brain Research , 781, 300-306. Kawabe, K., Yoshihara, T., Ichitani, Y. & Iwasaki, T. (1998) "Intrahippocampal D-cycloserine improves MK-801-induced memory deficits: radial-arm performance in rats." Brain Research , 814, 226-230. Kawabe, K. (2001)　"Alterations in learning and memory following inhibition or enhancement of hippocampal long-term potentiation: a discussion about the plasticity-pathology continuum model proposed by McEarchen & Shaw (1996)," Jinbun Kenkyu (Bulletin of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka City University), 53 (3), 75-90. Kawabe, K. (2003) "Visual delayed matching-to-sample learning in rats," Jinbun Kenkyu (Bulletin of the Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences Osaka City University), 55 (3), 53-65.
Academic Presentations	Kawabe, K. (2002) "Effects of MK-801 on visual discrimination and positional delayed matching-to-sample responses in rats," The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Animal Psychology. Kawabe, K. (2003) "Visual delayed matching-to-sample learning in rats," The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Animal Psychology. Kawabe, K. (2004) "Effects of MK-801 on visual discrimination and positional delayed matching-to-sample responses in rats　(2): effects in Long-Evans rats," The 64th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Animal Psychology. Kawabe, K. (2005) "Effects of neonatal repeated MK-801 treatment on delayed non-matching-to-sample responses in rats," The 65th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Animal Psychology.

Name	KOUSAKA Shiro

Project	Editorial Committee for SLHS Books
Specialty	Japanese Philosophy and Modernization in East Asia
Main Academic Works
Books	Shiro Kohsaka(ed.): East Asia and Philosophy, Nakanisiya Kyoto 2003(in Japanese) Shiro Kohsaka: Modenity als Stumbler, Nakanisiya Kyoto 1997(in Japanese) Shiro Kohsaka and Johannes Laube (Hrsg.): Informationssystem und kulturelles Leben in den St?dten der Edo-Zeit Harrassowitz Verlag Wiesbaden　2000 (in German)
Articles	Shiro Kohsaka: Vom Konfuzianismus zur Philosophie, Syntesis Philosophica 37 Zagreb 175-191　2004 (in German) Shiro Kohsaka: Deus T'ien-chu Deusu Haneunim ― Zur Rezeption des Christentums in Ostasien ― Hannelore Eisenhofer-Halim (Hrsg.): Wandel zwischen den Welten, Festschrift fuer Johannes Laube, Peter Lang Europaeischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main 385－400　 2003.(in German) 'The Pitfalls of Modern Japan', Yuichi Shionoya and Kiichiro Yagi (ed): Competition, Trust, and Cooperation, Springer-Verlag Berlin 143-158 2001 (in English) 'Schematized Distinction between East and West,' Kinki University 1999 (in English) 'Reaktionen auf "Die postmoderne Kultur"und die Moderne Japans,' in Postmoderne Kultur und Wirtschaft Schulz-Kirchner Verlag 1993 (in German) 'Die Rezeption des deutschen Idealismus in Japan,' in Philosophie und Religion　S.91-101　Bernward Verlag　1992 (in German)
Academic Presentations	The Pitfalls of Modern Japan 1999 SEEP (Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy) (in English) Die Verwandlung des japanischen Wissenssystems durch die Rezeption der heliozentrischen Theorie, M?nchen 1995 Kunten und Katakana, M?nchen 1994 Die Rezeption des deutschen Idealismusin Japan, 1991 Internationale Tagung zum 150. Todestag Franz von Baaders M?nchen (in German)
Miscellaneous	Alltag in Japan -Sehensw?rdigkeiten der Edo-Zeit, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Ausstellungskataloge 66 Harrassowitz Verlag