Tomohiro Machikita (Labor Economics and Industrial Development)
Increasing numbers of stores are installing self-checkouts recently. The customer places the basket with the goods on one side of the self-checkout and hangs a shopping bag on the hooks on the other side. The barcode …
NEWSLETTER
Research division and affiliation: Environmental Coexistence, Research Associate
PhD, Materials and Informatics
Research areas: Computer Science, AI and Machine Learning, Digital Healthcare, Smart Agriculture, Environmental Monitoring
Mingalaba! (That’s “hello” in Burmese!) I am Ye Htet from Myanmar …
Hiroshi Ishii (Maritime Archaeology, Modern Conflict Archaeology)
Chuuk is a state of the present-day Federated States of Micronesia. As one of …
Nathan Badenoch (Linguistics)
Living in Japan, your surroundings talk to you—along the Kamo River, in the local Lawson, walking up to Yoshida Shrine, or on the 205 bus—through onomatope, or onomatopoeia. …
Associate Professor, Division of Social Coexistence Studies
PhD in Religion
I always wanted to become an orientalist, and to engage with a wide range of materials in different languages. …
Mario Lopez (Anthropology)
On February 22, 2025, Emeritus Professor Shimizu Hiromu passed away. An anthropologist and eminent expert on the Philippines, …
Natsumi Shida (JSPS Research Fellow, CSEAS / Graduate Student, ASAFAS Kyoto University)
My research, “‘Tradition’ and Living Culture of Uzbek Herders as seen through Carpet Weaving,” which was awarded the 15th JSPS Ikushi Prize, focuses on the living arts …
Minami Tosa (Librarian at CSEAS)
In our daily lives, it is now commonplace to use translation tools and generative AI to understand foreign languages, and it goes without saying that we enjoy the convenience of such tools in various situations. However, …
Majid Daneshgar (philology, orientalism, and Islamic studies)
There are still many documents and materials from Southeast Asia kept in private and public libraries …