List of KAKENHI-Funded Research Projects

Listed below are research projects funded under the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) program, administered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), from fiscal year 2018 onward.

All project links lead to the corresponding research project pages on the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) website.

2025

Philosophical Theology and the Quest for Metaphysics as Science in Kant

Ertl, Wolfgang

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2025-04-01 – 2030-03-31

A study of prose and poetry in literary Chinese from Japan, in the context of East Asian Sinitic literary traditions, with a focus on regional perspectives

Goyama, Rintaro

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2025-04-01 – 2030-03-31

2024

A History of the Co-construction of Humans and the Environment: An Interdisciplinary Study Integrating the Humanities and Sciences Through a Comparative Pan-Pacific Study (Humans and Environment Group)

Toru Yamaguchi

Research Category: Transformative Research Areas (A)

Project Period: 2024-04-01 – 2029-03-31

The Pluralistic Development of the Philosophy of Time in Bergson

Yasushi Hirai

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Project Period: 2024-04-01 – 2027-03-31

A Reexamination of the Concept of 'Critique' in Modern Japanese Literature and the Construction of a History of Women's Criticism

Maiko Kodaira

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2024-04-01 – 2027-03-31

A Fundamental Study of Type-Casting Technology in the Early Days of Western Letterpress Printing

Mari Agata

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2024-04-01 – 2028-03-31

Public Archaeological Research Open to Multiple Perspectives on War Remains

Hiromichi Ando

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2024-04-01 – 2028-03-31

Development of an Estimation Method for Medieval Agricultural Production and Distribution Volume

Keiichi Nakajima

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Pioneering)

Project Period: 2024-06-28 – 2030-03-31

A Study of the Textual Transmission and Reception of Hagiographies of Classical Female Saints in Medieval English Literature

Satoko Tokunaga

Research Category: Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research)

Project Period: 2024-09-09 – 2028-03-31

2023

Fundamental Research for the Development of an Empirical Medieval Macroeconomic Estimation Model

Keiichi Nakajima

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Project Period: 2024-04-01 – 2026-03-31

Ethical Requirements in the Social Distribution of Knowledge: Health and Medical Collection Management in Libraries

Nozomi Ikeya

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2023-04-01 – 2028-03-31

A Study of Goethe's Morphological Theory of Life

Mario Kumekawa

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2023-04-01 – 2028-03-31

The Formation of a Genealogy of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Literature: History, Mobility, and Sympathy

Hisayo Ogushi

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2023-04-01 – 2027-03-31

Nicolas Poussin and Religious Iconography—A Multifaceted Study of French Religious Painting during the Catholic Reform Period

Noriko Mochizuki

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2023-04-01 – 2027-03-31

2022

A Textual Study and the Creation of a Critical Edition of the "Lives of the Saints" Section of Caxton's The Golden Legend

Satoko Tokunaga

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Project Period: 2024-04-01 – 2027-03-31

A Study of the German Garden Reform as a Theory of Design

Fumiko Goto

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31

An Empirical and Integrative Study for Establishing a Transatlantic Perspective in Modern English Literature

Noriyuki Harada

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2022-04-01 – 2027-03-31

2021

The Intersection of Theatrocracy and Democracy: An Interdisciplinary Study of Theatricality and Politicality

Eiichiro Hirata

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Project Period: 2024-04-01 – 2025-03-31

An Interdisciplinary Investigation and Research on the Lynx that Inhabited the Japanese Archipelago

Takao Sato

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Project Period: 2021-04-01 – 2025-03-31

A Study of the Customs and Manners of Medieval Society as Seen in Old Renga and Old Haikai, Based on a Complete Annotation of the *Tsukubashū*

Takeo Ogawa

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2021-04-01 – 2026-03-31

2020

A Comprehensive Study of Media in the Pastoral Revolution of the Mendicant Orders

Akae, Yuichi

Research Category: Transformative Research Areas (B)

Project Period: 2020-10-02 – 2023-03-31

A Study of Modern Japanese Kanbun Literature from the Perspective of Group Formation and the Inheritance of Classical Knowledge: Focusing on the Works of Politicians

Goyama, Rintaro

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31

A Study on the Reorganization of Women's Culture in the 1970s Surrounding Japanese-Style 'Fancy': Focusing on Sanrio Publishing

Kodaira, Maiko

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31

A Study in Public Archaeology of War Heritage Sites from the Asia-Pacific War Period

Ando, Hiromichi

Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Project Period: 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31

(As of December 2025, over the past 7 years)