These are research projects planned by HMC and undertaken over three to four years in a cross-departmental manner. We will sustain and further develop in a new form the planned research projects undertaken until June 2022.
*For details of past planned research projects, please click here.
Change in Facial Preferences through Reality, Art and Literature
Project Leader: Kumiko Nagai (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)
Co-Investigator: Akira Takagishi (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Shinji Kajitani (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Atsunobu Suzuki (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Tomoyuki Deguchi (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Satoru Nakamura (Historiographical Institute), Mariko Kasahara (HMC), Hirota Mizuno (HMC)
Co-Investigator (The University of Tokyo): Kanako Hirasawa (Historiographical Institute)
Co-Investigator (Other Universities/Institutes): Ryuhei Ueda (Kokoro Research Center), Hiroyo Fujita (Kyoto University Research Adoministration Center), Chikahiko Suzuki (Gunma Prefectural Women's University)
Creation and Distribution of the Archive of Contemporary Japanese Writers
Project Leader: Masaaki Takeda (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)
Co-Investigator: Masahiko Abe (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Kenichi Abe (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Takahiro Nakajima (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia), Katsunao Murakami (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Akito Sakasai (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Shinzo Nakazato (HMC)
Basic Research on Kenzaburo Oe’s Manuscripts
Project Leader: Kenichi Abe (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology)
Co-Investigator: Hiroshi Ando (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Masanori Tsukamoto (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Masahiko Abe (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Kenta Oji (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Ikki Omukai (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Katsunao Murakami (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Masaaki Takeda (Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Tatsuya Kono (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Haruko Kikuma (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Mao Wada (HMC)
Cultural Resources Digital Platforms for Open Humanities
Project Leader: Yusuke Nakamura (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology)
Co-Investigator: Fumiko Sugimoto (Historiographical Institute), Ikki Omukai (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Satoru Nakamura (Historiographical Institute), Mariko Kasahara (HMC)
Co-Investigator (The University of Tokyo)：Rikutaro Manabe（School of Engineering）
Co-Investigator (Other Universities/Institutes)：Yuichiro Taira (The Center of Creative Inheritance for the Future at the Tokyo University of the Arts), Jun Ogawa(Center for Open Data in the Humanities)
Collaborating Researcher: Shintaro Seki (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology)
Nostalgia and Heritage-Making in Asian Cities
Project Leader: Akira Matsuda (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology)
Co-Investigator: Yutaka Suga (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia), Hiroshi Honda (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Yasushi Sukenari (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Mao Wada (HMC), Zhu Shijie (HMC)
Collaborating Researcher: Lei Ting,(Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), Wu Mengqian (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), LEE Kah Hui (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Kohei Suneya (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology), Ran Aoki (Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology)