Projects

IGS Research Project 2025

IGS Research Project 2025

 

Gender and Politics in East Asia

Researcher Ki-young Shin (Professor, IGS)
Mari Miura (Professor, Sophia University)
Jackie Steele (Designated Associate Professor, Nagoya University)

Feminist Analysis of Ecology and Survival in East Asia

Researcher Fumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS)

Gender Analysis of Capital, Body and Mobility

Researcher Fumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS)
Mariko Adachi (Visiting Researcher, IGS)
Hiroaki Itai (Affiliated Researcher, IGS/Associate Professor, Senshu University)

Gender Analysis of Sex, Body, and Reproduction

Researcher Nina Takemoto (Project Lecturer, IGS)

Gender Analysis in the History of Anti-pollution/environmental Movements

Researcher Niina Takemoto (Project Lecturer, IGS)

Gender in the Transformation of Global Governance and the Restructuring of Nations

Researcher Hisako Motoyama (Project Research Fellow, IGS)

Clinical Psychology, Health Sciences, and Gender & Sexuality

Researcher Keiichiro Ishimaru (Director, IGS)

External Funds 2025

Working Conditions and Agency of Migrant Female Domestic and Care Workers in Japan

[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 23H00888]
Period 2023 – 2025
Researcher

Aya Sadamatsu (Keisen University) [Principal Investigator] Fumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS) [Co-investigator] Keiko Hirano (Yokohama National University, Affiliated Researcher, IGS) [Co-investigator]

Constructing a New Theory of the State through Feminist Theory: From the Concept of Care and the Resonception of Security

[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B), 23H03654]

Period 2023 – 2026
Researcher Ki-young Shin (Professor, IGS) [Co-Investigator] 
Hisako Motoyama (Project Research Fellow, IGS) [Co-Investigator] 
Yayo Okano (Professor, Doshisha University) [Principal Investigator]

Exploring Aspects of Mobility, Sex, and Power in “Karayuki-san”

[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 23K11676]
Period 2023 – 2025
Researcher Niina Takemoto (Project Lecturer, IGS)

Imagining Slavery: Studies on Dynamics over the Mediterranian-type of Slavery

[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 24H00106]
Period 2023 – 2025
Researcher

Niina Takemoto (Project Lecturer, IGS) [Co-Investigator] 
Kazuhiro Shimizu (Kyusyu University) [Principal Investigator]

Development of Japan’s Pro-Gender Diplomacy: Analysis from the Perspectives of Security, Governance, and Colonialism

[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 23K17134]

Period 2023 – 2027
Researcher Hisako Motoyama (Project Research Fellow, IGS)

Reconstructing the History of Sinophone Literature from the Perspective of Changing Gender Norms

[JSPS Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), 25H00468]
Period 2025 – 2029
Researcher

Fumie Ohashi (Associate Professor, IGS) [Co-investigator] Maya Hamada [Principal Investigator] Mayumi Toriyama [Co-investigator] Masako Obama[Co-investigator] Yoko Tamura[Co-investigator] Naoko Fujino[Co-investigator] Shiho Ebihara[Co-investigator] Lin Liting[Co-investigator] Shino Matsumura[Co-investigator] Yusuke Misu[Co-investigator] Taiki Hayakawa[Co-investigator] Zheng Zhou[Co-investigator] Ken Suzuki[Co-investigator] Izumi Hoshi[Co-investigator] Bunsei Cho[Co-investigator] Aki Tsumori[Co-investigator]