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What makes this project unique is that the research is conducted jointly by scholars studying literatures of different languages—as opposed to the traditional literary research approach of studying literature in terms of one language or country (Japanese literature,French literature, German literature, etc.)—and the fact that the literatures of languages as minor as Scandinavian languages are included therein.
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- Professor in the Faculty of Literature at Chiba University
- Rie Kaneoka obtained a doctorate from the University of Tokyo in 2006. Previously, she was a research fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2003 to 2006 and a seminar lecturer at Tokyo Keizai University from 2008 to 2011.
- Kaneoka’s primary focus is ancient Japanese literature, especially the Fudoki (descriptions of Japanese regional culture in the Nara period). She is currently researching the history of the reception of the Fudoki.
- As a project collaborator, Kaneoka will explore mermaid motifs in classical Japanese literature, local folklore, and more.
- Selected publications
- W.Gundert's Japanese Studies: A Buddhist Perspective Chiba University. Graduate School of Humanities and Studies on Public Affairs. Research Project Reports 382
- W.Gundert's Japanese Studies: Christianity, Religion, Literature Comparative Japanese Studies Annual Bulletin18
- Fudoki juyōshi kenkyū [A historical study on the acceptance of the Fudoki ].Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2008. Man’yō-go-shi [The explanation of the words of Mannyo-shu]. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 2014.
- “Fudoki ni egakareta tori” [The representations of birds in the Fudoki]. In Chōjūchūgyo no bungakushi [The history of literature of birds, animals, insects, and fish], edited by Ken’ichi Suzuki, 7–23. Tokyo: Miyai Shoten, 2011.
- “Kishō ni yoseru kanshin” [Their symbolic interest in weather: Representations of snow in ancient times]. Nihon Bungaku 62-5 (2013): 2–9.
- “Fudoki o ikani kenkyō suruka” [How should we research the Fudoki?]. Jodai Bungaku 112 (2014): 29–44.
- President in the Tsuru University
- Guest Researcher in the Department of Literature and Rhetoric at Uppsala University supported by JSPS-KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research from April 2024 to March 2025, Associate Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Tokyo University of Science since 2016
- Teiko Nakamaru obtained a doctorate from the University of Tokyo in 2010. Previously, she was a visiting student in Scandinavian Studies at Humboldt University of Berlin from 2007 to 2008 and in the Faculty of Literature at Uppsala University in 2008. She was also a research fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2010 to 2011, Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts at Tokyo University of Science from 2011 toe 2016.
- Nakamaru has mainly been studying Selma Lagerlöf and the reception of her works in Sweden, Germany and Japan. She is currently researching the motif of leg disabilities in Nordic and German Literature, examining people whom communities have often exclude As a project collaborator, Nakamaru will investigate mermaid (human-creature hybrid) motifs as symbolic representations of leg disability.
- Selected publications
- 'Establishment of the contemporary Nordic Image in Japan: A Comparison between Uchimura Kanzo’s A Story of Denmark and Henry Leach’s Reclaiming of the Heath'. In: Irma Ratiani(ed.) Re-Imaging Literatures of the World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins. Collected Paters of the XXIII Congress of the ICLA. Vol.3. GCLA Press, March 2025, pp. 327-338
- Teiko Nakamaru, Lone Mogensen, Tord Nygren. Kyojin Finn no monogatari. Hokuou Nihon kyojin densyo no jiku.[Finn the Giant. The Folklores of Church-building-giants in Scandinavia and Japan] Tokyo: Miyai-shoten, 2020. (Book in Japanese).Abstract(English).
- Shingeki no Kyojin by Hajime Isayama as a reception of Norse Mythology. Medievalisms of the Margins / Les medievalismes a la marge, 28 march 2025.
Programme - "Kulturutbyte mellan Norden och Japan, med fokus pa receptionen och utvecklingen av jattesagner i Japan". Högre Seminarium vid institutionen for litteraturvetenskap och retorik. 18 februari, kl. 14.15-16.00, Plats: 6-0023 (Daniusrummet).
Abstract - "Ein Ursprung japanischer Bilder von Danmark. Die Rezeption von Enrico Dalgas in Japan zwischen den 1910er und 1960er Jahren."Nordeuropa-Institut, Humbodt Universitet. 4. Februar 2025, 16 Uhr c.t, DOR 24, 3. 134 (Brandes)
- Professor in Rikkyo University since 2011
- Minoru Ozawa was born in Ehime in 1973. He studied in Tokyo, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik before joining Nagoya University as a Global COE research fellow. He became an associate professor at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, in 2011. After one year's research at Oxford, he was a professor there in 2018. He is interested in European medieval history, Scandinavian history, and historiography, including modern Japan.
- Recent publications
- Minoru Ozawa, Thomas W Smith, and Georg Strack (ed.), Communicating Papal Authority in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 2023.
- Yukio Taniguchi, Eninführung zur Runenkunde, ed. Minoru Ozawa with a new introduction, Tokyo: Yasaka shobo, 2022 (in Japanese).
- Minoru Ozawa, and Yuki Sato (ed.) A Comparative History of History Departments in Modern Japan. Tokyo: Bensei shuppan, 2022 (in Japanese).
- Minoru Ozawa, "Why did Swein raise a rune stone in memory of Skarde?", Osamu Kano et Jean-Loup Lemaitre (ed.), Entre texte et histoire. Études d’histoire médiévale offertes au professeur Shoichi Sato, Paris: Éditions de Boccard 2015, pp. 265-273.
- Minoru Ozawa, "Rune stones create a political landscape: towards a methodology for the application of runology to Scandinavian political history in the late Viking Age: Part 1 & Part 2", HERSETEC:Hermeneutic Study and Education of Textual Configuration 1-1 (2007): 43-62, & 2-1 (2008): 65-85.
- Assosiate Professor at Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Hokkai-Gakuen University since 2021, Guest Researcher in the Danish Institute for International Studies since 2024.
- Born in 1982. B.A., Ritsumeikan University (Faculty of International Relations), 2005; M.A., University of Tsukuba (Graduate School of Area Studies), 2007; Ph.D., University of Tsukuba (Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences), 2012.
- Minori Takahashi has published papers and books on various topics including Greenland’s autonomy, especially in relation to climate change, and the issues of sovereignty and borders in the Arctic, with a focus on the strategies Denmark-Greenland uses to address the regional dispute over resource exploitation rights. Takahashi’s recent research has focused on the following topics: 1) elucidating the factors behind the changes in the Arctic security environment based on the case of U.S. military bases in Greenland, 2) the development of non-living resources such as oil, gas and minerals and its impact on politics and economy, and 3) the interaction between the global, national and local levels regarding the regulation of living resources, such as whales.
- Recent publications
- Minori Takahashi. “Articulation, disarticulation, and the creation of hybridity: Tracing state–indigenous relations through the Denmark–Greenland Case. “ Polar Science , 2025
- Minori Takahashi (ed.). The Arctic Island of Greenland as Seen Through the Lense of Humanities and Social Sciences. Tokyo: Fujiwara-Shoten. 2023 (in Japanese).
- Minori Takahashi. “The Inuit of Greenland: Doing Area Studies on the Compromise between Reciprocity and Utility”. Inter Faculty. Vol.11. Tsukuba: University of Tsukuba. 2022.
- Minori Takahashi og Shinji Kawana. “Inklusion, imagepleje eller nødvendighed? Basepolitik i Grønland og politisk kultur i Danmark”. Økonomi & Politik. Vol.94, No.2: Arktiske relationer. København: Djøf Forlag. 2021.
- Shinji Kawana and Minori Takahashi (eds.). Exploring Base Politics: How Host Countries Shape the Network of U.S. Overseas Bases (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics). Abingdon and New York: Routledge. 2021.
- Minori Takahashi. “The Contours of the Development of Non-Living Resources in Greenland”. Polar Record. Special Issue: International Law for Sustainability in Arctic Resource Development. Published online by Cambridge University Press. 2020.
- Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences at Ochanomizu University since 2016
- Takuzo Tanaka obtained a doctorate from the University of Paris IV (Paris-Sorbonne University) in 2005 and was a post-doctoral research fellow with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from 2006 to 2008.
- Tanaka has been studying Emile Zola and the reception of French literature in wartime Japan.
- For this project, Tanaka will contribute by examining the image of water nymphs in French literature.
- Selected publications
- “Zola et le roman psychologique” [Zola and the psychological novel]. PhD diss., Atelier National de Reproduction des Thèses, 2005.
- “Paul Bourget.” shi to futatsu no sekaitaisen: Senjika no nihon ni okeru futsubungaku juyō no ichisokumen” [The Meaning of Death by Paul Bourget and the two world wars: An aspect of the reception of French literature in wartime Japan]. Center for Comparative Japanese Studies Annual Bulletin 7 (2011): 293–300.