Hosting institution: The National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Invitee	CAO Dafeng (China) Professor & Sub Chief, Beijing Center of Japanese Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Research Subject	Fundamental Research for Development of New Japanese Language Teaching Materials using Textbook Corpus—Restructuring Japanese Language Instruction Grammar for Chinese-speaking Learners
Duration	Oct 1, 2006–Sep 30, 2007

Invitee	Shigeko NARIYAMA (Australia) Lecturer, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne
Research Subject	Understanding Japanese Omission of Words and its Culture for Learners of Japanese
Duration	Oct 2, 2006–Sep 30, 2007

Invitee	Chikako SIGEMORI-BUČAR (Republic of Slovenia) Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies & Vice-Head, Department of Asian and African Studies, University of Ljubljana
Research Subject	Contrastive Corpus Analysis of Causative in Japanese and Slovene
Duration	Oct 1, 2006–Sep 30, 2007

Invitee	WLODARCZYK Andre (France) Professor & Chairperson, Department of Japanese Studies, Charles de Gaulle University - Lille 3, instruction, Universite Paris Sorbonne - Paris 4, research
Research Subject	Information and Meta-information Structures in Japanese Language Utterances
Duration	Oct 1, 2006–Jan 30, 2007, Jul 15, 2007–Sep 15, 2007

Invitee	YIM Young-Cheol (Korea) Professor, Department of Japanese Language Literature, Chungang University
Research Subject	Comparative Study of Korean and Japanese Communication Styles
Duration	Oct 1, 2006–Sep 30, 2007