We are pleased to announce that eight researchers from Bangladesh, China, Indonesia, Mongolia, Singapore, USA and Vietnam have been invited to join the 8th Hakuho Japanese Language Research Fellowship Program.
We would also like to extend our sincere thanks to the many other researchers who applied to the Program.

Invitee	Shoji AZUMA (U.S.A.) Professor, University of Utah
Research Subject	Is globalization changing the Japanese of communication? An analysis of speech styles among political and business leaders in Japan
Duration	Oct 1, 2013–Aug 31, 2014
Hosting Institution	National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Invitee	DEDI Sutedi (Indonesia) Associate Professor, Indonesia University of Education
Research Subject	Contrastive Analysis of Japanese and Indonesian Passive Sentences
Duration	Oct 1, 2013–Sep 30, 2014
Hosting Institution	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Invitee	Razaul Karim FAQUIRE (Bangladesh) Associate Professor, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Dhaka
Research Subject	A Comparative Study between the Relative Clause of Japanese and Bengali: A Morpho-Syntactic Analysis
Duration	Oct 1, 2013–Sep 30, 2014
Hosting Institution	National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics

Invitee	Kazumi HATASA (U.S.A.) Professor, Purdue University
Research Subject	Development of content-based language teaching materials in intermediate to advanced level Japanese on Japanese food and culinary culture
Duration	Oct 1, 2013–Mar 31, 2014
Hosting Institution	Waseda University

Invitee	Emi MORITA (Singapore) Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore
Research Subject	Japanese Linguistics for Japanese Studies as a component of Area Studies
Duration	Apr 1, 2014–Sep 30, 2014
Hosting Institution	Ochanomizu University

Invitee	PHAM Hoang Hung (Vietnam) Lecturer, Department of Japanese Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USSH),Vietnam National University (VNU)-Hanoi
Research Subject	The new Kanji from late Edo to early Meiji period in Japan and its impact on modern Vietnamese
Duration	Oct 1, 2013–Mar 31, 2014
Hosting Institution	Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Invitee	TSULBAATAR Onon (Mongolia) Senior Lecturer, School of Mongolian Language and Culture, National University of Mongolia
Research Subject	Interpreting some idioms in Japanese through cultural approach
Duration	Oct 1, 2013–Mar 31, 2013
Hosting Institution	Waseda  University

Invitee	YAO Yan Ling (China) Professor, Dalian University of Foreign Languages
Research Subject	A Cognitive-typological study of transitivity in Japanese and Chinese
Duration	Apr 1, 2014–Sep 30, 2014
Hosting Institution	Ochanomizu University

Contact

Hakuho Japanese Language Research Fellowship Program Secretariat
Tel: +81-(0)3-3263-8695 / Fax: +81-(0)3-3263-8687
E-mail: hakuhoip@secretariat.ne.jp