Little "hunters" in the forest: Ethnography of hunter-gatherer children
(children of Baka Pygmy in Cameroon)
published (February 20, 2010, in Japanese)
>> Go to a guide page in Japanese

Moved to Osaka International University (Apr. 2010)
The handout of the presentation in Côte d'Ivoire uploaded (Mar. 2010)
Visit to Côte d'Ivoire (Feb. 2010)
Presentation in the World Congress of African Linguistics 6 (WOCAL6) (Aug. 2009, Germany)
Grant-in-Aid "Applied linguistic anthropology for human development of the Deaf"
was newly adopted (April 2009)
Paper for World Congress of African Linguistics 6
(WOCAL6, Aug. 2009, Germany) accepted (Apr. 2009)
"Research of African sign language"
introduced in NHK World (international radio program) (Feb. 6, 2009)
Presentation on Côte d'Ivoire in the international workshop (Nov. 2008)
Research on sign languages in 7 countries (Nov. 2008)
Talk meeting with the Deaf and sign language interpreters in Côte d'Ivoire (Oct. 2008)
Visit to Côte d'Ivoire (Oct. 2008)
Sign Language textbook in French-speaking Africa published (Jul. 2008)
DVD Sign Language dictionary in French-speaking Africa completed (Jul. 2008)
Presentation in the International Congress of Linguists, Seoul, Korea (Jul. 2008)
"History of Deaf people and sign languages in Africa" was awarded
by the Japan Society for International Development (Nov. 2007)
Book guide in English "History of Deaf people and sign languages in Africa"
opened (Nov. 2007)
Visit to Cameroon (Oct. 2007)
Move to the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Sep. 2007)
Research project "Poverty Reduction for the Disabled" started (Apr. 2007)
"Frontiers of Social Research" published (Feb. 2007)

Schedule 2010 (Jan. 2, 2010)
On va signer en LSAF! (Aug. 2, 2008)
Website moved (Sep. 4, 2007)
"Translations" and "Textbooks" (Nov. 20, 2006)
Contact updated (Apr. 1, 2006)
CV updated (Apr. 1, 2006)
Website renewed (Aug. 29, 2005)
Website open! (Oct. 30, 2003)

Jinrui Nikki (Homo sapiens Diary) (in Japanese)
Twitter "@jinrui_nikki" (in Japanese)
Schedule

Curriculum Vitae
Portrait and personality
Contact

Research interests
Publications and presentations
Fieldworks and research grants

"Towards a multi-disciplinary approach for developing and harmonizing field methods in anthropology and development studies," ILCAA-TUFS
"Anthropology of Supporting," National Museum of Ethnology
Visiting Research Fellow, Nihon Fukushi University
"Human society in evolutionary perspectives (stage 2): Institution," ILCAA-TUFS
"Comparative study of multilingualism," ILCAA-TUFS
Visiting Researcher, Osaka University
Japan Institute for Sign Language Studies

[In the past]
Culture dynamics unit, ILCAA-TUFS
COE collaborative researcher, Kwansei Gakuin University
Risks and Publicness Workshop, Kyoto University
Anthropology of resources, ILCAA-TUFS
"Disabilities and development," IDE-JETRO

Little "hunters" in the forest (webpage in Japanese)
Japanese Journal of Sign Linguistics 18 (Featured articles: Ethics in sign language research) (webpage in Japanese)
Introduction to the anthropology of play (webpage in Japanese)
Fieldwork into the Deaf world (webpage in Japanese)
Sign Language textbook: On va signer en LSAF (webpage in English and French)
Actions in the field (webpage in Japanese)
Positive and negative of knowledge resources (webpage in Japanese)
History of Deaf people and sign languages in Africa (webpage in English)
Shall we sign? (webpage in Japanese)

[Osaka International University]
"Cross-cultural exchanges"
"Sociology I"
"Studies in communication"
"Human ethology I"
"Skills for problem solving"
"Current news topics"
"Seminar I"
"Seminar II"
"Seminar III"

Associations
Volunteer activities and others