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Announcing the Recipients of JPP’s Fall 2025 Project Funding

Japan Past & Present is delighted to announce the recipients of our Fall 2025 Project Funding competition. During this cycle, we received compelling applications from researchers and educators around the world, including many that included scholars at different career stages and from a variety of regions, embodying the global vision for the field to which JPP is committed. Though we had planned to accept only four applications, we ended up awarding five instead. We congratulate the teams that were selected:

The Tekagami Project: An International Web-based Hub for Innovative Kohitsu Tekagami Research and Education

手鑑プロジェクト─古筆手鑑研究と教育を革新する国際ウェブハブ

  • Mary Gilstad メアリー・ギルスタド, Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA (Team Coordinator)

  • Edward Kamens エドワード・ケーメンズ, Professor Emeritus, Yale University

  • Kazuya Funami 舟見一哉, Professor, Jissen Women's University

  • Arashi Takiyama 瀧山嵐, Graduate Student, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI)

Working Japan: Labor in Japanese Popular Culture and Media

働く日本─現代日本の大衆文化とメディアにおける労働

  • Edwin Michielsen エドウィン・ミヒールセン, Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong (Team Coordinator)

  • Takane Suzuki 鈴木貴宇, Professor, Waseda University

  • Wei Ran ウェイ・ラン, Assistant Professor, Tohoku University

  • Nicole Mueller ニコル・ミュラー, Senior Research Fellow, German Institute for Japanese Studies

  • Alexandre Paquet アレクサンドル・パケ, Independent Scholar

Japan's Confucian Temples of Five Centuries: Sacred Space, Cultural Heritage and Cultural Capital

5世紀にわたる日本の孔子廟─聖なる空間、文化遺産、そして文化資本

  • Tak-Wai Hung 孔德維, Assistant Professor, Waseda University (Team Coordinator)

  • Tomoyasu Iiyama 飯山知保, Professor, Waseda University

  • Kuan-Fei Chen 陳冠妃, Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University

  • Victoria Shunzi Zhou 周順子, Research Fellow, Mustard Seed (MANSYUN) Association

  • Ines Cavalli 馬曉曼, Graduate Student, University of Rennes 2 / Catholic University of Paris

The Social Side of Japanese Mathematics: Sangaku

和算の社会的側面─算額

  • Antonia Karaisl アントニア・カライスル, Assistant Professor, Waseda University (Team Coordinator)

  • Yuta Hashimoto 橋本雄太, Associate Professor, National Museum of Japanese History

  • Asanobu Kitamoto 北本朝展, Director, Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH)

The First Japanese Students in America: Tracing the Transpacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century

幕末明治の日本人留学生─19世紀末日米交流のネットワーク

  • Haruko Wakabayashi 若林晴子, Associate Teaching Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick (Team Coordinator)

  • Noriko Ochiai 落合則子, Curator, Edo-Tokyo Museum (Team Coordinator)

  • Hiroki Yamada 山田裕輝, Head Curator, Fukui City History Museum

  • Atsuko Inagaki 稲垣敦子, Curator, Ota-ku Katsu Kaishu Memorial Museum

  • Fernanda Perrone フェルナンダ・ペローン, Archivist & Head Exhibitions Program Curator, Rutgers University Special Collection & University Archives

  • Nicole Simpson ニコール・シンプソン, Rutgers University Zimmerli Art Museum

  • Elizabeth Pallitto エリザベス・パリット, Archivist, Reformed Church in America (RCA Archives)

We are excited to work with these teams over the next several months to develop their projects and prepare them for publication on the JPP website, thus facilitating JPP’s mission to foster multilingual collaboration, communication, and scholarship, and disseminate their results to a global audience. Thank you to everyone who applied! Please be sure to subscribe to our news blog and follow us across social media (Twitter, Facebook, & Bluesky)  to receive information about our next Project Funding recruitment cycle.

Michael Emmerich
Director, Japan Past & Present
Director, The Yanai Initiative

Paula R. Curtis
Operations Leader, Japan Past & Present
Academic Administrator, Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA

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