“African Potential” and overcoming the difficulties of modern world: comprehensive area studies that will provide a new perspective for the future of humanity | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)

Kazuro Shibuya

	Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
Research Fields	I have conducted my research and studies in Senegal and Burkina Faso on topics including the analysis of self-sustaining school management policy based on the authorization of power at the school level, mobilization of the community, and parental guardians in the decision-making process for school management; the development of frameworks and tools for comparative analysis of policies; and the capacity building for members of regional authorities and schools required for policy implementation. Currently, I have conducted research in Ghana on support and accountability by the people involved in schools, confidence building among them, and motivation of teachers who play key roles in the improvement of learning.
Main Works	Kazuro Shibuya (2016) “School Governance with Trust and Accountability-toward achieving learning outcomes stipulated at post 2015 agendas-“, Presentation at the Comparative International Education Society Annual Conference. Takeda Nazumi, Shibuya Kazuro, Angela Demas (2015) Portfolio Review of School Autonomy and Accountability Operations and Analytical Work FY2003-2013. World Bank. Kazuro Shibuya (2014) Case Study of School Autonomy and Accountability in Burkina Faso World Bank. Kazuro Shibuya (2014) Presentation at the Comparative Education and International Society Annual Conference 2014 – Governance quality at school and meso levels of policy implementation – the case of Burkina Faso. (with Takako Yuki, Japan International Coopreration Agency) Kazuro Shibuya (2013) Presentation at the Comparative Education and International Society Annual Conference 2013. – System Approach for Better Education Results: A Focus on School Management Systems. (with Takako Yuki, Japan International Cooperation Agency) Kazuro Shibuya (2012) Chapter 10. Challenges in educational development in Africa and JICAs approach. in For Inclusive and Dynamic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. JICA Research Institute. pp.267-298.

Akiko Sugiki

	Faculty of Law, Keio University
Research Fields	I specialize in international politics and African modern politics. I have researched and mainly studied civil wars, ethnic conflicts, refugees, and internally displaced people’s issues in the Horn of Africa region in East Africa. At the same time, I am presently focusing on child soldiers and pirates who play main roles in conflicts, crime, and security issues. I am considering the measures and challenges to prevent conflicts and crimes at community, national, regional, and international levels by conducting research on background and causes among the conflicting parties.
Main Works	Akiko Sugiki (2016) ‘Problems and Prospects for the “Regional Prosecution Model”: Impunity of Maritime Piracy and Piracy Trials in Kenya’, Journal of Maritime Researches, Vol.6, pp.21-40. Akiko Sugiki (2015) ““Securitization” and Politics of Forced Migration: A Case Study of Kenya”, Charbit, T., and T. Mishima (eds.) Questions de migrations et de sante en Afrique sub-saharienne, L’Harmattan, pp.47-74. Akiko Sugiki (2012) ‘Piracy in a Failed State: How State-buiding Can Stabilize the Stuaion off the Somali Coast’, Journal of East Asia and International Law, Vol. 5, No.1, pp.61-92.

Motoki Takahashi

	Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Research Fields	I have conducted my research on development in Africa to clarify tasks, what measures to take, and what external partners should and should not do. Not only I am interested in economic development, but also social systems and changes in people’s relationships and behaviors. Drawing on my concern about the interactions between individual economic activities and the state changes in the era where the market economy reaches African countries, I am currently interested in people’s perception of national governments’ economic role and the development of spontaneous enterprises through their formalization (i.e., recognition by the state).
Main Works	Kitagawa, Katsuhiko, and Motoki Takahashi eds. 2016 Contemporary African Economies: A Changing Continent under Globalization African Development Bank xii+388pp. TAKAHASHI, Motoki, 2015, “Towards Development Cooperation as Inter-Cultural Dialogue: ODA and Japan’s Experience of ‘Self-Help’ ” PFUR Bulletin of International Relations (People’s Friendship University, Russia) vol.15 issue 1, pp.5-14．

Atsushi Tsujimoto

	JICA Research Institute
Research Fields	I engaged in practical operations for education development projects conducted by JICA from 2008 to 2016, serving as a member of the JICA Human Development Department, a planning researcher in the JICA Rwanda Office (in charge of human resource development), and an operation coordinator for the Egypt-Japan University for Science and Technology (E-JUST) Foundation Project. I am currently interested in capacity development of educators in countries that have experienced conflicts. I am planning to conduct a study on how the capacity development of teachers has been implemented, with a focus on the life histories of individual teachers in Rwanda, in which the conflicts were experienced over 20 years ago.
Main Works	Atsushi Tsujimoto, “A Study of the Cultural Situation of Pupils in Upper Basic School in Zambia”, The Journal of Research and Practice of International Cooperation in Science, Mathematics and Technology Education Vol.2 No.1, 57 – 67, 2010

Nobuhide Sawamura

	Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University
Research Fields	I have conducted research on education quality that could offer life experiences in Sub-Sahara African countries, including Kenya. I have implemented my research with a base in a primary school in the region where the Masai people have lived for over 20 years, with attention paid to the changes caused by the passage of time on the actual state of school enrollment and the school’s role in the community. Recently, I have become interested in the background of the foundation of non-approved private schools in the slums of Nairobi, including their operation and the opportunities for learning provided to the people living in the area.
Main Works	Sifuna, N. D. and Sawamura, N. (2010) Challenge of Quality Education in Sub-Saharan African Countries. New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp.241. Sawamura, N. and Sifuna, D. (2008) “Universalizing Primary Education in Kenya: Is it Beneficial and Sustainable” Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 11(3), pp.103-118.

Mikako Nishimuko

	Faculty of Language Studies, Teikyo University
Research Fields	I am studying basic education in Sierra Leone and Ghana. I have conducted my research on how the policy and systems have impacted the recipients of the services in reality, with a focus on the children who have been left behind by these services. I am interested in the relationship between people’s lives, sense of value, and choice of action.
Main Works	Nishimuko, M (2014) “How Education Could be Inclusive?: The Case of Sierra Leone,” Journal of International Cooperation in Education 17(2):71-85. Nishimuko, M (2014) “Republic of Sierra Leone” in General World Environmental Chronology Editorial Working Committee (ed), General World Environment Chronology. Tokyo, Suirensha, pp.482-486. Nishimuko, M (2010) “Teacher Training Management in Sierra Leone: Challenges Faced by a Post-conflict Country in Attempting to Achieve Education for All” in Karras, K.G. and Wolhuter, C.C. (eds.), International Handbook on Teacher Education Worldwide: Training, Issues and Challenges for Teacher Profession. Athens, Atrapos Editions, pp. 843-860. Nishimuko, M (2010) “A Threat to Educational Quality in Sierra Leone’s Education for All” in Geo-Jaja, M. A. and Majhanovich, S. (eds.), Education, Language and Economics: Growing National and Global Dilemma. Rotterdam, Sense Publishers, pp. 39-51. Nishimuko, M (2009) “The Roles of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Faith-based Organisations (FBOs) in Achieving Education for All: The Case of Sierra Leone,” Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education 39(2):281-295.

Satoshi Terao

	Language Education Center / Graduate School of Education, University of Miyazaki
Research Fields	I am studying about unofficial languages (such as regional/ethnic languages, migrants’ languages, and Creole) in PALOP (Paises Africanos de Lingua Oficial Portuguesa) countries (including Equatorial Guinea), with a focus on West Africa, and the (multi-)language environments in which these languages are spoken, as well as the language policy or attitude of the government toward these languages. I serve as the lead researcher for the project “Language policy trend in the Republic of Angola in southern Africa”, JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C, for fiscal years 2014 -2016.
Main Works	Satoshi TERAO（2011）Freedom of Movement and Conservation of the Diversity of Culture : The Territoriality Principle vs. the Personality Principle, Kobe University Brussels European Centre Opening Symposium 5th March, 2011

Haruse Murata


Research Fields	I am interested in African literature, especially the novels and children’s literature written in French by African writers from the former French territories. While devoting attention to the historical and social contexts in which the work was written, I have attempted to read out the expression each writer uses to summon the imagination of the readers and to change their view of reality. Writers I have studied in the past include Véronique Tadjo and Bernard Dadié from the Ivory Coast and Emmanuel Dongala from the Republic of Congo.
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Haruka Arii

	Hokkaido University of Education (Hakodate Campus)
Research Fields	I have conducted my research on changes in the life course of women in the agricultural regions of Ethiopia, with focus on its relationship to dissemination of school education. I am also interested in how individual woman make choices through negotiations with others with respect to schooling, employment, as well as marriage and child birthing.
Main Works	Arii, Haruka 2016. ”How Women Choose Their Schooling in Their Life Course: The Case of Maale, Southwestern Ethiopia.” Nilo-Ethiopian Studies. No.21. pp.1–14. ARII Haruka, 2012 “Conditions of Married Female Students in Maale, Suthwestern Ethiopia”. The 7th International Research Forum of African Studies, Kyoto University, March (poster).

Kyoko Cross

	Faculty of International Relations, Kyoto Sangyo University
Research Fields	I have studied how the local reconciliation concept and its methods of achievement have changed in transitional justice introduced in post-conflict societies. In Africa, I have conducted case studies in South Africa, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Rwanda. I also have worked on conflict and gender issues.
Main Works	Kyoko Cross 2013. “The Limits of Trials in Dealing with the Past: Seeking Holistic Transitional Justice Approach towards Proactive Genocide Prevention” Comparative Genocide Studies 3, 39-46