JADH Election 2016 Candidates

JADH Election 2016 Candidates

Executive Board Members

Makoto Goto

Makoto Goto is an Associate Professor at the National Museum of Japanese History. His research interests are primarily Japanese ancient history and digital humanities research. Recently, he conducted a study, wherein data from many ancient Japanese documents was organically combined to create a knowledge database, including the Shoso-in document. He served as the Chair of the Special Interest Group of Computers and Humanities under the auspieces of the Information Processing Society of Japan from 2009 to 2010.

Shoichiro Hara

Shoichiro Hara is a Professor and the director of Center for Integrated Area Studies of Kyoto University. His current research focuses on construction of a new information paradigm called "Areainformatics". It is an application of information science/technology to support researchers of area studies who are trying to integrate knowledge of various domains in a specific area or to compare areas using specific viewpoints such as "Full-text Database of All Historical Earthquake Documents in the Japanese Ancient and Medieval Ages" which stores articles about earthquakes extracted from historical materials from 6th century to 16th century in Japan.

Asanobu Kitamoto

Asanobu Kitamoto is associate professor of National Institute of Informatics. His research focuses on the application of data-driven approaches to various disciplines such as humanities and earth science by taking advantage of computing technology such as databases, geospatial information analysis and machine learning. He has long been directing "Digital Silk Road" project, a digital humanities project with a focus on the development of information infrastructure to study visual and spatial sources for Silk Road studies. Since April 2016, he is leading Center for Open Data in the Humanities (CODH) in Research Organization of Information and Systems (ROIS) to promote data-driven humanities under the principle of open science.

A. Charles Muller

A. Charles Muller received his doctorate from the department of Comparative Literature at SUNY Stony Brook in 1993. He is presently Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo. His main work lies in the fields of Korean Buddhism, East Asian Yogacara, East Asian classical lexicography, and online scholarly resource development. Among his major book-length works are The Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment: Korean Buddhism's Guide to Meditation (SUNY Press, 1999) and Wonhyo's Philosophy of Mind (University of Hawai'i Press, 2012). He has also published over two dozen articles on Korean and East Asian Buddhism. He is the editor and primary translator of three volumes published in the Collected Works of Korean Buddhism, and is the Publication Chairman for the Numata BDK sutra translation project. Among the online digital projects he has initiated are the Digital Dictionary of Buddhism (http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb), the CJKV-E Dictionary (http://www.buddhism-dict.net/ddb), the H-Buddhism Buddhist Scholars Information Network (http://www.h-net.org/~buddhism), and most recently, the H-Buddhism Bibliography Project (https://www.zotero.org/groups/h-buddhism_bibliography_project).

Kiyonori Nagasaki

Kiyonori Nagasaki, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at the International Institute for Digital Humanities in Tokyo. His main research interest is in the development of digital frameworks for collaboration in Buddhist studies. He is also engaging in investigation into the significance of digital methodology in Humanities and in promotion of DH activities in Japan. He has been participating in a number of Digital Humanities projects conducted at several institutions in Japan and abroad such as the University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Osaka University, the National Diet Library, the National Museum of Ethnology, the National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics, the University of Tsukuba and the University of Hamburg. His activities also include postgraduate education in DH at the University of Tokyo as well as administrative tasks at several scholarly societies including the Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies.

Masahiro Shimoda

Masahiro Shimoda is a Professor in Indian Philosophy and Buddhist Studies with a cross appointment in the director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, the University of Tokyo. He has been Visiting Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University College London (2006), Visiting Professor at Stanford University (2010), and Visiting Research Fellow at University of Virginia (2012). He is one of the founding members and the president of Japanese Association for Digital Humanities. He is the chair of the trans-school program of Digital Humanities at the University of Tokyo, which has started on the 1st April 2012 in the collaborative program among the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, and the Center for Structuring Knowledge.


As his main project for DH, Shimoda has launched since 2010 with government granted budget "the construction of academic Buddhist knowledge base in international alliance." This multi-nodal project, comprising seven major projects of self-financed agencies (Indo-Tibetan Lexical Resources at University of Hamburg, Hobogirin project at École Français d’Étrême Orient, Pali Text Compilation Project at Dhammacai Institute in Thai, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism in Tokyo etc.) with SAT (Chinese Buddhist Text Corpus Project at the University of Tokyo) placed as their hub, aims at providing a variety of research resources for Buddhist studies such as the primary sources, secondary resources, catalogues, dictionaries, lexicons and translations, all databases interlinked to each other at a deep structural level.

Keiko Suzuki

Keiko Suzuki is a professor of the Kinugasa Research Organization and a deputy-director of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University. Her research background is anthropology and received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her recent articles include: "When Westerners were Chinese: Visual Representations of Foreigners in the Japanese Popular Art of Ukiyo-e" in Orientalism/Occidentalism: The Languages of Culture vs. the Languages of Description (Ed. by Evgeny Steiner); and "Mt. Fuji in Edo Art and Culture," in Mount Fuji: Hokusai and Hiroshige (Ed. by Malgorzata Martini). She was an organizer of the JADH2013 international conference, held at Ritsumeikan University.

Tomoji Tabata

Tomoji Tabata is Associate Professor of Language Informatics at the Graduate School of Language and Culture, the University of Osaka. His primary research interests are in corpus-stylistic investigation of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novels with special reference to Charles Dickens. His research fields also include text typology/register variation, and forensic analysis of texs. Tomoji Tabata leads a collaborative projects on statistical analysis of texts between the Institute of Statistical Mathematics and the University of Osaka. He co-edited English Corpora under Japanese Eyes (2004, Rodopi) and Stylistic Studies of Literature: In Honour of Dr. Hiroyuki Ito (Peter Lang, 2009).

Christian Wittern

Christian Wittern is Professor at the Center for Informatics in East Asian Studies, Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto University. His main research interest lies in the representation of text in digital form and its application for research, with a focus on premodern Chinese texts. He has worked with the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association on a collection of Buddhist texts and with a worldwide team of Daoist scholars on the digitization and development of a research platform for the collection of Daoist texts Daozang jiyao 道臧輯要. He also served on the Board and Council of the Text Encoding Initiative.

Taizo Yamada

From 2005 to 2007, Taizo Yamada was a Research Fellow in National Institute of Informatics. He was a Project Assistant Professor (From 2007 to 2010 in Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo, and From 2010 to 2013 in National Institute for the Humanities). Since 2013, he has been an Assistant Professor in Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo. His areas of research interest are data engineering (query processing, information retrieval, metadata, data structure and machine learning) and historical information (digitalization, cataloging, annotation and text analysis).

Audits

Hajime Murai

Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. Majors: Bibliometrics, Stylometrics, Network analysis, Narratology and ible Studies. Research themes: scientific analysis of text interpretation, quantitative analysis for humanities. URL: http://www.bible.literarystructure.info/. Ph.D. in Engineering.

Takafumi Suzuki

Takafumi Suzuki earned a BA in Literature, and an MA and a Ph.D in Interdisciplinary Information Studies from University of Tokyo. After he worked as a project researcher at Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, he is currently an associate professor at Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Sociology, Toyo University. His research fields include computational stylistics, informetrics, and text analysis.