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4 2013 - 3 2016

Grant number：25370074

Grant amount：\4940000 （ Direct Cost: \3800000 、 Indirect Cost：\1140000 ）

It has been well known that Catholic education in 19 century in Japan was prepared by French missionaries and French religious congregations. However, most of those missionaries come to Japan not directly from France but from some Asian countries. They had experienced of educational/social welfare activities with the people in some Asian countries before they came to Japan. In this research, historical documents and materials concerning Catholic education by French religious congregations in Japan, which were lost because of natural disasters and war, were collected from the archives in France and Asian countries in order to have a whole survey of Catholic education in this period. Also the database of those materials was constructed and it leads to a possibility of international collaborative research in Asian countries on this field.

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4 2011 - 3 2015

Grant number：23251023

Grant amount：\19630000 （ Direct Cost: \15100000 、 Indirect Cost：\4530000 ）

We can find many immigrants' communities in Pacific Rim area. Here, not only major migrants such as ethnic Chinese and oversea Indians, but Japanese, southeastern Asian origin peoples in US, and Africans in Asia. Even in the case of Chinese and Indians, their communities have a vast variety.
This project presented varieties of immigrats' community in this area, and rapid changes after 2001. These rapid changes and volume of immigrants are supported by improvement of transporation, world wide communication, and money transfer. We also tried to describe immigrants' community not from viewpoint of residents but from frequent travellers.

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11 2011 - 3 2014

Grant number：23402059

Grant amount：\11440000 （ Direct Cost: \8800000 、 Indirect Cost：\2640000 ）

Brazil, the Czech Republic, Germany and Italy have compulsory school attendance for all children up to a certain age, regardless of nationality. In Germany and Italy, this system is based on the notion that all resident children should be provided the minimum general education by the state. In Brazil and the Czech Republic the situation concerning the education of migrant children is even more complex. In all four countries the authorities face the common difficulty of identifying non-citizen children. On the contrary, China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand as well as Japan, have no system of compulsory school attendance for children of non-citizens. This policy is based on the educational philosophy that the State is responsible for the provision of compulsory education only to country nationals. Each nation has established mechanisms to provide additional local language support, however effective systems to maintain the mother tongue of students are lacking.

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4 2010 - 3 2014

Grant number：22252007

Grant amount：\34190000 （ Direct Cost: \26300000 、 Indirect Cost：\7890000 ）

In this research, first,I elucidated the preseant situation, issues, and prospects of citizenship education in the 10 ASEAN countries by means of policy, planning, and curriculum analysis, together with a survey of awareness of students of primary school, junior high school, and high school concerning citizenship, and Delphi Survey (future forecasting survey method) to the experts on citizenship education : school teachers, university professors, educational supervisors, school directors, and PTA heads. Second, I elucidated education for "ASEANness," conceived as part of the creation of the ASEAN Community to be established by 2015. Third, I proposed citizenship education model for the ASEAN countries and a model of education for ASEANness.

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2007 - 2009

Grant number：19520065

Grant amount：\4550000 （ Direct Cost: \3500000 、 Indirect Cost：\1050000 ）

This is a fundamental research on Christian education in Japan, especially, Catholic education, which grew under the influence of foreign missionaries and religious orders. The main materials and historical documents concerning of Catholic schools and religious orders connected with those schools in Japan were collected for further research, which has becoming more difficult to obtain with decrease of the members of religious orders. The relations of Catholic schools and religious orders were considered especially with attention of the relations of educational activities in those schools and spirituality or mission statement of religious orders. Also it became clear that change of formation of new successors of those schools with the drop of the numbers of religious orders influenced on educational activities and contents of those schools.

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2006 - 2008

Grant number：18320019

Grant amount：\10170000 （ Direct Cost: \8700000 、 Indirect Cost：\1470000 ）

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2006 - 2007

Grant number：18530659

Grant amount：\4050000 （ Direct Cost: \3600000 、 Indirect Cost：\450000 ）

This study tries to make clear the differences in the English Education for Primary School Children in four countries, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. Major objects of this study are to find the following issues.
1) Policy and history of English education where have been
2) Textbooks, educational materials, facilities and teaching methods in teaching and learning English which are actually used in classroom.
3) Effective and desired curriculum and pedagogy for teaching English recommended by government or ministry.
4) Teachers training and development for enhancing their teaching skills and capacities to adapt the new curriculum and pedagogy.
In order to get the above information, data and materials, our members had visited primary schools, teacher's colleges and the related agencies, and to interview their staffs.
In Thailand, the basic education curriculum was introduced in 2001 and English became a requirement from the first grader in all the primary schools.
In Malaysia, the reform to teach the science and arithmetic in English in all the primary schools was introduced in 2003.
In Singapore, the SEED-EL (Strategies for Effective Engagement and Development of Pupils in English Language) program will be introduced into all the primary schools from 2008.
In the Philippines, in order to correspond to the globalization, English Language Education is valued again.

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4 2003 - 3 2006

Authorship：Principal investigator  Grant type：Competitive

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2005 - 2006

Grant number：17520059

Authorship：Coinvestigator(s) 

Grant amount：\3200000 （ Direct Cost: \3200000 ）

In Japan, there have been almost no historical researches on Catholic education. Therefore the aim of this research is to collect the resources and historical documents concerning Catholic schools and religious orders connected to those Catholic schools in Japan and to build a database of those resources. Also survey questionnaires were sent to Catholic Universities, junior Colleges, high schools, junior high schools and elementary schools and put into that database.
Because of the limitation of historical documents of those Catholic schools, we visited several Catholic schools in Hokkaido, Okinawa, Fukuoka, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, and Tokyo to have hearing investigations to take up those documents. Concerning International Catholic religious orders, we collected materials of the religious orders in the Philippines to compare with those in Japan.

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2004 - 2005

Grant number：16530550

Grant amount：\3000000 （ Direct Cost: \3000000 ）

This study is aimed to clarify present situation and challenges of environmental education in Southeast Asia countries ;
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, from three viewpoints as the following :
1.The framework of formal or non-formal environmental education,
2.The situation of reflection of value, such as Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, etc., and
3.Features in the environmental education curricula, textbooks and teaching materials, and the educational method which are ;
(1)International common feature such as global environmental consciousness,
(2)Difference found from the viewpoint such as cultural environmental view, of value education, such as traditional culture, religion, etc., and
(3)Difference in the educational method
In the school education of each country, the curricula of the environmental education across boundaries consisting mainly in social studies and science are performed. NGO's activities are used for the experienced environmental education as supplementation of formal education.
In the textbooks and teaching materials, the contents treated the religion moral value over environment are also emphasized. They are natural faith of each region, or Buddhist events in Thailand ; the Islamic or values, such as environment as a creature of God", and "human beings' responsibility for "environment", etc. in Malaysia ; and the Catholic principle of Philippines. In Singapore, there are little religious descriptions in connection with the environment in the textbooks.
The educational method emphasizing on experience and critical thinking has many portions common in each country, and can be considered as global standard approach.
However, cultural-religious sense of values of each country is not necessarily functioning as an effective factor for expanding global environmental consciousness.
Moreover, there are also examples of connection between government organization and NGO (NPO) s, and extremely strong Government control, so there is a danger that only convenient environmental education for the State will be partially emphasized.

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4 2003 - 3 2004

Authorship：Principal investigator  Grant type：Competitive

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4 2002 - 3 2003

Authorship：Principal investigator  Grant type：Competitive

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2002 - 2003

Grant number：14510033

Grant amount：\3700000 （ Direct Cost: \3700000 ）

(1)Workshop: A workshop, entitled "Comparative Research on Religious Education in Japan and South Korea: How to treat 'Religion' in Public Education," was held by research organization members (including affiliated overseas researchers) at the tenth annual meeting of the Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society in June of 2002. Based on our results of having researched religious education in since 1990, discussions were held and a new categoly was proposed, "education on religious culture," as a possibility for religious education in public schools instead of the conventional 'education on religious knowledge" or "cultivation of aesthetic sentiments". In regard to recent advanced information societies and globalization, it becomes very important that religions are to be treated as a subject of cross-cultural education. These discussions were collected into a book, a separate volume of Shukyo to Shakai [Religion and Society], which was published in 2003, and part of these papers will be translated into English and published in 2004.
(2)Results of Student Survey: Interview surveys of the religious attitudes of students in Japan and South Korea were conducted in February and March in 2003. Survey results suggest that South Korea students take a much positive attitude toward religion than Japanese students, and students in South Korea tend to positively evaluate the religious education they have had. Moreover the surveys revealed that in South Korea, the religious beliefs of mothers had an important role in forming their children's views about religion.
(3)Collecting Results and Meetings for Joint Publishing: In June, 2002, March, and February, 2004, meetings were held by Japanese and South Korea researchers. At the last meeting, discussions were held about publishing a volume of research papers to collect and examine our results.

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4 2000 - 3 2001

Grant type：Competitive

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2000 - 2001

Grant number：12610031

Grant amount：\3600000 （ Direct Cost: \3600000 ）

1. Result of Student Survey : A survey of the religious attitudes of students in Japan and South Korea was conducted in 2000. In Japan, the sample included responses from 6,483 individuals at a total of 42 universities, colleges and professional schools, while in South Korea, 2, 160 responses were obtained from individuals at 12 similar institutions. Results of the survey suggest that South Korean students take a much more positive attitude toward religion than Japanese students, and students in Japan and South Korea tend to display more interest in paranormal phenomena such as the supernatural, the occult, and divination rather than in religion proper. Moreover, around fifty percent of students in both countries display involvement in some level of ancestral veneration or other folk customs. Results of the survey were published in both Japanese and Korean. In 2001, a follow-up survey was conducted of 5,759 students at 38 universities, colleges and professional schools in Japan, and the results reconfirmed the present low state of Japanese students' interest in religion, and the fact that about half are involved in some form of religious customs. At present, work is underway to conduct an interview survey of Korean students in order to provide qualitative data.
2. International Symposium and Joint Publishing of Comparative Research on Religious Education in Japan and South Korea. : In February, 2001, an international symposium was held in Pusan, South Korea, and was attended by researchers from Japan and South Korea in the fields of Religious Studies, Education, and Sociology. Discussions were held comparing the history and current state of educational systems and religious education in Japan and South Korea. On the basis of these discussions, plans are currently underway to publish a volume of research papers dealing with religious education in the two countries, in collaboration with Korean researchers.

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4 1998 - 3 1999

Grant type：Competitive

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1998 - 1999

Grant number：10610029

Grant amount：\3400000 （ Direct Cost: \3400000 ）

1. Result of research survey on students
We made a questionnaire survey on religious consciousness of students between April and June of 1999. The number of samples amounted to 10,941 that were gained from a total of 73 universities, colleges and professional schools. By this research, we found that the ratio who answered that they believed in religion was 7.9%. However, about 20 % of students answered that they believe in God (or gods). More students believed in spiritual beings. They tend to show more interest in supernatural phenomenon, occult or divination than religion.
2. Comparison between Japanese students and Korean students
We delivered almost same questionnaire to over a thousand of Korean students to compare religious consciousness and attitude between two countries. 45% of Korean respondents answered that they believed in religion. The percentage is far more than that of Japanese students. Although image of religion is not good as a whole in Japan, it is relatively good in Korea. High interest to supernatural phenomenon, occult or divination among Korean students is just same as in Japan.
3. Discussion on religious education in Japan and Korea.
Discussion with Korean scholars concerning religious education made clear the difference between two countries.

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4 1993 - 3 1994

Grant type：Competitive

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4 1990 - 3 1991

Grant type：Competitive

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