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Our Team of Researchers and Management Staff
Consulting Team
Japan and the languages of Japan have been, from the time immemorial, on the cross-roads of migrations and trades of the maritime and central east Asia; therefore, the etymological composition of the Japonic languages is extremely complex. It includes the loan-words and grammatical elements from various languages in these areas, which are introduced below along with the leading specialists on the history of these languages.
Japonic Languages
Alexander VOVIN
EHESS, France
NINJAL, Japan
John WHITMAN
Cornell University, U.S.A.
Oxford University, U.K.
NINJAL, Japan
Nicolaus Copernicus, Poland
Non-Linguistic Consultants
Field of Specialty
Japanese Premodern Literature
Japanese Premodern History
Japanese Premodern Literature
Japanese Religion and Philosophy
Japanese Archeology
Japanese Religion
Affiliation
Independent, Japan
University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Moscow State University, Russia
University of Hawai'i, U.S.A.
Archeological Research Center of Nagano, Japan
University of Vienna
Collaborating Research Institutes
NINJAL (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
The University of Auckland
National University of Mongolia