Latest Research News:
Dragon Not for Sale: Commodification of Nature, Indigenous Multispecies Politics and Ecotourism from Below in Komodo National Park, Indonesia

In Komodo National Park in Eastern Indonesia, home…

2025.11.19

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New study uncovers immune recovery after hepatitis C treatment in people living with HIV in Indonesia

Youdiil Ophinni, Program-specific Assistant Profes…

2025.10.16

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When “Family-First” Lowers Second-Child Plans: Evidence from China

Public debate often blames low fertility on “untra…

2025.09.30

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A Novel Detection Approach for Accurately Extracting Finless Porpoise Vocalizations and Vessel Noise

Associate Professor Satoko S. Kimura and Mayu I. O…

2025.09.03

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Utilizing fruit flies to screen herbal compounds for type 2 diabetes mellitus

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a global health crisis…

2025.08.20

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Development of a highly sensitive diagnostic method for African swine fever (ASF) using pig oral fluid

Wataru Yamazaki, Professor of the Center for South…

2025.08.06

New Book Published
Majid Daneshgar, Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature: Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr al-Majalis (Edinburgh University Press)

From the Author This book is about the Persianate …

2025.06.10

New Book Published
Hajimu Masuda (ed.), Kisho Tsuchiya (contrib.), Cold War Asia: Unlearning Narratives, Making New Histories (The University of North Carolina Press)

From the Editor What comes to mind when you hear t…

2025.05.23

Latest Research News:
Aging in Southeast Asia and Japan: Challenges and Opportunities

An analysis of changes in life expectancy and fert…

2025.05.21

New Book Published:
Majid Daneshgar, Reconstructing Erpenius’ Library: The First Collection of Oriental Manuscripts at Cambridge University Library (Brill)

From the Author This volume is the first comprehen…

2024.12.12

Latest Research News:
Tele-group therapy for relapse prevention of substance use disorders in Indonesia: Development process and pilot study results

In Indonesia, the experience of people who use psy…

2024.06.26

New Book Published:
Kisho Tsuchiya, Emplacing East Timor: Regime Change and Knowledge Production, 1860–2010 (University of Hawai‘i Press)

From the Author Emplacing East Timor explores the …

2024.06.10

New Book Published:
Governing Philosophy and Violence: State and Society in Indonesia after Independence by Sachiko Imamura (University of Tokyo Press)

A book in Japanese, Tochi rinen to boryoku: Dokuri…

2024.05.31

New Book Published:
Yusuke Murakami (ed.), Political Crisis in Contemporary Peru: Shaky Democracy and Structural Problems (Series Asia Pacific Studies 7, Kokusai Shoin, in Japanese）

For more information, please visit the facultyR…

2024.03.29

New book released:
Pavin Chachavalpongpun, ed., Rama X: The Thai Monarchy under King Vajiralongkorn (Yale University Southeast Asia Studies)

For more information, please visit the Faculty’s P…

2024.03.27

New book released:
Kishi Toshihiko, Ishibashi Yuto and Ishii Kae (eds), Thinking about the History of Information, Communication and Media (Yamakawa History Lecture Series, Tokyo: Yamakawa Shuppansha Ltd., in Japanese)

From the Editor In 2018, the high school curriculu…

2023.10.25

The First Islamic Material at Cambridge University Library: Unearthing Bedwell’s Forgotten Manuscript

Dr. Majid Daneshgar‘s new essay about an Ara…

2023.09.19

Translating Persian Tafsir in Aceh: The Oldest Malay “Story of Joseph” at Cambridge University Library

A new essay written by our Associate Professor, Dr…

2023.08.24

New book released:
Kosuke Mizuno, Osamu Kozan, and Haris Gunawan (eds), Vulnerability and Transformation of Indonesian Peatlands (Springer Singapore)

From the Editors This book is the first volume of …

2023.05.12

A 15th-Century Persian Inscription from Bireuen, Aceh: An Early ‘Flash’ of Sufism before Fanṣūrī in Southeast Asia

Aceh has long been recognized as a major historica…

2023.04.18