KAWASE Akihiro

Profile

Associate Professor at Doshisha University. Completed a Ph.D. in the Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology at Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2011, specializing in the analysis of traditional Japanese folk music using statistical methods. Since 2021, I have held my current position, focusing on cultural analysis through the methods of Digital Humanities. My research explores the structures, meanings, and transformations behind various cultural phenomena, including makeup, narrative theory, manzai comedy, traditional music, and cultural capital.

Career
  • 2021.04　Associate Professor, Faculty of Cultural and Information Science, Doshisha University.
  • 2016.04　Assistant Professor, Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University.
  • 2011.05　Researcher, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics Center for Corpus Development.
Awards (excerpts)
  • Adachi, J. and Kawase, A.: Honorable Mention Award (Pacific Neiborhood Consortium 2024 Annual Conference and Joint Meetings) (2024)
  • Kawase, A.: Best Paper Award (Culture and Computing 2017) (2017)
  • Kawase, A.: ADHO Bursary Award (Digital Humanities 2014) (2014)
  • Kawase, A., Ichimura, T., Ogiso, T.: Best Poster Award Gold Prize (IPSJ SIG-CH/PNC/ECAI/CIAS Joint Symposium) (2013)
  • Kawase, A.: Teshima Seiichi Memorial Research Award, (Tokyo Institute of Technology) (2012)
Selected Research Grants (Principal Investigator)
  • Tobacco Academic Studies Center: 2024 TASC Research Grant (April 2024 – March 2025)
  • KOSÉ Cosmetology Research Foundation: 2023 Cosmetology Research Grant (December 2023 – March 2026)
  • JSPS KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research): Quantitative Analysis of the Propagation and Transformation of Japanese Nursery Rhymes (April 2021 – March 2023)
  • Kyoto University Southeast Asian Area Studies Research Center: Resource Sharing and Promotion of Correlative Area Studies (April 2021 – March 2022)
  • Doshisha University: Urgent Research Topics Related to COVID-19 (April 2020 – March 2021)
  • Kyoto University Southeast Asian Area Studies Research Center: Resource Sharing and Promotion of Correlative Area Studies (April 2019 – March 2021)
  • Suntory Foundation: 2018 Interdisciplinary Group Research Grant in Humanities and Social Sciences (August 2018 – July 2019)
  • JSPS KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research): Quantitative Analysis of the Regional Characteristics of Japanese Folk Songs through Melodic and Phonological Comparison (April 2018 – March 2021)
  • Suntory Foundation: 2017 Interdisciplinary Group Research Grant in Humanities and Social Sciences (August 2017 – July 2018)
  • Murata Science Foundation: Academic Conference Grant (June 2017 – March 2018)
  • Kyoto University Southeast Asian Area Studies Research Center: Resource Sharing and Promotion of Correlative Area Studies (April 2017 – March 2019)
  • Kyoto University Area Studies Research Center: Resource Sharing and Promotion of Correlative Area Studies (April 2016 – March 2017)
  • Suntory Foundation: Challenge Research Grant for Early-Career Researchers (April 2015 – March 2016)
  • JSPS KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Research): Quantitative Analysis of Regional Characteristics in Japanese Folk Songs through Melodic and Phonological Comparison (April 2015 – March 2018)
Academic Memberships
  • Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
  • Information Processing Society of Japan
  • Japan Society of Information and Knowledge
  • The Japan Statistical Society
  • Japanese Society of Computational Statistics
  • Association for Natural Language Processing
  • Japanese Cognitive Science Society
  • The Color Science Association of Japan
  • The Society for Japanese Folk Music
Social Activities
  • Member of the Preparatory Committee for the Information and Knowledge Online Seminar, Japan Society of Information and Knowledge (2021–2022)
  • Director, Secretary-General, and Event Planning Committee Member, The Society for Japanese Folk Music (2019–2022)
  • Secretary, Special Interest Group on Humanities and Computers, Information Processing Society of Japan (2019–2021)
  • Program Committee Member, International Conference on Digital Humanities (2017–2019)
  • Program Committee Member, Symposium on Humanities and Computers, Information Processing Society of Japan (2017–2018)
  • Local Arrangement Chair, International Conference on Culture and Computing 2017 (2017)
  • Chair, Organizing Committee, Japanese Association for Digital Humanities International Conference 2017 (2017)
  • Executive Board Member, Japanese Association for Digital Humanities (2016–Present)
  • Editorial Board Member, Special Issue of “Humanities and Computers,” Transactions of the Information Processing Society of Japan (2016–Present)
  • Peer Reviewer, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (2014–Present)
  • Peer Reviewer and Session Chair, International Conference on Affective Engineering (2013–2014)
  • Director, Secretary-General, and Research Committee Member, The Society for Japanese Folk Music (2013–2016)
  • Executive Committee Member (2011–2022) and Chair of the Executive Committee (2012), The Society for Japanese Folk Music
Contact
  • MK210 1-3 Tatara Miyakodani Kyotanabe-shi Kyoto 610-0394
  • E-mail : akawase [at] mail.doshisha.ac.jp
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