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Undergraduate School School of Global Japanese Studies Associate Professor
Title
Associate Professor
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眞嶋亜有「両想いの人生を」『MEIJI NOW』新入生特集号(2017年春)16ページ所収
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Degree

  • 学術博士 ( 2004.3   国際基督教大学大学院 )

Research Interests

  • 土足

  • 比較文化

  • 母子癒着と父の疎外

  • 心性

  • 社会と文化

  • ジェンダー

  • 家族

  • 一足制と二足制

  • 美醜

  • 病気観

  • 足白癬

  • 清潔概念

  • 生活文化

  • 水虫

  • 西洋化

  • 生活様式

  • 近現代日本

  • 人種意識

  • 身体

  • 日米比較

  • ウェルネス資本主義

  • 比較と競争と幸福論

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Gender studies

  • Humanities & social sciences / Home economics, lifestyle science

  • Humanities & social sciences / Cultural anthropology and folklore

  • Humanities & social sciences / History - General

  • Humanities & social sciences / Literature - Japanese

  • Humanities & social sciences / History of thought

  • Humanities & social sciences / History - Japan

  • Humanities & social sciences / Local studies

  • Humanities & social sciences / Social psychology

  • Other / Other

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Education

  • International Christian University

    2001.4 - 2004.3

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    Country/Region: Japan

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Research History

  • Stanford University   Center for East Asian Studies   Visiting Scholar

    2025.9 - 2026.3

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    Country/Region:United States

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  • Meiji University   School of Global Japanese Studies   Associate Professor

    2023.4

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  • Meiji University   School of Global Japanese Studies   Lecturer   Lecturer

    2015.4 - 2023.3

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  • Harvard University   Edwin O. Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies   Associate in Research

    2013.8

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  • International Christian University   Graduate School of Arts and Science   Adjunct Lecturer

    2010.12 - 2011.3

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  • International Christian University   College of Liberal Arts   Adjunct Lecturer

    2009.12 - 2010.3

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  • Harvard University   Department of Anthropology   Researher Postdoc   Associate

    2009.8 - 2013.7

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  • Harvard University   Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies   Researher Postdoc   Postdoctoral Fellow

    2008.8 - 2009.7

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  • International Christian University   Institute of Asian Cultural Studies   Researher Postdoc   Research Fellow

    2004.4 - 2020.3

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  • International Research Center for Japanese Studies   Special researcher of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science   JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow

    2004.4 - 2007.3

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  • Hosei University   Adjunct Lecturer

    2004.4 - 2004.7

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  • International Christian University   Division of Social Science, College of Liberal Arts

    2002.4 - 2004.3

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  • National Police Academy Adjunct Lecturer

    2001.10 - 2005.2

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  • National Police Academy   Adjunct Lecturer

    2001.10 - 2005.2

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  • Researcher

    2001.4 - 2018.3

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Papers

  • Athlete’s Foot As the Paradox of Cleanliness in Japan: Focusing on the Relationship between Tinea Pedis and Lifestyle in the 1990s Reviewed

    MAJIMA Ayu

    Journal of Popular Culture Association of Japan   ( 29 )   1 - 10   2023.3

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    Athlete's foot (tinea pedis) is remarkably intractable in Japan, as compared to the rest of the world. Although multiple factors are assumed to contribute to this intractability, the phenomenon is thought to be closely related to lifestyle habits such as bathing and shoelessness, in a humid climate. This paper focuses on the results of a survey conducted by dermatologists in the 1990s on the relationship between tinea pedis and such Japanese lifestyle habits, and argues that the intractability of athlete's foot in Japan is in fact caused by those habits. Therefore, it can be said that athlete’s foot in Japan reflects the paradox of cleanliness. More importantly, shoelessness was considered almost the only psychological resistance to the "westernization" that Japan had been pursuing at every level since the Meiji era. With this in mind, it can be said that in Japan athlete's foot even contains the key to understanding a part of the structure of the Japanese mindset.

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  • An Overview of Slippers in Modern Japan: A Perspective on Japanization in the Context of Westernization Reviewed

    <U>MAJIMA Ayu</U>

    The Japan Association of Comparative Culture   ( 149 )   137 - 149   2022.10

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    Slippers in Japan (written as スリッパ in katakana/Japanese) and in Europe/North America are similar, but different in essence. Although the words are the same, the purposes for which they are used differ. In Japan, slippers hold a significant place in Japanese lifestyle culture, yet they have not been the focus of attention as a subject of observation or research. Accordingly, it has been difficult to grasp the nature of slippers or the socio-cultural structures that can be seen behind them. While slippers in Japan may appear to be a simple adoption of a common western item, in fact, they are uniquely Japanese and closely related to many aspects of Japanese lifestyle culture, including human relationships and mindsets. This paper examines the historical and socio-cultural aspects of slippers and considers how slippers in Japan offer a concrete example of the Japanizing of western concepts from the Meiji period to present.

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  • An Examination of Shoe Removal and the Myth of Cleanliness: A Study of Slippers and Sanitation Management in Public Spaces in Japan Reviewed

    MAJIMA, Ayu

    13 ( 1 )   57 - 76   2021.3

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  • 眞嶋亜有「水虫からみる比較生活文化論の試みー日本におけるその社会的文化的背景への一考察に向けて」『明治大学人文科学研究所紀要』第86冊、2020年、35−74頁 Reviewed

    35 - 74   2020.3

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  • Ayu MAJIMA “Eating Meat, Seeking Modernity: Food and Imperialism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Japan.” (republication) In Critical Readings on Food in East Asia edited by K.J. Cwiertka. Pp. 95-121. Leiden: Brill. 2012 Reviewed

    95 - 121   2012

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  • Ayu MAJIMA “Skin Color Melancholy in Modern Japan: Japanese Male Elites and Racial Experiences Abroad: 1880s to 1950s” in Race and Racism in Modern Asia: Western Constructions and Eastern Reactions edited by Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel. Pp.391-410. Leiden: Brill. 2012 Reviewed

    391 - 410   2012

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  • 眞嶋亜有「20世紀初頭の米国におけるathlete's footの成立」 Reviewed

    眞嶋 亜有

    生活學論叢   17   3 - 13   2010

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  • 眞嶋亜有「差別化という模倣—近代日本の身体文化の“西洋化”とその人種的限界—」p.59-p.71 2007年 国際日本文化研究センター&カイロ大学共催国際シンポジウム論文報告集『グローバリゼーション、ローカリゼーションと日本研究』国際日本文化研究センター

    59 - 71   2007

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  • 眞嶋亜有「肉食という近代 ―明治期日本における食肉軍事需要と肉食観の特徴―」 Reviewed

    真嶋 亜有, マジマ アユ, Ayu Majima

    国際基督教大学学報 3-A,アジア文化研究別冊   11 ( 11 )   213 - 230   2002.9

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  • Ayu MAJIMA「Eating Meat, Seeking Modernity: Food and Imperialism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Japan」p.95-p.121 2002, March. Reviewed

    ICU Comparative Culture   34   2002.3

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  • 肉食という近代--明治期日本における食肉軍事需要と肉食観の特徴 Reviewed

    真嶋 亜有

    アジア文化研究別冊   ( 11 )   213 - 230   2002

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  • 朝鮮牛--朝鮮植民地化と日本人の肉食経験の契機 Reviewed

    真嶋 亜有

    風俗史学   ( 20 )   8 - 25   2002

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Books

  • 眞嶋亜有「天皇・マッカーサー写真の衝撃」半藤一利, 船橋洋一, 出口治明, 水野和夫, 佐藤優, 保阪正康 他著『大人のための昭和史入門』文春新書、2015年

    ( Role: Joint author)

    文藝春秋  2015.8 

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  • 眞嶋亜有『「肌色」の憂鬱—近代日本の人種体験—』中公叢書

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    中央公論新社  2014.7 

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    Total pages:392頁   Language:Japanese   Book type:Scholarly book

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  • Ayu MAJIMA “Skin Color Melancholy in Modern Japan: Japanese Male Elites and Racial Experiences Abroad: 1880s to 1950s” in Race and Racism in Modern Asia: Western Constructions and Eastern Reactions edited by Rotem Kowner and Walter Demel. Pp.391-410. Leiden: Brill. 2012

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    2012 

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    Total pages:19頁   Responsible for pages:391-410   Language:English  

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  • Ayu MAJIMA “Eating Meat, Seeking Modernity: Food and Imperialism in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Japan.” (republication) In Critical Readings on Food in East Asia edited by K.J. Cwiertka. Pp. 95-121. Leiden: Brill. 2012

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    Brill, Leiden  2012 

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    Total pages:26頁   Responsible for pages:95-121   Language:English  

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  • 眞嶋亜有「水虫—近現代日本の栄光とその痕跡—」p.89-p.128 2005年6月 思文閣出版 園田英弘編『逆欠如の日本生活文化—日本にあるものは世界にあるか—』

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    思文閣出版  2005.6 

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    Total pages:41   Responsible for pages:89-128   Language:Japanese  

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  • 眞嶋亜有「黄色人種という運命の超克—近代日本エリート層の〈肌色〉をめぐる人種的ジレンマの系譜—」 p.106-p.136 2004年8月 青弓社 栗山茂久・北澤一利編『近代日本の身体感覚』

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    青弓社  2004.8 

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    Total pages:30   Responsible for pages:106-136   Language:Japanese  

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  • 眞嶋亜有「華麗なる〈有色人種〉という現実 —明治期日本人エリートの洋装にみる洋行経験の光と影」p.94-p.104 2004年5月 せりか書房 伊藤守編『文化の実践・文化の研究:増殖するカルチュラル・スタデイーズ』

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    2004.5 

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  • 眞嶋亜有「身体の〈西洋化〉を巡る情念の系譜 —明治・大正期日本における〈一等国〉としての身体美の追求と其の挫折—」p.219-p.240 2003年11月 慶應義塾大学出版会 武藤浩史・榑沼範久編『運動+(反)成長 身体医文化論Ⅱ』

    ( Role: Sole authorp.219-p.240)

    慶應義塾大学出版会  2003.11 

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MISC

  • Representations of Slippers and Salarymen in Postwar Japan Clues from Corporate Life such as Holiday Parties, Company Trips, and Sandals in the Office

    MAJIMA Ayu

    The Bulletin of Arts and Sciences Meiji University   ( 566 )   135 - 163   2022.12

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Presentations

  • The Paradox of Cleanliness?: The Stigma of Athlete’s foot and Shame Issues in Japan”,

    6th East Asian Public Health Symposium,  2010.5  Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

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    Venue:Massachusetts, USA  

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  • 「水虫と日本人:清潔と恥をめぐる日米比較から」

    ボストン日本人研究者交流会  2010.4  ボストン日本人研究者交流会

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    Venue:Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA  

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  • 「孤独とはなにか―この,人を魅了し,さいなませるもの―」(The Allure of Loneliness: Suffering and Longing for the Self-Differentiation in the Modern Era)

    ICUアジアンフォーラム  2010.1  ICUアジア文化研究所

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    Venue:国際基督教大学、東京、日本  

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  • 「清潔文明の逆説としての水虫―その日米比較と“伝統”的生活様式との関連から―」(Mizumushi and Athlete’s foot:Paradoxical Process of Cleanliness and Body in Modern Japan) International conference

    国際スポーツ社会学会国際大会  2008.7  国際スポーツ社会学会

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    Venue:京都大学、京都、日本  

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  • 「なぜ日本は水虫大国となったのか―水虫をめぐる日米間の比較生活文化史的観点から―」

    第19回住宅総合研究財団世界のすまい方フォーラム  2008.5  世界の住まい方フォーラム

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    Venue:鉄鋼会館、東京、日本  

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  • 「水虫問題という日本生活文化~その歴史的展開と日米間の社会・文化史的比較」日本生活学会

    日本生活学会  2007.10  日本生活学会

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    Venue:早稲田大学、東京、日本  

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  • “Facing the "Yellow" Faces: Discourses on Bodily Beauty and Racial Dilemma Among Elites in Early 20th Century Japan”

    International Symposium on “Globalization, Localization and Japanese Studies”  2006.11  Cairo University and International Research Center for Japanese Studies

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    Venue:Cairo University, Egypt  

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  • 「水虫とathlete's foot: その日英米間の社会・文化史的比較」

    第202回近代社会史研究会  2006.4  近代社会史研究会

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    Venue:京大会館、京都、日本  

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  • 「香港脚という日本文化?―〈水虫〉大国・日本をめぐる比較生活文化的考察-」,単独発表,香港

    香港中文大学&国際日本文化研究センター共催国際シンポジウム「グローバリゼーション,ローカリゼーションと日本研究」  2005.10  中文大学&国際日本文化研究センター

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    Venue:香港中文大学、香港  

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  • 「肉か野菜か―肉食をめぐる幻想の交流史―」

    ブリア・サヴァラン生誕250周年記念国際シンポジウム「食とグローバリゼーション:歴史的観点から見る料理」  2005.10  日仏会館

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    Venue:日仏会館、東京、日本  

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  • 「〈イエロー〉という運命の超克―近代日本エリート層の洋行経験における美醜観―」

    お茶の水女子大学ジェンダー研究所「モガ研究会」  2005.6  お茶の水女子大学ジェンダー研究所

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    Venue:お茶の水女子大学、東京、日本  

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  • 「Asian Beautyというパラドックス-美のグローバル化の歴史と近未来―」

    第26回日本顔学会イブニングセミナー  2004.12  日本顔学会

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    Venue:東京大学、東京、日本  

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  • 「身体美醜という運命―近代日本エリート層の人種的ジレンマと其の可視化の系譜―」,

    ICUアジア文化研究所主催シンポジウム「視覚化された近代性―19世紀後半から20世紀半ばまで-」  2003.12  ICUアジア文化研究所

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    Venue:国際基督教大学、東京、日本  

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  • 「身体の《西洋化》を巡る日本の苦悩―大都市エリート層における身体美への情熱と挫折の明治大正史―」

    カルチュラル・スタディーズフォーラム主催シンポジウム「カルチュラル・タイフーン」  2003.6  カルチュラル・スタディーズフォーラム

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  • 「Are Japanese ugly?: The Paradoxical Discourse on Body and "Beauty" among Male Intellectuals in Early 20th Century Japan」 International conference

    Asian Studies Conference Japan  2003.6  Asian Studies Conference Japan

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    Venue:Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan  

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  • 「植民地・朝鮮半島における在朝日本人の肉食嗜好と其の特性」

    国際交流基金主催・ICU&韓国外国語大学日韓合同シンポジウム  2002.8  国際交流基金

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    Venue:韓国  

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  • 「明治・大正期日本における牛肉の文化的・政治的記号性と近代性」

    日本家政学会食文化研究部会  2002.5  日本家政学会食文化研究部会

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    Venue:謙堂文庫、東京、日本  

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  • 「“美しい”身体を求めて―近代日本における身体劣等意識の諸言説―」

    慶應義塾大学身体医文化論研究会  2002.3  慶應義塾大学身体医文化論研究会

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    Venue:慶應義塾大学日吉キャンパス  

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  • 「朝鮮牛という近代の味覚」

    国際交流基金主催・国際基督教大学&韓国外国語大学・日韓合同シンポジウム  2002.1  国際交流基金

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    Venue:国際基督教大学、東京、日本  

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  • “The Chrysanthemum and the Foot: Civilization, Cleanliness and Shame in Modern Japan”

    Harvard Japan Forum,  Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University

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    Venue:Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA  

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Works

  • 眞嶋亜有「人間宣言 昭和二十一(一九四六)年 天皇・マッカーサー写真の衝撃」 『大人の近現代史入門 ー日本近現代史がわかる 最重要テーマ20』文藝春秋Special

    眞嶋 亜有

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  • 東京の多文化主義社会への可能性--在日ムスリムと食のタブーを手がかりに (特集 食をめぐるタブーの運命)

    真嶋 亜有

    2001

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Awards

  • 第23回連合駿台会学術賞

    2017.1   明治大学  

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Research Projects

  • Interdisciplinary Research on Lifestyle, Family, and Mindsets in Modern Japan: An International Comparative Analysis of Attitudes toward "Athlete's Foot"

    Grant number:21K01088  2021.4 - 2025.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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  • 近現代日本の生活文化・家族・心性の学際研究:水虫をめぐる国際比較を通じて

    2021.4 - 2024.3

    日本学術振興会  科研費  基盤研究C

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  • 「21世紀日本におけるソフトパワーの地域拠点としてのTSUKIJI:2012年以降の市場移転に向けて築地文化の再創造と世界発信の為のブランド構築―」

    2008.11 - 2010.10

    トヨタ財団研究助成プログラム 

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    Grant amount:\5950000 ( Direct Cost: \5950000 )

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  • 「近代日本における身体の〈西洋化〉と其の人種的側面を巡る社会・文化史研究」

    2004.4 - 2007.3

    特別研究員奨励費 

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

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  • 近現代日本における身体の「西洋化」をめぐる諸問題

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