2011 - 2016 A Social Experiment of Archiving Facility and Building Methodology of Management of it Using the Unraveled Mechanism of Accumulating Memories in Local Daily Lives
2012 - 2015 History and Citizenship Education: A Comparative Study on Pedagogy and Practice
2011 - 2014 Anthropological and folklore research of childbirth and child-rearing culture in modern and contemporary Japan with suggestion of its desirable future plans
2011 - 2011 Civil society and the practices of folkloristics:comparison between Japan and Germany of the social arrangement of universities, cultural policy, and civic activities
2008 - 2010 文化財保護制度における世界遺産条約の戦略的受容と運用に関する日韓比較研究
2007 - 2009 A Comparative Study of the History of Folklore Studies since the 1950s in Germany and Japan : Academic Interests and Society
2005 - 2007 Folkloristic Research on Conservation and Management of Landscape as Local Resource
2002 - 2006 文化資源の生成と利用
2001 - 2003 Cultural Policies, Heritage Industry and Folklorism : Revitalizing local areas and folk cultures
1998 - 2001 Folkloristic study about changes of religious service to the war dead and views of the ancestor
1997 - 1999 Anthropological Study of Japanese Feature of Endogenous Development of Village
1996 - 1998 Japanese Identity early in the Bcginning of Modern Japan Folklore and Folklife Department
1996 - 1998 Anthropological Study of Urbanization Process in Korea
1995 - 1997 Folklore and Thought ; function of folklore on enculturation
Iwamoto Michiya, Shinohara Satoko, Otsuki Toshio, Kuroishi Izumi, Kayanoki Madoka, Katsuya Takeyuki, Ishimaru Akiko. "Ordinary Lifestyle" from the Viewpoint of Folkloristics : An Interview with Prof. Michiya Iwamoto, Former President of the Folklore Society of Japan. Journal of architecture and building science. 2015. 1670. 10-15
岩本 通弥. "当たり前"と"生活疑問"と"日常" (特集 日中韓・高層集合住宅の暮らし方とその生活世界). 日常と文化 = Everyday life and culture = 일상과 문화 = 日常生活和文化 = Alltag und Kultur. 2015. 1. 1-14
THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH OF MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
, THE JAPANESE SOCIETY OF CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
, THE FOLKLORE SOCIETY OF JAPAN
, 比較家族史学会
, 現代民俗学会