Research theme for competitive and other funds (35):
2023 - 2027 Effective human rights protection system (human rights law) consisting of pluralistic actors linking constitutions and human rights treaties
2023 - 2026 Reconstruction of the 'Borders' of Post-War Japan: Its Multi-Layered Legal Structure
2022 - 2025 Review on the State's right of control of immigration, emigration and stay of foreigners in the light of contemporary international obligations under human rights conventions and constitutional law
2022 - 2025 グローバル化による憲法秩序の規律空間の変容とその課題
2021 - 2024 Japanese Influences on International Law
2018 - 2023 The Statehood of Modern Japan in the Context of East Asia; For Theoretical Reorganization of Public Law in Contemporary World
2019 - 2022 移住労働者とその家族の国際人権保護基準に基づいた法基盤整備の総合的研究
2019 - 2022 グローバル化時代における憲法秩序の再構築
2018 - 2022 Theory on a plural, non-hierarchical and circulatory system for human rights protection by combining constitutional law and international human rights treaties
2018 - 2022 国境を越える立憲主義の成立可能性と国際法・憲法の基本概念
2016 - 2019 Impacts on the Member States Laws through ASEAN Economic Community Building
2015 - 2018 Problems and possibilities of interdisciplinary legal study and legal education in an age of globalization
2015 - 2018 Establishment of a new human rights protection system at an interface between internationalization of constitutional law and constitutionalization of international law
2014 - 2016 Mainstreaming of Human Rights in UN Human Rights Council; Functions of Intergovernmentalism
2013 - 2016 Formation of New Administrative Law in the Governance Space of Globalization and Public-Private Collabolation
2014 - 2016 アジアにおける国際的人権保障制度の実施と課題
2012 - 2015 Toward a Conceptualization on Structure of Constitutionalization of European Regional Order through an Analysis of Implementation of the Human Rights Convention
2011 - 2015 Application of International Environmental Law before Japanese Courts: Towards Creating Foundation for its Better Application
2010 - 2014 The Effectiveness of the United Nations Human Rights Council: a focus on the Universal Periodic Review
2011 - 2013 Dialog between judges and political branches in domestic implementation of international obligations in Japan
2011 - 2011 The Legal Assistance in Administrative Law and Global Administrative Law
2008 - 2010 Harmonization and its Limits of the Human Rights Norms in Europe
2007 - 2009 Development and Challenges of Follow-Up to Concluding Observations of States Parties' Reports under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
2005 - 2008 National Integration and Formation of Multi-Ethnic Society in Estonia and Latvia after EU Enlargement
2003 - 2006 Protection of the Persons and Property of Foreigners in the Modern International Law
2004 - 2005 General study of the regional protection of th international human rights--in the focus of the European Convention of Human Rights and its Court
2001 - 2004 The history and today's situation of Russian-speaking population in Estonia and Latvia--from the view point of the contemporary history of European integration and the formation of multi-ethnic society
2002 - 2003 Studies in Reorganization and Reinforcement of the International Cooporative Networks after the End of Cold War
2002 - 2003 General study of the European Court of Human Rights...as a model of the international human rights protections system
1998 - 2000 The Research of the Linkage between Economic Cooperation and Human Rights
Making of a Multifold Conception of International Law in Post-WWII Japan; Some Reflections on TABATA Shigejiro in the Period of the Allied Occupation
(Taiwan-Japan Workshop on Japan's Contribution to International Law 2023)
Acceptance of the Tokyo Trial at the Level of Normative Mind-set among Japanese Lawyers
(Korea-Japan Workshop on International Law Comparative Analysis of Japan’s Approaches to International Law 2023)
WHY ARE WE DOING A MISSION IMPOSSIBLE? CHALLENGES OF THE SERIES OF THE ECTHR’S CASE LAW COMMENTARIES IN JAPANESE
(Human Rights in an Unstable World after Pandemic - Focusing on the recent case law of the ECtHR particularly in relation to social rights - 2023)
Toward A Version-Upgrade of the Value-Neutral Approach to Legal Cooperation
(2022)
Comments: Japanese Measures for Admission of Ukrainians; In the Context of Japanese Immigration Law and Policy
(Immigration Policy in Europe - Torn Between Demography, Values and War 2022)