External Research Funding


Date: 2022-2025 Award: ¥6,500,000

Area: Sociology Role: Principal Investigator

Title: SARS-CoV-2 attitudes and behaviours among Japanese youth:

Personality, national identity and the communication of public health discourse

Source: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (23K22178)


Date: 2019-2022 Award: ¥4,420,000

Area: Foreign Language Education Role: Principal Investigator

Title: Measuring L2 communication anxiety and task performance: A physiological approach

Source: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (19K00765)


Date: 2014-2018 Award: ¥2,600,000

Area: Foreign Language Education Role: Principal Investigator

Title: Representational parameters of the native speaker in Japanese higher education

Source: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (26770193)


Date: 2012-2015 Award: ¥3,120,000

Area: Foreign Language Education Role: Co-Investigator

Title: Beyond belief in the native speaker

Source: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (24520627)

Internal Research Funding


Date: 2024-2025 Award: ¥730,000

Area: Information Design Role: Principal Investigator

Title: Cycling information infrastructure design in the Oshima region

Source: Future University Hakodate Special Research Funding (B03)


Date: 2024-2025 Award: ¥790,000

Area: Information Systems Role: Co-Investigator

Title: Extrasomatic communication and NPC interactions in virtual reality

Source: Future University Hakodate Special Research Funding (B02)


Date: 2023-2024 Award: ¥517,000

Area: Information Systems Role: Principal Investigator

Title: ZWIFT as technological, social, and cultural practice in the post-COVID society

Source: Future University Hakodate Special Research Funding (B09)


Date: 2020-2021 Award: ¥632,000

Area: Educational Psychology Role: Principal Investigator

Title: 300-item five-factor measure of personality in predicting academic achievement

Source: Future University Hakodate Special Research Funding (E06)


Date: 2019-2020 Award: ¥297,000

Area: Educational Psychology Role: Principal Investigator

Title: Expectancy-value orientation and meta-learning strategies

Source: Future University Hakodate Special Research Funding (B03)


Date: 2018-2019 Award: ¥525,000

Area: Educational Psychology Role: Principal Investigator

Title: Cognitive and social antecedents of academic success

Source: Future University Hakodate Special Research Funding (B03)