SUNAGA, Emiko

Project Research Fellow, The Uehiro Project for the Asian Research Library (U-PARL), The University of Tokyo; Visiting Researcher, Asia-Japan Research Institute, Ritsumeikan University Specialized field: Area Studies (Pakistan), Publication in Religion
Degree: Ph.D. in Area Studies (Kyoto University), 2013
Doctoral Thesis: (In Japanese) Islamic Revival and Urdu Publication in Pakistan: A Study of Maulana Maududi as a Writer and a Thinker
Recent Papers: 1. KUMAKURA, W., SUNAGA, E. “Visualizing Academic Networks and Trends through Acknowledgements: Japanese Scholars in Islam-related Studies,” Digital Humanities 2022 Tokyo, 28th July 2022, pp. 510-512. 2. (In Japanese) Sunaga, Emiko. “Transition of a Research Topic in South Asia: A Text Mining Based Analysis of Online Journal Databases,” Takasaki Shoka Daigaku Kiyo, Vol.37, 2022, pp. 211-216 (ISSN: 1347-703X). 3. (In Japanese) Sunaga, Emiko. “A Language Connecting Different Languages: The Role of Urdu in the Indian Ocean World,” in Kuroki Hidemitsu and Goto Emi, (eds.) Connecting from Islam 1: Introduction to Islamic Trust Studies, 2023, pp.83-98 (ISBN: 978-4130343510)．
Recent Research Interests: Using digital humanities to visualize Pakistan's publishing industry, the archive of Urdu materials in a digital form