Journal Articles

  • Takada, A. (2024). The formation of natural persons and diversity of attachment relationships in hunter-gatherer child-rearing. Hunter Gatherer Research.
  • Sekiguchi, K. & Takada, A. (2024). Reconsidering egalitarian principle among the San: Comparison of social changes among the remote area dwellers at Xade, New Xade, and Kag|ae in Ghanzi District, Botswana.Asian and African Area Studies, 24(1), 78-110.
  • Leepile, T. T., Mokomo, K., Bolaane, M. M. M., Andrew, J. D., Takada, A., Black, J. L., Jovel, E., and Karakochuk, C. D. (2021). Anemia prevalence and anthropometric status of indigenous women and young children in rural Botswana: The San people. Nutrients 2021: 13(4), 1105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu13041105.
  • Takada, A. (2020). Deepening the engagement with the environment: A case study of wayfinding practices among the G|ui/G||ana. Japanese Review of Cultural Anthropology: 20(2), 299-305.
  • Miki, T., Nishigami, T., Takebayashi, T., & Yamauchi, T. (2020). Association between central sensitization syndrome and psychological factors in people with presurgical low back pain: A cross-sectional study. Journal of Orthopaedic Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.jos.2020.03.017.
  • Mitsunaga, A., & Yamauchi, T. (2020). Evaluation of the nutritional status of rural children living in Zambia. Journal of Physiological Anthropology: 39(34). DOI: 10.1186/s40101-020-00244-8.
  • Nyambe, S., Agestika, L., & Yamauchi, T. (2020). The improved and the unimproved: Factors associated with peri-urban sanitation in Lusaka, Zambia. PLoS ONE, 15(5): e0232763. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0232763.
  • Nyambe S., & Yamauchi, T. (2021). Peri-Urban Water, Sanitation & Hygiene in Lusaka, Zambia: Photovoice empowering local assessment via ecological theory. Global Health Promotion. DOI: 10.1177/1757975921995713.
  • Annan, R.A., Sowah, S.A., Apprey, C., & Frimpomaa, N.A., Okonogi, S., Yamauchi, T., & Sakurai, T. (2020). Relationship between breakfast consumption, BMI status and physical fitness of Ghanaian school-aged children. BMC Nutrition, 6:19. DOI: 10.1186/s40795-020-00344-9.
  • Dinala, H., Sambo, J., Nyambe, S., & Yamauchi, T. (2020). A Comparative Report on Health and Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia. Sanitation Value Chain: 4(3), 37-60. DOI: 10.34416/svc.00025.
  • Hao, M., He, J., Zeng, Y., Han, W., Sai, A., & Yamauchi, T. (2021). A comprehensive assessment of hand washing: Knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) and hand-washing behaviors among primary school students in Northeast China. Sanitation Value Chain.DOI: 10.34416/svc.00026.
  • Isshiki, M., Naka, I., Watanabe, Y., Nishida, N., Kimura, R., Furusawa, T., Natsuhara, K., Yamauchi, T., Nakazawa, M., Ishida, T., Eddie, R., Ohtsuka, R., & Ohashi, J. (2020). Admixture and natural selection shaped genomes of an Austronesian-speaking population in the Solomon Islands. Scientific Reports, 10:6872. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62866-3.Sai A, Al Furqan R, Ushijima K, Hamidah U, Ikemi M, Widyarani, Sintawardani N, Yamauchi T. (2020). Personal Hygiene, Dignity, and Economic Diversity among Garbage Workers in an Urban Slum of Indonesia. Sanitation Value Chain, 4(2): 051-066. DOI: 10.34416/svc.00019.
  • Sambo, J., Muchindu, M., Nyambe, S., & Yamauchi, T. (2020). Sustainable Solid Waste Management: An Assessment of Solid Waste Treatment in Lusaka, Zambia. Sanitation Value Chain: 4(2), 39-50. DOI: 10.34416/svc.00022.
  • Nitta, H., & Hashiya, K. (2021). Self-face perception in 12-month-old infants: A study using the morphing technique. Infant Behavior and Development: 62, 101479-101479. DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101479
  • Burdelski, M. (2020). ‘Say can I borrow it’: Teachers and children managing peer conflict in a Japanese preschool. Linguistics and Education: 59, 1-13/ DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2019.04.002.
  • Burdelski, M., Tainio, L., Routarinne, S. (2020). Human-to-human touch in institutional settings: Introduction to the special issue. Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality: 3 (1). DOI: 10.7146/si.v3i1.120247.
  • Burdelski, M. (2020). Teacher compassionate touch in a Japanese preschool. Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality: 3 (1). DOI: 10.7146/si.v3il.120248.
  • Moore, E. & Burdelski, M. (2020). Peer conflict and language socialization in preschool: Introduction to special issue. Linguistics and Education: 59, 1-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2019.100758.
  • Endo, T. (2020). The benefactive -te ageru construction in Japanese family interaction and adult interaction. Journal of Pragmatics: 172, 239-253. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.11.011.
  • Takagi, T. (2021). Requesting an account for the unaccountable: The primordial nature of [NP+wa?]-format turns used by young Japanese children. Journal of Pragmatics.
  • Morita, E. & Takagi, T. (2020). Interjectional use of demonstratives: Anoo and sonoo as resources for interaction in Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics: 169, 120-135. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2020.07.011.
  • Witzlack-Makarevich, A., & Nakagawa H. (2019). Linguistic Features and Typologies in Languages Commonly Referred to as ‘Khoisan’.The Cambridge Handbook of African Linguistics, 382-416.DOI:10.1017/9781108283991.012.
  • Nakagawa, H.(2019).Linguistic and music ethnography of Kalahari Khoe.Area and Culture Studies:98,191-202.DOI:10.15026/93959.
  • Bajic, V., Barbieri, C., Hubner, A., Guldemann, T., Naumann, C., Gerlach, L., Berthold, F., Nakagawa, H., Mpoloka, S.W., Roewer, L., Purps, J., Stoneking, M., & Pakendorf, B. (2018). Genetic structure and sex-biased gene flow in the history of southern African populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology:167, 656-671. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23694
  • Guldemann, T., & Nakagawa, H. (2018). Anthony Traill and the holistic approach to Kalahari Basin sound design. Africana Linguistica: 24, 45-73. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2143/AL.24.0.3285491
  • Cameron, N., Yamauchi, T., & Ohashi, J. (2019). Human Biology of Japan.Annals of Human
  • Sato, K., Sasaki, M., Nishimura, M., & Yamauchi, T.(2019).Correlation between habitual dietary fibre intake and postprandial plasma glucose levels in early adulthood.Annals of Human Biology:46,340-346.DOI:10.1080/03014460.2019.1657949.
  • Ushijima, K., Dicko, S., Yamauchi, T., & Funamizu, N. (2019). Acceptability factors of agro-sanitation business model in light of time allocation: Case of rural households in Burkina Faso.Sanitation Value Chain;3,25-39.DOI:10.20568/00003123.
  • Wang, P. P., Hao, M., Han, W., & Yamauchi, T. (2019). Factors associated with nutritional status and motor development among young children.Nursing & Health Sciences: 21, 323-329. DOI: 10.1111/nhs.12604.Biology:46,285-286.DOI:10.1080/03014460.2019.1671675.
  • Hasegawa, J., Suzuki, H., & Yamauchi, T. (2019). Effect of a lower limb strength training programme on physical activity during the snowy season among community-dwelling elderly individuals.Annals of Human Biology:46,323-329.DOI:10.1080/03014460.2019.1641222.
  • Nyambe, S., Hayashi, K., Zulu, J., & Yamauchi, T. (2018). Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, Health and Civic Participation of Children and Youth in Peri-Urban Communities: An Overview of Lusaka, Zambia, Field Research Report 2016. Sanitation Value Chain: 2, 39-54.
  • Cornelissen, S., & Maruyama, J. (2018). Tourism, Capital, and Livelihoods in Africa. Global-E: 11, Issue 34.
  • Maruyama, J. (2018). Keeping a Distance: ‘Bushman Tourism’ in Botswana. Global-E: 11, Issue 46.
  • Fujioka, Y., Watanabe, Y., Mizuochi, H., Itanna, F., Ruben, S., & Iijima, M. (2018). Classification of Small Seasonal Ponds Based on Soil-Water Environments in the Cuvelai Seasonal Wetland System, North-Central Namibia. Wetlands: 38, 1045-1057. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-018-1073-y
  • Watanabe, Y., Itanna, F., Izumi, Y., Awala, S.K., Fujioka, Y., Tsuchiya, K., & Iijima M. (2019). Cattle manure and intercropping effects on soil properties and growth and yield of pearl millet and cowpea in Namibia.Journal of Crop Improvement:33,395-409.DOI:10.1080/15427528.2019.1604456.
  • Takada, A .(2019). Socialization practices regarding shame in Japanese caregiver-child interactions.Frontiers in Psychology: 10, 1545. DOI:https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01545
  • Takada, A. & Kawashima, M. (2019). Caregivers’ strategies for eliciting storytelling from toddlers in Japanese caregiver-child picture-book reading activities.Research on Children and Social Interaction:21, 196-223. DOI:10.1558/rcsi.37287.
  • Morelli, G., Bard, K., Chaudhary, N., Gottlieb, A., Keller, H., Murray, M.,Quinn, N.,Rosabal-Coto, M., Scheidecker, G., Takada, A., & Vicedo, M,.(2018). Bringing the Real World Into Developmental Science: A Commentary on Weber, Fernald, and Diop. (2017). Child Development: 89, e594-e603. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13115.
  • Kishimoto, R., Itakura, S., Fujita, K., & Hashiya, K. (2020). Evaluation of “calculating” helpers based on third-party observation in adults and children. Psychologia
  • Hashiya K., Meng X., Uto Y., & Tajiri K. (2019). Overt congruent facial reaction to dynamic emotional expressions in 9-10-month-old infants.Infant Behavior and Development:54, 48-56. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2137.
  • Meng, X., Nakawake, Y., Nitta, H., Hashiya, K. & Moriguchi, Y. (2019). Space and rank: Infants expect agents in higher position to be socially dominant.Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences: 286. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1674.
  • Murakami T., & Hashiya K. (2019). Development in the interpretation of ambiguous referents in 3‐and 5‐year‐olds. Infant and Child Development,e2137. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2137.
  • Enomoto, M., & Takanashi, K. (2019). Multimodal interaction analysis of the usage of Japanese spatio-temporal deixis “KORE” and “SORE” in cooperative activities within intricate material environments.The 6th IIEEJ International Conference on Image Electronics and Visual Computing (IEVC 2019), 4C-4.
  • Takanashi, K., & Den, Y. (2019). Field interaction analysis: A second-person viewpoint approach to Maai.New Generation Computing: 37, 263-283. DOI:10.1007/s00354-019-00062-2.
  • Fukuda, C., & Burdelski, M. (2019). Multimodal demonstrations of understanding of visible, imagined, and tactile objects in guidedtours.Research on Language and Social Interaction: 52, 20-40.
  • Burdelski, M. (2019). Young children’s multimodal participation in storytelling: Analyzing talk and gesture in Japanese family interaction.Research on Children and Social Interaction:3, 6-35.DOI:10.1558/rcsi.38982.
  • Burdelski, M. & Evaldsson, E-C. (2019). Young children’s multimodal and collaborative telings in family and preschool interaction.Research on Children and Social Interaction: 3, 1-5. DOI: 10.1558/rcsi.37284.
  • Kawashima, M. (2018). ‘Mitori’; Practices at a Japanese Hospital: Interactional analysis of the processes of death and dying in Japan.Discourse Studies: 21, 159-179.
  • Morita, E. (2019). Japanese two-year-olds’ spontaneous participation in storytelling activities as social interaction.Research on Children and Social Interaction: 3, 65-91. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.12.002.
  • Morita, E., & Takagi, T. (2020). Interjectional use of demonstratives: Anoo and sonoo as resources for interaction in Japanese conversation.
  • Takagi, T. (2019). Referring to past actions in caregiver-child interaction in Japanese. Research on Children and Social Interaction:3, 92-118. DOI:10.19024/jajls.21.2_98
  • Morita, E., & Takagi, T. (2018). Marking “commitment to undertaking of the task at hand”: Initiating responses with eeto in Japanese conversation.Journal of Pragmatics: 124, 31-49. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2017.12.002.
  • Mizuochi, H., Hiyama, T., Ohta, T., Fujioka, Y., Jack, R., Kambatuku, Iijima, M., & Nasahara, K. N. (2017). Development and evaluation of a lookup-table-based approach to data fusion for seasonal wetlands monitoring: An integrated use of AMSR series MODIS, and Landsat. Remote Sensing of Environment :199, 370-388.
  • Watanabe, Y., Itanna, F., Fujioka, Y., Ruben, S. & Iijima, M. (2017). Soil fertility status of seasonally closed wetland ecosystem (ondombe) in north-central Namibia. African Journal of Agricultural Study :12(18), 1538-1546.
  • Sugawara, K. (2017). A theory of ‘animal borders’: Thoughts and practices toward non-human animals among the G|ui hunter-gatherers. Social Analysis :61(2), 100-117.
  • Nakagawa, Hirosi. (2017). ǂHaba lexical tonology，Khoisan Languages and Linguistics. Anne-Maria Fehn (ed.), Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 108-119.
  • Takada, A. (2018). Introduction to the supplementary issue “Reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world”. Special Issue: Reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world, African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue :54, 3-12.
  • Takada, A. (2018). The Kyoto School of Ecological Anthropology: A Source of African Area Studies at Kyoto University. Special Issue: Reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world, African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue :54, 41-55.
  • Morelli, G. A., Quinn, N., Chaudhary, N., Vicedo, M., Rosabal-Coto, M., Keller, H., Murray, M., Gottlieb, A., Scheidecker, G., & Takada, A. (2018). Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-income Countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology :49(1), 5-24. DOI: 10.1177/0022022117746241(invited article).
  • Yamauchi, T., & Funamizu, N. (2017). Assessing the impact of improved sanitation on the health and happiness of a west African local population: concepts and research methodology. Sanitation Value Chain :1(1), 63-70.
  • Issiki, M., Naka, I., Kimura, R., Furusawa, T., Natsuhara, K.,Yamauchi, T., Nakazawa, M., Ishida, T., Ohtsuka, R., & Ohashi, J. (2017). Mitochondrial DNA variations in Austronesian-speaking populations living in the New Georgia Islands, the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. Journal of Human Genetics :63(1), 101-104.
  • Hasegawa, J., Ito, Y. & Yamauchi, T. (2017). Development of a screening tool to predict malnutrition among children under two years old in Zambia. Global Health Action :10(1), 1339981.
  • Naka, I., Furusawa, T., Kimura, R., Natsuhara, K.,Yamauchi, T., Nakazawa, M., Ataka, Y., Ishida, T., Inaoka, T., Matsumura, Y., Ohtsuka, R. & Ohashi, J. (2017). A missense variant, rs373863828-A (p.Arg457Gln), of CREBRF and body mass index in Oceanic populations. Journal of Human Genetics :62(9), 847-849.
  • Furusawa, T., Naka, I.,Yamauchi, T., Natsuhara, K., Eddie, R., & Kimura, R. et al. (2017). Polymorphisms associated with a tropical climate and root crop diet induce susceptibility to metabolic and cardiovascular diseases in Solomon Islands. PLoS ONE :12(3), e0172676.
  • Nagahori, C., Kinjo, Y., Tchuani, J. P., & Yamauchi, T. (2017). Malnutrition among vaccinated children aged 0-5 years in Batouri, Republic of Cameroon: Convenience samples from five health centers and two villages in the health district of Batouri. Journal of General and Family Medicine :18(6), 365-371.
  • Maruyama J. (2018). From “Displaced Peoples” to “Indigenous Peoples”: Experiences of the !Xun and Khwe San in South Africa. African Study Monographs, Suppl. :54, 137-154.
  • Morita, E. & Takagi, T. (2018). Marking “commitment to undertaking of the task at hand”: Initiating responses with eeto in Japanese conversation. Journal of Pragmatics :124, 31-49.
  • Takada, A.(Ed.) . (2018). Introduction to the supplementary issue “Reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world”. Special Issue: Reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue :54, 3-12.
  • Takada, A.(Ed.) . (2018). The Kyoto School of Ecological Anthropology: A Source of African Area Studies at Kyoto University. Special Issue: Reconstructing the paradigm of African Area Studies in a globalizing world. African Study Monographs, Supplementary Issue :54, 41-55.
  • Morelli, G. A., Quinn, N., Chaudhary, N., Vicedo, M., Rosabal-Coto, M., Keller, H., Murray, M., Gottlieb, A., Scheidecker, G., & Takada, A. (2018). Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-income Countries. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology :49(1), 5-24. DOI: 10.1177/0022022117746241(invited article).
  • Lee, H., Nand, K., Shimizu, Y., Takada, A., Kodama, M., & Masuda, T. (2017). Culture and emotion perception: Comparing Canadian and Japanese children’s and parents’ context sensitivity. Culture and Brain :5, 91-104. DOI: 10.1007/s40167-017-0052-0.
  • Meng, X., Murakami, T., & Hashiya, K. (2017). Working memory affects children’s interpretations of explicit but not ambiguous questions: research on links between phonological loop and referent assignment. PLoS ONE :12(10), e0187368.
  • Endo, T. (2017). The Japanese change-of-state tokens a and aa in responsive units. Journal of Pragmatics :123, 151-166. DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2017.06.010.
  • Takei, N., & Burdelski, M. (2018). Shifting of “expert” and “novie” roles between/within two langauges: Socialization, identity, and epistemics in family dinnertime conversations. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-cutural and Interlanguage Communication :37(1), 83-117. DOI 10.1515/multi-2016-0014.
  • Hamada, A., & Toda, M. (Eds.) . (2017). How Do Biomedicines Shape People’s Lives, Socialities and Landscapes? Senri Ethnological Reports :143, 211.
  • Toda, M. (2017). Disability and Charity among Hunter-gatherers and Farmers in Cameroon. Senri Ethnological Reports :143, 69-94.
  • Takada, A.(2016). Introduction to the supplementary issue “Natural history of communication among the Central Kalahari San”. African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue: 52, 5-25. DOI: 10.14989/207697.
  • Takada, A.(2016). Employing ecological knowledge during foraging activity: Perception of the landform among the G|ui and G||ana. African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue: 52, 147-170. DOI: 10.14989/207689.
  • Senzaki, S., Masuda, T., Takada, A., & Okada, H.(2016). The communication of culturally dominant modes of attention from parents to children: A comparison of Canadian and Japanese parent child conversations during a joint scene description task. PLoS ONE: 11(1), e0147199. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0147199.
  • Takada, A. & Endo, T.(2015). Object transfer in request-accept sequence in Japanese caregiver-child interactions. Jornal of Pragmatics: 82, 52-66. DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2015.03.011(refered).
  • Takada, A. & Nyamongo, I.(2015). Introduction to the special issue “Exploring African potentials: The dynamics of action, living strategy, and social order in Southern Africa”. MILA – A journal of the Institute of Anthropology Gender and African Studies: 12, 3-13. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.4306.7287.
  • Takada, A.(2015). Comment on “Children as a reserve labor force” by David F. Lancy. Current Anthropology: 56(4), 562-563. DOI: 10.1086./682286.
  • Kaneko, M.(2015). Collections and archives on Ethiopian studies at the Frobenius institute. Nilo-Ethiopian Studies: 20, 33-40.
  • Kimura, D., Lingomo, B., Masuda, H., & Yamaguchi, R.(2015). Change in land use among the Bongando in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue: 51, 5-35. DOI: 10.14989/197208.
  • Burdelski, M.(2015). Reported speech as cultural gloss and directive: Socializing norms of speaking and acting in Japanese caregiver-child triadic interaction. Text & Talk: 35(5), 575-595. DOI: 10.1515/text-2015-0017.
  • Osaka, N.,Minamoto, T., Yaoi, K., Azuma, M., Shimada, Y. M., & Osaka, M.(2015). How two brains make one synchronized mind in the inferior frontal cortex: fNIRS-based hyperscanning during cooperative singing. Frontiers in Psychology: 6, 1811. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01811.
  • Kawahara, T., Iwatate, T., Inoue, K., Hayashi, S., Yoshimoto, H., & Takanashi, K.(2016). Multi-modal sensing and analysis of poster conversations with smart posterboard. APSIPA Transaction on Signal & Information Process: 5(e2), 1-12.
  • Inoue, K., Wakabayashi, Y., Yoshimoto, H., Takanashi, K., & Kawahara, T.(2015). Enhanced speaker diarization with detection of backchannels using eye-gaze information in poster conversations. Proceedings of INTERSPEECH 2015: 5, 3086-3090.
  • Katagiri, Y., & Takanashi, K.(2015). Concern-alighment analysis of consultation dialogues. Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SEMDIAL 2015): 19, 184-185.
  • Morita, E.(2015). Japanese Interactional Particles as a resource for stance building. Jornal of Pragmatics: 83, 91-103.
  • Peng, Y.(2016). The evidence of proximity: Tattoo practices of the Baka in Southeastern Cameroon. Hunter Gatherer Research: 2(1).
  • Sonoda, K.(2016). “Give me the meat, the child said”: Cultural practice among the children of the Baka hunter-gatherers. Hunter Gatherer Research: 2(1).
  • Takada, A. (2014). Mutual coordination of behaviors in human-chimpanzee interactions: A case study in a laboratory setting. Revue de Primatologie, 5.
  • Takada, A. (2014). A study on educational reform in Namibia: Educational practices for the !Xun San in Owamboland. Africa Educational Research Bibliography 191 Journal, 4, 19–34.
  • Morie, K. (2014). “I KNOW HOW TO MAKE POTS BY MYSELF”: SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LOCAL KNOWLEDGE TRANSMISSION IN SOUTHWESTERN ETHIOPIA. African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue, 48, 59-75
  • Burdelski, M, Kawashima, M. & Yamazaki, K.(2014). Storytelling in guided tours: Practices, engagement, and identity at a Japanese American museum. Narrative Inquiry, 24(2), 324-346.
  • Mattew Burdelski, Michie Kawashima and Keiichi Yamazaki(2014). Storytellin in Guided Tours: Practices, engagement and identity at a Japanese American museum, Narrative Inquiry, 24:2, 324-346.
  • Takada, A. (2013). Generating morality in directive sequences: Distinctive strategies for developing communicative competence in Japanese caregiver-child interactions. Language & Communication, 33, 420-438.
  • Liszkowski, U., Brown, P., Callaghan, T., Takada, A. ＆ de Vos, C. (2012). A prelinguistic gestural universal of human communication. Cognitive Science.
  • Fineberg, I. C., Kawashima, M. & Asch, S. M.(2011).Communication with Family Facing Life-Threatening Illness: A Research Based Model for Family Conferences. Journal of Palliative Medicine, 14(4), 421-427.
  • Moriguchi, Y., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Shimada, Y. & Itakura, S.(in press).Can young children learn words from a robot? Interaction Studies.
  • Takada, A. (2011). Narratives of changes in life: Revisiting the ‘family’ in San studies. Japanese Journal of Cultural Anthropology, 75 (4), 551–573.
  • Takada, A. (2010). Changes in Developmental Trends of Caregiver-Child Interactions among the San: Evidence from the !Xun of Northern Namibia. African Study Monographs. Supplementary Issue, 40, 155-177.
  • Takada, A. (2009). New directions in ethnographic studies on infancy and infant care. Japanese Psychological Review, 52 (1), 140–151.
  • Nakamura, M. & Itoh, N. (2008). Hunting with tools by Mahale chimpanzees. Pan Africa News, 15, 2-6.
  • Shimada, Y. & Itakura, S. (2008). Infant crying and mothers’ listening and interpretation. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 107, 225-230.
  • Takada, A. (2008). Recapturing space: Production of inter-subjectivity among the Central Kalahari San. In A. Irving, A. Sen, & N. Rapport (Eds.), Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing, 9(2), Senses of spatial equilibrium and the journey: Confounded, discomposed, recomposed. New York: Berghahn Journals, 114-137.
  • Takada, A. (2006). Explaining pathways in the Central Kalahari. In R. K. Hitchcock, K. Ikeya, M. Biesele & R. B. Lee (Eds.), Senri Ethnological Studies, 70, Updating the San: Image and reality of an African people in the 21st century. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 101-127.
  • Takada, A. (2005). Early vocal communication and social institution: Appellation and infant verse addressing among the Central Kalahari San. Crossroads of Language, Interaction, and Culture, 6, 80-108.
  • Takada, A. (2002). Social changes among the Central Kalahari San: The analysis of population dynamics, subsistence activities, and child weight. Journal of African Studies, 60: 85–103.
  • Takada, A. (2002). The meaning of caregiving behaviors among the San for child development. The Japanese Journal of Developmental Psychology, 13 (1), 63–77.
  • Kojima, H. & Takada, A. (2001). Developmental approach to social interaction.  Journal of Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, 16(6), 812-818. (in Japanese)