The Tokutei Kadai research grant allowed me to set up a research base for interdisciplinary collaborative research at Waseda University, specifically SILS and GSICCS, which resulted in several projects, publications, and conference presentations. Specifically, we collected and modeled social media data on Japanese beauty ideals and hate speech moderation, combining my computational expertise with subject matter expertise at SILS and GSICCS. Furthermore, I was able to start collaborative work between Waseda University and researchers from other Japanese universities such as Kyoto University, Tokyo University, and Chiba University and presented some of my work at the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities conference.

This research fund also allowed me to set up a research base and conduct the necessary preliminary research to be able to secure a JSPS Kakenhi grant for the years 2022-2024.