Shigeki Kaji: Japanese linguist, born in March 1951. Professor emeritus at Kyoto University, Japan. Doctor of letters. Former president of the linguistic society of Japan.
He specializes in descriptive linguistics doing fieldwork especially in African. After having conducted fieldwork in the former Zaire (today’s DR Congo), Tanzania and West Africa (Senegal and Mali), from 2001 he has concentrated on West-Ugandan Bantu languages on descriptive and comparative bases. As he starts with lexicographical survey in facing new languages, his publications have lead to several dictionaries and vocabularies, including Deux Mille Phrases de Swahili tel qu’il se Parle au Zaïre (1985), Lexique Tembo I, Français – Swahili du Zaïre – Tembo – Japonais (1986), Vocabulaire Hunde (1992), Vocabulaire Lingala Classifié (1992), A Haya Vocabulary (2000), A Runyankore Vocabulary (2004), A Rutooro Vocabulary (2009). A Runyoro Vocabulary (2016), A Rukiga Vocabulary (2022). Currently he is a research associate at the Center for Language Studies, Kyoto Sangyo University and at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
