Profiles
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Department of Japanese Studies
Course Group | Department | Position | Name | Research Theme |
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Japanese Culture Studies | Innovative Japanese Studies | Professor | TAKAHASHI Akinori | Publishing culture in the Edo period; History of cultural exchange |
Professor | TANAKA Shigeto | Connections between gender-based inequality and family system; Time-use analysis; Application of information technology in social sciences; Scientific knowledge formation process; Scientific knowledge and public opinion and policy |
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Associate Professor | CRAIG Christopher | Modern Japanese farming villages (2006-present) Colonialism (2016-present) |
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Associate Professor | MOTEGI Kennosuke | 1) Modern and contemporary representation of the Emperor (system) 2) Ghost stories and the occult in modern and contemporary Japan |
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Assistant Professor | TOMONO Fumiaki | The historical meaning of celebrity worship in ‘Japan’ after the 19th century The old school in history of haikai literature |
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History of Japanese Thought | Professor | KATAOKA Ryu | History of thought in East Asia of the early modern period (1995-present); East Asia in search of public philosophy and theory of life (2009-present); Reconsidering pacifism and theory of spirituality in modern East Asia (2015-present) |
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Associate Professor | HIKINO Kyousuke | The development of commercial publishing in Early Modern Japan and changes in Buddhist thought | ||
Japanese language Studies | Japanese Linguistics | Professor | KOBAYASHI Takashi | 1) Dialectological study of Japanese language history; 2) Dialectological aspects of interjections and onomatopoeia in verbal communication; 3) Dialects of the Tohoku disaster area and restoration of the region |
Professor | ŌKI Kazuo | History of Japanese grammar; Japanese language history; Japanese grammar; History of Japanese linguistics |
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Professor | KODA Naomi | Structure of spoken and written discourse; Conversation analysis |
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Applied Japanese Linguistics | Professor | OGAWARA Yoshiro | Japanese language education methods | |
Associate Professor | SHIMASAKI Kaori | Sociocultural language learning, International students education, Learning environment design, Multicultural education | ||
Japanese Literature | Japanese Literature | Professor | SAKURA Yoshiyasu | Analysis of expressive structure and special characteristics of Japanese literary works contextualized within the history of Japanese culture and literacy |
Professor | YOKOMIZO Hiroshi | Literature of the Heian period; Medieval court literature in Japan |
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Associate Professor | NIHEI Masato | Modernist literature of the 1920s-1930s Avant-garde literature and culture during the period of high economic growth |
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Assistant Professor | KASAMA Haruna | Novelistic expression in the Japanese literature of the 1880s | ||
Japanese History | Japanese History | Professor | YANAGIHARA Toshiaki | Comparative historical research of the periphery regions (Tohoku and South Kyushu) in medieval Japan; Study of historical materials related to medieval Japan; Development of historical studies in Tohoku region before and during the Second World War; Tohoku University before and during the Second World War |
Professor | ADACHI Hiroaki | Modern and contemporary Japan and Asia; Spatial policy and national planning in pre- and postwar Japan, and their implementation on the local level; Development of the mobilization system in Japan during World War II |
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Professor | HORI Yutaka | Structural study of the Emperor’s authority (1997-present); Japanese religions in East Asia (1995-present) |
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Associate Professor | KAGOHASHI Toshimitsu | Early modern Japanese history; History of local communities in the early modern period; Rural history; History of Japanese clans |
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Assistant Professor | KURIHARA Shinichiro | The politics of the Tohoku domains and self‐awareness of their people during the Bakumatsu-Ishin period. | ||
Archaeology | Professor | KANOMATA Yoshitaka | Application of use-wear analysis (traceology) as a research method of prehistoric archaeology; Establishing the chronology of Palaeolithic sites in Tohoku region; Comparative cultural analysis of periods of the earliest pottery |
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[Collaborative Professor]Archaeology |
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( Tohoku University Museum) |
FUJISAWA Atsushi | ||
Cultural Properties Science ( Collaborative Field ) |
Department of Global Humanities
Course Group | Department | Position | Name | Research Theme |
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Comparative and Cross-Cultural Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Professor | NUMAZAKI Ichiro | Economic Development and Sociocultural Change in Taiwan (1986-present); Culture and human rights (1991-present); Gender and violence (2000-present); History of American anthropology (2010-present) |
Professor | KAWAGUCHI Yukihiro | Family and kinship, religion, and migration in East Asia (particularly in China) | ||
Associate Professor | OCHI Ikuno | Cultural contact in migration, travel and tourism | ||
Assistant Professor | BAO Shuangyue | Nomadism; livestock farming; the turn to permanent settlement and farming | ||
Religious Studies | Professor | KIMURA Toshiaki | Natural disasters and religion; Modern transformations of folk belief; Indonesian society and religion |
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Professor | TANIYAMA Yozo | Application of sutra chanting, prayers and other religious practices as spiritual care | ||
Associate Professor | TOISHIBA Shiho | Ancestor worship, funeral rites, and burial systems in modern and contemporary Japan | ||
Assistant Professor | ABE Tomonori | Buddhism and folk customs; the genealogy of folk religion studies; contemporary changes in folk religion; changes in the concept of soul | ||
Death & Life Studies/ Practical Religious Studies | Professor | TAKAHASHI Hara | Religious specialists and mental health care | |
Professor | TANIYAMA Yozo (Joint Posting) | Application of sutra chanting, prayers and other religious practices as spiritual care | ||
Indology and History of Indian Buddhism | Professor | SAKURAI Munenobu | Esoteric funeral rituals in India and Tibet; Luyipada School in Esoteric Buddhism |
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Associate Professor | NISHIMURA Naoko | History of Vedic literature; Vedic rituals and their transformations; myths and rites; life in ancient India based on livestock rearing and dairy processing; interrelations between fetus development, the doctrine of transmigration and the family system; influences on early Buddhist formation | ||
Asian Culture and History | Chinese Language and Literature | Professor | YATA Naoko | Chu Ci (“Verses of Chu”) of the Han dynasty; development and transformations of the image of Quyuan; establishment and evolution of Chu Ci studies in Japan; women’s attire in the Tang dynasty |
Professor | TSUCHIYA Ikuko | Textual analysis of Chinese plays | ||
Associate Professor | CHANG Peiju | Grammaticalization of verbs (particularly perception verbs) | ||
Assistant Professor | SUGAWARA Naoki | Quotations from poetry in classical Chinese novels Entrance examinations based on the Chinese classics in the Meiji and Taisho periods |
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Chinese Philosophy | Professor | MIURA Shuichi | Various aspects of the three religions ― Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism ― in early modern China; Neo-Daoism; Imperial examination system for civil servants during the Ming dynasty |
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Professor | SAITO Tomohiro | History of thought in medieval China (2005-present) | ||
East Asian History | Professor | KAWAI Yasushi | Chinese aristocracy in the period from Wei-Jin to Sui-Tang dynasties | |
Professor | ONO Koji | Chinese bureaucracy and the imperial examination system for civil servants in Ming and Qing periods | ||
Western Culture and History | English Literature | Professor | OKOCHI Sho | English romantic literature; History of English thought in the 18th century; Modern critical theory |
Associate Professor | ONUKI Takashi | Culture and literature of 20th century England; Raymond Williams | ||
Associate Professor | TINK James | Early modern English literature, including works by Shakespeare and Milton; English poetry and poetics; English literature in the 20th century |
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English Linguistics | Professor | SHIMA Etsuro | Operation of movement (1992-present); Tense phenomena (2000-present); Ellipsis in natural languages (2002-present) |
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German Language and Literature | Professor | SHIMAZAKI Satoru | Historical development of grammatical categories; Tense theory; Point of view in Japanese and German languages; The Song of the Nibelungs as romance fiction; Authorship in popular literature; Reception of European culture in Japan |
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Professor | NARROG Heiko | Grammaticalization; semantic change; modality | ||
Assistant | SHIMIZU Shota | History of epistolary novels in the 18th century | ||
French Language and Literature | Professor | ABE Hiroshi | Intervention of subjectivity in Japanese, French and English sentences without information; Desirability and subjectivity in language; Contrastive analysis of temporal and spatial deixis in French and Japanese novels; Free indirect speech and fictional speech acts; Grammaticalization of spatial concepts; etc. |
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Professor | IMAI Tsutomu | Research project funded by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI): Cultural-historical analysis of Paul Valéry’s letters (Category C, 2014-2016) | ||
Professor | MEVEL Yann | Samuel Beckett’s and Marguerite Duras’ ouvre; Contemporary French literature, in particular literary works by Pierre Michon and authors published by Les Éditions de Minuit; |
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Associate Professor | KUROIWA Taku | Research project funded by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI): “Subsequent use and development of the prosodic structure principles found in Arnoul Gréban’s Mystère de la Passion” (Category C; 2017-2019) | ||
European and American History | Professor | ARIMITSU Hideyuki | “The Norman Empire” and local communities; Epistolary exchange and communication in medieval Europe; Peoples of the British Isles and national consciousness |
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Associate Professor | ASAOKA Zenji | Russian agricultural communities under the New Economic Policy (NEP) | ||
Assistant Professor | SUGIMOTO Hinako | economic activities in the ancient Greek world | ||
[Collaborative Professor]European and American History | Professor | TERAYAMA Kyosuke |
Department of Integrated Human Sciences
Course Group | Department | Position | Name | Research Theme |
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Philosophy and Ethics | Philosophy | Professor | NAOE Kiyotaka | Phenomenological inquiry into human behavior (1985-present); Philosophy and ethics of technology (1985-present) |
Professor | OGIHARA Satoshi | Ancient philosophy; Analytic ethics |
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Associate Professor | HARA Saku | The issue of executability of interactive science communication; Theoretical basis for research integrity |
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Associate Professor | KIDO Atsushi | |||
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Research) | TODA Soichiro | Technology assessment and ethical consideration of soil improvement techniques utilized in greenhouse gas reduction activities | ||
Assistant Professor | MINEGISHI Yusuke | Exploring the basic structure and principles of autonomy ; Elucidating the cultural and social context of theory of self-consciousness; Exploring the current possibilities of existential theology |
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Ethics | Professor | TOSHIMA Kiyoshi | ||
Professor | MURAYAMA Tatsuya | 1. Modal notions (contingency, possibility, necessity) in French philosophy in the late 19th and early 20th century; 2. Historical and analytical inquiry into the meaning of life |
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Arts and Humanities | Eastern and Japanese Art History | Professor | NAGAOKA Ryusaku | History of Japanese sculpture; The cult of Śarīra (Buddhist relics) and plastic arts in Pan-Asia; Philosophy of Buddhist Art |
Associate Professor | SUGIMOTO Yoshihisa | 18th century cultural trends and the diversity of expressive means in painting | ||
Aesthetics and Western Art History | Professor | ADACHI Kaoru | Formation and social and cultural sources of Mannerism Synchronization and mutual influences between art and magic and the art of memory |
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Assistant Professor | SETO Haruka | Formation and sources of Mannerism in the 16th-century Florence paintings | ||
Psychology and Linguistics | Psychology | Professor | ABE Tsuneyuki | Research on the physicality of emotions; Psychological functions of everyday behavior; Salivary cortisol measurement; Social meaning of face; Ecological functions of the sense of smell; Disaster and the emergent norm theory |
Professor | SAKAI Nobuyuki | Psychology of eating (including psychology of sensation and perception, biological psychology, health psychology, etc.); Chemical sensing system (sense of taste, sense of smell, somatic senses, etc.) from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience |
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Professor | TSUJIMOTO Masahiro | Mutual aid in local communities; Life history research; Nikkei communities in South America |
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Professor | OMORI Mika | Psychosocial attributes related to health behaviors, risk perception and health communication | ||
Associate Professor | ARAI Takashi | Promotion of crime prevention behaviors; effective distribution of crime information; mechanisms of violence; dating violence and stalking; anger management | ||
Associate Professor | KAWACHI Yousuke | Research on visual information processing, inter- and intrasensory integration, kansei information processing, structural and functional brain analysis | ||
Assistant Professor | SAITO Godai | Multimodal interaction; Embodiment |
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Visiting Associate Professor | Juthatip WIWATTANAPANTUWONG (Visiting Associate Professor) | Detail of tasks: Lectures on Psychology (Special Lecture), on PsychologyI(Advanced Lecture). Joint research |
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Linguistics | Professor | KOIZUMI Masatoshi | 1) Field-based cognitive psycholinguistic study of the discourse-processing mechanisms of OS-type languages; 2) Study on pragmatic inferences |
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Associate Professor | KIYAMA Sachiko | Age-related changes in pragmatic language processing; Field-based cognitive neurolinguistics |
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Associate Professor | NAITO Maho | Research on endangered, unanalyzed, and unwritten languages | ||
Assistant Professor | KATO Makiko | 1) Study of effective instruction on summary writing for EFL learners 2) Study of validity and reliability in assessing summary writing |
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Social and Human Sciences | Sociology | Professor | NAGAI Akira | Jürgen Habermas’ social theory; Structural change processes in rural communities; Sociological research of medical care systems in rural communities |
Professor | KOMATSU Takeaki | Meta-research of the social systems theory; Sociological research of risk and knowledge/non-knowledge |
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Associate Professor | TASHIRO Shimon | Social control of biomedical research Sociology of death and dying |
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Assistant | ISOZAKI Tadashi | Changes in decision-making during post-earthquake reconstruction Structural changes in disaster-stricken areas |
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Behavioral Science | Professor | KIMURA Kunihiro | Quantitative research on social attitude and belief formation; Numerical study on unintended consequences of social decision-making; Experimental research on questionnaire-filling behaviours |
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Professor | HAMADA Hiroshi | Examining social phenomena through mathematical models; Integrating mathematical models with statistical models |
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Professor | SATO Yoshimichi | Social change (1982-present); Mechanisms of trust (1992-present); Social class and inequality (1985-present) |
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Associate Professor | OGAWA Katsunori | Inequality of educational opportunity Attitudes towards educational and social welfare policies Causal inference in social sciences |
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Assistant Professor | SAZAKI Ai | Funeral practices and Memorial service for the dead of the Orthodox Church in Japan Reception of Christianity in Japan Transformations of the contemporary religious culture |
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Computational Humanities and Social Sciences |
Others
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In charge of Foreign Students | Assistant Professor | KOPYLOVA Olga | Transmedia storytelling (as well as similar development of other types of content) within popular culture, its specifics and potential; Fan culture, international fandom, and fiction-based transmedia projects; Media mix as a specific type of transmedia franchise |
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Computer Room | Assistant Professor | MORIKAWA Tamon | Identity and religion in modern Japan (2005-present) | |
Practical Religious Studies | Professor | SUZUKI Iwayumi (Adviser) | ||
Associate Professor | OHMURA Tetsuo | Religion and acceptance of one’s own and others’ mortality; Rinshoshukyoshi training; Religious culture of Guatemala |
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Professor | TAKAHASHI Hara | Religious specialists and mental health care | ||
Professor | TANIYAMA Yozo (Joint Posting) |