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 | 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 |
| 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 | NISHIHARA Shiho | |||
| 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 | ŌKI Kazuo | History of Japanese grammar; Japanese language history; Japanese grammar; History of Japanese linguistics |
| Professor | KODA Naomi | Structure of spoken and written discourse; Conversation analysis |
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| Associate Professor | NAKANISHI Taro | Research on communication such as greetings and language behavior Research on communication with non-native speakers Dialectological research through corpora-based methods |
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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 | ||
| Assistant Professor | ONISHI Yumi | second-language acquisition | ||
| 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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| 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 | SAITO Tomohiro | History of thought in medieval China (2005-present) | |
| East Asian History | 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 |
| 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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| Associate Professor | NAKAMURA Taichi | Ellipsis; Labeling Algorithm | ||
| 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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| Professor | ASAOKA Zenji | Russian agricultural communities under the New Economic Policy (NEP) | ||
| [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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| Professor | KIDO Atsushi | |||
| 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 | ||
| Assistant Professor | HAMASUMI Mayu | Japanese literati paintings with a focus on Ike Taiga | ||
| 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 | ||
| Associate Professor | Marinucci Lorenzo | Nioi and olfactory thought | ||
| 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 | RAEVSKIY Alexander | Connection between language and cognition | ||
| 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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| Associate Professor | AOKI Soko | Development process and effects of social movements Comparative research on environmental movements in Japan and Germany |
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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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| 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 | Associate Professor | LYU Zeyu | political polarization; opinion formation on social media; applied machine learning in social sciences |
Others
| Belong | Position | Name | Research Theme | |
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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) | |
