Staff
Cultural Science
Course Group | Department | Position | Name | Research Theme |
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Japanese Culture | Japanese Literature | Professor | SATO Nobuhiro | Comparative literature studies focusing on modern Japanese literature and especially on modern poetry; Translation of literary works |
Professor | SAKURA Yoshiyasu | Analysis of expressive structure and special characteristics of Japanese literary works contextualized within the history of Japanese culture and literacy | ||
Associate Professor | YOKOMIZO Hiroshi | Literature of the Heian period; Medieval court literature in Japan |
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Assistant Professor | KAWACHI Satoko | Spread and reception of printed media in local communities in contemporary Japan | ||
History of Japanese Thought | Professor | SATO Hiroo | ||
Associate 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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Assistant Professor | OKAYASU Noriyuki | |||
Sinology | Chinese Language and Literature | Professor | SATAKE Yasuko | Describing and explaining the appeal of Chinese classical literature |
Associate Professor | TSUCHIYA Ikuko | Textual analysis of Chinese plays | ||
Associate Professor | YATA Naoko | |||
Associate Professor | MA Xiaodi | Poetry, poets, and society of the Tang period | ||
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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Associate Professor | SAITO Tomohiro | History of thought in medieval China (2005-present) | ||
Assistant Professor | OZAKI Junichiro | |||
Indian Culture | Indology and History of Indian Buddhism | Professor | SAKURAI Munenobu | Esoteric funeral rituals in India and Tibet; Luyipada School in Esoteric Buddhism |
Assistant Professor | MATSUMURA Yukihiko | |||
Western Culture | English Literature | Professor | OKOCHI Sho | English romantic literature; History of English thought in the 18th century; Modern critical theory |
Associate Professor | ONUKI Takashi | |||
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 | KANEKO Yoshiaki | Syntax-Semantics Interface; The Performative Hypothesis in the context of the Minimalist Program |
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Professor | SHIMA Etsuro | Operation of movement (1992-present); Tense phenomena (2000-present); Ellipsis in natural languages (2002-present) |
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Assistant Professor | NAKASHIMA Takanori | |||
German Literature | Professor | MORIMOTO Koichi | Philosophy of communication (previously the main line of research); Developing narrative experience theory based on comparative media studies (current research project) |
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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 | ||
French 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) | ||
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) | ||
Associate 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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Assistant Professor | ISHIDA Yuki | |||
Philosophy | Philosophy | Professor | NAOE Kiyotaka | Phenomenological inquiry into human behavior (1985-present); Philosophy and ethics of technology (1985-present) |
Associate 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 | |||
Ethics | Professor | TOSHIMA Kiyoshi | ||
Associate 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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Assistant Professor | ENDO Kenju |
Linguistic Science
Course Group | Department | Position | Name | Research Theme |
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Linguistics | Linguistics | Professor | GOTO Hitoshi | Vocabulary description based on corpus linguistics (contemporary Japanese, contemporary English, Esperanto, etc.); Languages in translingual communication (Latin, English, Esperanto, etc.) |
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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Japanese Linguistics | Japanese Linguistics | Professor | SAITO Michiaki | Various aspects of Japanese lexicon and lexicology; Word formation and word-formation studies |
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 |
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Professor | ŌKI Kazuo | History of Japanese grammar; Japanese language history; Japanese grammar; History of Japanese linguistics |
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Associate Professor | KODA Naomi | Structure of spoken and written discourse; Conversation analysis |
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Assistant Professor | TSAI Hsun-chieh | |||
Applied Japanese Linguistics | Applied Japanese Linguistics | Professor | SAITA Izumi | Development of web-based Japanese language teaching materials; Japanese language teacher education |
Associate 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 | OGAWARA Yoshiro | Japanese language education methods |
History Science
Course Group | Department | Position | Name | Research Theme |
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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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Associate 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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Archaeology | Professor | AKOSHIMA Kaoru | Analysis of stoneware pottery (especially methods of use-wear analysis); Processual Archaeology (archaeology as anthropology) |
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Associate 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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Asian History | East Asian History | Professor | KAWAI Yasushi | Chinese aristocracy in the period from Wei-Jin to Sui-Tang dynasties |
Associate Professor | ONO Koji | Chinese bureaucracy and the imperial examination system for civil servants in Ming and Qing periods | ||
Assistant Professor | MITA Tatsuhiko | |||
European and American History | 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 |
Associate Professor | ASAOKA Zenji | Russian agricultural communities under the New Economic Policy (NEP) | ||
Art History | 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 | |||
Assistant | MIURA Yukihide | |||
Aesthetics and Western Art History | Professor | OZAKI Akihiro | My main goal as a researcher is to find ways to address crucial issues of today within my field of study. I also would like to make sure that Humanities on the whole make contribution to the society. | |
Assistant | YAMADA Kyoko | |||
(Italian) | Associate Professor | FONGARO Enrico | 「ファンタズマタの世界」−西田幾多郎における美学と時間論」(research funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C (KAKEN); principal investigator, 2017-19); 「感情の媒介的機能に定位した、よき共同的な生の構想」(research funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B (KAKEN); co-Investigator (principal investigator – Noe Keiichi), 2017-present); “The Surface of the Present - Ontology and Time in the Philosophy of Nishida Kitaro” (research funded by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C (KAKEN); principal investigator, 2014-16) |
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[Partner Course] Comparative Cultural History | Professor | TERAYAMA Kyosuke | ||
[Cooperating Lecturer] Museum studies |
Professor
( Tohoku University Museum) |
FUJISAWA Atsushi |
Human Science
Course Group | Department | Position | Name | Research Theme |
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Sociology | Sociology | Professor | HASEGAWA Koichi | 1. Study of social change focusing on social conflicts and social movements; 2. Systematization of environmental policies; 3. Comparative sociological study of decision-making processes in adopting nuclear energy, energy, and climate change policies; 4. Reconstructing the history of sociology in Japan from the perspective of public sociology |
Professor | NAGAI Akira | Jürgen Habermas’ social theory; Structural change processes in rural communities; Sociological research of medical care systems in rural communities |
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Professor | KOMATSU Takeaki | Meta-research of the social systems theory; Sociological research of risk and knowledge/non-knowledge |
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Behavioral Science | Behavioral Science | Professor | SATO Yoshimichi | Social change (1982-present); Mechanisms of trust (1992-present); Social class and inequality (1985-present) |
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 | NAGAYOSHI Kikuko | Major factors and mechanisms of discrimination development | ||
Psychology | Psychology | Professor | GYOBA Jiro | Pattern recognition; figure-ground perception; visual completion; visual illusions; face and body perception; multimodal integration; picture classification; affective space perception; semantic differential (SD) method; etc. |
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 |
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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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Associate Professor | TSUJIMOTO Masahiro | Mutual aid in local communities; Life history research; Nikkei communities in South America |
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Associate Professor | ARAI Takashi | |||
Assistant Professor | SAITO Godai | |||
Human Culture | 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) |
Associate Professor | KAWAGUCHI Yukihiro | Family and kinship, religion, and migration in East Asia (particularly in China) | ||
Religious Studies | Professor | KIMURA Toshiaki | Natural disasters and religion; Modern transformations of folk belief; Indonesian society and religion |
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Associate Professor | YAMADA Hitoshi | |||
Associate Professor | TANIYAMA Yozo | Application of sutra chanting, prayers and other religious practices as methods of stress relief | ||
[Partner Course] Science and Technology Society |
Professor
(Center for Northeast Asian Studies) |
ASUKA Jusen | ||
Associate Professor
(Center for Northeast Asian Studies) |
ISHII Atsushi |
Others
Belong | Position | Name | Research Theme | |
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In charge of Foreign Students | Professor | TAKAHASHI Akinori | Publishing culture in the Edo period; History of cultural exchange |
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Associate Professor | CRAIG Christopher | Modern Japanese farming villages (2006-present) Colonialism (2016-present) |
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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 | ||||
Practical Religious Studies | Professor | SUZUKI Iwayumi | ||
Professor | KIMURA Toshiaki (Joint Posting) | |||
Professor | TAKAHASHI Hara | Religious specialists and mental health care | ||
Associate Professor | TANIYAMA Yozo (Joint Posting) | |||
Assistant Professor | OHMURA Tetsuo | Religion and acceptance of one’s own and others’ mortality; Rinshoshukyoshi training; Religious culture of Guatemala |
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Inter-Graduate School Doctoral Degree Program on Science for Global Safety | Assistant Professor | MATSUZAKI Rumi |