Philosophy and Cultural Sciences History and Area Studies
Linguistics and Literature Human Sciences

Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy Center for Northern Humanities
Archaeological Research Center

Philosophy and Cultural Sciences

Philosophy

Name	Position	Research subject
CHIBA Kei	Professor	Greek Philosophy, especially Aristotle’s Dialectic, Natural Sciences and Metaphysics. Apostle Paul’s Philosophy of Faith.
NAKATOGAWA Koji	Professor	Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, and Methodology of Deductive Sciences
YAMADA Tomoyuki	Professor	Philosophy of Language, Mind, and Action
NOMURA Yasushi	Assistant Professor	Philosophy

Ethics and Applied Ethics

Name	Position	Research subject
KURATA Nobuo	Professor	Applied ethics, ethics, history of occidental philosophy
NITTA Takahiko	Professor	Ethics
KONDO Tomohiko	Associate Professor	Ancient Greek and Roman ethics, History of ancient Greek and Roman thought
TAGUCHI Shigeru	Associate Professor	Modern Philosophy, especially phenomenology and modern Japanese philosophy.
MURAMATSU Masataka	Associate Professor	Modern French philosophy
MASUBUCHI Takashi	Assistant Professor	Business Ethics, Applied Ethics, Anglo-American Ethics

Religious Studies and Indian Philosophy

Name	Position	Research subject
UTSUNOMIYA Teruo	Professor	Sociology of Religion, Thanatology, History of Modern Christian Thought
SASAKI Kei	Professor	John's Gospel, New Testament, Christianity, Religion
HOSODA Noriaki	Professor	Ancient Indian Philosophy
HAYASHIDERA Shoshun	Associate Professor	Buddhism
ISHIKAWA Akito	Assistant Professor	Religious Studies, War Studies

Theory and History of Arts

Name	Position	Research subject
KITAMURA Kiyohiko	Professor	Aesthetics/history of art
ASANUMA Keiko	Associate Professor	Aesthetics/history of art
SUZUKI Yukito	Associate Professor	Aesthetics/history of art
YAKOU Hisashi	Associate Professor	History of Art

History and Area Studies

Japanese History

Name	Position	Research subject
SHIRAKIZAWA Asahiko	Professor	Japanese Modern History, Japanese Economic History
OGURA Makiko	Associate Professor	Japanese Ancient History (Nara and Heian Period)
KAWAGUCHI Akihiro	Associate Professor	History of Japan
TANIMOTO Akihisa	Associate Professor	Japanese early modern(Edo Era) history
HASHIMOTO Yu	Associate Professor	Medieval Japanese History, East Asia Maritime History
HIRAI Kazusa	Assistant Professor	Medieval Japanese History, Japanese Warring States period History

Asian History

Name	Position	Research subject
MIKI Satoshi	Professor	History of the Orient
SATO Kentaro	Associate Professor	History of the Muslim West
MORIKAWA Tomoko	Associate Professor	History of Iran, West-Asian History
YOSHIKAI Masato	Associate Professor	Ancient China (History and Archaeology of Warring States, Qin and Han Dynasty) Historical Relation between China and Vietnam Modern China (History of Chinese Historiography and Archaeology)

Occidental History

Name	Position	Research subject
SUNADA Toru	Professor	History of Rome
YAMAMOTO Fumihiko	Professor	German Medieval History German Early Modern History
HASEGAWA Takahiko	Associate Professor	Western history
MATSUSHIMA Akio	Associate Professor	The Social History of Modern France religions, The History of Modern France religion policies

History and Anthropology

Name	Position	Research subject
OHTA Keiko	Professor	Cultural Study of Islam
KWON Seok-yeong	Professor	Japanese Intellectual History Korean History
KUWAYAMA Takami	Professor	Cultural anthropology
MIYATAKE Kimio	Professor	Cultural anthropology/folklore studies
ODA Hiroshi	Associate Professor	cultural anthropology, peace research, ethnography methodology
MURATA Katsuyuki	Associate Professor	American History, American Culture

Northern Culture Studies

Name	Position	Research subject
KOSUGI Yasushi	Professor	Archaeology Study of material culture
SASAKI Toru	Professor	(1) Museum Management (2) Cultural Anthropology
TSUMAGARI Toshiro	Professor	Linguistics. Northern minority languages.
TAKASE Katsunori	Associate Professor	Prehistoric archaeology

Slavic Studies

Name	Position	Research subject
IEDA Osamu	Professor	Area studies on Hungary and Eastern Europe. Socio-economic history of Eastern Europe.
IWASHITA Akihiro	Professor	Border Studies in Eurasia, including Russia, China and Central Asia
UYAMA Tomohiko	Professor	Central Eurasian studies
WOLFF David	Professor	Russian History, Historu of Cold War
TABATA Shinichiro	Professor	Russian Economy
MATSUZATO Kimitaka	Professor	Politics and History of Russia and Ukraine
MOCHIZUKI Tetsuo	Professor	Russian Literature
YAMAMURA Rihito	Professor	Economic policy ,Agronomy ,Other
NAGANAWA Norihiro	Associate Professor	Modern History of Central Eurasia, Muslim policies of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, Russian/Soviet involvement in the Middle East
NOMACHI Motoki	Associate Professor	General linguistics, Slavic linguistics

Linguistics and Literature

Linguistics and Western Languages

Name	Position	Research subject
SHIMIZU Makoto	Professor	German and Germanic linguistics and philology
TAKAHASHI Hidemitsu	Professor	English Linguistics and Cognitive Linguistics: Cognitive Semantics, Cognitive Grammar and Functional Linguistics
MOCHIZUKI Tsuneko	Professor	Modern and contemporary Russian literature
NOMURA Masuhiro	Associate Professor	English linguistics, cognitive linguistics, semantics
FUJITA Takeshi	Associate Professor	French Linguistics   Romance Linguistics    Generative Grammar
MIYASHITA Yayoi	Assistant Professor	Shakespearean Drama, Narrative Theory, Medieval English Literature

Western Literature

Name	Position	Research subject
ANZAI Makoto	Professor	Classics
YAMADA Teizo	Professor	German Literature, Cultural Studies
ONISHI Ikuo	Associate Professor	Study of Russian Literature in19t-20t centuries.
SENAHA Eijun	Associate Professor	English and Gender Studies
TAKEUCHI Shuichi	Associate Professor	French literature
TAKEUCHI Yasuhiro	Associate Professor	American Literature
Grünewald Matthias	Associate Professor	German as a Foreign Language
FUJIMOTO Junko	Assistant Professor	Methodology of teaching Germany, Communication of different culture

Linguistic Sciences

Name	Position	Research subject
IKEDA Shoju	Professor	Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Historical Linguistics
ONO Yoshihiko	Professor	Information Science, Linguistic Sciences
KATO Shigehiro	Professor	General Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, Linguistic Pragmatics
SATO Tomomi	Professor	Linguistics, Ainu, Northern Languages
LEE Yeonju	Associate Professor	Korean Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics
Tang Wei	Assistant Professor	Chinese Linguistics Japanese Classics Dunhuang studies

Japanology

Name	Position	Research subject
GOTO Yasufumi	Professor	Literature in Heian era
TOMITA Yasuyuki	Professor	A  study  of  drama  in  the　Edo　period
KANAZAWA Hideyuki	Associate Professor	Ancient Japanese literature
HASEGAWA Chihiro	Associate Professor	Japanese Medieval Literature,Renga,Wakan-Rengu

Sinology

Name	Position	Research subject
SATO Rentaro	Professor	Chinese philosophy
TAKEDA Masaya	Professor	Literature of various countries/theories of literature criticism
YUHAZU Kazuyori	Professor	Scholarship and thought in ancient China
KONDO Hiroyuki	Associate Professor	Chinese philosophy, A history of philosophical theories of Zhou-yi
MATSUE Takashi	Associate Professor	Chinese Linguistics

Filmology and Cultural Studies of Representation

Name	Position	Research subject
YING Xiong	Professor	cinema studies, Chinese cinemas, modern Chinese literature and culture
OSHINO Takeshi	Professor	Modern Japanese literature,　Cultural Studies
SATO Junji	Professor	European language literature
NAKAMURA Miharu	Professor	Modern Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature, Studies of Representational Culture
ABE Casio	Associate Professor	Research in film and subculture, Japanese poetry studies
MIZUTAMARI Mayumi	Associate Professor	Gender, History of thought

Human Sciences

Psychology

Name	Position	Research subject
ADACHI Mayumi	Professor	Music Psychology, Developmental Psychology of Music
KAWABATA Yasuhiro	Professor	Cognitive psychology, Color science
TAYAMA Tadayuki	Professor	Psychology of Vision Psychology of Time Psychophysics
Naka Makiko	Professor	Cognitive Psychology Developmental Psychology, Psychology and Law
HISHITANI Shinsuke	Professor	Cognitive Psychology and Brain Research on Mental Imagery
WADA Hiromi	Professor	Developmental neurobehavioral toxicology
MORIMOTO Taku	Assistant Professor	Cognitive psychology Human information processing Cross-modal links between vision and haptics

Behavioral Science

Name	Position	Research subject
KAMEDA Tatsuya	Professor	Social psychology, adaptive behavior, behavioral decision making
YUKI Masaki	Professor	Social Psychology, Cultural Psychology
OHNUMA Susumu	Associate Professor	Environmental Social Psychology
TAKAHASHI taiki	Associate Professor	Behavioral neuroeconomics
TAKAHASHI Nobuyuki	Associate Professor	Social psychology
NAKAJIMA Akira	Assistant Professor	Applied Statistics

Sociology

Name	Position	Research subject
KANEKO, Isamu	Professor	Sociology of welfare　on the aging society with a declining birthrate
SAKURAI Yoshihide	Professor	Sociology of Religion, Thai and Asian Studies
IMAI Jun	Associate Professor	Comparative Employment Relations, Economy and Organizations, Gender Relations
TARUMOTO Hideki	Associate Professor	Transnational Sociology, Political Sociology
HIRASAWA Kazushi	Associate Professor	Soiology
TERAZAWA Shigenori	Assistant Professor	Sociology of Religion, Study of Social Activities, Comparative Study of Japan and Taiwan

Regional Sciences

Name	Position	Research subject
IKEDA Tohru	Professor	Conservation Ecology, Wildlife Management, Socioecology
HASHIMOTO Yuichi	Professor	Geography, Geographical Information Science (GIS)
MIYAUCHI Taisuke	Professor	environmental sociology, development sociology, regional sociology
NIHEI Takaaki	Associate Professor	Human Geography, Agricultural Geography, Regional Geography
TATSUZAWA Shirow	Assistant Professor	Environmental impact assessment/environmental policy ,Resource maintenance studies ,Ecology/environment

Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy

Name	Position	Research subject
MAJIMA Shunzo	Associate Professor	Applied Ethics (International/Global Ethics, War Ethics, Military Ethics, Professional Ethics), Just War Theory

Center for Northern Humanities

Name	Position	Research subject
NAGAYAMA Yukari	Assistant Professor	Linguistics

Archaeological Research Center

Name	Position	Research subject
TAKAKURA Jun	Assistant Professor	Prehistoric archaeology