Division of Humanities
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Laboratory of Philosophy and Ethics
- KURATA Nobuo Professor
Research Fields: Applied ethics, ethics, history of occidental philosophy
- TAGUCHI Shigeru Professor
Research Fields: German Philosophy, phenomenology and modern Japanese philosophy
- CHIBA Kei Specially Appointed Professor
Research Fields: Greek Philosophy, especially Aristotle’s Dialectic, Natural Sciences and Metaphysics. Apostle Paul’s Philosophy of Faith.
- SANO Katsuhiko Associate Professor
Research Fields: Logic
- KONDO Tomohiko Associate Professor
Research Fields: Ethics, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy
- MURAMATSU Masataka Associate Professor
Research Fields: Modern French philosophy
- NOMURA Yasushi Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Philosophy
Laboratory of Religious Studies and Indian Philosophy
- MIYAJIMA Shunichi Associate Professor
Research Fields: Phenomenology of Religion, Friedrich Heiler, Death and Life Studies, Spirituality, Bioethics
- SASAKI Kei Associate Professor
Research Fields: John's Gospel, New Testament, Christianity, Religion
- HAYASHIDERA Shoshun Associate Professor
Research Fields: Buddhism
Department of History
Laboratory of Japanese History
- TANIMOTO Akihisa Professor
Research Fields: Japanese early modern(Edo Era) history
- SHIRAKIZAWA Asahiko Professor
Research Fields: Japanese Modern History, Japanese Economic History
- KWEON Seok-yeong Professor
Research Fields: Japanese Intellectual History, Korean History
- OGURA Makiko Associate Professor
Research Fields: Japanese Ancient History (Nara and Heian periods)
- KAWAGUCHI Akihiro Associate Professor
Research Fields: History of Japan
- HASHIMOTO Yu Associate Professor
Research Fields: Medieval Japanese History, East Asian Maritime History
- INOUE Keisuke Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Modern Japanese history, Political history,Hokkaido history
Laboratory of Oriental History
- YOSHIKAI Masato Professor
Research Fields: Ancient China, Premodern China's Southern Borderland, Modern China
- OHTA Keiko Professor
Research Fields: Cultural Study of Islam
- SATO Kentaro Associate Professor
Research Fields: History of the Muslim West
Laboratory of Occidental History
- MURATA Katsuyuki Professor
Research Fields: American History, American Culture
- SUNADA Toru Professor
Research Fields: History of Rome
- HASEGAWA Takahiko Professor
Research Fields: Western history
- YAMAMOTO Fumihiko Professor
Research Fields: German Medieval History, German Early Modern History
- MATSUSHIMA Akio Professor
Research Fields: The Social History of Modern France religions, The History of Modern France religion policies
Laboratory of Archaeology
- KOSUGI Yasushi Professor
Research Fields: Archaeology, Study of material culture
- EDA Masaki Associate Professor
Research Fields: Zooarchaeology, archaeo-ornithology
- TAKASE Katsunori Associate Professor
Research Fields: Prehistoric archaeology
- TAKAKURA Jun Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Archaeology, Scientific Studies on Cultural Properties
Department of Cultural Diversity Studies
Laboratory of Cultural Anthropology
- ODA Hiroshi Professor
Research Fields: anthropology, peace research, ethnography methodology
- YAMAGUCHI Mikako Associate Professor
Research Fields: Anthropology of Animal, Hunter and gatherers culture, North American Indigenous People, Art
Laboratory of Aesthetics and History of Art
Laboratory of Museum Studies
- SASAKI Toru Professor
Research Fields: (1) Museum Management (2) Cultural Anthropolog
- SUZUKI Yukito Associate Professor
Research Fields: Aesthetics/history of art
- YAMASHITA Shunsuke Assistant Professor
Research Fields:
Department of Cultural Representations
Laboratory of European and American Literature
- SENAHA Eijun Professor
Research Fields: English and Gender Studies
- TAKEUCHI Yasuhiro Professor
Research Fields: American Literature
- ONISHI Ikuo Professor
Research Fields: Russian Literature
- TAKEUCHI Shuichi Professor
Research Fields: French literature
- TODA Satoshi Associate Professor
Research Fields: History of ancient Christianity, Literature of the Christian Orient (ancient and medieval), Classical philology
- Grünewald Matthias Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Research Fields: German as a Foreign Language
- MIYASHITA Yayoi Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Shakespearean Drama, Narrative Theory, Medieval English Literature
Laboratory of Pre-modern Japanese Literature and Culture
- TOMITA Yasuyuki Professor
Research Fields: A study of drama in the Edo period
- KANAZAWA Hideyuki Professor
Research Fields: Ancient Japanese literature
- GOTO Yasufumi Professor
Research Fields: Literature in Heian era
- NOMOTO Tosei Associate Professor
Research Fields: narrative literature
Laboratory of Sinology
- TAKEDA Masaya Professor
Research Fields: Literature of various countries/theories of literature criticism
- YUHAZU Kazuyori Professor
Research Fields: Scholarship and thought in ancient China
- KONDO Hiroyuki Professor
Research Fields: Chinese philosophy, A history of philosophical theories of <i>Zhou-yi</i>
Laboratory of Visual and Modern Culture
- ABE Casio Professor
Research Fields: Research in film and subculture, Japanese poetry studies
- YING Xiong Professor
Research Fields: Image and Representation Studies
- OSHINO Takeshi Professor
Research Fields: Modern Japanese literature, Cultural Studies
- NAKAMURA Miharu Professor
Research Fields: Modern Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature, Studies of Representational Culture
- OGAWA Sawako Associate Professor
Research Fields:
- MIZUTAMARI Mayumi Associate Professor
Research Fields: Gender, History of thought
Department of Linguistics
Laboratory of Linguistics
- SHIMIZU Makoto Professor
Research Fields: German and Germanic linguistics and philology
- NOMURA Masuhiro Professor
Research Fields: English linguistics, cognitive linguistics, semantics
- FUJITA Takeshi Professor
Research Fields: French Linguistics, Romance Linguistics, Generative Grammar
- IKEDA Shoju Professor
Research Fields: Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Historical Linguistics
- KATO Shigehiro Professor
Research Fields: General Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, Linguistic Pragmatics
- SATO Tomomi Professor
Research Fields: Linguistics, Ainu, Northern Languages
- SUGAI Kenta Associate Professor
Research Fields: Russian Linguistics, Slavic Linguistics
- LEE Yeonju Associate Professor
Research Fields: Korean Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics
- FUJIMOTO Junko Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Methodology of teaching Germany, Communication of different culture
Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies
Laboratory of Slavic-Eurasian Studies
- SENGOKU Manabu Professor
Research Fields: Comparative politics of Central and East European countries, political economy, welfare politics
- IWASHITA Akihiro Professor
Research Fields: Border Studies in Eurasia, including Russia, China and Central Asia
- UYAMA Tomohiko Professor
Research Fields: Central Eurasian studies
- WOLFF David Professor
Research Fields: Russian, Soviet and Emigre / Siberia and the Far East / Cold War / Northeast Asian Region Construction
- TABATA Shinichiro Professor
Research Fields: Russian Economy
- NAGANAWA Norihiro Professor
Research Fields: Modern History of Central Eurasia, Muslim policies of the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, Russian/Soviet involvement in the Middle East
- NOMACHI Motoki Professor
Research Fields: General linguistics, Slavic linguistics
- ADACHI Daisuke Associate Professor
Research Fields: Literature, Representation-body-media relationship, Russian language, literature and culture
Department of Ainu and Indigenous Studies
Laboratory of Ainu and Indigenous Studies
- KATO Hirofumi Professor
Research Fields: Indigenous archaeology, Cultural Heritage issues
- OCHIAI Ken-ichi Associate Professor
Research Fields: Law of Indigenous Peoples, Constitution
- KITAHARA Jirota Associate Professor
Research Fields:
- TANGIKU Itsuji Associate Professor
Research Fields: Oral literature, linguistics (documentation and description of Ainu language and Nivkh language).
- NAGANUMA Masaki Associate Professor
Research Fields: Prehistory, Comparatiiv Archaeology, Methodology of archaeology, Indigenous Archeology
- MINOSHIMA Hideki Associate Professor
Research Fields: Ainu history, Northeast Asian history, Ancient Japanese history
- YAMASAKI Koji Associate Professor
Research Fields: Ainu material culture，Cultural anthropology，Museum studies
- KONDO Shiaki Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Native Alaskan Studies; anthropology of religion; hunting studies
Division of Human Sciences
Department of Psychology
Laboratory of Psychology
- WADA Hiromi Professor
Research Fields: Developmental neurobehavioral toxicology
- ADACHI Mayumi Professor
Research Fields: Music Psychology, Developmental Psychology of Music
- KAWABATA Yasuhiro Professor
Research Fields: Cognitive psychology, Color science
- KAWAHARA Jun-ichiro Associate Professor
Research Fields: Cognitive Psychology (attention, memory, perception of attractiveness, stress)
- OGAWA Kenji Associate Professor
Research Fields: Cognitive Neuroscience (Motor Control, Social Cognition)
- MORIMOTO Taku Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Cognitive psychology
Department of Behavioral Science
Laboratory of Behavioral Science
- YUKI Masaki Professor
Research Fields: Social Psychology, Cultural Psychology
- OHNUMA Susumu Professor
Research Fields: Environmental Social Psychology
- TAKAHASHI Nobuyuki Professor
Research Fields: Social psychology
- TAKIMOTO Ayaka Associate Professor
Research Fields: Comparative Cognitive Science
- TAKAHASHI Taiki Associate Professor
Research Fields: Behavioral neuroeconomics
- TAKEZAWA Masanori Associate Professor
Research Fields: social psychology, social decision making, adaptive decision making
- NAKAJIMA Akira Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Applied Statistics
Department of Sociology
Laboratory of Sociology
- HIRASAWA Kazushi Professor
Research Fields: Soiology
- SAKURAI Yoshihide Professor
Research Fields: Sociology of Religion, Thai and Asian Studies
- HIGUCHI Mari Associate Professor
Research Fields: Social exclusion, care labor, family, quantitative research methods, International comparison
Department of Regional Science
Laboratory of Regional Science
- IKEDA Tohru Professor
Research Fields: Conservation Ecology, Wildlife Management, Socioecology
- HASHIMOTO Yuichi Professor
Research Fields: Geography, Geographical Information Science (GIS)
- MIYAUCHI Taisuke Professor
Research Fields: environmental sociology, development sociology, regional sociology
- HAYASHI Takuya Associate Professor
Research Fields: Human Geography，Tourism Geography，Rural Geography
- SASAOKA Masatoshi Associate Professor
Research Fields: Environmental sociology, Political Ecology, Indonesian Area Studies
- NIHEI Takaaki Associate Professor
Research Fields: Human Geography, Agricultural Geography, Regional Geography
- TATSUZAWA Shirow Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Environmental impact assessment/environmental policy ,Resource maintenance studies ,Ecology/environment
