Division of Humanities
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
Laboratory of Philosophy and Ethics
- SANO Katsuhiko Professor
Research Fields: Logic
- TAGUCHI Shigeru Professor
Research Fields: Philosophy (phenomenology) and interdisciplinary study of experience
- MURAMATSU Masataka Professor
Research Fields: Modern French philosophy
- OKUNO Mariko Associate Professor
Research Fields: Contemporary Anglo-American Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Applied Ethics
- MIYAZONO Kengo Associate Professor
Research Fields: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Early Modern Philosophy
- NOMURA Yasushi Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Philosophy
Laboratory of Religious Studies and Indian Philosophy
- MIYAJIMA Shunichi Professor
Research Fields: Phenomenology of Religion, Friedrich Heiler, Death and Life Studies, Spirituality, Bioethics
- HAYASHIDERA Shoshun Professor
Research Fields: Buddhism
- MANABE Tomohiro Associate Professor
Research Fields: Indian Philosophy, History of Indian Philosophy
Department of History
Laboratory of Japanese History
- KAWAGUCHI Akihiro Professor
Research Fields: History of Japan
- TANIMOTO Akihisa Professor
Research Fields: Japanese early modern(Edo Era) history
- HASHIMOTO Yu Professor
Research Fields: Medieval Japanese History, East Asian Maritime History
- KWEON Seok-yeong Professor
Research Fields: Japanese Intellectual History, Korean History
- YOSHIDA Takuya Lecturer
Research Fields: Japanese Ancient History
Laboratory of Oriental History
- SATO Kentaro Professor
Research Fields: History of the Muslim West
- YOSHIKAI Masato Professor
Research Fields: China's Southern Borderland, Modern China
- SUEMORI Haruka Lecturer
Research Fields: History of west Asia (Ottoman and Turkish history)
Laboratory of Occidental History
- 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
- MURATA Katsuyuki Professor
Research Fields: American History, American Culture
- IISAKA Koji Associate Professor
Research Fields: Ancient History of the Mediterranean World, History of Ancient Rome
- YASUKATA Kaori Associate Professor
Research Fields: Early Modern European History, Regional History of Alsace
Laboratory of Archaeology
- EDA Masaki Professor
Research Fields: Zooarchaeology, archaeo-ornithology
- TAKASE Katsunori Professor
Research Fields: Prehistoric archaeology
- NATSUKI Daigo Associate Professor
Research Fields: Archaeogy, Prehistorical archaeology, Geoarchaeology
- NAKAZAWA Yuichi Associate Professor
Research Fields: Archaeology, human evolutionary history
- KUNIKITA Dai Associate Professor
Research Fields: Archaeology, Archaeological Science
Department of Cultural Diversity Studies
Laboratory of Cultural Anthropology
- YAMAGUCHI Mikako Professor
Research Fields: Anthropology of Animal, Hunter and gatherers culture, North American Indigenous People, Art
- ODA Hiroshi Professor
Research Fields: anthropology, peace research, ethnography methodology
- COKER Caitlin Christine Associate Professor
Research Fields: Anthropology, Embodiment, Performance Studies, Affect Theory
- TANAKA Yumi Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Anthropology, trees and people, art, Research of the Nordic indigenous people
Laboratory of Aesthetics and History of Art
- YAKOU Hisashi Professor
Research Fields: History of Art
- ASANUMA Keiko Professor
Research Fields: Aesthetics/history of art
- IMAMURA Nobutaka Associate Professor
Research Fields: Aesthetics, Art Theory, Museum Studies
Laboratory of Museum Studies
- KOYAMA Ryo Associate Professor
Research Fields: Modern Japanese History, Museum Studies
- HISAI Atsuyo Associate Professor
Research Fields: History and Culture of Wildlife, Museology
- CHO Yenling Lecturer
Research Fields: Museum Studies
Department of Cultural Representations
Laboratory of European and American Literature
- OGURA Hikaru Professor
Research Fields: Russian Literature, Polish Literature, Comparative Literature
- SENAHA Eijun Professor
Research Fields: English and Gender Studies
- TAKEUCHI Yasuhiro Professor
Research Fields: American Literature
- TAKEUCHI Shuichi Professor
Research Fields: French literature
- TODA Satoshi Professor
Research Fields: History of ancient Christianity, Literature of the Christian Orient (ancient and medieval), Classical philology
- MIYASHITA Yayoi Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Shakespearean Drama, Narrative Theory, Medieval English Literature
Laboratory of Pre-modern Japanese Literature and Culture
- MINAMI Yoko Associate Professor
Research Fields: Japanese early-modern literature
- NOMOTO Tosei Associate Professor
Research Fields: narrative literature
- KOBAYASHI Tadamasa Lecturer
Research Fields: Study of Japanese HEIAN literature
Laboratory of Sinology
- TAMURA Yoko Professor
Research Fields: Chinese performing arts and literature
- KONDO Hiroyuki Professor
Research Fields: Chinese philosophy, A history of philosophical theories of <i>Zhou-yi</i>
- YOSHIDA Tsutomu Associate Professor
Research Fields: History of Chinese Thought, Qing Dynasty Scholarship
- XIONG Zheng Lecturer
Research Fields: Classical Chinese literature and Chinese philosophy
Laboratory of Visual and Modern Culture
- YING Xiong Professor
Research Fields: Image and Representation Studies
- OSHINO Takeshi Professor
Research Fields: Modern Japanese literature, Cultural Studies
- MIZUTAMARI Mayumi Professor
Research Fields: Gender, History of Thought
- KAWASAKI Kohei Associate Professor
Research Fields: Visual culture studies, Japanese film studies
Department of Linguistics
Laboratory of Linguistics
- NOMURA Masuhiro Professor
Research Fields: English linguistics, cognitive linguistics, semantics
- FUJITA Takeshi Professor
Research Fields: French Linguistics, Romance Linguistics, Generative Grammar
- KATO Shigehiro Professor
Research Fields: General Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, Linguistic Pragmatics
- LEE Yeonju Professor
Research Fields: Korean Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics
- SATO Tomomi Specially Appointed Professor
Research Fields: Linguistics, Ainu, Northern Languages
- KATO Sachi Associate Professor
Research Fields: Japanese, Corpus linguistics
- TSUTA Kiyoyuki Associate Professor
Research Fields: Japanese Linguistics, Philology, Historical Linguistics
- SUGAI Kenta Associate Professor
Research Fields: Russian Linguistics, Slavic Linguistics
Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies
Laboratory of Slavic-Eurasian Studies
- HATTORI Michitaka Professor
Research Fields: Russian Economy
- AOSHIMA Yoko Professor
Research Fields: Central and East European Modern History; History of the Russian Empire
- 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
- 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
- WOLFF David Specially Appointed Professor
Research Fields: Russian, Soviet and Emigre / Siberia and the Far East / Cold War / Northeast Asian Region Construction
- ADACHI Daisuke Associate Professor
Research Fields: Literature, Representation-body-media relationship, Russian language, literature and culture
- ISAHAYA Yoichi Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Research Fields: Histories of Premodern Central Eurasia, Mongol Empire and Sciences
- OHNISHI Fujio Specially Appointed Associate Professor
Research Fields: International Relations, Arctic Studies, Regional Studies
Department of Ainu and Indigenous Studies
Laboratory of Ainu and Indigenous Studies
- KATO Hirofumi Professor
Research Fields: Indigenous archaeology, Cultural Heritage issues
- KITAHARA Mokottunas Professor
Research Fields: Religion of Ainu people, Ainu language, Oral literature
- YAMASAKI Koji Professor
Research Fields: Ainu material culture，Cultural anthropology，Museum studies
- ISHIHARA Mai Associate Professor
Research Fields: Cultural anthropology, indigenous research
- OCHIAI Ken-ichi Associate Professor
Research Fields: Law of Indigenous Peoples, Constitution
- TANGIKU Itsuji Associate Professor
Research Fields: Oral literature, linguistics (documentation and description of Ainu language and Nivkh language).
- MINOSHIMA Hideki Associate Professor
Research Fields: Ainu history, Northeast Asian history, Ancient Japanese history
Division of Human Sciences
Department of Psychology
Laboratory of Psychology
- KAWAHARA Jun-ichiro Professor
Research Fields: Cognitive Psychology (attention, memory, perception of attractiveness, stress)
- OGAWA Kenji Professor
Research Fields: Cognitive Neuroscience (Motor Control, Social Cognition)
- KAWABATA Yasuhiro Professor
Research Fields: Cognitive psychology, Color science
- ADACHI Mayumi Specially Appointed Professor
Research Fields: Music Psychology, Developmental Psychology of Music
- TANABE Hiroko Associate Professor
Research Fields: Cognitive and behavioral science (motor control, body expression, and sports psychology)
- KANEKO Sae Associate Professor
Research Fields: Vision Science
- TSURUMI Shuma Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Developmental cognitive psychology (infants' perception and recognition)
- 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, Socio-Ecological Psychology
- OHNUMA Susumu Professor
Research Fields: Environmental Social Psychology
- TAKAHASHI Taiki Professor
Research Fields: Behavioral neuroeconomics
- TAKAHASHI Nobuyuki Professor
Research Fields: Social psychology
- TAKEZAWA Masanori Professor
Research Fields: Social Psychology, Social Decision Making, Adaptive Decision Making
- TAKIMOTO Ayaka Associate Professor
Research Fields: Comparative Cognitive Science
- NAKAJIMA Akira Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Applied Statistics
Department of Sociology
Laboratory of Sociology
- HIGUCHI Mari Professor
Research Fields: Social exclusion, care labor, family, Quantitative research methods, International comparison
- HIRASAWA Kazushi Professor
Research Fields: Soiology
- SAKURAI Yoshihide Specially Appointed Professor
Research Fields: Sociology of Religion, Thai and Asian Studies
- NG Ka Shing Associate Professor
Research Fields: Nationalism studies, social movements, sociology of culture and religion, East-Asian studies
- HIRAMATSU Makoto Lecturer
Research Fields: Urban and regional sociology, Quantitative sociology
Department of Regional Science
Laboratory of Regional Science
- HASHIMOTO Yuichi Professor
Research Fields: Geography, Geographical Information Science (GIS)
- MIYAUCHI Taisuke Professor
Research Fields: environmental sociology, development sociology, regional sociology
- SASAOKA Masatoshi Professor
Research Fields: Environmental sociology, Political Ecology, Indonesian Area Studies
- UENO Mayumi Associate Professor
Research Fields: Wildlife Management, Population Ecology, Policy Science, Game biology, Science of hunting
- TAKAHASHI Koki Associate Professor
Research Fields: Social and Cultural Geography, Urban Studies, Island Studies, North American Studies
- HAYASHI Takuya Associate Professor
Research Fields: Rural Geography, Economic Geography, Tourism Studies, Community Development
- TERADA Chisato Assistant Professor
Research Fields: Conservation Ecology, Environmental Education, Wildlife Management
