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Graduate School of Humanities

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	HAYASHI Masahiko
	Professor
	Field	Ethics , Philosophy and Religion
	Research Themes	Analysis on the Buddhist Narratives and Paintings.
	Publications * only in Japanese	Out of this Impure Land To Paradise - On Buddhist Literature* The Eastward Spread of Painting Recitation* A Comparative History of Eastern & Western Ideas of Life & Death*

	IWANO Takuji
	Professor
	Field	Ethics , Philosophy and Religion
	Research Themes	Interpretation of violence in the history of Western thought. Relations of the language, the politics and the other. Consideration of eschatology and death.
	Publications * only in Japanese	Georges Bataille* IWANO Takuji et al., Politics of the narration* The experience and the divinity in the works of Georges Bataille

	KANEYAMA Akio
	Professor
	Field	Ethics , Philosophy and Religion
	Research Themes	Views on Life and Death, the Soul and the World after Death of Japanese People.
	Publications * only in Japanese	"Master Dogen' s View on Enlishtenment" * "Master Dogen' s Cosmology and His Views on Life & Death"* "On the Religious Thought of Dogen, Shinran and Ippen"*

	MINOBE Hitoshi
	Professor
	Field	Ethics , Philosophy and Religion
	Research Themes	Studies on the Absolute in the Philosophy of Nishida and the German Idealism with regard to the status of the I.
	Publications * only in Japanese	"Nishida and Fichte. The Affinity between the absolute Nothingness and the Absolute"* "Shinichi Hisamatsu. The Philosophy of Awakening"

	SAKURAI Naofumi
	Professor
	Field	Ethics , Philosophy and Religion
	Research Themes	Philosophy and religion in seventeenth-century Dutch context. Philosophy and its context.
	Publications * only in Japanese	SAKURAI Naofumi et al., Spinoza and the Political.* "Bibliographical notes on Tractatus Theologico-Politicus." "Theology as a Political issue: Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and the Dutch Cartesianism."

	HIROSAWA Eriko
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Psychoanalysis and Autobiography.
	Publications * only in Japanese	HIROSAWA Eriko et al., Women as Active Agents in German Culture* "Lou Andreas-Salome's Autobiography "Looking Back": A Reflection on the Relationship between Psychoanalysis and Autobiography" *

	IKEDA Isao
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	A Culture Study of Interrelationship Between Illness and Humanity. Japanese Contemporary Literary Arts.
	Publications * only in Japanese	A Cultural History of the Afflictions of the Heart* ISHIKAWA Takuboku His Prose and Philosophy * ISHIKAWA Takuboku International Perspectives *

	IKOMA Nagayuki
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Tanka Poetry and Tales of Japanese Ancient Literature.
	Publications * only in Japanese	The Tanka Poem and The Epical Literature * Folklore and Literature of the Tohoku District*

	KATO Toru
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Studies of Chinese Cultures, Comparing with Japanese Society.
	Publications * only in Japanese	Beijing Opera* The Chinese - The Racial Characteristics Symbolized by Shellfish and Sheep *

	KIKUCHI Yoshio
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	History and Formation of Modern Nations in Europe from the Middle Ages to Modernity.
	Publications * only in Japanese	The Information Media Revolution in the Habsburg Empire * The Holy Roman Empire * Two Thousand Years of Mercenaries in Europe *

	NAKAMURA Koichi
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Morphology of Indo-European languages.
	Publications	"On the Rivalry between Si and So in Gothic" "Englisc'，'Francois' and 'Loquella Propria' in Ancrence Wisse" "Arc '，'God-Bow'，'Sky-Bow'---Morphological Study of Indo-European 'Rainbow'"

	OBATA Yoshikazu
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Anlysing contemporary cultures by applying the key concepts "kitsch" and "realism".
	Publications * only in Japanese	Nouveaux Romans and the realist's illusion *，Studies in Quebec literature*，Cross-border imagination*

	SAITO Eiji
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	D. W. Griffith, American Movie History, Contemporary American Literature.
	Publications * only in Japanese	"The Sound of Silent Films" * "Movie-Made New York"* "Notes on The Wind and Its Happy Ending" *

	SATSUMA Hideto
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Social Structure of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages.
	Publications * only in Japanese	The Kingdom and the Nobility* The Heretics of Prague * Czech History *

	SUZUKI Masahisa
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Chinese Literature in the 1940's.
	Publications * only in Japanese	SUZUKI Masahisa et al., Transgressions of Modernism * SUZUKI Masahisa et al., Wartime Shanghai 1937-45*

	SUZUKI Tetsuya
	Associate Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Welsh and Irish studies. Contemporary poems and dramas in Japan.
	Publications * only in Japanese	SUZUKI Tetsuya et al., Celt-Its Tradition of Oral Culture* Politics of Discourse*

	TAKATO Hiromi
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Proust, Romi, Japanese Literature.
	Publications * only in Japanese	Sur Proust* Translation of Proust's Albertine disparue* Translation of Pauline Réages's Histoire d'O*

	TORAIWA Naoko
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Modern and Contemporary Fiction and Poetry in Ireland，Public Art Studies in the British Isles and Canada.，Cultural Translation Studies.
	Publications * only in Japanese	TORAIWA Naoko et al., Irishness in Modern and Contemporary Irish Art and Literature* TORAIWA Naoko et al., For the Readers of Irish and Celtic Cultures*

	YAMAGISHI Tomoko
	Professor
	Field	Culture
	Research Themes	Islamic culture and Muslims in a globalized world, Construction of "the other" in a modern world, Political-Culture of Iran.
	Publications * only in Japanese	"Can Japan Embrace a Muslim Public?" "Image of Muslim women and the War against terror" * "Martyrs: diffused reflections of Islamicism and Nationalism"*

	ASAGA Hiroaki
	Professor
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	Studies on the significance of protein citrullination in mammalian cells.
	Publications	ASAGA H "Peptidylarginine deiminases and citrullination in the central nervous system" ASAGA H and ISHIGAMI A "Microglial expression of peptidylarginine deiminase 2 in the prenatal rat brain" ASAGA H et al. "Increaesed and type II-specific expression of peptidylarginine deiminase in activated microglia but not hyperplastic astrocytes following kainic acid-evoked neurodegeneration in the rat brain"

	HIROBE Izumi
	Professor
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	US-East Asia Relations.
	Publications	Japanese Pride, American Prejudice

	KATSUTA Tadahiro
	Lecturer
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	Multilateral Nuclear Fuel Cycle Approach.
	Publications * only in Japanese	KATSUTA Tadahiro et al., Japan's Spent Fuel and Plutonium Management Challenges " The Economics of Nuclear Power: the validity of calculation by the Government" * KATSUTA Tadahiro et al., 100 Misunderstandings about Energy & Environmental Issues *

	MARUKAWA Tetsushi
	Associate Professor
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	The Knowledge Transfiguration of Intellectualism during Modernization in East Asia.
	Publications * only in Japanese	Cultural Studies on Cold War Piriod* The History on Late One Hundred Year between Japan and China * De-colonaization and Retune Movement in Taiwan *

	MORINAGA Yuki
	Professor
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	Mobile pastoralism and natural environment in Mongolia.
	Publications	Morinaga,Y.,S.Tian, and M.Shinoda "Winter Snow Anomaly and Atmospheric Circulation in Mongolia"

	OBONAI Hiroko
	Professor
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	Cooperatives Society within Asian region through the topics about economic development, income difference and labor movement.
	Publications * only in Japanese	"Receiving Foreign Workers for their freedom-to built cooperative society with Asian countries and poverty reduction"* "Asian workers coming into Japan and their behavior of remittance - female workers from Philippines and Thailand -"*

	SAHARA Tetsuya
	Professor
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	Comparative Genocide Studies, Modern and Contemporary History of Eastern Europe and Middle East.
	Publications * only in Japanese	An Eastern Orthodox Community during the Tanzimat* SAHARA Tetsuya et al., Forced Ethnic Migrations on the Balkans - Consequences and Rebuilding of Societies The Ottoman - Russian War, 1877-1878*

	TORII Takashi
	Professor
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	Studies on the construction of social and political stabilty systems in multi-ethnic nations.
	Publications	"The New Economic Policy and the United Malays National Organization - With Special Reference to the Restructuring of the Malaysian Society" "The Mechanism for State - Led Creation of Malaysia's Middle Classes" Malaysia under the Mahathir administration

	WANG Leping
	Professor
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	Research on China's agriculture, farming villages, and farmers.
	Publications * only in Japanese	Conditions for the Expansion of China's Food Trade* "Consumption Patterns of Farmers and Development of Rural Markets in China"*

	YAMAIZUMI Susumu
	Professor
	Field	Peace Studies and Environment
	Research Themes	Thought and Movement of Japanese Early Socialism.
	Publications * only in Japanese	Descriptive Sphere of the High Treason Incident* The Age of HEIMINSHA* The Formation of Japanese Socialism*

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