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ASAGA Hiroaki

ASAGA Hiroaki
Title Professor
Field Peace and the 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"

HANE Jiro

HANE Jiro
Title Professor
Field Peace and the Environment
Research Themes Historical research of Chinese concepts / History of Eurasian negotiations / The ‘One Belt and One Road’ initiative etc. and other issues in contemporary China / Historical research of the problems in the East China Sea and South China
Publications* only in Japanese

HATANAKA Motoki

HATANAKA Motoki
Title Associate Professor
Field Culture
Research Themes Reality in Japanese literature
Publications* only in Japanese "The Stylistic of Marriage Proposal: About the Forming of the Story of Marriage Proposal by Rumors on The Makioka Sisters.",STUDIES IN STYLISTICS,
No.47, March 2001, pp.68-81.

HIROBE Izumi

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

HIROSAWA Eriko

HIROSAWA Eriko
Title 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" *

HONMA Tsugihiko

HONMA Tsugihiko
Title Professor
Field Philosophy, Thought and Religion
Research Themes Multilateral analysis of thought in Late Imperial China (including literature and religion)
Publications* only in Japanese ”The Reconstruction of History and the Rebirth of the Way:Wang Fuzhi's Discourse on the Spring and Autumn Annals”
”Sages and Newborn Babies in the Shiny Happy World:The Wang Yangming Tradition Revisited”
”The Thin Line Between This World and Possible Worlds;:Jin Yuelin's Inquiry concerning Tao”

IKEDA Isao

IKEDA Isao
Title 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 *

INOUE Yoshiyuki

INOUE Yoshiyuki
Title Professor
Field Philosophy, Thought and Religion
Research Themes ・European literature and philosophy of 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries
・Visual arts and science
・Manuscript studies
・Modernism
・Samuel Beckett
・René Descartes
・Denis Diderot
・Jorge Luis Borges
・Jacques Derrida
Publications Books in Japanese
・Co-editor, Samuel Beckett’s Vision and Movement (Tokyo: Michitani, 2005), 1-307, i-iii.
・Co-editor, The Summa of Beckett (Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1999), 1-286, 1-69.
・Co-translator, James Knowlson’s Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett, 2 vols. (Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2003), 1-587; 1-481, 1-52.
Chapters and Articles (from 2008)
・‘Little animals in the brain: Beckett’s “porteurs de la mémoire”’. Beckett and Animals. Ed. Mary Bryden (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013), 94-106.
・‘Cartesian Mechanics in Beckett’s Fin de partie’. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui 24 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012), 139-153.
・‘The Idea of Nature in Beckett’s The Lost Ones’. The Bulletin of Arts and Sciences 454, Tokyo: Meiji University (March 2010): 1-13.
・‘“Little People” in Le Dépeupleur: Beckett and the Eighteenth Century’. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui 19 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008), 223-233.
Review
・Yoshiki Tajiri, Samuel Beckett and the Prosthetic Body: The Organs and Senses in Modernism (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Studies in English Literature, English Number 50 (2009): 190-198.

ISHIYAMA Noriko

ISHIYAMA Noriko
Title Professor
Field Peace and the Environment
Research Themes environmental justice, critical geography. With a focus on US nuclear development in relation to racism, classism, sexism, and heterosexism.
Publications Ishiyama, Noriko (2003) “Environmental Justice and American Indian Tribal Sovereignty: Case Study of a Land–Use Conflict in Skull Valley, Utah” Antipode 35-1: 119-139.

Ishiyama, Noriko (Forthcoming). “Environmental in/justice .” In The International Encyclopedia of Geography, edited by Douglas Richardson. Malden, Oxford: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

ITO Ken

ITO Ken
Title Associate Professor
Field Philosophy, Thought and Religion
Research Themes Ancient Japanese myths as viewed from the perspective of cultural research
Publications

IWANO Takuji

IWANO Takuji
Title Professor
Field Philosophy, Thought 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

KAMASAKI Futoshi

KAMASAKI Futoshi
Title Associate Professor
Field Philosophy, Thought and Religion
Research Themes Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education.
Publications* only in Japanese What Human Teacherts Can Already Do: Dreyfus’s Critique of Artifical Reason and Physical Education.
The Birth of Fußball in Imperial Germany: The Thoughts and Activities of the Bildungsbürger, Konrad Koch.

KANDA Masayuki

KANDA Masayuki
Title Associate Professor
Field Culture
Research Themes Acceptance of popular Chinese novels in Japan
Publications* only in Japanese

KATO Toru

KATO Toru
Title 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 *

KATSUTA Tadahiro

KATSUTA Tadahiro
Title Professor
Field Peace and the 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 *

KAWANO Akimasa

KAWANO Akimasa
Title Professor
Field Philosophy, Thought and Religion
Research Themes Research on Chinese folk religion (incantation, printed depictions of deities, stone lions, character-related beliefs, and gate pictures), the process of the formation of Chinatown districts in Southeast Asian cities and old districts in cities in China and Taiwan, and the appearance of these districts
Publications * only in Japanese History of Yunnan-a crossroads of Aisan nationalitys * ,Hakuteisya,2013.

The poison of overflow─A study on Gudu (spiritual poison) in South
China,Mamtimin Geni and Masanori Kikuchi, Get Together with Interest in Science,
Xinjiang University and Tokyo University of Science, 2004.9.

Wuchang ─as the God of Wealth, Tang Hong and Masanori Kikuchi, Proceedings of the NPU-TUS Bilateral Seminar, Northwestern Polytechnical University
and Tokyo University of Science,2006.9.

Lindsay Nelson

Lindsay Nelson
Title Associate Professor
Field Culture
Research Themes Japanese horror and new media, Japanese cinema and the concept of “home,” video essays
Publications Circulating Fear: Japanese Horror, Fractured Realities, and New Media (Lexington Books, 2021)
“‘That’s not very manly’: Debating Japanese Masculinities on Terrace House” (Japanese Studies, 2021)
“Choosing Illusion: Mediated Reality and the Spectacle of the Idol in Kōji Shiraishi’s Shirome” (Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 2018)

MARUKAWA Tetsushi

MARUKAWA Tetsushi
Title Professor
Field Peace and the 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

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

NAKAMURA Kazue

NAKAMURA Kazue
Title Professor
Field Comparative Literature and Culture, Postcolonial Literatures, Modern Japanese Literature
Research Themes Indigenous peoples and their cultures, cultural minorities, Caribbean and other literatures in English, Eurocentrism and Japan
Publications * only in Japanese Meshi on the Earth: Voyage around the World and Dishes. Heibonsha, 2012 “A Dialogue to Find Ourselves and Others: The Reception of Emily Kngwarreye in Japan,” Australian & New Zealand Journal of Art. vol.9, no.1/2 2009. pp.23-27 "Suicides and Arsonists: Albert Wendt, Mishima Yukio, Sia Figiel or the Literature of Modern Darkness," SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. No.54/55, April & October 2005. pp.44-53 "The Colonized Colonizer: the Japanese Position in a Cross-Cultural World," Crossing Cultural Borders: Toward an Ethics of Intercultural Communication —— Beyond Reciprocal Anthropology. Proceedings of International Symposium 14, 1999. Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2001, pp.209-219

SAHARA Tetsuya

SAHARA Tetsuya
Title Professor
Field Peace and the 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*

SAITO Eiji

SAITO Eiji
Title 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" *

SAKUMA Yurtaka

SAKUMA Yurtaka
Title Associate Professor
Field Culture
Research Themes Ethnographical Study on Debt, Cultural Study on Francophone Africa
Publications* only in Japanese Index de Présence Africaine par auteurs (1947-2016), Présence Africaine, 2021.
« Present Condition of the Sudanese Agricultural Complex: The Case of Western Niger », African Study Monographs. Supplementary Issue, 58, 2019, pp.3-20.

SATO Kiminori

SATO Kiminori
Title Senior Assistant Professor
Field Culture
Research Themes History of Crime and Punishment in Germany in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries / Right-Wing Populism in Contemporary Germany
Publications* only in Japanese

SATSUMA Hideto

SATSUMA Hideto
Title 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 *

SHIMADA Naoya

SHIMADA Naoya
Title Associate Professor
Field Culture
Research Themes Study on Kafu Nagai, modern theater criticism, high school Japanese language textbooks
Various Possible Interpretation of The Landscape : Nagai Kafu's Stylistic Strategy
明治大学教養論集 (532), 31-50, 2018-03*

The Potential of Nagai's Writing Style in a Biography Based on Historical Evidence : With Reference to his Work Shitayasowa
研究紀要 = Research bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Shigakukan University 37, 97-114, 2016-01
志學館大学人間関係学部*

The Perspective of Memory (History): The Experience of Seeing Inoue Hisashi's Chichi To Kuraseba
日本近代文学 94(0), 167-180, 2016*

The Degree Zero of Writing and Body: Reading Toshiki Okada's Sangatsu-no-itsukakan
日本文学 60(11), 64-73, 2011
日本文学協会*

SUZUKI Tetsuya

SUZUKI Tetsuya
Title 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*

TAKIGUCHI Mika

TAKIGUCHI Mika
Title Associate Professor
Field Philosophy, Thought and Religion
Research Themes Byzantine manuscript illumination; early Christian floor mosaics; Byzantine wall paintings
Publications The Tetraevangelion: A Study in Byzantine Manuscript Illumination (Osaka, 2012).
“Some Greek Gospel Manuscripts in the British Library: Examples of the Byzantine Book as Holy Receptacle and Bearer of Hidden Meaning,” The Electronic British Library Journal (2011), 1-16.

TORAIWA Naoko

TORAIWA Naoko
Title 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*

TORII Takashi

TORII Takashi
Title Professor
Field Peace and the 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

UEMURA Takeshi

UEMURA Takeshi
Title Associate Professor
Field Peace and the Environment
Research Themes I analyze foreign relations of China and other states from IRT (International Relations Theories) approaches.
Publications (2015) Understanding Chinese Foreign Relations, International Studies Perspectives 16 (3).

YAMAGISHI Tomoko

YAMAGISHI Tomoko
Title 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"*