CHO Kyo

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [Culture and Thought] Comparative literature, comparative culture, history of cultural exchanges in East Asia, cultural history |
Research Themes | Taisho literature and China, translation and acceptance of literature, cultural historical studies of sensibilities and emotions |
FUJIMOTO Yukari

Title | Professor |
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Field | [Pop Culture] Theory of manga (comic book) culture and gender theory, the process of development of shojo manga (comic books for girls) and international comparisons of manga |
Research Themes | Changes over time in the attitudes of females as seen in shojo manga, history of the development of expressive techniques, transgressive gender expression in manga, international comparisons of manga (including distribution conditions, regulation of expression and copyright issues) |
HAGIWARA Ken

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [Culture and Thought] Theater Studies, Performance Studies |
Research Themes | Directing in Contemporary Theater (esp. in Japan and Germany) |
HIKAWA Ryusuke

Title | Professor |
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Field | [Pop Culture] The Japanese animation technology studies, cultural studies |
Research Themes | Study about the history and characteristics of Japanese animation culture development, including the correlation with Tokusatsu (Special Effects) culture. |
HIROMORI Tomohito

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [English Language Education] English Language Education, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Acquisition |
Research Themes | "Psychology of Language Learning" (PLL): We are conducting theoretical and empirical research on topics such as what kind of learning strategies are effective for learning a second language (especially, English) and how to increase language learner motivation. We welcome and support undergraduate and graduate students who have an interest in the themes mentioned above and are full of motivation. |
KISHI Makiko

Title | Associate Professor |
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Field | [Interculturalism and Intercultural Education] Educational Technology |
Research Themes | Designing Learning Environments with ICT |
KOMORI Kazuko

Title | Professor |
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Field | [Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language Education] Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Teaching Japanese as a Second Language |
Research Themes | The effects of first language knowledge on Japanese vocabulary acquisition of Chinese native speakers learning Japanese as a second language, the development of the online-based language tests effective for discriminating the language proficiency, the analysis of the linguistic structures of academic writing critical to assessment, the analysis of the structures of mental lexicon and cognitive language processing mechanism of bilinguallanguage speakers |
KOTANI Eisuke

Title | Associate Professor |
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Field | [Culture and Thought] Japanese modern literature |
Research Themes | Akutagawa Ryunosuke's works; literary theory; literary criticism; Japanese modern culture |
MCLOUGHLIN, David A.

Title | Associate Professor Ed.D. |
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Field | [English Language Education] Motivation in second language learning, neuroscience and second language acquisition |
Research Themes | Attribution theory of achievement motivation affect in second language learning |
MINOBE Hitoshi

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [Culture and Thought]> Philosophy, philosophy of religion in particular |
Research Themes | Studies of “the absolute” in the philosophy of Kitaro Nishida and German idealism, the relationship to “the self” in particular |
MIYAMOTO Hirohito

Title | Professor |
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Field | [Pop Culture] Representational culture theory, history of manga |
Research Themes | Expression, publication, distribution, and acceptance of story-telling manga for children in the Showa period before and during World War II and regulatory controls placed on those |
MIZOBE Yasuo

Title | Professor |
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Field | [Culture and Thought] Modern & contemporary African studies and the history of Japanese-African negotiations |
Research Themes | Historical research related to theories on uniquely African modernization and autonomous development |
MORIKAWA Kaichiro

Title | Associate Professor |
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Field | [Pop Culture] Contemporary Pop culture of Japan (manga, anime, video games), design studies |
Research Themes | Historical research, archive planning, and exhibition design of manga, anime, video games and otaku culture |
NAGAO Susumu

Title | Professor |
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Field | [Culture and Thought] Physical education, Budo (Japanese martial arts) theory |
Research Themes | History of Budo thought, history of Budo techniques, globalization of Budo |
OGASAWARA Yasushi

Title | Professor |
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Field | [Japanese Business Administration and Social System Studies] Corporate strategy and organizational behavior focusing on intangible assets and digital technology driven globalization |
Research Themes | Research on fundamental impacts of intangible assets (intellectual property) and digital technology driven globalization over corporations and states |
OH Jewheon

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [Japanese Business Administration and Social System Studies] Technology and production control, international management: international comparisons of manufacturing systems |
Research Themes | Universalization of Japan-style manufacturing systems, international comparisons of the capabilities of manufacturing organizations, international comparisons of the competitiveness of the auto industry |
OSUKA Naoko

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [English Language Education] English language education, interlanguage pragmatics, language learning strategies, second language acquisition |
Research Themes | the effect of study abroad experiences on pragmatic development, the acquisition of pragmatic routines, pragmatic features of language learners in realization of speech acts, strategy use by Japanese language learners, development of effective pragmatics instruction |
OYA Masanori

Title | Associate Professor |
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Field | [English Language Education] Linguistics (Corpus linguistics and Dependency grammar) |
Research Themes | Explicit and quantitative comparison and contrast of syntactic structures of English and Japanese, based on the framework of Dependency grammar |
OZEKI Naoko

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [English Language Education] Applied linguistics and English language education |
Research Themes | Classes incorporating learning strategy guidance, CEFR and the autonomy of learners, construction of speaking models |
RUGEN, Brian D.

Title | Professor |
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Field | Applied linguistics; literature and language teaching |
Research Themes | Literature and language teaching; discourse and identity; discourse of sport in literature and popular culture |
SAKAI Makoto

Title | Associate Professor |
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Field | [Japanese Business Administration and Social System Studies] Media Studies, Journalism Studies, and Literary Criticism |
Research Themes | Comparative research on international media and web media. Applied research includes research on the relationship between contemporary literature and journalism, analysis of the corpus of newspaper articles on disasters, and research on historical heritage and collective memory that represent modern history |
SHIRATO Shinichi

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [Japanese Business Administration and Social System Studies] Japanese economic history, Japanese contemporary distribution history |
Research Themes | Industrial clusters and distribution problems, historic analyses of structural improvement projects in the textile industry, the three urban development laws and distribution problems, international comparisons of economic groups |
TANAKA Ema

Title | Senior Assistant Professor |
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Field | [Japanese Business Administration and Social System Studies] Media and ICT Policy studies, Contents Industry studies |
Research Themes | Information and Communication Industry Policy in the Age of AI, Structural Changes in the Content Industries, Elements of Media Literacy |
TANAKA Makiro

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language Education] Japanese language studies and history |
Research Themes | Historical research on vocabulary, research facilitating comprehension of specialized terms, and Corpus-based Japanese language studies |
UDO Satoshi

Title | Associate Professor |
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Field | [Culture and Thought] North African Francophone Literature |
Research Themes | Algerian Literature, Arab Literature, Humanism, Immigration |
WATARI Koichi

Title | Professor |
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Field | [Culture and Thought] The History of Japanese Culture The Cultural History of the Japanese Ordinary People The Theory of Japanese Culture |
Research Themes | The Belief and Culture of Japanese People Japan and Japanese People Observed by Foreigners The Reception of Foreign Cultures and Its Japanese Way of Changing |
YAMAWAKI Keizo

Title | Professor |
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Field | [Interculturalism and Intercultural Education] Policy on immigration and multicultural symbiosis |
Research Themes | Migration and Integration, Interculturalism |
YANAGISAWA Emi

Title | Associate Professor |
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Field | [Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language Education] Japanese phonetics, Japanese language education |
Research Themes | Clarifying the cues of Japanese speech perception, and its application to Japanese pronunciation teaching. |
YOKOTA Masahiro

Title | Professor Ph.D. |
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Field | [Interculturalism and Intercultural Education] Intercultural Education, international students and educational policy, international student advising, community development |
Research Themes | Policies regarding international students, community development, social and educational activities for reduction of prejudice |