Faculty | School of Political Science and Economics | Undergraduate Schools

AIHARA Kosaku

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: The Relationship between Language Studies and Political Thought in the Edo Period

AKATSU Masahiko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Economic history of modern Britain : Focused on the relationship between industry and environment.

ANZO Shinji

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Analysis of factors affecting marriage and divorce. Issues of and countermeasures against the falling birthrate. Applied demography.

ARAKI Junko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Research on the state of autonomous career formation and the society that supports it

ASAI Sumiko

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Economic Analysis of the Information Industry and Competition Policy

DE VERA LORNA VELIA

Title: Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Foreign language education, Japanese language education, autonomous learning, teaching material development, and learning strategy

Dairokuno Kosaku

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Changes in contemporary states due to globalization of economic activities. Impact of cultural differences in the politics and policies of each country.

FUJIMOTO Tokihiko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Food Economics Research for the Construction of "a region that is self-sufficient in agriculture and food"

FUJINAGA Shuichi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: State role and market role. Economic issues between U.S. and Japan.

GEORGE JOHNNY EARL

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Social Linguistics, Anthropology, and Japanese Sign Language Discourse

GOTO Mitsumasa

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: History of sports. Sports anthropology. Olympic education.

HANE Jiro

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Area studies, History of Asia and Africa

HIGUCHI Osamu

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Bias in social judgment

HIRAGUCHI Ryoji

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Theory of economic growth

HIROBE Izumi

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: History and culture of the United States of America.

HIROMATSU Satoru

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Political economy and space formation. Political economics of frontier space.

HONMA Tsugihiko

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Pre-modern Chinese thought. Origin of Chinese nationalism and the birth of Chinese history of thought.

HORIKANE Yumi

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Considering the relationship between development (economic development) and politics through international comparison.

HOSHINO Izumi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Comparative study of public finance and local government finance.

HYUGA Shoko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: The relationship between organizational behavior and economic development in modern Japan

IDA Masamichi

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Political attitude and voting behavior of Japanese people. Increase in the number of independent voters in advanced countries.

IIDA Yasuyuki

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Economic policy

IIJIMA Yoko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Human geography

IKARI Yoko

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Medical anthropology and gender sexuality research

IKEDA Isao

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Research on culture behind mental illness. Research on social pathology. Study of Takuboku Ishikawa.

INABA Hajime

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: History of science, History of thought

INAGAKI Kumiko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Career theory and career education theory

INOUE Tomoki

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Economic theory

ISHIKAWA Masanobu

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Family and social structure.

ISHIYAMA Noriko

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Political and human geography. Area studies (United States of America).

ITO Go

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: International Relations. Foreign policy analysis. International relations of the Asia-pacific Region. China-U.S.-Japan triangular relations.

KANEKO Ryuichi

Title: Professor (non-tenured)

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Elucidation of the life course of population flow (Aging, etc.)

KARIYA Hiroko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: History of literature and theater in Spanish-speaking countries.

KASUGAI Atsuo

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Prevention of lifestyle-related diseases and exercise. Study of the physical strength of athletes.

KATO Akihiko

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Comparative sociology of family, population and social structure.

KATO Hisakazu

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Social Security and Public Finance, Population Economics, and Macroeconometrics.

KATSU Etsuko

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Currency system and monetary policy. Monetary integration in the Asian region.

KAWASHIMA Shuichi

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: History of relationship between Germany and France. History of integration of Europe. Study of EU.

KIDERA Hajime

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Modern Japanese politics, local autonomy, and tax system

KOBAYAKAWA Shuji

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Digital Currency and the Future of Money, Financial Market Infrastructure in the Digital Economy

KOBAYASHI Kazushi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Analytical methods in econometrics.

KONISHI Tokuou

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Ashio copper mine pollution case. History and the current situation of political ethics in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom.

KUNITOMO Naoto

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Economic statistics, Money and finance

KURACHI Shintaro

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Public economics and labor economics

Kaneko Ayumu

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Area studies, Gender studies, History of Europe and America

MAEDA Nobuko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: History of modern France

MARK, Kevin Lawrence

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Learner corpus development, curriculum design, CALL materials development.

MARUKAWA Tetsushi

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Taiwanese literature. Literature and movies in modern and contemporary East Asia.

MITOBE Yoshie

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Modern German history (relationship between gender/sexuality and politics).

MIZUNO Takeya

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Cartooning of Politics and Politicians

MORIMOTO Keiichi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Economic Theory, Economic Policy

MORIMOTO Yoko

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Autonomous and collaborative foreign language learning, drama-inspired language learning/teaching activities, and presentation skills supported by neuroscientific studies.

MORISHITA Tadashi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Actual situation of management among small and medium-sized enterprises and venture enterprises. Empirical study of manager behavior.

NAGAE Atushi

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Relationship between English Industrial Revolution and thought and literature. Modern English literature.

NAGAHARA Yuichi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Research on time series analysis and empirical study of financial and securities markets.

NAGAKAWA Satoshi

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: German literature at the end of the 18th century and the reception of German culture in modern Japan.

NAGANO Hitoshi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Analysis of labor market for new graduates. Empirical study of internal labor markets.

NAKAJIMA Mitsuhiro

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: History of the Continuation and Transformation of Population and Families

NAKAMURA Koichi

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Indo-European Linguistics. History of English.

NELSON LINDSAY Rebecca

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Japanese cinema, media, and popular culture

NISHIKAWA Shinichi

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Study of law-making and policy formation processes in present Japan in light of bureaucracy.

NISHIMURA Wataru

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Agenda setting and policy making, crisis management in government

NITTA Isao

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Time series analysis of economy. Quantitative analysis of quality of life.

NOZAWA Chie

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Urban policy and urban administration, especially land use control and housing policy in the age of a declining population and frequent disasters

NUERMAIMAITI Yikeshan

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Empirical analysis of settlement, financing and settlement risks in international trade finance and international trade

OKUYAMA Makoto

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Economic doctrines and economic thought

OKUYAMA Masayuki

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Research on the Globalization of Local Industries (Global Business)

OMODA Sonoe

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Study of Michel Foucault. History of relationships between probability/statistics and governing technique.

OMORI Masayuki

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Establishment and development of environmental economics. Environmental policy.

ONOJIMA Makoto

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Tax policy (international tax harmonization and competition) and Local Government Finance.

OTAKA Kendo

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Co-operative studies / Social enterprise tackling social exclusion / Community development education

PASCUCCI LUANN K.

Title: Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Sociolinguistics, History of the Game Industry, and Game Research

SAHARA Tetsuya

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Comparative studies on genocide, Eastern and Middle Eastern regional studies, and conflict studies.

SAITO Masami

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Analysis of global economy and economic policy.

SAKUMA Yutaka

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Economic anthropology, African regional studies, and debt theory Research on cultural movements in French-speaking Africa

SEKURA Masakatsu

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: 19th century poet Baudelaire and modernization theory

SHIBASAKI Fumikazu

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Study of environmental ethics and education.

SHIBATA Yusuke

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Industrial policy. Trade and growth.

SHIMADA Naoya

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Genaral Education

Research Themes: Modern Japanese Literature, Modern Theatre Critique, Japanese Language Education Act

SHIMOTOMAI Hideyuki

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: American Economic History

SHITANDA Yoshimi

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Fixed-point theorem and its surrounding.

SUENAGA Keiichiro

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Development economics, theory of economic development, catch-up, innovation, economic development

SUGIMOTO Takashi

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: social thought of French positivism and industrialism in the 19 century

SUTO Isao

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: History of American Economy and International Monetary System

TAKAHASHI Kazuyuki

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Western history of political thought. Political methodology.

TAKAHASHI Nobukatsu

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Study of classical economic thought and J. B. Say.

TAKAHASHI Satoshi

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Globalization of capitalist economies

TAKAMINE Osamu

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Sociology of Sport, Sport and gender studies

TAKAYAMA Yuji

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: History of Political Theory, Democratic Despotism, National Populism

TAKEDA Kazuhisa

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: History of Latin America, Christian missionary history

TAKEDA Kohei

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Exercise Physiology

TAKEDA Takumi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Institutions, Institutional Changes and Economic Performance.

TAKESHITA Toshio

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Social influence of mass media. Political communication.

TAMURA Hisao

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: C. F. Meyer and literature in the German-speaking region of Switzerland.

TOIKE Tsutomu

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Theory of Democracy, Human Rights

TOMIZAWA Shigemi

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Modern Japanese culture and literature. Study of Naoya Shiga and the Shirakaba School.

TORAIWA Naoko

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Politics and culture of British Isles.

TSUCHIYA Mitsuyoshi

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Analysis of modern and contemporary Chinese politics via political process theory.

UCHIDA Akifumi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Contemporary Latin American literature.

UEDA Baku

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Japanese literature, Japanese linguistics

UNNO Motoo

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Obama grassroots campaign, Tea Party Movement, and President Obama’s leadership style.

USHIYAMA Kunihiko

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Challenges and future prospects of local governments' administrative reforms resulting from the governmentfs decentralization reform.

YAGI Takashi