Faculty | School of Political Science and Economics | Undergraduate Schools

AKATSU Masahiko

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Economics Group

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

AKIMOTO Akira

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Study of economic growth and R&D. Study of economic value.

AKIYA Norio

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Japanese-Australian trade history and Japanese industrial finance history.

ANADA Yoshiyuki

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Social psychology of proverbs (study of Japanese common knowledge, common sense, manners and customs, and rules).

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.

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.

FUJINAGA Shuichi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

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

GOTO Mitsumasa

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

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

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.

ICHIKAWA Hiroo

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Metropolitan areas and policies through international comparisons. Tokyo's urban system and policy.

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 Kazuto

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Study of the economic theory of markets and capital.

IIDA Toshiho

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Comparison between Japanese and European culture and society with a focus on France.

IKEDA Isao

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

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

IKEMIYAGI Hidemasa

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Intergovernmental financial relationships. Finance of Ryukyu under American control.

INOUE Hiroo

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Theoretical approach to an economic model that can be expressed in a linear expression.

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.

ITO Masaaki

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Study of the theory and policy of local industry.

IWANAMI Chikara

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Research on science of physical fitness for sports. Development of fitness tests.

KANEKO Mitsuo

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Methodology in social science. Environmental problems in Berlin in the late 19th century.

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: Associate Professor

Field: Politics Group

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

KATO Hisakazu

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Verification analysis of public economics, macroeconomics, etc., and creation of a macro measurement model.

KATSU Etsuko

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

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

KAWASHIMA Shuichi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Politics Group

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

KIKUCHI Ryoichi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Market distribution structure of agricultural products.

KIYA Mitsuhiro

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Consumer behavior in the information society. Analysis of lifestyles in urban society.

KOBAYASHI Kazushi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Analytical methods in econometrics.

KOIKE Yasuo

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Social sharing of information (administrative public relations, information disclosure system, personal information protection system).

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.

KURAMOTO Shinobu

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Process of market integration in 19th century Germany (customs union establishment process).

KURODA Akio

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: New developments in financial system theory and the Bank of Japan’s monetary policies.

MAEDA Nobuko

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Schools and society in 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.

MATSUZAKI Takeshi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Second Language Acquisition

MITOBE Yoshie

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Politics Group

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

MORIMOTO Yoko

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Support for autonomous English learning, group dynamics, and teaching methods for presentation skills.

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.

NAGAMINE Akira

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Research on the history of economics in the United Kingdom.

NAGANO Hitoshi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

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

NAKAGAWA Yuichiro

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Social and economic role of nonprofit and cooperative organizations in the world under globalization.

NAKAMURA Fumitaka

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Economic development and industrial policy in Japan, East Asia, and America.

NAKAMURA Koichi

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

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

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: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: Political Science

Research Themes: Research about policy formation and setting goals, administration of crisis management.

NITTA Isao

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

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

OGO Osamu

Title: Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: The significance of recording "islands" – Islands as seen from the ocean and the ocean as seen from the islands.

OKUBO Takeharu

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: History of political thought during the Tokugawa and Meiji eras with a focus on the acceptance of the study of Dutch law.

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.

PETERSEN, Mark Frederic

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Comparative culture and comparative literature.

POWER, Thomas G.

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: American literature, journalism, mass media

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.

SATOMI Jokichi

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Study of the theories of competition and monopoly as a basic theory for competition policy.

SCHIEDER Chelsea S.

Title: Assistant Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Student movement (in Japan and international), gender theory and Japanese modern history

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

Research Themes: The economic policies and trade policies of the United States, trade and economic policy.

SHITANDA Yoshimi

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Fixed-point theorem and its surrounding.

SUTO Isao

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Development of currency and financial system and foreign policy in America.

SUZUKI Akira

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Medieval Japanese Literature. Military epics.

SUZUKI Masahisa

Title: Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Literature in modern Shanghai. Development of Chinese modernism.

SUZUKI Toshio

Title: Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Study of regional economic integration.

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 Teruyoshi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Contemporary capitalism and economic fluctuations.

TAKAMINE Osamu

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Sports and gender studies.

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. Study of democratization. Area studies on Russia and East Europe.

TOMIZAWA Shigemi

Title: Associate Professor

Field: General Education

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

TOPALOFF, Liubomir K.

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Politics Group

Research Themes: Terrorism and security, and European politics, political parties and democratization

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.

UBUKATA Suguru

Title: Associate Professor

Field: Economics Group

Research Themes: Social thought and environmental philosophy of Hegel and the Hegelian school.

UCHIDA Akifumi

Title: Senior Assistant Professor

Field: General Education

Research Themes: Contemporary Latin American literature.

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