Degrees Awarded

Degree for the Japanese Studies Course

Coursework Doctorates

Year of Admission	Name	Title of Thesis	Date of Award
1992	AOKI Jun	Characteristics of Medieval Kesshu Shown in Offerings Contained in Buddhist Images: General Study of Kechien-kyomyo Including Those Made by Kaikei	March 23, 1995
1992	WOO Jong Tae	Symbolization of Personality Integration Shown in Irui-kontan: Japan and Korea	March 21, 1996
1993	QIAN Guohong	Formation of the Image of the World: Tokugawa Japan and China	March 21, 1996
1993	KOBAYASHI Hiroyuki	Thought in Food: Andō Shōeki	September 30, 1996
1993	TSUDA Junko	Tradition and Transformation of Kamiuta: The Case of Karimata Village, Miyakojima, Okinawa	March 24, 1997
1994	ONAHA Maria Cecilia	History of Japanese Immigrants to Argentina: Free Immigration and the Formation of a Community of Japanese Descent	March 24, 1997
1994	TADA Iori	The Case of the Nihon Ryoiki	March 24, 1997
1994	KAMOTO Itsuko	Historical and Social Study of International Marriage: between 1636 and 1899	September 30, 1997
1994	SUZUKI Noriko	Modern Society in Japan and Illness: Development of Medicine for Leprosy Patients	September 30, 1997
1995	KATŌ Yoshirō	Religious Commentaries on the Taima Mandara and Jodo Sect in the Middle Ages	March 24, 1999
1995	DOI Hiroshi	A Genealogy of Muen-bochi Cemeteries	March 24, 1999
1995	BART Gaens	The Organization of Merchant Houses in Tokugawa Japan: A Comparison with the Low Countries	March 24, 1999
1996	SHIN Chang-Ho	Religion and Politics in the Formation of Korean Nationalism: Analysis of Togaku, Pro-Japan Buddhism, and Protestantism	March 24, 2000
1996	ONABE Tomoko	Quest for Complete Transparency: Study of "Shaho-Shinjutsu" by Endo Takanori	September 28, 2001
1996	HIRAI Shōko	Historical Sociology of Home and Life Course: Historical Demographic Analysis of Agricultural Communities in the Tohoku Region in Japan's Modern Ages	March 22, 2002
1997	ZHAN Xiaomei	Ideological and Artistic View of Tomioka Tessai's Painting Style: Study of Approbation Comments (San-bun) on Paintings by Tessai	March 23, 2001
1997	TAKENOUCHI Emiko	Study of Instrument Players (Gaku-shi) in Kabuki Performance: Kamigata (Kansai district) Kabuki in Japan's Modern Age	September 30, 2004
1998	TANG Quan	Romance Across the Sea: Personnel Exchange between China and Japan from 1684 to 1894	March 22, 2002
1998	OGAWA Naoko	"Tate (Swordfights)" in Samurai Movies	March 24, 2004
1998	MATSUMURA Kaoruko	Study of Funzō-e: The Case of the Fukuda Kai	March 24, 2004
1998	KATAHIRA Miyuki	Japanese Gardens Conflict between the Formation of Images and Interpretation: Western Notions and Responses from Japan (1868-1940)	September 30, 2004
1999	MORIMOTO Kazuhiko	Historical Development of the "Family" Seen in Han-Danka: Quantitative Analysis of the Shumon-Aratame-Cho	March 24, 2003
1999	ITŌ Naoko	Development of Molded Images and Hōgu in the Religious History of Indonesia: A Comparison with Japan	March 24, 2003
2000	NAGAMATSU Atsushi	Study of the Beginning and Transition of Hunting in Japan from the Viewpoint of History and Folklore	March 24, 2003
2000	ITŌ Akiko	The Development of Statements on Science and Technology in the History and Transformation of the National Identity: Overview during the Two World Wars and the Following Period	September 30, 2003
2000	ULKER Bahadir Bogac	Napoleonic Wars and International System: with Special Reference to the Ottoman Empire and Japan	March 24, 2005
2001	NASU Hiroo	The Origin and Spread of Agriculture in China and Japan: Archaeobotanical Study of Chengtoushan Site, Hunan, China	March 24, 2004
2001	IWAI Shigeki	Love Poems (Renka) and Related Issues in Japanese Poetry (Kado) and Tea Ceremony (Sado): Historical Development and Social Background	September 30, 2004
2001	NAKATANI Masakazu	Cooking Techniques in Prehistoric East Asia Seen in Material Culture: Cases in the Coastal Region of China and Japan in the Early Agricultural Period	March 24, 2005
2001	MUTŌ Shutarō	The Social Sciences in Modern Japan: Reconsidering East Asia	March 19, 2008
2003	LI Wei	The Use of Space in Edo-Period Daimyo Gardens: A Focus on "View"(Chōbō)	March 19, 2008
2003	HORI Madoka	Yone Noguchi: His Life and Work as a Writer of Dual Nationality	September 30, 2009
2003	TOYA Riina	"Tokyo Ginza Shiseido": Fukuhara Shinzō and the Construction of Corporate Image	September 30, 2010
2004	SAKAI Junichirō	Educational and Cultural Interchange of Qing's International Students in Japan: Contribution of Kōbun Gakuin	March 19, 2008
2004	SAWADA Harumi	Traditional Theatre and Chikamatsu Monzaemon in Modern Japanese Culture: Academism/Theatre Criticism/Actor's Body	March 24, 2009
2005	NAKANO Yōhei	The Study of Shinano Miko: The Formation and Transformation of Popular Religious Specialist Groups in the Edo Period	March 24, 2010
2005	YOKOYAMA Teruki	The Edo Shogunate's Policy of Encouraging Bugei(Martial Arts): Tokugawa Yoshimune's Epochal Idea	March 22, 2013
2006	MEI Dinge	Changes in Guding's Thought in Manchukuo as Seen in His Translations, Works, and Publishing Activities	March 24, 2010
2006	KOYAMA Shuko	Taishō Shin Hanga: Birth of the Art of Modern Japanese Woodblock Print, its Structure and Development, Focusing on the Role of the Publisher	March 20, 2014
2007	NAGATO Yōhei	The Aesthetics of Sound and Image in the Films of Mizoguchi Kenji: The Audio-Visual Analysis of Narrative Structure	March 23, 2012
2007	SUZUKI Kenkō	Shunga Iconology in the Edo Period: Studies of the Background Art of Erotic Images	September 28, 2012
2008	CHEN Ling Hong	Japan-China Theater Exchange in the Modern Age: The Impact of Shinpa on Wenming-xi	March 23, 2012
2008	TOKUNAGA Seiko	A Study of the Yūzū Nembutsu Engi: Religious Belief as Seen in Medieval Illustrated Tales	March 22, 2013
2008	OKAMOTO Kikuko	Memorial Tree-Planting in Modern Japan: Examining Honda Seiroku's Thoughts and Achievements in Forestry	March 20, 2014
2010	URUSHIZAKi Mari	Textual Approaches to Edo Nagauta Music	September 29, 2014
2010	HAN Lingling	The Literary Activities of Kitamura Kenjiro in Manchuria	March 24, 2015
2011	Anton Luis Capistrano SEVILLA	Exporting the Ethics of Emptiness: Applications, Limitations, and Possibilities of Watsuji Tetsurō's Ethical System	March 24, 2015
2011	CHIEN Chung-Hao	"Barbarian"; The understanding of Taiwanese aborigines in Modern Japan from the Writers' point of view.	March 24, 2016
2012	RONG Yuan	Activities Organized by Newspaper Companies in the Connection City of Dalian: Focusing on the ManshuNichinichishimbun	March 24, 2017
2012	NISHIDA Shoichi	Kokutai Theorist KAKEHI Katsuhiko: His Thought and Action	September 28, 2017
2013	MITSUHIRA Yuki	Music Therapy and its Ideological Foundation in the Edo and Meiji Periods: A Study of the Reception of the Healing Qualities of Music in Chinese Nourishing Life Doctrines and western Music Therapy.	March 24, 2016
2013	USAMI Tomoyuki	The Society of the Northern Kyushu Region in the Yayoi Period as Seen from the Development and Changes of Settlements	March 23, 2018
2013	KOIZUMI Tomonori	The History of Childhood Sexuality in Early Modern and Modern Japan	March 23, 2018
2013	YAMAMURA Shou	A Genealogy of Understanding Yang-Ming Learning in Modern Japan	March 23, 2018
2014	KIMISHIMA Ayako	A Study of Kannon Statuary and Faith in Prayers for Peace	March 22, 2019
2014	Gouranga Charan PRADHAN	Reception of Hōjōki in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England and America: With a focus on Natsume SōSeki's English Translation of the Work	March 22, 2019
2014	OISHI Masumi	Japanese TV Commercials in the 1970s and 1980s: A Perspective based on the Structure and Ordering of Image Components	September 28, 2020
2014	SAKA Chihiro	From Old Hag in Hell to Guide to the Pure Land: An Examination of the Representation of Datsueba in Literature and Visual Imagery Together with Rituals and Worship Practices	March 22, 2019
2014	SHUNTŌ　Ken'ichi	The Humane Treatment of Animals in Postwar Japan: Social Movements for the Humane Treatment (of Dogs and Cats) and the Administration and Management of Animal Protection, 1947-2000	September 27, 2019
2015	KATAOKA　Mai	Between Shōsetsu and the 'Novel': With a Focus on the English Translation and the Publishing Process of Modern Japanese Novels in Post-war Japan	September 27, 2019
2015	TAMURA　Miyuki	Disability and Gender in Modern Japanese Literature: Body, Sex, Writing	March 24, 2021
2015	Masuda Itsuki	Shūsaku Endō and the postwar experience: fumi-e and tenkō as literary practice for wartime Christian authors	September 28, 2023
2016	SONG Qi	Shinto, Confucianism and Buddhism or "Three Teachings Thought" in the Late Edo Period: An Analysis of Form and Structure	March 24, 2021
2016	SHAN Hejun	Transformation of Urban Space in Modern Qingdao: Continuity and Discontinuity of Japanese Elements	September 28, 2021
2017	Gong Ting	Urban Heiankyō - Conditions from the end of the Eighth to the Beginning of the Twelfth Centuies	March 22, 2024
2017	Gao Yanwen	The Discursive Space of "Manchurian and Mongolian Settlement": Focusing on Continental Settlement Literature	March 24, 2022
2018	Kuba Tomoyo	The Perception of Space in Classical Japan	March 24, 2023
2018	Chen Yijie	Seeing the West in Japan: A Study of Western Influences on Fu Baoshi	March 24, 2022
2018	Song DanDan	Rock legends in body and mind - examining rites of passage	September 28, 2023
2019	Ye Xiaoyao	"Kyoto" in the Work of Kawabata Yasunari：Wartime and Postwar Periods	March 24, 2022
2019	Yu XueJian	Adaptations of Chinese Dream Stories in Japanese Classical Literature	March 22, 2024

Thesis Doctorates

Name	Title of Thesis	Date of Award
WANG Yong	Prince Shotoku (Shōtoku Taishi) and Chinese Culture: Theory of the Reincarnation of Eshi That Changed History	September 30, 1996
SHIVANI Nandi	Socio-Technological Issues of Technology Transfer: A Specific Case Study of the Maruti-Suzuki Collaboration	March 24, 1997
MANOJ L. Shrestha	Multinational Businesses and Technology Transfer: Business Strategy of Post Echelon Structure	March 24, 1997
SUZUKI Sadami	Study of Kajii Motojirō	March 24, 1997
ITŌ Kenji	Japanese Business Management in East Asia: Globalization of Management and Transfer of "Japanese Corporate Management"	March 24, 1998
KITAGAWA Katsuhiko	Japan: Study of Trading Relations with South Africa	March 24, 1999
KOGUCHI Yasuo	Omi Imperial Court and Emissaries (Torai-jin) from Abroad: Kudara-Kishitsu-shi and Related People	March 24, 1999
TAKADA Yasutaka	Study of Life Culture and Change of Social Situations: Japan's High Economic Growth in the 20th Century	March 24, 1999
HAMAGUCHI Eshun	Principles of Japanology: Japanese People and Society as "Relatum"	September 30, 1999
HANIHARA CHOW Misuzu	Japanese Literacy in Australia: A Changing Demand over Eighty Years	September 28, 2001
KITAGAWA Junko	The Nature and Development of Chestnut (Castanea Crenata) and Horse Chestnut (Aesculus Turbinata) Culture in Japan	September 30, 2004
OKAMURA Keiji	History of Japan Manchukuo Culture Association: From Foundation to Dissolution	March 24, 2006
KAGAWA Masanobu	Studies of Changing Japanese Perception of Yokai: "Yōkai Goraku" from the Late Kinsei Period	September 29, 2006
YAMAGUCHI Hiroshi	An Archaeological Study of the Landscapes of Ancient Society: Digital Documentation of Historic Sites and Landscape Analysis	September 30, 2011
JIANG Yingyan	Changes in the Social Status of Tokugawa Shogunal Retainers: With Special Reference to the Trade in Gokenin-kabu	September 28, 2012
SHIBATA Yoriko	Paul-Louis Couchoud and Japan: His Life and the Reception of Haiku in France	March 22, 2013
NOROTA Jun'ich	Aesthetics and Public Art Policy in the Late Tokugawa Period and the Meiji Era	March 22, 2013
AONO Masaaki	The Logic of State Shinto Established in Colonial Korea : The Shrine Policy of the Japanese Government-General of Korea in the 1930s	March 20, 2014
NEGAWA Sachio	Historical Studies about the Education of Children of Japanese Descent in Brazil during and before the World War II Period	March 20, 2014
KIM Byeongjin	The Revolutionary Syndicalist Ōsugi Sakae: His Ideas on Revolution Based on the concept of "Sei no sōzō" [Creation of Life]	March 20, 2014
Svetlana KORNEEVA	A Historico-Sociological Study of Actions to Contain Quarrels and Altercations during the Early Edo Period: Cases in the Morioka and Kaga Domains	March 20, 2014
ISHIKAWA Hajime	A Study of Funahashi Seiichi: Reappraising the "Literature of Resistance"	March 24, 2015
KADOWAKI Tomohiro	A Study of the Transmission and Enforcement of the Shogunate's National Laws in the First Half of the Early Modern Period	September 28, 2017
NAGAO Yoko	The Cultural Topography of "A Singing Town": Modernity and the Formation of Owara Kaze-no-bon	March 23, 2018
LARKING Matthew	The Pan Real Art Association as an Early Postwar Avant-Garde of Nihonga	March 23, 2018
ISHIKAWA Hajime	A Study of Funahashi Seiichi: Reappraising the "Literature of Resistance"	September 28, 2018
MATSUMIYA Takayuki	Practical Utility in Ruling the Realm and Calligraphy in Modern China: With Special Reference to Guomoruo	March 24, 2020
SHINOSAKI Atsushi	Research on International Relations and Diplomacy in Heian Japan: The Historical Significance of Intercourse with East Asia from Ancient Times to the Medieval Transition	March 24, 2021
YAMAMOTO Tadahiro	Manga with a Camera - Methodological Practice for Analyzing, Experimenting, and Teaching "Cinematic" Manga	March 22, 2024