Faculty
Director-General
Deputy Directors-General
Full-time Faculty
Professors
Research Division
ISODA Michifumi
Japanese history
Research Division
ISOMAE Jun'ichi
Religious studies, critical theory
Research Division
ITŌ Takayuki
History of Chinese thought, cultural interaction in East Asia, comparative culture
Research Division
ENOMOTO Wataru
Medieval history of international exchange
Research Division
KUSUNOKI Ayako
Japanese political and diplomatic history, security studies
Research Division
Timon SCREECH
History of the Edo period
Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information
SEKINO Tatsuki
Informatics
Research Division
ZHAN Xiaomei
History of artistic connections between Japan and China in the modern age
Research Division
TAKII Kazuhiro
Constitutional history, comparative legal history
Research Division
YASUI Manami
Japanese folklore, cultural anthropology
Research Division
YAMADA Shōji
Informatics, history of cultural exchange
Research Division
LIU Jianhui
History of cultural connections between Japan and China
Associate Professors
Research Division
ŌTA Nanako
Media history
Research Division
KATAOKA Mai
Modern Japanese literature, comparative literature
Research Division
GOZA Yūichi
Japanese medieval history
Research Division
NAKAMARU Takafumi
Japanese classical literature
Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information
Edward BOYLE
Border studies; heritage; islands
Specially Appointed Faculty (Domestic)
Associate Professors
Assistant Professors
Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information
KOMAI Sachi
Cultural studies, contemporary Japanese literature
International Research Planning Office
Oliver WHITE
Japanese early modern popular literature
Uehiro Research Division for Global Japanese Studies, International Research Planning Office
Zahra MOHARRAMIPOUR
Comparative literature and culture
Research Fellows
Research Division
ONOGI Satoshi
Medieval Chinese history
Research Division
ZHUANG Hanqi
Oriental history
Research Division
SHINDŌ Shōtaro
History of U.S.-Japan Relations
Research Division
MASUDA Itsuki
Christian literature in Japan
Research Division
MORIOKA Yuki
Modern China Study, Sino-Japan comparative literature and culture
Project Research Fellows
Research Division
ANDO Chihoko
History of early Japanese photography
Research Division
SAKA Chihiro
Buddhist art history, folk religion
Research Division
SHUNTŌ Ken'ichi
Study of human animal relations, history of aigo culture
Research Division
NISHIDA Shōichi
History of modern Japan, history of political thought
Visiting Faculty (Domestic)
Professors
ARARAGI Shinzō
Historical sociology, international sociology
LEE Sungjeon
History of East Asia
URUSHIZAWA Sonoko
History of the performing arts in Japan, Japanese social and cultural history
ENDŌ Masayuki
Fetal diagnosis and treatment
Fumio KUMAMOTO
日本近代史、日本外交史
SEKIGUCHI Hiroshi
A history of modern Japan
TOYODA Hiroaki
History of capital city planning in East Asia, history of palace structure in East Asia, history of gardens
MORIYA Tomoe
Modern Buddhist history, Intellectual history
Associate Professors
TAKEUCHI Rio
Cultural sociology, educational sociology
CHŌNO Tatsuhiko
History of the Protestant Reformation, early modern German history, European religious history, study on the relationship between the missiological perspectives and the perceptions of Japan in early modern Europe
HAMANO Seiichirō
History of Japanese political thought
YAMAGUCHI Hiroyuki
Ceramic archeology
YUASA Takuya
International relations, Japanese political and diplomatic history