Faculty

Director-General

INOUE Shōichi

History of manners and customs

Deputy Directors-General

Research Division

KUSUNOKI Ayako

Japanese political and diplomatic history, security studies

Research Division

Frederik CRYNS

History of the Sengoku period, interaction between the Western world and Japan

Full-time Faculty

Professors

Research Division

ISODA Michifumi

Japanese history

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

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

MATSUDA Toshihiko

History of Japanese and Korean relations

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

Assistant Professors

Office of Institutional Research

SUN Shiyu

Family Sociology; gender studies

Specially Appointed Faculty (Domestic)

Associate Professors

Uehiro Research Division for Global Japanese Studies, International Research Planning Office

ZHOU Yufei

History of economic thought, history of social thought

Research Division

BABA Yukie

Digital archives; bibliography; history of science and technology

Assistant Professors

Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information

KWON Minhyeok

Japanese Literature and Culture / Digital Humanities

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

Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information

LIU Yang

Maritime History of Medieval and Early Modern East Asia

Research Fellows

Research Division

ONOGI Satoshi

Medieval Chinese history

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

Associate Professors

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

YAMAGUCHI Hiroyuki

Ceramic archeology

Visiting Research Scholars

LEE Yuhee

Japanese language and culture

Nissim OTMAZGIN

Japan's cultural diplomacy and soft power, Japan-Southeast Asian relations, popular culture and regionalization in Asia.

KATSU Keiyū

East Asian Diplomatic History‌, History of Sino-Japanese Cultural Exchanges

Fabio Raphael GYGI

Medical Anthropology, Material Culture, Science and Technology Studies, Gender

SUN Jianjun

History of Modern Sino-Japanese Exchange of Chinese Character Vocabulary

Visiting Research Fellows

Visiting Research Fellows

Alejandro M. SANZ GUILLÉN

Cultural history; History of knowledge; History of printmaking; Cultural exchanges between Japan and Europe; Early Modern period

YANG Fangfeng

Organisational and social psychodynamics, psychotherapy and mental health, cross-cultural comparison

JF-Nichibunken Fellowship

Nina FARIZOVA

Premodern Japanese literature; comparative literature; film and media studies

Daniel BORENGASSER

East Asian Buddhist art, sculptural history, religious architecture

JF Research Fellows

ZHOU Yue

Sino-Japanese Comparative Literature; Japanese Sinology

LUAN Fangyuan

Eastern Theater

AHRC Research Fellows

Susie DALTON

Contemporary archaeology and artistic practice

Specially Appointed Researcher

NEGAWA Sachio

Migration history, maritime history, cultural studies