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
Art history and 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 literature

Uehiro Research Division for Global Japanese Studies, International Research Planning Office
Zahra MOHARRAMIPOUR
Comparative literature and culture
Research Fellows
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

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
Visiting Research Scholars

JIANG Shan
History of Chinese-Japanese Medical Communication; Acu-moxa Theory

Stephen CHRISTOPHER
Himalayan tribal politics, diasporic Tibetan Buddhism, new religions

HUANG Tzu-Chin
日本外交史、日台関係史、日中関係史

SHIMIZU Akira
Early modern Japanese history, history of food and foodawys

JIN Jungwon
Modern Taiwan history, Japanese imperial history, history of the underprivileged

SUH Jaegon
Modern Japanese poetry, modern Japanese war literature
CHEN Linghong
History of theatre connections between Japan and China in Modern Times, Comparative literature and culture between Japan and China, history of Chinese modern drama

Hassan Kamal HARB
Modernization

Maria Grazia PETRUCCI
Japanese maritime history