Faculty
Director-General
Deputy Directors-General
Full-time Faculty
Professors

Research Division
ARAKI Hiroshi
Japanese literature

Research Division
TAKII Kazuhiro
Constitutional history, comparative legal history

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
USHIMURA Kei
Comparative literature and culture, intellectual history

Research Division
ŌTSUKA Eiji
History of the arts of manga, study of the creation of manga, history of modern literature

Research Division
KURAMOTO Kazuhiro
History of ancient Japan

Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information
SEKINO Tatsuki
Informatics

Research Division
Timon SCREECH
Art history and history of the Edo period

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

Research Division
Markus RÜTTERMANN
Japanese medieval social history (documents in correspondence-style), semiotics, history of mentalities, history of behaviour

Research Division
KUSUNOKI Ayako
Japanese political and diplomatic history, security studies
Associate Professors
Assistant Professors
Specially Appointed Faculty (Domestic)
Research Fellows

Research Division
UENO Katsuyuki
Cultural history of ancient and medieval Japan

Research Division
OGAWA Hitoshi
History of exchanges between Japan and Europe

Research Division
GOZA Yūichi
Japanese medieval history

Research Division
SAITŌ Momiji
Japanese modern and contemporary history

Research Division
TAKATA Yuki
Linguistics

Research Division
TAMURA Miyuki
Modern Japanese literature

Research Division
NISHIMURA Masahiko
History of U.S.-Japan relations, international relations
Project Research Fellows
Visiting Faculty (Domestic)
Professors

ŌSHITA Yoshiyuki
Cultural policy

KARITA Shinji
Political theory

KAWASHIMA Kohei
History of sport, American studies

KAWAHASHI Noriko
Religious studies, cultural anthropology

KIM Taeho
Japanese medieval history

TOHMATSU Haruo
Diplomatic and war history

HORI Madoka
比較文学、日本近現代文学、境界者の文芸文化

SUZUKI Hisashi
Culture geology

TOYODA Hiroaki
History of capital city planning in East Asia, history of palace structure in East Asia, history of gardens

HOSHINO Yukiyo
Modern Chinese literature
Associate Professors
Visiting Research Scholars

LU Shunchang
The history of cultural communicatio between China and Japan

LEE Byungjin
Comparative literature and culture, Yanagi Soetsu's Folk Crafts(Mingei) ideology

HSU Peihsien
History of modern Taiwan, history of education

Stephen DODD
Modern Japanese literature, gender studies, translation studies, Taishō literature, Kajii Motojirō, Mishima Yukio, modernism

HIRANO Katsuya
Early modern / Modern Intellectual and cultural history

IGARASHI Yoshikuni
Modern cultural history of Japan

HAIJIMA Agnese
Japanese art history, Japanese culture