Faculty

Director-General

INOUE Shōichi

History of manners and customs

Deputy Directors-General

Frederik CRYNS

Interaction between the Western world and Japan

MATSUDA Toshihiko

History of Japanese and Korean relations

Full-time Faculty

Professors

Research Division

ARAKI Hiroshi

Japanese literature

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

KUSUNOKI Ayako

Japanese political and diplomatic history, security studies

Research Division

KURAMOTO Kazuhiro

History of ancient Japan

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 Japan-China art connections 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

Research Division

Markus RÜTTERMANN

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

Associate Professors

Research Division

ENOMOTO Wataru

Medieval history of international exchange

Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information

Edward BOYLE

Border studies, heritage studies, geopolitics, cartography

Assistant Professors

Office of Institutional Research

HIRAMATSU　Makoto

Urban Sociology, sociology using quantitative methods

International Research Planning Office

MATSUGI Hiromi

Art history, art studies

Specially Appointed Faculty (Domestic)

Assistant Professors

Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information

GUO Jianing

Medieval Japanese religious literature

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

Research Division

SAKA Chihiro

Buddhist art history, folk religion

Research Division

NISHIDA Shoichi

History of modern Japan, history of political thought

Research Division

FUJIMOTO Norimasa

Christian thoughts, religious studies

Research Division

MURASHIMA Kenji

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

SUZUKI Hisashi

Culture geology

TOHMATSU Haruo

Diplomatic and war history

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

HORI Madoka

比較文学、日本近現代文学、境界者の文芸文化

Associate Professors

SANO Akiko

Visual culture studies

SHOJI　Ayako

History of ancient Japan

Visiting Research Scholars

IGARASHI Yoshikuni

Modern cultural history of Japan

HSU Peihsien

History of modern Taiwan, history of education

ZHU Lili

History of relations between Ming China and Muromachi Japan

CHONG Soonil

Japanese history, maritime history of East Asia, history education

Stephen DODD

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

HAIJIMA Agnese

Japanese art history, Japanese culture

HIRANO Katsuya

Early modern / Modern Intellectual and cultural history

LIU Shiuhfeng

East Asian maritime history, history of early modern Sino-Japanese trade

Lee I-Zhuen Clarence

Early Modern Literature, intellectual history, medical history

Visiting Research Fellows

Visiting Research Fellows

AOKI Nobuo

Cultural resource studies, urban and architectural history

Alistair David SWALE

Japanese cultural history

JSPS Research Fellowship for Young Scientists

MORIOKA Yuki

Comparative literature and culture of Japan and China

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan

Jamila RODRIGUES

Anthropology, embodiment and ritual studies

ZHANG Xiaoming

Japanese intellectual history studies; Mencius studies in early modern Japan

JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan

TAKAI Yukari

History of Japanese diasporas and transnational migrations; history of the Pacific worlds; women’s and gender history (19th & 20th centuries)

JF Research Fellows

Zhou JIANG

History of culture exchanges between China and Japan, history of Japanese thought

James Mark SHIELDS

Comparative humanities, Asian and comparative philosophy, buddhism

Hasan TOPACOGLU

Cultural studies, media events, memory, identity, oral history

Michaela KELLY

Cultural anthropology

Yaara Elior MORRIS

-

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

SHUNTŌ Ken'ichi

Study of human animal relations, history of aigo culture

MASUDA Itsuki

Christian literature in Japan

Specially Appointed Researcher

ISHIKAWA Hajime

Modern Japanese literary studies

NEGAWA Sachio

Migration history, maritime history, cultural studies