Faculty
Director-General
Deputy Directors-General
Full-time Faculty
Professors
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Research Division
ARAKI Hiroshi
Japanese literature
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Research Division
ISODA Michifumi
Japanese history
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Research Division
ISOMAE Jun'ichi
Religious studies, critical theory
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Research Division
ITŌ Takayuki
History of Chinese thought, cultural interaction in East Asia, comparative culture
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Research Division
USHIMURA Kei
Comparative literature and culture, intellectual history
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Research Division
ENOMOTO Wataru
Medieval history of international exchange
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Research Division
ŌTSUKA Eiji
History of the arts of manga, study of the creation of manga, history of modern literature
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Research Division
KUSUNOKI Ayako
Japanese political and diplomatic history, security studies
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Research Division
Timon SCREECH
Art history and history of the Edo period
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Office of Digital Resources, Publications, and Public Information
SEKINO Tatsuki
Informatics
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Research Division
ZHAN Xiaomei
History of artistic connections between Japan and China in the modern age
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Research Division
TAKII Kazuhiro
Constitutional history, comparative legal history
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Research Division
YASUI Manami
Japanese folklore, cultural anthropology
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Research Division
YAMADA Shōji
Informatics, history of cultural exchange
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Research Division
LIU Jianhui
History of cultural connections between Japan and China
Associate Professors
Specially Appointed Faculty (Domestic)
Associate Professors
Research Fellows
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IOKA Utako
Aesthetic, philosophy of arts
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Research Division
ŌMURA Kazuma
Political thought, political theory
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Research Division
ZHUANG Hanqi
Oriental history
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Research Division
NISHIMURA Masahiko
History of U.S.-Japan relations, international relations
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MORIOKA Yuki
Modern China Study, Sino-Japan comparative literature and culture
Project Research Fellows
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Research Division
ANDO Chihoko
History of early Japanese photography
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Research Division
SAKA Chihiro
Buddhist art history, folk religion
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Research Division
SHUNTŌ Ken'ichi
Study of human animal relations, history of aigo culture
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Research Division
NISHIDA Shōichi
History of modern Japan, history of political thought
Visiting Faculty (Domestic)
Professors
Associate Professors
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KANDA Yuri
Mediable history of Japan
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SEKIGUCHI Hiroshi
A history of modern Japan
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TAKEUCHI Rio
Cultural sociology, educational sociology
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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
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HAMANO Seiichirō
History of Japanese political thought
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YAMAGUCHI Hiroyuki
Ceramic archeology
Visiting Research Scholars
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Um Inkyung
Cultural exchange between Korea and Japan, The Japanese-language literature of East Asia
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HAN Dongyu
日本史、東アジア思想史、東アジア国際関係史
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JIANG Shan
History of Chinese-Japanese Medical Communication; Acu-moxa Theory
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HUANG Tzu-Chin
Modern Sino-Japanese relations, modern Japanese history of diplomacy
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Rotem KOWNER
Early modern and modern Japanese history and culture
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SATO-ROSSBERG Nana
Translation studies
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ZHOU Changshan
Regional historical geography, interaction between Japan and China
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SUH Jaegon
Modern Japanese poetry, modern Japanese war literature
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Mario TALAMO
Literature of the late Edo period
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CHEN Lingling
Modern Sino-Japanese literary relations
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Hasan TOPACOGLU
Cultural studies, media events, memory, identity, oral history
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DOLCE Lucia Dora
Japanese religion, East Asian Buddhism
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LIU Hengwu
Maritime cultural exchange history of East Asia, Regional archaeology