Faculty
Director-General
Deputy Directors-General
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

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
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 and cultural history
Project Research Fellows
Visiting Faculty (Domestic)
Professors
Associate Professors
Visiting Research Scholars

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

LU Shunchang
The history of cultural communicatio between China and Japan
Visiting Research Fellows
Visiting Research Fellows
AOKI Nobuo
Cultural resource studies, urban and architectural history
ZHOU Shi
Administrative Law
Jamila RODRIGUES
Anthropology, embodiment and ritual studies
TAKAI Yukari
History of Japanese diasporas and transnational migrations; history of the Pacific worlds; women’s and gender history (19th & 20th centuries)