Faculty Members

Names	Research Interests	Specialty Courses
HAYANAGI, Kazunori	Sociology of Culture, Narratology, Regional Studies (Switzerland, Nagasaki)	Cultural Representations
HAZAMA, Itsuhiro	Cultural Anthropology, African Area Studies	Ecological Humanities
HIROSE, Satoshi	International Organization, International Security and Disarmament Studies	International Organization
KIMURA, Naoki	History of Early Modern Japanese Policy and Diplomacy	History of Japanese-Dutch Relations
MASAMOTO, Shinobu	French Social and Legal History	History and Society
MOJI, Kazuhiko	Human Ecology, EcoHealth Research	Global Demographics
MORIKAWA, Yuji	International Politics, International Relations, Peace Studies	International Politics
NAKAMURA, Norihiro	International Sociology, Social Change Theory	To be announced
NISHIHARA, Toshiaki	Linguistic Theory, Syntax, Corpus Linguistics, Applied Linguistics	Corpus Linguistics
NOGAMI, Takenori	Archaeology	History of Cultural Exchange in the Asian Maritime Region
REN, Seikichi	Chinese Intellectual, Japanese Sinology	Chinese Intellectual History
SAITSU, Yumiko	Japanese Folklore, Cultural Anthropology	Cultural Resources
SHUTO, Toshikazu	Sociology, Contemporary Asian Studies	Contemporary Asian Studies
TAKIZAWA, Katsuhiko	Religious Studies, Mongolian Studies	Religion and Culture
WANG, Wei	Cultural Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Tourism Anthropology	Intercultural Exchange
YANG, Xiaoan	Applied Linguistics, Experimental Phonetics	Contrastive Linguistics

Names	Research Interests	Specialty Courses
AZUMA, Fumihiko	European Union Law, International (Economic / Human Rights) Law	European Union Law
COMPEL, Radomir	Political Science	Comparative Politics
CUTRONE, Pino	Intercultural Pragmatics¸Applied Linguistics/TESOL¸ Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis	Cross-Cultural Communication
GUELBEYAZ, Abdurrahman	Semiotics, Linguistics, Social Theory, Sociolinguistics, Language Acquisition and Education, Music Sociology	Media and Communication Studies
HARADA, Soichiro	Descriptive Linguistics of Japonic Languages especially Kyushu Japanese and Yaeyama Ryukyuan	Japanese Linguistics
HOSODA, Naomi	Cultural Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies,International Labor Migration	Anthropological Studies of Migration
KOMATSU, Satoru	Development Economics, Environmental Economics	International Development
MASUDA, Ken	Social Anthropology	Contemporary African Studies
MIHARA, Reiko	Comparative Education, Sociology of Education	Intercultural Education
MINAMI, Makoto	Historical Sociology, Global Sociology	Transnationality
MORI, Motonao	Philosophy, Intellectual History, Cultural Studies	Intellectual History
SAIHANJUNA	Sociology of the Family, Migration Studies	Interculturality and Families
SHIRAI, Shoji	Career Design, Career Education, Students’ Job Selection, Academic-Industrial Collaboration	Voluntary Internships
TANIGAWA, Shin-ichi	English Linguistics, Linguistics, Grammatical Theory	Japanese-English Contrastive Linguistics

Names	Research Interests	Specialty Courses
NG, Ka Shing	Sociology of Religion, East Asian Studies	Religion and Society in Japan
NURGALIYEVA, Lyailya	International Relations, International Politics, Japanese Culture	Understanding Japanese Culture and Society
SATO, Miho	Health seeking behavior of people in low and middle income countries; health systems research	Global Demographics
TOET, Rudy	Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Grammar	Introduction to Japanese Linguistics
YAMASHITA, Noboru	Comparative Cultures, Japanese Cultural History, European Cultural History, Dutch and English Language Education	Dutch Language Courses (i.e., Dutch I, II and III)