Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
 

Academic Staff

Note: almost all members of academic staff in the Faculty of Foreign Studies teach both undergraduate and graduate courses, while members of the Graduate School teach only graduate courses. Members of staff of Associate Professor rank and higher may undertake Master's thesis supervision.

Faculty of Foreign Studies

DIVISION OF LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION STUDIES

European and American Studies I

[English]

SOHMIYA, Kiyoko (Professor)
Linguistic semantics; Contrastive study of English and Japanese

TAKAHASHI, Sakutaro (Professor)
Sociolinguistic study of American English; English lexicography

BABA, Akira (Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Studies)
Grammatical theory; Generative syntax; Historical syntax; Corpus linguistics

URATA, Kazuyuki (Associate Professor)
English philology and linguistics

SAITO, Hiroko (Associate Professor)
English phonetics and phonology

NOMURA, Keizo (Associate Professor)
English linuistics; Pragmatics

PETERSON, Mark (Senior Lecturer)
Educational technology with a particular focus on computer-assisted language learning(CALL)

YOSHITOMI, Asako (Senior Lecturer)
Applied linguistics; Second language acquistion; Foreign language attrition of Japanese returnees; Teaching English as a second/foreign language

[German]

ZAIMA, Susumu (Professor, Vice President)
Syntactico-semantics of German

NARITA, Takashi (Professor)
German as a foreign language

KIDO, Fuyuki (Associate Professor)
German linguistics; Ethnolinguistics

European and American Studies II

[French]

KAWAGUCHI, Yuii (Professor)
French linguistics; Old French and dialectology

TSURUGA, Yoichiro (Professor)
French linguistics; Functional linguistics

[Italian]

YAMAMOTO, Shinji (Senior Lecturer)
Italian linguistics; Italian dialectology

[Spanish]

TAKAGAKI, Toshihiro (Professor)
Morphological and syntactic studies of Spanish

TERASAKI, Hideki (Professor)
Spanish linguistics; Spanish morphosyntax; History of Spanish; Romance philology

KAWAKAMI, Shigenobu(Professor)
Hispanic Linguistics; Functional syntax of Modern Spanish; Spanish phonology

[Portuguese]

KUROSAWA, Naotoshi (Professor)
Portuguese linguistics; Text criticism in medieval Portuguese

Russian and East European Studies

[Russian]

NAKAZAWA, Hidehiko (Professor)
Russian linguistics; East Slavic languages; Aspectology

[Polish]

ISHII, Tetsushiro (Professor)
Polish philology; Russian philology; Contrastive linguistics

[Czech]

KANAZASHI, Kumiko (Senior Lecturer)
Slavic philology

East Asian Studies

[Chinese]

HIGUCHI, Yasushi (Professor)
Descriptive study of the Southern Hokkien dialects

YORIFUJI, Atsushi (Professor)
Chinese linguistics

MIYAKE, Takayuki (Associate Professor)
Modern Chinese grammar

[Korean]

IKARASHI, Koichi (Senior Lecturer)
CHO, Eui-sung (Senior Lecturer)

[Mongolian]

NUKUSHINA, Renzo (Senior Lecturer)
Mongolian linguistics

Southeast Asian Studies

[Indonesian]

FURIHATA, Masashi (Senior Lecturer)
Indonesian linguistics;Sundanese linguistics

[Malaysian]

SHOHO, Isamu (Professor)
Applicability of GB theory to Malay; A transformational approach to Malay syntax

[Philippine]

YAMASHITA, Michiko (Associate Professor)
Tagalog and other Philippine languages

[Laotian]

SUZUKI, Reiko (Associate Professor)
Lao linguistics; Grammar of moderm Lao

[Vietnamese]

UNE, Yoshio (Professor)
Vietnamese linguistics; Vietnamese syntax

[Cambodian]

UEDA, Hiromi (Associate Professor)
Cambodian linguistics

South and West Asian Studies

[Urdu]

HAGITA, Hiroshi (Senior Lecturer)
Urdu literature

[Arabic]

RATCLIFFE, Robert R. (Associate Professor)
Phonology; Morphology; Historical linguistics; Arabic dialects; Comparative Afro-Asiatic languages

[Persian]

YOSHIE, Satoko (Junior Lecturer)
Persian linguistics and sociolinguistics

[Turkish]

SUGAHARA, Mutsumi (Associate Professor)
Middle Turkic languages of Central Asia

Japanese Studies

[Japanese]

AYUSAWA, Takako (Professor)
Speech Science; Teaching Japanese as a second language

USAMI, Mayumi (Professor)
Teaching Japanese as a second language; Social psychology of language; Conversation analysis

KUDOO, Hirosi (Professor)
Japanese linguistics; Modal system in Modern Japanese

HAYATSU, Emiko (Professor)
Japanese linguistics; Modern Japanese syntax; Voice system in Modern Japanese

YUMOTO, Shonan (Professor)
Japanese linguistics; Modern Japanese; Lexicology

KAZAMA, Shinjiro (Associate Professor)
Descriptive linguistics of Altaic languages, especially Tungusic languages; Japanese linguistics; Japanese grammar; History of Japanese

KAWAMURA, Futoshi (Associate Professor)
Auxiliaries in Ancient Japanese

MOCHIZUKI, Keiko (Associate Professor)
Contrastive linguistics between Japanese, Mandarin Chinese and English; Pedagogy of teaching Japanese for Chinese learners; Chinese linguistics

UMINO, Tae (Associate Professor)
Second language acquisition; Teaching Japanese as a second language; Language in education research

Humanities

INOUE, Fumio (Professor)
Sociolinguistic analysis of language use; Sociolinguistic study of honorifics; Japanese dialectology; Computational study of dialect perception; Field research in linguistic change in progress

TOMIMORI, Nobuo (Professor, Director of University Library)
General linguistics; Saussurian linguistics; Romance linguistics and philology; Rhaeto-Romance languages and cultures

SANO, Hiroshi (Associate Professor)
Natural language processing; Electronic dictionary and thesaurus; Computational linguistics; Research and development of Computer-aided learning

NAKAGAWA, Hiroshi (Associate Professor)
Linguistics; Phonetics, Khoisan languages

MASUKO, Yukie (Associate Professor)
Phonetics; Acoustic phonetics

MINOURA, Nobukatsu (Senior Lecturer)
General linguistics; Sign language linguistics; Athabaskan linguistics

MOCHIZUKI, Hajime (Senior Lecturer)

Human and Environmental Studies

ICHIKAWA, Masanori (Professor)
Multivariate data analysis; Covariance structure analysis; Latent variable models

NEGISHI, Masashi (Professor)
Teaching English as a foreign language; Language testing; Applied linguistics

LIN, Chun Chen (Senior Lecturer)
Development of multimedia materials for language education; Development of E-learning study environment for language education; Logical structure analysis of books documents, and image

IKEGAMI, Teruo (Junior Lecturer)

DIVISION OF CULTURE AND LITERARY STUDIES

European And American Studies I

[English]

ARA, Konomi (Professor)
American literature

GORDON, Jan Baker (Professor)
19th century European fiction with an emphasis on the British novel; The poetry and prose of British Romanticism; The fiction of Yasunari Kawabata

SUZUKI, Akira (Associate Professor)
Critical theory; Cultural theory; Anglo-Irish literature

KATO, Yuji (Senior Lecturer)
American literature (novels, poetry, William Faulkner, Herman Melville); Critical theory

[German]

TANIGAWA, Michiko (Professor)
German culture (literature and theatre)

YAMAGUCHI, Hiroyuki (Associate Professor)

European and American Studies II

[French]

NISHINAGA, Yoshinari (Professor)
Modern French literature

MATSUURA, Hisao (Professor)
History and theory of modern art

MIZUBAYASHI, Akira (Professor)
The French Enlightenment; Literature and society in France during the 18th century

[Italian]

WADA, Tadahiko (Professor)
Modern & Contemporary Italian Literature; Theory of Literature & Arts

HAYASHI, Kazuhiro (Associate Professor)
Italian literature

[Spanish]

SUGIURA, Tsutomu (Professor)
Narrative representations in writings and films of Spanish-speaking areas

[Portuguese]

TAKEDA, Chika (Senior Lecturer)

Russian and East European Studies

[Russian]

KAMEYAMA, Ikuo (Professor)
Modern Russian literature

DOLIN, Alexandre (Professor)
Comparative literature and culture studies (research in Japanese, Russian and European poetry and poetics); Russian literature, classic art, culture and society

WATANABE, Masaji (Professor)
History of Russian thought

SUZUKI, Yoshikazu (Associate Professor)
Economic history of the Soviet Union (the planned economy in the 1920s and 1930s; Public opinion and Russian society during the transition to a market economy)

[Polish]

SEKIGUCHI, Tokimasa (Professor)
History of Polish culture and literature; Formation of Poles' self-image; Originality of Cracow culture in the 19th and 20th centuries

East Asian Studies

[Chinese]

KOBAYASHI, Tsugio (Professor)
Modern Chinese literature

KAWASHIMA, Ikuo (Associate Professor)
Chinese literature

[Mongolian]

HASUMI, Haruo (Professor)
Studies of Mongol folklore; Studies of the Mongol language

OKADA, Kazuyuki (Associate Professor)
Modern Mongolian literature

Southeast Asian Studies

[Thai]

UDO, Seiji (Professor)
Thai literature

[Laotian]

KIKUCHI, Yoko (Senior Lecturer)
Modern and contemporary history of Laos

[Vietnamese]

KAWAGUCHI, Ken'ichi (Professor)
Vietnamese literature; Classical Chu-nom literature before the 19th century; Vietnamese modern literature in the first half of the 20th century

[Cambodian]

OKADA, Tomoko (Associate Professor)
Cambodian literature

[Burmese]

TOSA, Keiko (Professor)
Anthropological Study on Myanmar; Religious Revivalism in Southeast Asia

South and West Asian Studies

[Urdu]

ASADA, Yutaka (Associate Professor)
Urdu language and literature; Muslim culture in India and Pakistan

[Hindi]

MIZUNO, Yoshifumi (Associate Professor)
Sanskrit literature and Medieval Hindi literature

[Arabic]

YAGI, Kumiko (Associate Professor)
Religious studies of modern Islam, particularly in relation to nationalism; Negative and positive roles of Islam in the process of construction of Egyptian national identity in the first half of the 20th century

[Persian]

FUJII, Morio (Professor)
History of Literature and Thought in Iran; Persian Sufi Texts

SASAKI, Ayano (Junior Lecturer)
Classical Persian literature, especially concerning Hafiz (the 14th century)

Japanese Studies

[Japanese]

SHIBATA, Shoji (Professor)
Modern Japanese literature

MURAO, Seiichi (Professor)
Classical Japanese literature; Waka-poems in the 12th-16th centuries

YONETANI, Masafumi (Associate Professor)
Intellectual history of Japan; History of social thought

Humanities

KURITA, Hiroyuki (Professor)
Cultural anthropology, Melanesian studies

NAKAYAMA, Kazutyoshi (Professor)
Cultural anthropology; Historical anthropology of Oceania; Western images of Japan

IWASAKI, Tsutomu (Associate Professor)
Roman poetry of the Augustan age

IWASAKI, Minoru (Associate Professor)
Philosophy, History of ideas (Western and also Modern Japanese), Cultural studies.

Human and Environmental Studies

ABO, Masayuki (Professor)
Sport management; Public administration for sport

TAJIMA, Nobumoto (Professor)
Developmental psychology (cognitive development, development of social relations, language acquisition); Instructional psychology (teacher-student interaction, family education); Cultural psychology (social formation of cognition); Cognitive science (man-machine interface)

HIGASHI, Ken'ichi (Professor)
Budo-ron; Coaching methods of kendo

MANBE, Motomu (Associate Professor)
Neurophysiology

YOSHIMOTO, Hideyuki (Associate Professor)
History of science

DIVISION OF AREA AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES

European And American Studies I

[English]

KANAI, Kotaro (Professor)
New England society in the Revolutionary period

SASAKI, Takahiro (Professor)
American social history; Race relations in the south; Family and gender relations in the south, 1820-1920

WAKAMATSU, Kunihiro (Associate Professor)
Contemporary British politics; West European politics; West European politics; Policy process analysis

[German]

SOMA, Yasuo (Professor)
History of modern and contemporary Germany / Europe

MASUTANI, Hideki (Professor)
Modern history of Germany and Austria

European and American studies II

[French]

KUDO, Koichi (Associate Professor)
History of modern and contemporary France

[Italian]

KOGE, Ichiro (Professor)
History of modern and contemporary Italy

[Spanish]

TAKAHASHI, Masaaki (Professor, Vice President)
Contemporary history of Latin America

TATEISHI, Hirotaka (Professor Chairman of the Graduate School of Area and Culture Studies)
History of modern Spain; Reforms in the Enlightenment and Liberalism; Relations between state, church and society; Building of nation state

YASUMURA, Naoki (Associate Professor)
History: Inter-ethnic relations in colonial Mexico; Anthropology; Ethnic movements in Latin America

[Portuguese]

SUZUKI, Shigeru (Professor)
History of modern and contemporary Brazil

Russian and East European Studies

[Russian]

TAKAHASHI, Seiji (Professor)
Russian history

[Czech]

SHINOHARA, Taku (Associate Professor)
Modern Czech and East-Central European history; Czech social history

East Asian Studies

[Chinese]

USUI, Sachiko (Professor)
Chinese history

SAWADA, Yukari (Associate Professor)
Area studies: Contemporary China; Social welfare; Sociology Development Economics

[Korean]

TSUKIASHI, Tatsuhiko (Associate Professor)
Modern history of Korea

NIWA, Izumi (Associate Professor)
Sociology of religion; Religions in Korea (shamanism, new religions)

[Mongolian]

FUTAKI, Hiroshi (Professor)
Modern history of Mongolia; Legal history of Mongolia

Southeast Asian Studies

[Indonesian]

SATO, Hiroyuki (Professor)
Modern economic history of the Netherlands

SODA, Naoki (Senior Lecturer)
Modern History and Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia;
Nationalism and State-formation in Malaysia

[Philippine]

OGAWA, Hidefumi (Associate Professor)
Southeast Asian archaeology; Philippine archaeology; Symbiotic relationships between hunter-gatherers and farmers

[Thai]

KOIZUMI, Junko (Associate Professor)
Thai history

[Vietnamese]

IMAI, Akio (Associate Professor)
Modern history of Vietnam

[Burmese]

SAITO, Teruko (Professor)
Socio-economic history of Burma; Comparative studies of economic thought South and West Asian Studies

South and West Asian Studies

[Urdu]

AWAYA, Toshie (Associate Professor)
Modern history of South Asia; Women's history

[Hindi]

FUJII, Takeshi (Professor)
Modern history of South Asia; Caste consciousness; Ethnic minorities, language problems, history of social thought and socio-religious reform movements in South Asia; Social history of South Asia

[Arabic]

FUJITA, Susumu (Professor)
Modern and contemporary history of the Arab world

[Persian]

HACHIOSHI, Makoto (Professor)
Modern history of Iran; Modern political thought of Shia Islam

[Turkish]

ARAI, Masami (Professor)
Modern history of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey

HAYASHI, Kayoko (Associate Professor)
Historical studies of Ottoman urban societies

Japanese Studies

[Japanese]

NOMOTO, Kyoko (Professor)
Modern history of Japan; Rural history of Japan

YOSHIDA, Yuriko (Professor)
Early modern history of Japan

Humanities

INADA, Masahiro (Professor)
Modern history of Japan

SATO, Kimihiko (Professor)
Modern history of China, East Asia

Social Sciences

IJIRI, Hidenori (Professor)
Politics and international relations in East Asia; US-China-Taiwan relations; Domestic politics and foreign policy of China and Taiwan

OBLAS, Peter B. (Professor)
International relations; Nationalism

NAKANO, Toshio (Professor)
Social theory; Social thought; Historical sociology; Ethics

NISHITATENO, Sonoko (Professor)
International law; International human rights law

WATANABE, Hirotaka (Professor)
French politics and diplomacy; International relations; European integration; History of international relations in Europe

OKAWA, Masahiko (Associate Professor)
Political theory; Social ethics

OGASAWARA, Yoshiyuki (Associate Professor)
Comparative politics;Election studies; Taiwanese politics

SHINKUMA, Takayoshi (Associate Professor)

SENDA, Yuki (Associate Professor)
Sociology; Gender studies

TAJIMA, Yoichi (Associate Professor)
International economics; Development economics; Mexican economy; Human and Environmental Studies

GAMOU, Keiichi (Senior Lecturer)
Applied macroeconomics; US economy

Human and Environmental Studies

KURAISHI, Ichiro (Associate Professor)

INSTRUCTORS

BECK, Thomas Emil (Visiting Professor)
English

BÜKER, Stella (Visiting Associate Professor)
German

BERGONZI, Silvia
Italian

TANI Moratalla, Rumi
Spanish

OLIVEIRA, Ronald Polito De (Visiting Associate Professor)
Portuguese

NIKIPORETS, Galina (Visiting Associate Professor)
Russian

DUDA, Henryk (Visiting Associate Professor)
Polish

HOMOLÁC, Jiri (Visiting Associate Professor)
Czech

YU Wenqing (Visiting Associate Professor)
Chinese

SHIN Myoungjik (Visiting Associate Professor)
Korean

KHURELBAATAR, Lhamsureng (Visiting Professor)
Mongolian

ARIYANTO (Visiting Associate Professor)
Indonesian

SAIFUL Bahari Bin Ahmad (Visiting Associate Professor)
Malaysian

LEITH Casel-Schuetz (Visiting Associate Professor)
Philippine

PEINUKACHON, Vichai (Visiting Professor)
Thai

SILATTANAKOUN, Aloun (Visiting Associate Professor)
Laotian

NGUYEN Thien Nam (Visiting Associate Professor)
Vietnamese

KEP Sokunthearath
Cambodian

KYI Kyi Oo (Visiting Associate Professor)
Burmese

JAMIL, Moinuddin (Visiting Associate Professor)
Urdu

RITUPARNA, Suresh Chandra Agrawal (Visiting Professor)
Hindi

ELSHORBAGY, Salwa (Visiting Associate Professor)
Arabic

ZAHRA, Taheri Tanha (Visiting Professor)
Persian

ÇERI, Bahriye (Visiting Associate Professor)
Turkish

 

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF AREA AND CULTURE STUDIES

Division of Transcultural Studies

UEMURA, Tadao (Professor)
Theory of humanities and sciences; Intellectual history

HSIAO, Hsingchun (Junior Lecturer)
Modern Japanese literature; Comparative literature; Comparative culture

Division of International Politics and Economy

NISHITANI, Osamu (Professor)
Philosophy; Contemporary thought

NAKAYAMA, Chikako (Associate Professor)
History of economic thought

Division of Cross-linguistic Studies

NOMA, Hideki (Professor)
Korean linguistics and Contrastive linguistics; Grammar, lexicology

ITO, Hideto (Associate Professor)
Korean linguistics (Middle Korean)

NAM, Yunjin (Associate Professor)
Korean linguistics

VISITING INSTRUCTORS

AGAWA, Hirosato (Visiting Professor)

OTA, Tsutomu (Visiting Professor)

TOIDA, Mitsuru (Visiting Professor)

YAMADA, Shunichi (Visiting Professor)

SASAOKA, Yuichi (Visiting Associate Professor)

SHINOZAKI, Hiromasa (Visiting Associate Professor)

HAZAMA, Yasushi (Visiting Associate Professor)

HATASE, Mariko (Visiting Associate Professor)

Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)

Foundations of Language and Culture

MACHIDA, Kazuhiko (Professor)
Indo-Aryan languages

MATSUSHITA, Shuji (Professor)
African languages

IIZUKA, Masato (Associate Professor)
Islamic Studies

KAWAI, Kaori (Associate Professor)

MAJIMA, Ichiro (Associate Professor)
West African anthropology

OTA, Nobuhiro (Tenured Research Associates)

Language and Culture Communication

KAGAYA, Ryohei (Professor)
Acoustic phonetics; Bantu & Khoisan languages

SHIBANO, Kohji (Professor)
Multimedia database; Multilingual text processing

NAKAMI, Tatsuo (Professor)
International relations in East and Inner Asia

ODA, Jun'ichi (Associate Professor)
Bibliometrics

KIKUSAWA, Ritsuko (Associate Professor)
Austronesian languages

SAWADA, Hideo (Associate Professor)
Descriptive study of Tibeto-Burman languages in Kachin state and Northeast India

TOYOSHIMA, Masayuki (Associate Professor)
Japanese philology

HOSHI, Izumi (Research Associate)
Tibetan language and its dialects

ARAKAWA, Shintaro (Tenured Research Associates)
Tangut Language and its Philology

Transregional Studies I

ISHII, Hiroshi (Professor)
South Asian anthropology

SHINTANI, Tadahiko, L.A (Professor)
Linguistics and metaphysics

DANIELS, Christian (Professor)
History of Chinese technology, Ming / Qing

BHASKARARAO, Peri (Professor)
Phonetics, South Asian languages

MIYAZAKI, Koji (Professor Director of the Institute)
Anthropology of Austronesian societies Anthropological study of migration and Borneo and Surrounding Areas

KURIHARA, Hirohide (Associate Professor)
Contemporary Vietnamese history

KUREBITO, Tokusu (Associate Professor)
Chukchi language

TOKORO, Ikuya (Associate Professor)
Anthropology of South-East Asian islanders

NEMOTO, Kei (Associate Professor)
Modern Burmese history

MIO, Yuko (Associate Professor)
East Asian anthropology

ITO, Chiyuki (Tenured Research Associates)

SHIOHARA, Asako (Tenured Research Associates)
Linguistics, Languages in Indonesia (Balinese, Sumbawan)

ARND, Helmut Hafner (Tenured Research Associates)
Chinese Legal History; Sociology of Law

Transregional Studies II

UCHIBORI, Motomitsu (Professor, Director of Information Resources Center)
Socio-cultural anthropology, South East Asian ethnology

OGAWA, Ryo (Professor)
Fulani people and culture of West Africa

KAJI, Shigeki (Professor)
Bantu languages; Ethnolinguistics

KUROKI, Hidemitsu (Associate Professor)
Modern Middle Eastern history

TAKACHIO, Hitoshi (Associate Professor)
Symbolism and representation of the world

NAGAHARA, Yoko (Associate Professor)
History of Southern Africa

HANEDA, Koichi (Associate Professor)
Safavid Era Iranian history

FUKAZAWA, Hideo (Associate Professor)
Social anthropology of the Malagasy speech communities in the Indian Ocean

Information Resources Center

TAKASHIMA, Jun (Professor)
Computer-aided text analysis; Hinduism

MINEGISHI, Makoto (Professor)
Linguistic typology, Austroasiatic languages

KONDO, Nobuaki (Associate Professor)

NAKAYAMA, Toshihide (Associate Professor)
North American Indian languages (Wakashan); Morphosyntax; Linguistic typology; Discourse and grammar

NISHII, Ryoko (Associate Professor)
Anthropology of South-East Asia

Japanese Language Center for International Students

Division of Japanese Teaching and Academic Studies

ITO, Sukero (Professor)
Japanese language education; Applied linguistics; Language testing

UTSUMI, Takashi (Professor)
Modern Japanese history

KASHIWAZAKI, Masayo (Professor)
Japanese language education; Discourse analysis; Pragmatics

SAKAMOTO, Megumi (Professor)
Japanese linguistics; Japanese language education

TANI, Kazuaki (Professor)
Pedagogy of adult education; Theory of Soziokultur

TAYAMA, Noriko (Professor)
Japanese language education; Text linguistics

MATSUI, Nobuyuki (Professor)
Synthetic chemistry; Solid and liquid chemistry; Electrolytic synthesis; Science education

MICHIWAKI, Ayako (Professor)
Applied physics; Crystallography and crystal growth; Electrolytic synthesis; Science education

YOKOTA, Atsuko (Professor)
Japanese Language Education; Educational Technology

ITAMI, Chie (Associate Professor)
Japanese language education

KANEKO, Hiroko (Associate Professor)
Japanese language education

KUSUMOTO, Tetsuya (Associate Professor)
Japanese linguistics; Japanese language education

SAKAI, Junko (Associate Professor)
Japanese language education; Kana (Japanese characters) and Kanji (Chinese characters)

SATO, Hirotaka (Associate Professor)
Algebraic Number Theory

SATO, Yumiko (Associate Professor)
Japanese linguistics; Phonetics

SUZUKI, Mika (Associate Professor)
Teaching Japanese as a foreign language; Educational technology

ZENNYOJI, Toshiyuki (Associate Professor)
Japanese language education; Kanji (Chinese characters) studies and education

FUJIMURA, Tomoko (Associate Professor)
Japanese language education; Text linguistics; Investigation of differences in reading comprehension and production between Japanese as a second language learners and Japanese university students; Developing computerized elementary Japanese reading materials related to the geography of Japan.

MOTAI, Takahiro (Associate Professor)
Partial differential equations

OGATA, Rie (Senior Lecturer)
Japanese grammar; Ancient Japanese

SUZUKI, Tomomi (Senior Lecturer)
Japanese linguistics; Semantics

HANAZONO, Satoru (Senior Lecturer)
Japanese linguistics

Division of Planning and Promoting Japanese Language Teaching

ARAKAWA, Yohey (Associate Professor)
Cognitive linguistics; Cognitive semantics

TSUCHIYA, Jun'ichi (Associate Professor)
Japanese linguistics; Phonetics

NAKAMURA, Akira (Associate Professor)
Theoretical linguistics; Japanese linguistics

FUJIMORI, Hiroko (Associate Professor)
Applied linguistics; Second language acquisition; Japanese language education

OKADA, Akito (Senior Lecturer)
Comparative and International Education

Division of Counseling and Guidance

MACHIDA, Soho (Professor)
Comparative religion; Japanese intellectual history

MIYAGI, Toru (Senior Lecturer)
Cross-cultural education; Educational supervision

KOMATSU, Yumi (Senior Lecturer)
Intercultural communication and teaching

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