The Goals of the International Center for Japanese Studies
The International Center for Japanese Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies was founded in April 2009 with the aim of conducting research studies from individual, synthetic and composite perspectives in the fields of Japanese, Japanese language education, Japanese culture and Japanese society, sharing research results inside and outside Japan and reapplying them to the field of pedagogy.
Since 2016 (until 2021) we have begun operating under the theme "Creation and Development of an International Network of Japan Research". The Center has also been reorganized into the following three departments: International Japanese Education, Contrastive Japanese, Comparative Japanese Culture. Going forward, we will focus our efforts on the creation of a worldwide network of researchers dedicated to research into Japanese and Japan, focusing particularly on young researchers. We will also strive, through close cooperation with institutions inside and outside Japan, for truly bidirectional international collaborative research from multiple perspectives.
Tsutomu TOMOTSUNE
Director
International Center for Japanese Studies
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
The International Center for Japanese Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies was founded in April 2009 with the aim of conducting research studies from individual, synthetic and composite perspectives in the fields of Japanese, Japanese language education, Japanese culture and Japanese society, sharing research results inside and outside Japan and reapplying them to the field of pedagogy.
Since 2016 (until 2021) we have begun operating under the theme "Creation and Development of an International Network of Japan Research". The Center has also been reorganized into the following three departments: International Japanese Education, Contrastive Japanese, Comparative Japanese Culture. Going forward, we will focus our efforts on the creation of a worldwide network of researchers dedicated to research into Japanese and Japan, focusing particularly on young researchers. We will also strive, through close cooperation with institutions inside and outside Japan, for truly bidirectional international collaborative research from multiple perspectives.
| Division | Main Activities |
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| International Japanese Education | Base-building for international development of Japanese language education |
| Contrastive Japanese | Promotion of contrastive studies of Japanese and other languages |
| Comparative Japanese Culture | Research into Japanese culture and society from an international perspective |
| Director | TOMOTSUNE Tsutomu | Professor | Intellectual History of Japan / Minority Studies / Religious Performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Director | SUZUKI Mika | Professor | Japanese Language Education / Educational Technology |
| KAWAMURA Futoshi | Professor | Japanese Linguistics | |
| International Japanese Education | IJUIN Ikuko | Professor | Pragmatics / Discourse Analysis / Japanese Language Education |
| SUZUKI Tomomi | Professor | Japanese Semantics / Japanese Language Education | |
| OTSU Tomomi | Professor | Japanese Linguistics | |
| SANO Hiroshi | Professor | Theory of Linguistic Information Processing / Computerized Language Database / Language Education with Computer Support | |
| SUZUKI Mika | Professor | Japanese Language Education / Educational Technology | |
| MOCHIZUKI Keiko | Professor | Linguistics (Syntax、 Semantics and Lexicon) / Comparative Linguistics / Second Language Acquisition / Pedagogical Grammar (English, Japanese and Chinese) / Learners' Corpus Research / Chinese Linguistics | |
| Comparative Laguage | OTANI Naoki | Associate Professor | English Linguistics / Cognitive Linguistics / Semantics and Pragmatics |
| MIYAKE Takayuki | Professor | Chinese Linguistics | |
| FURIHATA Masashi | Professor | Indonesian Linguistics / Sudanese Linguistics | |
| AKIHIRO Hisae | Associate Professor | French Linguistics | |
| YAMADA Yohei | Associate Professor | Mongolian/ Linguistics | |
| YUKIMATSU Hanae | Associate Professor | Japanese Linguistics/ Japanese Language Education | |
| KAWAMURA Futoshi | Professor | Japanese linguistics | |
| Comparative Japanese Culture | OKADA Akito | Professor | Comparative International Education Studies / Theory of Educational Development / Cross-Cultural Communication |
| KUNO Ryoichi | Professor | Hispanic Literature and Culture | |
| NOHIRA Munehiro | Associate Professor | Vietnamese Literature / Thought and Culture | |
| HASHIMOTO Yuichi | Associate Professor | Modern Chinese Literature / Modern Colonial Culture | |
| HARUNA Nobuo | Professor | International Politics / Political and Diplomatic History of Japan | |
| John Patrick Porter | Associate Professor | Modern and Contemporary Japanese History / Urban Social History / The History of Poverty | |
| YAMAGUCHI Hiroyuki | Professor | German Culture and Literature / Theory of Culture and Representation | |
| YONETANI Masafumi | Professor | History of social thought, History of Japanese thought | |
| Philip SEATON | Professor | War memories, Media & Cultural studies, Tourism studies | |
|
UEHARA Kozue |
Associate Professor |
Sociology / History of OKINAWA / Social movement |
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HAUKAMP Iris |
Associate Professor |
Film history / Film studies / Cultural history |
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FUJII Takeshi |
Associate Professor |
Korean contemporary history |
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TOMOTSUNE Tsutomu |
Professor |
Intellectual History of Japan / Minority Studies / Religious Performance |
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NISHIHARA Daisuke |
Professor |
Comparative Literature, Japanese Literature, Japanese Art |
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TSUCHIDA Kosuke |
Lecturer |
Japanese Literature, Japanese Art Theory |
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YAMANOUCHI Yuriko |
Associate Professor |
Anthropology |
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| KIMURA Masami | Lecturer | International relations theory | |
| Center Office | KIM Eun-Ae | Program-Specific Specialist |