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.
Futoshi KAWAMURA
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 | KAWAMURA Futoshi |
Professor | Japanese Linguistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Associate Director | SUZUKI Mika | Professor | Japanese Language Education / Educational Technology |
| TOMOTSUNE Tsutomu | Professor | Intellectual History of Japan / Minority Studies / Religious Performance | |
| International Japanese Education | |||
| AKAGIRI Atsushi | Lecturer | Japanese language education/ Foreign language education | |
| DATE Hiroko | Associate Professor | Japanese language education | |
| IJUIN Ikuko | Professor | Pragmatics / Discourse Analysis / Japanese Language Education | |
| ISHIZAWA Toru | Associate Professor | Japanese language education | |
| ONOZUKA Wakana | Associate Professor | Japanese language education/ Educational technology | |
| OTSU Tomomi | Professor | Japanese Linguistics | |
| SUZUKI Mika | Professor | Japanese Language Education / Educational Technology | |
| SUZUKI Tomomi | Professor | Japanese Semantics / Japanese Language Education | |
| Comparative Laguage | |||
| AKIHIRO Hisae | Associate Professor | French Linguistics | |
| DOHI Atsushi | Lecturer | Linguistics | |
| FURIHATA Masashi | Professor | Indonesian Linguistics / Sudanese Linguistics | |
| HANAZONO Satoru | Professor | Japanese linguistics | |
| KAWAMURA Futoshi | Professor | Japanese linguistics | |
| MIYAKE Takayuki | Professor | Chinese Linguistics | |
| NAKAMURA Akira | Associate Professor | linguistics/ English linguistics/ Japanese language education | |
| OTANI Naoki | Associate Professor | English Linguistics / Cognitive Linguistics / Semantics and Pragmatics | |
| YAMADA Yohei | Associate Professor | Mongolian/ Linguistics | |
| YUKIMATSU Hanae | Associate Professor | Japanese Linguistics/ Japanese Language Education | |
| 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 | |
| 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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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 |