Faculty
ICU's list of educational staff can now be found on the university's "Researchers Information System."
Researchers Information System
(*) Professors with (D) are also in charge of Doctoral Course.
Education and Psychology Program
| Area of Concentration | Areas for Research Guidance | Name |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Education, Science education, Learning support system, Human interface and interaction
(Key Word: Digital Textbook, Learning Contents, Programming, Computer Science Education) |
AOKI, Hiroyuki |
| Education (D) |
Sociology of education, Area studies, Politics, International relations
(Key Word: Policy, Japan, South Korea, China, Development, ODA, Aid, Education, Cambodia) |
DAWSON, Walter P. |
| Education (D) |
Education | HOWARD, Craig Dennis |
| Education | Education | KOMATSU, Maki |
| Education (D) |
Sociology of education
(Key Word: Evaluation of Education Policy and Reform,Sociology of Education,International Educational Development) |
NISHIMURA, Mikiko |
| Education (D) |
Education
(Key Word: Autonomy, Erasmus) |
OKAWA, Hiroshi |
| Education (D) |
Social psychology, Educational Psychology, Education
(Key Word: Community Psychology; Prevention Science; Multicultural Issues in Psychology and Education; Research Methods; Peace Psychology) |
SASAO, Toshiaki |
| Education (D) |
Teacher Education, Curriculum Studies, Comparative and International Education | SATO, Chizu |
| Psychology (D) |
Psychology | CHAN, Christian |
| Psychology (D) |
Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Language | MORISHIMA, Yasunori |
| Psychology (D) |
Basic / Social brain science, Experimental psychology, Childhood science (childhood environment science)
(Key Word: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy) |
NAOI, Nozomi |
| Psychology (D) |
Clinical psychology, Educational psychology, Special needs education | NISHIMURA, Kaoru |
| Psychology | Psychology | MIYAKAWA, Erika |
| Psychology | Psychology | SUDO, Mioko |
| Language Education | Language Education | CHUN, Sunyoung |
| Language Education (D) |
Second language learning and teaching, classroom research, task-based language teaching, second language speaking proficiency | FUJII, Akiko |
| Language Education (D) |
Japanese language education, Education, Japanese literature
(Key Word: Literary Materials for Japanese as a Foreign Language,Japanese Immersion Program, Japanese Education in Australia, Japanese Kokugo Textbooks, Modern Japanese Literature (Natsume Soseki, Suzuki Miekichi, Murakami Haruki, et.al.),Listening Materials for Japanese as a First Language) |
HANDA, Atsuko |
| Language Education (D) |
Foreign language education, English linguistics, Linguistics
(Key Word: Phonetics and Phonology, Theoretical Linguistics, L2 Acquisition, Language Documentation African, Tibeto-Burmean, Tai-Kadai and Korean linguistics) |
LEE, Seunghun |
| Language Education | Linguistics
(Key Word: Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy of language) |
MIZUTA, Yoko |
| Language Education (D) |
Linguistics, Foreign language education, Special needs education
(Key Word: child language development, multilingualism, language education, bilingual education, immersion programs, sign language systems, monastic sign language) |
QUAY, Suzanne |
| Language Education |
language education | SHIROZA, Saran |
| Language Education (D) |
language education | TSUJITA, Mari |
Public Policy and Social Research Program
| Area of Concentration | Areas for Research Guidance | Name |
|---|---|---|
| Politics and International Studies / Peace Studies (D) |
International Law, International Relations | ARAKAKI, Osamu |
| Politics and International Studies (D) |
Politics, International relations
(Key Word: American Politics) |
COLLET, Christian |
| Politics and International Studies (D) |
International Law, International Relations, Politics
(Keywords: asylum and immigration policies, international organization, international criminal law) |
HASHIMOTO, Naoko |
| Politics and International Studies (D) |
Politics
(Key Word: egalitarianism, multiculturalism,history of early modern political thought, Theory of social justice, philosophy of social science) |
KIBE, Takashi |
| Politics and International Studies |
Politics | KOO, Yoojin |
| Politics and International Studies | Public law
(Key Word: Constitution and Foreign Affairs, Human and Constitutional Rights, Comparative Constitutional Law) |
MATSUDA, Hiromichi |
| Politics and International Studies (D) |
International Relations, Politics
(Key Word: Global Governance, Global Environment and Sustainable Development) |
MORI, Katsuhiko |
| Politics and International Studies (D) |
International relations, Politics, Area studies
(Key Word: International relations of Northeast Asia, Sino-Japanese relations, Asian regional integration and regionalism in Asia, non-traditional security, human security and migration relate issues) |
NAGY, Stephen R. |
| Politics and International Studies (D) |
Politics | PORTEUX, J. Nathaniel |
| Politics and International Studies / Peace Studies (D) |
International Relations, United Nations, International Law, International History, International Organization
(Key Word: UN Secretariat, Diplomacy, Leadership, Global Ethics, African History, International Relations of Africa, Human Rights) |
SALTON, Herman |
| Politics and International Studies / Peace Studies (D) |
International relations, Politics
(Key Word: Religion and International Relations, Critical Human Security, Sikhism, South Asia, Postwestern International Political Theory) |
SHANI, Giorgiandrea |
| Politics and International Studies (D) |
International Politics; International Relations of the Asia-Pacific; International Relations and Global Order; Foreign Policy Analysis; Politics and International Relations in Korea | SUH, Jae-Jung |
| Politics and International Studies / Peace Studies (D) |
Gender and International Relations, Gender and Development | TAKAMATSU, Kana |
| Politics and International Studies / Peace Studies (D) |
International relations, Politics
|
VOSSE, Wilhelm M. |
| Politics and International Studies | Diplomacy and International Relations | |
| Social and Cultural Analysis (D) |
Sociology
(Key Word: Buraku issues, social movements, education) |
BONDY, Christopher |
| Social and Cultural Analysis (D) |
Religious Mobility, Anthropology of Christianity, Asian Catholicism, Transnational Migration, Religious Networks
(Key Word: Cultural Anthropology) |
BROWN, Bernardo Enrique |
| Social and Cultural Analysis (D) |
Sociology
(Key Word: American patriotism) |
ISHIO, Yoshito |
| Social and Cultural Analysis (D) |
Gender, Cultural anthropology
(Key Word: representation, cross-cultural psychiatry, psychological anthropology, mental health, community, Australia, Canada, self-searching, work, self, youth, migration, cultural nationalism, gender, traditional art, the Japanese, Japan, native anthropology) |
KATO, Etsuko |
| Social and Cultural Analysis (D) |
Men in Families, Race and Ethnicity, Immigration, Men's Movements, Asian American Studies, Korean Studies | KIM, Allen |
| Social and Cultural Analysis (D) |
Cultural anthropology
(Key Word: Cultural anthropology, Demography) |
MORIKI, Yoshie |
| Social and Cultural Analysis (D) |
Sociology, Sociology of Science
(Key Word: food safety, social studies of agricultural biotechnology) |
YAMAGUCHI, Tomiko |
| Media and Language (D) |
Area studies, Philosophy/Ethics, Sociology , Fundamental law
(Key Word: Communication, Rhetoric, Argumentation, Critical Theory, Media) |
AONUMA, Satoru |
| Media and Language (D) |
Sociology
(Key Word: Body culture, Sport, Cultural Studies) |
ARIMOTO, Takeshi |
| Media and Language |
Translation studies | GARZA, James Michael |
| Media and Language |
Communication Studies | HONG, Seung Min |
| Media and Language (D) |
Media and Communication | JUNG, Joo-Young J. |
| Media and Language | Foreign language education, Linguistics, New fields of law
(Key Word: Interpreting, Interpreter Training, Interpreter Education, Interpreting Studies, Interpreting and Translation Studies, Legal Interpreting, Forensic Linguistics, Legal Studies of Interpreting and Translation) |
TAMURA, Tomoko |
| Media and Language (D) |
Media studies taking an interdisciplinary and ethnographic approach to audience consumption, media globalization and media's shaping of society | TSE, Yu-Kei |
| Public Economics (D) |
Econometrics, Financial Time Series Econometrics, Dynamic Macroeconomics, International Macro-Finance, Firm Economics, Development Economics, International Economics, Labor Economics, Economic Thought | HWANG, Insang |
| Public Economics (D) |
Management
(Key Word: innovation, entrepreneurship, organization, management, regional development, social problem-solving, regional regeneration, collaboration) |
INABA, Yushi |
| Public Economics (D) |
Economic theory, Money/ Finance, Social systems engineering/ Safety system | KAIZOJI, Taisei |
| Public Economics (D) |
Statistical science, Economic statistics, Probability theory/Statistical mathematics, Management, Applied Economics, Social psychology, Commerce
(Key Word: Non/semi-parametric regression, missing value problem, discrete choice models, asymptotic theory, Bayes estimation, game theory. Application to marketing, industrial organization, organizational behavior, quantitative criminology) |
KANAZAWA, Yuichiro |
| Public Economics (D) |
Management, Money/ Finance | KANEKO, Takuya |
| Public Economics (D) |
Economic policy
(Key Word: Indian Economy, Development Economics) |
KONDO, Masanori |
| Public Economics (D) |
Public Economics | KOO, Ja Seung |
| Public Economics (D) |
Money/ Finance
(Key Word: banks, financial institutions, financial regulation, bank capital, bank consolidation, merger,) |
MONTGOMERY, Heather A. |
| Public Economics (D) |
Economic theory
(Key Word: spatial model, mixed oligopoly, industrial organization) |
OGAWA, Akira |
| Public Economics (D) |
Economic Theory, Economic Policy, Economic Statistics (econometrics)
(Key Word: Market Design, Auction Theory, Game Theory, Microeconomics, Experimental Economics, Econometrics, Economics of Fisheries, Energy and Environmental Economics) |
MARSZALEC, Daniel Janusz |
| Public Economics (D) |
Managerial accounting | YAMANE, Satoka |
Comparative Culture Program
| Area of Concentration | Areas for Research Guidance | Name |
|---|---|---|
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Religious studies, History of thought, Philosophy/Ethics
(Key Word: Rene Girard, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, hermeneutics, violence and religion, Hegel, mimetic theory, German Idealism) |
ALBERG, Jeremiah L. |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
European literature, Literature in general, Aesthetics and studies on art, Gender
(Key Word: Comparative Literature, French & Francophone Literature, Gender Studies, Cinema) |
AMMOUR-MAYEUR, Olivier Henri Ali |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
History of Japan (Modern), History of Contemporary Japan, Colloquium in Modern Japanese History, Introductory Readings in Modern Japanese History | ESKILDSEN, Robert |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Chinese Religion (especially Daoism) | ESKILDSEN, Stephen Edward |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Ethnomusicology (theory), The Music of Japan (especially music of Okinawa), Popular Music, World Music | GILLAN, Matthew A. |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Gender, European literature, Literature in general
(Key Word: Women's Writing, the Body, Angela Carter, Feminist Literary Theories, End of Literature, Narrative Monstrosity, Grotesque, Terrorism and Literature, Contemporary Literature) |
IKOMA, Natsumi |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Aesthetics and studies on art
(Key Word: Storia del costume Italiano, Simbolismo cromatico) |
ITO, Aki |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
European literature
(Key Word: Novel, Theatre, Baudelaire, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, French Literature) |
IWAKIRI, Shoichiro |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
History of Asia and Africa
(Key Word: religion, Taiping rebellion, social history, migration) |
KIKUCHI, Hideaki |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies | Religion, Theology | MCGLOTHLIN, Thomas Dwight |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
European History
(Key Word: Early Modern English History, History of Christianity, Cultural History) |
NASU, Kei |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Japanese history | OLAH, Csaba |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies | Literature | RAVENSCROFT, Claire |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Religious studies, History of thought, Philosophy/Ethics
(Key Word: The Piety of the Poor in the Hebrew Bible, The Pentateuch, Environmental Ethics, Judean Communities in Late Persian Era Palestine, Socio-economic History) |
RO, Johannes Unsok |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Greco-Roman Classical Literature, Greco-Roman Ancient Philosophy
(Key Word: Homer, Greek Tragedy, Plato) |
SANO, Yoshinori |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Aesthetics and studies on art, Education, Religious studies | SATO, Nozomi |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
European literature, Literature in English, History of Europe and America
(Key Word: Early Modern Drama, Romanticism, English Poetry, Science in Literature, Contemporary British and Irish Poetry) |
SIMONS, Christopher E.J. |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Japanese literature, European literature, Literature in general | SONOYAMA, Senri |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies | Philosophy, Ethics | TAMURA, Miki |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies | History | TSUBAKIDA, Yukiko |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Philosophy/Ethics | YAJIMA, Naoki |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
Religious studies | YAKIYAMA, Mariko |
| Japanese Culture Studies / Transcultural Studies (D) |
European History
(Key Word: French History, Early modern France, Social History, Urban History, Christianity) |
YAMAMOTO, Taeko |
Natural Sciences Program
| Area of Concentration | Areas for Research Guidance | Name |
|---|---|---|
| Mathematics and Information Science | Mathematics: Statistical Science
(Key Word: Functional Data Analysis, Time Series Analysis, Copulas, and their Applications) |
DOU, Xiaoling |
| Mathematics and Information Science (D) |
Information Science: Information network, Mathematical informatics, Communication/Network engineering, Information security | ISHIBASHI, Keisuke |
| Mathematics and Information Science | Information Science: Unconstrained Biosignal Measurement Technology and Applications for Aging Society | KABURAGI, Takashi |
| Mathematics and Information Science | Information Science | KITANO, Hiroaki |
| Mathematics and Information Science (D) |
Mathematics: Algebraic Topology, Combinatorics | MATSUMURA, Tomoo |
| Mathematics and Information Science | Human interface and interaction, Entertainment and game informatics
(Key Word: Advanced Visual Media Extended Reality (XR) Stereoscopic Imaging) |
OHTA, Keiji |
| Mathematics and Information Science | Mathematics : Algebraic Geometry
(Key Word: Moduli Theory, Derived Algebraic Geometry, Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry, Hodge Theory, Conformal Field Theory) |
SHIMIZU, Yuji |
| Mathematics and Information Science | Information Science: Intelligent informatics
(Key Word: Multimodal Interaction, Dialogue Support, Autism Spectrum, Affective Computing, Assistive Technology) |
TANAKA, Hiroki |
| Mathematics and Information Science (D) |
Mathematics: Mathematical analysis
(Key Word: Hyperbolic Conservation Laws, Fluid Dynamics, Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations) |
YAMAZAKI, Mitsuru |
| Material Science (D) |
Chemistry, Environmental Studies : Surface Chemistry of Catalysts, Physical Chemistry
(Key Word: Catalysts, Single crystal Metal oxide surfaces, X-ray Absorption Fine Structure, Metal nanoclusters, Surface Science, Physical chemistry) |
CHUN, Wang Jae |
| Material Science (D) |
Physics: Condensed matter physics II
(Key Word: Strongly correlated electrons, superconductivity, magnetism, quantum many-body systems) |
HIRASHIMA, Dai |
| Material Science | Chemistry: Organo-element chemistry: Stereochemistry in silicon-based polymers and stereodynamics in organometallic complexes | KOE, Julian R. |
| Material Science (D) |
Chemistry, Environmental Studies: Quantum beam science, Analytical chemistry | KUBO, Kenya |
| Material Science | Chemistry, Environmental Studies : Environmental dynamic analysis
(Key Word: Key Word: Atmospheric Chemistry, FLEXPART, nitrous acid, HONO, atmospheric transport model, emission, flux, soil) |
MINEJIMA, Chika |
| Material Science (D) |
Physics, Environmental Studies: Electronic materials / Electric materials | OKANO, Ken |
| Material Science | Chemistry: Bio-Analytical Chemistry, Separation Science, Pharmacy, Clinical Chemistry | TSUNODA, Makoto |
| Material Science (D) |
Hybrid Quantum Systems, Quantum Information, Electromechanics / Optomechanics, Quantum Control of Liquid | YAMAZAKI, Rekishu |
| Material Science, Life Science (D) |
Environmental Studies: Environmental Soil Science, Soil Fertility, International Agronomy, Agroecology or Conservation Agriculture, Environmental Conservation | FUJINUMA, Ryosuke |
| Life Science | Biology: Bioinformatics, Genome biology, Animal developmental biology
(Key Word: Genome biology, Third generation sequencing, Machine learning, Germ cell) |
AU YEUNG, Wan Kin |
| Life Science (D) |
Biology: Cell Biology, Rat Physiology
(Key Word: blood pressure, hypertension, glia, neuron, blood-brain barrier, cardiovascular centers, inflammation, gene expression, gender, sex hormones, stress, exercise, plastic nanoparticles) |
GOURAUD, Sabine Sandra Stephanie |
| Life Science | Biology: Plant molecular biology and plant genetics
(Key Word: Plant responses to environmental factors and stresses, Photoperiodic flowering and the circadian clock in Pharbitis nil, Arabidopsis and wild tomato species) |
HAYAMA, Ryosuke |
| Life Science | Biology: Molecular biology, Developmental biology, Laboratory animal science
(Key Word: Spermatogenesis, genetics, QTL analysis, polygenic disease, typ2 diabetes, OLETF rat, Stem cell, Cell division, Drosophila melanogaster) |
KOSE, Hiroyuki |
| Life Science (D) |
EBiology, Environmental Studies: Environmental agriculture (including landscape science), Plant molecular biology / Plant physiology, Molecular biology | MIZOGUCHI, Tsuyoshi |
| Life Science (D) |
Biology, Environmental Studies: Risk sciences of radiation and chemicals, Environmental and Genetic Toxicology, Genetics, Science education, Education for Environmental Studies
(Key Word: Science Education, Education for Environmental Studies, environmental and genetic toxicology, environmental mutagens, oxidative stress response) |
NUNOSHIBA, Tatsuo |
| Life Science |
Biology：Ecology and environment, Animal life science, Animal physiological chemistry, physiology and behavioral biology, Neuroscience-general, Cognitive and brain science, Insect science
(Key Word: Ecology, Animal Behaviour, Neuroscience) |
WANG, Mu-Yun |