Titles of Doctoral Dissertations

Class of 2025

Division of Regional Cultural Studies

Department of European and American Studies

  • Jun Abe
    Politics of Exclusion and Inclusion
    --War experience and redress movement of Japanese Americans--

Division of Global Societal Studies

Department of International Environment and Resources Policy

  • LUCAS HEIKI MATSUNAGA
    The Social and Cognitive Mechanisms for Cooperation in International Crises

Division of Language Studies

Department of Theoretical Linguistics

  • Li Chen
    Cognitive linguistic study on deictic motion verbs in Japanese and Chinese
  • Shinichi Hotei
    Learning effects of English phrasal verbs containing particles up, down, on, off, and out using conceptual metaphors: Targeting Japanese beginner EFL learners
  • Mikito Sawaragi
    Integrated study of spatiotemporal metaphors focusing on Japanese: A cognitive-functional linguistic approach
  • Nguyen Thi Thu Huyen
    A study of Kanbun reading in Vietnamese: Focusing on the commentaries of "The Analects" compiled in Vietnam
  • Zhangwen Shen
    Semantic extension of Japanese modality expressions: In contrast with Chinese

International Graduate Program in Language Sciences (IGPLS)

  • LIU CHUNLIN
    The Impact of Learning Contexts on the Acquisition and Processing of Emotional Vocabulary in a Second Language: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective
  • TAN QINYI
    A Study of Clausal Ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese and Two Chinese Dialects

Class of 2024

Division of Regional Cultural Studies

Department of Asian and African Studies

  • Rui Zhang
    A Study on Zhou Zuoren's Views of Women
  • Xiaolan Zeng
    Cross-border cultural exchange between Japan and China in the Creation Society: Focusing on proletarian literature

Department of Japanese Religion and Intellectual History

  • Xing Le
    Buddhism and Asianism in the Taisho Period

Division of Global Societal Studies

Department of International Politics and Economy

  • Park, Seohee Ashley（Seohee Park）
    A Study on Technonationalism and the Semiconductor Industry in Northeast Asia: Case Studies of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
  • Shiori Osanai
    Research on a New Sustainability Education for Human Resource Development for Regional Revitalization: Focusing on Comparative Analysis of SDGs Education between Japan and South Korea

Department of International Environment and Resources Policy

  • Siyi An
    Elucidating the mechanism of residential decision-making in potential marginal areas - Proposal of settlement promotion measures focusing on psychological aspects -

Division of Language Studies

Department of Theoretical Linguistics

  • Yanyan Zhang
    Translation norms in Chinese dubbing of Japanese video works
  • Yizhuo Hou
    Japanese-Chinese contrastive study of onomatopoeia related to food texture expressions
  • Shan Li
    Cognitive linguistic study on semantic extension of Japanese potential expressions

International Graduate Program in Language Sciences (IGPLS)

  • Wanner-Kawahara, Jessie
    Masked Morphological Priming with Past-Tense Verbs in the L2: A Study with Japanese-English Bilinguals
  • Bai, Xue（Xue Bai）
    An Exploration of Multiple Sluicing from a Cross-linguistic Perspective
  • Gong, Liwei（Liwei Gong）
    Aspects of Lexical Flexibility: a Typological Perspective
  • May Oo Khin
    Enhancing Argumentative Writing and Critical Thinking of Myanmar EFL Learners: Integrating “Learning to Argue” and “Arguing to Learn” Instructions
  • Thiri Soe
    Investigating Critical Thinking Integration of EFL College Education in Myanmar: A Content Analysis based on the Revised Taxonomy and Teachers' Perception

Class of 2023

Division of Regional Cultural Studies

Department of Japanese Religion and Intellectual History

  • Peiyao Wu
    Modernity of "Faith"
    –An aspect of the history of Japanese Buddhism in the Meiji and Taisho periods–

Division of Language Studies

Department of Theoretical Linguistics

  • Li Guo
    Japanese-Chinese contrastive study on semantic extension of basic color terms: From a cognitive linguistics perspective
  • JAVANMARDI, Parimah
    Head-based reconsideration of motion expression typology: Corpus analysis of Japanese, English, and Persian

Department of Applied Linguistics

  • Yasuyuki Sakuma
    Basic research on working memory mechanisms in English learning of Japanese-speaking elementary and junior high school students

International Graduate Program in Language Sciences (IGPLS)

  • Hien, Alain Noindonmon
    On Wh-Questions in Dagara
  • Dardon, Diego Elisandro
    The Learning Mechanism of Nominal Classification Systems: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

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