Faculty List

Division of Regional Cultural Studies
Fostering a deep understanding of different cultures

Department of European and American Studies

teramoto naruhiko Professor

Naruhiko Teramoto／Professor

Research Themes
  • Visual Arts and Literature
  • Film Techniques from Lumière to Griffiths
  • French Literature and Philosophy
E-mail
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toyoshi obara Professor

Toyoshi Obara ／Professor

Research Themes
  • American Political and Legal History
  • Research on “Race” in the United States
  • A Study of Popular Sovereignty and Populism in the United States
E-mail
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Ryo Yamauchi Associate Professor

Ryo Yamauchi／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Literary Studies (English-speaking America/Spanish-speaking America)
  • A Novel of Latin America
  • A Novel by Garcia-Marques
E-mail
ryo-yamauchi[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Masaya Nakatsu Senior Assistant Professor

Masaya Nakatsu／Senior Assistant Professor

Research Themes
  • History of French-Japanese Exchange in the Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
  • History of French-Japanese Exchange in the Military Field
  • Foreigners hired by the government who came to Japan at the end of the Edo period and during the Meiji period
E-mail
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Department of Asian and African Studies

Minoru Katsuyama Professor

Minoru Katsuyama／Professor

Research Themes
  • Chinese Literature (Literary Novels, White Novels, Modern Novels)
  • Oriental Historiography (Studies in Social History from the Song Yuan to the Ming Dynasty)
  • Modern Japanese Literature
  • Comparative Literature between Japan and China
  • Reception of Chinese Culture in Japan
  • Japanese Cinema and Subcultures
E-mail
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Tohoku University Researchers
Tomoki Okawara Professor

Tomoki Okawara／Professor

Research Themes
  • East Arab Area Studies
  • Family and Population in West Asia and North Africa
  • Minorities (Christians and Jews) in the Islamic World
E-mail
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Tohoku University Researchers
Lin Zhu Associate Professor

Lin Zhu／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • History of Asian Political Thought
  • History of East Asian Cultural Exchange
  • Self-Knowledge and Understanding of Others among Modern Japanese and Chinese Intellectuals
  • Oriental Historiography in Modern Japan
E-mail
lin.zhu.e7[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Kanako Kimura Associate Professor

Kanako Kimura／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • History of East Asian International Relations
  • History of the Orient (Ming and Qing China, Korea, etc.)
E-mail
kanako.kimura.a3[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Department of Contemporary Japanese Media and Gender Studies

Hiroyuki Eto Professor

Hiroyuki Eto／Professor（holding two posts concurrently）

Research Themes
  • Linguistics in History of Ideas and Science
  • Historical English Semantics and Grammar
  • English Language Education and English Academic Writing as a Liberal Arts Education
  • English(s) and English Language Education in East Asia
E-mail
hiroyuki.eto.d6[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Jeongsoo Yu Professor

Jeongsoo Yu／Professor（holding two posts concurrently）

Research Themes
  • Integrated waste management and resource recycling
  • Decarbonization and the circular economy
  • Sustainability and social co-creation
E-mail
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Tohoku University Researchers
Shinobu Myoki Associate Professor

Shinobu Myoki／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Sociology of Gender
  • Tourism Culture in Contemporary Japan
  • Exhibition Representations of Sex and the Body
E-mail
shinobu.myoki.a7[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Department of Japanese Religion and Intellectual History

Ryo Ikeda Professor

Ryo Ikeda／Professor（holding two posts concurrently）

Research Themes
  • International Political History
  • Cold War History of Europe and Asia
  • Comparative Study of Colonial and Decolonization Policies
  • International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa
E-mail
ryo.ikeda.d2[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Godart, Clinton Professor

Godart, Clinton／Professor

Research Themes
  • History of Japanese Religion (Modern Buddhism and Scientific Thought)
  • History of Modern Science (History of Japanese Evolutionary Thought)
  • Asianism
  • History of Military Thought
E-mail
godart[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Klautau, Orion Associate Professor

Klautau, Orion／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • History of Japanese Religions (Modern Buddhism and Academism)
  • Modern Nationalism and Buddhism
  • History of Occultism in Modern and Contemporary Japan
  • Historical Narrative Thought in Japan
E-mail
klautau[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Gaitanidis, Ioannis Associate Professor

Gaitanidis, Ioannis／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Religion and Consumer Law (Anthropology of Law)
  • Ethnography of the New Age and Global Spirituality (Religious Studies)
  • History of Alternative Therapies
  • Methodology of Japanese Studies and Transdisciplinary Studies
E-mail
gaitanidis[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Division of Global Societal Studies
Fostering the ability to solve global problems

Department of International Politics and Economy

Jeongsoo Yu Professor

Jeongsoo Yu／Professor

Research Themes
  • Integrated waste management and resource recycling
  • Decarbonization and the circular economy
  • Sustainability and social co-creation
E-mail
jeongsoo.yu.d7[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Ryo Ikeda Professor

Ryo Ikeda／Professor

Research Themes
  • International Political History
  • Cold War History of Europe and Asia
  • Comparative Study of Colonial and Decolonization Policies
  • International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa
E-mail
ryo.ikeda.d2[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Kazuaki Okubo Associate Professor

Kazuaki Okubo／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Civil Engineering Planning
  • Decision Making Under Uncertainty
  • Circular Economy and Machine Learning
E-mail
kazuaki.okubo.d5[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
moniz_bandeira, Ega Associate Professor

Moniz Bandeira, Egas／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Global constitutional, legal, and institutional history
  • Global intellectual history (political thought in modern East Asia)
  • Interpretations of history in modern East Asia
  • History of translation in modern East Asia
E-mail
moniz-bandeira[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Asuka Matsumoto Senior Assistant Professor

Asuka Matsumoto／Senior Assistant Professor

Research Themes
  • Global Governance Theory
  • American Politics and Diplomacy
  • International Public Opinion
E-mail
asuka.matsumoto.c6[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Gaku Manago Assistant Professor

Gaku Manago ／Assistant Professor

Research Themes
  • International Cooperation in the Field of Environmental and Social Engineering
  • Water and sanitation in developing countries
  • Development of sustainable recycling technologies
E-mail
gaku.manago.e4[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Liu Xiaoyue Assistant Professor

Liu Xiaoyue／Assistant Professor

Research Themes
  • Environmental Policy
  • Sustainable Resource Circulation
  • Recycling Cooperative Action
E-mail
liu.xiaoyue.a5[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Department of International Environment and Resources Policy

Toshiaki Aoki Professor

Toshiaki Aoki／Professor

Research Themes
  • Measures to promote pro-social behavior, including environmentally conscious behavior
  • QoL and social capital in urban life
  • Psychological Measures for Transformation to Sustainable Urban Structures
E-mail
toshiaki.aoki.a1[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Takako Izumi Professor（Cooperating Teachers）

Takako Izumi／Professor（Cooperating Teachers）

Research Themes
  • International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
  • International Cooperation Focusing on Disaster Response and Disaster Prevention
  • Role of each stakeholder in disaster reduction and disaster risk management
E-mail
takako.izumi.e6[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Masahiro Sato Associate Professor

Masahiro Sato／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Behavioral and social analysis using artificial intelligence/machine learning
  • Social learning, knowledge and information propagation
  • Economic analysis of natural capital use
E-mail
masahiro.sato[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers

Department of Multiculturalism

Toru Sato Professor

Toru Sato／Professor

Research Themes
  • Philosophy and Ethics
  • Comparative Thought
  • Aesthetics and Art Theory
E-mail
toru.sato.c6[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Koji Sakamaki Professor

Koji Sakamaki／Professor

Research Themes
  • French-speaking literature of the 19th and 20th centuries
  • Comparative literature and history of cultural exchange between France and Japan
  • Theater theory
E-mail
koji.sakamaki.a8[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Shihomi Meguro Associate Professor

Shihomi Meguro／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • History of Ethnic Minorities
  • U.S. History
  • Hawaiian History
E-mail
shihomi.meguro.b2[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Masumi Yajima Senior Assistant Professor

Masumi Yajima／Senior Assistant Professor

Research Themes
  • Visual Representation and Cross-Cultural Perception in Modern Japan
  • Photography and Cultural Representation
  • English Education and Cross-Cultural Understanding
E-mail
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*Lecturer Yajima teaches English language courses exclusively in the General Education program.
*Lecturer Yajima is not assigned any teaching or supervisory duties within the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies (GSICS).

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Division of Language Studies
Fostering Communication Skills

Department of Theoretical Linguistics

Hiroyuki Eto Professor

Hiroyuki Eto／Professor

Research Themes
  • Linguistics in History of Ideas and Science
  • Historical English Semantics and Grammar
  • English Language Education and English Academic Writing as a Liberal Arts Education
  • English(s) and English Language Education in East Asia
E-mail
hiroyuki.eto.d6[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Daiko Takahashi Professor

Daiko Takahashi／Professor

Research Themes
  • Linguistics (Generative Linguistics)
  • Syntactic Theory
  • Comparative Syntax, Japanese Syntax, English Syntax
E-mail
daiko.takahashi.e1[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Mariko Nakayama Professor

Mariko Nakayama／Professor

Research Themes
  • Psycholinguistics
  • A study of visual word recognition processes (Japanese, English, Japanese-English bilingual)
  • Word production process research (Japanese, English, Japanese-English bilingual)
E-mail
mariko.nakayama.d5[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Takeshi Nakamoto Associate Professor

Takeshi Nakamoto／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Romance Languages and General Linguistics
  • Politeness Theory and Pragmatics
  • Translation Theory and Comparative Stylistics
E-mail
takeshi.nakamoto.e3[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Zisk, Matthew Associate Professor

Zisk, Matthew／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Japanese linguistics, history of the Japanese language (reception and influence of Kanji/Kanbun)
  • Linguistic contact theory (how borrowing occurs and classification of borrowing forms)
  • Comparison of Chinese reading of Chinese texts in East Asia and classical annotation in Europe
  • Linguistic terminology and grammatical description (morphological glosses, phonemic notations)
E-mail
matthew.zisk.a6[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Masahiro Yoshihara Associate Professor

Masahiro Yoshihara／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Visual word recognition and production in Japanese as a first language
  • Visual word recognition and production in Japanese as a second language
E-mail
masahiro.yoshihara.b6[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Ryo Maie Senior Assistant Professor

Ryo Maie／Senior Assistant Professor

Research Themes
  • Cognitive psychological approaches to second language acquisition/education research (Japanese, English)
  • Methodological and applied statistical research in language research
  • Task-based language teaching
E-mail
ryo.maie.e5[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Department of Applied Linguistics

Jeong Hyeonjeong Professor

Jeong Hyeonjeong／Professor

Research Themes
  • Brain Science Approach to Language Research
  • Research on Cognitive Mechanisms of Second Language Acquisition
E-mail
hyeonjeong.jeong.b8[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Natsue Sugaya Professor

Natsue Sugaya／Professor

Research Themes
  • Second Language Acquisition
  • Japanese Language Education
  • Writing Instruction
E-mail
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Tohoku University Researchers
Wanner Peter John Associate Professor

Wanner Peter John／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • A Study of Interlinguistic Transitions in Speech and Syntax
    ―Case Study of Japanese-English Bilingual Children
  • Early Stages in Linguistic Development
    ―A Case Study of Japanese-English Bilingual Children
  • Students' self-evaluation skills using the CHILDES program
E-mail
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Tohoku University Researchers
Wataru Nakamura Associate Professor

Wataru Nakamura／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Cognitive-functionalist syntax and semantics
  • Contrastive linguistics, linguistic typology
  • Japanese Grammar
E-mail
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Tohoku University Researchers
Takumi Uchihara Associate Professor

Takumi Uchihara／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
  • English Language Education
E-mail
takumi.uchihara.a2[@]tohoku.ac.jp
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Tohoku University Researchers
Aki Tsunemoto Associate Professor

Aki Tsunemoto／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Second Language Speech Acquisition
  • Speaking and Listening Instruction and Assessment Methods
  • Teacher Education
E-mail
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Tohoku University Researchers
Toshiki Iwabuchi Associate Professor

Toshiki Iwabuchi／Associate Professor

Research Themes
  • Cognitive Neuroscience of Language
  • Brain Mechanisms of Syntactic Processing
  • Linguistic Characteristics Associated with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
E-mail
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Assistant Professor Cui Haining

Cui Haining／Assistant Professor

Research Themes
  • Sociopragmatic factors and language processing: focusing on honorifics, emotional utterances, and utterance inference
  • Neuroimaging (fMRI/EEG) studies on the acquisition of grammar and pragmatics
  • Neural basis of language processing
E-mail
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