University-wide Education Promotion Organization
| Name | position | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Ai Takeuchi | Director Professor | International comparative education, English language education, intercultural understanding education, intercultural communication |
| Akio Omori | President Professor | American literature, gender equality |
| Takashi Nishidate | Professor and Dean of the School of International and Area Studies | International Relations, International Cooperation |
| Satoru Maruhashi | Professor and Special Assistant to the President (High School-University Transition) | Mathematics education, curriculum and teaching method development, educational administration, managerial training, teacher training and development, school management and educational management, elementary, middle, high school and university connections, industry-government-academia collaboration, non-cognitive ability development |
| Zhang Weitao | Associate professor | Chinese language linguistics, Japanese Chinese Proficiency Test and HSK exam, Chinese literature, Chinese history, culture and contemporary society, Taiwanese history and society, comparison of Japanese and Chinese Zen aesthetics |
| Yoshihiro Koura | Associate professor | Educational design theory, community-based education |
| Emi Kurosawa | assistant |
Faculty of International Sociology
| Name | position | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Takashi Nishidate | Professor and Dean of the School of International and Area Studies | International Relations, International Cooperation |
English Communication Course
| Name | position | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Midori Shinohara | Course Head Professor | Communication, Sociolinguistics, Negotiation Studies, English Education |
| 小林恵美 | Professor | TESOL, language teacher education, educational linguistics, second language acquisition |
| Atsuko Sonoda | Associate professor | Foreign Language Education |
| Larson John | Associate professor | English Literature, Literature in Language Learning, Corpus Linguistics, English as a Second/Foreign Language Education |
| Emmett Douglas | lecturer | Technology use in second language education, CALL (computer-assisted language learning), formative feedback, authentic assessment, game-based learning (GBL), instructional design, second language self-image |
International Studies Course
| Name | position | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Miki Kurihara | Course Head Associate Professor | Sociology |
| Wu Xuan'er | Professor | Environmental psychology, cultural development psychology, educational psychology, attachment to original landscapes and places, multicultural coexistence |
| Xie Zhihai | Assistant to the President, Professor | International Relations, International Politics |
| Mitsuru Niwa | Associate professor | Cultural Anthropology, South Asian Area Studies, Religious Studies |
| Masaki Yamate | Associate professor | ヨーロッパ史 |
Business Management Course
| Name | position | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Takako Jingu | Course Head Associate Professor | Industrial Engineering |
| Masaaki Kanemoto | Professor | Public Economics, Entrepreneurship Education |
| Kazumi Sugisawa | Professor | Financial education, economic education |
| Cho Gyu-hae | lecturer | Business Administration |
Psychology and Culture Course
| Name | position | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Yuichiro Okuda | Course Head Professor | Psychology |
| Kentaro Furusawa | Course Head Associate Professor | Historical Theology |
| Masaya Nishikawa | Vice President Professor | Literature in general, Chinese literature, European literature |
| Manabu Matsumoto | Assistant to the President, Professor | Clinical Developmental Psychology, Visible Difference |
| Hanayo Noguchi | Professor | Japanese history, Japanese medieval history, regional history |
| Tang Yinqi | lecturer | Personality psychology, school clinical psychology |
School Education Course
| Name | position | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Katsura Sei | Course Head Associate Professor | Japanese language education, teacher education |
| Sayuri Goto | Vice President Professor | Subject pedagogy/elementary and secondary education, pedagogy, home economics/life sciences |
| Masanao Honda | Professor | Art education, sculpture production, stone carving, terracotta carving, ICT art teaching materials, dialect karuta |
| Zhang Xin-ai | Associate professor | School management, educational management, education system, teacher education |
| Eight digits Yufuju | Associate professor | Music education, education for children with foreign connections, multicultural education, ethnomusicology |
Childhood Education Course
| Name | position | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Yoko Amamiya | Course Head Professor | Life sciences, philosophy of home economics, early childhood education, research on children's cultural heritage |
| Atsuhiko Uehara | Professor | Childcare for children with disabilities, special needs education |
| Hiroko Nagai | Professor | Early childhood education |
| Akiko Shinozuka | Associate professor | Piano, music education |
Faculty of Co-Innovation
| Name | position | Field of Study |
|---|---|---|
| Kenya Murayama | Dean of the Faculty of Co-Innovation, Professor | Commerce and Business Administration, Human Resource Management, Organizational Theory, Information Management |
| Hiroshi Uehara | Professor | AI/Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Food Data Science |
| Maki Umejima | Professor | Security (cyber-physical systems), management information systems, distributed energy systems, new business development, international communication, industry-academia-government collaboration. |
| Nobuo Kogashi | Professor | Information science and internet-related technologies |
| Kokuryo Jiro | Vice President Professor | Management information systems, information society, management strategy theory, business architecture |
| Jun Tadokoro | Professor | Media art, computer music, live coding |
| Maki Nagai | Professor | Life sciences, health and sports sciences, social medicine, health support model development |
| Yumi Kimura | Associate professor | Food allergies, functional foods, eco-cooking, and food education for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. |
| Kosuke Watanabe | Associate professor | Information Technology, Geospatial Information, Big Data Analytics, Engineering |
| Minoru Komatsu | lecturer | Signal processing |
| Kana Miura | lecturer | Life science, molecular biology, food science, science and technology communication |