Faculty introduction
| family name | Incumbent | Specialized field | keyword | Possible themes for on-site Lecture (lectures) |
Makoto Ayano Faculty Information | Professor | Linguistics | Comparative Syntax | Study Japanese to improve your English skills / Both Japanese and English are dialects of human languages |
| OTSUKA Naoki Faculty information | Professor | human geography | Southeast Asian area research, Vietnam topography, tourism research | The titles of past Lecture and presentations (partial list) are as follows: Dark tourism, nationalism, and identity: the cases of Vietnam and Japan / The Vietnam War and tourism: from war memories to tourism / The world of the internet and international relations / Introduction to international relations: McDonald's, Taiwan, and global issues in our daily lives |
| OKAZAKI Hiroki Faculty information | Associate Professor | Modern Arab intellectual history, Syrian political and cultural research | Arab, Islam, Syria, politics and social thought, literature, film | Arab thought, literature and film / Syria today / Refugees from the Arab world / Secularism and Islam |
| OGAWA Hisashi Faculty information | Professor | Cultural anthropology, folklore, area research | Islam, disaster multicultural coexistence, minorities, immigration, globalization | Islam in Southeast Asia / Disasters and Society/Culture |
| Hisao Kasuga
Faculty information | Special Duty Professor | Southeast Asian Area research | ASEAN regional integration, Mekong-GMS economic cooperation, ASEAN transportation infrastructure development | Transport infrastructure development in the ASEAN and Mekong regions / ASEAN's energy situation, etc. |
| KIM Hyeon Jeong
Faculty information | Associate Professor | Cultural Anthropology, Folklore | Regional research, Korea, cultural heritage, urban development, nationalism, tourism | What is "culture"? / Korean nationalism / Korean heritage from the Japanese colonial period (architecture) |
| KOISO Chihiro
Faculty information | Professor | theology | Hindi, Marathi, Comparative Religious Studies | Food culture in India (religion and food taboos) / How to wear a sari in India / Religious circumstances in South Asia / Fragrances in South Asia |
| KOIDO Akihiro
Faculty information | Professor | Sociology | Immigration policy, immigrant networks, transborder communities, border zones, ethnicity, labor market | American immigration policy and immigration situation / Japan's "immigration policy" / Spain's multiculturalism and border regulations / Globalization and xenophobia/populism |
| KOTAKE Naoko
Faculty information | Professor | Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Language Education | Japanese grammar, Japanese sentence expression, Japanese language education | The Mysteries of Japanese Grammar from a Foreigner's Perspective / Easy Japanese for a Multicultural Society |
| KOBARI Yoshihiro
Faculty information | Associate Professor | Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics | Multilingual Society, Asian English, Philippine research | English as a lingua franca in Asia / Looking at people, society and culture through language |
| KONNO Yuko
Faculty information | Associate Professor | history | American history, migration/border crossing, Japanese immigration, history of fisheries, transpacific history | American History / Immigration and America / Japanese Immigration History |
| TAKAYAMA Yoko
Faculty information | Professor | Cultural anthropology | Cultural Anthropology, Tourism research, Monument research | Cultural anthropology, tourism culture, world heritage theory, etc. |
| TABEI Keiko
Faculty information | Professor | Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Language Education, Foreign Language Education | Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Language Education, Foreign Language Education | Japanese as a foreign language / Japanese language education / Intercultural communication |
| HIGASHIURA Takuro
Faculty information | Associate Professor | Health and sports science | Exercise Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience | Exercise, sports and health / Exercise and sports that contribute to improving academic achievement / International society seen from the Olympic Games |
| MASUHARA Ayako
Faculty information | Professor | Political Science, Area research | Political Science, Regional research, Indonesian Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, Comparative Politics, Democracy | Comparative politics and international relations in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, Indonesian politics, society, and culture, etc. |
| MITSUHASHI Hidehiko Faculty information | Professor | Sociology | sociology, China, comparison, region, labor, education | China's New Economy and Us / Human Capital Development in Chinese Companies |
<Updated on May 27, 2025>
Department of Multicultural Communication