- Asia University
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- Faculty of Sociology
- Contemporary Sociology
- Faculty introduction
Faculty introduction
| family name | Incumbent | Specialized field | keyword | Possible themes for on-site Lecture (lectures) |
AKABANE Hiroshi Faculty Information | Professor | International Finance | International finance, monetary and exchange rate systems, Asian economy, international financial centers, corporate finance | Currency and exchange rate systems in Asia / Corporate exchange rate risk management / Financial and capital market integration in ASEAN / International financial centres |
| ARAI Kenichiro Faculty information | Associate Professor | Urban research, Southeast Asian research | jakarta, urban development, suburbanization | Real estate development in Indonesia / Fieldwork in Asian cities |
| ISHIDA Sachio Faculty information | Associate Professor | Sociology | Contemporary sociology, social network theory, community, social research methods, social history | Understanding the nature of interpersonal connections in modern society |
| Hotai Iwagaki
Faculty Information | Lecturer | Community welfare studies, public health | Local community development, regional design, regional revitalization, children's cafeterias, support for people in poverty | Regional revitalization driven by youth / Social prescribing and health promotion / Local communities and urban development |
| Aki Kiyama
Faculty Information | Associate Professor | Sociology | Survey methodology, text analysis, medical sociology, sociology of labor | Social research methods / Introduction to sociology |
| KIM Byeong Sik
Faculty information | Lecturer | Organizational theory, strategic management, entrepreneurship/innovation | Innovation, Startups, Social Networks, Status/Reputation, Category/Identity | Social networks and organizational management / Identity and socioeconomics/organizational individuals / Current state of startup investment and comparisons across countries |
| gu 姍姍
Faculty Information | Lecturer | Japanese literature, Chinese literature | Japanese Chinese poetry, Japanese-Chinese comparative literature, the Nara and Heian periods, "Kaifuso" and "Suga Bunsou: Goshu" | Japanese classical Chinese poetry from the Nara and Heian periods / Exchange of ancient Japanese and Chinese literature / Chinese culture in general |
| GOTO Yasuhiro
Faculty information | Professor | Business Administration | Business strategy, business organization, international management, direct investment | Asian economic and industrial trends / Japanese companies' Asian strategies / Industrial policy and industrial structure / Digitalization and the state / The conflict between the real and the digital |
| SAITO Akihiro
Faculty information | Professor | Media informatics, Kansei informatics, Soft computing | universal design, affordance, interface, ubiquitous, digital signage | Lecture are based on the principle of "applying game know-how to fields other than games," and the speaker has received numerous requests not only from Japanese companies such as Toyota Motor Corporation, Mitsubishi Electric, KDDI, and SoftBank, but also from international organizations such as TED and IEEE. He has also authored many books on game mechanics. |
| SHIRAI Hiromasa
Faculty information | Professor | Architectural design, urban design, urban sociology | Spatial Design, Spatial Regeneration, Mega Events and Urban Space | Architecture and urban design / Spatial regeneration / The Olympics and cities |
| Akiko Takahashi
Faculty Information | Special Duty Associate Professor | Sociology of information, regional information | User sovereignty, local government digital transformation, platform design | Human resource development and regional problem solving through video production at universities / Promotion of DX in local governments, etc. |
| Kanako Tahara Faculty Information | Lecturer | Japanese literature | Japanese classical literature, Heian period, waka poetry, poetry contests, expression | Heian literature, classical literature and expression, classical waka poetry |
| Takayuki Terashima
Faculty Information | Professor | Sociology | Culture, consumption and lifestyle | What is sustainable consumption? / User values in the sharing economy / Social media and ostentatious consumption |
| HAYASHI Seiko
Faculty information | Professor | Technology management (innovation) | Innovation, support for innovation creation in small and medium-sized enterprises, industry-academia-government collaboration, open innovation, regional industrial promotion, human resource development | Promotion of regional industries through innovation creation and industry-academia collaboration / Innovation creation in SMEs / Collaboration such as open innovation / Technology Management (MOT) / Horikiri River Model, etc. |
| MIYOSHI Izuru Faculty information | Associate Professor | accounting | Bookkeeping theory, bookkeeping education, management analysis, cash flow analysis, accounting information system | Corporate behavior as seen from accounting information |
| LI Lirong Faculty Information | Professor | Finance, theoretical economics | Financial systems and financial businesses, financial innovation (digital transformation, fintech), finance in China | Digital Transformation (DX) and Financial Services / Digital Finance in the US and China / SDGs and Financial Services / The Future of Finance (The Cutting Edge of Embedded Finance) / How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform the Financial Business / The Impact of Giant IT Companies Becoming Financial Institutions |
<Updated on April 1, 2026>
Department of Studies of Contemporary Society