Faculty

Name	Position	Research Area
Seki Koki	Professor	Cultural Anthropology, Urban Development and Politics, Social Policy, Area Studies of the Philippines
Nishi Makoto	Professor	Cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Global Health
Funck Carolin	Professor	Tourism Geography
Kawamoto Naoe	Associate Professor	Social welfare and education for international students
Grajdian Maria Mihaela	Associate Professor	Media Studies, Cultural Anthropology
Taguchi Yoko	Associate Professor	Cultural Anthropology, South Asian Studies
Jang Kyungjae	Associate Professor	Tourism Studies, Contents Tourism
Rigsby Curtis Andrew	Associate Professor	Japanese Religion and Culture, Philosophy, Comparative Thought
Zollet Simona	Assistant Professor	Sustainable agriculture and food systems, rural sociology
Wang　Chujun	Assistant Professor (Special Appointment)	Tourism studies,Heritage tourism

Name	Position	Research Area
Katayanagi Mari	Professor	Peacebuilding
Shibata Miki	Professor	Foreign Language Learning and Second Language Acquisition
Amano Shuichi	Associate Professor	Applied linguistics, Phonetics
Kakee Tomoko	Associate Professor	Conflict Resolution, International Law
Taferner Robert	Associate Professor	Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Pragmatics
Yamane Tatsuo	Associate Professor	International Relations

Name	Position	Research Area
Villeneuve Masumi	Professor	Colloid and Interface Science
Hosaka Tetsuro	Professor	Ecology, Entomology, Human-nature interaction
Yamada Toshihiro	Professor	Conservation biology, Forest ecology
Iwamoto Yoko	Associate Professor	Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemical Oceanography
Kondo Masayuki	Associate Professor	Greenhouse gases dynamics, Climate systems
Shirakawa Toshiyuki	Associate Professor	Research of Social Stratification, Sociology of Education, Social Research/Survey Methods
Tanaka Shinpei	Associate Professor	Physics of Complex Systems
Watanabe Chiho	Associate Professor	Soft Matter Science, Biophysical Chemistry
Kawaguchi Kenta	Assistant Professor	Earth Science, Applied Geology, Geology
Komada Natsuki	Assistant Professor	Plant taxonomy, Forest ecology
Yoshida Mariko	Assistant Professor	environmental anthropology; blue humanities; food chain politics; multispecies ethnography; science and technology studies (STS)