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
Kawamoto Naoe	Associate Professor	Social welfare and education for international students
Qu Meng	Associate Professor	Tourism Geography, Critical Tourism Studies, Rural and Island Studies
Taguchi Yoko	Associate Professor	Cultural Anthropology, South Asian Studies
Rigsby Curtis Andrew	Associate Professor	Japanese Religion and Culture, Philosophy, Comparative Thought
Zollet Simona	Assistant Professor	Sustainable agriculture and food systems, rural sociology

Name	Position	Research Area
Katayanagi Mari	Professor	Peacebuilding
Shibata Miki	Professor	Foreign Language Learning and Second Language Acquisition
Kakee Tomoko	Associate Professor	Conflict Resolution, International Law
Taferner Robert	Associate Professor	Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Pragmatics
Candelaria John Lee Pamplona	Assistant Professor	Heritage Studies, Memory Studies, Philippine and Southeast Asian Studies

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
Wang Kunyang	Assistant Professor	Watershed Hydrology, Climate Change, Non-point Source Pollution
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)