Department of Pan Asian Studies⸺ Development of Society and Culture in Asian Regions ⸺

Name	Position	Expertise
SUGA Yutaka	Professor	Folkloristics in East Asia
MATSUDA Yasuhiro	Professor	Politics and Foreign Relations in China and Taiwan, Cross-Strait Relations
SAHASHI Ryo	Professor	International Relations and Power Politics in East Asia
NAWA Katsuo	Professor	Anthropology of Nepal and South Asia
KURAMOTO Ryosuke	Professor	Anthropology of Buddhism

Department of East Asian Studies (i)⸺ State Power and Socioeconomic Structure in East Asia ⸺

Name	Position	Expertise
TSUJI Yamato	Associate Professor	History of Natural and Cultural Resources in East Asia
MANABE Yuko	Professor	Traditional Cultures and Nationalism in Korean Ethnic Societies
UMEMURA Naoki	Associate Professor	History of Society and Thought in Medieval China
KOTERA Atsushi	Professor	History of the Family in Ancient China

Department of East Asian Studies (ii)⸺ The Formation and Development of Multi-Faceted Cultures in East Asia ⸺

Name	Position	Expertise
NAKAJIMA Takahiro	Professor	World Philosophy in East Asia
TANAKA Yuki	Associate Professor	Philosophy of Chinese Science and Music
UEHARA Kyuichi	Associate Professor	Publication Culture and Popular Literature in Ming and Qing China
ITAKURA Masaaki	Professor	Song and Yuan Literati Painting
TSUKAMOTO Maromitsu	Professor	The History and Culture of Chinese Paintings

Department of South Asian Studies⸺ The Intricacy of Culture and Civilization in the Bay of Bengal Region ⸺

Name	Position	Expertise
AOYAMA Waka	Professor	Economy and Ethics in Southeast Asia
FURUI Ryosuke	Professor	Ancient and Early Medieval History of South Asia
OGAWA Michihiro	Associate Professor	Socio-Economic History of South Asia
BABA Norihisa	Professor	History and Thought of Theravada Buddhism

Department of West Asian Studies⸺ The Historical Formation and Present Situation of West Asian Cultures ⸺

Name	Position	Expertise
AKIBA Jun	Professor	History of the Ottoman Empire
WATANABE Shoko	Associate Professor	Modern and Contemporary History of the Maghrib
MASUYA Tomoko	Professor	Fine Arts and Society in West Asia
MORIMOTO Kazuo	Professor	Socio-Religious History of Muslim Societies
RIDGEON Lloyd	Professor	Persianate Sufism

Department of Pioneering Asian Studies⸺ Exploring the Frontier of Asian Studies ⸺

Name	Position	Expertise
SATO Jin	Professor	Resources and Human Interdependence in Southeast Asia
SONODA Shigeto	Professor	Comparative Sociology of “Changing Asia”
Khohchahar E. Chuluu	Associate Professor	Comparative Asian Law and History
Pattajit TANGSINMUNKONG	Lecturer	Historical Narratives and International Perceptions in Southeast Asia
PAWAKAPAN Puangthong	Project Professor	The Feudal Nature of the Thai Military’s Business Kingdom

Global Research Planning Unit

Name	Position	Expertise
VEG Sebastian	Professor	Intellectual history of 20th century China
YANAGI Mikiyasu	Associate Professor	History and Philosophy of Chinese Buddhism
KIKUCHI Yuriko	Associate Professor	Maritime Trade History in Asia; Ceramics and Coins
HIROTA Terunao	Assistant Professor	Digital Archiving of Academic Materials
Jiyoon KIM	Assistant Professor	Socio-cultural histories of global mobility in Korea
LEBEDEV Vasilii	Assistant Professor	History of the Communist Revolutionary Movement in Manchuria and Korea
SAKIHAMA Sana	Project Assistant Professor	Modern intellectual history of Okinawa and postcolonial theory of peripheries in East Asia