Past Members

-2023

NamePositionExpertise
YASUTOMI AyumiProfessorA Pragmatic Approach to the Reintegration of Scholarship, Arts, Religion, and Life
TAKAMIZAWA OsamuProfessorLaw and Society in Modern and Contemporary China
OKI YasushiProfessorLiterature in Ming and Qing China
Michael RadichVisiting ProfessorThe first three centuries of Buddhist translation in China (2nd c. to 4th c.)

-2022

NamePositionExpertise
KURODA AkinobuProfessorEast Asian Economic History and Global Monetary History
TAKAHASHI AkioProfessorVillage Economy in Southeast Asia
Mansur SEFATGOLVisiting ProfessorHistory and Historiography of Safavid Iran from Regional and Global Perspectives
ITAHASHI AkikoAssistant ProfessorPolitical and Gender History between the Han and Tang Dynasties

-2021

NamePositionExpertise
IKEMOTO YukioProfessorPoverty and Inequality in Asia
ZHONG YijiangAssociate ProfessorReligion, Nationalism, Sea in East Asia
HUANG Wei-hsiuAssistant ProfessorForeign Policy and National Security Planning in the PRC and Taiwan
Yoojin KooProject Assistant ProfessorComparative politics, Conservative movements in Japan, Civil society in East Asia
HUZIOKA HirosiAssistant ProfessorDevelopment Management Problems in DCH (Digital Cultural Heritage)
IKEGAME AyaAssociate ProfessorReligion and Democracy in South Asia

-2020

NamePositionExpertise
GOTO EmiAssociate ProfessorThe Understanding and Practice of Islam in the Contemporary World
Michiyo YONENO-REYESAssociate ProfessorMinorities and Modernities in Asia
Chard Robert LawrenceVisiting ProfessorHistory of Pre-Modern China and East Asia

-2019

NamePositionExpertise
HIRASE TakaoProfessorAncient Chinese Territorial States
Xudong ZhangVisiting ProfessorTwentieth Century Chinese Literature and Thought in Global Context

-2018

NamePositionExpertise
NAGASAWA EijiProfessorThe Socio-Economic History of the Modern Arab World
HANEDA MasashiProfessorReconstruction of “World History”
SHIMIZU UraraAssistant ProfessorRelationship between China, Taiwan and Japan after WWII, History of Relationship between Taiwan and Japan
Alessandro STANZIANIVisiting ProfessorHistory Writing in Global Historical Perspective, 17th-20th Centuries
Xu XingAssistant ProfessorLegal Reform and Civic Participation in China

-2017

NamePositionExpertise
XIA MingfangVisiting ProfessorModern Chinese Economy from the Perspective of the Environmental History
BAO MaohongVisiting ProfessorEconomic Development and Environmental Governance in the Post WWII East Asia: From a Perspective of Global History
Nii YokoProject Assistant ProfessorJesuit missionaries to China and Sino-Western scientific exchange in the 18th century

-2016

NamePositionExpertise
TANAKA AkihikoProfessorInternational Politics in the Major Countries of East Asia
Hyun Sun LeeAssociate ProfessorInternational Migration, Social Welfare and Civil Society in Asia
BAO MaohongVisiting ProfessorEconomic development and environmental governance in the Post WWII East Asia: From a perspective of global history
Michael SchiltzAssociate ProfessorThe Role of Exchange Banks in Prewar East Asia

-2015

NamePositionExpertise
KAMADA ShigeruProfessorStructure and Development of Islamic Religious Thought
GE ZhaoguangVisitingProfessorOriental studies in modern Japan and their impact on China
Ines G. ZUPANOVVisting Professorsocial and cultural history of Catholic missions in south Asia
UDA ShuheiLectureNature and Technique in Asia, Contemporary Chinese Society
IDO MisatoProject Assistant ProfessorRitual and the Arts in East Asia
Zhang XinyuanAssistant ProfessorStructural Changes in China’s Grain Economy
Zhu LinAssistant ProfessorAsian Political Thought;Cultural Exchange in East Asia

-2014

NamePositionExpertise
MATSUI TakeshiProfessorNature in a Cultural Perspective
Elman Benjamin AbrahamVisiting ProfessorMing-Qing cultural history in East Asian context

-2013

NamePositionExpertise
Charney Michael WalterProjectProfessorThe Role of Railways in Agricultural Areas in Colonial Southeast Asia

-2012

NamePositionExpertise
OGAWA HiromitsuProfessorResearch on Artifacts from East Asia
EINOO ShingoProfessorAncient Indian Society and Ritual
ONO KimikaAssociate ProfessorLiterature and Society in Modern China
YASUDA KayoResearch AssociateInternational Health Governance in the Eastern Asia

-2011

NamePositionExpertise
OKAYAMA HajimeProfessorReception of Buddhist Scriptures in China
OZAKI FumiakiProfessorBasic Concepts in the History of Chinese Literature in the 20th Century
KANO HiroyoshiProfessorModern Economic History of Southeast Asia
SUZUKI TadashiProfessorPolitico-sociological Study of the Ottoman Empire
TSUJI AsukaAssistant ProfessorChristians in the Middle East
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HIRASE Takao Professor Ancient Chinese Territorial States -2019
Xudong Zhang Visiting Professor Twentieth Century Chinese Literature and Thought in Global Context -2019
NAGASAWA Eiji Professor The Socio-Economic History of the Modern Arab World -2018
HANEDA Masashi Professor Reconstruction of "World History" -2018
SHIMIZU Urara Assistant Professor ARelationship between China, Taiwan and Japan after WWII, History of Relationship between Taiwan and Japan -2018
STANZIANI, Alessandro Visiting Professor History Writing in Global Historical Perspective, 17th-20th Centuries -2018
Xu Xing Assistant Professor Legal Reform and Civic Participation in China -2018
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