| Title | Senior Assistant Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Psychology of language learning |
| Title | Senior Assistant Professor |
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| Research Themes | The Practice and Possibilities of Visual Expression Focused on Intercultural Differences and Frictions |
| Title | Senior Assistant Professor |
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| Research Themes | The Influence of Differences in Tasks on the Performance and Evaluation |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | Exchange of people, goods and information between Latin America and Africa; Afro-Brazilian Culture and Experience; History of Latin American Literature; William Burroughs and the Beat |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | My research interests include intercultural communication, course and materials design, learner autonomy and peer learning, the use of authentic materials in the classroom, and film theory. |
| Title | Associate Professor |
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| Research Themes | My main research interests are the intersection between academic and creative writing, genre as code switching, and storytelling as a way to improve writing skills and overall language acquisition. |
| Title | Senior Assistant Professor |
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| Research Themes | CALL in TESOL using virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | Girls manga, particularly transboundary issues and change in gender, values and representation |
| Title | Associate Professor |
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| Field | TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) |
| Research Themes | Development of fluency, interactional competence, and second language acquisition. |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Presentation of traditional Japanese culture in English, Japanese martial arts culture and history, and connections between meditative practice and language learning. |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | Contemporary performing arts (mainly Japanese and German) |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | multicultural collaborative learning/global leadership/multicultural facilitation/career education for well-being |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | My research interests cover various aspects of individual learner differences (e.g., language learner motivation and learning strategies) and second language acquisition. |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | Asia-Pacific Political Economy |
| Title | Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | My research interests include the design of the design of technology-enhanced learning environments, as well as clarifying how learning takes place using specific practices and under specific institutional conditions. Keywords are "Educational Technology", "Learning Science", "Community Development", "Participatory Development", "International Cooperation in Education", "Performance Psychology" |
| Title | Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Study on the acquisition of vocabulary for learners of Japanese as a second language, structure of the mental lexicon, and cognitive processing of words |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | Japanese modern literature, literary theory, literary criticism, Japanese modern culture. |
| Title | Senior Assistant Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Ecolinguistics, ecocriticism and ecofeminism; narratology, appraisal patterns, identity and ideology |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Socio-cultural History of Modern Japan, Comparative Cultural Studies, The Structures of Mindset, Culture and Society in Modern Japan |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Causal attributions learners make when they succeed or fail in their language learning; effects of these attributions on learner's expectancies for future performance |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | The absolute in the philosophy of Kitaro Nishida and German idealism |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | Storybook comics for children in the Showa period before and during the war. |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | Historical study of African modernization through the analysis of the local press |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Manga, anime, games, and related popular culture; design and urbanism |
| Title | Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Characteristics of Budo (Japanese martial arts) and issues associated with internationalization |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | Approaches to globalization by Japanese organizations and individuals |
| Title | Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Generalization, systematization, and international comparison of Japanese manufacturing system |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | My research is to develop and test theoretical models that explain the impacts of various types of marketing information on consumers' evaluation of products. |
| Title | Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | English education, language learning strategies, inter-language pragmatics, and comparison of language and culture in English-speaking countries and Japan |
| Title | Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Contrastive analyses of the syntactic structures of Japanese and English in the framework of Dependency Grammar |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | (1) Identity transformation of transnational people (2) How can soft skills be acquired at higher education institutions |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Business history of hotel companies, Hospitality management. Tourism development. |
| Title | Professor |
|---|---|
| Field | Applied linguistics; literature and language teaching |
| Research Themes | Literature and language teaching; discourse and identity; discourse of sport in literature and popular culture |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | A research for media literacy on the Web which has been personalised and censored by platform companies |
| Title | Senior Assistant Professor |
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| Research Themes | Destination management Tourism industry in Japan |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | History of film; film analysis; German popular culture |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | International comparison of welfare and corporate systems; public policy and organizational decision-making |
| Title | Associate Professor |
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| Research Themes | ICT policies, content industries, media literacy |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | History of Japanese language |
| Title | Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Historical research on the modern Japanese distribution system |
| Title | Professor |
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| Research Themes | Humanisme in the Mediterranean Muslim World, Mediterranean Literature, Taiwanese Language |
| Title | Senior Assistant Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Modern Japanese religious history and view of life and death |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Second language acquisition, Research interests include promoting fluency, motivation, comprehension, and confidence in L2 reading assignments via the integration technology into the learning process. |
| Title | Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Japanese immigration policy; intercultural community building |
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Phonetic analysis of speech of Japanese learners and establishment of an effective coaching method for pronunciation |
| Title | Senior Assistant Professor |
|---|---|
| Research Themes | Popular Music of the Showa Era |