Professor

Mitsuru Eguchi

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Faculty of Letters Department of Human Studies

Graduate School of Graduate School of Letters Sociology Major

Specialized Field	Philosophy/ethics, foreign language education
Research theme	Japanese-Russian language communication research, Russian language teaching methods, Russian thought (especially Tolstoy's thought)
Subjects in charge	Introduction to Russian, Russian interpretation practice, Russian composition
Main career, work history, and academic background	Osaka Prefecture Kansai Soka High School Soka University Faculty of Letters B.A., English Literature D. in Ethics from the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences Soka University Graduate School Graduate School of Letters Sociology Major Ph. Announcer and translator for Soviet state-run Moscow Broadcasting Corporation. Broadcast interpreter. Worked as a Russian simultaneous interpreter at intergovernmental meetings, meetings of international organizations, technical conferences on space development, medicine, and many other international conferences.
Affiliated academic societies and organizations	Japan Society for Comparative Philosophy, Japan Association of Russian and East European Studies, Japan Society of Russian Literature, Japan Association of Interpreters
Main Papers and Publications	Tolstoy's Religious View and Ikeda's Thought - From the Perspective of the Lotus Sutra," Institute of Oriental Philosophy, Oriental Academic Research, Vol. 47, No. 2 (2008) "Reevaluation of Tolstoy's Thought in Russia: New Trends in Tolstoy's Thought Research Since the 1990s and Future Prospects" (Soka University Russia and Slavic Studies Vol. 3)
others	E-mail : eguchi@soka.ac.jp 趣味 : 旅、映画鑑賞

Specialized Field	Russian Ethical Thought Japanese-Russian language communication
Research theme	Tolstoy's Thought Russian Language Education from a Communication Perspective
research content	He has focused on Leo Tolstoy as a thinker who began to be reevaluated in Russia in the 1990s, and has conducted research into his ideas on non-violence and the dignity of life, as well as comparative research with Buddhist thought, and has published his findings mainly in Russia. In Japan, he has published works such as "Tolstoy's Religious Viewpoint and Ikeda Thought - From the Perspective of the Lotus Sutra," Institute of Oriental Philosophy, Research on the Orient, Vol. 47, No. 2 (2008). Interpreting and translation theory from the perspective of intercultural communication
Research and Education Policy	A deeper study of Tolstoy's views on life and ethics from the perspective of modern significance Research on Russian language education methods with a focus on developing communicative skills
Message	While actively making use of Russian literature, we hope that you will learn together with us, focusing on the commonalities and uniqueness of Russian and Japanese thinking that lie behind the ideas and languages, and grow as language communication experts.

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