List of Faculty Members

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Philosophy
Research theme
20th Century Anglo-American Philosophy, American Pragmatism

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History
Research theme
Monarchy and public education in modern history of Japan

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Sociology
Research theme
Media Sociology; Youth and Gender Studies; Ethnicity and Identity; Poverty and Elderly; Migration and Refugees;

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Social Anthropology of Contemporary Japan; Anthropology of Religion and Politics; Anthropology of Gender;  Anthropology of Cosmopolitanism; Komeito and Soka Gakkai; Anthropology of Climate Change.
Research theme
Gender in Contemporary Japan; Contemporary Soka Gakkai; Climate Change and Youth Climate Action in Japan, Carnivorism and Youth Consumer Identities in Japan.

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Social Policy, Education and Development, English Language Education, Educational Sociology
Research theme
Education Policy and Practice, Higher Education in Japan, English-medium instruction

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Process Drama in Second Language Acquisition, Drama in Education (DiE), drama-based pedagogy, AI and Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), gender studies, colonial studies and feminist discourses, Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC), sociology, English literature studies. 
Research theme
Second Language in Language Acquisition (SLA); Process Drama (PD) in SLA; Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC); Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL); Drama in Education (DiE); Reflective Practice.

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International relations
Research theme
A Comparative Analysis on the Japanese and Korean Foreign Policy Making Process

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Global Environmental Politics, International Relations, International Political Economy, South Asian Studies
Research theme
My research interests are broadly focused on global environmental politics which particularly encompass climate change, social vulnerability, environmental policy networks, and civil society research.

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International Relations, Global Governance, Game Theory
Research theme
International Bargaining – Rationality and Choice, Great Power Politics in the World, Principles of International Relations, Seminar I-III, Capstone, Theory of European Integration

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Politics
Research theme
1. A Study on the "Debate on Mass Society" in Japan in the 1950s
2. Civil Society Arguments in Japan and Europe: Mass Society Theory and Radical Democracy in the 1980s
3. Paradigm Shift of Political Theory
4. Transition and Continuity of the 20th-Century Democratic Theory: Mass Society, Civil Society, Citizenship
5. Mankind, Nation, Citizen: Civil Society, Nationalism, Globalism and New Political Theory

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Finance, Economics
Research theme
Corporate Finance, Financial Evaluation, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility

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Economic statistics
Economic history
Research theme
1. Estimates of Historical GDP Estimates in Developing Countries
2. Economic History of Malaysia and Singapore

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Development Economics
Research theme
Education and labor markets in developing countries

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Mathematics, Mathematical economics
Research theme
Mathematics, Mathematical economics

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Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
Research theme
Curriculum design, Integrating culture into the language classroom, Intercultural Communication

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Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (TESOL)
Research theme
Testing and assessment systems, curriculum development, self-access language learning, learner autonomy, content-based language instruction, ESP/EAP, project-based learning, materials development and science/technical writing

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Foreign language education
Research theme
1. Teaching English to young learners in Japanese elementary schools
2. The role of self-access in language learning and learner autonomy