Faculty list | Soka University Department of literature

Specialized field	Philosophy/ethics
Research theme	Naturalism in Contemporary Metaethics

EGUCHI Mitsuru

Specialized field	Philosophy/ethics Foreign language education
Research theme	Tolstoy's Philosophy, Methods of teaching Russian to foreigners

FISKER-NIELSEN Anne Mette

Specialized field	Social Anthropology with reference to Japanese Politics, Religion, Society, and Gender
Research theme	Community relations in democracy and peace-building: realising SDG16 in local-national governance in Okinawa Politics and Religion in Contemporary Japan Anthropology of Gender; Komeito and Soka Gakkai Death and Life as a Dialectical Process.

FUJIMOTO Kazuko

Specialized field	English studies
Research theme	1. Current Change in English Grammar and Usage Based on Corpus Linguistics 2. Analysis of English Learner’s English Use 3. Analyzing English Learner’s Dictionaries

HAYASHI Akira

Specialized field	International relations
Research theme	International Relations

HIGUCHI Masaru

Specialized field	Chinese philosophy
Research theme	Chinese Philosophy and The Value of Philosophy in Makiguchi's Thought

HIRABAYASHI Kaori

Specialized field	Japanese Classical Literature
Research theme	1. Research of Ihara Saikaku 2. Research of Daimyo culture in the Edo Period

INOUE Daisuke

Specialized field	Cultural anthropology/folklore studies Sociology
Research theme	Santa Muerte in Mexico

ITO Takao

Specialized field	Philosophy/ethics History of thought
Research theme	1. Reception History of Kantian Philosophy (1): Metaphysics 2. Reception History of Kantian Philosophy (2): Ethics (Peace Theory) 3. Reception History of Kantian Philosophy (3): Aesthetics (Literature, Music) 4. Reception History of Kantian Philosophy (4): Anthropology (Education)

IWAKAWA Koji

Specialized field	Social welfare studies
Research theme	welfare community that can live in peace

KANEKO Hiroshi

Specialized field	Japanese studies
Research theme	1. History of Japanese Language 2. History of the Study of Japanese Language

KAWASAKI Takashi

Specialized field	Sociology
Research theme	Japan and China Relations in Modern History

KINOSHITA Kaoru

Specialized field	European language literature Literature of various countries/theories of literature criticism
Research theme	A Study of the 17th Century English Literature, A Study of Charles Dickens .

KOBAYASHI Kazuo

Specialized field	Area studies Sociology
Research theme	Development process of Imperial Assistance Rule Movement in Java under the Japanese occupation

LI Yan

Specialized field	Pedagogy
Research theme	camparative education of china-japan

MIZUTANI Makoto

Specialized field	Linguistics
Research theme	Chinese Historical Phnology

MORI Yukio

Specialized field	Sociology Social welfare studies
Research theme	Symbolosm of spacial area in Urban area.

MORISHITA Hiroshi

Specialized field	Pop Culture
Research theme	1. Formation and transformation of special effects on movies and science fiction genres in postwar Japan 2. Narrative and Expression in Tezuka Osamu's early manga works

MORIYA Michiyo

Specialized field	Linguistics
Research theme	Japanese Speakers' Narrative and Reading from the viewpoint of Construal

MURAKAMI Nobuaki

Specialized field	History of the Orient
Research theme	History of Qing Dynasty

NISHIKAWA Hanna

Specialized field	Social welfare studies
Research theme	social work

OHNO Kumi

Specialized field	European language literature
Research theme	Psychological Aspects of Eugene O'Neill's Dramas

OSAKI Satsuki

Specialized field	Foreign language education
Research theme	A Study on Developing Metacognition in Language Learning

OTSUKA Nozomi

Specialized field	Japanese studies
Research theme	to analize funcitonal verbs in Japanese

OZAKI Hideo

Specialized field	Foreign language education
Research theme	Effects of learning strategy training in one-year English program including a short overseas English study program in summer

SAGAE Mitsunori

Specialized field	European language literature
Research theme	Russian Literature in the 20th century

SAKAI Koichi

Specialized field	History of Japan
Research theme	Japanese Medieval History

SASAKI Seiji

Specialized field	Religion studies Aesthetics/history of art European language literature Foreign language education Western history
Research theme	1. Heraskov's Classical Epic Poem "Rossijada" in Comparison with European Literary Epics 2. The Process of Formation of the Poetics of Russian Classicism and the History of the European Literary Theory 3. The Kazan Campaigns by Ivan Groznyj and their Discriptions in Chronicles of Russian Middle Ages 4. Russian Orthodox Church and its Religious Art

SATO Motoko

Specialized field	Foreign language education
Research theme	Problems in Chinese composition lesson

SUETAKE Yoshiya

Specialized field	History of Japan
Research theme	PoliticalHhistory in Taisho Period

SUGIYAMA Yukio

Specialized field	Sociology
Research theme	Theoretical study on French sociology

SUZUKI Kunihiko

Specialized field	Aesthetics/history of art European language literature
Research theme	A Study of Shakespeare's Plays, A Study of the Essence of Live Plays

TAKAHASHI Tadashi

Specialized field	English studies
Research theme	Comparative study of Japanese and English modality

TAKAHASHI Tsuyoshi

Specialized field	Area studies
Research theme	Exchange between Mcau and Japan

TAMAI Hideki

Specialized field	International relations Other
Research theme	1. Peace Movements in Israel 2. Conflict Resolution Process and Conflict Transformation 3. Perspectives on de-militarization of Okinawa 4. Human Security and Japan's Foreign Policies

TANAKA Ryohei

Specialized field	Area studies European language literature Foreign language education
Research theme	Goethe

TSUTSUI Sumiei

Specialized field	General life science Social welfare studies Other
Research theme	social welfare, rehabilitation

YAMANAKA Masaki

Specialized field	Philosophy/ethics Japanese literature Subject pedagogy
Research theme	1. Literatureof KAWABATA YASUNARI 2. Third Term and Epistemological Shift 3. Function of "Narrative" in Moderrn Japanese Novel

YAMAOKA Masaki

Specialized field	Japanese studies
Research theme	The Construction of Japanese Considerate Expressions Database with Axis of Speech Function