Faculty Members

Faculty supervisors are marked with an asterisk (*).

(Alphabetical order / Incumbent, 2025)

English

Position	Name	Area and Subject	Research Theme(s)
	Lavolette Elizabeth Holly Pfaff	Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Computer-Assisted Language Learning	Language center studies, the role of feedback timing in second language acquisition
*	Makimi Kano	Corpus Linguistics	Corpus-based Analyses of Vocabulary, Usage, and Meaning, Assimilation Process of Loanwords, Metaphor Study
	Kayoko Nakanishi	American Literature and Cultures	American Literary & Social and Cultural History, beginnings to 1900
*	Kazuhiko Namba	Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism	Linguistic Analyses of Code-switching in English-Japanese Bilinguals
	Chie Ogawa	Applied Linguistics	Instructed Second Language Acquisition, L2 Speaking Research,Language Testing
	Shimoda Yukio	Spanish Linguistics, General Linguistics, Multilingualism	Spanish Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. Corpus-based Spanish constructions. Multilingualism in European football.
	Masae Suzuki	English Communication･English Literature, Comparative Literature	Comparative Theatre Studies focusing on Reception of Shakespeare in Asia, Irish Theatre, Okinawan Theatre and Adaptation of Noh
*	Takaaki Suzuki	Psycholinguistics,Language Acquisition	First Language Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition, Language Processing
*	Mari Takahashi	Linguistics, English Linguistics	Grammatical theory of natural language, Syntax, Morphology, Comparison of English and Japanese
	Izumi Takiguchi	Linguistics	Second Language Speech Perception and Production
*	Ryusuke Yamato	English Education Studies	Factors Affecting Individual Performance in Language Learning, Learning Strategies and Self-directed Learning

Chinese

Position	Name	Area and Subject	Research Theme(s)
*	Kaori Hatakeyama	Chinese Culture, Comparative Culture	The Comparative Study of Japan and China in Terms of Reception of Foreign Cultures
*	Masahiro Ikeda	East Asian History	History of Books Among East Asian Nations
	Hiroko Kume	Chinese philosophy	Historical development of interpretations of Confucian scriptures
*	Tatsuya Sawada	Chinese Linguistics	Historical Chinese phonology and the history of Chinese dictionaries
*	Mitsuyo Seki	Chinese language studies	Translation and interpreting theories and their application to Chinese language learning

Linguistics

Position	Name	Area and Subject	Research Theme(s)
*	Toru Hiratsuka	French, Linguistics	Cognitive Linguistics Studies Focused Primarily on French
*	Toshiyuki Imanishi	Modern Japanese Linguistics, Japanese Language Education	Syntax and Semantics of Modern Japanese Language, Developing Textbook of Japanese Language Education, Japanese Language Education in the Multicultural Symbiotic Societies
*	Mitsushi Kitajo	Russian	The study of Russian language from the point of view of text linguistics
*	Mitsuru Kobayashi	Italian, Italian Literature	Galileo Galilei as seen from the Perspective of Italian Linguistic and Literary History
*	Norio Shima	German language, Linguistics	Research in German grammar, syntactic constructions in German Based on semantics and functional typology, and contrastive analysis of German, Japanese and English languages
	Yukio Shimoda	Spanish linguistics, General linguistics	Spanish syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Studies for the constructions of Spanish based on the corpus.
*	Yoshio Tamamura	Japanese linguistics History of the Japanese language	-Semantics,lexicology and notation theory (classic and modern Japanese)
*	Yoshio Tamamura	Japanese linguistics History of the Japanese language	-Grammaticalization in Japanese
	Park Jin Wan	History of Korean language, history of Japanese language, contrastive linguistics	Korean language education history in Japan, Japanese language education history in Korea
	Kazuhiko Yasuda	Linguistics(Bahasa Indonesia)	Indonesian Grammar, Syntax, Functional Grammar
*	Kazuhiko Yoshida	Indo-European comparative linguistics, historical linguistics, general linguistics	A Theoretical and Descriptive Study of the Structure and History of Languages
*		(Research Profile)