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Humanities and Culture

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Rie Ohashi
Professor

-Intercultural communication

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Keiichi Omura
Professor

-Social and cultural anthropology/Arctic anthropology

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Atsushi Kawahara
Specially Appointed Professor

-Western history, Medieval and modern history/Urban and social history

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Akira Konita
Associate Professor

-Modern Chinese history/History of east Asian historiography/Asian history/Local history studies

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Shigekazu Kondo
Specially Appointed Professor

-Japanese medieval history/Paleography

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Sugimori Tetsuya
Professor

-Japanese modern history

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Kazuko Takagi
Professor

-Japanese literature/Heian literature/The tale of Genji

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Masato Takiura
Professor

-Linguistics/Pragmatics/Theory of impoliteness and politeness/Japanese linguistics

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Eisei Tsurumi
Associate Professor

-Museology/Andean civilizations

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Kan Nozaki
Professor

-French literature/Translation theory /Film theory

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Mihoko Funaoka
Associate Professor

-Western art history

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Miyamoto Toru
Professor

-Chinese linguistics

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Miyamoto Yoichiro
Specially Appointed Professor

-American literature/Cultural studies

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Ichirou Mori
Professor

-Philosophy/Ethics/History of thought

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