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Department of Law

Yuka Aoyagi Professor AOYAGI Yuka

  • Department of Law
Major
Economic Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Competition Neutrality of the State (State Aid Regulation, etc.) Relationship between Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property Law

Souichi Ishikawa Professor ISHIKAWA Souichi

  • Department of Law
Major
Physics
Seminar or Research Theme
Structure and Reaction of Minority Nucleon Systems

ITO Yuji Professor ITO Yuji

  • Department of Law
Major
Commercial and Corporate Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on Corporate Law Case Law

Ito Hidetoshi Professor Ito Hidetoshi

  • Department of Law
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Civil Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Various issues of property law (especially contemporary issues related to property rights)

Kazuko Iwata Professor IWATA Kazuko

  • Department of Law
Major
Chinese Folk Literature and Art
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on the reception and dissemination of Chinese folk legends and classical literary works

IWATSUBO Tomoko Professor IWATSUBO Tomoko

  • Department of Law
Major
English Literature
Seminar or Research Theme
English Poetry in the 20th Century. Poetry and Theatre since the Irish Literary Revival

Noriko Ueki Professor UEKI Noriko

  • Department of Law
Major
Molecular physiology and cell biology
Seminar or Research Theme
Light-responsive behavior of microalgae and its evolutionary changes in multicellularity

Tomoo UEDA Professor UEDA Tomoo

  • Department of Law
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Philosophy
Seminar or Research Theme
Debate Theory, Public Philosophy, Modern German Philosophy of Language

OHSAWA Aya Professor OHSAWA Aya

  • Department of Law
Major
Civil law, consumer law, French contract law and consumer law
Seminar or Research Theme
The Role of Civil Law in the Modern Era, in terms of the Relationship between Civil Law and Special Law

Tatsuji Ohno Professor OHNO Tatsuji

  • Department of Law
Major
Philosophy of law
Seminar or Research Theme
History of Modern Legal Thought, Theory of Sovereignty and Civil Society, Validity of Law

OMIYA Shiho Professor OMIYA Shiho

  • Department of Law
Major
French language education, French literature
Seminar or Research Theme
Intercultural education, French baccalaureate

KANEKO Masayoshi Professor KANEKO Masayoshi

  • Department of Law
Major
Constitutional Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Human rights law, human rights policy (especially municipal human rights remedy systems, national human rights institutions)

KAWAGUCHI Yoshihiko Professor KAWAGUCHI Yoshihiko

  • Department of Law
Major
Japanese Legal History
Seminar or Research Theme
Study of the modern Japanese legal order, starting from land law and local institutions. Comparative legal-historical research on mediation systems.

KAWAMURA Youko Professor KAWAMURA Youko

  • Department of Law
Major
Civil Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Comparative legal research on the promise guarantee system of Japanese civil law centered on the contractual damages system

KURABE Mayumi Professor KURABE Mayumi

  • Department of Law
Major
Civil Procedure Law and Bankruptcy Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Treatment of security interests in restructured bankruptcy proceedings

KEIRA Ryusei Professor KEIRA Ryusei

  • Department of Law
Major
Oriental Philosophy (Buddhist Studies)
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on epistemology and logic in Indian Buddhism and late Middle Chinese thought

KOKUBUN Noriko Professor KOKUBUN Noriko

  • Department of Law
Major
Constitutional Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Comparative historical research on constitutional thought in East Asia; research on the structure of governance in Korea, especially the constitutional court system

SATO Teruyuki Professor SATO Teruyuki

  • Department of Law
Major
Criminal Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Theory of dangerous crimes, crimes against social legal interests

Kazushi Sugimoto Professor SUGIMOTO Kazushi

  • Department of Law
Major
Civil Procedural Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Intersection of civil substantive law and procedural law, French civil procedural law

YUKIKO TAKA Professor TAKA Yukiko

  • Department of Law
Major
Western Legal History
Seminar or Research Theme
Equity Studies, Influence of English Law on Japanese Civil Code

Masaaki Takahashi Professor TAKAHASHI Masaaki

  • Department of Law
Major
Constitutional Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Equality Theory, Judicial Remedies, Constitutional Law and Private Law

Shigeru Takahashi Professor TAKAHASHI Shigeru

  • Department of Law
Major
Administrative and environmental law
Seminar or Research Theme
General administrative law, administrative remedy law in general, science and technology safety law

Masahiko Takizawa Professor TAKIZAWA Masahiko

  • Department of Law
Major
Civil law (property law, mainly law of claims)
Seminar or Research Theme
Case law research on property law in general

Masashi Takeo Professor TAKEO Masashi

  • Department of Law
Major
Intellectual Property Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Significance of prior use (right of first use) in patent law. Relationship between intellectual property law and economic law (competition law)

TANAKA Aya Professor TANAKA Aya

  • Department of Law
Major
Commercial and Corporate Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Case Studies in Corporate Law

SAYOKO TANAKA Professor TANAKA Sayoko

  • Department of Law
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International Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Regulation of the Use of Force in International Law

Yasushi TOCHIKAWA Professor TOCHIKAWA Yasushi

  • Department of Law
Major
Commercial law, securities law and settlement transaction law, corporate law
Seminar or Research Theme
Legal issues related to the distribution and settlement of property values

Yuko Nakata Professor NAKATA Yuko

  • Department of Law
Major
Anglo-American Law
Seminar or Research Theme

Kohsuke Nishida Professor NISHIDA Kohsuke

  • Department of Law
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Administrative Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Administrative planning, private agreements, urban law, U.S. land use law

NUMATA Masayuki Professor NUMATA Masayuki

  • Department of Law
Major
Social law (labor and social security law)
Seminar or Research Theme
Study of issues under labor and social security laws for non-regular workers, including fixed-term labor contracts, worker dispatching, and social insurance coverage for non-regular workers

BAN Aken Professor BAN Aken

  • Department of Law
Major
Commercial law
Seminar or Research Theme
Study of the institutions of joint-stock companies and insurance contract law

Tomohiro MUKAI Professor MUKAI Tomohiro

  • Department of Law
Major
Organic Materials Chemistry
Seminar or Research Theme
Effects of molecular interactions on physical properties and crystal structures

Akio Morita Professor MORITA Akio

  • Department of Law
Major
International Law
Seminar or Research Theme
International control, international maritime law, extraterritorial application of national jurisdiction

Mikihiko WADA Professor WADA Mikihiko

  • Department of Law
Major
Civil Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Family law hermeneutics and legislative history, law and bioethics, law and genetics (investigation of new legal problems created by developments in genetics), law and evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience

Taichi Asamura Associate Professor ASAMURA Taichi

  • Department of Law
Major
Criminal Procedure Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Self-imposed denial of the privilege of self-incrimination

SANO Fumihiko Associate Professor SANO Fumihiko

  • Department of Law
Major
Criminal law
Seminar or Research Theme
Theory of Criminal Liability, Theory of Punishment

FUJIKI Takashi Associate Professor FUJIKI Takashi

  • Department of Law
Major
Labor Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on contemporary issues in labor law (basic labor rights, platform economy, use of AI in labor, U.S. labor law, and its relationship to competition law)

Ikumi Yoshioka Associate Professor YOSHIOKA Ikumi

  • Department of Law
Major
Administrative Law
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on individual administrative law systems, cultural property protection law, and urban law

Department of Political Science

AKETAGAWA Toru Professor AKETAGAWA Toru

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Japanese Political History
Seminar or Research Theme
Mainly Japanese political history after World War II. History of Japanese diplomacy regarding U.S. military bases and the Status of Forces Agreement

Mari Aburamoto Professor ABURAMOTO Mari

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Comparative Politics and Area Studies
Seminar or Research Theme
Contemporary Russian Politics

Mamoru Ito Professor ITO Mamoru

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Sports medicine and conditioning
Seminar or Research Theme
Training science, research on conditioning to eliminate fatigue and promote health

Hajime INUZUKA Professor INUZUKA Hajime

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
History of Political Science and Political Thought
Seminar or Research Theme
Political thought of early modern Europe

KIMURA Masatoshi Professor KIMURA Masatoshi

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
International Politics, Contemporary Middle Eastern Politics
Seminar or Research Theme
Middle East regional and international politics, BDS and Bob Dylan

Yuri Kono Professor KONO Yuri

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
History of Japanese Political Thought
Seminar or Research Theme
Early Modern and Modern Japanese Political Thought

Atsushi Komine Professor Atsushi Komine

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
History of economic thought, welfare state theory
Seminar or Research Theme
(The ideological background and contemporary significance of the Keynes-Beveridge system)

SHINKAWA Toshimitsu Professor SHINKAWA Toshimitsu

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Comparative Political Science
Seminar or Research Theme
Post-Welfare State, Politics of National Reunification

Kazuhisa Sugisaki Professor Kazuhisa Sugisaki

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Urban Planning, Citizen Participation Methods
Seminar or Research Theme
Citizen participation in public decision-making, support systems for whole-population city planning, contemporary history of city planning

Atsushi Sugita Professor Atsushi Sugita

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Political Theory
Seminar or Research Theme
Theories of power and democracy

TSUKAMOTO Gen Professor TSUKAMOTO Gen

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
History of Modern Chinese Politics and Diplomacy, Contemporary Taiwanese Politics
Seminar or Research Theme
Area Studies, Contemporary Taiwanese Politics

TSUCHIYAMA Kimie Professor TSUCHIYAMA Kimie

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
1) Public policy studies, local government theory, political science (2) Social Structural Change and the Transformation of Politics and Policy ("Policy and Institutional" Network), Municipal Policy
Seminar or Research Theme

Katsuro Nakano Professor Katsuro NAKANO

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
History of American Politics and Political Thought
Seminar or Research Theme
Political thought during the founding of the U.S.A., innovativism at the beginning of the 20th century

NAWATA Yoshihiko Professor NAWATA Yoshihiko

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Community Policy
Seminar or Research Theme
Research and study of national and local government policies related to local communities and community activities undertaken by local residents and citizens.

HAYASHI Reona Professor HAYASHI Reona

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Public administration, public management theory, public policy studies
Seminar or Research Theme
Human resource administration theory, public service motivation, civic comparison, nuclear energy policy

HIROSE Katsuya Professor HIROSE Katsuya

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Public Administration and Public Policy Studies
Seminar or Research Theme
Decentralization and municipal institutions and policies

Tamotsu HOSOI Professor HOSOI Tamotsu

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Political System Theory and Political Structure Theory
Seminar or Research Theme
Examination of politics from both institutional and ideological perspectives.

YAMAGUCHI Jiro Professor YAMAGUCHI Jiro

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Political Process Theory
Seminar or Research Theme
Explaining how the work of politics is carried out in a modern democracy and considering the various challenges facing democratic politics

YAMAMOTO Taku Professor YAMAMOTO Taku

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Welfare and Society
Seminar or Research Theme
History of Welfare State (UK), History of Social Policy Thought, Contemporary Social Security and Welfare

Narumi Fujioka Associate Professor FUJIOKA Narumi

  • Faculty of Law Department of Political Science
Major
Sports Policy, Sports Management
Seminar or Research Theme
Measures to increase sports participation, Study on consumer behavior of sports participants

Department of Global Politics

ASAMI Yasuhito Professor ASAMI Yasuhito

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
Comparative Political Science
Seminar or Research Theme
Political Economy of Southeast Asian Countries, Comparative Democracy Theory, Social Policy in Middle-East Countries

Jun Kumakura Professor KUMAKURA Jun

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
1) Research on China, research on the former Soviet Union 2) Contemporary Chinese politics, international relations of China and the former Soviet Union regions
Seminar or Research Theme

KWON Hoyon Professor KWON Hoyon

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
Peace and Military Studies
Seminar or Research Theme
Japanese defense policy, Japanese foreign policy, security issues in Northeast Asia

SAKANE Toru Professor SAKANE Toru

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
International Public Policy
Seminar or Research Theme
International Public Policy, Executive and Financial Affairs of the United Nations System, International Administration, Procurement Administration

Kazuhiro Takahashi Professor TAKAHASHI Kazuhiro

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
History of Japanese Diplomacy
Seminar or Research Theme
Postwar Japanese Diplomacy, Japan-U.S. Relations, Economic Diplomacy

FUKUDA Madoka Professor FUKUDA Madoka

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
International Relations, China and Taiwan Area Studies
Seminar or Research Theme
Asian International Relations, Contemporary Chinese Diplomacy, China-Taiwan Relations

HONDA Miki Professor HONDA Miki

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
International Relations, International Organization, Security, United Nations Studies
Seminar or Research Theme
Great Power Competition and Global Threats, Enforcement Measures for "Peace" in the International Community

Shuhei Mizoguchi Professor MIZOGUCHI Shuhei

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
Comparative Political Science, Regional Studies of the Former Soviet Union
Seminar or Research Theme
Political systems of former Soviet Union countries, Contemporary Russian political diplomacy

MIYASHITA Yuichiro Professor MIYASHITA Yuichiro

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
International Relations, History of International Relations, History of War
Seminar or Research Theme
History of French diplomacy, History of Franco-Japanese relations, Theory of European integration

YODA Takeshi Professor YODA Takeshi

  • Faculty of Law Department of Global Politics
Major
American Literature
Seminar or Research Theme
Research on contemporary postmodernist literature with a focus on prose