Center for Liberal Arts

Research

Research Profile

Division of Law

STAFF

Lecturer
KATO Yuta

Research Projects

  • Investigation of citizenship laws and practices in inter-war period.
  • Legal analysis on personhood in history.
  • Review of case law, especially on refugee status determination.
  • Search for proper status of stateless persons in international legal order.

Division of Mathematics

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Professor
UCHIYAMA Atsushi

Research Projects

  • Functional Analysis, Operator theory
  • Fuglede-Putnam type commutation theorem for Hilbert space or Banach space operators
  • Putnam type inequalities for Hilbert space operators
  • Operator inequalities and related operator classes
  • Spectral analysis for non-normal operators

Division of English Language

STAFF

Professor
NONAKA Izumi
Associate Professor
SUGAWARA Mika

Research Projects

Research Activities
Izumi Nonaka, Professor
Specialty: Linguistics, TESOL
Research Interests: Medical English Education, English Phonetics
Currently Teaching: English, Medical English
Mika Sugawara, Associate Professor
Specialty: Linguistics, English Education
Research Interests: Generative Syntax, Medical English Education
Currently Teaching: English, Medical English

Division of German Language

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Lecturer
KIDO Saori

Research Projects

  • German Literature
  • Gender theory
  • Cultural studies
  • Social linguistics
  • Luxembourg Studies

The German language teaching staff members have made constant efforts to develop an effective teaching method, especially for beginners.
We believe it is very important for our students to have an understanding of German culture, which undoubtedly played a major role in shaping various social systems of Japan after the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
Through German social studies, the students are given an opportunity to further recognize the characteristics of their own culture.
Various texts, including those on current issues, are in use in the classrooms. We are particularly interested in the present environmental politics of Germany, and discussions held on these issues have become an important part of our lessons.
Since 2007, we have been giving lectures on cultural studies.

Division of Physical Education

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Professor
SASAKI Katsuyuki
Lecturer
FUKASE Yukako
Assistant Professor
ENDO So

Research Projects

  • How to improve volleyball judging skill
  • Physical education, health and sport sciences
  • Motor learning of hearing impaired people
  • Biomechanical analysis of motion of baseball players

Division of Philosophy

STAFF

Professor
IETAKA Hiroshi

Research Projects

  • Phenomenological investigation of perception, language, embodiment, and intersubjectivity etc.
  • Study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Philosophical explication about the space
  • Justification of qualitative research, especially single case study
  • Philosophical elucidation of system theories

Division of Psychology

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Associate Professor
MORIMOTO Sachiko

Research Projects

  • Investigating facilitators and inhibitors of aggressive behavior on social networking services.
  • Research on medical multidisciplinary cooperation
  • Research on the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy

Division of Sociology

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Associate Professor
AIZAWA Izuru

Research Projects

  • Sociological case study of integrated community care system in the Tohoku Region
  • Medical sociological study of home palliative care
  • Sociological research on medical care in nursing homes
  • Exploration of the generation of culture
  • Ethnographic study of traditional culture in the Tohoku region