Graduate School of Human Life Sciences Member List

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As of April 5 , 2018

　**Dean：Kimiko Nagasawa**

Master’s Program
Name	Position	Speciality	Research Theme	Research Outline

Takaaki Ishiyama	Professor	Educational Psychology / Developmental Psychology / Vocational Rehabilitation	Special needs education, psychology for children with disabilities, career education, qualitative psychology, junior sports	The primary objective of this study is to investigate employers' awareness about the issues involved when employing people with developmental disorders. The secondary objective is to examine the awareness of career support for teachers of special needs schools.
Yasuharu Kiyohara	Professor	Japan's History of Modern Sports	Community sports meets in Kochi after World War Ii	After the Great Merger of Showa era (1926–1989) in the 1950s in Japan (during which many towns, cities, and villages were amalgamated), community sports meets were initiated in order to promote harmony among the people of the newly established communities. This study focuses on the social function of sports meets.
Yoko Nobe	Associate Professor	Gender Studies	Gender studies, sociology of the family, sociology of welfare, sociology of medicine, minority studies, identity studies	My research focuses on: (1) family diversity in Japan; (2) support systems for adopted and foster children; and (3) diversity of social care by local authorities in Japan. My research is conducted from a sociological and gender-sensitive perspective.
Takashi Yoshikawa	Associate Professor	Philosophy, Ethics	Ethics of living, philosophy and ethics of caring, phenomenology, philosophy of perception	I conduct studies on living support systems for people with disabilities, as well as on education and training systems for social workers who engage in livelihood support for people with disabilities.
Nutrition/Human Life Sciences
Kenji Isshiki	Professor	Analytical Chemistry / Aquatic Geochemistry / Environmental Chemistry / Scientific Literacy Education	Chemical speciation of trace elements in aquatic environments．Environmental circulation of trace elements	I started my career as an analytical chemist and then expanded my expertise to aquatic environmental chemistry and geochemistry. I work on analytical chemistry, focusing on the trace elements in natural waters, and environmental chemistry, focusing on the aquatic environment such as oceans and rivers.
Reiko Inai	Professor	Nutrition Education	Connection between research, theory and practice	We conduct a nutrition diagnosis by Ncp for health and longevity support, and evaluate the effectiveness of nutrition education for each age group, target group, individual, group, region, etc. We also study the nutritional education effects in functional foods.
Jun Kobayashi	Professor	Public Health,Biochemistry	Food Safety,Water Pollution,Analytical Chemistry
Takashi Murakami	Professor	Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Diabetology	Analysis of lifestyle-related diseases using molecular biological techniques and more macro approaches	We investigated the effects of adipocyte-derived bioactive substances such as leptin, which is produced in response to the nutritional status, on the ability of insulin-secretion from pancreatic B cells.
Hiroyuki Watanabe	Professor	Research on the Nutritional Functions of Foods, Analysis of the Significance of the Regulatory Functions of Energy Metabolism	Food science, food functional science, functional component analysis, lipid metabolism	We evaluate the biological functionality of food ingredients by extracting them from raw foods or from fermented and other processed foods. We use experimental techniques of each level of enzyme reaction, cell, and animal tests as an evaluation method.
Reiko Aramaki	Associate Professor	Public Health Nutrition
Makiko Suzuki	Associate Professor	Basic Nutrition, Applied Nutrition, Molecular Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition	1.The pathogenic mechanism of egg allergies 2. The physiological significance of arginine methylation and the metabolism of asymmetric dimethylarginine (Adma)	We demonstrated that lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase (L- Pgds) reacted with serum Ige in patients with egg allergies. L-Pgds is a dual-functioning protein in the lipocalin family, acting as a Pgd2-synthesizing enzyme and as an extracellular transporter for small lipophilic molecules. Our research interest is the mechanism by which L-Pgds increases serum ovalbumin (Ova)-Ige levels.
Yuichiro Takei	Assistant Professor	Nutritional Therapy for Calcified Tissue-related Disorders	1.Nutritional therapy for calcified tissue-related disorders 2.Development of a novel analysis method of gut microflora and basic research about the relationship between resident microbiota, nutrition and health	My interests are tissue-tissue correlation and its related disorders (for example, Ckd-Mbd and cardiorenal syndrome). For vertebrates, bone tissue is not only a supportive tissue but an organizer for other organs such as the heart and kidneys—therefore, bone is an essential tissue. So far, I have studied the relationship between bone diseases and vascular diseases
Social Welfare
Shunji Sugihara	Professor	Child and Family Welfare, Counseling	Research on social work to support children and their families. Practical study of school-based social work. Additional data based on interviews with people about their experience.	My research studies focus on social work relating to children and family. I also study social work based in Japanese schools, especially those in Kochi prefecture. My research is also based on interviews with people about their own experiences.
Takako Miyaue	Professor	Care and Welfare	Training programs and careers for certified care workers	(1)Family caregivers' competence in caring for the elderly with dementia (2)Learning process of adult students in training programs for certified care workers (3)Experiential learning and work ethic in semi-professional careers
Kimiko Nagasawa	Professor	International Comparative Research on Care for The Elderly	Quasi-market, regulation and governance to improve quality of care	(1)International comparative study of long-term care policies (2)The quasi-market and governance of social care (the balance and the roles of public, private, and non-profit sectors) (3)Gender-related issues on Lgbtqi persons
Kiyomu Tanaka	Professor	Social Security	The relation between publicness, fairness and human development on social security	(1)Research on institutional reforms that balance the public nature and fairness of social security (2)Restructuring of social security systems from the viewpoint of human development (3)Formation factor and sustainability of symbiotic community welfare centered on small bases
Hiroko Maruyama	Professor	Theory of Social Work Practice	Social work processes	Competence-oriented approach in psychiatric social work: (1)Development of social work methods (for encouraging people in need of help to participate in social work) (2)Development of practical competences in social workers (for systematic learning, education, training and supervision)
Teruo Yokoi	Professor	Rehabilitation Science	dementia, self-awareness, language, individuals with severe motor and intellectual disabilities, dysphagia
Takanori Suzuki	Associate Professor	Basic Nutrition, Applied Nutrition, Molecular Metabolism and Clinical Nutrition	1.The pathogenic mechanism of egg allergies 2. The physiological significance of arginine methylation and the metabolism of asymmetric dimethylarginine (Adma)	We demonstrated that lipocalin-type prostaglandin D synthase (L- Pgds) reacted with serum Ige in patients with egg allergies. L-Pgds is a dual-functioning protein in the lipocalin family, acting as a Pgd2-synthesizing enzyme and as an extracellular transporter for small lipophilic molecules. Our research interest is the mechanism by which L-Pgds increases serum ovalbumin (Ova)-Ige levels.
Akira Nishiuchi	Professor	Social Work, Gerontological Social Work	Comprehensive assessment in social work with the aged	Information and communications technology (Ict) is used to handle and process information in social work practices. My research, based on theories of general social work, aims to develop a model of interprofessional collaboration through the use of Ict.
Koji Nishiume	Associate Professor	Social Work Theory and Methodology	Empowerment practice in social work	My research focuses on the theoretical framework and process of empowerment practices. This research aims to utilize Ecoscanner, a life-enhancing tool in empowerment practices, to advance the method of Ecosystem Projects. Empowerment practices in social work occupy an important position in Japan. These theoretical frameworks, ecosystems, and social constructionist perspectives have a strong influence on empowerment practices in reinterpreting the lives of client systems, collaborating with them, and bridging micro and macro social work practices.
Yayoi Miyoshi	Associate Professor	Care Welfare	Study of end of life care for elderly individuals	We study the role of certified care workers and end-of-life care methods for elderly individuals. We carry out these researches in order to build a model for end-of-life meal care by caregivers.
Cultural Studies
Takahiro Ioroi	Professor	English Linguistics	English linguistics (phonetics and phonology), Applied linguistics (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), Teacher education	My research interests include explorations into (1) how Efl (English as a Foreign Language) learners acquire knowledge and competence in handling prosodic aspects of English, especially in regard to the assignment of word stress and intonation contours; (2) the phonological and morphological properties that function to determine the surface realizations of word forms; and (3) English Language Teaching in secondary education.
Hideki Iwakura	Professor	Constitutional Law	Freedom of expression	Devising constitutional law doctrines in favor of freedom of expression in a free society.
Makoto Omura	Professor	Disaster Prevention, Remote Sensing, Geoscience	Remote sensing for disaster prevention and geoscience Social activity and education for disaster prevention	Remote sensing, especially Sar (Synthetic Aperture Radar), is a powerful tool for monitoring disasters and determining the condition of Earth’s environment. We research Sar applications. We also study social activities and education relating to disaster prevention as the Nankai Trough Great Earthquake is expected to hit Japan in the near future.
Seisuke Takanishi	Professor	Chinese Classical Literature	The tales in the Six Dynasties, Tang dynasty and Song dynasty	My research interests include exploration into (1) the history of Chinese Classical Tales from the Six Dynasties to the Song dynasty; (2) the establishment and acceptance of the collected works of Tangdai Chuanqi; and (3) the Chinese folk culture of the Middle Ages in Chinese classical tales.
Naokazu Hashio	Professor	Japanese Philology / Dialectology / Linguistics	Enviro-cultural linguistics of regional languages	Regional languages and their enviro-culture will be studied overall through an enviro-cultural linguistic approach with "living of river basin" as the keyword. We would like to link these results to the revitalization of the development of regions and communication, and help the community benefit from it.
Nobuaki Higashihara	Professor	Japanese Classical Literature	Discourse analysis of The Tale of Genji Discourse analysis of The Tosa Diary	My research focuses on the development of the discourse that finds its origins in early prose works such as The Tosa Diary and reaches its completion in The Tale of Genji, and on the continuity that can be observed between　　them.
Yoichi Miura	Professor	Architectural History	Research on preservation architectural urban history	The approaches taken to restore the Main Hall during the Meiji era (1868–1912) and the details of the project were elucidated through a study of documents with reference to other supporting evidence.
Shungo Kanazawa	Associate Professor	English Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics	Semantics, the semantic extension, and the synchronic and diachronic changes of modern English	My main research interest is the semantic extension of various constructions in English. In particular, I have researched the synchronic and diachronic changes of some modern English constructions consisting of a/an-adjective-nouns, by means of a corpus of English as well as a large electronic collection of spoken and written English. Many English constructions share the same grammatical pattern with each other, although each construction has a different meaning. I have explored the motivation for this from the perspective of human cognition and linguistic abilities.
Joel Joos	Professor	Intellectual History of Japan, Cultural Studies (Japan)	The indigenous roots of liberal thought, post-Meiji interaction with foreign countries, foreign ideas, and foreign views on Japan	My research focuses on the Movement for Freedom and People's Rights, and how it connects to the influx of Western ideas. The premise, however, is not that the development of modern thinking is to be equated with the permeation of foreign ideas, but has to be understood within the cultural context of the early Meiji era, an era about which many a foreign observer has left us with commentaries worth studying.
Masato Torikai	Associate Professor	British Literature and Culture	Modern British literature and Western philosophy Modern Western literary theory	Studying the philosophical ideas of British authors in the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century; analyzing the relationship between British literature and imperialism; re-examining the significance of the modern Western literary theory and of students learning literature at universities based on the theory.
Yoshinari Yamaguchi	Associate Professor	Early American Prose	American history writing from the late eighteenth through the nineteenth century	My biggest research interest is the making of American literature during the early national era. For the last decade, I have focused on early American history writing, and examined how the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century historians imagined and wrote the history of the newly independent (i.e., unstoried, devoid-of-history) nation into being. As part of the same project on the beginnings of American literature, moreover, I am now working on the relationship between creativity and the idea of “fame” in the early nineteenth-century literary coterie, the Knickerbocker Group.

Doctoral Program
Name	Position	Speciality	Research Theme	Research Outline

Takahiro Ioroi	Professor	English Linguistics	English linguistics (phonetics and phonology), Applied linguistics (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), Teacher education	My research interests include explorations into (1) how Efl (English as a Foreign Language) learners acquire knowledge and competence in handling prosodic aspects of English, especially in regard to the assignment of word stress and intonation contours; (2) the phonological and morphological properties that function to determine the surface realizations of word forms; and (3) English Language Teaching in secondary education.
Nobuaki Higashihara	Professor	Japanese Classical Literature	Discourse analysis of The Tale of Genji Discourse analysis of The Tosa Diary	My research focuses on the development of the discourse that finds its origins in early prose works such as The Tosa Diary and reaches its completion in The Tale of Genji, and on the continuity that can be observed between　　them.
Yoichi Miura	Professor	Architectural History	Research on preservation architectural urban history	The approaches taken to restore the Main Hall during the Meiji era (1868–1912) and the details of the project were elucidated through a study of documents with reference to other supporting evidence.
Nutrition/Human Life Sciences
Makoto Omura	Professor	Disaster Prevention, Remote Sensing, Geoscience	Remote sensing for disaster prevention and geoscience Social activity and education for disaster prevention	Remote sensing, especially Sar (Synthetic Aperture Radar), is a powerful tool for monitoring disasters and determining the condition of Earth’s environment. We research Sar applications. We also study social activities and education relating to disaster prevention as the Nankai Trough Great Earthquake is expected to hit Japan in the near future.
Takashi Murakami	Professor	Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Diabetology	Analysis of lifestyle-related diseases using molecular biological techniques and more macro approaches	We investigated the effects of adipocyte-derived bioactive substances such as leptin, which is produced in response to the nutritional status, on the ability of insulin-secretion from pancreatic B cells.
Hiroyuki Watanabe	Professor	Research on the Nutritional Functions of Foods, Analysis of the Significance of the Regulatory Functions of Energy Metabolism	Food science, food functional science, functional component analysis, lipid metabolism	We evaluate the biological functionality of food ingredients by extracting them from raw foods or from fermented and other processed foods. We use experimental techniques of each level of enzyme reaction, cell, and animal tests as an evaluation method.
Social Welfare
Shunji Sugihara	Professor	Child and Family Welfare, Counseling	Research on social work to support children and their families. Practical study of school-based social work. Additional data based on interviews with people about their experience.	My research studies focus on social work relating to children and family. I also study social work based in Japanese schools, especially those in Kochi prefecture. My research is also based on interviews with people about their own experiences.
Kimiko Nagasawa	Professor	International Comparative Research on Care for The Elderly	Quasi-market, regulation and governance to improve quality of care	(1)International comparative study of long-term care policies (2)The quasi-market and governance of social care (the balance and the roles of public, private, and non-profit sectors) (3)Gender-related issues on Lgbtqi persons
Hiroko Maruyama	Professor	Theory of Social Work Practice	Social work processes	Competence-oriented approach in psychiatric social work: (1)Development of social work methods (for encouraging people in need of help to participate in social work) (2)Development of practical competences in social workers (for systematic learning, education, training and supervision)

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