Steering Committee Academic Year 2022
Chairman
1.Yasushi KOSUGI
Director, Asia-Japan Research Institute: Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization
Research keywords
: Area studies, Islamic Studies, International Relations, Comparative Politics, Comparative Civilization, Ethnicity and Nationalism Studies, Middle East Area Studies, the Study of the Islamic World, Islamic Jurisprudence, Islam in Asia, Philosophy of a Halal Life
director office
Vice Chairman
2.Satoshi TANAKA
Vice Director, Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization: Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering
Research keywords
: Software, Multimedia Database, High-Performance Computing, Cognitive Science, Life/Health/Medical Informatics, Cultural Assets Study and Museology, Computer Graphics, Scientific Visualization, Digital Humanities, Medical Visualization
Member
3.Hiroyuki MORI
Professor, College of Policy Science
Research keywords
: Local Public Finance, Public Finance, Urban Political Economy, Public Policy, Public Utilities, Institutional Economics, Asbestos Disaster
4.Shin-ichi AGO
Director, The Kyoto Museum for World Peace Visiting: Professor, Kinugasa Research Organization
Research keywords
: International Law, International Labour Law, Implementation Process of International Law
5.Mikio NISHIZAWA
Professor, College of Life Sciences
Research keywords
: Pathological Medical Chemistry, Medical Biochemistry, Pharmacology, Drug Development, Natural Antisense Transcript, Cytokine, Chemokine, Nitric Oxide, Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase, Gene, Gene Regulation, Hepatocytes, Inflammation
6.Miwa HIRONO
Professor, College of Global Liberal Arts
(Project Leader, AY2020 - 2022 Asia-Japan Research Development Program)
Research keywords
: International Relations, Area Studies, Politics, China's International Relations, China's Peacekeeping Operations and Humanitarian Assistance, China's Civil Society, Sino-Japan Relations
7.Yuko YATO
Professor, College of Comprehensive Psychology
(Project Leader, AY2021 - 2023 Asia-Japan Research Development Program)
Research keywords
: Educational Psychology, Comparative and Developmental Psychology
8.Sachio NAKATO
Professor, College of International Relations
(Project Leader, AY2021 - 2023 Asia-Japan Research Development Program)
Research keywords
: International Relations, International Political Economy, International Relations in East Asia, US-Japan Relations
9.Yuka ANZAKO
Professor, College of Letters
Research keywords
: History of Orient, International Relations, Korean Modern History, History of International Relations, History of Korea-Japan Relationship
10.ZHOU Weisheng
Professor, College of Policy Science
(Project Leader, AY2022 - 2024 Asia-Japan Research Development Program)
Research keywords
: Social System Engineering, Energetics, Environmental Impact Assessment/Environmental Policy, Technological Policy, East Asian Low Carbon Community, CJK Nuclear Security System
11.Kota SUECHIKA
Professor, College of International Relations
(Project Leader, AY2022 - 2024 Asia-Japan Research Development Program), RARA（Ritsumeikan Advanced Research Academy）Fellow
Research keywords
: Area Studies, International Relations, Comparative Politics, International Politics, Religious Studies, History of Thought, Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Political Movement/Philosophy, Historical Syrian Studies
12.CAO Ruilin
Professor, Ritsumeikan International
Research keywords
: Economic Policy, Fiscal Studies/Finance Theory, Market Economy, China's "New Normal" Economy, Tax System, Finance of Social Security, Finance of Compulsory Education, Financial Independency of Local Government, National Minimum, Land Finance, Real Estate Taxation, Local Economics, Regional Disparity, Sino-Japan Economic Cooperation and Exchange, China's Economic Development and Tax and Fiscal Structure and Local Government Finance
13.Satoshi SODA
Professor, College of Science and Engineering
(Project Leader, AY2022 - 2024 Asia-Japan Research Development Program)
Research keywords
: Environmental Dynamics Analysis, Environmental Engineering/Reduction of Environmental Burden, Modeling and Technologies for Environmental Conservation and Remediation, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Wastewater Treatment, Microorganisms, Plants, Sludge Treatment, Resource Recovery
14.Yumi TAKENAKA
Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences
Research keywords
: Aesthetics, Art Studies, Art History, Theory of Art Practice, Museology, History, Contemporary Art Theories, Photography, Visual Cultural Studies, Exhibition Studies