Steering Committee Academic Year 2023
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.Kenki ADACHI
Professor, College of International Relations: Project Leader of the Research Development Program and its Projects (2023-2025)
Research keywords
: Politics, International Relations (international politics, political science)
4.Yuka ANZAKO
Professor, College of Letters
Research keywords
: International Relations, International Political Economy, East-Asian International Relations, Japan-U.S. relations
5.Ayaka KURODA
Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization
Research keywords
: Religious Studies, History of thought, International Relations, Area Studies, History of Asia and Africa (Keywords: Egypt, Islam, Islamism, Islamic political thought, Muslim intellectuals, moderates and extremists, Middle East Area Studies, Ismamic Studies)
6.ZHOU Weisheng
Professor, College of Policy Science: Project Leader of the Research Development Program and its Projects (2022-2024)
Research keywords
:Social System Engineering, Energy Engineering, Environmental Influence Valuation/Environment Policy, Policy Engineering (Keyword:Energy / Environmental Policy Policy Engineering)
7.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
8.Satoshi SODA
Professor, College of Science and Engineering: Project Leader of the Research Development Program and its Projects (2022-2024)
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
9.Kazuko TAKAYA
Professor, College of Economics: Project Leader of the Research Development Program and its Projects (2023-2025)
Research keywords
: Area Studies, Economic Policy (Keyword:Study on Contemporary Chinese Economy, China, agriculture, Agri-coops, public finance)
10.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
11.Mikio NISHIZAWA
Professor, College of Life Sciences: Project Leader of the Research Development Program and its Projects (2021-2023)
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
12.Makoto HIZUME
College of Law
Research keywords
: Private International Laws, International Contract Laws, International Child Abduction, International Intellectual Property Law, Immigration Law
13.Miwa HIRONO
Professor, College of Global Liberal Arts
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
14.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
15.Yuko YATO
Professor, College of Comprehensive Psychology
(Project Leader, AY2021 - 2023 Asia-Japan Research Development Program)
Research keywords
: Educational Psychology, Comparative and Developmental Psychology