Faculty Members

Major in Public Policy and Social Governance

Satoshi Amamoto

Professor
Administrative law
Study on legal interpretation and legislation for public policy implementation

Hiroyuki Kato

Professor
Regional industry
Analyzing actual international division of labor and the transfer of industry

Hiroshi Shiratori

Professor
Political Science, International Politics
Analysis of contemporary politics (citizens, elections, political parties, and nation States)

Kazuhisa Sugisaki

Professor
Town planning and techniques for resident participation
An optimal way of resident participation in public decision making, support systems for community creation for all residents, and the modern history of community creation

Kimie Tsuchiyama

Professor
Public policy, Local government and governance, Political science
The change of social structure and actors of public policy: goverment, council, citizen. The art of dialogue and discussion for public policy

Naoya Nakasuji

Professor
Regional sociology, Social Research Methods
Localities in a global society

Yoshihiko Nawata

Professor
Public philosophy and community theory
Historical consideration of fundamental ideological principles relevant to the nature of the modern public world and practical verification through field studies

Katsuya Hirose

Professor
Public Policy and Administration
Decentralization reform and the system and policy of local government, inter-governmental relationship at local, national and international levels

Hatsuki Fuchimoto

Professor
Comparative Public Policy
Theory of Local Community and Social Policy

Masato Itohisa

Associate Professor
Innovation management, standardization strategy
Study of technology and innovation in society

Kazumi Tada

Associate Professor
International Business
Study on strategy and organizational structure of multinational companies in international society

Yumiko Tanimoto

Associate Professor
Local Government, Public Administration
Central-Local relations in Japan, Democratic governance at the local level

Reona Hayahi

Associate Professor
Public Management, Public Policy
Human resource management in the public sector, public-private comparison, public service motivation, leadership, NIMBY

Major in Sustainability Studies

Akiko Okamatsu

Professor
International Law, International Nuclear Law, Law of the Sea, International Environmental Law
International Peace Studies

Masanao Kanetoh

Associate Professor
Environmental management, regional management, sustainability accounting
Business design for sustainable regional growth

Tetsuya Kitagawa

Professor
Environmental fluid mechanics, Weather risk
Energy and society

Satoshi Kojima

Professor
Administration studies, local autonomy
Creation of sustainable regional societies and public policy

Nobuhiko Sugito

Professor
Physical geography, natural disaster science
Natural environments and disasters

 Makoto Sugino

Professor
Environmental Economics, Applied Microeconomics
designing climate change policies, energy security

Masayuki Takada

Professor
Nature conservation policy, ecology
Harmonization of human and nature, biodiversity conservation

Satsuki Takahashi

Professor
Cultural anthropology (environment, oceans, disasters)
Human - ocean relationship

Naruhiko Takesada

Professor
Development studies, international cooperation, socioeconomics in developing nations, development and ethics
In pursuit of a sustainable international society - peoples of developing nations and we of the developed nations

Hidetaka Tsuji

Professor
Western history (modern and contemporary German history)
Living in a civil society - history, environment, and culture

Hideo Nagano

Professor
Comparative law in Japan and the U.S., environmental law, advanced science and technology law, labor law
Japan - U.S. environmental audit and legal affairs

Naoya Hasegawa

Professor
CSR management, socially responsible investment, ESG investment
Exploration of sustainable companies

Ryo Fujikura

Professor
Environmental systems, International environmental cooperation

Tomoaki Matsumoto

Professor
Theoretical astrophysics
Global warming and its surrounds

Michiko Miyakawa

Professor
Public health, Industrial Medicine, Orthomolecular Medicine, Hydrogen Medicine

Noriko Yuzawa

Professor
Regional economics, modern and contemporary Japanese history, human geography
Theory and practice of regional associations, regional economics of food and agriculture

Akihiro Yoshinaga

Professor
Environmental ethics
Introduction to urban environmental ethics

Makoto Watanabe

Professor
Computational science, condensed matter theory
Thinking from various perspectives about science and technology policy

Kenjiro Fujita

Associate Professor
Environmental Sociology, Environmental Governance, NGOs, Nonprofits, Agricultural Cooperatives, Biodiversity​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Partnership with Environmental NGOs and Government, Nature Conservation in Rural Areas