Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics
Graduate School of Humanities Major in History
Miki Utsunomiya
Professor
History of East Asian Interaction, History of Water Use
Urban Water Use and Transportation in Premodern China
Masashi Oguchi
Professor
Ancient Japanese history, comparative history of Japanese land laws, Ezo theory
Ancient Japanese socioeconomic history, comparative history of Chinese and Japanese administrative and criminal codes, ancient and medieval history of northern Japan, Dunhuang and Turfan studies
Junichi Ogura
Professor
Japanese archeology
Japanese archeology, particularly research into Yayoi era society in eastern Japan
Hirohito Shiozawa
Professor
Chinese history; historical science based on physical materials
Archeology of the imperial palaces of the Han, Wei and Jin Northern and Southern dynasties or as viewed by Japanese envoys to the Tang dynasty
Taku Minagawa
Professor
Early Modern Western History
History of the Holy Roman Empire
Hiroaki Ohsawa
Associate Professor
Modern and contemporary Western history
British imperial history (colonialism in Southern Africa), imperialism and modern world
Norihiro Ohtsuka
Associate Professor
Medieval Japanese history
Research on Buddhism and foreign contact in medieval times
Masaru Saito
Associate Professor
Ancient Chinese history
Research focused on Tang Dynasty society, ethnic groups, and culture
Kazunari Naito
Associate Professor
Modern Japanese history
Modern and Contemporary Politics and Culture
Kenshiro Matsumoto
Associate Professor
Early-modern Japanese history
Edo spaces and society, transformation of the image of Yoshida Shoin
Yasutaka Uchida
Lecturer
History of Ancient Rome
Political and legal history of the late Republic and early Empire