Admissions

Faculty Members

Major in Politics

Faculty Members: Academic Areas and Research Topics

Graduate School of Politics Major in Politics

Toru Aketagawa

Professor
History of Japanese politics
Political history of Japan, mainly after the Second World War

Mari Aburamoto

Professor
Comparative politics and regional studies
Modern Russian politics

Hajime Inuzuka

Professor
History of political thought
Political thought in early modern Europe

Tomoo Ueda

Professor
Philosophy
Relationship between Philosophy of Frankfurt School and Pragmatism

Yuri Kono

Professor
History of Japanese political thought
Political thought in early modern/ modern Japan

Masatoshi Kimura

Professor
Political thought and international politics, post-Cold War Mideast politics, international political science, contemporary Mideast politics
Post-colonialism in the Mideast, formation of Mideast states and the creation of and changes in global political systems

Toshimitsu Shinkawa

Professor
Comparative Politics
Poltical Economy of  Liberal  Democracies


Atsushi Sugita

Professor
Political theory
Power theory, democracy theory

Gen Tsukamoto

Professor
Contemporary Taiwanese politics, history of modern Chinese politics and diplomacy
Contemporary Taiwanese elections and China-Taiwan relations

Katsuro Nakano

Professor
U.S. political history and history of political thought
Political thought at the time of the country’s founding, post-World War II U.S. conservatism

Tamotsu Hosoi

Professor
Political systems theory
Examinations of political regimes from the dual aspects of systems and creeds

Jiro Yamaguchi

Professor
Political processes
Contemporary politics, parliamentary politics, partisan politics

Taku Yamamoto

Professor
History of welfare states centering on the UK, comparative discussion of welfare states
Formation, development and reorganization of the UK as a welfare state, international comparison of welfare states