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International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies, Tohoku University

StaffStudent List

School Year Name Affiliation Themes
Third year of doctoral course Sora Ito Graduate School of Arts and Letters Japanese Christian and Political Philosophy in Wartime Japan
Jugo Sato Graduate School of Environmental Studies An anthropological study on gathering activities of wild edible foods from the perspective of "place": In the case of mountainous area in southwestern Akita
Jian Guan Graduate School of Arts and Letters The penal servitude in premodern China
Xuehan Zhao Graduate School of Arts and Letters The relationship between acquisition of mental lexicon and identity establishment in bilingual children
Sang-yun Han Graduate School of International Cultural Studies Esoteric Buddhism and the Occult in Postwar Japan: Perspectives from Global Religious History
Takuma Hosoi Graduate School of Economics and Management Developmental processes and institutional change in the petrochemical industry during theJapanese high growth era: A comparative institutional analysis of public-private cooperation
Chisato Makishima Graduate School of Arts and Letters Anthropological Studies of Drag Queens
Rei Emura Graduate School of Arts and Letters Language-universal Mechanism of Misunderstanding
Liwei Tan Graduate School of Arts and Letters Indirect speech act processing in older adults
Second year of doctoral course Satone Komoriya Graduate School of Education Cross-border Learning in Intercultural Collaborative Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom
Shiori Kato Graduate School of Arts and Letters How Do We Translate a Printed Word into its Meaning? Process of Information Derived from Letters Might Greatly Differ among People
Zibo Chen Graduate School of Economics and Management 19th Century Britain's expansion into the Middle East and Asia and local response
First year of doctoral course Saki Sakurai Graduate School of Arts and Letters Japan's Economic Expansion into Southeast Asia in the Prewar Period
Yugo Okano Graduate School of Arts and Letters A Study of Prewar and Postwar Intellectuals: Focus on Kiyoshi Komatsu
Second year of master course Xiaoman Xu Graduate School of Arts and Letters The effects of information structure on sentence structure: a study in a symmetrical voice language
Hirotaka Chen Graduate School of International Cultural Studies Utilizing the results of kuntengo studies on language contact research: Focusing on linguistic borrowing through contact between Japanese and Literary Sinitic
Jiehua Xu Graduate School of Arts and Letters Vitalism and the Mingei Aesthetic:Exploring Yanagi Soetsu's Philosophy of Life
Shogo Bamba Graduate School of Arts and Letters Japan-UK Relations before and after Washington Naval Conference
Yunshan Xue Graduate School of Arts and Letters A Comparative Study of New Burial Practices Emphasizing the Image of "Nature" in Japan and China: Focusing on Funeral Rituals
Momoka Shibata Graduate School of Arts and Letters A Study of 18th-Century Venetian Art: Focus on Giambattista Tiepolo
Yucheng Wang Graduate School of Arts and Letters Numerical Expressions in Seediq
Satoshi Kikumoto Graduate School of Education A study of phenomenological human development based on Merleau-ponty's theory

Alumni

Year of obtaining Ph.D. Name Affiliation at TU Current Position
2025
Ai Yu
Graduate School of Arts and Letters Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
Yota Watanabe
Graduate School of Arts and Letters Project Researcher, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University ot Tokyo
2024
Yoko Kagami
Graduate School of Arts and Letters Assistant Professor, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Tomoya Masuda
Graduate School of Arts and Letters Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2023
Peiyao Wu
Graduate School of International Cultual Studies School of Humanities, Shanghai Normal University