Staff

The Urban-Culture Research Center is composed of faculty members of the Literature and Human Sciences and more than 50 UCRC doctoral fellows.

The following is the list of core members FY 2024:

Name	Title	Specialization
SAGA Ashita	Dean Professor	History of Modern Japan
WATANABE Kenya	Director Professor	Early Modern Chinese Urban History, Beijing History
HASHIMOTO Hirofumi	Vice-Director Associate Professor	Social psychology, Cross-cultural psychology
KUSABU Hisatsugu	Professor	Byzantine & Medieval History, Christianity, Religious Movements
SHIRATA Yuki	Professor	Francophone Culture of Fin-de-siècle France & Belgium, Representation of Womens in Art, Art Nouveau Movements
TSUJINO Kemma	Associate Professor	Educational Administration and Management
AMANO Keita	Associate Professor	Tourism Studies, Urban Tourism, Cultural Resources Studies of Region, Educational Administration and Management
KIM Seungyeon	Project Assistant Professor	Modern & Contemporary Japanese Literature(Culture), Post-Disaster Literature, Comparative study of Japanese & Korean Literature