Faculty Members
last modified: April 1, 2011
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Director-General
SUDO Ken’ichi
Deputy Directors-General
SASAKI Shiro
Socioeconomic history of reindeer-breeders and forest hunters; Northern Asia, Siberia
SUGIMOTO Yoshio
Social anthropology; Sri Lanka, South India
Research Departments
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Department of Social Research
Director: KONAGAYA Yuki
Professors
- HAN Min
- Social anthropology; China
- IKEYA Kazunobu
- Environmental anthropology, cultural geography; Southern Africa, Japan
- INTOH Michiko
- Prehistory of Oceania; Oceania, Island Southeast Asia
- KONAGAYA Yuki
- Cultural ecology and cosmology; Central Asia, Mongolia
- SHOJI Hiroshi
- Finno-Ugric linguistics, ethnolinguistics, language policy; Northern Europe, China
- SUGIMOTO Yoshio
- Social anthropology; Sri Lanka, South India
- TAMURA Katsumi
- Cultural anthropology; Southeast Asia, East Asia
- TSUKADA Shigeyuki
- Ethnohistory; Southern China
Associate Professors
- HAYASHI Isao
- Social structure, cosmology, risk and disaster; Melanesia, Polynesia, Japan
- MATTHEWS, Peter J.
- Ethnobotany, prehistory, crop plant biogeography; Asia, Pacific
- MISHIMA Teiko
- Anthropology, international migration; Senegal, West Africa
- SATO Koji
- Architectural history, ethno-architecture; Southeast Asia, Oceania
- UDAGAWA Taeko
- Cultural anthropology, gender studies; Italy, Mediterranean Europe
- YOKOYAMA Hiroko
- Cultural anthropology, Chinese society and culture
Assistant Professors
- SUGASE Akiko
- Anthropology, Middle Eastern Area Study

Department of Cultural Research
Director: YASUGI Yoshiho
Professors
- KONDO Masaki
- Folk materials, folklore; Japan, Europe
- MORI Akiko
- Cultural anthropology, ethnography of central Europe, Germany, Austria, Japan
- NAKAMAKI Hirochika
- Japanese religion, Brazilian company culture; Japan, U.S.A., Brazil
- SASAKI Shiro
- Socioeconomic history of reindeer-breeders and forest hunters; Northern Asia, Siberia
- TERADA Yoshitaka
- Ethnomusicology, performing arts of Asia
- YASUGI Yoshiho
- Linguistic anthropology, writing systems, Mayan civilization; Mesoamerica
- YOSHIMOTO Shinobu
- Textile arts and technology; Asia, Africa, America, Europe
Associate Professors
- HIRAI Kyonosuke
- Economic anthropology, anthropology of work; Southeast Asia
- HIROSE Koujirou
- Japanese religious history, folklore
- KAWAGUCHI Yukiya
- Contemporary African art, cultural representation in display; Sub-saharan Africa
- KIKUSAWA Ritsuko
- Linguistics, Austronesian languages
- SHINMEN Mitsuhiro
- Science of religion; Eastern Europe
- YAMANAKA Yuriko
- Comparative study of traditions on Alexander the Great; West Asia, Iran
Assistant Professors
- SAITO Reiko
- Ainu and Northern Indigenous Peoples studies, material cultureG North Pacific Rim

Department of Advanced Studies in Anthropology
Director: KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro
Professors
- KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro
- Cultural anthropology, Inuit studies, anthropology of marine resources
- SEKIMOTO Teruo
- Cultural anthropology, anthropology of work; Southeast Asia
- SUZUKI Nanami
- Medical Anthropology, Social History of Medicine
- TAKEZAWA Shoichiro
- Afirican history, history of anthropological thought; West Africa
Associate Professors
- CHEN Tien-shi
- Cultural anthropology, international political economy, Chinese diaspora, statelessness
- SAITO Akira
- Ethnohistory; Latin America
- SHIRAKAWA Chihiro
- Cultural anthropology, anthropology of development
- SUZUKI Motoi
- Anthropological Perspectives on Development Assistance Evaluations
Assistant Professors

Center for Research Development
Director: NISHIO Tetsuo
Professors
- SASAHARA Ryoji
- Folk culture, performing arts; Japan
- SEKI Yuji
- South American archaeology, cultural anthropology
- NISHIO Tetsuo
- Linguistics, Arab culture, Middle East, North Africa
- NOBAYASHI Atsushi
- Ethnoarchaeology, material culture; Austronesian cultures; East Asia, Formosa
Associate Professors
- KASHINAGA Masao
- Ethnography of Southeast Asia; Vietnam, Tai area
- MIO Minoru
- Religious anthropology; South Asia, India
- NOBUTA Toshihiro
- Social anthropology; Southeast Asia, Malaysia
Assistant Professors
- NIWA Norio
- Social anthropology, Oceania regional research
- OTA Shimpei
- Integration and Variation of Social Cultures in Korean Society

Research Center for Cultural Resources
Director: ASAKURA Toshio
Professors
- ASAKURA Toshio
- Social structures in East Asia; Korea, Japan
- KOBAYASHI Shigeki
- Museum science, cultural anthropology
- KUBO Masatoshi
- Ethno-informatics, media and culture, computer ethnology; Australia
- SONODA Naoko
- Conservation science
- YOSHIDA Kenji
- Anthropology of expressive culture; Africa, Europe, Japan
Associate Professors
- FUKUOKA Shota
- Ethnomusicology; Southeast Asia, Indonesia
- HIDAKA shingo
- Conservation science
- IIDA Taku
- Ecological anthropology, fisher studies; Madagascar, Japan
- MINAMI Makito
- Ecological anthropology; South Asia
- YAMAMOTO Yasunori
- Museum informatics
Assistant Professors
- ITO Atsunori
- Social Anthropology, Native American Studies, Indigenous Arts and Intellectual Property Issues
- UEBA Yoko
- Race art study, Dyeing and weaving research, Handicraft research