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Staff directory
| Name | Position | Area | Division | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | MIENO, Fumiharu | Professor | Economics, Finance & Development | Global Humanosphere |
 | KOBAYASHI, Satoru | Professor | Area Studies、Anthropology | Cross-regional Studies |
 | OKAMOTO, Masaaki | Professor | Area Studies, Political Science | Political & Economic Coexistence |
 | CHACHAVALPONGPUN, Pavin | Professor | Politics and International Relations | Political & Economic Coexistence |
 | ISHIKAWA, Noboru | Professor | Area Studies, Cultural Anthropology | Global Humanosphere |
 | KOZAN, Osamu | Professor | hydrology | Environmental Coexistence |
 | MURAKAMI, Yusuke | Professor | Latin American Area Studies, Political Science | Global Humanosphere |
 | NAKANISHI, Yoshihiro | Professor | Area Studies, Comparative Politics | Political & Economic Coexistence |
 | OBIYA, Chika | Professor | Modern History of Central Asia, Central Asian Area Studies | Social Coexistence |
 | YAMAZAKI, Wataru | Professor | Food hygiene, zoonotic disease, animal infectious disease | Environmental Coexistence |
 | R. Michael Feener | Professor | History, Anthropology, Philology, Islamic Studies, Archaeology, Religious Studies, Southeast Asian Studies | Cross-regional Studies |
 | DANESHGAR, Majid | Associate Professor | Orientalism, Philology, Religions, Inscriptions, Manuscripts, Muslim Traditions, Shi'ism, Persianate-Malay | Division of Social Coexistence |
 | KIMURA, Satoko | Associate Professor | Underwater Bioacoustics, EIA(Environmental Impact Assessment), Natural symbiotic system | Environmental Coexistence |
 | LOPEZ, Mario Ivan | Associate Professor | Cultural Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies, Migration Studies, Indicators Research | Global Humanosphere |
 | MACHIKITA, Tomohiro | Associate Professor | Labor Economics and Industrial Development | Global Humanosphere |
 | NISHI, Yoshimi | Associate Professor | Southeast Asian Studies | Cross-regional Studies |
 | TANGSEEFA, Decha | Associate Professor | Political Theory | Social Coexistence |
 | YAMAMOTO, Hiroyuki | Associate Professor | Area studies, Media studies | Cross-regional Studies |
 | SAKAMOTO, Ryota | Associate Professor | Field Medicine | Environmental Coexistence |
 | YANAGISAWA, Masayuki | Associate Professor | Environmental History in Southeast Asia, Vietnamese Studies, Tropical Agriculture | Environmental Coexistence |
 | ZHAI, Yalei | Associate Professor | Development Economics, Area Studies | Political & Economic Coexistence |
 | KITANI, Kimiya | Assistant Professor | Database Development, System Management, Information Processing | Environmental Coexistence |
 | OGAWA, Mariko | Assistant Professor | Radar Meteorology | Environmental Coexistence |
 | SHITARA, Narumi | Assistant Professor | Scholarly publishing | Social Coexistence |
 | TAKAHASHI, Tomoko | Assistant Professor | Political Science, International Relations, International Institutions | Global Humanosphere |
 | TOSA, Minami | Assistant Professor | Librarian | Social Coexistence |
 | TSUCHIYA, Kisho | Assistant Professor | Southeast Asian area studies, modern history, postcolonialism, Cold War, borderland studies | Social Coexistence |
 | YAMADA, Chika | Assistant Professor | Public Health, Area Studies | Environmental Coexistence |
 | OPHINNI, Youdiil | Program-Specific Assistant Professor | Virology, infectious diseases, area genomics | Environmental Coexistence |
| AKAMATSU, Yoshio | Program-Specific Faculty | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | De Los Reyes, Julie Ann | Program-Specific Faculty | Geography, Political Ecology | Global Humanosphere |
| KHALILI, Mostafa | Program-Specific Faculty | Social Coexistence |
Researcher
| Name | Position | Area | Division | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | AGABIN, Maria Eliza Hidalgo | Program-Specific Researcher | Cultural Heritage Studies, Southeast Asia | Cross-regional Studies |
 | BARANYAI, Krisztina Anna | Program-Specific Researcher | Archaeology, Southeast Asian Studies, Geoinformatics | Cross-regional Studies |
 | ISHII, Hiroshi | Program-Specific Researcher | Maritime archaeology, Modern conflict archaeology | Cross-regional Studies |
 | IRAWANI, Maida | Program-Specific Researcher | Cultural Heritage Studies, Indonesia, Maldives | Cross-regional Studies |
 | Paing Thet Phyo | Program-Specific Researcher | Field Archaeology, Digital Cultural Heritage, Geospatial Analysis | Cross-regional Studies |
 | ABDUL, Fikri | Program-Specific Researcher | Data Processing, Database Management | Cross-regional Studies |
 | RAHMAN, Sheak Mahfujur | Program Specific Researcher | History, Archaeology, Area Studies | Cross-regional Studies |
 | Ye Htet | Research Associate | Computer Science, AI and Machine Learning, Digital Healthcare, Smart Agriculture, Environmental Monitoring | Environmental Coexistence |
 | KIKUCHI, Taihei | Research Associate | Area studies, Burmese history | Political & Economic Coexistence |
| OHASHI, Mariko | JSPS Fellow | Amazonian Studies, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Anthropology, Food Culture Studies | Global Humanosphere | |
 | IIZUKA, Noriko | Researcher | Social innovation, environmental education, area studies | Environmental Coexistence |
| YAJIMA, Kichiji | Researcher | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| YAMAZAKI, Yasuko | Researcher | Environmental Coexistence |
Visiting Scholars
| Name | Period | Affiliation | Position | Area | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | ABINALES, Patricio Nunez | 2025/03/01 - 2025/08/31 | Independent Researcher | Visiting Research Scholar | Philippine political history; Southeast Asian History; American Political Development |
 | IGLESIAS, Sol | 2025/02/01 - 2025/04/30 | Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines Diliman | Visiting Research Scholar | political violence, Philippine politics, Southeast Asian politics, democracy/autocracy, academic freedom |
 | RAQUIZA, Maria Victoria | 2025/02/01 - 2025/07/31 | National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines Diliman | Visiting Research Scholar | social policy, developmental states and new developmentalism, SDGs, poverty and inequality, MSMEs |
 | Sonam, Kinga | 2025/01/01 - 2025/06/30 | Royal Institute of Governance and Strategic Studies | Visiting Research Scholar | State-building in Bhutan Bhutan’s relations with India, China and Nepal Democratic politics in Bhutan |
 | Wahyu, Prasetyawan | 2024/11/01 - 2025/04/30 | Faculty of Communication, Syarif Hidayatullah Islamic State University | Visiting Research Scholar | Indonesian Political Economy, Environmental Governance, Democracy and Economic Development, Voting Behavior, Network Analysis |
 | SCHREURS, Jeanine | 2024/10/03 - 2025/07/31 | Independent Researcher | Guest Scholar | Sustainability sciences, Consumer studies, Visual anthropology |
 | LUO, Dan | 2024/12/25 - 2025/12/24 | Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences | Guest Scholar | Natural resource management and TEK among ethnic minorities in the southwestern frontiers of China, Ethnic Cultures and Biodiversity in the Multiethnic Highlands of Southeast Asia, Agricultural development during the agrarian change process of Southeast Asia |
| THUM, Pingtjin | 2025/02/01 - 2025/07/31 | Guest Research Associate | |||
 | Yu-Ning Chen | 2024/07/01 - 2026/03/31 | Washington University in St. Louis | Guest Research Associate | Comparative Literature, Fashion Studies |
Japanese Visiting Scholars
| Name | Position | Area | Division | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | HAU, Caroline Sy | Japanese Visiting Professor | Cultural Studies | Social Coexistence |
| KISHI, Kenta | Japanese Visiting Professor | Japanese Visiting Scholars | ||
 | KOIZUMI, Junko | Japanese Visiting Professor | Modern Thai History and Historiography | Social Coexistence |
 | NEMOTO, Yoichi | Japanese Visiting Professor | East Asian Economy, International Finance | Japanese Visiting Scholars |
| SERIZAWA, Satohiro | Japanese Visiting Professor | |||
 | ONO, Mikiko | Japanese Visiting Associate Professor | Area studies, Vietnamese history | Environmental Coexistence |
Affiliated Faculty
| Name | Position | Area | Division | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABE, Shigeyuki | Affiliated Professor | Global Humanosphere | ||
 | ANDO, Kazuo | Affiliated Professor | Tropical Agriculture | Environmental Coexistence |
| ARA, Satoshi | Affiliated Professor | Global Humanosphere | ||
| ARAI, Nobuaki | Affiliated Professor | Fisheries Enviromental Oceanography | Environmental Coexistence | |
| BABA, Yuji | Affiliated Professor | Cross-regional Studies | ||
 | De Jong, Wil | Affiliated Professor | Environmental governance, policy research, natural resource management | Global Humanosphere |
 | FUJITA, Koichi | Affiliated Professor | Agricultural Economics, Southeast Asia Area Studies | Political & Economic Coexistence |
 | Flores Urushima, Andrea Yuri | Affiliated Professor | Urban Environmental Studies, Urban Environmental History, Regional Spaces Theory | Global Humanosphere |
| Jeifuu Chen | Affiliated Professor | Cross-regional Studies | ||
| FUJITA, Masaharu | Affiliated Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | HARA, Shoichiro | Affiliated Professor | Information Science | Global Humanosphere |
 | HAYAMI, Yoko | Affiliated Professor | Cultural Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies | Cross-regional Studies |
| HAYASHI, Taiichi | Affiliated Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| KAGATSUME, Masaru | Affiliated Professor | Global Humanosphere | ||
 | KOHYAMA, Takashi | Affiliated Professor | Ecology, Environmental biology | Environmental Coexistence |
 | KONO, Yasuyuki | Affiliated Professor | Southeast Asian studies, Agricultural science | Environmental Coexistence |
| MATSUBAYASHI, Kozo | Affiliated Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | MIZUNO, Kosuke | Affiliated Professor | Indonesian area study, agricultural economics, labor economics, and environmental economics | Political & Economic Coexistence |
| OHASHI, Atsuko | Affiliated Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | OHNO, Shun | Affiliated Professor | East Asian and Southeast Asian Studies | Global Humanosphere |
| OKUMIYA, Kiyohito | Affiliated Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | Ofer Feldman | Affiliated Professor | Global Humanosphere | |
| SHIBAYAMA, Mamoru | Affiliated Professor | Cross-regional Studies | ||
 | SUGIHARA, Kaoru | Affiliated Professor | Economic History, Environmental History | Global Humanosphere |
| UCHIDA, Haruo | Affiliated Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | YOSHIKAWA, Minako ”Jen” | Affiliated Professor | Southeast Asian Area Studies, Public Health, Marketing | Political & Economic Coexistence |
 | BADENOCH, Nathan | Affiliated Associate Professor | Social Coexistence | |
| Zuhud Rozaki | Affiliated Associate Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | BABA, Hiroki | Affiliated Associate Professor | Urban and Real Estate Analysis | Global Humanosphere |
| FUJIEDA, Ayako | Affiliated Associate Professor | Global Humanosphere | ||
| FUJISAWA, Michiko | Affiliated Associate Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| HIRAMATSU, Hideki | Affiliated Associate Professor | Cross-regional Studies | ||
| IMAMURA, Sachiko | Affiliated Associate Professor | Area Studies, Comparative Politics | Political & Economic Coexistence | |
| ISHIMOTO, Yasuko | Affiliated Associate Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| KANEKO, Chiho | Affiliated Associate Professor | Zoonoses | Environmental Coexistence | |
| KONO, Motoko | Affiliated Associate Professor | Political & Economic Coexistence | ||
| KOYABU, Daisuke | Affiliated Associate Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | Kreangkrai, Kirdsiri | Affiliated Associate Professor | Area Studies, Heritage Study, Tourism Study, Vernacular Built Environment | Cross-regional Studies |
| MITSUNARI, Ayumi | Affiliated Associate Professor | Cross-regional Studies | ||
 | Miele, Matteo | Affiliated Associate Professor | Asian History, British Empire | Cross-regional Studies |
| SHIODERA, Satomi | Affiliated Associate Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| WADA, Taizo | Affiliated Associate Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| WATANABE, Kazuo | Affiliated Associate Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| HIRATA, Reo | Affiliated Lecturer | Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Management | Global Humanosphere | |
| RADJAWALI, Irendra | Affiliated Lecturer | Political & Economic Coexistence | ||
 | KAWAMOTO, Kanae | Affiliated Lecturer | Buddhist Studies (Pali, Theravada Buddhism), Religious Studies (Buddhist ethics) | Global Humanosphere |
 | LU, Wanxue | Affiliated Lecturer | Thailand’s macroeconomy, financial sector, and ASEAN regional financial integration. | Global Humanosphere |
 | NAOI, Riyo | Affiliated Lecturer | Area Studies for Southeast Asia, Media Studies | Social Coexistence |
 | NISHIMOTO, Noa | Affiliated Lecturer | Environmental Coexistence | |
| Cahyo Wisnu Rubiyanto | Affiliated Assistant Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | FUKE, Yusuke | Affiliated Assistant Professor | Ecology, evolution, biogeography | Political & Economic Coexistence |
| HIROSAKI, Mayumi | Affiliated Assistant Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| IIZUKA, Kotaro | Affiliated Assistant Professor | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | Thun, Theara | Affiliated Assistant Professor | History | Cross-regional Studies |
| Ben Fan | Affiliated Reseracher | Political & Economic Coexistence | ||
| INUI, Tomohiko | Affiliated Reseracher | Global Humanosphere | ||
| Jo Hoyeon | Affiliated Reseracher | Cross-regional Studies | ||
 | KUNO, Genta | Affiliated Reseracher | Area Studies, Urban Studies | Political & Economic Coexistence |
| Mirzaei, Azar | Affiliated Researcher | Social Coexistence | ||
| KANBARA, Kentaro | Affiliated Researcher | Political & Economic Coexistence | ||
| ABE, Akane | Affiliated Researcher | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | ADACHI, Mari | Affiliated Researcher | Area Studies(Indonesia), Islamic Economics | Political & Economic Coexistence |
| AIHARA, Hiroshi | Affiliated Researcher | Cross-regional Studies | ||
 | DUMLAO, Samuel Matthew Girao | Affiliated Researcher | Energy Transition and Sustainability Sustainable Agriculture Data Integration and Visual Analytics Scenario Simulation and Optimization Scheduling and Automation | Global Humanosphere |
 | Dale, Cyprianus Jehan Paju | Affiliated Researcher | Indonesia, West Papua, Southeast Asia | Global Humanosphere |
 | FUKUSHIMA, Naoki | Affiliated Researcher | Area Studies, Human Ecology | Environmental Coexistence |
| Frey, Urszula | Affiliated Researcher | Social Coexistence | ||
| HOSOBUCHI, Michiko | Affiliated Researcher | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | IKEDA, Mizuho | Affiliated Researcher | Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Heritage Studies | Cross-regional Studies |
| JINDO, Keiji | Affiliated Researcher | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| KAMIYA, Tosirou | Affiliated Researcher | Global Humanosphere | ||
| KAWASAKI, Naoko | Affiliated Researcher | Agronomy | Environmental Coexistence | |
 | KOMOOT, Abhirada | Affiliated Researcher | Maritime and Underwater Archaeology, Ancient Ship Studies, Indian Ocean World History, Archaeological Heritage Management, and Field Arcaheology | Cross-regional Studies |
 | KUMAGAI, Mizue | Affiliated Researcher | Cultural anthropology | Social Coexistence |
 | McCormick, Patrick | Affiliated Researcher | History, Linguistics | Social Coexistence |
| Meutia, Ami Aminah | Affiliated Researcher | Global Humanosphere | ||
 | Mohamed, Shamran | Affiliated Researcher | Field survey, Digital heritage documentation | Cross-regional Studies |
 | NAKAMURA, Tomomi | Affiliated Researcher | History of Central Asia, History of Russo-Qing relations | Social Coexistence |
| NAMIKI, Kanami | Affiliated Researcher | Global Humanosphere | ||
| NOSE, Mitsuhiro | Affiliated Researcher | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | Nursalmah, Sofiani Sabarina | Affiliated Researcher | Field Survey Digital Heritage Documentation Heritage Architecture | Cross-regional Studies |
| SAJI, Fumi | Affiliated Researcher | Cross-regional Studies | ||
| SAKAGAWA, Naoya | Affiliated Researcher | Political & Economic Coexistence | ||
| SAWADA, Hideki | Affiliated Researcher | Environmental Coexistence | ||
 | SHIBUYA, Yuki | Affiliated Researcher | Modern History of Vietnam | Environmental Coexistence |
 | Shaiha Ahmed | Affiliated Researcher | Cultural Heritage Studies, Maldives | Cross-regional Studies |
 | TOMOJIRI, Daiki | Affiliated Researcher | Ecology, Area Studies | Environmental Coexistence |
| Tronu, Carla | Affiliated Researcher | History, Religion | Global Humanosphere | |
| UCHIYAMA, Miharu | Affiliated Researcher | Cross-regional Studies | ||
| WATANABE, Ayaka | Affiliated Researcher | Social Coexistence | ||
 | Wu, Yunxi | Affiliated Researcher | Area Studies, Development Studies, Rural Dynamics | Global Humanosphere |
 | YOSHIZAWA, Asuna | Affiliated Researcher | Philippine Area Studies, Anthropology | Cross-regional Studies |
JSPS Research Fellow
| Name | Position | Area | Division | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MORISHITA, Kohei | JSPS Fellow | Environmental Coexistence | ||
| YOSHIDA, Atsushi | JSPS Fellow | Political & Economic Coexistence |
Research Fellow, Research Student, Short-term International Student
| Name | Position | Area | Division | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANEKNUMWONG Suphanut | Research Student | Political & Economic Coexistence | ||
| Xiaoyu, Zhou | Research Student | Global Humanosphere |