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School of Law

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Faculty

	KOYAMA Hirokazu
	Professor
	Research Themes	Impact of tax and financial reforms on a nation's control structure (= the Constitution) and their mutual relations.

	SASAGAWA Norikatsu
	Professor
	Research Themes	1. Relationship between state and religion; 2. Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; 3. Relationship between the Constitution and international law; 4. Colonial legal system.

	HIROSAWA Akira
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Study of issues related to the Constitution, Educational law and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

	ETO Hideki
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Study of judicial review in France.

	INOMATA Hiroki
	Professor
	Research Themes	Public law and private law. Methods of constitutional interpretation. U.S. Supreme Court and judicial review system.

	SHIMOKAWA Tamaki
	Professor
	Research Themes	Study of comparative laws concerning responsible U.S. and Japanese democratic public administration. Study of U.S. local government administrative law.

	KOBAYASHI Hiroyuki
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Study of the basic theory of tax law, the Income Tax Act, and the Consumption Tax Act.

	NIIMI Ikuhumi
	Professor
	Research Themes	Legisprudence on Private Law and Support for the development of legal systems.

	HAYASHI Kouji
	Professor
	Research Themes	Study of Nullity and rescission of the Juristic Act (contract).

	ISHII Michiko
	Professor
	Research Themes	Research on legal issues relating to the development of life science and the family.

	NAGASAKA Jun
	Professor
	Research Themes	Structure and scope of contract liability. Differential and historical aspects of civil liability. Service contracts.

	KAWACHI Hiroyuki
	Professor
	Research Themes	Study of civil liability in financial service businesses, cashless means of payment, and bank debentures.

	HOSHINO Shigeru
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Legal issues of families in modern society.

	ARIGA Emiko
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Precontractual Liability.

	KAMEDA Koichiro
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Physical collateral and public notification method.

	KANDA Hideaki
	Lecturer
	Research Themes	Reexamination of the basic theory on the binding power of contracts.

	MASUDA Yutaka
	Professor
	Research Themes	Criminal Law and Moral.

	NAKAZORA Toshimasa
	Professor
	Research Themes	Review of requirements for criminal offence from a normative viewpoint.

	UCHIDA Yukitaka
	Lecturer
	Research Themes	Reconstruction of the property offense system.

	YAMADA Michio
	Professor
	Research Themes	Reconsidering the existing criminal procedure.

	KUROSAWA Mutsumi
	Lecturer
	Research Themes	Criminal Justice System

	UENO Masao
	Professor
	Research Themes	Study of issues associated with crime control activities and the Juvenile Act and juvenile delinquency.

	NAMPO Katsumi
	Professor
	Research Themes	Basic issues of the modern Corporation Law and research from the perspective of comparative law.

	INANIWA Koichi
	Professor
	Research Themes	Development of the Companies Act, Case-Law, and theories associated with economic development.

	NEMOTO Shinichi
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Protection of shareholders as investors. Responsibilities of corporate executives. Continuous financial transactions.

	TAKAGI Masanori
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Issues related to Commercial Law. Development of legal systems and theories associated with the development of payment clearing systems.

	CHEN Liang
	Lecturer
	Research Themes	Dividends in Life Insurance

	NAYA Hiromi
	Professor
	Research Themes	Creation of a legal theory for the Law of Civil Procedure, which is capable of handling new, emerging types of legal disputes.

	TAKACHI Shigeyo
	Professor
	Research Themes	Issues related to the Law of Civil Procedure, Civil Execution and Provisional Remedies Acts, and the Insolvency Law.

	HAGA Masaaki
	Professor
	Research Themes	International Civil Procedure

	AONO Satoru
	Professor
	Research Themes	Legislative review of regulations for fixed-term employment contracts.

	KONISHI Yasuyuki
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Employment system and labor law.

	KONISHI Hirofumi
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Study of Long-term Care Insurance Law in Japan and Germany.

	TAKAHASHI Iwakazu
	Professor
	Research Themes	Comparative study of antitrust law.

	KANEKO Toshiya
	Lecturer
	Research Themes	Study of intellectual property laws through inter-comparison and comparison with civil laws.

	KONISHI Tomoyo
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Nursing systems; especially research on the cooperation of medical staffs. History of Medical Law in Japan.

	MAMIYA Isamu
	Professor
	Research Themes	Principles of free trade under the WTO system. National sovereignty in the contemporary international society.

	MIZUTA Shuhei
	Lecturer
	Research Themes	Issues surrounding the Law of the Sea and the Law of Armed Conflict.

	YAMAMOTO Takao
	Professor
	Research Themes	Contemporary international contracts, particularly international trading, license agreements including intellectual property and copyrights, joint-venture agreements, and purchase and sales of enterprises.

	UEI Takehisa
	Professor
	Research Themes	Study of the formation and development of modern and contemporary French laws.

	KONOMA Masamichi
	Professor
	Research Themes	Comparative law-based study mainly on the constitution and state institutions of contemporary China.

	MENKHAUS, Johannes Heinrich
	Professor
	Research Themes	Law of transnational enterprises (especially corporate and labour law), international family law, Japanese-German legal relationship (especially comparison of legal foundations and structures).

	SASAKI Hidetomo
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Comparative study of "Law and Information Policy" between the United States and Japan.

	KATO Tetsumi
	Professor
	Research Themes	Socio-legal history; Medieval Society and the manor court in England.

	MURAYAMA Masayuki
	Professor
	Research Themes	Empirical comparative study of legal process in the contemporary society.

	NATSUI Takato
	Professor
	Research Themes	Networked society laws, legal informatics, herbal plants information and law, legal reasoning.

	OHNO Yukio
	Professor
	Research Themes	Research on Internet based commerce laws and legal systems.

	OKANO Makoto
	Professor
	Research Themes	Historical study of Chinese regal power, state, and laws.

	MURAKAMI Kazuhiro
	Professor
	Research Themes	Development and spread of civil law and the role of legal community in modern and contemporary Japan.

	KOMURO Teruhisa
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Western legal history, particularly issues relating to dispute resolution, government, and public administration in Europe.

	TSUCHIYA Keiichiro
	Professor
	Research Themes	Study of the British history of thought in the 18th and 19th centuries, particularly on Bentham and J. S. Mill.

	ISHIMAE Yoshiyuki
	Professor
	Research Themes	Research on the anti-mainstream philosophy of law in contemporary England and the United States.

	MATSUMURA Yumihiko
	Professor
	Research Themes	Research on German environmental law, basic theories for environmental laws, environmental liability systems, and environmental agreements.

	KANEYAMA Akio
	Professor
	Research Themes	Research on religious folklore and thanatology.

	NISHIGAKI Manabu
	Professor
	Research Themes	Studies of culture and representation.

	MAKSIMUK, W. Michael
	Professor
	Research Themes	Studies of photography (in particular, history of photography in the late Edo period and the Meiji period).

	YAGASAKI Junko
	Professor
	Research Themes	Culture, Society and Ethnicity in America.

	SAITO Eiji
	Professor
	Research Themes	Contemporary American literature, American film History.

	NAKAMURA Kazue
	Professor
	Research Themes	Comparative study of postcolonial literature in English. Comparative study of modern to contemporary Japanese literature.

	TSUJIOKA Hiroko
	Professor
	Research Themes	Theory of second language acquisition and foreign language education.

	HOTTA Syugo
	Professor
	Research Themes	Analysis of language use in legal settings. English and Japanese syntax and word formation.

	SUZUKI Tetsuya
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Correlation between the development of communication technology and changes in social structure.

	MIMURA Aya
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	16th and 17th century English literature. Comparative literature and culture.

	SUNAGA Tsuneo
	Professor
	Research Themes	German and Austrian literature and music.

	YAMADA Teppei
	Professor
	Research Themes	Comparative history of poetry and that of art.

	SCHERMANN, Susanne
	Professor
	Research Themes	Cinematology (film history, film theory). Film production.

	TAJIMA Masayuki
	Professor
	Research Themes	Modern German literature and thought: anti-modernism by Klages and George-Kreis.

	ITO Mayumi
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Culture and society of Munich and Bayern at the end of the 19th century.

	INUI Masayuki(pen name:NATSUISHI Ban'ya)
	Professor
	Research Themes	International Haiku promotion activities and comparative research. Comparison of cultural base layers.

	IWANO Takuji
	Professor
	Research Themes	Research on Bataille. History of philosophy. History of thought. Psychoanalysis.

	WATANABE Kyoko
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	French novels and Paris in the 19th century.

	OGUSU Eizo
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	The Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature and Culture: the Narrative Beginnings.

	KATO Toru
	Professor
	Research Themes	Chinese traditional dramas and classical literature.

	KAWANO Akimasa
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Chinese folk religion (magic, charms, local gods) and culture of ethnic minorities (ethnic groups in the southwestern part of China).

	TOKUDA Takeshi
	Professor
	Research Themes	Japanese modern literature and Chinese literature. Comparative law system in China and Japan.

	HAYASHI Masahiko
	Professor
	Research Themes	Explanation of pictures. Narrative literature. History of Buddhist art and Buddhist folklore in Asia. Nature and culture in Kumano.

	MOMOKAWA Takahito
	Professor
	Research Themes	Mono no aware (the pathos of things). Alien/another world. Imperial system.

	KANDA Masayuki
	Lecturer
	Research Themes	Relation between novels on Japan of Edo period and classic novels on China.

	KATSUTA Tadahiro
	Lecturer
	Research Themes	Nuclear engineering. Nuclear Policy.

	SAKAI Kazuo
	Professor
	Research Themes	Informatics. Information organization. Information society.

	YAMAIZUMI Susumu
	Professor
	Research Themes	History of society, politics, and legal thought in modern Japan.

	SAKURAI Naofumi
	Professor
	Research Themes	History of philosophy; issues on seventeenth-century European thought especially in Dutch context.

	HIRAKAWA Nobuo
	Professor
	Research Themes	Study of the internationalization of Kendo.

	YAMAGUCHI Masanobu
	Professor
	Research Themes	Phenomenological sports science.

	TADA Satoshi
	Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Outdoor education teaching methods.

	ONUMA Yasuaki
	Distinguished Professor
	Research Themes	Law and politics in international society; Theories on international and transcivilizational relations; General theories of international law and relations.

	TONG Shiping
	Distinguished Professor
	Research Themes	Comparative study of Chinese and Japanese financial systems.

	REPETA, Lawrence
	Distinguished Professor
	Research Themes	Citizen access to government information and participation in public policymaking, and several comparative law topics including constitutional law, corporate overnance, and corporate social responsibility.

	ISHII Mio
	Special Appointment Associate Professor
	Research Themes	Intellectual property law and civil law.

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