Humanities Course

Overview

This course aims to engage in specialized research in various fields of the humanities, including human sciences, education, history, language and literature, and cultural resource studies. At the same time, it promotes interdisciplinary and comprehensive research in complex domains that encompass related fields. Our goal is to cultivate the ability to discover and solve new problems regardless of the subject of study, as well as to foster a flexible intelligence capable of pioneering new academic domains. By providing a diverse range of courses, we seek to establish both a foundation for scholarly inquiry into fundamental and enduring questions and a source of knowledge that enables significant shifts in perspective. Through the combination of these courses, we encourage innovative and cross-disciplinary research.

Faculty

Name	Research Fields	E-mail (* Note2)
ADACHI Takuro	Archaeology, Museology, West Asian History	mppnb@staff.
ABE Soichiro	Ancient Chinese History	soichiro@staff.
ABE David Kiyoshi	Cultural Anthropology/folkloristics, Japanese American	dabe4@staff.
IIJIMA Hiroshi	Japanese literature，General literature	h-iijima@staff.
ISHIGURO Morihisa	Political Thought, Renaissance Cultural History, Western Early Modern History	ishiguro@ed.
ICHISHIMA Noriko	Japanese Language Education	ichishima@staff.
IKKATAI Yuko	Social Studies of Science and Technology, Science Communication	y.ikkatai@staff.
IRIE Koji	Linguistics, Icelandic Linguistics	iriek@staff.
IWATSU Ko	French Literature, Comparative Literature	iwatsu@staff.
UEDA Nozomu	Chinese Literature	nueda@staff.
UEDA Hisao	Early Modern Japanese History	h-ueda@staff.
UEMORI Sakura	Education Methodology	uemori@staff.
UNE Yoshimi	Human Geography	une@staff.
OKADA Tsutomu■	Personality Psychology, Adolescent Psychology	tokada@staff.
ODAKA Takahiro	Archaeology, Prehistory, Cultural Heritage Studies and Museology	odaka@staff.
KIKUTANI Mariko	Cognitive Psychology, Cross-Cultural Psychology	kikutani@staff.
KUBO Yutaka	Film Studies, Queer Studies	ykubo@staff.
KOJIMA Haruyuki	Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Experimental Psychology, Perceptual and Cognitive Psychology, Physiological Neuropsychology	hkojima@staff.
KOBAYASHI Daisuke	Sociology	dkobayashi@staff.
SASAKI Taku	Western Ethics	tsasaki@staff.
SATO Fumihiko	German Literature	satof@staff.
SHIBUYA Yoshikata	English Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics	y.shibuya@staff.
SHIMIZU Kunihiko	Japanese Culture, Japanese Folklore, History of Japanese Thought	ojizo@staff.
SUGAWARA Hirofumi	Western Art history	h.suga0616@staff..
SUGIYAMA Kinya	Japanese Literature	kinkin-s@staff.
TAKAYAMA Tomoaki	Japanese Linguistics, Linguistics	tomotaka@staff.
TAKIGUCHI Keiko	Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Care and Education, Special Needs Education	ktaki@staff.
TAKEI Wataru	Communication Support, Sign Language, Language Acquisition	wtakei@ed.
TANAKA Kensaku	Human Geography	ketanaka@staff.
TANAKA Toshiyuki	German and Swiss Medieval and early modern History	ttanaka@staff.
TANIUCHI Tohru	Psychology of Learning, Comparative Psychology, Experimental Studies on Learning and Cognition in Animals in General	tohruta@staff.
TAMURA Urara	Anthropology, Cultural Transformation, Object Research	ulara@staff.
THELEN Timo	Cultural Anthropology, Japanese Studies, Media Tourism	thelen@staff.
TODOROKI Makoto	Sociology	todoro@staff.
NAKASHIMA Koji★	Human Geography	koji331@staff.
NEZU Yukio■	History of the Byzantine Empire	ynezu@staff.
NOGAWA Yasuharu	Modern and Contemporary Japanese History	ysnogawa@staff.
HARADA Ai	Classical Chinese literature	yuantian46@staff.
FURUICHI Daisuke	Chinese History in the Qing Period	dfuruic@staff.
HORITA Yuko	English Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Science	horitay@staff.
HONJO Megumi	Education	honjo@staff.
MAMMADOVA Aida	Intergenerational Learning inside UNESCO Designated Sites (World Heritage, Biosphere Reserve, Geopark), Environmental Education	mammadova@staff.
MIZUNO Saya	Eastern Art History, Buddhist Art History	sayamz@staff.
MURAYAMA Takayuki	Human Movement Science, Cognitive Science	tmura@staff.
MURAYAMAYasuo	Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Clinical Developmental Psychology	y-murayama@staff.
MORI Masahide☆	Comparative Cultural Studies, Buddhist Studies, Art History, Religious Studies	abhaya@staff.
MORIYA Tetsuharu★	Contrastive Linguistics	moriya33@staff.
YASUNAGA Daichi	Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science	daichi.y@staff.
YAMAGUCHI Yoshinari	Early American Literature and Culture	yoshiyam@staff.
YAMAMOTO Eisuke	Philosophy and Ethics	eisukey@staff.
YAMAMOTO Hiroshi	Early Modern Japanese Literature, Early Modern Japanese History, Foreign Student Education	yama@staff.
YOSHIKAWA Kazuyoshi★	Theory of Life Function Activation	kazuyosi@ed.
YOSHINAGA Masafumi	Ancient Japanese History	m-yoshinaga@staff.

Note

Those with ■ on the right of the name column will not be Senior Supervisors because they will transfer in March 2026, ☆ in March 2027, and ★ in March 2028.
Please add “kanazawa-u.ac.jp” after the “E-mail” field.

Laboratory Introduction

Our research primarily focuses on learning and cognition in animals. Human memory can be divided into long-term memory, which consists of recollections and knowledge, and working memory, which processes ongoing events while continuously updating information. Working memory can be described as the “workspace of thought.” In humans, various functions of working memory decline with aging. In our laboratory, we have demonstrated that, like humans, rats and mice also possess working memory and exhibit an active cognitive ability to selectively process only the necessary information. Additionally, we have found that continuously utilizing memory from a young age enables these animals to maintain excellent working memory even in old age. Moving forward, we aim to further investigate the detailed functions and characteristics of working memory in rats and mice, including the development of new research methods. We also seek to clarify the effects of aging and disease on working memory, as well as the conditions necessary for maintaining its function.

Course / Program Name

Humanities Course

Name of Instructor

TANIUCHI Tohru

Research Project Title and Responsible Research Scientist

Research on working memory in rats and mice (TANIUCHI Tohru)

Humanities Course

Overview

Faculty

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Laboratory Introduction

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Name of Instructor

Research Project Title and Responsible Research Scientist

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