The Specialty Deepening Program

Overview

Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, Geography, Japanese history, Oriental history, Western history, archaeology, Japanese Linguistics/Japanese Literature, Chinese Linguistics/Chinese Literature, English Linguistics/British and American Literature, German Linguistics/German Literature, linguistics, Cultural heritage studies, Comparative Study of Cultures, Cultural Anthropology

This program consists of 16 academic fields ranging from philosophy to comparative culture studies, and classes are conducted according to the curriculum of each academic field.
Students can choose to pursue their studies in a particular area of specialization according to their own interests.

Research Field of the Academic Staff

Programs/CoursesNameResearch fieldsE-mail
PhilosophySASAKI TakuWestern Ethicstsasaki@staff.
YAMAMOTO EisukePhilosophy and Ethicseisukey@staff.
PsychologyARAKI YukikoClinical Psychology, Health Psychologyyukikoa@staff.
OKADA Tsutomu■Personality Psychology, Youth Psychologytokada@staff.
KOJIMA HaruyukiExperimental Psychology, Perception and Cognitive Psychology, Physiological Neuroscience Psychologyhkojima@staff.
TANIUCHI TohruLearning Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Experimental Studies on Learning and Cognition in Animalstohruta@staff.
SociologyKOBAYASHI DaisukeSociologydkobayashi@staff.
TODOROKI MakotoSociologytodoro@staff.
GeographyUNE YoshimiHuman Geographyune@staff.
TANAKA KensakuHuman Geographyketanaka@staff.
NAKASHIMA Koji★ Human Geographykoji331@staff.
Cultural AnthropologyIIDA ReikoCultural Anthropology, Area Studies (South Asia and India), Performing Arts, Gender and Sexualityr-iida@staff.
OSAWA TakamasaSocial Anthropology, Area Studies (Southeast Asia, Indonesia), Environmental Policy, Indigenous Rightstosawa@staff.
YAMAGUCHI RyotaCultural Anthropology, Regional Studies (Africa, Cameroon), Witchcraft, Biodiversity Conservationy-ryota@staff.
Japanese HistoryUEDA HisaoEarly Modern Japanese Historyh-ueda@staff.
TAKEI KoichiEarly Modern Japanese History, history educationktakei@staff.
NOGAWA YasuharuJapanese History, Economic Historyysnogawa@staff.
YOSHINAGA MasafumiAncient Japanese Historym-yoshinaga@staff.
Asian HistoryABE SoichiroAncient Chinese Historysoichiro@staff.
FURUICHI DaisukeQing Dynasty Chinese Historydfuruic@staff.
Western HistoryTANAKA ToshiyukiMedieval Urban, Medieval Rural, Domain Policy, General Historyttanaka@staff.
NEZU Yukio■General Historyynezu@staff.
HOSOKAWA MayuWestern Modern History, European History of International Relations, French History of Politics and Diplomacy, Interwar Periodmhosokawa@staff.
ArchaeologyADACHI TakuroArchaeology, Museum Studies, Western Asian Historymppnb@staff.
ODAKA TakahiroArchaeology, Cultural Assets Study and Museologyodaka@staff.
GAKUHARI TakashiArchaeological Molecular Biology, Paleo Genomics, Isotope Ecology, and Cultural Property Sciencegakuhari@staff.
Japanese Linguistics/Japanese LiteratureIIJIMA HiroshiJapanese Literature,General Literatureh-iijima@staff.
INOSE ChihiroJapanese Literaturec-inose@staff.
ONO JunkoJapanese Literaturej-ono@staff.
SUGIYAMA KinyaJapanese Literaturekinkin-s@staff.
TAKAYAMA TomoakiJapanese Linguistics, Language Studiestomotaka@staff.
HARA YusukeJapanese Literature,General Literatureharayusuke@staff.
Chinese Linguistics/Chinese LiteratureUEDA NozomuChinese Literaturenueda@staff.
KANO NozomiModern Chinese Grammarnkano@staff.
HARADA AiClassical Chinese Literatureyuantian46@staff.
English Linguistics/British and American LiteratureSHIBUYA YoshikataEnglish Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Corpus Linguisticsy.shibuya@staff.
BROWN Dale ColinApplied Linguistics, TESOLdbrown@staff.
HORITA YukoEnglish Linguistics, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Sciencehoritay@staff.
MIYAZAWA YukiEnglish and American Literatureymiyazawa@staff.
German Linguistics/German LiteratureSATO FumihikoEuropean Literature, General Literaturesatof@staff.
NISHIDE KayoLinguisticsknishide@staff.
HAYAKAWA FumitoGerman Literature, Austrian Literature, Interwar Literature, Moderne, Austrian Fascismfhayakawa@staff.
LinguisticsIRIE KojiLinguistics, Icelandic Linguisticsiriek@staff.
SUGANUMA KentaroLinguisticssuganumak@staff.
YASUNAGA DaichiLinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Sciencedaichi.y@staff.
Cultural HeritagesSUGAWARA HirofumiWestern Art Historyh.suga0616@staff.
TANIGAWA RyuichiArchitectural History and Design, 20th-Century Japanese-Asian Relations History, Regional Studiestryuichi@staff.
Comparative Study of CulturesMIZUNO SayaHistory of Oriental Artsayamz@staff.
MORI Masahide☆ Chinese Philosophy, Indian Philosophy, Buddhism Studies, Art History, Religious Studiesabhaya@staff.
  • Note1: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.
  • Note2: Please add “kanazawa-u.ac.jp” after the “E-mail” field.