Faculty Members | 国立民族学博物館

The National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) is a research center for ethnology and cultural anthropology.

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Faculty Members (by department)

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Visiting Researchers and Special Visiting Researchers
Overseas Visiting Fellows
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The National Museum of Ethnology

Directors-General

YOSHIDA Kenji

Deputy Directors-General

Department of Advanced Human Sciences

Professor

DEGUCHI Masayuki (Masa) Third sector research, civil society studies
FUKUOKA Shota Ethnomusicology; Southeast Asia, Indonesia
HIDAKA Shingo Conservation science
IIZUMI Naoko
SONODA Naoko Conservation science
YOKOYAMA Hiroko Cultural anthropology, Chinese society and culture

Associate Professor

KAWASE Itsushi Visual anthropology
KIKUSAWA Ritsuko Linguistics, Austronesian languages
MARUKAWA Yuzo Informatics of association, information service for cultural assets
OKADA Emi Ethnomusicology, South Asian Studies
YAMAMOTO Yasunori Museum informatics
YOSHIOKA Noboru Linguistics, South Asian studies

Assistant Professor

SAGARA Keiko Sign Language Typology, Deaf education
SUEMORI Kaoru Conservation Science, Chinese Buddhist Art History, Cultural Heritage Studies

Department of Cross-Field Research

Professor

HAN Min Social Anthropology; China
HAYASHI Isao Social structure, cosmology, risk and disaster; Melanesia, Polynesia, Japan
KASHINAGA Masao Ethnography of Southeast Asia; Vietnam, Tai area
MATTHEWS, Peter J. Ethnobotany, prehistory, crop plant biogeography; Asia, Pacific
UDAGAWA Taeko Cultural anthropology, gender studies; Italy, Mediterranean Europe

Associate Professor

MATSUO Mizuho Cultural anthropology, South Asian Studies
NARA Masashi Cultural Anthropology, Chinese Area Studies, Islamic Area Studies
OTA Shimpei Sociocultural anthropology; Northeast Asia
SHIMAMURA Ippei Cultural Anthropology and Mongolian Studies
SHINMEN Mitsuhiro Science of religion; Eastern Europe
SUGASE Akiko Anthropology, Middle Eastern Area Study

Department of Modern Society and Civilization

Professor

IIDA Taku Ecological anthropology, fisher studies; Madagascar, Japan
IKEYA Kazunobu Environmental anthropology, cultural geography; Southern Africa, Japan
SAITO Akira Ethnohistory; Latin America
SEKI Yuji South American archaeology, cultural anthropology
SUZUKI Motoi Anthropological perspectives on development assistance evaluations

Associate Professor

FUJIMOTO Toko Cultural anthropology, Central Asian studies
ONO Rintaro Marine Archeology, Southeast Asian Study, Pacific Archeology
TERAMURA Hirofumi Culture and information science, Archaeological information
UDA Shuhei
UEBA Yoko Textile and handcraft; South Asia, Middle East

Department of Globalization and Humanity

Professor

HIRAI Kyonosuke Social anthropology; Southeast Asia, Japan
MIO Minoru Religious anthropology; South Asia, India
MORI Akiko Cultural anthropology, ethnography; Central Europe, Germany, Austria, Japan
NISHIO Tetsuo Linguistics, Arab culture; Middle East, North Africa
NOBUTA Toshihiro Social anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies
SUZUKI Nanami Cultural anthropology, culture of medicine, life-design studies, American and European medieval social history

Associate Professor

AISHIMA Hatsuki
HIROSE Koujirou Japanese religious history, folklore
KAWAI Hironao
MISHIMA Teiko Anthropology, international migration; Senegal, West Africa
SUZUKI Hideaki History

Center for Cultural Resource Studies

Professor

KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro Cultural anthropology, Inuit studies; North America
NOBAYASHI Atsushi Ethnoarchaeology, material culture, Austronesian cultures; East Asia, Formosa
SASAHARA Ryoji Folk culture, performing arts; Japan
YAMANAKA Yuriko Comparative study of traditions on Alexander the Great; West Asia, Iran

Associate Professor

ITO Atsunori Social anthropology, Native American studies, indigenous arts and intellectual property issues
MINAMI Makito Ecological anthropology; South Asia
NIWA Norio Social anthropology; Oceania
SAITO Reiko Ainu and Northern indigenous peoples studies, material culture; North Pacific Rim

Assistant Professor

CHE Sohee Medical Anthropology, Korean Peninsula
YAGI Yuriko Cultural Anthropology, Religious Studies, Peru