Organization

Steering Committee

TERM:As of April 1, 2025

The steering committee is comprised of the director, associate director, secretary general, and chief research fellows, and discusses and handles the day-to-day issues that arise in the management of the Center, and organizes agendas to be submitted to the researchers committee.

NAKABAYASHI Hirokazu

Position Director
Joint research projects Research on Sea and Port Canals: Canals in Yokohama and Asia
Reconsidering Nonwritten Cultural Materials: Possibilities and Issues Regarding Nonwritten Cultural Materials
Joint Research and Compilation Project on "Multilingual Version of Pictopedia of Everyday Life in Medieval Japan"
Affiliation Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, Faculty of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies
Title Associate Professor
Discipline History of Chinese Society and Economy
MORIZUMI Tetsuya

SHIITADA Atsushi

Position In charge of Publication(Chief Editor)
Joint Research Projects Places of Worship in Modern Japan and Overseas Japanese Shrine
Reconsidering Nonwritten Cultural Materials: Possibilities and Issues Regarding Nonwritten Cultural Materials
Affiliation Graduate School of History and Folklore Studies
Title Professor
Discipline Modern Japanese History, History of Ryukyu
SHIITADA Atsushi

KAKUYAMA Tomoko

Position In charge of Book Selection
Joint Research Projects Media, Body, and Gender in Turn of the Century Europe
Affiliation Course in European and American Languages and Cultures, Graduate School of Humanities
Title Associate Professor
Discipline Austrian / Central European design history
KAKUYAMA Tomoko

MATSUURA Satoko

Position In charge of Academic Exchange
Joint Research Projects
Affiliation Course of Chinese Language and Culture, Graduate School of Humanities
Title Professor
Discipline Chinese Classical Literature/Chinese Popular Literature
MATSUURA Satoko

YAMAGUCHI Taro

Position In charge of Publication
Joint Research Projects Research on Sea and Port Canals—Canals in Yokohama and Asia
Affiliation Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, Faculty of Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies
Title Associate Professor
Discipline Human Geography, Landscape Studies
YAMAGUCHI Taro

YAMAMOTO Shino

Position In charge of Publication
Joint Research Projects Systematic Research on Lodgings in Modern Japan
Affiliation Graduate School of History and Folklore Studies
Title Professor
Discipline Folklore
YAMAMOTO Shino

Researchers Committee

The researchers committee is comprised of the researchers of the Center and functions as its core, deliberating and making decisions on the following items related to the management of the center.

Administrative Office

To conduct administrative tasks for this Center, an office has been established, and takes over the tasks formerly undertaken by the administration office of the COE Program.