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Katsunori Yamaguchi, Professor
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Yamaguchi Lab works on metal smelting using high-temperature processes and on the development of recycling processes. Advanced industries such as automobiles and electronic and electrical equipment use many rare metals along with base metals such as iron and copper. Because Japan relies on imports for most of its metal resources, there is an urgent need to develop technologies for recovering metal resources from used equipment, in addition to smelting. A distinctive feature of the lab is the wide range of its research, from beaker-scale experiments to tests in large-scale operations.
Yoshishige Kawabe, Professor
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The Kawabe Lab deals with problems in the geosphere environment that cannot be seen, such as soil and groundwater contamination. For problems occurring in many places around the world, it studies remediation methods that are as environmentally friendly as possible, together with risk assessment for people and ecosystems. In particular, for naturally occurring heavy metals, it traces the underlying mechanisms and works to prevent their spread to surrounding areas and reduce risk. The lab also studies the effective use of waste such as volcanic ash and pumice, and carbon dioxide fixation using rocks and soil.
Hironori Ayabe, Professor
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The Ayabe Lab studies science and technology as a social activity from the standpoint of science and technology studies. It combines a variety of methods from the humanities and social sciences to examine the relationship between science and technology and society. So far, the lab has studied the Cold War science and technology system from a historical perspective, and the frameworks for understanding science, technology, and society themselves from a theoretical perspective. Recently, it has also been paying attention to trends related to communication.
Michiko Ishii, Professor
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The Ishii Lab's main fields of research are the German language of the 12th to 16th centuries and the literature of the German-speaking world. It also studies German language teaching methods, including the development of teaching materials for modern German, and language policy in the EU. The lab has broad interests in the relationship between society and language across many periods. Through classes and publications, the lab also introduces literature to general students.
Yoshihiro Ishikura, Professor
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The Ishikura Lab studies, from a sociological perspective, how people perceive and understand society. Drawing on the sociology of social consciousness and discourse analysis, the lab has clarified the logic of that understanding and the forms taken by the social imagination. Its subjects so far include the family, detective fiction, and theories of the information society. The lab also pursues quantitative research on people's behavioral choices and how they view their lives, and continues regional surveys in Japan in collaboration with other universities and research institutions.
Miho Ishimaki, Associate Professor
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The Ishimaki Lab studies environmental law, with a central focus on the theory of legal responsibility. Its subjects are not limited to traditional pollution problems but also include contemporary environmental issues such as global warming and marine plastic pollution. To address such problems, the lab has focused on how legal systems can achieve a fair allocation of responsibility. Recently, it has also been interested in trends in legal debate that seek to balance the advancement and social implementation of science and technology against risk management for the negative effects it may bring in the future.
Atsumi Okada, Associate Professor
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The Okada Lab conducts area studies of the Spanish-speaking world, centered on Latin America and especially Mexico. Its core disciplines are history and cultural anthropology, and it also pays attention to points of contact with Spain and the United States. Its subjects so far include industrialization policy, development and irrigation projects, relations between local society and the central government, and the process of establishing the nation-state. In recent years, the lab has been examining the media-related and social aspects of public space.
Takehisa Shinozaki, Professor
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The Shinozaki Lab analyzes the background of changes in the working environment from an economics perspective. Its main research theme is to clarify how fluctuations in income inequality and wage inequality relate to their underlying causes. It analyzes how the growth in non-regular workers and the spread of performance-based pay systems affect changes in inequality. The lab is also interested in social security and healthcare, such as long-term care and suicide, in the founding and management of companies, and in the relationship between local communities and education, and it conducts interdisciplinary research with multiple universities and research institutions.
Yuriko Zemba, Professor
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The Zemba Lab specializes in social psychology and studies cultural differences in human behavior and the characteristics of Japanese behavior. Using experiments and surveys, it investigates how people react to organizations and groups. Its current focus is the process by which the general public judges responsibility for the outcomes of organizations' activities. How ordinary people judge the responsibility of organizations is still not well understood, and the lab is working to build up basic data.
Junko Naito, Professor
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The Naito Lab conducts research on people's lifeworlds, with Latin America and Spain as its fieldwork sites. It studies the lives of people who tend to be labeled “socially vulnerable,” such as the poor and Indigenous peoples, and how they respond to globalization. Unpacking the various phenomena and problems encountered in the field leads to questions of how to understand others and how to live together with them. The lab specializes in cultural anthropology as a methodology in which the gaze turned toward others comes back to oneself.
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