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Nao Takashina, Associate Professor
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The Takashina Lab studies conservation biology, fisheries resource management, and theoretical ecology from a perspective that spans multiple disciplines. Its central research keywords include protected areas and OECMs, harmonizing human activities with biodiversity conservation, institutional design for sustainable biological resource management, and co-management and community-based management. Combining perspectives from ecology and socioeconomics, the lab investigates what outcomes decisions in ecosystem management produce, and aims to build frameworks that effectively achieve management goals. The Graduate School of Frontier Sciences is a graduate school with no undergraduate programs, where students can pursue a wide range of research themes in an interdisciplinary and international environment.
Takeshi Mitani, Associate Professor
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The Mitani Lab studies the foundational theory of sociology. People live their lives assuming that "society," "institutions," "organizations," "communication," and "action" exist, yet the language we have to explain them is surprisingly poor. Drawing on research in neighboring fields such as philosophy, the lab works on finding more adequate ways of describing and explaining these concepts. In graduate education, students read Luhmann and other work in theoretical sociology, aiming to develop the ability to read rigorously and examine ideas critically.
Yoshiyuki Niwa, Professor
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The Niwa Lab studies media, journalism, and popular culture. It deals with the discourse and expression of a wide range of media, including television, film, newspapers, magazines, advertising, manga, the internet, and social media. Its research approaches are historical, theoretical, and practical. In collaboration with broadcasters and archives, the lab is carrying out research that re-examines preserved television programs, as well as efforts to collect, preserve, and make public documentary films.
Akihiro Kitada, Professor
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The Kitada Lab studies the sociology of media. It carries out historical research using media such as advertising, cinema (movie theaters), journalism, and manga as its materials. The theoretical background is the methodology known as media theory, developed by thinkers such as McLuhan and Chartier. Drawing on Luhmann's social systems theory, the lab also analyzes contemporary communication culture, including online communication and cities.
Koji Oba, Professor
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The Oba Lab builds on epidemiology and biostatistics to study methods for clinical research and clinical trials. The lab develops methodologies to improve the quality of clinical research and lead to better decision-making, and carries out empirical studies using real data. The research centers on the design and analysis of clinical and epidemiological studies, meta-analysis, and causal inference and analysis of real-world data. True to the spirit of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the lab welcomes students who want to pursue research that combines informatics and biostatistics.
Shinya Yasumoto, Lecturer
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The Yasumoto Lab studies information and communication related to disasters. It is particularly interested in media, especially video. Using social surveys such as questionnaires, the lab examines, based on data, how people received information, made decisions, and took action during disasters. The lab also visits disaster-affected areas and other sites, and through exchanges with local governments and media professionals, carefully studies how information is produced and communicated.
Itsuko Yamaguchi, Professor
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The lab studies information, law, and policy. It covers freedom of expression, information, and the media; privacy and personal data protection; cybersecurity; and intellectual property and copyright. It examines how law and policy can respond to problems that grow larger as society undergoes digital transformation (DX) and artificial intelligence (AI) spreads. Courses at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies can be taken without prior knowledge of law, and students learn practically through concrete cases, court precedents, and statutes from Japan, the US, and Europe.
Yuya Shibuya, Associate Professor
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The Shibuya Lab studies the flows of people, things, and information moving between digital and physical spaces. Using human mobility data, the lab analyzes and simulates who people meet in cities, and what experiences they have in which kinds of places. The lab examines how people receive information and act on it in digital spaces such as social media, and applies the findings to understanding and countering mis- and disinformation and online fraud. The lab covers the whole process, from data analysis to the development and implementation of simulation models and interfaces, with diversity and well-being in mind.
Machiko Sakai, Associate Professor
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The Sakai Lab studies intellectual property law, especially copyright law, as well as information law and policy. It considers what problems the characteristics of media, such as digital and analog, bring to copyright. The lab examines new technologies and the environments they create, and considers how to connect them to existing copyright law, or how to rewrite it. A distinctive feature of the lab is that it thinks about the law while keeping in mind the connections between legal studies and other academic fields.
Hiroshi Kainuma, Associate Professor
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The Kainuma Lab is built around fieldwork. It studies how contemporary society works and how people's thinking and behavior take shape. With Fukushima as an important field site, the lab takes on questions that cut across communities, media, science and technology, culture, and education. Its approach is to move back and forth between on-site observation and people's narratives on one hand, and historical sources, theory, and qualitative and quantitative data on the other. Graduate students' topics are not limited to Fukushima or disasters. They develop their own questions from their individual interests, such as anime and fan studies, journalism, and urban festivals.
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