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Yoko Komada, Professor
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The Komada Lab studies sleep and biological rhythms from both scientific and social perspectives. It clarifies how sleep debt and disrupted biological rhythms, which are widespread in modern society, affect physical and mental health. On that basis, it proposes solutions at the individual, societal, and environmental levels. Its themes include social jet lag, women's health and sleep, children's sleep, and sleep-related eating disorders.
Midori Komatsu, Associate Professor
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The Komatsu Lab studies support for intercultural exchange so that people with different cultural backgrounds can become friends. It examines where the problems that hinder interaction between international students and Japanese students lie and how they can be improved. Japanese-language classes and counseling services for international students also serve as places to gain clues for deepening interaction. In recent years, the lab has also been working on how international students and Japanese students differ in their understanding of leadership.
Mitsue Nagamine, Professor
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The Nagamine Lab clarifies the mechanisms of stress through psychophysiological research. Moving away from the view that "stress is bad," the lab begins by first understanding stress. The lab works on stress assessment based on the secretion rhythm of salivary cortisol, and on evaluating the effects of stress management education. The lab believes that understanding what stress really is leads to understanding oneself.
Colleen Christina Shumuko, Associate Professor
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The Shumuko Lab studies methods for analyzing the sound of shamisen performance. The lab views the sound produced by each individual shamisen as embedding temporal, spatial, and cultural elements. To capture these elements, it develops quantitative methods that treat sound as numerical data. The lab approaches traditional Japanese music and ethnic music through the performed sound itself.
Reina Takamatsu, Associate Professor
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The Takamatsu Lab studies human sociality through emotion, culture, and morality. It investigates why people's feelings of empathy toward others are lost within social relationships. Another topic is how the feeling of finding something "cute" (kawaii) relates to the desire to raise and protect children. On moral judgment, the lab is reconsidering prior research, which has tended to be centered on North America, from an East Asian perspective.
Kengo Kogure, Associate Professor
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The Kogure Lab studies how technological progress changes the economy and the way people work. From a perspective different from mainstream economics, the lab analyzes how employment, distribution, and power structures change. It draws on theories from political economy and heterodox economics. The lab examines the dynamics specific to capitalism and explores socioeconomic imbalances and the possibilities for change.
Rieko Inaba, Professor
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The Inaba Lab studies better environments and ways of learning that make use of information technology. It starts from the question of what kind of system people actually want to use. The lab considers what kind of mechanisms are needed for people who do not share a common language to communicate. It also works on support that helps learners move from "I don't understand" to "I understand."
Aiko Hibino, Professor
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The Hibino Lab studies the process in which things (technology) and groups change while influencing each other. When a new technology appears, how do people's awareness, values, and institutions change? Conversely, the process by which technology is made involves people's collective memory, rival technologies, and the environment specific to a place. The lab unravels these changes through empirical analysis of people's images and discourse, and of how things behave.
Kohagura Kei, Associate Professor
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Kohagura Lab studies the modern and contemporary history of Okinawa while exploring ways to rebuild communities. Its specialties are historical sociology, community policy, worker cooperatives, and Okinawa studies. The lab examines the path that postwar Okinawan society has taken, from the perspectives of both history and sociology. The professor has written books including Posuto Shimagurumi no Okinawa Sengoshi (Okinawa's Postwar History After the 'Island-wide Struggle') and Tsunagaru Okinawa Kingendaishi (Connected Modern and Contemporary History of Okinawa).
Tomomi Mizuno, Professor
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Mizuno Lab studies theories and methods for supporting the lives of children and adults with disabilities. It aims to help children and adults with disabilities live their daily, working, and school lives with security and comfort. This in turn leads to the realization of an inclusive society in which everyone can live together.
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