The founding of Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) in 1903 is situated in the social development of the working class organisation and is sustained the rich associational culture. In my research, I apply on the focus to the working-class association which was affiliated with WEA and the adult students who came to class. What was contributed to the educational life of the workers? What was the WEA’s purpose in putting forward the educational reconstruction? I will try to explore this.

The first point is “How to view and think about the ratio of raising in an organization.” Children in Japan have a big problem in how to think and think about the ratio. Each school is making every effort to overcome this challenge. Therefore, with the aim of providing this support, I am conducting research to cultivate views and ways of thinking about the proportion of children throughout the school organization. As an example, we have organized the points for raising the perspective and way of thinking in any grade, and have developed and visualized a table that shows the systematics of each grade..
The second point is “teacher training for teachers in learning.” In the future, teachers will need to be able to adapt to various learners in a flexible manner and to be able to teach adaptively. In response to this request, I developed a reflection matrix as a self-study tool for young and mid-career teachers to absorb the essence of the learning guidance of experienced veteran teachers and to become adaptively proficient. The matrix reflection method using this tool allows students to grow through self-diagnosis without the need for familiar veteran teachers.

My research focuses on teacher education in the subject (Japanese language), with a focus on “Lesson Study.”
Teacher education has two objectives: “to become a teacher” and “to improve own skills as a teacher.
The former is the question of “what kind of process students need to go through in order to become teachers,” and “what kind of knowledge, experience, and support they need in order to do so. With these questions in mind, I am conducting research while practicing daily in the teacher training program at the university.
The latter can be expressed by the question, “How can in-service teachers improve their teaching practice? This question concerns teacher training (class research) conducted as part of school work. We aim to build a training model that encourages both in-service teachers and researchers to think together and cooperatively work toward achieving school goals, valuing the question, “How can we refine our classroom views and teaching based on the facts of children’s learning?

I am interested in teacher involvement in supporting children’s social-emotional development. School is not only a place to develop academic skills, but also to promote children’s social-emotional development. So, what kinds of teacher involvement contribute to the development of children’s social-emotional competence? I am collecting and analyzing data on these questions.
I am also developing programs to foster communication skills, etc., with reference to psycho-educational programs that foster knowledge and skills related to the mind and social-emotional learning (SEL). These programs are meant to “prevent” problematic or maladaptive behaviors before they occur. I am also interested in how to utilize such programs in actual educational settings.

I am interested in English education in general, and I have conducted listening research focusing mainly on rehearsal speed and processing speed. I am examining the authentic use of English in countries and regions around the world, using research on World Englishes.
I am also interested in research on the relationship between speed-reading and listening comprehension with an awareness of English word order.
Currently, I would like to conduct research on the changes in English education in elementary, junior high and senior high schools due to the revision of the Course of Study, and on how to personally and professonally develop future English teachers at universities.

The concept of gender is incorporated into literary and cultural studies, and is perceived as a mode in which it functions in a complex manner based on its relationship with various non-gender differences.Toshiko Tamura (1884-1945), who is said to be the pioneer of female writers in modern Japanese literature, moved to Shanghai in 1938 and launched the Chinese magazine “Women’s Voice” for Chinese women on May 15, 1942.Many Japanese and Chinese literary figures are incorporated into the language space of “Women’s Voice” published until July 15 after Toshiko’s death.By deciphering the language acts of both countries developed against the backdrop of the tense international situation, I am studying the language space surrounding “female voice” in wartime Shanghai from the variability of gender systems.

How can teachers motivate learners towards meaningful inquiry and research based learning? Should teachers teach, facilitate, or both? How can interactive, proactive student co-ownership of learning and assessment be realized? These are my primary inquiry questions in the field of teacher education.

My primary inquiry interests in Japan Studies and social studies education are as below: How do local policy and business models come together to bring about regional revitalization? How can we implement case studies in this area in secondary school education, and Japan Studies education?
Analysis of animism in Shinto, Hinduism.and Japanese Buddhism.

I am engaging in research on intercultural contact and acceptance from the perspectives of psychology and pedagogy and English language education. In Japan, the proportion of foreigners in the total population is expected to increase to 10.8% by 2070 (Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, 2023), and measures for living with foreigners in the community will be increasingly required in the future. I am promoting research on intercultural psychology and intercultural education practices in order to contribute to the promotion of intercultural understanding education and English language education.

This study is about sentences which express emotions in modern Japanese. Modern Japanese studies verse mainly on predicate sentences. Such sentences aim to convey information about “things”. As such, there are scarce studies about sentences which express emotions being treated as a kind of sentence of its own. These sentences do not aim to convey information of the “thing”. An example would be “Beautiful flower!”, which is uttered unconsciously upon being moved by the beauty of any given flower. This type of exclamatory sentences are uttered by speakers to express their emotions and they employ the structure of Noun Phrases. Other kinds of sentences which express emotions are Labeling Sentences like the insult “Bakayaro!”. Since systematic studies of sentences which express emotions are scarce, I would like to attempt to describe and classify them, considering Labeling and Exclamatory sentences as separate sub-groups.I am also attempting to grasp the structure of modern Japanese sentences, not leaning on the structure of predicate sentences.

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My research focuses on the poetry of the 13th and 14th centuries, which has little research accumulation in classical Chinese literature.

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I incorporate ideas from hermeneutics and linguistics, and explore new possibilities for methods and ways of interpreting works in the study of classical Chinese literature.

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Japanese sinology.

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Education of Chinese classics.

My research centres on the questions of cultural identity and transnationalism in contemporary East Asian cinemas, with a particular focus on the works of Okinawan filmmakers and the cinematic representations of Okinawa since the 1972 reversion. Recently, I have also been examining transnational film adaptations of Haruki Murakami’s works.

　　　Image: Film cameras (The Cinema Museum, London)

I am conducting research on the significance of Japanese classical literature education and teaching. In the immediate postwar period, outstanding practitioners of classical Japanese literature were also outstanding scholars of classical Japanese literature. However, with the development of research in each field, a gap between the two has been recognized. Nowadays, the necessity of teaching the classics and the classics themselves is being questioned. I trace the history of classics education from the postwar period to the present, and reassess the significance of Japanese classics education, taking into consideration the contemporary situation. Based on this reassessment of the significance of Japanese classics education, I also reconsider the lessonss in classical Japanese literature, drawing on my experience as teachers at junior high and high schools. In addition, I am also analyzing the expressiveness of Uji Syuui Monogatari Ultimately, I would like to use Uji Syuui Monogatari as a window into the medieval linguistic scene.

I specialise in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Particular research interests include Fulke Greville (1554-1628) and the related writers. My current research involves investigating the ways in which Greville, through his works, criticises not only the Jacobean government, but also its monarch, James VI and I (1566-1625).　In order to analyse his writing process, I cross-reference the handwritten drafts of Greville’s works, the Warwick Manuscript (Add MS 54570). .

In recent marketing research, the concept of value co-creation, in which different actors such as companies and customers collaborate to create value, has become mainstream. From the perspective of value co-creation, this laboratory studies how customers’ perceived experiences influence their well-being and how the experiences of frontline employees, who are service providers, influence customer experiences.
Recently, we have also been working on the interaction between service robots and customer experience, considering that service robots, such as catering robots, have been becoming an indispensable part of our lives and workplaces.

As geopolitical risks such as the U.S.-China confrontation have emerged, security restrictions on trade, technology transfer, and foreign investment have increased. Our research project is to empirically clarify the nature of the international economic order in the “Age of Fragmentation”. In this process, we also analyze geopolitical risks in the operations of multinational corporations.
Moreover, as the war in Ukraine has shown, technologies developed by civilian companies are being applied to new military equipment to great effect. As innovation occurs in a variety of locations, governments are seeking to expand the base of companies involved in defense production. We also study the conditions for such policies to be effective in liberal democracies.

Public opinion is key word in mass media.Because this word is often used.But how the public opinion been formed? A gap between politics and public opinion is very important issue.How has mass media reflected the will of the people? The spread of the Internet has changed our lives. We study about new information age.

To survive, the firm needs to construct the new environment where it can achieve competitive advantage. To do so, it first redefines the meanings of the existing resources. After the meaning of a resource changes, the meaning of its resource dependence may also change. The firm makes sense of the context of resource and resource dependence to stakeholders. It then creates its own business model. I research on such firm that changes its project purpose, its strategy and its organizational structure flexibly, and the ecosystem where firms don’t possess exclusively any resource but try to coexist with the others.

One of my research interests is the visual representation of relationships between observed variables. Graph modeling based on graph theory is used for this purpose. I and my collaborators have proposed a method of statistical computation using graph structures.

The other interest is the statistical analysis with missing data. In particular, my work is to develop statistical computation methods using the EM algorithm and Markov chain Monte Carlo. I am studying the acceleration of convergence of the EM algorithm and its application to statistical models.

CRM was developed by the laboratory of Yamaguchi is integrated in one database each company on another system decentralized information systems. Here, provides accurate customer information gathering, analysis and sharing. In addition, employees are working, you can take advantage of the system are. Plays the role of generating added value as a result, information infrastructure.

From this company is important, rather than in a specific department or human resources to implement CRM, employees share information, leverage and produce value added customer in problem-solving, while proposals to. It is a new concept of companies that cannot deliver value, judging by the value proposed by the companies using customer.

Now that Covid19 has settled down, the diversification of inbound customers will progress. Japan’s tourist areas will be required to be tourist areas that respond to diverse values such as religious diversity such as Halal, veganism, and LGBTQ. It means that each tourist area is required to select the value that is sought and to work on regional development that makes use of the strengths of the area.
Tourism has a broad base and a huge and growing market all over the world. In addition, it is an attractive industry that can realize tourism that benefits all people involved in tourism, including the industry, the business operators, and tourists.
I am interested in researching ways to help realize such a tourist area.