My research is a practical study based on the reality of children’s thinking and expression as seen from the school site. Arts and crafts is a subject that deepens awareness of diversity.　I will develop teaching materials that aim to foster diverse ways of seeing and thinking and the acquisition of expressive skills. I will propose teaching methods that aim to improve children’s ability to think and create figuratively through learning from each other.

I am mainly researching the development of science teaching materials that can be used in educational sites. In elementary and junior high school science, especially in elementary school science experiments, most of them are qualitative experiments. For example, when investigating the properties of things that are “invisible” to the human eye, such as light and magnetic force, we use relative terms such as “bright” and “strong.” Even in qualitative experiments that rely on bodily sensations, we can “see” the nature of things. However, if we can compare this experience with numerical values such as “how bright” and “how strong”, we will be able to “see more” what we “see” until now. Experiments that compare numerically like this are called quantitative experiments. When we can “visualize” the properties of things with these educational materials, we are sure that the observer’s eyes will have a higher resolution and be moved by the wonder and charm of the natural world. We are conducting research on the development of teaching materials that can be “more visualized” in various fields of science education.

It is said that physical education classes are relatively popular with children and students, and that they are highly independent in these classes.It is true that this has been supported by the diligent research of teaching materials by in-service teachers and the development of teaching methods.
However, in the in-service teachers differentiation according to individuals and groups is required because.However, the development of teaching materials and the choice of teaching methods are becoming half-implicit knowledge.I am trying to systematize the enormous teaching methods of in-service teachers that have been cultivated so far.As such, I hope to make teacher behavior explicit knowledge.

Music instruction is conducted not only through words, but also through various non-verbal means of expression, such as eye contact, gestures, and facial expressions. We are collecting and studying objective data on what music teachers look at and how they use their bodies in response to what situations, using eye-gaze measurement devices, motion capture, etc. We are also collecting data on the actual status of music teachers’ nonverbal communication by comparing these data with the results of interviews with teachers. By comparing these data with the results of interviews with teachers, we aim to elucidate the actual state of nonverbal communication among music teachers.
We are also conducting research on the relationship between music and physical expression.

“Home economics” in school education aims to improve the skill of homemaking through the velationships between oneself and their family, their consumption habit, their eating habit, their dwelling life, their clothing life and so on.
“Home economics” is concerned with not only our claily life but some subjects life social studies and science. Moreover it’s very important to reflect on your home life so far.
I investigate how “Home economics” should be and I design exciting, satisfactory and practical classes.

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.

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.

After graduating from graduate school, I have spent many years teaching Japanese language arts at middle and high schools. During my long tenure at a middle and high school affiliated with an international school, I have reflected on and implemented approaches related to the International Baccalaureate program, interdisciplinary learning, and inquiry-based education.
Rather than being a literature enthusiast, I became a Japanese language teacher because I enjoy analyzing and refining logical arguments. My goal is to develop a systematic approach to helping students master Japanese as a language and to theorize the educational practices I implement in the classroom.
Think, Don’t Feel.
It is like a finger pointing away at the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

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.

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 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). .

The world is home to an estimated 11.1 million game developers, and this number continues to grow annually. The skills demanded of these professionals are constantly evolving due to the emergence of new platforms, the diversification of game genres, and the rapid advancement of technology. While some areas require highly specialized knowledge that drives the IT industry, the advent of sophisticated development tools has made it possible for even complete novices to create popular games, and those who utilize these tools can also thrive as accomplished developers. Our laboratory analyzes these shifts in the skills required of video game developers and their future prospects by investigating and analyzing global video game market trends and the progress of digital technology.

Simultaneously, by surveying the current situations and challenges faced by developers both in Japan and abroad, we delve into strategies for sustainable corporate growth in the rapidly changing game industry and the ideal approaches to human resource development within this context.

Let me introduce the second topic of my research interests:
Consider a situation in which we wish to select items or variables so as to delete the redundant variables or to make a small dimensional rating scale to measure latent traits, variable selection in principal component analysis (PCA) is necessary to identify a subset of variables that represents all variables as much as possible.
In the figure below, the left-hand plot is a scatter plot of the 1st and 2nd principal components (PCs) obtained based on all 19 original variables, and the right-hand plot is based on seven selected variables. Little difference exists between the two configurations of PCs. This illustrates the meaningfulness of variable selection in PCA since selected variables can provide almost the same result as the original variables if the goal of the analysis is to observe the configuration of the PCs.

We can perform the variable selection in PCA as a prior analysis in big data analysis, and apply the proposed selection procedures to other multivariate methods such as factor analysis and correspondence analysis.In this topic, we also study on how to deal with categorical/qualitative data (for the first topic), and how to improve the computation effectively (for the third topic).

In Japan, Eigyo is often confused with sales and treated as a subordinate concept of marketing. However, in reality, Eigyo in a company plays a broad role in “connecting” the company with its customers, each department within the company, each department within the customer’s company, partner companies, domestic and overseas, and even society. Our research focuses on Eigyo as a process of business transformation and social problem solving, rather than simply selling products and services, and as a value-creating entity.

There are good times and bad times in sports, so it is said that in the sports business, you should not think on the premise of “victory.” Of course, it’s good for the team to win a lot, but if you rely on it to do business, it’s easy to reduce the number of spectators and sales of goods when the team can’t win very much. Therefore, it is important to have fans who support the team. Those fans are absolutely indispensable when thinking about sports business.
Therefore, I think that if sports fans can clarify the characteristics, sports teams can do “strong management” regardless of their performance, so I research it every day.

We are researching the process by which organizations and teams develop and improve, approaching the topic from the perspectives of coaching, strategy, and psychology. We would like to clarify how winning (success) fosters individual motivation and team strength, which in turn leads to improved organizational strength, and focus on developing human resources who can contribute to society. In recent years, there has been a growing trend to use sports in corporate training as an opportunity to learn about organizational management and coaching. This is based on the idea that the processes by which sports teams and companies develop as organizations are similar, and is attracting attention as a method for learning about “organizational management.” The fields of management and coaching methods are also changing due to the diversification of work styles and the spread of social media. We are also conducting research with a view to researching how to create organizations that can effectively develop human resources.