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). .