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International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies, Tohoku University

StaffStudent List

School Year Name Affiliation Themes
Third year of doctoral course Jugo Sato Graduate School of Environmental Studies An anthropological study on gathering activities of wild edible foods from the perspective of "place": In the case of mountainous area in southwestern Akita
Jian Guan Graduate School of Arts and Letters The penal servitude in premodern China
Sang-yun Han Graduate School of International Cultural Studies Esoteric Buddhism and the Occult in Postwar Japan: Perspectives from Global Religious History
Zibo Chen Graduate School of Economics and Management 19th Century Britain's expansion into the Middle East and Asia and local response
Chisato Makishima Graduate School of Arts and Letters Anthropological Studies of Drag Queens
Rei Emura Graduate School of Arts and Letters Language-universal Mechanism of Misunderstanding
Liwei Tan Graduate School of Arts and Letters Indirect speech act processing in older adults
Satone Komoriya Graduate School of Education Cross-border Learning in Intercultural Collaborative Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom
Shiori Kato Graduate School of Arts and Letters How Do We Translate a Printed Word into its Meaning? Process of Information Derived from Letters Might Greatly Differ among People
Second year of doctoral course Saki Sakurai Graduate School of Arts and Letters Japan's Economic Expansion into Southeast Asia in the Prewar Period
Yugo Okano Graduate School of Arts and Letters A Study of Prewar and Postwar Intellectuals: Focus on Kiyoshi Komatsu
First year of doctoral course Hirotaka Chen Graduate School of International Cultural Studies Utilizing the results of kuntengo studies on language contact research: Focusing on linguistic borrowing through contact between Japanese and Literary Sinitic
Jiehua Xu Graduate School of Arts and Letters The Religious Aesthetics and Critique of Civilization in Yanagi Sōetsu
Shogo Bamba Graduate School of Arts and Letters Japan-UK Relations before and after Washington Naval Conference
Momoka Shibata Graduate School of Arts and Letters A Study of 18th-Century Venetian Art: Focus on Giambattista Tiepolo
Second year of master course Yunshan Xue Graduate School of Arts and Letters A Comparative Study of New Burial Practices Emphasizing the Image of "Nature" in Japan and China: Focusing on Funeral Rituals
Vaglini Eva Graduate School of Arts and Letters
Minshen Li Graduate School of Arts and Letters
Hiroki Nemoto Graduate School of Arts and Letters
Haoying Yang Graduate School of International Cultural Studies

Alumni

Year of obtaining Ph.D. Name Affiliation at TU Current Position
2026
Sora Ito
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
Xuehan Zhao
Graduate School of Arts and Letters
Takuma Hosoi
Graduate School of Economics and Management
2025
Ai Yu
Graduate School of Arts and Letters Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University
Yota Watanabe
Graduate School of Arts and Letters Project Researcher, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University ot Tokyo
2024
Yoko Kagami
Graduate School of Arts and Letters Assistant Professor, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Tomoya Masuda
Graduate School of Arts and Letters Research Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
2023
Peiyao Wu
Graduate School of International Cultual Studies School of Humanities, Shanghai Normal University