2025.04.01
The Faculty of Policy Management, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, and Graduate School of Media and Governance are pleased to announce the appointment of the following new faculty members, effective April 1, 2025. We welcome them to our community.
(*Messages from the new faculty members are as of the time of their appointment.)
For over 30 years, I have been involved in the planning, drafting, and execution of various policies, primarily in telecommunications administration. Concurrently, I have focused my research on telecommunications law, constitutional law, and administrative law. Specifically, drawing on my experience in administrative practice, my research has centered on examining legally protected interests such as the secrecy of communications, freedom of expression on networks, and privacy. This is from the perspective of legally and interpretively pursuing how to protect the fundamental rights of citizens concerning the use of information and communications, which has become indispensable to daily life. As the nature of this protection is likely to change in response to recent societal shifts and the rapid pace of technological innovation surrounding information and communications, I look forward to exploring the required interpretations, legislative theories, and policy arguments from multiple perspectives with everyone at SFC.
I specialize in political science, particularly in the field known as political process studies. My research has focused primarily on postwar and contemporary Japanese politics. I have investigated topics such as the political process of organizing farmers in postwar Japan, public opinion on agricultural and trade protection, and the societal impact of COVID-19, often in collaboration with experts in sociology and economics. I have also been involved in teaching courses and seminars related to political science, Japanese politics, and public policy. Looking ahead, I intend to continue my research on topics like the relationship between urban and rural areas in postwar Japanese politics from a broad perspective, considering public opinion and political systems. I also look forward to learning about a wide variety of phenomena with the students at SFC, free from preconceived notions.
A university is a place to cultivate aspirations and human potential through scholarship. From 1993 to December 2024, I traveled the world as an officer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. My days were filled with dynamic experiences engaging with the world, including life on a destroyer on the high seas, UN peacekeeping operations in Syria, anti-piracy operations in Djibouti, serving as a defense attaché in London, UK, and working at the Ministry of Defense and Self-Defense Forces schools. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to learn and conduct research alongside students full of future potential at my alma mater, SFC, where I also received my doctorate. My areas of expertise are military and security affairs, strategy, military history, and leadership. Let's take full advantage of SFC's strengths in interdisciplinarity, diversity, and internationalism, and have fun and enjoy our work!
I study planetary environments through numerical simulations and data analysis from planetary probes. My goal is to clarify how the Sun's influence affects planetary atmospheres and surface environments, and its relationship to planetary evolution. I have participated in NASA and European exploration missions, conducting research in collaboration with scientists from around the world. Currently, I am also involved in projects such as JAXA's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission and the next-generation ultraviolet telescope project, "LAPYUTA." My interest in space began with a fascination for stargazing. I remember looking up at the night sky almost every evening as a child. I hope to have opportunities to gaze at the night sky with everyone at SFC.
Hello. My specialty is mathematics, specifically the field of geometry, and even more specifically, an area called topology.
Geometry is the study of shapes. This includes complex shapes that are impossible to draw or model, and even shapes that cannot fit within our universe. Since it is difficult to perceive such shapes directly, we study them by extracting numbers, which are more easily recognizable pieces of information. This process of "extraction" employs various ideas and continues to evolve, drawing inspiration from other fields such as physics, biology, and engineering.
At SFC, where various fields thrive in close proximity, I hope to discover new hints and new applications for mathematics. I look forward to working with you all.
My areas of expertise are psychiatry, analytical psychology (Jungian psychology), and group psychotherapy. As a psychiatrist who emphasizes psychotherapy, I have worked, and continue to work, in psychiatric hospitals and other settings. I believe I am quite a rare character, being a board-certified psychiatrist and supervising psychiatrist, a designated mental health physician, a certified Jungian analyst, and also practicing group psychotherapy. I emphasize experiential learning in my classes, so I expect proactive participation from students. Through teaching, I have been fortunate to have many opportunities to learn a great deal myself. I hope to have similar experiences at SFC.
My specialty is space policy. Building on the foundation of international relations and international security studies that I learned at SFC, I have been researching policy issues surrounding the development and use of space. In particular, I have focused on issues related to the military use of space and space governance. Although we may not often be aware of it, our daily lives are increasingly connected to the development and use of space. In this context, it is becoming increasingly important to analyze the risks and threats associated with space activities and to consider measures to ensure the stable use of space. At SFC, I will deepen the understanding and consideration of these issues with students through lectures and research groups on space policy. I look forward to gaining a great deal of intellectual stimulation through our collaboration on campus.
I am a researcher in digital humanities and linguistics, connecting the quantitative analysis of text data with qualitative theoretical linguistics. I analyze linguistic text data obtained from large-scale corpora and online language experiments from an applied statistical perspective and discuss the results from a theoretical linguistic viewpoint. Unfortunately, not only in Japan but also from a global perspective, the fusion of these quantitative and qualitative perspectives in the field of linguistics is significantly lagging behind other academic disciplines. Therefore, with the students, I aim to strongly promote linguistic research that transcends the boundaries between the humanities and sciences, and to build a major research hub here at SFC that will lead the world in interdisciplinary linguistic studies.
(In alphabetical order by last name)
Posted by: General Affairs Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office