Visiting Researchers (2021)
| Name | Affiliation | Subject of Research |
|---|---|---|
| ABE, Akira | Mie Prefectural College of Nursing | |
| AOKI,Shintaro | Osaka City University Urban Research Plaza | |
| ARAI, Yuki | Nishogakusha University | Cultural activities by people with disabilities |
| ARIYOSHI, Reiko | Analysis of the Activity of the Artificial Dialysis Patient Society | |
| BANSHO, Kenichi | The Amami-Okinawa=Ryukyu Research Center, Doshisha University | Settler Colonialism and thinking of “colonization” in Japanese Empire |
| CHIN, Angelina | Pomona College, History Department (Asian Studies) | A comparative studies of the care technologies for the elderly and the disabled in Japan and China |
| CHUNG, Yicheng | Tokyo Branch of Otani University, Shin Buddhist Comprehensive Research Institute | Comparative research of the legalization of end-of-life care in East Asia |
| De Antoni Andrea | Kyoto University, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies | Spirit possession and exorcism in contemporary Japan and Italy, religious/spiritual healing in relation to biomedicine |
| DOHI, Ituki | Kyoto prefectural highschool teacher | research of relation between transgender students and gender in school |
| DOBASHI, Keiko | Support for children with disabilities and their caregivers and leaders | |
| FUJIKI, Kazuko | Law Office Sibling/SODA(Siblings of Deaf Adult/Children,Hearling Siblings) | Advocacy and Movement from SODA , Information, Awareness, Support |
| FUTAGAMI, Reiko | Gunma University | Research on Participation of Deaf People in the Establishment of Japanese Sign Language(JSL) Regulations |
| GOTO, Yuri | Faculty of Urban Management | Comparative Study on Disability Rights Movements for Anti-Discrimination Legislations in East Asia |
| HAGIHARA, Mitsuyoshi | Aioi-Shinkyu(Acupuncture and Moxibustion Clinic) | Medical Democratization in Postwar Kyoto |
| HAGIWARA, Hiroshi | Social welfare foundation Kashimayuaikai | Studies on the system and policy of mental health services |
| HARA, Shohei | Social work | Human rights of patients in psychiatric medical care, Issues concerning poverty and public assistance, Social consciousness about socially vulnerable people |
| HASHIMOTO, Akira | Aichi Prefectural University | History of psychiatry of modern Japan |
| HIRONO, Shunsuke | Doshisha University Department of Social Studies | History of social movements by the disabled after WWⅡ |
| HIZAWA, Yoshihiko | Nagoya City University Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences Society and Collaboration(Study of Gender, Human Rights, and Social Welfare) |
Social welfare and social work studies |
| HOMEI, Aya | University of Manchester | The relationship between eugenic policies and international cooperation in population and family planning in post-WWII Japan |
| HOSOYA, Sachiko | International University of Health and Welfare, School of Nursing at Narita | Bioethics in Islamic Countries in the Middle East, Ethics of Thalassemia Prevention Program in Iran |
| HOVHANNISYAN, Astghik | Russian-Armenian University, Institute of Humanities, Department of World History and Area Studies / International Research Center for Japanese Studies | Social history of intellectual disability in Japan, history of eugenics |
| IIDA, Namiko | Discussion of a Community Interpreter’s Roles at Human Support Scenes: Examining the Criteria of Interpreters’ Impartial Intervention | |
| ICHINOMIYA, Shigeko | Experience of a Living Donor Liver Transplantation | |
| INOUE, Takeshi | NPO Mainstream association | The movement of parsons with disabilities and independent living in Latin america |
| ISHIOKA, Akiko | Research Institute of Automobile and Parts Industries, Waseda University | Creating Paintings and Crafts of Persons with Disabilities in China Automated Vehicles: Action Range Expansion and Securing of Morbidity’s Safety for Persons with Disabilities |
| ITO, Kasumi | Research Fellow (PD), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science | Global Grass-roots Movements of Persons with Psychosocial Disabilities |
| KADOSAKI, Yohei | Nihon Fukushi University | History of Financial Exclusion and Welfare Loan, Temporal Scope of Egalitarianism |
| KAI, Sarasa | Hitotsubashi University/National Cancer Center Institute for Cancer Control | Support for students and academician with disabilities who have “problems” that are difficult to visualize in higher education |
| KATO, Yukiko | Saitama University, Center for Research in General Education | Bridget Riley and Georges Seurat for Living through the 21st Century |
| KATSUI, Hisayo | University of Helsinki, Finland, | Disability Rights and International Cooperation |
| KATSURAGI, Teizou | ||
| KAWAGUCHI, Naoko | Part-time lecturer (Subject :social services for disabled people) Chukyo University, Nagoya City University, Gifu-shotoku University, Tokyo Fukushi University Nagoya Campus |
Intersections between gender and disability,Social Work based on Social Model of Disability |
| KAWAGUCHI, Yumiko | NPO ALS/MND Support Centre Sakura | A technology bases approach to ALS patient care |
| KAWAI, Sho | Philosophical and qualitative research about advocacy by visiting institutions for people with disability :To protect the rights of people with disability | |
| KIM Jong-Ok | Human Rights of the Person with Disabilities | |
| KOBAYASHI, Hayato | Department of Social Welfare at Nihon Fukushi University | Realities and Evaluations of Workfare Policy |
| KOMAZAWA, Mayumi | – | ‘ Way of Life’ of People who Live with Mental Disabilities: Focusing on Recovery and the Support of Employment |
| KUBOTA, Yoshie | Study on the supports children/adults with severe monitor and intellectual disabilities(SMIDs) | |
| MACHIDA, Naoto | Nara Women’s University, Kindai University (Part-time Lecturer) / Kyoto University (Teaching & Research Staff) | Exploration into the lives of transgender individuals: Focusing on “qualia” of their experiences |
| Mark Bookman | Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo College (University of Tokyo) | History of Disability Policy and Connected Social Movements in Japanese and Transnational Contexts |
| MASUDA, Hideaki | ||
| MATSUEDA, Akiko | A Study on Critical Discourse and Movement about Drugs and Drug-induced Sufferings in post-WW2 Japan | |
| MATSUMOTO, Risa | Department of Child Education Faculty of Integrated Human Studies Hokuriku Gakuin University | Supports for Siblings of People with Disabilities |
| MATSUNAMI, Megumi | part-time lecturer of Osaka City Univ. and Ryukoku Univ. | Disability issues in human rights education/Edicaion and training on Disability Discrimination Act |
| MATSUOKA,Hiroyuki | Okayama University | Hansen’s Disease Problems in Modern Japan |
| Mihaeng Sohn | Faculty of International Studies, Bunkyo University | Compalative Study of ESD and Moral Education in Japan and Korea |
| MISHIMA, Akiko | Social welfare and social work studies/Creating educational materials for diversity | |
| MITSUDA, Itsuro | Ritsumeikan University Part-Time Lecturer Social Sciences | System and policy theory of public pension、Basic research to solve poverty problems in people’s life |
| MIYAHARA, Motohide | Japan Center for Evidence Based Practice | Ethnographic needs survey for physical literacy |
| MURAKAMi, Kiyoshi | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies (Part-time Lecturer) | History and Current Status of Feminist Archives, and Its Significance and lssues |
| NAGATA,Mieko | Heian jyogakuin University | |
| NAGAYAMA, Hiromi | Sociology of nursing practice in medicine | |
| NAKAKURA, Tomonori | Chiba University of Commerce | History of social innovation theory |
| NAKAMURA, Eri | Postdoctoral Research Fellow of JSPS, Keio University | Eugenic Policies and Psychiatry in Japan |
| NAKAMURA, Masaya | Research Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science,the University of Tokyo | Research on teachers with disability |
| NAKANE, Naruhisa | Kyoto Prifectural university faculty of public policy | reserch of disability policy and analysis of personal assistance and personal budget |
| NAKAO, Kenji | Research concerning policies to stably and sustainably secure and maintain human mobility/transportation as the foundation of daily life | |
| NAKAO, Maika | Nagasaki University Atomic Bomb Disease Institute | Medical care for atomic bomb survivors and the reconstruction of bombsites |
| NIIYAMA, Tomoki | Kobe International University, Project SCOBU | |
| NOGUCHI, Tomoyasu | Association of Guardian of Vaccine Injured People(NPO) . Research Fellow, University of Tokyo ,Graduate School of Arts and Sciences |
Development of full inclusive education system, Vaccination policies (focusing on health damage by side effect) |
| NOSE, Keisuke | ||
| OKUBO, Suguru | BMS Yokohama Inc. | Research on medical intervention (e.g. cochlear implant, newborn hearing screening, prenatal diagnosis) toward people with hearing disorders |
| ONO, Mitsuaki | Associate Professor, School of Human Cultures, University of Shiga Prefecture | Historical sociology on militarism in Japan |
| ONOUE, Koji | Advisor for Policy for Persons with Disabilities (Cabinet Office), Japan National Assembly of Disabled Peoples’ International | |
| OTA, Keiko | Osaka Hospital Organiation osaka Medical Center School of Nursing | |
| ONUKI, Naho | Kyoto University of Art and Design | Art theory and Aesthetic studies for Tattoo and Body modification |
| Rehab Abu-Hajiar | The Kinugasa Research Organization Center for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies | Biomedical ethics and patient autonomy from the Islamic perspective. |
| SADAOKA, Minobu | Kyoto Koka Women’s University | Reproductive medical ethics,Analysis of legitimacy of Surrogacy in Japan |
| SASATANI, Eri | Hanazono University Faculty of Social Welfare |
History of the hereditary disease for “child ”and “parents” |
| SAKAKIBARA, Kenjiro | National Institute of Population and Social Security Research | Disability Statistics |
| SAKURAI, Satoshi | Department of Regional Studies, School of Human Cultures, University of Shiga Prefecture | A Sociological Criminology Study of “Ijiri”(≒Bullying) |
| SEYAMA, Noriko | Concurrent lecturer of Meiji University | the issue around multiple discrimination faced by women with disabilities,the issue of disqualifying clauses on disability, Herstories of disability people’s movement |
| SHIBAGAKI, Noboru | Iwate University, Faculty of Education | Inclusive Education |
| SHIMIZU, Hiroto | International comparison of depression narratives | |
| SHINOHARA, Makiko | Collaborative researcher at Naruto University of Education Part-time lecturer at Osaka International University | History of Community LIfe Movement of Disabled Children and Persons Inclusive Education Sociological Study of Ko |
| Sohn Mihaeng | Faculty of International Studies, Bunkyo University | |
| SUEDA, Kuniko | Aichi Shukutoku Univercity | Historical research of consultation Activities for psychiatric patients in Japan |
| SUZUKI,Yoko | Okinewa-Airakuen History Museum | Life History of Hansen’s Disease in Okinawa |
| TAKASAKA, Yasuo | Nayoro City University | About the generation process of the disability basic pension and the care security in kind benefits |
| TAKAHASHI, Ryoko | Faculty of Human Sciences, Institute of Human and Social Sciences / School of Regional Development Studies, Kanazawa University | Comparative Study on Successful Advocacy Work to Develop the Participation of Disabled People in welfare policymaking |
| TAMAI, Takashi | Co-President, Africa Japan Forum (NGO) / Lecturer, Toyo Gakuen Univeristy | Experiences with COVID-19 in Africa and Social Movements and its Development to Address Access for Medical Resources for Covid-19 |
| TANABE, Kentaro | Ritsumeikan University, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences | Philosophy of Music, Analytic Aesthetics, Music Education |
| TANIDA,Tomomi | The Mainichi Newspapers | Research on living condition of people suffered from diseases that cannot be clearly explained medically. |
| TOSHIMITSU, Keiko | Town corner counselor’s office for women “Kokokara Salon” | |
| TSURUTA, Masahide | Tokyo Metropolitan Wellbeing Factory Maruki Gallery For The Hiroshima Panels People’s Plan Study Group |
A study that positions disability studies as a “movement of knowledge with disability as the starting point” and positions it in a perspective that transcends modern times, with the values of productivity and efficiency as the center. Research on work orders and employment at employment support facilities for persons with disabilities A study on living alone with the support of people with severe intellectual disabilities. |
| URATA, Yu | Osaka University, Teaching and Learning Support Center | |
| YAMAMOTO, Yumiko | Osaka Prefecture University | Science of Thought and Thought of Science |
| YAMASHITA, Sachiko | Shukutoku university | Study of the person with a disability on community life support |
| YANG, Yangil | ||
| YASUDA, Masayuki | UNI (specified nonprofit corporation) | Support of disabled students in higher education |
| YOKOTA, Yoko | Science and technology and administration:focusing on infection control measures | |
| YOSHIDA, Sachie | Hyogo University of Health Sciences | Bioethics, Policy History and Life History of Hansen’s Disease |
| YOSHIMURA, Yuri | Part-time lecturer at Mukogawa Women’s University Graduate School of Clinical Psychology (Subject : Psychology for Social Welfare)、Kyoto International Welfare Exchange Center((Subject : Seminar for Helping profession) | User involvement training of the inter-professional education. Analysis of User/ Profession Interactions in Social Work. |
| YOSHINO,Yugi | Ritsumeikan University | Thinking about transgender survival: a cost, legacy and role model perspective |
| YORITAKA, Tsunenobu |











