Visiting Researchers (2022)
| Name | Affiliation | Subject of Research |
|---|---|---|
| ABE, Akira | Mie Prefectural College of Nursing | |
| AOKI,Shintaro | Osaka Metropolitan University Urban Resilience Research Center（UReC） | |
| 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 |
| CHUNG, Yicheng | Waseda University, School of Social Sciences | 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 |
| Degener Theresia Maria | Evangelische Hochschule RWL, (Protestant University of Applied Sciences) Professor of Law and Disability Studies | Disability Studies Collaboration between Research Center for Ars Vivendi, Ritsumeikan University & Bochum Center for Disability Studies |
| 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 |
| GOTO, Yuri | Fukuyama Ciy University | 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 |
| 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 |
| HUANG Xinzhe | Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Researcher(part-time) | Anthropoogical research of Oriental medicine |
| 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 | |
| Ignacio Marcial Calderón-Almendros |
Associate Professor (University of Malaga, Spain) | Emerging Narratives on the inclusive education from the Social Model of Disability. Resistance, resilience and social change |
| INOUE, Takeshi | NPO Mainstream association | The movement of parsons with disabilities and independent living in Latin america |
| 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 |
| KANG, Munhee | Part-Time Lecturer of Kansai University | Gender studies on women’s sexuality and labor in coal mines |
| KATO, Yukiko | Associate Professor, Saitama University Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences | Studies on Black and Its Ethics |
| 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 | Ritsumeikan University, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences (Advisory Fellow) | ‘ 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) | |
| KURIHARA, Atsushi | Association for the Relief of Children Victims of MMR (affiliated with the National Council of Pharmaceutical Victims’ Organizations) | The actual state of health damage caused by drugs, etc., and the current situation and issues of the relief system |
| MACHIDA, Naoto | Project Assistant Professor,Center for Gender Diversity, Nagoya University | Exploration into the lives of transgender individuals: Focusing on their non-linguistic expression |
| Mark Bookman | Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo College (University of Tokyo) | History of Disability Policy and Connected Social Movements in Japanese and Transnational Contexts |
| 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 |
| 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 | Differential medicalization of developmental disabilities |
| MIYAZAKI,Hiroshi | Okayama University | Relationship Theory on Pragmatic Thoughts |
| 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, 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 |
| NEGI, Bharat | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow（Kobe University） | Mental health problems caused by COVID-19 among migrant workers living in Japan. |
| 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 |
| Okuyama, Yoshiko | University of Hawaii at Hilo, Humanities Division, Department of Languages, Professor of Japanese Studies | Graphic memoirs of mental health in Japan; spirituality and community support for mentally ill patients |
| 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 | |
| Ruskus Jonas | Professor at Social Work Department, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. | The implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities of the United Nations in Japan: concerns and challenges, recommendations and the way forward. |
| 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 |
| 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 | Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh | International comparison of depression narratives |
| SHINOHARA, Makiko | Full-time university lecturer Faculty of Education and Psychology Department School Education Course Nihon Hukushi 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 | Creation of a Holistic Learning Environment |
| SUEDA, Kuniko | Aichi Shukutoku Univercity | Historical research of consultation Activities for psychiatric patients in Japan |
| SUZUKI, Masako | The Historical Science Society of Japan The Modern History Society of Shizuoka-ken |
The social movement history of people with disabilities |
| SUZUKI,Yoko | Okinewa-Airakuen History Museum | Life History of Hansen’s Disease in Okinawa |
| 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 |
| TAKASAKA, Yasuo | Aomori University of Health and Welfare | Process of generating disability care benifits |
| 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 |
| TAMBA, Hiroki | Taisho University, Comprehensive Learning Support Organization | History of Ethical Thought on “Minamata” / Anthropology |
| 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 | ||
| URATA, Yu | Osaka University, Teaching and Learning Support Center | Center for Student Success Research and Practice, Osaka University |
| USUI,Kumiko | Citizens’ Committee to Eliminate Disqualifying Clauses on Disability | The issue of disqualifying clauses on disability, Multiple discrimination against women with disabilities.,Information Accessibility |
| YABUKI, Yasuo | Researcher at the College of Sociology, Rikkyo University | Research on discrimination against people with disfigurement |
| YAMAMOTO, Yumiko | Osaka Metropolitan University | Governmentality of reproduction and body |
| YAMASHITA, Sachiko | Shukutoku university | Study of the person with a disability on community life support |
| 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, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences | Thinking about transgender survival: a cost, legacy and role model perspective |
| YORITAKA, Tsunenobu |
