The National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) is a research center for ethnology and cultural anthropology.

Research supervisors

Faculty by specialty, in alphabetical order

April 1, 2013

The Department of Regional Studies The Department of Comparative Studies

ASAKURA Toshio [An Anthropological Study of Overseas Koreans]

HAYASHI Isao [Social structure, cosmology, risk and disaster; Melanesia, Polynesia,Japan]

IKEYA Kazunobu [Environmental anthropology, cultural geography; Southern Africa, Japan]

INTOH Michiko [Prehistory of Oceania; Oceania, Island Southeast Asia]

KASHINAGA Masao [Ethnography of Southeast Asia; Vietnam, Tai area]

KONAGAYA Yuki [Cultural ecology and cosmology; Central Asia, Mongolia]

KUBO Masatoshi [A Basic Study on Constructing Forum-Type Ethnological Research Archives]

MINAMI Makito [Forms of Social Inclusion: Challenges by Trial and Error in New Nepal]

MIO Minoru [Religious anthropology; South Asia, India]

MISHIMA Teiko [Anthropology, international migration; Senegal, West Africa]

MORI Akiko [Cultural anthropology, ethnography of central Europe, Germany, Austria, Japan]

NISHIO Tetsuo [Linguistics,Arab culture, Middle East, North Africa]

NOBAYASHI Atsushi [Ethnoarchaeology, material culture, Austronesian cultures; East Asia, Formosa]

NOBUTA Toshihiro [Social anthropology; Southeast Asia, Malaysia]

SAITO Akira [Ethnohistory; Latin America]

SASAKI Shiro [Socioeconomic history of reindeer-breeders and forest hunters; Northern Asia, Siberia]

SATO Koji [Architectural history, ethno-architecture; Southeast Asia, Oceania]

SHINMEN Mitsuhiro [Science of religion; Eastern Europe]

TAKEZAWA Shoichiro [African history, history of anthropological thought; West Africa]

TAMURA Katsumi [Cultural anthropology; Southeast Asia, East Asia]

TSUKADA Shigeyuki [Ethnohistory; Southern China]

UDAGAWA Taeko [Cultural anthropology, gender studies; Italy, Mediterranean Europe]

YAMANAKA Yuriko [Comparative study of traditions on Alexander the Great; West Asia, Iran]

YASUGI Yoshiho [Linguistic anthropology, writing systems, Mayan civilization; Mesoamerica]

YOKOYAMA Hiroko [Cultural anthropology, Chinese society and culture]

FUKUOKA Shota [Audio-visual Media in Performing Arts Studies/Modern History of Traditional Performing Arts of West Java]

HAN Min [Social anthropology, China]

HIDAKA Shingo [The Development of the Warmed Carbon Dioxide Processing]

HIRAI Kyonosuke [Ethnomusicology, performing arts of Asia]

HIROSE Koujirou [Japanese religious history, folklore]

IIDA Taku [A Descriptive Study of Household Property in Madagascar Rural Areas]

KIKUSAWA Ritsuko [Linguistics, Austronesian languages]

KISHIGAMI Nobuhiro [Cultural anthropology, Inuit studies, anthropology of marine resources]

KOBAYASHI Shigeki [A Study of the Exploitation of Cultural Resources/An Anthropological Study of the Culture of Tools]

KONDO Masaki [Folk materials, folklore; japan, Europe]

Matthews, Peter Joseph [Ethnobotany, prehistory, crop plant biogeography; Asia, Pacific]

SASAHARA Ryoji [Folk culture, performing arts; Japan]

SEKI Yuji [South American archaeology, cultural anthropology]

SHOJI Hiroshi [Finno-Ugric linguistics, ethnolonguistics, language policy; Northern Europe, China]

SONODA Naoko [Basic Analysis of Museum Environment (Temperature and Relative Humidity) Part 3]

SUGIMOTO Yoshio [Social anthropology; Sri Lanka, South India]

SUZUKI Motoi [Anthropological perspectives on development assistance evaluations]

SUZUKI Nanami [Cultural anthropology, culture of medicine, life-design studies, American and European medieval social history]

TERADA Yoshitaka [Ethnomusicology, performing arts of Asia]

YOSHIDA Kenji [A Study of the Preservation and Representation of Cultural Heritage: A Museological Approach]

YOSHIMOTO Shinobu [Textile arts and technology; Asia, Africa, America, Europe]

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