National Museum of Ethnology, Japan: Academic Staff

Professors Emeriti

last modified: January 31, 2008

SOFUE Takao (1984-)
Psychological anthropology

IWATA Keiji (1985-)
Cultural anthropology

KATO Kyuzo (1986-)
Ethnic history in North and Central Asia

ITOH Mikiharu (1988-)
Anthropology of religion

NAKAMURA Shunkichi (1988-)
Study of ethnic technologies and tools

KIMISHIMA Hisako (1989-)
Chinese folklore

WADA Yuiti (1990-)
Linguistic anthropology

TARUMI Minoru (deceased) (1991-)
Anthropology in spatial domains

SUGIMOTO Hisatsugu (1992-)
Cultural geography, cultural anthropology

UMESAO Tadao (1993-2010)
Ethnology, comparative study of civilizations

OGYU Chikasato (1993-)
Cultural structure of Latin America

KATAKURA Motoko (1993-)
Social geography, ethnology

TAKEMURA Takuji (deceased) (1994-)
Social anthropology

CHOU Ta-sheng (1995-)
Theory of material culture

MATSUZAWA Kazuko (1995-)
Social anthropology

DAIMARU Hiroshi (1996-)
Comparative study of the history of lifestyles, based on clothing, etc.

TOMOEDA Hiroyasu (1996-)
Social anthropology

FUJII Tomoaki (1996-)
Ethnomusicology, anthropology of music

SASAKI Komei (1997-)
History of agriculture in East and South Asia

SUGIMURA Toh (1997-)
Study of ethno-arts

WADA Shohei (1998-)
Comparative study of cultures, anthropology of Africa

SHIMIZU Akitoshi (2000-)
Comparative study of families, study of Oceania

KURODA Etsuko (2001-)
Theory of ethnic and social culture, anthropology of Central America

SAKIYAMA Osamu (2001-)
Linguistic anthropology, Oceanic linguistics

HATA Nobuyuki (2001-)
Economic anthropology, anthropology of Africa

KOYAMA Shuzo (2002-)
Ethnoarchaeology

MORITA Tsuneyuki (2002-)
Conservation science, ethno-technology

ISHIGE Naomichi (2003-)
Cultural anthropology

KURITA Yasuyuki (2003-)
Museum anthropology, study of Bhutan

SUGITA Shigeharu (2003-)
Computer ethnology, civilization

KUMAKURA Isao (2004-)
History of Japanese culture

TACHIKAWA Musashi (2004-)
Philosophy of religion, Buddhist thought

TANABE Shigeharu (2004-)
Social anthropology of Southeast Asia

FUJII Tatsuhiko (2004-)
Prehistory of the New World continent

YAMADA Mutsuo (2004-)
History of Latin America, area study of Latin America

MATSUBARA Masatake (2005-)
Social structure, Turkey, Eastern Asia, Central Asia

OHTSUKA Kazuyoshi (2005-)
Ainu culture, material culture of North Asian food gatherers, paleoecology, prehistoric subsistence, Japan

EGUCHI, Paul K. (2004-)
Oral literature and material culture of the Fulfulde-speaking people, Cameroon

ISHIMORI Shuzo (2006-)
Cultural development studies, anthropology of tourism, museum anthropology, cultural resource management; Micronesia, Polynesia, Southeast Asia, Japan

NOMURA Masaichi (2006-)
Nonverbal communication, ethnology of Mediterranean Europe

OMORI Yasuhiro (2007-)
Ethnology, visual anthropology

YAMAMOTO Norio (2007-)
Ethnobotany, ethnology, the Andes, the Himalayas

MATSUZONO Makio (2008-)
Ethnology of contemporary Australian aboriginal society; Australia

MATSUYAMA Toshio (2009-)
A Regional Ethnographic Study on the Globalization Process and Nation Building in East Africa

NAGANO Yasuhiko (2011-)
Executive Director, Professor, National Institutes for the Humanities / Historical linguistics, lexical semantics; Tibeto-Burman area